June 13, 1914 



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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF 

 ■ NURSERYMEN. 



Program for the Annual Convention, 

 at The Hollenden, Cleveland, Ohio. 



U-ednesduy, .Tune 24. 1914. ;).;!0 .\. M.— 

 InvtKMtiun : Key. C. S. Harrison. York, Ne- 

 lpr;isk:i; Adiiress of Wplcome. Hon. Newton 

 1). Balier. .Mayor of Cleveland ; Re.sponse, 

 .1. W. Hill, lies Moines, Ion;i ; President's 

 Address, J. B. Pilkington. Tori hind. Ore- 

 gon; Keport of Secret.iry. .Tolui Hall. Rocb- 

 rster, N, Y. ; Report of Trensurer, Peter 

 Y'*>unj<ers. (ieneva. Net). 



Committees — Entertainment, W. K. Cole. 

 I'ainesville. O. ; Legislative. East of Mis- 

 sissippi River. Wui. Pitkin. Rochester. N. 

 Y". : West of Mississippi River. Peter 

 Youngers. Geneva, Neb. Tariff, J. Mc- 

 Huteliison. .\e\v York; Transportation. C. 

 M. Sizcinore. Louisiana. Mo.: Co-operation 

 with I'^ntoniologists. Ij. A. Berekmans. An- 

 ^'nsta, (loorgia ; Root Gall. E. A. Smitli. 

 Lake City. Minn. 



Paper, "The Mission of Beauty." C. S. 

 Harrison, Harrison's Select Nursery, York. 

 Net). 



Wednesday Afternoon. 2 o'clock — "Some 

 Reminiscences." Ethan Allen Chase. River- 

 side. California. 



"Pecans for Profit," W. C. Heed, Vin- 

 connes. Indiana. 



Uniform Legislation (Report of Commit- 

 tee), William Pitkin, Secretary to Commit- 

 tee 



Discussion — Prof. .T. G. Sanders, State 

 Entomoligist, Madison. Wis. ; Prof. E. L. 

 Worsham. State Entomologist. Atlanta, Ga. 



"Roses." Illustrated with Lantern Slides. 

 Robert Pyle, Pres. The Conard & Jones 

 Co., West Grove, Pa. 



"Ohio Nurseries." Illustrated with Lan- 

 tern Slides. N. E. Shaw, Ohio State In- 

 spector, Columbus. 



Wednesday Evening at 7.30 — Meeting of 

 American Nurserymen's Protective Associa- 

 tiou. Thomas B. Meehan. secretary. 



At 8.30 — Meeting of American Retail Nur- 

 serymen's Protective Association. Guy A. 

 Bryant, fec;:etary. 



Thursday Morning. 9 o'clock — Report of 

 State Vice-Presidents. 



"Competition." John H. Dayton, Sec'y 

 Storrs & Harrison Co.. Painesville. Ohio. 



"Water." Jim Parker. Tecumseh, Okla. 



"Trade Conditions in the Dominion." F. 

 Hogg, Toronto. Ontario. 



"How to Sei'ure a rniform and Correct 

 System of Nomenclature in Nurserymen's 

 Catalogs." Prof. E. R. Lake. U. S. Pomol- 

 ogist. Department of Agriculture. Wash- 

 ington. D. C. 



"Where are Our Trees Going?" .Jeffer- 

 son Thomas, Pres. Thomas Publicity Serv- 

 ice. Jacks^tnville. FJorid;i. 



"Fitting Trees to Climate and Soil." 

 Henry Hicks, Hicks Nurseries, Westbury. 

 Long Island, N. Y. 



Friday Morning. 9 o'clock — "What Can 

 the Nursery Interests do to Help Solve 

 Some of the Problems of a Commercial 

 Nature that Confront the Producers of 

 Orchard Products?" George C. Reeding, 

 Pres. Fancher Creek Nurseries. Fresno, 

 California. 



"Problems of Marketing our Products," 

 .T. R. JIayhew. Pres. Waxahachie Nursery 

 Co.. Waxahachie. Te.xas. 



(Subject not named.) J. W. Hill. Pres. 

 Des Moines Nursery Co.. Des Moines, Jowa, 



Entertainment — The arrangements in- 

 clude an automobile ride on Thursday 

 afternoon through the parks and boule- 

 vards of the cit.v. after wliicli light refresh- 

 ments will be served at Shaker Lake, On 

 the evening of Thursday, also, there will 

 h" a boat ride on Lake Erie on steamer 

 State of Ohio, from .S..30 to ]0..'!n. The la- 

 dies will be specially provided for in the 

 matter of afternoon entertainmeiil features. 



RxhiJjits — The Committee on Kxhibits 

 will endeavor as far as possiltle to find a 

 place for all exhibits that will be of in- 

 terest to the nurserymen or visiting dele- 

 gates. As the space for exhibits will be 

 free to the exhibitor, he is expected to in- 

 stall his exhibit and take charge of it. 

 We have four large rooms assigned ns by 

 tile liotcl ninnagement. which tlii^ commit- 

 tee tliiiik will be ample space: if not. more 

 space will be availal»le. Implements and 

 machinery will have to be crated or taken 

 apart so they will pass through an ordi- 

 nary door, there lieing no large doors. 



Application for this' space should be made 

 by exhibitor to any member of the com- 

 mittee, namely: T. B. West, Perry, Ohio: 

 Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, Pa. ; W. N. 

 Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio; Edward George, 

 Painesville, Ohio. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF WASHING- 

 TON. 



That the smoker tendered by Presi- 

 dent George H. Cooke to the members 

 and guests of the Florists' Club of 

 Washington was a success was readily 

 evident from the way every one en- 

 tered into the spirit of the evening 

 and did his share to make it a most 

 enjoyable one. While the smoker was 

 held in connection with the club's 

 regular meeting the latter was made 

 as short as possible. The members 

 then adjourned to the grotto where a 

 buffet luncheon was served. It seems 

 that some of the cigars which were 

 passed around were loaded and the 

 occasional flashes of red and blue fire 

 created considerable merriment. Sev- 

 eral numbers were played by the or- 

 chestra, the florists joining in the 

 chorus. Others gave recitations and 

 songs. They were putting out the 

 street lights when the last of the flor- 

 ists wended his way homeward. A 

 queer thing about the meeting was the 

 lack of speakers; no one seemed will- 

 ing to take a chance of being declared 

 an orator and the toastmaster was 

 hard put to find someone to start the 

 ball going, William F, Gude gave a 

 very short talk on organization and co- 

 operation, someone else said "Them's 

 my sentiments" and seconded the mo- 

 tion, and when it came George Cooke's 

 time to speak he would rather sing a 

 song, and sing a song he did. 



Present at the meeting was Martin 

 Witt, a grower of Itzehoe, Holstein, 

 who is visiting his sons, members of 

 the club. 



A vole of thanks was extended to 

 Charles C. Stevens, who acted as toast- 

 master, and to others who, although 

 not members of the club, did so much 

 to make the evening a memorable one. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The members of the American Rose 

 Society are invited as a body, or as 

 many as can conveniently do so, to 

 visit Elizabeth Park Rose Garden, on 

 June 19, to meet at 11 a. m. in the 

 Union Station, Hartford, Conn. Pro- 

 gramme will be to take lunch there, 

 then go out to the Park. The roses 

 will be in good condition at that time. 

 Alex. Cumming, Chairman of the 

 American Rose Society's Rose Gar- 

 den Committee reports back that at 

 this writing everything looks most in- 

 viting. Not only the members of the 

 American Rose Society are invited, 

 but any one wlio takes an interest 

 in' roses. 



The affiliation effort of recent 

 months has resulted in a membership 

 of some 300 persons. Wallace R. 

 Pierson, President of the American 

 Rose Society says — "give the matter 

 all the publicity possible and invite 

 any rose lover to come with us." 



Bex.iamin H.vm.moxi). Secy. 



Beacon, N. Y. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The last meeting for the season was 

 unusually well attended on Monday 

 night, June 8. Reports of various 

 committees constituted the greater 

 part of the business transacted. A. L. 

 Miller made a report as a Brooklynite 

 on the success of Brooklyn Day at the 

 recent spring show, March 24. A 

 goodly sum of money was collected 

 among the Brooklyn florists for the 

 event and was spent in publicity work 

 which the Brooklyn newspapers and 

 local authorities had enthusiastically 

 seconded, and another, even greater. 

 Brooklyn Day is planned for next 

 year's show. Mr. Totty made approv- 

 int; remarks on the subject and sug- 

 gested that other neighboring cities 

 and communities should be encour- 

 aged to emulate Brooklyn's good ex- 

 ample. It was announced that about 

 .$4,000 had already been subscribed to 

 the guarantee fund for next year's 

 show and $4,000 worth of exhibition 

 space sold. 



F. H. Traendly recommended for 

 the Transportation Committee that the 

 official route to the Boston Convention 

 be via Eastern Steamship Company's 

 outside line, leaving New York 5 P. K., 

 Monday, August 17, and arriving in 

 Boston 8 A. M., Tuesday. The recom- 

 mendation was unanimously adopted 

 and an appropriation of $100 was 

 made for the use of the committee. 

 100 staterooms are reserved for the 

 New York party until ten days before 

 sailing. 



\X. K. Marshall, reporting for the 

 Outing Committee, said that Glen 

 Island had been selected for this 

 year's outing on July 1. Tickets, $3.50 

 for gentlemen, $2.50 for ladies, $2,00 

 for boys and girls 12 to 16 years, $1,00 

 for children under 12. No effort will 

 be spared for the comfort and enjoy- 

 ment of the picnickers. 



J. Harrison Dick, J, B, Deamud and 

 Mr. Losey, recently elected members, 

 were called upon for speeches and re- 

 sponded acceptably. Wm. Plumb made 

 an encouraging report on progress in 

 the horticultural department of the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition. P. W. Popp 

 made an exhibit of Salvia Greggi and 

 Schizanthus Bridal Veil. Resolutions 

 on the death of J. P. Slimon were 

 adopted as follows: 



The New Y'ork Florists' Club desires to 

 record — with siin-erest sympathy for his 

 bereaved family — the passing on of its be- 

 loved fellow-member. .las. F. Slimon. and 

 takes this opportunity of expressing its 

 loss and sorrow. Mr. Simon was universal- 

 ly esteemed as a gentieiii;in of unsullied 

 character and en,ioyed the respect and af- 

 fection of all who intiiiiatel.v knew iiini. 

 His faithful attention to his business, his 

 recognized ability, his devotion to his fam- 

 ily and his never-failing courtesy were 

 characteristics known to all with whom 

 he was associated. 



Be it resolved, that this tribute to his 

 meinory be recorded on the minutes of the 

 Club and a copy of these resolutions sent 

 to his family. 



DATES OF BOSTON SHOWS. 



The rhododendriiii show will be held 

 Saturday, June 13. and the day follow- 

 ing. The peony show will be held 

 June 20 and 21, and the rose and 

 strawberry show, June 27 and 28. 



