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HORTICULTURE 



August 5, 1911 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK 

 SUPERINTENDENTS. 



Parties arriving Id Kansas City on 

 Monday evening trains 7tbj 



will, <>i course, have ample time to 

 make hotel arrangements and be ready 

 for Hi.- ppening meeting al the 

 Hall Parties arriving on the morn- 

 Ink trains. August 8th, will have time 

 to go to the Baltimore Hotel, or any 

 other hotel which you may select 

 ma ke your hotel arrangements and 

 eet to the City Hall at Fifth and Mam 

 streets by 10 o'clock tor the opening 

 meeting. Those whose trains may be 

 delayed a little may mine directly to 

 the City Hall and their hand baggage 

 Will be' taken care of there and hotel 



arrangements can be made after the 

 opening meeting. 



The Baltimore Hotel has been se- 

 lected as headquarters and has made 

 the rates for rooms at from $1.50 up. 

 It is a high grade hotel, very com- 

 plete in all its arrangements, and Is 

 not crowded in August. There will 

 be ample room there. 



In case vou wish to go to one Of the 

 other hotels, the Sexton is directly 

 across the street from the Baltimore, 

 the Savoy is a couple < t blocks away. 

 and the Kupper Hotel and the Dens- 

 more are convenient to thj Baltimore. 

 In anv of these last hotels mentioned 

 rooms may be obtained from $1.00 

 per day up. . 



I wish all visiting officials to call 

 at the Park Board office in the City 

 Hall first register and obtain creden- 

 tials going from there directly into 

 the Council Chambers where the open- 

 ing meeting will be held. After you 

 have all arrived at the Park Board 

 headquarters we will then be able to 

 give vou definite directions for the 

 rest of the time of the Convention 



If you have been a little in doubt 

 about coming to this Convention, 

 please now reconsider ai.d either 

 come, or send a representative from 

 your citv. This is going to be a rous- 

 ing meeting and great good should 

 come from these conventions We 

 -will be greatlv disappointed if you 

 are not here. W. H. DTJNN, 



Superintendent of Parks. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HOR- 

 TICULTURISTS. 

 St. Louis to Baltimore. 

 State v» lent Fred H vr 



of the S A- F. says he has a li 

 names of those who - oin .S 



but vou can't tell in the florist busi- 

 ness what might turn up al the lasl 

 minute to keep one at home 'I he cluD 

 meeting next Thursday will no doubt 

 bring out the real list of those going. 

 Mr Weber has been working hard and 

 succeeded in rounding up quite a few 

 new members for the Society. 



ST. LOUIS FLORIST CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florist Club will 

 an important meeting on Thui 

 afternoon. August 10th. At this i 

 ing the annual election of office! 

 ensuing year will be held. AH the 

 candidates who were nominated at the 

 Julv meeting have a huge following 

 and a hot election is in store. 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



onh a I- « days remain befoi a the 



d annual exhibit) I the V] 



[can Gladiolus Socletj takes place at 

 Baltimore and notwithstanding di 



iglng reports ol .lama. Ing drouths 

 from man-, parts ol the countrj I 

 lit I . thai our exhibition « ill surpass 

 the Spll ndid show we made at Roches- 

 ter last year. The growers that have 

 the cultivator busj .luting the 

 dry sp.di will be able to bring somi 



good spikes of flowers to Baltimore. 

 We have had practicallj no rain for 

 nearlj two months iii Orange, the first 

 good rain coming the 24th, and anoth- 

 er good .me .m July 29th, but I Kept 

 the soil stirred twice a week and am 

 iiuu cutting as fine flowers as I ever 

 have. The judicious application of the 

 :, per cent, solution of formalin on 

 scabbj bulbs has resulted in giving 

 me the healthiest plants one could 

 wish from such stock. 



The extreme hot weather forced 

 \ arieties into bloom a week earl 



i. r than I ever had them before and a 



few days before thej began to flower 



the tip" buds scorched as though thej 

 held over a blaze ol lire. It was 

 surprising to see how the rain brought 

 them around again. It is generally 

 believed that cutting the spike when 

 the first two or three flowers open 

 will result in producing a stronger 

 bulb that will give you a better spike 

 of flowers the next year. I took this 

 for granted for several years but have 

 been doing a little experimenting for 

 the past three years and find that 

 nearly all bulbs that I have grown for 

 seed give me a spike of flowers equal 

 to those that 1 cut flowers from. 



I am receiving some rare species of 

 gladiolus bulbs from the Transvaal. 

 These are sent me by a well-known 

 collector of botanical specimens, 

 George Thorncroft, Barberton, who 

 has discovered many rare plants in- 

 cluding gladiolus and a rare pink cj 1 - 

 tanthus named after him by the au- 

 thorities of Kew Botanical Gardens. 

 Mr. Thorncroft has also sent me some 

 bulbs of a new cyrtanthus with um- 

 bels of pure white flowers. A few 

 bulbs in a pot are beautiful as freesias. 

 They flower around Barberton in May 



and June and multiply enor i l 



from offsets. They grow in South Af- 

 rica at an altitude of 5 feel but the 



frosts there are not severe so I do not 

 yet know whether they are hardy 

 enough to plant out in the fall here. 



Returning to the gladiolus, Mr. 

 Thorncroft tells me that there is a 

 new species which is very beautiful. 

 the fin. si one they have, that flowers 

 in December. It is a large flowering 

 variety: color, old gold, splashed with 

 Many of these species are inter- 

 esting but of little use in breeding for 

 den sorts. L. MERTON GAGE. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



Convention matters and a talk on 

 "Park Gardening" bj Xavier Schmitl 

 were the leading items on the program 

 at the regular monthly meeting of the 

 above Club held on August 1st. .Ino. 



Westcott reported tor the transporta- 

 tion committee and alter considerable 

 discussion of various routes it was de- 

 cided to go by the B. and O., the Tues- 

 day morning, on the 10.17 train. All 

 members to be notified with return 

 postal so that if number of replies 

 warrant a special car can be pro- 

 cured. This shows the importance of 

 every one answering promptly. The 

 Care is the regular four-dollar excur- 

 sion. Each member buys his own 

 ticket in the usual way. No bother 

 at all with rebates and committees 

 and so on this year, as the distance 

 being short there would be no saving. 

 The hotel committee reported and 

 read offers from ten or twelve of the 

 leading Baltimore hotels, and this in- 

 formation is now on tap for all who 

 may want it. No headquarters have 

 been selected, it being thought wisest 

 to let each member pick out the hotel 

 that seemed to suit him best. Mr. 

 Schmitt's address was very well re- 

 ceived, and we hope to find room for 

 it in our columns at an early date. 

 The bowling team will consist of: — 

 Jno. H. Dodds, Wm. Robertson, Sam- 

 uel Batchelor. Robert Irwin, and D. T. 

 Connor. 



H. Youeil. financial secretarj ol 

 American Gladiolus Society, sends us 

 record of the following additional 

 prize offered for competition at Bal- 

 timore: 



Class 10. for amateurs. Mr. Francis 

 King offers $10 for the mosi harmo- 

 nious and beautiful color arrangement 

 of gladiolus spikes, number of colors 

 and quality to count: no less than 50 

 spikes. 



NEW ORLEANS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Claude L. Ory. a prominent florist 

 of the upper section of the city, was 

 elected president of the New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society on July 21, after 

 one of the most exciting elections ev- 

 er held by that body, Mr. Ory defeat- 

 ing R. E. Simon, another well known 

 florist, by one vote, the final count 

 being 15 to 14. 



The meeting was full of interest all 

 the way through, and quite a surprise 

 was sprung when Mr. Ory was placed 

 in nomination and elected. It had 

 been originally agreed to elect Mr. 

 Simon president by acclamation, but 

 when the nominations were made and 

 the vote called it was found that Mr. 

 Simon was not present. 



J. E. Newsham and several of the 

 other members brought up the point 

 that a man could not be elected to the 

 presidency unless he was present, and 

 after a resolution had been passed 

 making this a law of the association, 

 Mr. Simon appeared on the scene. His 

 friends then urged him to enter, as 

 the nominations had been reopened. 

 Mr. Simon did, but Mr. Newsham 

 would not withdraw his candidate. 

 The voting was done on the Austral- 

 ian secret system. 



The other officers elected, all by 

 acclamation, were: B. M. Wischer, 

 vice president; John Eblen, treasurer; 

 C. R. Panter, secretary: Richard 

 Eichling, corresponding and recording 

 secretary. 



Mr. Eblen. the treasurer, was elect- 

 ed to his twenty-seventh term, while 

 Mr. Panter took up his tenth term as 

 secretary. The finance committee ap- 

 pointed consisted of Joseph Sleekier. 

 E. Baker and P. A. Chopin. 



