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F. R. PIERSON CO.'S TABLE OF NEPHROLEPIS BOSTONIENSIS VARIETIES AT BALTIMORE. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 

 The Newport Horticultural Society 

 will hold its annual fall show Sept. 

 16-18 at Newport, R. I. 



The annual show of the New Eng- 

 land Dahlia Society will be given Sept. 

 15-17 at Horticultural Hall, Boston. 



souri State Board of Horticulture ad- 

 dressed the meeting. All the old offi- 

 cers were reelected. J. W. Stanton of 

 Richview, 111., and J. C. Wilson of Co- 

 lumbia, Mo., are president and secre- 

 tary of the Congress. 



The dahlia show of the New Haven 

 County Horticultural Society is sched- 

 uled for Sept. 13. at New Haven, Conn. 



The September meeting of the Al- 

 bany Florists' Club will take place at 

 the residence of Patrick Hyde, 480 

 Hudson Avenue, on Sept. 7th. 



The New York Florists' Club will 

 hold its opening meeting of the season 

 on Monday evening, Sept. 11th. Bal- 

 timore experiences will no doubt make 

 the session interesting. 



Boston has been selected by two 

 associations as their meeting place for 

 next year, namely, the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen, who will 

 meet in Boston in June, and the Amer- 

 ican Association of Park Superintend- 

 ents, who meet in August. 



The premium list and rules govern- 

 ing the exhibit of farm crops of the 

 Boston Chamber of Commerce Indus- 

 trial and Educational Exposition, to 

 be held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 on Oct. 2 to 28, 1911, has been issued, 

 and copies can be had on application 

 to Chas. M. Cox or Harry F. Hall, sub- 

 committee on agricultural exhibits. 

 Chamber of Commerce, Boston, Mass. 



With regard to the entire exhibit, 

 special attention will be given to its 

 educational possibilities. To accom- 

 plish this the co-operation of the vari- 

 ous agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations has been invited, and 

 there will be exhibits, for example, of 

 the various plant diseases and insect 

 enemies, the most approved methods 

 of pruning, trimming trees, spraying. 

 etc. There will be a series of free 

 lectures or talks on various farming 

 topics by men of eminence whose 

 names will be announced later. 



A VISIT TO CEDAR ACRES. 



On Saturday, August 26, members 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston and of the North Shore 

 Horticultural Society to the number 

 of fifty visited the gladiolus fields of 

 B. Hammond Tracy at Cedar Acres, 

 Mass. They found the fields and a 

 display of cut blooms in excellent con- 

 dition. There were many promising 

 seedlings that came in for admiration 

 and as for such named varieties as 

 Daybreak, luminous salmon pink; San- 

 guine, vermilion scarlet; Niagara, 

 creamy yellow; Elizabeth Kurtz, white 

 flushed with pink; Dawn, glowing sal- 

 mon pink; Mrs. Francis King, vermil- 

 ion; Princess Sanderson, white; Har- 

 vard, crimson, and a host of other 

 beauties, it is doubtful if they have 

 ever been seen to better advantage, 

 soil and culture seeming to be ideal. 



After going over the fields and 

 through the packing rooms, where all 

 varieties were staged under name, a 

 buffet lunch was served and some ap- 

 preciative speeches made, after which 

 some of the flowers were distributed 

 to the visitors and a return home 

 made by special car. 



The Apple Growers' Convention met 

 in St. Louis last week at the Plant- 

 ers' Hotel. The meeting was well at- 

 tended. L. A. Goodman, secretary of 

 the Missouri Horticultural Society and 

 Richard Dalton, president of the Mis- 



THE BALTIMORE SOUVENIR. 



Philip B. Welsh, secretary of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Balti- 

 more announces that any member of 

 the S. A. F. and O. H. who has not 

 received a copy of the Baltimore Sou- 

 venir Program may obtain one by 

 writing to him. His address is Glenn 

 Morris, Balto Co., Md. 



SEE!! 

 There are some good offers this 

 week in the "Buyers' Directory" sec- 

 tion of this paper. Field grown carna- 

 tions, decorative plants, ferns, etc., 

 are offered by firms of high standing 

 and you should not overlook this sea- 

 sonable opportunity to stock up with 

 profit yielding material. 



