October 21, 1911 



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at once took charge and handled the 

 uniting like an old timer. After the 

 opening preliminaries Secretary Be- 

 neke read a letter from the florists of 

 San Francisco., Cal., saying that they 

 v( re organizing a club and asking for 

 a copy of the by-laws, which will be 

 sent. 



The next meeting comes in flower 

 show week when the chrysanthemum 

 society meets here. It was decided to 

 entertain the visitors with a banquet. 

 It was also decided to have an essay 

 or discussion at each meeting here- 

 after. Dave Geddes then gave an in- 

 teresting account of the recent Chi- 

 cago trip and said the visitors were 

 royally treated and all had a good 

 time. 



The queries from the question box 

 brought, as usual, good and interesting 

 questions which took up the greater 

 part of the afternoon. After ad- 

 journment President Windier invited 

 the members to a little spread at Lip- 

 pi's where the balance of the evening 

 was spent. 



Next meeting Thursday afternoon, 

 November 9th, at 2 o'clock. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL. SOCIETY. 



The annual Dahlia Show of the Nas- 

 sau County Horticultural Society was 

 held in connection with the October 

 meeting in Pembroke Hall on Wed- 

 nesday afternoon, October 11. The 

 awards were as follows: 



Dreer cup for collection of dahlias — 

 Won by Mis. E. M. Towusend, gard. James 

 Duthie; 2nd, Mrs. H. J. Bueknell, gard. 

 (Jen. Barton. 



Stern Cup for collection 25 varieties, 

 Mrs. E. M. Towusend; 2nd, James Klrby. 



Twelve Cactus dahlias, 12 vars., 1st, 

 James Klrby, 2nd. Mrs. E. M. Towusend. 



Twelve Decorative, 12 vars. 1st, Mis. 

 H. J. Bueknell. 



Twelve Single, 1st. Parker D. Haudy, 

 gard. .1. O'Brien; 2nd, Mrs. B. M. Town- 

 send. 



Twelve Cactus, long stems. 1st, James 

 Kirliy: 2nd, Mrs. E. M. Townseud. 



Twelve Decorative. 1 var., 1st. Mrs. E. 

 M. Townseud; 2nd. Mrs. H. J. Bueknell. 



Peony Flowered, 6 vers., 1st, Mrs. II. J. 

 Bueknell; 2nd. Mrs. E. M. Townsend. 



Six Cactus, 1st. Emmett Queen, gard. 

 Geo. Ashwnrtli; 2nd. Mrs. D. P. Bush, 

 gard. Ernest Westlake. 



Twelve Mixed. 1st. Mrs. H. L. Pratt, 

 gard. H. Gaut: 2ud, Mrs. F. S. Smithers, 

 gard. V. Cleres. 



Vase Pompons, 1st, J. Ingram; 2nd, Mrs. 

 H. L. Pratt. 



Vase Decorative, 1st, Mrs. D. F. Bush. 



Vase cosmos, 1st, E. A. Reidenuacn. 



Vase cosmos, pink, 1st, Mrs. H. L. Pratt. 



Vase gladiolus. 1st, Mrs. F. S. Smithers; 

 2nd, E. A. Keidenbach. 



Honorable mention to J. O'Brien for 

 seedling dahlias; A. Walker for vase of 

 dahlias; James Duthie, vase of dahlias; 

 Julius Eoehrs, collection of orchids; Wm. 

 Fitting, collection of vegetables. 



The regular monthly meeting was 

 held at 7 P. M. 



The judges appointed for the month- 

 ly exhibits were Messrs. J. W. Ever- 

 ett, J. McDonald, P. Reul and their 

 decisions were as follows: Celery — 

 first, Jos. Robinson; cabbage — first, F. 

 Petroccia; cosmos, F. Petroccia. 



Julius Roehrs Co. offered $10 for 

 competition at the fall show and a let- 

 ter was read from Vaughan's Seed 

 Store offering a prize for the same 

 show. 



The president took occasion to pre- 

 sent James Duthie with the silver 

 cups he so decisively won with two 

 splendid collections of dahlias. 



The Society's prize in November will 

 be for chrysanthemums, three white, 

 three pink, three yellow. 



E. WESTLAKE, Rec. Sec. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Arrangement has been made at De- 

 troit for the joint exhibition in Jan- 

 uary, 1912, to be held in Wayne Pa- 

 vilion adjoining the Michigan Central 

 Union Station where trains from New 

 York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, 

 Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, etc., 

 come in. The hall is spacious, so ar- 

 ranged that ventilation is readily ad- 

 justed. 



The effort will be to make this a 

 great popular show. The trolley lines 

 come to the corner from all the sur- 

 rounding country. The effort is be- 

 ing made to put out a prize list of 

 value. The American Rose Society 

 asks of all its friends support for the 

 prize list. 



The Annual Bulletin for 1912 will 

 be mailed by Christmas and contains 

 much matter of interest. The Carna- 

 tion Society exhibits in the same hall 

 at the same time. 



We would be glad to hear from any 

 and all intending exhibitors at an early 

 date. The Detroit people will do all 

 possible to aid the exhibition. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND, Sec'y. 



Fishkill-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



DETROIT PREPARATIONS. 



Representatives of the American 

 Rose and Carnation Societies have 

 been here inspecting local halls, and 

 the Wayne Pavilion, the largest, best- 

 located and in every respect the most 

 desirable was selected for the January- 

 convention. At a special meeting a 

 committee consisting of Messrs. Phil. 

 Breitmeyer, Alb. Pochelon, M. Bloy, 

 Thomas Brown and Wm. Dilger were 

 appointed to form the necessary sub- 

 committees and select their member- 

 ship from among the club members. 

 On the following Saturday evening 

 tentative division of committees were 

 made as follows, subject to change, if 

 necessary: 



Managers — Dilger, Wells, Pautke. 



Finance — Breitmeyer, Holznagle, 

 Flowerday, Taepke, B. Schroeter, Geo. 

 Brown, Watson. 



Publicity — Sullivan, Fetters, Thos. 

 Brown, H. Schroeter, Maynard. 



Transportation — Sylvester, Miesel, 

 Jr., Asman, Charvat. Becker, Rusch, 

 Pickworth, Patterson, Plumb. Smith, 

 Stevens. 



Decoration — Pochelon, Danzer, Wall- 

 ing, Davidson, Tossy, Nail, DeCaterat, 

 Hermann, Boehm, Iverson, Wendt, 

 Deinzer. Gowanlock, Warnke, Smith, 

 Mitchell. M. Sullivan, Rowland. 



Entertainment — Thos. Brown, Raha- 

 ley, Walt. Taepke, Dunn, Hunter, 

 Heilscher, Stahelin, Boeslager, Unger, 

 Beard, Scribner, Stock, Jean, Miller, 

 Seligman, Kairns. 



There will be nothing too good for 

 our visitors, and no detail will be 

 overlooked to achieve both fullest re- 

 sult from the business point of a con- 

 vention and all the comforts and pleas- 

 ures possible. FRANK DANZER. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 

 AND ORNAMENTAL HORTI- 

 CULTURISTS. 

 Department of Registration. 

 As no objections have been filed, 

 public notice is hereby given that the 

 registration of the begonia, "Feastii 

 Bunchii" by Lloyd C. Bunch of Fre- 

 donia, Kansas, becomes complete. 



H. B. DORNER, Secretary. 

 October 12. 1911. 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GAR- 

 DENERS. 



A meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the National Association of 

 Gardeners was held in Horticultural 

 Hall, Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the 

 Hith inst., to complete arrangements 

 for the forthcoming convention at 

 Madison, N. J., on Friday, October 

 27th. 



The convention will be called to or- 

 der at 2 o'clock in the James Building. 

 As this is the first convention since 

 the association has been incorporated 

 important business will come up, 

 principally the adoption of a new 

 set of by-laws to conform with the 

 charter. An election of officers will 

 also occur, and several subjects will be 

 brought up looking to the future wel- 

 fare of this organization, which has 

 been making rapid strides within the 

 past year. 



It is expected that J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, of Boston, will address the con- 

 vention on the gardeners' opportuni- 

 ties in this country; and J. Otto Thi- 

 low, of Philadelphia, has also prom- 

 ised to talk. Charles H. Totty of Mad- 

 ison, who has just been appointed 

 chairman of the National Flower Show- 

 Committee will talk to the gardeners 

 to urge them to lose no time in pre- 

 paring for the next national show, 

 which it is expected and hoped will be 

 held in New York City in March, 1913. 



A large attendance is looked for, and 

 as the annual show of the Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' So- 

 ciety occurs in Madison at the same 

 time and place, an additional feature 

 of interest is added to bring many 

 gardeners together. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 

 NEW YORK. 



The annual fall exhibition will be 

 held in the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, November 3rd to 7th. A 

 premium list carrying about $1,500 has 

 been prepared. A little over one-third 

 of this amount is allotted to the chrys- 

 anthemum, covering bush, standard, 

 grafted and single-stem plants, and 

 cut flowers. Orchids have been pro- 

 vided for by many prizes for collec- 

 tions, novelties, individual plants in 

 bloom and cut flowers. Roses, carna- 

 tions, fruits and vegetables, and foli- 

 age and decorative plants are included 

 in the premiums. 



Prizes are offered for decorations 

 and floral pieces, and it is hoped that 

 those who make a business of such 

 decorative work will take advantage 

 of the opportunities offered at this 

 exhibition. Thousands of people who 

 appreciate to the full this class of 

 work visit the exhibition. 



The American Museum of Natural 

 History, not only one of the finest pub- 

 lic buildings in New York City but 

 also in the world, is centrally located 

 and readily accessible by surface cars, 

 elevated and subway. The spacious 

 halls are admirably adapted to the 

 exhibition of plants and flowers and 

 provide ample opportunity for the 

 proper display of specimen plants; if 

 such are crowded together much of 

 the beauty of individual specimens is 

 lost. 



Schedules will be sent upon applica- 

 tion to the secretary, George V. Nash, 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 Park, New York City. 



