Deo mbi p 23 L911 



HOIiTI CC 1/1' r i; E 



'.io3 



No Immense thin 

 but tho the 



association tee! well repaid with (he 

 pi inn by the trade as « i 



ne Interesti d n 



IOl 00 



the bulbs Bho i in a 



gladiolus, as well as cannas, in. . ox 

 alls, lilies, montbretias. etc., all grown 

 In the central west: Mammoth Bulbs 

 >t Kunderdi Glory, I Inches in diam- 

 • iii ; Koerner's giant-flowering hy- 

 brids, 3'/ a Inches; Childsli; tlorists' mix- 

 ture: King and America, 3 to 3c. in- 

 1 bes in diameter, etc.. etc. 



Over seventy entries were made and 

 the association is well pleased with 

 tin work, ii is design* ii I hal ", bei 

 "f-door llnwrrs si««n from a bulb- 

 ous root will be included in the copi 



of tile work. ( Hir aim is mini a 



to boili i rade and amateur 



E. S. THOMPSON, Sec. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 

 The animal meeting of this society 

 was held in Pembroke Hall, Glen Cove, 



N. Y.. on Wednesday al hi noon, Dec. 

 13. The following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: Presi- 

 dent, John F. Johnstone; vice-presi- 

 dent, Geo. Barton; treasurer, Ernest J. 

 Brown; secretary. Ernesl Westlake; 

 corresponding secretary, .lames Mc- 

 Donald; executive committee, Heijry 

 Cant, John McQueen, A. McKenzie, S. 

 J. Trepess, .los. Robinson, II. Jones. 

 James Emslie; trustee for one year, 

 Valentine Clares; trustee for three 

 years, .lanes I >uthi< 



John McQueen, .lames Hollow ay 



and E. A. Reidenbach were appointed 

 judges ol th«' monthly exhibits, and 

 thej awarded two flrsi prizes for car- 

 nations to A. McKenzie. There was a 

 very keen competition for the gold 

 medal offered by Felix Mense for the 

 best 100 single violets, which also was 

 won by A. McKenzie. II. Boettcher 



got honorable mention for lettuce. 



Mi Donald bom irable mention 



rnatinns, M. Bosworth honorable 



mention for lemon and Jos. Robinson 



certificate of culture for poinsettias. 



\ letter was read from Elmer D. 

 Smith offering a special prize of $16.00 

 lor six blooms of Artistic Queen chrys- 

 anthemum to be competed for at the 

 1912 show. 



The treasurer's annual report 

 showed thai the society had experi- 



enci il i •', v 3UCI eSSful J ear. It was 



decided to hold, il possible, the annual 

 dinnei on Jan 25 



Mi .!. Hollow aj bs da pi Ize 



of $5.00 to he competed for at the next 

 meeting, for 25 carnations mixed, and 

 the society's prizes in January will be 

 for a vase of six spikes of antirrhin- 

 ums, it. sprays of sweet peas and 

 specimen cyclamen. 



E. WESTLAKE. 



PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 

 At I mi ii.! 1 meeting of this so- 



Tuesday evening, De ember 

 19th, the following officers were i 

 ed for 1912: 



nold; 

 dents, Randal Morgan, Hi 

 F. Michell, Dr. J. Cheston Morris, 

 Robert Craig; ' irer, S. \V. Ki 



secret »r of 



botany, Stewardson Brown: professor 

 of horticultural chemistry, Dr. John 

 ill: professor of entomology. 

 Dr. Henry Si, inner; professor of bi- 



le Ida K.iler; executive eom- 



'■ I pp iii. .1. Otto 



Thilow. John W William 



Kleinheinz, .lames Boyd, Edward \ 

 Schmitd, in. Koh. it in. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The membei s ol the American I 



to be alive to the ap- 

 proaching exhibition and annual D 

 Ing to lie held al Detroit, In Janu 

 This is a little earlier and a littli 

 ferenl from bi but from infor- 



mal ion now in hand, it would seem 

 i lure is going to be a fine spread. We 

 already have word of some entries. 

 Another matter of interest, is in re- 

 gard to the name of the Double Im- 

 pro> ed \\ hjte Kilarney, whlcb was 

 Bled with the American Rose Society, 

 and which exhibit took prizes and 

 nitiiui at Boston, but owing to 

 confusion In name, and upon request 

 of various people this rose will here- 

 after be called "Double White Killar- 

 ney. Renter's Strain." 



The list of guarantors is steadily 

 increasing. This morning's mail 

 brought three new names. The inter- 

 est which the members of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society are evincing shows 

 i hat there is plenty of vitality among 

 the rose giowers. The show will be 

 in combination with the Carnation 

 Society, hacked up by all the Michigan 

 people. Robert J, Pyle, of Westches- 

 ter, will give on some evening, an il- 

 lustrated talk concerning his visit to 

 England last June. 



BENJAMIN HAMMOND. 



i '■ < ember is. 1911. 



NEW YORK TO DETROIT. 



The Transportation Committee of the 

 New York Florists' Club have made 

 arrangements as. follows: Leave the 

 Grand Central Station, X. Y. C & H. 

 R. R. on the "Wolverine," 5 P 

 Tuesday, January 9, arriving at De- 

 troit. 7.15 next morning. Tickets for 

 transportation may be had on the 

 train, hut reservations for berths, etc., 

 should be made by January 8th at the 

 latest. Fan.', one way, $16.00. Party 

 of ten or more, will make the 

 fare $13.25. Lower berths, $3.50; 

 upper, $2.80; compartment, $10.00; 

 drawing room, $13.00. All those going 

 from the east are invited to join the 

 New York party. Any other informa- 

 tion may be bad ol Prank II. Traendly 

 133 W. 28th Street. 



Frank H. Traendly, W. F. Sheridan. 

 John Young, committee. 



YONKERS HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 CIETY. 

 On Friday, Dec. 15th, a meeting was 

 '<■' Id and officers elected for . 

 ing year The balloting resulted as fol- 

 lows: President, Howard Nichols; 

 vice-president, Francis Drexler, sec- 

 v. Louis Taylor; corresponding 

 i Watts: ■ 

 mittee, ! ouis Milli.it Thos. Mahony 

 and W. Macdonald, foi two years and 

 R. Cochrane, W. Neidig and II. Wells. 

 for one 5 

 A prize was offered for the most 

 meriti hibit, and R. Cochrane 



was awarded first for a well colored 

 Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) in a six-inch 

 placed second 

 with some remarkably fine poinsettias 

 with la ll-built up bracts. Mr. 



Hoffman received honorable mention 

 very pretty dwarf conifer. 



.1 WATTS, Cor. Si 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



The pi ogram of lei 



'tin ing iii. season of i:<12 has 

 been i sued. The 



al Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Sal 

 unlays, at 2 o'clock P. M„ with the 



' hi the inaugural meeting. 



Januarj 6. The lisi is as follow 



Januarj 6. inaugural Meel 



nual Ri poi 



January 13.— Vocational Agricultural 

 Education, By Rufus W. Stimson, Bos- 

 ton. Special Agent for Agricultural 

 Kilucition, State Board of Education. 



January 20, riant Introduction as a 

 Government Policy. By David Fair- 

 child, Agricultural Explorer in Charge, 

 Office of Foreign Seed and Plant In- 

 troduction, Bureau of riant Industry, 

 Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton. 



January 27. — Insect Pests of the Gar- 

 den and Orchard. By Prof. Edson F. 

 Hitchings, Orono, Me. 



February 3, No Lecture on this 

 date. Mid-winter Flower Show. 



February 10. — General Discussion on 

 Flower Culture. Opened by Robert 

 Cameron, Superintendent Botanic Car 

 den, Cambridge. 



February 17. Fungous Diseases of 

 the Chestnut and other Trees. By 

 Dr. Haven Metcalf, Pathologist, De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Washington. 

 (The John Lewis Russell Lecture.) 



February lm. —A Year's Vegetable 



Supply from the Hume Garden. By 

 William x. Craig, North Easton. 



March 2. — General Discussion on 

 Fruit Culture. Opened by Wilfrid 

 Wheeler. Concord. 



March 9. Planning and Starting an 

 Orchard. By F. A. Smith, Superin- 

 tendent Turner Hill Farm Orchards, 

 Ipswich. 



eh 16. My Fourth i i Ex- 



pedition to China. By E. H. Wilson. 

 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain. 



March 23.— No Lecture on this date. 

 Spring Flower Show. 



March 30. — Color Arrangement in 

 Flower Gardening. By Mrs. Francis 

 King. Alma. Mich. 



ST. LOUIS FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club held ii 

 ily meeting Thursday afternoon, 

 December Mth. in Odd Fellows' Hall. 

 with a satisfactory attendance, this 

 being the last meeting the club would 

 hold this year. The trustees surprised 

 the members with a few boxes of good 

 cigars to smoke during the meeting 

 .mi there was unite a lot of interest- 

 fa i kepi the mem 

 busy discussing tie 



\- Steinkamp sent a rase of 

 their mw ■ id carnation St. Nicholas, 

 which was at once the centre of at- 

 traction for the carnation growers. 

 M. F. V of Highland. 111., 



Lorraine, 

 and sold quite a lot of them to the 

 local trade. 'I I arroll, one of 



'■', members, w : for the 



ears. Mr. Carroll 

 is blind. The gave him a 



Chri purse, which Mr. Car- 



roll accepted with a neat response. 

 All the old committees made final re- 

 ports and v. with 

 thanks. An interesting hour was spent 

 discussing queries from the question 

 box. Next meeting. January 11th. 



