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The Rorists' Review 



December 25, 1919. 



Club Meeting. 



In spite of severely cold weather, there 

 was a good attendance at the meeting 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 December 16. Seven new members were 

 elected. It was voted to offer prizes of 

 $15 and $10 for twelve bunches of sweet 

 peas, twenty-five sprays of each, at the 

 exhibition of the American Sweet Pea 

 Society in Boston in July. It was an- 

 nounced that A. Herrington, Madison, 

 N. J., would represent the club as a 

 lecturer at the big union meeting of 

 agricultural and horticultural societies 

 to be held in Horticultural hall Febru- 

 ary 20 to 23. A recommendation from 

 the executive committee to hold a prize 

 exhibition of carnations and other sea- 

 sonable flowers preceding the annual 

 carnation meeting February 10 was 

 adopted and $50 voted toward the prize 

 fund. It was voted not to hold a regu- 

 lar banquet as in previous years, but to 

 try a buffet lunch, entertainment and 

 dance in its stead February 18. 



The committee on the flower show 

 appointed was: S. J. Goddard, chairman; 

 Harold A. Ryan, H. H. Bartsch, Duncan 

 Finlayson and W. H. Golby. It was 

 unanimously voted that the club place 

 itself squarely in favor of daylight sav- 

 ing for Massachusetts in 1920. It was 

 also voted to send resolutions to the 

 Federal Horticultural Board demanding 

 a hearing for orchid men to see if 

 arrangements cannot be made to remove 

 the embargo from their importation. 

 The name of James F. M. Farquhar was 

 proposed for honorary membership in 

 the club. 



The annual election of officers re- 

 sulted as follows: President, H. H. 

 Bartsch; vice-president, William H. 

 Judd; secretary, W. N. Craig; treas- 

 urer, S. J. Goddard; executive commit- 

 tee, Andrew K. Rogers, Patrick W. 

 Burke, Walter H. Golby, John L. Rus- 

 sell and John R. Ness. 



There was, as usual, a fine lot of 

 exhibits. William Sim showed twenty 

 vases of splendid carnations, embracing 

 the following varieties: Rosette, Pink 

 Delight, White Delight, Benora, White 

 Benora, Laddie, Aviator, Matchless, 

 Harold, Rosalia, Nancy, Belle Wash- 

 burn, Ethel Fisher, Enchantress Su- 

 preme and a number of seedlings, in- 

 cluding Kiltie (variegated), Gay Gor- 

 don, No. 5, Fairy and Romeo. Gay Gor- 

 . don and Romeo received honorable men- 

 tion, and a cultural report of merit was 

 awarded to the collection, one of the 

 best ever staged here. Mr. Sim stated 

 that all his carnations are grown under 

 glass from start to finish, the bulk be- 

 ing planted out in May. He grows 100,- 

 000 of them and has proved that they 

 give far superior results to field-grown, 

 lifted stock. They have been grown in 

 the same soil for three seasons. He 

 tried one house with new, specially pre- 

 pared compost, but results were not so 

 good as in the old soil. His soil is about 

 two feet deep and has been growing 

 Buch crops as violets, tomatoes and 

 sweet peas before carnations for some 

 eighteen years. Many plants now stand 

 four feet high. 



W. H. Golby showed Golden Mistle- 

 toe and Hamburg Late White mums, 

 also a large specimen of Begonia Cin- 

 cinnati, awarded honorable mention. 

 W. N. Craig showed the tall form of 

 Stevia serrata. E. B. Dane had pure cul- 

 ture mushrooms. James Wheeler had a 

 nice pink sport of Matchless carna- 

 tion. The William F. Kasting Co., 



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