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CHEYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Examining Committees. 



President Wm. Kleinheinz announces 

 the committees to examine new chrys- 

 anthemums for the ensuing year as 

 follows : 



Boston: Wm. Nicholson, cbBirman; James 

 Wheeler, Alex. Moutgomery. Ship flowers to 

 chairman, care W. J. TUurstuu, manager, Boston 

 Flower Exchange, Wintbrop Square and Otis 

 street, Boston, Mass. 



New York: Kugene Dallledouze, chairman; 

 Wm. H. Uuckbam, A. Herrlngton. Ship flowers 

 to New York Cut. Flower Co., 55 Twenty-second 

 street, care chairman. 



Philadelphia: A. B.^Cartledge, cbairman; John 

 Westcott, S. S. Pennock. Ship flowers to A. B. 

 Cartledge, 1514 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 



Cincinnati: R. Wltterstaetter, chairman; 

 James Allen, Henry Schwarz. Ship flowers to 

 chairman, ' Jabec Elliott Flower Market, care 

 janitor. 



Chicago: N. J. Wietor, chairman; George 

 Asmus, Wm. E. Trlcker. Ship flowers to chair- 

 man, 102 North Wabash avenue, Chicago. 



Shipments should be made to arrive 

 by 2 p. m. on examination days to re- 

 ceive attention from the committee. 

 They must be prepaid to destination, 

 and an entry fee of $2 should be for- 

 warded to the secretary not later than 

 Tuesday of the week they are to be 

 examiped, or it may accompany the 

 blooms. 



Seedlings and sports are both eligi- 

 ble to be shown before these commit- 

 tees, provided the raiser has given them 

 two years' trial to determine their true 

 character. Special attention is called 

 to the rule that sports to receive a 

 certificate must pass at least three of 

 ihe five committees. 



The committees will be in session to 

 examine such exhibits as may be sub- 

 mitted on each Saturday during Octo- 



callas. The part that appears in the 

 illustration was planted with eighty 

 plants, 4 and 5 years old. They had 

 been started in 4-inch and 5-inch pots. 

 The "day after the photograph was 

 taken, in the latter part of March, 

 1915, seventy-five blooms were cut from 

 this section, and just a week from that 

 day between 100 and 150 buds and 

 blooms were visible, in addition to sev- 

 eral dozen that had been cut in the 

 meantime. N. O. Caswell. 



Referring to the article on the God- 

 frey calla, I have had the best of suc- 

 cess with them, growing them mostly 

 in 5-inch pots, one bulb in a pot. I 

 cut as many as five and six blooms off 

 one plant last winter. In the spring or 

 early summer, I plunge my pots out- 

 side, and let them take care of them- 

 selves until August. Then I shake off 

 the old soil, and repot the plants in 

 fresh soil, taking off the small bulbs. 

 I seldom lose any of them, and as soon 

 as the plants are housed they begin to 

 bloom. I feed them well with liquid 

 manure once a week. There is nothing 

 to equal the Godfrey calla for me. 

 Wm. F. Snyder, 



NEW YORK FEDERATION MEETS. 



Annual Meeting at Syracuse. 



The annual meeting of the New York 

 State Federation of Floral Clubs was 

 held at the office of Commissioner Wil- 

 son at the state fair grounds, Syracuse, 

 Thursday, September 16. There were 

 present: President W. F Kasting, Vice- 

 president Erl A. Bates, Secretary John 



Bench of Godfrey Callai at N. O. Caswell's, Delavan, III. 



ber and November, the dates of which 

 will be October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and No- 

 vember 6, 13, 20, 27. 



Due to annexation and the changing 

 of street names, the secretary 's ad- 

 dress now is 2134 West One Hundred 

 Tenth street, Chicago, 111. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec 'y. 



ECHOES ON GODFREY CALLAS. 



The article on Godfrey callas which 

 appeared in The Review for Septem- 

 ber 2 was no doubt read with interest 

 by florists all over the country. Be- 

 lieving it will be of further interest to 

 The Review's readers, I am sending 

 you a photograph [reproduced here- 

 with] of a part of a bench of Godfrey 



Young, Treasurer W. A. Adams; F. R. 

 Pierson, Tarrytown; C. H. Vick, Roch- 

 ester; Prof. David Lumsden, Ithaca; 

 Henry Youell, Syracuse; Lester S. 

 Baker, Syracuse; W. H. Workman, Os- 

 wego; R. H. Bard, Syracuse; Dr. Mills, 

 president of the Syracuse Rose Society; 

 Mr. Moeller, Ithaca; Mr. Eastwood, 

 Auburn; George Thorp, Syracuse; Prof. 

 E. A. White, Ithaca; A. Bard, Syra- 

 cuse; Mr. Fail, Ithaca; W. Bultmann, 

 Syracuse; J. E. Morgan, Auburn; Fred 

 Scharoun, Syracuse. President Kasting 

 occupied the chair. 



The report of the committee appoint- 

 ed to consider the question of whether 

 a state society would be niiore beneficial 

 than the federation was received and 



discussed. The committee was of the 

 opinion that a state federation of or- 

 ganized interests would accomplish 

 more than a society made up of indi- 

 vidual interests, the delegates present 

 sharing the opinion. 



Name Changed. 



Some discussion ensued as to the ad- 

 visability of changing the name of the 

 organization, so that it would include 

 horticultural societies, and thus become 

 better descriptive of the federation, 

 and on motion of F. R. Pierson, second- 

 ed by Dr. Bates, it was resolved that 

 the name be changed to read New York 

 Federation of Horticultural Societies 

 and Floral Clubs. 



The subject of the movement to ob- 

 tain an appropriation of $60,000 from 

 the state for the erection of green- 

 houses for the purpose of carrying on 

 experimental work with flowers and 

 vegetables came up for discussion. 

 President Kasting reported the vetoing 

 of the bill passed by both houses, and 

 expressed his opinion that the only 

 course was to have the bill introduced 

 again. Messrs. Pierson, White, Vick, 

 Thorp, Bates and others presented their 

 views on the matter, and finally, on 

 motion of Mr. Pierson, seconded by 

 Mr. Thorp, it was resolved that a com- 

 mittee of three be appointed to meet 

 with the trustees of Cornell University, 

 and determine if possible upon the 

 most adequate framing of a new bill. 

 It was the consensus of opinion that 

 the trustees of the university should 

 add to their regular budget for state 

 appropriations an amount sufficient to 

 cover the cost of the proposed build- 

 ings. If this were not feasible, it was 

 understood that a bill should be intro- 

 duced as before. The president ap- 

 pointed Messrs. Pierson and Vick, with 

 himself, as such committee. 



New Fair Building. 



The next subject for discussion was 

 the necessity of a building at the state 

 fair embodying means for taking proper 

 care of exhibits of plants, flowers, 

 fruits and vegetables, the quarters now 

 in use not being suitable for the neces- 

 sary preservation of exhibits during the 

 fiir period. Messrs. Pierson, Bates, 

 Kasting, Thorp, White, Vick and others 

 took prominent parts in the discussion, 

 and many suggestions as to. the best 

 way to secure the required facilities 

 were offered. It was generally agreed 

 upon that if a suitable horticultural 

 building were erected at the head of 

 Empire court, the florists would see 

 that a creditable planting of flower 

 beds around it was carried out, stock 

 to be donated, and the only cost to be 

 defrayed being the labor of planting 

 and taking care of the beds. On mo- 

 tion of Dr. Bates, seconded by Mr. 

 Pierson, it was resolved that a com- 

 mittee of two be appointed to confer 

 with the Western New York State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, the New York State 

 Fruit Growers' Association and the 

 New York State Vegetable Growers' 

 Association, and solicit their coopera- 

 tion in an effort to evolve ways and 

 means for getting an appropriation for 

 the erection of a suitable building. Dr. 

 Bates and Mr. Kasting were chosen as 

 such committee. 



Officers Elected. 



Election of officers for the ensuing 

 year resulted as follows: President, 



