March 1, lao^i 



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dent stated that two years ago the mem- 

 bership was fifty-five. It is now 110 and 

 prospects for the future are bright. It 

 was announced that H. A. Jahn will 

 speak on dahlias at the next meeting 

 and that Messrs. Farquhar will deliver 

 a stereopticon lecture on bulb growing 

 in Holland during March. 



Mayor Thompson has shown his good 

 sense by selecting two members of the 

 Horticultural Society to fill vacancies 

 soon to occur on the park board. Presi- 

 dent Wm. Keith will be one of the mem- 

 bers. The mayor believes that practical 

 men will be better on this board than 

 those who know nothing about trees. 

 We read a communication from the 

 present park commission congratulating 

 New Bedford citizens on the freedom of 

 their city from moth pests. If the com- 

 missioners only knew what a brown tail 

 moth's nest looks like they could find 

 plenty of them in their city limits. 



At James Garthley's, on the H. H. 

 Kogers estate in Fairhaven, there is a 

 fine display of seasonable flowers. A 

 house of cinerarias was extra fine. There 

 were also good lots of cyclamens, 

 azaleas, Primula Obconica and other 

 sorts. 



At Peter Murray's the Winsor carna- 

 tion, which was raised here, is doing 

 well. White Lawson is the only other 

 sort grown. A fine assortment of such 

 stock as amaryllis, liliums, Dutch bul- 

 bous stock, azaleas, libonias, etc., were 

 seen. Some fine baskets of ccelogynes 

 are in flower and Mr. Murray cannot get 

 over his old orchid love, for we noticed 

 quite a collection of little dendrobes 

 coming on. Retail trade is very good 

 this season. 



New Bedford is well provided with 

 florists. There are some thirty-seven 

 possessing greenhouses. Sorry we had 

 only time to visit a few during a brief 

 stay. We were surprised to find that 

 so few of these belonged to the Horticul- 

 tural Society. It seems to us that their 

 own best interests would be advanced if 

 they joined it. 



New Bedford is sometimes called a 

 "cactus dahlia town." Certainly the 

 dahlia is in full swing here and some 

 wonderful cactus creations are said to 

 be in the embryo stage. W. N. C. 



POUGHKEEPSIE. 



The Annual Dinner. 



The eighth annual banquet of the 

 Dutchess County Horticultural Society, 

 at the Nelson House, on the evening of 

 Washington's birthday, was one of the 

 most enjoyable and successful in its 

 history. Of its 305 members, about half 

 sat down to a spread worthy of the city 

 and the society in a banquet room 

 beautifully decorated with the best 

 flowers of the expert growers of this 

 famous center of floriculture. 



The officers of the society are Charles 

 J. Reynolds, president; Thomas B. Con- 

 ner, vice-president; George W. Sweet, 

 treasurer; N. Harold Cottam, secretary. 

 In its membership are cumbered the 

 leading ministers, lawyers, doctors and 

 merchants of Poughkeepsie, as well as 

 all the leading gardeners of that sec- 

 tion. 



President Reynolds announced the so- 

 ciety's finances as sound and the balance 

 on the right side of the ledger for the 

 first time in its career. The novelty of 

 two toastmasters added to the interest 

 of the occasion. These were the Hon. 

 Frank B. Lown and Frank Hasbrook, and 

 the stories they told and the manner and 

 elaborateness of their introductions of 

 the speakers kept the crowd in constant 



