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MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS IN NOVEMBER 



1. New Bedford, Mass. .Horticultural Society: meeting. 



2. Oyster Bay, L. I., Horticultural Society: chrysanthe- 



mum show. 



3. Short Hills, N. J. .Garden Club: meeting. 



3, 4. New London, Conn., Horticultural Society: exhibition. 

 3-5. Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: annual ex- 

 hibition. 



American Institute, New York City : exhibition. 



4. Marshfield, Mass. , Garden Club : meeting . 



4, 5. Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, 



Mass.: chrysanthemum exhibition. 

 4-7 . Horticultural Society of New York, Museum Natural 

 History, New York City: exhibition. 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 

 exhibition. 



5. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



5, 6. Westchester and Fairfield Society, Stamford, Conn.: 



fall show. 

 5-8. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 

 chrysanthemum show. 



6. N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: lecture, "Sources 



of Quinine," Dr. H. H. Rusby. 

 8. Park Garden Club, Flushing, L. I. : meeting. 



New York Florists' Club, New York City: meeting 



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Rochester, N. Y.. Florists' Association: meeting. 

 Garden Club of New Rochelle, N. Y. : meeting. 

 Germantown, Pa., Horticultural Society: chrysan- 

 themum exhibit. 

 9-12. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, 



Pa. : chrysanthemum show. 

 9-14. Horticultural Society of Chicago and Chicago Florists' 

 Club, Chicago, 111.: flower show. 



10. Short Hills, N. J ., Garden Club : meeting. 



Nassau County Horticultural Society, Glen Cove, 



L. I.: meeting. 

 10-14. Cleveland Flower Show, Cleveland Ohio: exhibition 



under direction of Ohio Horticultural Society, 



Cleveland Florists' Club, Cleveland Garden Club. 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America Annual Meeting, 



Cleveland, Ohio. 

 American Rose Society, Cleveland, Ohio: exhibition 



in connection with Cleveland Flower Show. 



11. 12. Rhode Island Horticultural Society, Providence, R. I.: 



exhibition . 



12. Connecticut Horticultural Society, New Haven, Conn.: 



meeting. 



13. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: meet- 



ing. 



13. N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: lecture, 



"European Influences in American Botany", Dr. J. 

 H. Barnhart. 



14. Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston, Mass.: 



annual meeting. 



15. Warrenton, Va., Garden Club: meeting. 



15-20. Maryland State Horticultural Society, Baltimore, Md .: 

 exhibition. 



16. Lake Geneva, Wis., Gardeners '& Foremen 's Associa- 



tion: meeting. 



17. Tarrytown, N. Y., Horticultural Society: meeting. 

 Short Hills, N.J. , Garden Club: meeting. 



17-20. Texas State Florists' Association, Houston, Texas: 

 exhibition. 



18. Marshfield, Mass., Garden Club: meeting. 



19. Pasadena, Calif., Horticultural Society: meeting. 



20. N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx Park: "The Dictoms," 



Dr. M. A. Howe. 

 22. Park Garden Club , Flushing , L. I .: meeting. 



24. Short Hills, N. J., Garden Club: meeting. 



26. Connecticut Horticultural Society, New Haven, Conn.: 



meeting. 



27. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Horticultural Association: meet- 



ing. 



The Chrysanthemum Examining Committees 



A COMMITTEE to examine new chrysanthe- 

 mums for the ensuing year has been announced 

 by William Kleinheinz, president of the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America. The members are as 

 follows : 



BOSTON: Wm. Nicholson (Chairman), James 

 Wheeler, Alex. Montgomery. Ship flowers to 

 Chairman, care of W. J. Thurston, Manager, Boston 

 Flower Exchange, i Winthrop Square and Otis St., 

 Boston, Mass. 



NEW YORK: Eugene Dailledouze (Chairman), 

 Wm. H. Duckham, A. Herrington. Ship flowers to 

 Chairman, care of New York Cut Flower Co., 55 

 Twenty-Second St. 



PHILADELPHIA: A. B. Cartledge (Chairman), 

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

 B. Cartledge, 1514 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 



CINCINNATI: R- Witterstaetter (Chairman), 

 James Allen, Henry Schwarz. Ship flowers to 

 Chairman, Jabez Elliott Flower Market, care of Jan- 

 itor. 



CHICAGO: N. J. Wietor (Chairman), George 

 Asmus, Wm. E. Tricker. Ship flowers to Chair- 

 man, 162 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



Shipments should be made to arrive by 2 p. m. 

 on examination days to receive attention from the 

 Committee. They must be prepaid to destination 

 and an entry fee of $2.00 should be forwarded to the 

 Secretary not later than Tuesday of the week they 

 are to be examined, or it may accompany the blooms. 



Seedlings and sports are both eligible to be shown 

 before these Committees, 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 the five Committees. 



The Committees are in session to examine such 

 exhibits as may be submitted on the 6th, 13th, 

 20th and 27th of November. 



Chas W. Johnson, Secretary. 



Why Not? 



COULDN'T the Garden Clubs and allied 

 organizations have a new kind of officer, 

 called the Courtesy Secretary? Some of them ap- 

 parently do, but so many don't! It is difficult 

 for a general secretary to note and answer every 

 smallest notice that comes her way, yet certainly 

 she would never omit the courtesy notes in her 

 personal correspondence, and why should her offi- 

 cial correspondence be less well bred? Yet how 

 often has the secretary of this club spent a full 

 hour over one letter, in writing out lists of speakers, 

 plans for starting new clubs, suggestions for flower 

 shows, advice, addresses, any subject on which the 

 club could give the help for which it is so often 

 asked — and had no acknowledgment of the receipt 



of such assistance! It goes without saying that 

 this does not always occur; there are many courte- 

 ous and grateful people in the world of garden clubs, 

 but it does occur often enough to seem worthy of 

 mention and discussion. 



Two concrete cases will serve to illustrate: — 

 The Shedowa Garden Club was asked by the "X" 

 Garden Club to lend them two papers on garden 

 topics. The papers were promptly sent, but their 

 receipt was not acknowledged. After a month or 

 two, we wrote, and asked if they had been received. 

 This letter was not answered. After another 

 month or more, we wrote again, asking if the X 

 club would kindly return the papers, if they were 

 done with them, and in reply received a letter 

 saying that they would be returned at once. That 

 was in March — it is now September — and they have 

 not yet come. 



Then our secretary was asked if she would under- 

 take some work in preparing for a horticultural 

 conference last May, an exhibit designed to bring 

 the garden clubs into wider notice. She wrote 

 twenty letters, purchased mounting board, pre- 

 pared the exhibit, and sent it by a paid messenger 

 to the exhibition place, all at her own expense, and 

 although she has written to ask if it was ever re- 

 ceived, the only answer was: "I have referred your 

 inquiry to Mrs. " (the acting head of the com- 

 mittee), and Mrs. has never answered it. 



The work didn't take but a few hours; it didn't 

 cost but a dollar or two — but "Your exhibit re- 

 ceived. Thanks for you help," on a postcard, 

 would have taken one minute and cost one cent. 

 Even if the work was not satisfactory, the worker 

 would have been glad of acknowledgment and 

 criticism. 



The most cordial and free cooperation, and giving 

 of help, has always been the policy of the Shedowa 

 club, and will always be so. It is possible — proba- 

 ble — that we, too, sometimes fail, but we try our 

 best not to do so, and always hasten to make good 

 our mistakes if we can. What, therefore, is the 

 opinion of other clubs, on the question of a Courtesy 

 Secretary? Or, failing the extra secretary, on the 

 question of — just — plain — Courtesy? 



Shedowa Garden Club. Mary Yotjngs. 



American Dahlia Society 



THE recently organized American Dahlia So- 

 ciety held its first show (which met with en- 

 thusiastic support and was a complete success) on 

 September 24, 25, 26 at the Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City. 



Among the many notable varieties exhibited was 

 the especially fine, red gold show variety Gold 

 Medal; also Golden Gate of the cactus division; 

 Calif, a scarlet decorative; the cactus Hortulanus 

 Fiet, a soft primrose with pink edge; Mrs. Edna 



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Hathaway, a rich red show; Ignea, crimson scarlet 

 cactus; Nantwich, a clear yellow; and the deco- 

 ratives Orange King, Sebastopol. 



One of the most attractive varieties was the little 

 pompon Snowclad, a neat, little, pure white flower. 

 There were also some varieties exhibited for certi- 

 ficates, among them being Sunshine, a semi-double, 

 remarkably beautiful; and preliminary certificates 

 were awarded to H. A. Dreer, Inc., for a yellow 

 show dahlia, to N. H. Cottann & Son for a rather 

 similar flower, and to R. Vincent & Co. for White 

 Delice, a decorative. A most striking flower was 

 the new hybrid cactus George I. Stillman, named 

 after the well-known grower and specialist who 

 also had a fine general collection on exhibit. It is 

 a large full and rich flower, rather between the 

 English type of cactus and decorative varieties. 

 W. A. Burpee & Co. staged the largest display of 

 varieties of all types and W. A. Manda Co., showed 

 a collection of varieties of the new strain of large, 

 blooms in fine colors. The Garden Magazine 

 Achievement Medal was awarded to Mrs. C. H. 

 Stout for the new seedling dahlia, Sunshine, as "the 

 most meritorious exhibit by an amateur." 



This organization, though the very youngest of 

 the "special flower societies shows a most decided 

 activity, and the keen interest of the amateur was 

 very evident, both as an exhibitor and as a student. 

 The society already numbers some 200 members of 

 which, by far, the greater number are amateurs. 

 The election of officers resulted in the re-election of 

 the chief executives, Richard Vincent, Jr., for 

 President and J. J. Lane, n W. 32nd St., New 

 York., Secretary; G. W. Kerr is Chairman of the 

 Executive Committee and Prof. F. H. Hall, Geneva, 

 N. Y., Chairman of the Nomenclature Committee. 



American Peony Society's Bulletin 



THE first bulletin of peony news has been issued 

 by the American Peony Society, and it con- 

 tains some very interesting material about peonies 

 in general and different methods of handling them 

 in the garden. Interesting discussions are pre- 

 sented by a Philadelphia amateur, from an enthu- 

 siast in Missouri, from members on the Pacific 

 Coast, etc. In this bulletin is also incorporated 

 the proceedings of the American Peony Society for 

 1914 and 191 S, and the record of prizes offered and 

 won at the last exhibition in June. 



Altogether this little booklet is full of interest 

 even to the person without a peony garden but who 

 loves the flower. We sincerely hope that this 

 effort will meet with the support that it deserves, 

 and that the Secretary will receive the assurance 

 he asks for from peony lovers to the effect that the 

 Bulletin be published regularly once or twice a year. 

 Copies may be had from the Secretary Prof. A. P. 

 Saunders, Clinton, N. Y. 



