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THE AMERI CA 
GARi^^^i: 
September, 
;„d progressive members of 
inducing the free intercImiige * jj 
experience, and promoting 
ceitrali.ed action ^vhich 
mand respect and autlioritjs be j,,. 
to anyone who attends their meeti „ 
who reads the society's reports. . 
The scope of the society beiUo ' ' ^ 
„„c, 1„ «,o .»«e «1 ">■' 7”' : “',t 
. 1 Ci-cd bv anv trade interests wlnitcvei, it. oc 
eachmonth,at 1.30 P.M. The discussions ™,i,uity of every progressive Ame^^^^^ 
tMT!H.TnATT INSTITUTE FABMEES' CLUB. 
Tile meetings of this club ivill be resumed 
on Tuesday, Sept. 22d. They are now held 
at Clinton Hall (Astor Place A 8th Street, 
near Broadway) tlic 2d and 4th Tuesday of 
and exhibitions arc always full of interest, 
and all persons interested in agriculture or 
horticulture lu-e invited to attend. 
MASSACHUSETTS HOETIOULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
A special list of prices for Spring Flower¬ 
ing Bulbs has been issued in advance of tlie 
regular Schedule of Prices, in order that 
those desiring to compete may be enabled to 
make timely preparation. Tlic date of the 
Spring Exhibition will be about tlie 20th of 
March, 1886. The prizes are very liberal and 
the list comprises Hyacinths, Tulips, Polyan¬ 
thus, Narcissus, .Jonquils, Lilies, Lilies of 
the Valley, Anemones, etc. Special prizes 
for fifty named Hyacinths are offered by tlie 
‘•General Union of Holland," to be competed 
for bj' nurserymen, seedsmen and fiorists; 
competition open to all. Schedules may be 
obtained fi’om the Secretary, Bob. jManning, 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass. 
pomologist to add liis share to the lui he - 
ance of its noble aims, and we cannot t 
earnestly urge those of our readcr.s who ca 
make it convenient to visit Grand Rapii s . 
this time, to attend these meetings, and, n 
they choose to assist the common cause, to 
enroll their names upon tlic inembers lis . 
But whether members or not, all pci.‘'Ons in 
terested in fruit culture arc welcome to take 
seats in the eonvention and take part in tlic 
discussions; and all kindred societies are in¬ 
vited to send delegates. 
A GEAND POMOLOGICAL CONVENTION. 
From all indications it appears that the 
coming meeting of the American Pomologi- 
cal .‘‘ociety, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 
September 9th and continuing for three days 
will be the most numerously attended and 
most interesting assemblage for the discus 
sion of fraits and their culture ever held on 
this continent, if not in the world. Many 
(Jioice collections of fruit will be on exhibi¬ 
tion, especially from the Central and South¬ 
ern States; and much care has been t.aken to 
select topics for discussion which are suit¬ 
able for a society covering such a vast ex¬ 
tent of countrj'. 
Among the speakers and essayists an¬ 
nounced are many of our most prominent 
and expcnenced fruit culturists, and never 
before have so many distinguished pomolo- 
gists come together as are expected to meet 
on this occasion. In a letter just received 
from the venerable President, Colonel Mar- 
sliall I*. Wilder, he writes that his health is so 
fai-restoi’ed that lie feels strong enough toun- 
dertake the long journey, ami that he expects 
to be present at tlie meetings. 'J'his will be 
joy fill news to his many friends and admirers 
The salutary influence whicli the Ameri 
can i^omological Society has exerted on the 
develO])nient and improvement of our jjomo- 
logical and horticultural interests in general 
during the thirty-five years of its existence, 
can iiardly be over-estimated. No other conn 
try nor pi’ofession has an association so thor¬ 
oughly organized and admirably conducted 
for the promotion of the public good. If 
the society achieved nothing else but the 
publication of its Fruit Catalogue, from 
which may be seen at a glance tlie value and 
adaptation of evei-y variety of fruit in each 
State, it would have accomjilishcd a work of 
ine.stimable value, and 3 'et this is only 
small part of its work. The iinjiorlance and 
usefulness of the society in uniting and 
bringing together all the most exjierieuced 
SOCIETY OF AMEEIOAN FLOEISTS. 
THK JlEAT Ok THE SlEETlXd. 
Sprcial Correspoiiileiice of The American Garden. 
'This vigorous and full-grown tlaughter of 
the American Nurserymen's Association 
celebrated lier first bii-thday by a grand meet¬ 
ing held in Cincinnati Aug. 12, 13, and 14. 
President John Thorpe said the florists' busi¬ 
ness has quadrupled every ten years and 
bids fair to reach enormous proportions. 
There are now in the United States 8000 Ho¬ 
ists, using over 3,200,000 feet or 630 acres 
of glass, an average of 400 square feet of 
glass to e.ach florist. Allowing fifteen plants 
per square foot, would give nearly 50,000,- 
000 plants as the annual product of these 
greenhouses. In four months of last winter 
more than 4,000,000 Roses were sent to New 
York alone. He estimated that there -were 
at least -24,000,000 Roses produced in the 
winter of 'Sf-'So. Twelve thousand acres 
were used last year for growing bulbs in 
this country and we imported the jiroduct of 
at least 6000 acres of European growth. 'J'hc 
object of this society is to gain information, 
get .acquainted with each othei, discuss ques¬ 
tions of mutu.al interest, and promote the 
floricultural education of the people. 
The florist must be a person of a mechani¬ 
cal turn of mind, intelligent, observing, and 
ibove all, a reader of everything pertaining 
to his business. C.atalogiies h.ave ceased to 
he mere price lists, many of them arc val¬ 
uable works of art, awakening interest in 
flowers in thousands of homos to which they 
find their w.ay. 'I'he Held of the societ.v's 
work is almost unlimited. Thou.sands of 
gentleman's gardeners shoiilil be reached by 
this association, and tens of thousands of 
am.ateurs should hi! influenced for good b^' 
its deliberations. 
in.SEASE.S OE IM.ANTS AND TIIEIK liE.MEDIE.S 
Was the title of a pajier by (Jliarles Hender¬ 
son of New York. Very few vigorous plants 
are troubled by inKect.s. 'I’he Coleus iii the 
greenhouse during winter is the prciy of the 
mealy bug. Cut doors, in conditions more 
congenial, the Coleus rapidly frees itself 
from the incubus. A lowering of vitality liy 
the partial freezing of a Rose-house leads to 
mildew of such plants as the frost affeid.e.d. 
Carnation disease is caused liy working the 
plants at a high and unnatural temperature. 
Mr. H. propagates them very early in spring 
•iiicl pricks into boxes, and keeps them at a 
low tcniporatiirc. Verbenas are weakened 
bv allowing them to become pot-bound be¬ 
fore planting out. He plants only the last 
strikiiio’s for stock plants, putting them in 
open "round before they need repotting; 
oives tJicm good soil, cuts back close in Au¬ 
gust- surface manures, and propagates from 
the rank, new growth in October. Tlic rust 
on Jleliotropes and Bouvardia is the same 
thill'-' the result of we.akened constitution. 
Celery rust is induced by injury to the roots. 
The green fly lie keeps at bay by the va.. 
por of moistened Tobacco stems. A strip 
two feet wide and ten inches deep, laid un¬ 
der one of the benches the length of the 
house, kept moist and renewed once in six 
weeks, protects the ])lants perfectly. He 
used the new remedy. Fir tree oil, for meali' 
bug, dipping the jilants into it. 
J'lic Rose-bug lava is a tcrrilrlc pest. Ihe 
white grubs, about a third of an inch long, 
preyuponthe roots, doing great damage. Ihc 
only remedy is to h.and-pick the niatuie bugs. 
Black ants work great injury by carrying 
up the soil and plastering it around mealy 
bugs and aphis. Pyrethrum and a bellows is 
the remedy. 
For mildew and red .spider he sprinkles the 
heating pipes with water and dusts on flower 
of sulphur. Black mildew he thinks is a re¬ 
sult of impoverished soil, as it never .appears 
when liberal manuring is practiced. 
In the discussion which followed, Mr. 
Armstrong of St. Louis said that he coats 
the pipes with a mortar of lime and sulphur. 
Mr. Bousall of Salem, O., thought the coat¬ 
ing of linseed oil and sulifliur was very offen¬ 
sive, and he hardli'knew which was the most 
objectionable, the I'cd spider or theb.adsmell. 
Mr. Reddymeyer keeps his stock Roses sep¬ 
arate and cool. Chas. Hender.son, .James 
Hendricks of Albany, N. A'., and .J. Thorpe 
used suli-hide of potassium for Rose-mil¬ 
dew in solution of a (piarter of an ounce to 
one gallon of water. 
C. I.. .Mien, Garden Gitv, N. Y., said that 
it is customarj' to abuse and misuse the 
weak. This is the case with that small but 
beautiful insect, the red spider. Like other 
spiders it is carnivorous, and never ate a 
jilant in its life. Microscopic insects come 
to live iqion the plants and the red spider to 
live upon them. It is a friend, not a foe. 
A healthy condition of plants, brought about 
by jiropcr temperature, care in watering and 
ventilation, helps the plant to repel the nucro- 
scopic parasite and leaves notliing for the 
red spider to live. upon. To keep out-door 
plants healthy, nothing is used but rich soil 
Ireipiently stirred and kept free of weeds. 
1st Vice-1’res. .1. K. .Iordan of .'4t. Louis 
bad notita'd that llorists just commencing in 
Inisiness are not troubled with insects for a 
.year or two. Their houses arc new and the 
earth around them clear of disease or larva-, 
and as long as this slate (amtinue.d tliey arc 
conniaratively exempt. lie would build 
greenhouses with movable roof, and remove 
the sashes entirel_y during summer. Robt. 
llalllda^’ of Ihiltimore spoke on l)lsad- 
vantagesofOultlvalingaml .Vdvertl.slngmany 
varieties of the same, siieeies. 
lleailvlsed to cut down the Rose list to 
one-tenth or more, while Dahlias, Gamellias, 
.'\zalias and many other classes of plants 
