. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 326 The American Florist. Sept. 2,, \ Market Gardeners Vedelable Growers' Association of Amorlca. B. L. Wgtt«. StateCollete. Pa. President: H. F. Hall, Boston Mass., Vice-President; S. W. Severance. SOS Illinois Life Building, Louisville. Ky., Secretary; M. L. Rustenik, Cleveland, O . Treasurer Annual mcetini; at Boston Mass., 1911, New England Market Gardeners' Ass'n. The anniK-il outing and dinner of the New England Market Gardeners' As- sociation was held at Point of Pines, Revere. Saturday. August 19. S
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 326 The American Florist. Sept. 2,, \ Market Gardeners Vedelable Growers' Association of Amorlca. B. L. Wgtt«. StateCollete. Pa. President: H. F. Hall, Boston Mass., Vice-President; S. W. Severance. SOS Illinois Life Building, Louisville. Ky., Secretary; M. L. Rustenik, Cleveland, O . Treasurer Annual mcetini; at Boston Mass., 1911, New England Market Gardeners' Ass'n. The anniK-il outing and dinner of the New England Market Gardeners' As- sociation was held at Point of Pines, Revere. Saturday. August 19. Sports of all kinds were enjoyed, in- iluding a bowling tournament and a baseball game between the married and single men which was won by the latter. The affair was ably managed Ijy the following committee: Presi- dent H. F. Hall. Vice-President W. J. I^ovell. Secretary J. P. Esty. Richard Hittinger, J. B. Shurtleff. E. F. Skahan and Anson Wheeler. At the dinner President Hall reminded the members of the exhibition and con- \ention of the Vegetable Growers' As- sociation to be held in Boston this fall. Planting: tlie Crops. Most vegetable growers are serious- ly concerned with the question what to tilant for fall crops. It used to be all right to plant the whole area to lettuce, but those days are about gone. There is not the demand for lettuce in November and December as in the spring, and hy reason we should avoid a disastrous glut by planting some- thing else. Some growers plant chrys- anthemums, but this is not advisable for many reasons. Few have the ex- perience, skill, and labor to produce first class flowers, and in the end they lose out by following something out of their line. We find an unsatisfied de- mand for green onions, radishes, parsley, bunched beets, green beans and head lettuce, all of which can be grown very well and cheaply and will do better than an over-stock of leaf lettuce. We have called attention to these things before and repetition is in orde
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