. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 390 The American Florist. Mar. 2g, Providence, R. I. STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ENJOYING A PERIOD OF GREAT PROSPERITY —A LONG AND HONORABLE CAREER. The Rhode Island Horticultural Society is having quite a boom. The newly elected president, Prof. .W. Whitman Bailey, is very popular and his lectures and talks are interesting a large number of people, such as any society might feel proud of, and its membership has mate- rially increased. Dr Bailey is professor of botany at Brown University and has an extensive knowl
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 390 The American Florist. Mar. 2g, Providence, R. I. STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ENJOYING A PERIOD OF GREAT PROSPERITY —A LONG AND HONORABLE CAREER. The Rhode Island Horticultural Society is having quite a boom. The newly elected president, Prof. .W. Whitman Bailey, is very popular and his lectures and talks are interesting a large number of people, such as any society might feel proud of, and its membership has mate- rially increased. Dr Bailey is professor of botany at Brown University and has an extensive knowledge of the flora of the country and the world. At a recent meeting of the society he exhibited about 400 plates representing the flora of the Philippines and spent a pleasant hour in giving partial histories of the flowers represented in the collection. The society is now in a prosperous condition. It is entirely free from debt and by the gen- erosity of a friend, lately deceased, it has an invested fund. It also has the dis- tinction, since the death of the distin- guished and venerable secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of having the oldest secretary in point of age and continuous service of any like society in New England, C. W. Smith having served fourteen years and is now serving his fifteenth year. It also has a distinguished roll of members, embracing senators and representatives in congress, judges and governors, representatives of the legal, ministerial and medical frater- nity, president of and professors in col- leges, business men and teachers, together with some of the brightest florists in the state. The society has had an honorable career and has had great influence in cultivating the public taste for the beau- tiful in nature. It holds regular monthly meetings at which subjects in the line of horticulture are discussed, and also gives several exhibitions during the year. It is not so fortunate as the Massachusetts Horticultural Society or t
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