. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1288 The American Florist. April 6, Hartford, Conn. CLOB HOLDS INTEKESTING SESSION. — PAPERS ILLUSTHATBD BY OBJECT LES- SONS.—ROSES, GEHANIDMS AND PRUNING DISCUSSED -VAKIOUS MATTERS OF INTER- EST. The Hartford Florists' Club held its semi-monthlT meeting on Tuesday even- ing, March 26. The only business of the session was the election of Hans J. Koeh- ler as corresponding secretary. Arrange- ments were made for forming a bowling team, [ohn Coombs brought in some Bride, Bridesmaid and Liberty roses and gave some po
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1288 The American Florist. April 6, Hartford, Conn. CLOB HOLDS INTEKESTING SESSION. — PAPERS ILLUSTHATBD BY OBJECT LES- SONS.—ROSES, GEHANIDMS AND PRUNING DISCUSSED -VAKIOUS MATTERS OF INTER- EST. The Hartford Florists' Club held its semi-monthlT meeting on Tuesday even- ing, March 26. The only business of the session was the election of Hans J. Koeh- ler as corresponding secretary. Arrange- ments were made for forming a bowling team, [ohn Coombs brought in some Bride, Bridesmaid and Liberty roses and gave some points on growing. He holds the opinion, with many others, that grafted roses, on Manetti, are preferable to those on their own roots. Liberty with him has proven slow to start and he thinks it is not a profitable rose for the cut flower grower. A. Frey, gar- dener at the city parks, showed some blooms of one of the new ivy-leaved gera- niums. Leopard. It is a large, handsome flower, dark pink, semi-double, and is spotted in the so-called orchid-flowered manner. Mr. Frey says that besides doing ^ell in the greenhouse it does finely out of doors as a hanging basket plant. Theodore Wirth, superintendent of the city parks, read a valuable and interest- ing paper on the pruning of trees and shrubs. Especially did he call attention to the senseless butchering of shrubs which perennially takes place through- out the land and which results in leaving the lower part of a shrub a lot of naked sticks surmounted by a lot of stubs. After reading his paper Mr. Wirth illus- trated some of his points by actually pruning a number of different kinds of scrubs which had been cut off close to the ground and brought to the club rooms for the purpose. Almost all kinds of Easter ,8tock are plentiful and selling well, with the excep- tion of daffodils, the sale of which has dropped off. Violets are away down in price. Carnations are very scarce. J. T. Withers, for five years foreman of the Keney Pa
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