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HORTICULTURE 



January 30, 190* 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. IX 



JANUARY 30, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLrSTRATlON— A M. Heir, President-elect 

 American Oarnation Society. 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 137 



MEXICAN IVY 137 



CARNATIONS IN THE WEST— Illustrated 139 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Chib of P.altimore 139 



New Orleans Horticultural Society — Minnesota 

 State Floi'ists' Association — American Rose So- 

 ciety—Society of American Florists 144 



State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania- 

 Nebraska Horticultural Society — St. Louis Horti- 

 cultural Society— New York Florists' Club 145 



CI.UP. AND SOCIETY NOTES 146 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY: 



Eighteenth Annual Convention at Indianapolis — 

 A-ddress of President — Treasurer's Report — Secre- 

 tary's Report 1^" 



List of Awards 141 



Thursday's Session— Election of Officers 142 



CARNATION DOROTHY GORDON -Illustrated 141 



NIAGARA- Illustrated 142 



Fl'MIGATING WITH HYDRO-CYANIC ACID GAS— 

 A.lfred J. Loveless 143 



FRUIT TREES UNDER GLASS— P. T. Barnes 14G 



SEED TRADE: 



American Seed Trade Association 14S 



OBITUARY — Mrs. Walter Reimels — John Henry— .Al- 

 fred S. Jones — Mary L. Raeder — G. A. Weaver 151 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, 



Washington 153 



New York 155 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Patents Granted 1*3 



Business Changes 146 



Catalogues Received 1-48 



Publications Received 148 



Fire Record • 148 



Personal ^50 



Steamer Departu res 150 



New Retail Flower Stores 151 



News Notes 151, 153 



Philadelphia Notes 153 



Tlie American Carnation Society is 

 The carnation still in session at Indianapolis as we 

 meeting uo to press. Siich news of the meet- 



ino' up to the present moment as we 

 have been able to jrive in this issue is transmitted en- 

 tirely by telegraph, the great distance precluding the 



sending of any part of it by mail in time for publicatiom 

 on our regular day and we do not think it would be fair 

 to our readers as a whole to send out the paper one day 

 late. Such detailed reports as might suffer in precision 

 or clearness by telegraphic transmission we have pre- 

 ferred to hold back until our issue of next week when we 

 shall be able to give them in fuller and more interesting 

 and intelligible form, in connection with the closing pro- 

 ceedings anil the story of tlic banquet on Thursday 

 evcninir. 



\'isitors to tbe V. E. Pierson Com- 

 Utiiizing paiiy's carnation houses at Scarborough, 

 vacant space jj. Y., all notice and comment approv- 

 ingly on the graceful effect of the sweet 

 peas wliich are trained on the numerous upright sup- 

 ports throughout the houses. Mr. Pierson says that the 

 returns from these peas amount to a sum not to be 

 despised and their effect in slightly tempering the bright 

 sunlight is good so it is just so much added to the ag- 

 gregate income from the house. It is easy to detect the 

 thrifty gi'ower by the way in which the odd corners in a 

 greenhouse are utilized. We often wonder why so many 

 growers tolerate so much unoccupied and wasted space 

 in their establishments, forgetting apparently that every 

 square foot of bench surface under glass costs just so 

 much in cash for maintenance. These men would not 

 think of harboring an idle employe on the place yet tliey 

 thoughtlessly maintain idle space which in many in- 

 stances costs more than a man would. 



.V certain European dealer in tree 



Vilifying and grass seeds has seen fit in a 



an American recent communication to one of our 



Industry contemporaries to reflect upon the 



reliability and business integrity 

 of the American dealers in Kentucky Blue Grass 

 (Poa pratensis). We do not like to see such 

 statements as the one in question which we have 

 good reason to believe is an unfounded vilification of 

 an important industry conducted by honorable mer- 

 chants. We are assured by those in a position to know 

 that there are some of the most reliable firms in the 

 seed business in central Kentucky that can be found on 

 the globe. No doubt there is a quantity of old Blue 

 grass in existence but we are quite sure that nine men 

 out of every ten in the seed business know the location 

 of same. There is also plenty of guaranteed high-class 

 new crop seed in stock and any buyer wanting to pur- 

 chase same from responsible people will get just what is 

 represented. Perfection does not exist, of course, in 

 tiie seed trade any more than in any other line of busi- 

 ness and, as Mr. Brown intimated in his contribution 

 on this topic to Horticulture under date of January 

 Ifith, if there should be as mucli competition for quality 

 as tliere is for price there would be a material improve- 

 ment in the results obtained from the seed sown but this 

 does not justify a general condemnation of an industry 

 in which uiirrli;iliility is certainly the exception, not 

 the rule. 



