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HORTICULTURE 



February 6, 1909 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. IX FtBRUARY 6, 1909 NO. 6 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER II.LUSTRATIO.N— nanniiet to the American 

 Carnation Society. 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Fredeilclv Moore 1G9 



THE MEN WHO WIN— C. S. Harrison 171 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY: 



The Banquet — .1. 3. Stuart, Portrait — Final Reso- 

 lutions — Certificates — Trade Exhibits — Friday's 



Outing 172 



Miscellaneous Notes and Comments — View in Ex- 

 hibition Hall, Illustration 173 . 



RELATIONSHIP BET^VEEN PRODUCER, WHOLE- 

 SALER AND RETAILER— Wni. J. Stewart 17;! 



CARNATIONS I HAA'H KNOWN— Sarah A. Hill 174 



DURING RECESS: 



New York and New .Jersey Plant Growers' Asso- 

 ciation — Nassau County Horticultural Society.... 175 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Washington — Connecticut Honi- 

 cultural Society — New Haven Horticultural Society 

 — Society of American Florists — Ladies' Society of 

 American Florists — Horticultural Society of New 

 York — Florists' CLub of Philadelphia — Toledo Flor- 

 ists' Club 176 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society — Worcester Coun- 

 ty Horticultural Society — Ghent Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Northern Westchester County Horticultural 

 and Agricultural Society — Caledonian Horticul- 

 tural Society — Los Angeles Florists' Club — Club 

 and Society Notes 177 



OBITUARY: 



George Field Mori is— Herman Josef Wildpret — 

 Mrs. Mary Lyons — Patrick Keneflck — Leander 

 Remington Peck — Mrs. Anna Klingenberg 178 



WILD FLOWERS -O. C. Simonds 179 



KILLARNEY AND BEAUTY"— A. L. Squire 180 



SEED TRADE: 



Unique W'indow Display — Catalogues Wanted — A 

 Correction — Notes 184 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, 



Washington 189 



New York 191 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Pierson's Pink, Illustrated 171 



McKinley Day in Buffalo 171 



A Stunt for Burbank 177 



Florists' Window in Ja.pan, Illustration 177 



Prevention Better Than Cure, David Miller 178 



News N'otes ISO, 187, 191 



Philadelphia Notes 182 



Shaw's Garden and Sunday 182 



Plant Imports 183 



Chicago Plant Notes 183 



Massachusetts AgricuUui al College 184 



Personal 186 



Steamer Departures 136 



New Retail Flower Stores 187 



Business Changes 187 



In Bankruptcy 187 



Fire Record 189 



Incorporated 191 



Patents Granted 197 



Greenhouses Buildiim or Contemplated 198 



In the seed trade columns of a recent num- 

 window her we took occasion to refer approvingly to 

 publicity A seedsman's clever window display in which 

 pop corn figured particularly. We have 

 since leai-ned I hat the direct business induced by that 

 display was almost incredible. In this issue will be 

 round a description of- another example of ingenious 

 window advertising, also by a seedsman. One can imag- 

 ine the crowds that such a display would attract. . The 

 old-fashioned plan of merely arranging a lot of samples 

 of seeds, bulbs, tools, etc., in the store window makes a 

 very poor showing as compared with modern methods of 

 publicity. Show windows are an expensive investment 

 and it is good business to make the most possible of 

 them. 



On the occasion of its first visit to Indi- 



Hoosier aiiapolis, in 1894, the American Carna- 



hospitality timi Society was told by the mayor in his 



address of welcoine that "the Hoosier loves 

 his friends." The measure of hospitality meted out to 

 tiie visitors last week for the third time was conclusive 

 proof of the sincerity of this sentiment and the warm 

 friendship still existing towards the Carnation Society. 

 It would be hard indeed to suggest any way in which the 

 comfort and pleasure of the visitors could have been 

 added to or the local arrangements for tlie exhibition 

 and meetings and the convenience of those interested 

 therein improved. Nothing but the highest praise was 

 heard as to the thoroughness with which the various 

 committee chairmen carried out their work and in the 

 election of one of the most active of them to the oflBce 

 of .secretary the Society only bestowed an honor well- 

 earned. 



A valued correspondent, whose communi- 

 cation will be found, elsewhere in this 

 issue, in testifying to the high qualities 

 which mark the new rose. White Killar- 

 ney, dissents from our views as expressed in a previous 

 issue concerning this splendid acquisition, in which we 

 referred to it as a possible "running mate for American 

 Beauty." In response we would explain to our critic 

 and to our other readers that in thus commenting on 

 White Killarney we had in mind, not the chaste loveli- 

 ness or artistic elegance which this variety undoubtedly 

 possesses, but, speaking from the standpoint of the com- 

 mercial florist solely, its qualifications of proportionate 

 size of bloom, strength of stem, wealth of massive foli- 

 age and contrast of color, all of which are indispensable 

 in any rose used in association with American Beauty 

 in that class of decorative work for which the Beauty is 

 preeminently fitted. In the Hybrid Perpetual section 

 there are plenty of varieties so provided but every florist 

 knows that no ever-blooming rose has hitherto appeared 

 which could be introduced in combination with Ameri- 

 can Beauty without in some degree straining the im- 

 pressiveness and dignity of the composition. Perhaps 

 we are too optimistic in regard to "White Killarney's 

 qualifications in this respect but that a pure white ever- 

 blooming ro.se adapted to such use has possibly appeared 

 should be cause for congratulation. If in addition to 

 this it surpasses its red companion in other respects, so 

 much the better. 



Size 



versus 



daintiness 



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