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HORTICULTURE 



February 20, 1909 



horticulture: 



VOL. IX 



FEBRUARY 20, 1909 



NO. 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Digitalis gloxiniflora. 



POXOLOVKS— Richard Rotlie— Illustrated 241 



A GOOD AMARYLLIS— N. B. White 241 



ROCKY JIOUNTAIN RAMBLES— Prof. L. H. Pammel 



— Illustraled 242 



BRITISH HORTICI'LTURE— W. H. Adsett 243 



OBITI'ARY'— William Findlay, portrait— David Beam 

 — J. H. Small, Sr., portrait — A Von Asche — Joseph 



Dus— John Griffith 245 



BOSTON MARKET SHOW— lUustrated 246 



The H. P. Michell Prize— Illustrated 247 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — New Jer- 

 sey Floricultural Society — American Association of 

 Railroad Gardeners — St. Louis Florists' Club — 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Illinois State 



Florists' Association 248 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Club — 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Rochester 

 Commercial Florists' Association — Connecticut 



Horticultural Society 249 



Society of American Florists — Elberon Horticul- 

 tural Society — Detroit Florist Club — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America, Report on New Varieties 



of 1908 250 



CUib and Society Notes 254 



FEl'^DING THE CROPS— Wm. H. Bowker 251 



HILPINGER BROS.' POTTERY'— Illustrated 252 



MAKING POTS— Luke J. Doogue 252 



SEED TRADE: 



The Outlook 255 



Notes 256 



OF INTEREST TO RET.\TL FLORISTS: 



New Retail Flower Stores — Steamer Departures — 



The Handy Handle — Business Changes 258 



Flowers by Telegraph 259 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Philadel- 

 phia, Washington 261 



New York 263 



MISCELLANEOUS- 



Fire Record 254 



Personal 254 



Catalogues Received - 25G 



Publication Received 256 



The Philadelphia Spirit 261 



In Bankruptcy 261 



News Notes 268 



Patent Granted 269 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 270 



A few weeks ago we remarked in these 

 (■111 1111111!; the probability that we slioiild 

 shortly see florists raising their single- 

 flowered chyrsanthemums from selected 

 seed each year in ])reference to going to the trouble to 

 propagate froiii cutting;; of named sorts. A leading 

 Englisli hortiiiiltural journal has since made approving 



A fascinating 

 innovation 



Florists 



and the experiment 



stations 



comment on our views as expressed, at the same time 

 railing attention to the fact that one of the most noted 

 rlirysautlieiniim specialists in England was already offer- 

 ing such seed there for that purpose. Now comes one 

 of our best known introducers on this side, placing on 

 the market liere this self same strain of seed. We hard- 

 ly expected our prediction to come true so quickly but 

 have no doubt Mr. Totty's offering in another page of 

 this paper will meet with a ready responise from wide- 

 awake growers. 



The State Florists' Association 

 of Illinois has done well in ac- 

 lomplishing in so brief a period 

 so much as is outlined in the 

 report of its work which we pre- 

 sent in this issue. Co-operation with the existing State 

 Experiment Stations on floricultural lines and insisting 

 upon due attention being given at these institutions to 

 research and problems connected more or less directly 

 with ornamental horticulture is, we venture to say, 

 something that many of our local florists' associations 

 have never yet given a serious thought to. The disposi- 

 tion has been ratlier to look upon the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Stations somewhat as the State Fairs are re- 

 garded, from afar oS, as institutions to be scoffed at. 

 We believe the example set by the Illinois fraternity is 

 worthy of emulation. From what we know of the 

 Experiment Station officials generally we feel safe in 

 saying that they will, to a man, welcome any movement 

 on the part of the floricultural profession towards a 

 more intimate relationship. And, further, we believe 

 the scientific workers in those institutions would be glad 

 to have, as a great aid in giving practical value to their 

 eft'orts, the friendly interest and co-operation of the men 

 trained in the stern school of commercial experience. 



The Arnold Arboretum has late- 

 ly received from its expedition 

 in western China a large quan- 

 tity of seeds collected on the 

 high mountains which separate China from Thibet. In 

 this last sending of several hundred species there are the 

 seeds of no less than fifty-five species of rhododendrons, 

 many roses, clematis, hydrangeas, hollies, barberries, 

 philadelphus, deutzias, pines, mountain ashes, cherries 

 and crabapples, all new to cultivation. One of the 

 most important, perhaps, of Wilson's recent discoveries 

 is a new lilac with large panicles of lilac and white fra- 

 grant flowers which he describes as probably the finest 

 of all the Chinese lilacs. He has secured, too, large 

 quantities of the seeds of the beautiful Magnolia villosa 

 and of Paeonia Delavayi, a shrubby species with dark 

 maroon-colored flowers. Mr. Wilson's two years' mis- 

 sion in China is nearly finished ; but it has been so suc- 

 cessful that the Arboretum is sending William Purdom, 

 a young English gardener, on a three years' journey in 

 Shensi and Kensu for the purpose of collecting seeds 

 and specimens of the plants of these botanically unex- 

 plored northern and western provinces. Mr. Purdom 

 left Boston for Shanghai on Thursday, 18th inst., and 

 will proceed at once to Peking. It is an interesting and 

 significant fact full of promise, we believe, for Ameri- 

 can horticulture that the international standing of the 

 Arboretum is now so thoroughly established and gener- 

 ally recognized that for this new enterprise it has been 

 able to obtain in Europe even larger financial assistance 

 than it did for the Wilson expedition. 



A successful 

 exploring expedition 



