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HORTICULTURE 



March 6, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. IX 



MARCH 6, 1909 



NO. 10 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILIA'STRATIOX— Group of Cyclamens. 



PRIMULA KEWENSIS -Wm. McM. Brown— Illus- 

 trated 313 



PENTSTEMONS— Alfred J. Loveless 313 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore.... 315 



REGARDING "MY MARYLAND"— Wallace R. Pierson 31.5 



BOSTON FLOWER MARKET EXHIBITION: 



List of Awards 316 



Views in Exhibition— Illustrations 317 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia— Rochester Com- 

 mercial Florists' Association — Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Minnesota State Florists' As- 

 sociation—Southampton Horticultural Society.... 318 

 Society of American Florists— Bar Harbor Horti- 

 cultural Society — New London County Horticul- 

 tural Society 319 



American Association of Horticultural Inspectors 

 — Gardeners' and Florists' Association of Toronto, 



Canada 320 



North Shore Horticultural Society, Illustrated— 

 Eastern Branch of American Park Superintendents 



—Florists' Club of Washington 321 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— Illinois State 

 Florists' Association — Detroit Florists' Club — Club 

 and Society Notes 322 



OBITUARY : 



E. V. Hallock, portrait— Eugene Germain — George 

 A. Dickson— Charles Bramley, Sr.— Mrs. G. 

 Wvthes 323 



SEED TRADE 328 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Stores — Steamer Departures 330 



Flowers by Telegraph 331 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadel- 

 phia, Twin Cities 333 



New York 333 



DURING RECESS: 



New York Florists' Club 341 



MISCELLANEOI'S: 



Spraying Fluids 324 



Fire Record 324 



Personal 326 



Philadelphia Notes 328 



News Notes 328-342 



Incorporated 328 



Business Changes 330 



In Bankruptcy 330 



Pacific Coast Notes 333 



Madison (N. .J.) Notes 335 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 342 



Patents Granted 342 



We are greatly pleased to be able to pre- 



Sizlng up sent SO valuable a contribution — valuable 



a new rose because so straigbt-forward and practical 



— as appears on anotber page of tbis 



issue over tbe signature of Wallace R. Pierson on tbe 



experience of this observant man with "My Maryland" 

 rose up to tbe present time. It is not to be expected that 

 a rose absolutely new will so demonstrate its require- 

 ments within the first year of its dissemination that 

 every grower who has invested in a batch of the plants 

 will be- found singing its praises as a success in all re- 

 spects. To condemn an introduction on the basis of a 

 few months' trial is unfair to the variety, unjust to the 

 raiser and disseminator and discouraging to every one 

 who seeks to contribute to the advancement of horticul- 

 ture by devoting his time and energies to the produc- 

 tion of new varieties. It is only by experiment care- 

 fully followed up that the ideal conditions for any new 

 plant can be prescribed. Nothing short of that can be 

 called a square deal. 



The notable exhibition which has just 

 Impressing closed in Boston, of which a full account 

 the public appears in this paper, was a very differ- 

 ent affair from any of its predecessors, 

 held heretofore in the market salesroom and regarded as 

 a trade affair exclusively. In its direct appeal to the 

 people — its invitation to the public to come to Horti- 

 cultural Hall and see the products of the commercial 

 flower growers, it opened up a new conception of the 

 opportunities for trade expansion. Possibly the direct 

 exchanges of stock between growers were no larger than 

 under the old arrangements but who wall say that the 

 broad benefits to the flow^er trade of the city were not 

 many fold greater on this occasion ? The very creditable 

 presentation of the artistic productions of the retail 

 florists was a long step in the direction of educational 

 publicity. Another year we do not doubt that this de- 

 partment will attain still greater prominence. For best 

 results we would recommend a study of the plan fol- 

 low-ed at several of the fall exhibitions in Chicago. No 

 better method of bringing out the retail flower dealers 

 has yet been devised. 



The improved market values en- 

 Some Dutch joyed during the past winter by 

 bulb observations forced bulb flowers are attributed 

 generally to the cautious buying of 

 bulbs last summer. Whether the pendulum will now 

 swing to the other side again and excessive buying fol- 

 low the satisfactory market conditions we do not know 

 but that is not an unlikely eventuality. The Dutchmen 

 are now abroad in the land by scores and it will not lie 

 their fault if the import orders are not doubled up. 

 In this connection it may not be out of place to ask 

 what is the matter with the hyacinths. On certain of 

 the popular standard varieties the quality has been de- 

 teriorating from 3'ear to year until now such sorts as 

 Czar Peter, Charles Dickens in three varieties and 

 Norma no longer fill the bill, Morena being now substi- 

 tuted for Norma, for instance. Within a few years the 

 tulip bulb trade has increased five hundred per cent, 

 while the hyacinth has remained stationary, which is not 

 to be wondered at when we note the inferior quality of 

 the flowers now obtained as compared with the magnifi- 

 cent tnisses of bygone days. This collapse of many 

 varieties is attributed by good judges to the unwise 

 methods of culture practiced by many Holland growers 

 who, in their haste to build up stock rapidly, have fol- 

 lowed processes of quick reproduction by forcing in heat 

 whereby big healthy-looking but soft bulbs are procured 

 in two or three years instead of four as formerlv, with 

 the result that the flowering quality is permanently 

 impaired. 



