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HORTICULTURE 



Pebruai-y 



1909 



horticulture: 



VOL. IX 



FEBRUARY 2r, 1909 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE. PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 3Qa 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor aad Maoager 



|icrity luis set in iind we are i'uU ol' the hopeful spirit 

 whieh is hdin «{ the coiivictiou of another period of 

 ■■liiiuil limes'" cldM' ;il hiind. Xow is the time to "get a 

 iiiii\e nil."" Id IcaM' ap])i('ii('iisi()ii and timidity behind, 

 and 111 lake a liiu'. cnnliiU'iil. courageons step forward. 

 -cciiiu- llial ■■[■"(iiliine is inciry and in this mood will 

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li is not unusual for one to be called upon 

 Safeguards 1,, listen to the recital of the business 

 lroul)k's of an acquaintance and among 

 liie commonest of these complaints is that of the dis- 

 honesty of some former partner or employee. No doubt 

 1 he majority of our readers who have been at all in touch 

 with business activities of any extent have had the same 

 cxpeiience a.s ourselves in being made the confidant in 

 tvoubics of this .sort. "We are not now going to find 

 rault with tile victim for complaining but rather wish 



' ' "^^ 111 diixr home another word on a subject on which we 



CONTENTS have often held forth — that of the urgent need of a more 



„,,„^, „. , „. , Page i;eiieial adoption bv producers and dealers in greenhouse 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Pierson's Piuk. i i. i i 1 • ii i i i j i 



CYPRIPEDIiiM URSULA-Alfred .1. Lovelers, 11- products of modern business methods and up-to-date 



lustrated 277 lacilities for stock accounting, sales recording and bill 



EUROPKAX HORTICfjLTUUF— Frsderick Moore 277 collecting. It is a very poor commentarv on anv man's 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAMl'.LRS-Prof. L. H. Panimel, ^^^ business system and natural sagacity that in an avoca- 



AFTEir "ad^JOURNMVONT 281 ' '"" °*^' simple in its transactions he can be plucked and 



A FIRST PRIZE PLANT GROUP— G. V. W., 11- plundeied month after month and year after year and 



lustrated 281 never suspect it. Absolute immunity is, we grant, im- 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: possible but in almost everv instance to which our at- 



IlUnols State Florists Association — Washington 1 i- 1 i, 11 j " v,i • • i 



Stale Horticultural Association. -J. L. Dumas. tention has been called, a- reasonable insistence upon ac- 



Porti ait —Huntington Horticultural and Agricul- curacy in accounting and the systematic use of proper 



tural Society — Anierioan Rose Societ.v— Gai'deneis' safeguaids would have served both as restraint and pre- 



and Florists' Club of >;altimore . . . . . 2S2 ventive. The tendency in all mercantile circles, today, 



National Sweet Pea Society, W. H. Adsett — North • , i 1 j. i j ■ th ■ i j-i 



Shore Horticultural Socict> -Newport Horticultur- ^^ toward shorter accounts and a simplifying of credit 



al Society— New York Florists' Club— Club and systems. No industry needs the reform more than do 



Society Notes 2S3 tliose the interests of which Horticulture seeks to 



DURING RECESS' advaiuc 



Tun in Prospect at Philadelphia — A Good Time ... j! i n j ji n . i, , 



at R'inneapolis -Albany Florists' CIub-'Last Call The series of talks to the floricultural 



for Dinner" 2S1 Education classes at Amherst Agricultural College 



OBITUARY: by precept by practical men representing the vari- 



George Hemler— Heury S. Terry-I'aul Thomsou. 2S5 and practice ous departments of the florists' industry 



FEEDING THE CROPS— Wm. H. Bowker 2.-^G +11 t j 1 ■ i 



REGISTRATION OF 0RC1!IDS-E. O. Orpot 23? this season have created unusual mter- 



■■OUR lilXPERlMENT STATION"— Prof. H. U. Dorner. 28S est among the students and given much satisfaction to 



SEED TiiA-DE- A Utica Ssed Store 292 the instructors and oflicials. This awakening to a real- 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: . jz^tion that floriculture presents something^nore than 



New Flower Stores — A Familv of Florists — bteamer t • i- i l 7. . 1 1 . ? 1 • 1 j. 



Departures— Notes " ::9-i ^^^^^. g^ mmation and botanical analysis, to which at- 



ILOWER .MARKET REPORTS: tention may be given in regular college work is, happily, 



LaUimore, Boston. Uuffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia. not confined to Amherst but is already well under wav 



Washington 23( jj^ several other State agricultural institutions and many 



MISCeTlaneous- more are showing a leaning that way. In this connec- 



A New Plant Laliel 281 tion, wc would call our readers' attention to the very 



Dahlia Imperialis 281 interesting account, which appears on another page of 



A V,'Gd(1ing Decoration , 1 llustrated 2a3 ^},ij. papg,._ i^y pj.gf ' Dorner, of the up-to-date equipment 



Pei^onal ""^'"^ //'..'//^'.////^y^y^'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 285 ^'hich has been installed at Urbana. Let us hope that 



Publications Received 285 every State institution may in the near future be as well 



Snow Wrecked Greenhpuse, Illustrated 29ii provided for. There are, here and there throughout the 



Fire Record 2&0 country, young men — many of them florists' sons — who 



i'SeiUs''Granted ".'..'.'.'.'.'.'..'.'.'. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '.'.'.'.'.'. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. 291 I'^ving had the advantage of an agricultural college edu- 



Oatalvisues Received 292 cation are rapidly rising to prominence and giving evi- 



News Notes 292-297 dence that in the near future they will be the big men 



Accidental Shooting 297 q| their profession. These have in many cases bene- 



lrusme"s''s'"cii^an,ges" y.y://///:.://:://^:/^::::'.: 290 fitted by the practical knowledge gained at home, sup- 



The Plorianer Rose .Apple 304 plementing the more theoretical college training. The 



Greenlouses Building or Contemplated 303 disposition now shown by the colleges to call in the work- 



— — ing florist as a eoeducator \yill help wonderfully in a 



Surely, gaining momentum every direction in which these institutions have been regarded 

 Time for a day, business is improving on all by many as deflcient and will prove particularly service- 

 forward movement Hues. We all feel it and see it able to tliose young men who have not had the benefit 

 and no one can doubt that, of any previous contact with the practical problems of 

 baning unforeseen cajaniilics, the promised tide of pros- fJie business. 



