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HORTICULTURE 



February 13, 190!) 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. IX 



FEBRUARY 13, 1909 



NO. 7 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— PhalKnopsis Aphrodite 



THRIPS AND THEIR RESPONSE TO LIGHT AND 



HEAT— Prof. A. C. Beal 205 



EUROPEAN HORTICtJLTURE— Frederick Moore 207 



SWEET PEA NOVELTIES IN ENGLAND— W. H. 



Adsett 207 



PHALAENOPSIS APHRODITE— M. J. Pope 207 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 209 



CARNATION WILLIAM TAFT— Illustrated 209 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Chicago 

 Florists' Club — Albany Florists' Club— Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society 210 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — New 

 York Florists' Club— Society of American Florists 



American Rose Society 211 



Tennessee State Nurserymen's Association — Car- 

 nation Show at Detroit — Gardeners' and Florists' 



Club of Boston— Club and Society Notes 212 



Royal Horticultural Society. Fred'k Moore 214 



A GREAT ORCHID EXHIBITION 212 



DURING RECESS: 



French Gardens at London — Newport Horticultural 



Society 212 



North Shore Horticultural Society— St. Paul versus 



Minneapolis 213 



OBITIlARY: 



W. C. Krick— Fred. Ashley— John Griffith— Mrs. 

 T. C. Mellen— Hiram Myers— Edward T. Elton, Jr. 



—John H. Rlghter— Wm. A. Munroe 214 



A METHOD OF CULTIVATING PRIMULA OBCONICA 



—Fred'k Moore 214 



SEED TRADE: 



The Canners' Convention 219 



The Blue Grass Question, Albert McCulIough— 

 Watson on the Seed Trade— Notes— Catalogues 



Received 220 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, In- 

 dianapolis, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington. 225 



New York 227 



MISCELLANEOI^S: 



Behavior of Lawson Carnation 209 



A Pressing Call 209 



Hawaiian Pineapples for Seattle 209 



A Lincoln Window, Illustrated 213 



Rhode Island State Board of Agriculture 213 



Spring Plant Trade 215 



Publications Received 215 



Catalogues Received 216 



Philadelphia Notes 217 



About Hot Beds 217 



Fire Record 217 



Personal 222 



Steamer Departures 222 



Incorporated 222 



In Bankruptcy 222 



New Retail Flower Stores 223 



Business Changes 223 



News Notes 223 



Patents Granted 233 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 234 



Wp give space in our rending columns to 

 A great i|„. ;inniiuiHcnu'iH imil preliminary sched- 

 event for nle of prizes for the notable orchid exhi- 

 1910 bition which is to be lield in Boston in 

 May, 1910. The prizes offered by the 

 ^rassaeliusetts Horticultural Society are unprecedented 

 in this country and, with the special premiums whicii 

 may be added from other sources, will undoubtetlly 

 bring out an exhibition of great extent and rare beauty. 

 It is expected that this exhibition will stir the blood of 

 the expert plant growers and incite to old-time rivalry 

 the giants of horticulture under glass. All the accom- 

 plishments and accessories will be of a character com- 

 mensurate to the occasion. 



As the time approaches for thi.s 



Boston Flower important event it becomes more 



Market exhibition and more apparent that it is to 



be a much more pretentious affair 

 than any of its annual predecessors and the claim that 

 it will take rank as the .most notable exhibition of tJie 

 year from the standpoint of direct benefit to the com- 

 mercial florist would seem to be well founded. .Nat- 

 urally carnations will, as heretofore, hold the lead in 

 quantity and interest and in this particular the enter- 

 prise will invite comparison with the recent effort of the 

 American Carnation Society at Indianapolis, but other 

 departments of commercial iioriculture will also he 

 strongly in evidence. This exhibition differs from all 

 other prominent shows in this country because of its 

 spontaneous origin and' growth. On this account no 

 one can say to what extent it may yet develop. Up to the 

 present time it has made lusty progress without any of 

 the expedients usually resorted to in such enterprises. 

 In fact, like Topsy, it "just growed," and it gives every 

 promise of still greater expansion in the future. 



We should be sorry to appear disposed to 



The safer assume anything like a censorious attitude 



course toward the worthy secretary of the S. A. 



F., but we feel impelled to record our 

 grave doubts of the wisdom of publishing unnamed, 

 indefinite protests such as that whicli was given pub- 

 licity last week over the signature of the Secretary 

 in regard to the registration of a rose by 

 a member of the Society. Anonymous criticisms 

 when circulated are often prolific of mischief and have 

 been responsible for many heart-burnings and shattered 

 friendships among the fraternity in the past. We know 

 nothing of the merits of the case nor even the identity 

 of the protestants in this particular instance but if the 

 name of the accused must be brought into the open then 

 let the name of the accuser be coupled with it in the 

 publicity given. Otherwise the publication of such a 

 protest bears an aspect of uniairness, as a reflection not 

 yet justified, which in the minds of some, at least, will 

 have the effect of an aspersion. For these reasons the 

 course seems a dangerous one for the S. A. F. to follow. 



