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HORTICULTURE 



March 13, 1909 



HORTICULTURE. 



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CONTENTS 



COVER DESIGN— Roses. • Page. 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— .7. E. Simpson 349 



THE ROSE L\ FLORAL WORK— W. H. Long 349 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 351 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY: 



Program for 10th Annual Meeting— Iroquois 



Hotel, Illustration 352 



Schedule of Prizes— Portraits of Officers 353 



Portraits of Executive Committee 354 



Portraits of Buffalo Florists' Club Officials 355 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Buffalo Florists' Club 355 



New York Florists' Club, Illustration— Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society— Detroit Florist Club— Newport 

 Horticultural Society— Perpetual Flowering Car- 

 nation Society SCO 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — 

 Society of American Florists— North Shore Hor- 

 ticultural Society 3tU 



Huntington Horticultural and Agricultural So- 

 ciety—American Carnation Society— Los Angeles 

 Florists' Club, Portraits— Tarrytown Horticul- 

 tural Society 362 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club— Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club— Dobbs' Ferry Horticultural 



Association— Club and Society Notes 364a 



Royal Horticultural Society of England, Fred- 

 erick Moore 364b 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 364d 



BOSTON CO-OPERATIVE FLOWER MARKET EX- 

 HIBITION— Illustrated 35S 



DURING RECESS 35S 



OBITUARY— J. Metz— J. B. O'Neil— Funeral Services 



of E. V. Hallock 364b 



THE REAL SHAMROCK— G. C. Watson 364c 



CARNATION LUCILLE— Illustrated 364c 



CULTURE OF THE GARDENIA— William Klein- 



heinz 364d 



PREPARING FOR BEDDI.XG PLANT TIME— Rich- 

 ard J. Havden 364d 



ABOUT CYANIDE OP SODIUM— Alfred J. Loveless . . 366 

 SEED TRADE: 



The Zeigler Sale— Notes 36S 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Novelty in Decoration — Steamer Departures 370 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Florists' Stores.... 371 

 FLOWER M.\RKET REPORTS: 



Boston— Buffalo— Chicago— Detroit— Philadelphia 



— Twin Cities 373 



New York 375 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



William Scott Memorial 355 



Personal 356 



Movements of Gardeners 357 



Philadelphia Personals 357 



Albany Personals 357 



Rhode Island College Lectures 358 



Business Changes 358 



Rose Tausendschon — Illustration 364a 



A Proposed New England Fruit Show 364b 



News Notes 364b, 366. 381 



Philadelphia Notes 364c 



Fire Record 364c 



Washington Inauguration Notes _. . . . . 364d 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 368 



Incorporated 373 



Important liorticultural events follow one 

 The call nnntlier in lapid succespion at this season 

 to Buffalo ,,[■ the year. Indianapolis and the carna- 

 tion host?, together with a number of 

 otlier niitable events of more local interest, have barely 

 pa.-scd into liistory when the call to Buffalo is heard and 

 I lie lieliiM'd Queen of Flowers begins preparations for 

 her great annual reception. Although the Rose Socie- 

 ty's meeting and exhibition have thus far presented and 

 will probably continue to present in a somewhat lesser 

 degree the distinctly trade aspect which characterizes 

 the corresponding annual affairs of the American Car- 

 nation Society yet if is easy to see that this society is 

 now in a way to find its interests in the commercial cut 

 flower field rapidly growing. La Detroit, Kate Moulton, 

 Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Potter Palmer, My Maryland, 

 Rhea Roid, Queen Beatrice, White Killarney and other 

 recent aspirants for recognition in the winter cut flower 

 markets are undoubtedly only the pioneers of a numer- 

 ous host of American-raised youngsters tliat are being 

 eagerly nourished and groomed by fond sponsors for 

 coming tests. The awakening is a healthy one, the 

 "still, small voice" whispers seductively of possible tri- 

 umphs and solid profits and the Rose Society's place is 

 in the forefront. 



The motto of the American Rose So- 

 The garden ciety, "A rose for every home, a bush 

 rose problem for every garden," well expresses one 



great aim of that organization. Yet 

 the Society has thus far found very scanty picking in 

 that part of the field and were it not for the substantial 

 support extended by the forcing rose element in the past 

 few years its fate would probably now be a matter of 

 hist(]ry. Popular support such as is freely accorded in 

 the old country is apparently out of the question, at 

 least for the present, in this country and we might as 

 well accept the fact that the fostering of a general in- 

 terest along the line of hardy garden rose culture must 

 necessarily be an up-hill task, so long at least as the 

 main reliance for material is on the old-fashioned one- 

 crop varieties. Individually beautiful as the time-hon- 

 ored, so-called H. P. varieties are, their future in a very 

 hii'^e section of the United States will amount to but 

 little in view of the expected rapid development of a 

 native race of sturdy ever-bloomers with characteristics 

 of which Killarney, Wellesley, Rhea Reid and other well- 

 fesfed varieties have only given us a little foretaste. 

 The Rose Society will show wisdom in accepting the sit- 

 uation and devoting its energies in the otitdoor field to- 

 encouraging the improvement of and extending the pop- 

 ular knowledge of the hardy continuotis blooming va- 

 rieties and leaving the rest to their fate. 



Environment and circnmsfances. 



About the avoidable or unavoidable, at some 



"Formosa" lily particular stage, have much to do 



with the final outcome of -the culture 

 of a plant, from seed, bulb or cutting and there are gen- 

 erally two or more opinions or kinds of experience forth- 

 coming as soon as any direct opinion, favorable or other- 

 wise, is made public concerning any important recent 

 introduction. The criticism which appears in this issue 

 of Horticulture in regard to the behavior of the For- 

 mosa lily bulbs imnorted this rear is a case in point. 



