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^^~ CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Campanula Persicifolia 



Moerheimi. 

 CATTLBYA LUDDEMANNIANA ALBA— A. Herring- 

 ton— Illustrated 389 



THE FLORISTS' PENTSTEMON— Arthur E. Thatcher 389 



EUROPEAN HORTICXiLTURE— Frederick Moore 390 



SOME NOVELTIES OF DOUBLE AND SEMI-DOUBLE 



CAMPANULA— Richard Rothe 391 



LILIUM FORMOSA— A. H. Seeker 391 



MONKSHOOD— G. C. Watson 391 



RETAIL FLORISTS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 



OF NEW YORK— Charles A. Dards 393 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY: 



The Annual Meeting — First Session — President's 



Address — F. R. Pierson, Portrait 394 



Secretary's Report — Treasurer's Report — New 



York the Next Meeting Place 395 



Judge's Report — Election of Officers — Special 

 Awards — List of Awards — Thursday Morning's 



Session 396 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 402 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, Harry A. 

 Barnard, Portrait- Lenox Horticultural Society — 

 St. Louis Horticultural Society — Morris County 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club 402a 



New Jersey Floricultural Society — Detroit Florists' 

 Club — Nassau County Horticultural Society — S. A. 

 F. Executive Board — Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 402b 



Albany Florists' Club — Indiana State Florists' As- 

 sociation — American Association of Park Superin- 

 tendents — Club and Society Notes 402c 



OBITUARY— Louis M. Noe 402c 



Patrick Lawlor — Helen C. Pennock — Lafayette A. 

 Gates — J. S. Haskins — J. J. Nussbaumer — Harry J 



Hess— H. W. Baudry— Mrs. G. A. Rolin 402d 



METHODS OF PROPAGATING PLANTS— Jackson 



Dawson 402d 



DURING RECESS— Lenox Horticultural Society 402d 



SEED TRADE 404 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— Thumb 

 Twiddling — Steamer Departures — New Flower 



Stores 406 



Flowers by Telegraph 407 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago. Detroit. Indianapolis. 



Philadelphia, Washington 409 



New York 411 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Spring Show at Boston 393 



Wanted — Horticultural Editors 393 



The Great Orchid Exhibition in Boston in 1910 393 



From Curbstone Buyer to Curbstone Peddler 393 



Personal 397 



Philadelphia Notes — Publications Received 398 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 400 



Music Hall Market Exhibition 400 



Catalogues Received — An Interesting Decision.... 404 



Business Changes — Fire Record 407 



St. Louis Notes 407 



Washington Personals — News Notes 411 



Movements of Gardeners 417 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 418 



Patents Granted — Incorporated 418 



Well wishers of horticulture will be pleased 

 Owning to I'Oiid tiie notes from Glen Cove, N. Y., 

 a home stating tiiat the project for building a hor- 

 ticultural hall as a home for the Horticul- 

 tural Society there is being carried forward with every 

 prospect of success. No better investment can be made 

 by the supporters of a horticultural organization any- 

 where, be it Society or Florists' Club. The advantages 

 are so manifest that it is surprising that so few com- 

 munities, comparatively, are provided with a horticul- 

 tural hall. We hope to see the Glen Cove project come 

 to a successful realization and then to see many more 

 places stirred into action by the good example there set. ■ 



The address by C. A. Dards, setting 

 "Let us forth the aims and purposes of the 



reason together" recently organized Eetail Florists' 

 Protective Association of New York, 

 which appears in this issue of HorticultdeEj reads well 

 and we think that all departments of the florist business 

 will be disposed to give a cordial hearing to the views 

 on their mutual relationship so tactfully set forth by 

 Mr. Dards. There is wisdom in the suggestion that 

 growers and owners of large producing establislunents 

 should meet, more than has been the custom hitherto, 

 and become better acquainted with the men who are 

 engaged in the distribution of their product. We have, 

 in these columns and elsewhere repeatedly advised such 

 a course as conducive to a better understanding between 

 those engaged in the trade, and tending towards a higher 

 mercantile position for commercial floriculture, partic- 

 ularly in the large cities. There are so many ways in 

 which the florists' business may be elevated and digni- 

 fied through the earnest and unprejudiced co-operation 

 of the men who are leaders in its various departments 

 that the present agitation, if kept within conservative 

 and conciliatory bounds, cannot fail to have a healthy 

 influence. That it is the intention to so limit it, is very 

 evident from the tone of Mr. Dards' communication. 



As everybody knows, many 



A suggestion thousands of seedling roses 



for the rose hybridizer and carnations may be raised 



before one is produced which 

 is an evident improvement on existing varieties. As 

 time passes and the required standard of quality is raised 

 higher and higher, the proportion of discards keeps on 

 increasing until, as Peter Fisher stated in his address 

 at Amherst the other day, hundreds of varieties are now 

 rejected which would have been considered wonders a 

 few years ago and three or four out of 3,500 are all that 

 are worth saving, even in the product of the most expert 

 and skillful hybridizer. In the case of the carnation the 

 question of selection, in the hands of a man who knows 

 tiie cardinal points, is a simple matter, as the carnation 

 has only one sphere of usefulness and if a seedling falls 

 short of any one of the requirements there is no alterna- 

 tive but to throw it away. The situation as regards the 

 rose is, however, quite difl'erent and it has seemed to us 

 a pity that so many thousands of seedling roses are sent 

 to the rubbish heap every year simply because they do 

 not come up to the standard required in a rose for cut 

 flower purposes under glass and without being given any 

 test as to their possible adaptation for outdoor garden 

 planting. AVe are inclined to the belief that the possi- 

 bilities in this direction are not fully taken into consid- 

 eration by our rose hybridizers so intently engrossed are 

 they in the definite purpose to develop forcing varieties 

 of advanced type. Having in mind the vast room for 

 improvement in the line of garden roses who can say 

 that fortunes have not been thus thrown away ? 



