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HORTICULTURE 



April 17, 1909 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. IX APRIL ir, 1909 NO.H 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER DESIGN— Adianuim Farleyense. 



PAPA\'RR NT'DICAULE — Richard Rothe— Illustrated. . 557 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— .1. E. Simpson 557 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore '559 



ADI \NTUM FARLEYENSE— .lames Robertson 559 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 New York Florists' Club— Pittsburgh Florists' and 



Gardeners' Club 560 



New Jersey Ploricultural Society — American Carna- 

 tion Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Balti- 

 n,ore — Lenox Horticultural Society— St. Louis Florist 

 Clulj _ French Chrysanthemum Society — National 

 Horticultural Society of France— Engelmann Bo- 

 tanical Club 561 



EASTER TRADE REPORTS: 

 New York Gut Flower Market— New York Plant 



Market 56S 



Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston 56Sa 



Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis. St. Louis, 

 Washington, A Reminiscence 568b 



DURING RECESS: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 068c 



OBITUARY: 

 Bartosa Rodriguez— Warren Baker— Dr. Persitor 

 Frazer— William Freytag — Joseph Sondermann — John 

 Lent— Adolph Miellez— E. F. Daly 568c 



SEED TRADE: 

 Wholesale Seedsmen's Leagu^Legislative Doings— 

 A Thriving Y'oungster — Beans and Cucumbers 568d 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 570 



A Fine Wreath, Illustrated— Flowers by Telegraph.. 571 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publications Received 561 



Chicago Notes 562 



Easter Brieflets 562 



A Comical Situation 562 



Tariff on Greenhouse Glass— BenJ. Hammond 562 



Personal 568c 



Patents Granted 566 



Greenhouses Building or Projected 56Sd 



News Notes 570-575 



Philadelphia Notes 573 



Business Changes 575 



Incorporated 575 



Maine Law Affecting Nurserymen 581 



Our European correspondent makes 



"Circumstances interesting reference in this issue to 



alter cases." fhe trovible experienced by British 



growers in getting good stiff stems 

 on their Enchantress carnations. We think the com- 

 plaint will be looked upon by the majority of American 

 carnation growers as a somewhat singular one, for En- 

 chantress as grown by our experts seldom shows any lack 

 in the respect mentioned. Whatever the cause may be 

 the fact is only one of many which should impress us 



with tiie wisdom of caution in praising or condemning 

 any flower or plant on its isolated record in any one 

 locality or any one country. In other words even a 

 well-grounded theory based upon practice and experi- 

 ence can sometimes be overturned. 



Those who can and do "read between the 

 Time for lines" and are clever in assembling and in- 

 all to terpreting movements and tendencies at 

 wake up wide-distance vision are generally disposed 



to accept as a conclusion that we are now on 

 the eve of an era of great business activity and conse- 

 quent prosperity. Seed trade, nursery trade, landscape 

 development and the horticultural industries generally 

 are reported to have displaj'ed unmistakable vitality this 

 spring and those who are in a position to judge are unan- 

 imous in the belief that, barring tmforeseen possibilities 

 of disaster, this is but the beginning of an enormous 

 spring activity to be followed by one still greater next 

 year. This outlook should be taken very seriously into 

 consideration by those of our readers who are in a 

 position to do so and a course mapped out and followed 

 whereby full advantage may be made of it. Horticul- 

 TCEE hopes to be taken into partnership in the enter- 

 prise which these conditions will surely awaken. No 

 medium exists with better opportunity or facility for 

 contributing the publicity which is an inseparable part 

 of all modern commercial enterprise and none will give 

 more earnest attention and co-operation in any move- 

 ment on the line of a "bigger, better, busier" horti- 

 culture. 



We have endeavored to give our 



Looking backward readers a rather extended and de- 



as an aid to tailed report in this issue of the 



looking forward Easter trade in various centers, 



more particularly New York, 

 which is easily the leading flower and plant market in 

 the country. We believe that these reports will be 

 found worthy of careful perusal for it is only when well- 

 informed through the medium of reliable data that the 

 grower can plan his investments wisely and prepare with 

 good judgment for next year's needs. The business of 

 Easter plant growing as a specialty is generally looked 

 upon as one yielding a substantial profit. The manifest 

 prosperity of men who have gone into it extensively 

 fairly justifies this assumption but we rise to remark 

 that its risks are many and the planning which must be 

 done many months ahead reqvtires the exercise of busi- 

 ness sagacity of no mean order. It is with a wish to 

 help the growers and dealers who must soon make up 

 their import schedules for next 3^ear's material, if pos- 

 sible, that we devote so much space to the details of the 

 Easter results, particularly where these results might be 

 of value in estimating the trend of the demand from 

 year to year. We- trust we have covered the ground in 

 a little more useful manner than is the case with most 

 so-called Easter reports and if Horticulture's efforts 

 are credited with having exceptional value we shall feel 

 well repaid. 



