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HORTICULTURE 



April 10, 1909 



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VOL. IX 



APRIL 10, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cineraria stellata. 



CAMPANULA GLOMBRATA— Richard Rothe— Illus- 

 trated 525 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 525 



MORE ABOUT FORMOSA LILY— A. H. Seclier 527 



CLIMBING ROSES UNDER GLASS— Alexander Mont- 

 gomery 527 



ART IN THE GARDEN— Arthur Smith 527 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Connecti- 

 cut Horticultural Society — New England Dahlia 

 Society — American Carnation Society — A New Or- 

 ganization — A Proposed Sweet Pea Association — 



Society ot American Florists 528 



Closing Events of the Boston Exhibition— Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia— Chicago Florists' Club— Per- 

 petual Flowering Carnation Society — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 529 



DURING RECESS— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston— Chicago Florists' Club— Bowling Records, 530 



OBITUARY— William Hagemann— Horace C. Smith— 

 Wm. H. Derby— J. B. Boland— Chas. Reed— Henry 

 Eberhardt 534 



SEED TRADE — The Free Seed Distribution — Ad Va- 

 lorem versus Specific Duties — Important Action by 

 the Wholesale Seedmen's League — Notes 536 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Detroit — Steamer Departures— New Flower Stores, 538 

 Flowers by Telegraph 539 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia 541 



New York 543 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Movements of Gardeners 529 



Personal 531 



A New Nursery Concern 531 



Philadelphia Notes 532 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 532-543 



Catalogues Received 536 



Incorporated 536 



News Notes 539 



Business Changes 541 



A Verdict for Alphonse Pericat 543 



The "Japanese Garden" which has 



Gardening taken Boston by storm during the 



on natural lines papt two weeks will, we believe, prove 



to have been much more than a 

 transient sens^ation. As an impressive example of the pos- 

 sibilities in gardening it may mark the beginning of a 

 new era, the popularizing of home gardens arranged on 

 lines following the simple beauty of Nature's work and 

 the abandonment of the crude and unnatural arrange- 

 ments with which the people, for lack of education in 

 better things, have surrounded their homes. It was a 

 revelation to the public and has set them athinking. Its 

 conception and arrangement was a triumph of artistic 

 genius. 



Is it possible for a business to get so 



Keep up strong and its owner so widely 



your advertising known and influential that he can 



safely discontinue advertising ? 

 Statistics say — No. The briglitest and brainiest busi- 

 ness men of today who keep their finger constantly on 

 the pulse of modern commercial affairs say — No. They 

 declare that while a competitor exists or there is a chance 

 for a competitor to start, while there are other goods in 

 the same line that have access to the market, it is con- 

 clusive that any concern, however successful and popular 

 hitherto, must keep everlastingly at it. Cease to strive 

 and it will not be long before competitors will sprint 

 ahead and then it will soon be in the air that you are be- 

 coming a back number. And when that does happen it 

 will cost you more than all you have saved by your ill- 

 advised economy and deluded self-confidence to regain 

 the ground you have lost. 



Cineraria stellata has only in very recent 

 Our cover years come to the front in our horticul- 

 illustration tural exhibitions and then, as a rule, con- 

 tributed by the private gardeners, the com- 

 mercial growers apparently pinning their faith on the 

 well-known "hybrida" type with its more conspicuous 

 and highly developed individual blossoms and more com- 

 pact habit. We think, however, that the stellata section 

 of this useful spring flowering greenhouse annual is 

 worthy of much more general cultivation. Eapid im- 

 provement has been made in brilliancy and variety of 

 color, size of flower and symmetry' of habit since its 

 first appearance at Horticultural Hall, Boston, about a 

 dozen years ago. Considering the beauty of the plants 

 shown at this year's exhibition of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society we can hardly subscribe to our Euro- 

 pean correspondent's characterization of C. stellata as 

 "leggy and straggly." On this point we think the pic- 

 ture on our cover page, which shows one of the group 

 of plants exhibited by Martin Sullivan, is good evidence 

 of the tidiness of the plant and the fact that the stellata 

 groups almost eclipsed the fancy-flowered varieties in 

 the eye of the visiting public tells the rest of the story. 

 Florists should grow it in quantity not only for pot 

 plant purposes, but for use in cut state for decorative 

 work. 



Our news columns this week record 

 Organizations the starting of two more societies, — 

 Multiplying the Tree Doctors', already launched, 



and the Sweet Pea enthusiasts, about 

 to be. At the present rate of increase we shall before 

 long have a myriad of clubs, societies and associations 

 each working to advance the interests of its particular 

 niche in American horticulture. We are glad to see 

 them breeding. There's plenty of room in the Temple 

 of Fame for all and the sum total of their specialized 

 work must add immeasurably to our horticultural knowl- 

 edge and influence. There is no department of horti- 

 culture and its allied industries that cannot be advanced 

 and strengthened by organized work imder unselfish and 

 broad-spirited policies. Any other policy, especially a 

 censorious spirit as regards other organizations, should 

 be carefully guarded against. "In union there is 

 strength" applies to organizations with equal force as to 

 individuals. Mutual respect, mutual toleration and fre- 

 quent, joint action on matters of mutual interest is the 

 very best sort of preventive against misunderstandings 

 and reprisals. Some day, perhaps, the great opportunity 

 may come and tl)e right man appear, with the adequate 

 qualities of leadership, to make the S. A. F. the accept- 

 able meeting ground for all these diverse yet interwoven 

 interests. Whv not? 



