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HORTlCULTURi: 



May 15, VJOa 



horticulture: 



TOL. IX MAT 15, 1909 WO. 20 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION—April Herbaceous Border. 



Page 



AMARYLLIS JOHXSOXI — James Robertson — Illus- 

 trated 693 



CHOXRORYNCHA FIMBRIATA— James Hutchinson 

 —Illustrated 693 



HOUSE OF FLOWERS— Illustrated 695 



OBITUARY: 



Mrs. Orland Bassett— Mrs. J. F. Huss— A. C. 

 Schroeder— John Dallas— Adolph Frost — Grant Thoi-- 

 burn — Jacob Schneider — J. C. Rossow — Mrs. Harriet 

 H. Smith 695 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — Chicago 

 Florists' Club — New York Florists' Club — Pittsburgh 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety of America 696 



Society of American Florists — National Horticultural 



Society of France 697 



Club and Society Notes 69S 



DURING RECESS: 



Buffalo Florists' Club — New Orleans Horticultural 

 Society 698 



HARDY PERENNIALS AND THEIR VARIOUS USES 

 - Robert Cameron 702 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Washington — Steamer Departures 704 



Flowers By Telegraph 705 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia 707 

 New York 709 



THE WHITE FLY 716 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 695 



Movements of Gardeners 695 



The Gardening World 695 



Carnations at Joliet 698 



May, Poetry 698 



Park Improvements at Denison 700 



Chicago Street Trees 700 



Baltimore Outdoor Crops 700 



Detroit Nursery Trade 700 



Garden Life Year Book 700 



Seed Trade Notes 702 



Chicago Notes 704 



Business Troubles 706 



Business Changes 706 



Incorporated 709 



Philadelphia Notes 714 



Fire Record 714 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 715 



Wind and Hail .715 



News Notes 716 



In our issue of April 24, it was 

 A cloud stated by the secretary of the New 



on the horizon Orleans Horticiilturural Society that 

 out door carnations exhibited by one 

 of the members were in as good and even better con- 

 dition than those brought from the north and were 

 found to last longer. New Orleans and other cities in 

 the same section have been good buyers for northern 



.■^hipped flowers and if it should be demonstrated that 

 carnations can be successfully grown outdoors in April 

 to compete with the greenhouse product from farther 

 north the result is likely to be far reaching. The possi- 

 liilities in flower production are still far from being 

 realizeil but it has been demonstrated over and over 

 again that the loss of a shipping trade and consequent 

 casting upon the home market the resultant surplus has 

 a most demoralizing effect on values, especially where 

 the facilities for production are being rapidly multi- 

 ,.l„.d. 



So far as we have been able to learn, 

 "Mothers' Day" the proposed new holiday, '"Mothers' 

 and the florist Day," Oil which date once a year 



everybody was requested to wear a 

 white carnation in tribute to his or her mother was 

 met with very scant observance last Sunday, insofar as 

 the display of a carnation in the button hole could be 

 construed as an offering on the altar of filial devotion. 

 From press clippings that have come to us from various 

 sources it w-ould seem that tlie major portion of the 

 people prefer to honor their mothers in their own way 

 and look askance at the suggestion that the public 

 parading of a carnation in the button-hole once a year 

 can in any sense promote a sentiment which should 

 be, and presumably is, uppermost in the heart of every 

 normal human being, not one day but every day in the 

 3G5. The phase of the matter that most directly 

 concerns us is, however, the question of how far the 

 florist can safely go in pushing forward a proposition 

 of this kind. It must be apparent to the thinking man 

 that a too urgent advocacy by the florist is pretty liable 

 to be misinterpreted, thus affording an opening for 

 comment on tlie motives for such activity which may 

 react injuriously on a business that has already suf- 

 fered too much through short-sighted policies. 



If there is one particular more than 

 Six long another in which reform is sorely need- 

 days a week ed in the florists' business, it is in the 

 enough long hours and Sunday work which, 



because of fixed habit and timidity, 

 have come to be regarded as unavoidable. Public 

 holidays are among the florists' hardest working 

 days and Sunday work has become so engrafted 

 into the customs of the trade that any suggestion 

 that it might be curtailed or discontinued altogether 

 is met with incredulity and any attempt on the part 

 " of local authorities to enforce Sunday closing is resent- 

 ed by the florists themselves as an injustice. Yet it 

 it is undoubtedly true that most of the Sunday toil of 

 the seller of flowers might well be dispensed with, pro- 

 vided an agreement is entered into and faithfully kept 

 by all concerned. The public are, of course, always 

 ready to accept as a prerogative any service, regardless of 

 the amount of self-sacrifice it may impose upon others, 

 and the initiative for reform in this case must come 

 from the florists themselves. The public will fall into 

 line when they are convinced that they must and not 

 before. In these days of ever-ready universal communi- 

 cation by teleplione and inexhaustible wholesale supplies 

 of flowers within easy reach, the reasons which original- 

 ly necessitated keeping open during long and unusual 

 hours in anticipation of sudden calls no longer exist. 

 We often marvel at the uncomplaining, patient sub- 

 mission of employes in the florist trade to the exac- 

 tions of their business as at present conducted. The 

 wholesale dealers in Xew York, we are informed, have 

 all agreed to close up on Sundays regularly hereafter. 

 The retailers would do well to follow suit. 



