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HORTICULTURE 



April 24, 1909 



horticulture: 



VOL. IX APHIL 24, 1909 WO. 17 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATIOX— A House of White Killar- 

 uev Rose. 



ART IN THE GARDEN— Arthur Smith 589 



DAVALLIAS— Vernon T. Sherwood 590 



TRAINED RAMBLER ROSES— Geo. C. Watson— Illus- 

 • trated 591 



BRITISH HORTICrLTURE— W. H. Adsett 591 



AFTER AIXIOURXMENT 593 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Pasadena 

 Gardeners' Association — Society of American Flor- 

 ists — Nassau County Horticultural Society — New Or- 

 leans Horticultural Society 594 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society — 

 Minnesota State Florists' Association — Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society — Royal Horticultural Society 595 

 Park Superintendents Meet— Dobbs Ferry Horticul- 

 tural Association — Ladies' Society of American Flor- 

 ists—Club and Society Notes 596 



DURING RECESS: 



Florists' Club of Washington — St. Paul vs. Min- 

 neapolis 596 



THE ROSE GROWERS' PROBLEMS— Wm. H. Elliott, 598 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Frank S. Piatt Company— Crop Prospects In 

 California— A Letter to the Seed Trade- Notes 602 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Easter at Morristown, N. J. — Steamer Departures — 



Washington 604 



Flowers bv Telegraph — New Flower Stores 605 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, 607 

 New York 609 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A New Plant Establishment 593 



Rose Baby Dorothy, Illustration 593 



Personal 593 



A House of White Killarney Rose 593 



Philadelphia Notes 600 



News Notes 605-609 



Movements of Gardeners 607 



Business Changes 607 



Incorporated 607 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 615 



Lord & Burnham Company to Have Chicago Office.. 615 



Catalogues Received 615 



Patents Granted 617 



It is not pleaFiint to contemplate the pos- 

 The call sibility of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 of duty Society".= losiiiij their beautiful home, Hor- 

 ticultural Hall in Philadelphia. And to 

 think of the Philadelphia Florists' Club having to va- 

 cate those hospitable quarters where the spirit of broth- 

 erly love has shed its lii>tre so many years and the 

 stranger within the gate? has always found a warm wel- 

 come — why, it's simply pi-eposterous and it would be a 

 calamity of far more tlian local application. The entire 

 country will watch eagerly for the good news that Phil- 

 adelphia's shining lights in horticulture have been equal 



to the emergency and that Horticultural Hall has been 

 saved to horticulture for all time. 



Among the propositions of sensa- 

 Boston tional magnitude for the future, the 



In 1920, perhaps i^uggostion of an International Fair 

 at Boston in 1920 in honor of the 

 Ihi'ce hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pil- 

 grims, will take first rank. Just how much force there 

 is behind the project is not yet apparent and whether 

 Boston will care to repeat the experience which other 

 cities have gone through, especially in the way of re- 

 covery from the effects of these big Expositions, is a 

 question, but if it is to be undertaken the intervening 

 time — eleven years — -is not too long in which to fully 

 prepare for an enterprise so colossal in character and in 

 commemoration of an event so momentous in the history 

 of human progress. Should the project be undertaken 

 it goes without saying that the horticultural department 

 of it will be in all respects away ahead of any previous 

 effort in that direction. 



We are inclined to agree with 

 The rose -w. H. Elliott's opinion as ex- 



and its advancement pressed at the meeting of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston, that the rose is now well started on the same 

 road that the carnation has been travelling for some 

 time back — that is, that the number of new roses pro- 

 duced from now on will be sufficient to relegate succes- 

 sively to the rear and final obscurity, varieties that may 

 attain prestige and popularity in the flower market. As 

 is well-known the list of commercial carnations of ten 

 years ago is practically extinct and a similar fate prob- 

 ably awaits the pet varieties of today after a few years 

 roll along and bring to the front new and improved va- 

 rieties. And this may be expected without considering 

 the oft-debated theories of the deterioration of varieties 

 under greenhouse culture. The long reign of the Bride, 

 Bridesmaid and American Beauty is not likely to be 

 duplicated by any of their successors. Once fairly un- 

 der w^ay the business of producing new varieties of 

 roses will undoubtedly make things interesting for the 

 trade and there is no good reason why the carnation 

 history should not be repeated in the case of the rose. 



The question of cement versus 

 The cement wooden benches for greenhouse use 



greenhouse bench ]-,ag been a prolific subject for dis- 

 cussion within the past few years. 

 Some of our ingenious fellow florists have put their in- 

 ventive brains at work and, as our columns have testi- 

 fied from time to time, tlie result has been the placing 

 on the market of several methods of construction — each 

 having some valid claim on the attention of the growers 

 who, after life long experience with short-lived wooden 

 structures, are ready to listen to the facts regarding 

 something more durable and more satisfactory. There 

 have been establishments where, with the needed help 

 and facilities, "home made" cement benches have been 

 constructed and made to fill all requirements. We 

 believe, however, that better satisfaction will come in 

 the long run to those who turn over the w'ork to the 

 specialists who are doing it as a business and who, with 

 the competition now existing, are not likely to charge 

 for the work anything more than a fair figure. What- 

 ever trivial objections may arise as to the use of cement 

 benches it cannot be denied that the tendency in green- 

 house structural work today is away from wood or other 

 short-lived material and the man whose repair bills are 

 the smallest will have most to say in establishing the 

 selling price of the greenhouse products of the future. 



