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'l^^^'D'Tp¥^^¥ T¥ Tpi[ TfJ ¥4* by dozens or by hundreds, it is gorgeous; but when seen 



— in rows five hundred feet long, of established plants, 



TOL. LX JUNE 19, 1909 NO. 25 one variety to the row, it is dazzlingly splendid and im- 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY pressive in a way that the smaller quantities never sug- 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. «^*^ ^^^ ^^"'^'^ ^° "^^^^^ can fittingly express. When 



II Hamilton Place. Boston, Mass. privileged to see them thus, one is convinced of the fact 



Telephone, Oxford 392 '''at the pcony's strongcst vantage lies in generous 



WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager massing of singlc coloTS, using the most distinct types 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE °^ '^'°^°^' florifcrousness and sturdiness. After gazing 



One Year, in advance, $1.00; To Foreign Countries, $2. 00; To Canada, $1.50 on SUCh a picture and breathing the Spice-ladeU pCP- 



ADVERTisiNG RATES fumcd air that floats afar from a peony field one finds 



Per Inch, 30 inches to page $1.00. * "^ 



Discounts on Contracts for consecutive insertions, as follows: little tO interest in any Cut-flower exhibit, hoWCVeT 

 One month (4 times 1 5 per cent : three months 1.13 timesi 10 per cent.; 



six months 126 times' 20 per cent.; one year (52 times) 30 per cent. clioice in Selection and artistic in arrangement it may 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on application. ° ■' 



^^^^^^::;;;^^:;^^^;^=;=r=^^^^^:::=;=^;r^;;;;^^^^^^z^^ be. The Tliododendron may shine resplendent in cap- 



Entered as second-class^n^attcr Decem^t«r^8.^.^y4^^ ;ia'r'::h^".'8"9''" " ^"°°- "'" tivitV iudoOrS Or Under COVer-the peOUy neVer. 



' ^ The earnest plea of one of the 



^ON7lLN\rs ^^^ pplj.g cutting speakers at the recent Nursery- 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— American Association of and price regulating nien's Convention for more reg- 



WATER'^sraNERY-Frederick Moore-IUustrated. . . . 861 ^lar ""'I ^^able market values on 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred nursery stock generally, quickly struck a responsive chord 



StSvson.4BLE observations' by A BOSTON GArI ^^ i^^ ^^^ audience and will undoubtedly find an equally ap- 



DENER — Vernon T. Sherwood 863 preciative reception wherever it may be read by a repu- 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: ,.11 i. e ^^ xjxj-i- 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston-Lenox Hor- ^«ble member of the nursery trade. Inordinate price 



ticultural Societ.v— Cincinnati Florists' Society — Penn- cutting is a most demoralizing evil, one of the worst con- 



sSv^."°.'.^!':"!'."''!^^°'!'!'.'^.^'"!°°^^.^.'!'^!'^.^^^ 864 sequences of which is its effect upon the public, and 



American Society of Nurserymen, Illustrated — Ameri- the public's estimate of the people engaged in the busi- 



can Nurserymen's Protective Association-St. Louis . ^g^g ^gg^^^^ ^^^ ^f ^j presumed profits it affords. The 



Florist Club — Society of German Landscape Gar- r r 



deners 860 florist business has suffered much in the public eye in 



American Peony Society Annual Meeting at Queens, ^j^jg j.^ ^^^ j^ ^^ ^^U ^^ consider whether in 



Portrait C. W . Ward 866 ° ' •' 



New York Florists' Club 867 the nursery industry as well as m that of the florist a 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— Nassau County ^ajj^ j-g^son for distrust may not be found in the exces- 



Horticultura.l Society 868 . . . , "^ in,,, •, 



Engelman Botanical Club— Club and Society Notes.. 870 sive disparity existing between standard wholesale and 



THE BEST PEONIES 867 retail price quotations. So wide a variance cannot fail 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— Up To Date x ^ -,■-,, ■^■ 



Flower Baskets— Steamer Departures— New Flower to present a menace to desired stabilitj', an ever-active 



Stores 872 source of uncertainty, a field for unsavory fluctuations. 



Flowers by Telegraph 8.3 -, -, , ■ •,, -, , " , ^ ^ 



FLOAVRR MARKET REPORTS: anc' 1 lure to unprincipled and unwelcome elements to 



Boston. Chicago, New York, Philadelphia 875 obtrude themselves. The suggestion that a remedy for 



ABOUT SPECIMEN DAVALLIAS—M. J. Pope 882 1 • j j? 1 , i . i.l ■ j.t. l 



EPSO;m SALTS AS A FERTILIZER, II— Dudley M. Pray. 8S4 the abuses complained of should be sought in the burn- 



OBITUARY— Charies .^luber- W. D. Chase 882 ing up of surplus stock will carry no weight. Human 



MISCELLANEOUS: , ., • j.-j. j. j . .v- " . • •. 



Wra Bull & Sons' Orchid Group at Temple Show— nature as it is constituted at this stage in its career is 



Illustration 867 not built that way. The speaker said that the nursery- 



Dianthuf Napoleon' IIi'-g; 'c.' W. '. '. ! ! '. ! 1 '. 1 '. ! ^ ! ! ! ! '. ! ! ! ! 870 men invariably "show a spirit of fairness 'twixt one an- 



Personal 870 other until it comes to the disposal of their products." 



StraXn-ies \y//^ y^y^y^y:y^y//////^y/^ '.'.'.'.'.'.'. m ^e might add— likewise untH it comes to the burning 



Business Changes 870 up of their products. In looking for a practical solution 



PhSlp^Wa^Notes ■.■.■.■.'.'.■.'.'.■.'.■.■.■.■ ! '. ! ! ! ! ! '. ! ! ! ! ! ! ] ! ! ! '. ! 8^7 it might be well to give thoughtful consideration to the 



Clarkias as Spring Bedders 882 question from the standpoint of the public, who are 



News Notes today taking more interest in the nurserymen's prod- 



Florisis' Trade in Winnipeg 883 ucts than ever before in the history of the world, and in 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 886 j^g relation to the still broader theme of the prosperity 



Patent.^ Granted 88b f ^ J 



— ot the nursery trade as affected by the public s estimate 



It would be futile to attempt to convey of and consequent attitude towards the nursery trade. 

 The peony jn cold type to anyone who has never seen The ceaseless struggle between the forces working to 

 at Its best gvich a sight an adequate idea of the im- extort the highest selling prices, regardless of cost of 

 pression made by a vast field of ten acres goods, and those aiming to sell at the lowest prices con- 

 of blooming peonies such as those who attended the sistent with cost, probably dates back to the infancy of 

 meeting of the American Peony Society a few days ago commercial activity, and what constitutes "price slash- 

 were privileged to see at Queens, N. Y. The peony as ing' depends very much upon which side one's sym- 

 a specimen bloom is lovely ; in garden clumps, singly, pathies happen to lie. 



