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H O K T I C U L T U R E 



May 29, 1909 



HORTICULTURE. 



TOL, IX 



MAT 29, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Eremiirus robustus. 



DAVALLIA FIGENSIS— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 761 



NOTES PROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 761 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 763 



THE EREMURUSES 763 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Masachusetts Horticultural Society — New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society — Horticultural Society of New 

 York — Minnesota State Florists' Association^Amer- 

 ican Rose Society — Club and Society Notes 764 



OBITUARY: 



Charles L. Allen, Portrait — John Cassidy — M. J. 

 Jorns— Charles F. Hilton 765 



HARDY PERRENIALS AND THEIR USES— Robert 

 Cameron 766 



CATTLEYA MOSSIAE— Wm. McM. Brown 767 



BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN— Luke J. Doogue— Illus- 

 trated 768 



ANEMONE SPECIES AND VARIETIES— Frederick 

 Moore 769 



SOME OF OUR PROBLEMS AS ROSE GROWERS— 

 Prof. L. C. Corbett 770 



SEED TRADE: 



The Backward Season — A Word for the Canners — 

 A Banner Year- Suit Against Blue Grass Growers- 

 Notes 774 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures — An Anni- 

 versary and a Congratulation 776 



Flowers By Telegraph 777 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Philadelphia, Twin Cities 779 



New Y'ork, Detroit, Indianapolis 781 



Chicago, Washington 786 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 765 



The Veterans, Poetry 765 



Arabis albida 766 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 771 



The Fulfilment of a Prophecy 772 



Chestnut Tree Fungus 772 



Movements of Gardeners 772 



Chicago Notes 772 



Nursery Notes 772 



Incorporated 772 



News Notes 774-777 



Catalogues Received 774 



Business Changes 777 



Patents Granted 788 



The .-jiiinir we have been passing through 



A forecast will long be remembered for its protracted 



for June series of cold days and nights. Of course, 



no one can tell how soon it may veer 



around and give us an equally vigorous roast but if the 



theory be true that the chill comes from the numerous 

 icebergs that have been seen floating along the coast, 

 then a continuance of the low temperatures may perhaps 

 be expected and the result should be greatly to the ad- 

 vantage of the flower business, the cool weather serving 

 to keep people in the city later than usual. The outlook 

 is certainly good for a lively June business and we think 

 lliat those wlio make liberal preparation for it will not 

 be disappointed. 



Our reports from the various wholesale 



The flower centres for the past few weeks in- 



congestion dicate a very unsatisfactory state of af- 



problem fairs. The usual explanation advanced 



for a congested markets-overproduction — 

 is, of course, easy to fall back upon but when in the 

 course of a day's travels in crowded shopping districts 

 and among the residences of rich and poor alike, one 

 sees scarcely a flower worn on the person or displayed in 

 the window of either home or store, it seems logical to 

 inquire why this abundance of floral material is not 

 more generally distributed and to reason that so long as 

 ninety-nine out of every hundred people are destitute of 

 flowers this talk about overproduction is largely fallacy. 



Standing, one morning not long since. 

 Inadequate on West 28th street, the centre of the 

 methods of great wholesale flower trade of New 

 distribution York, we saw one department store 

 wagon loaded up with a purchase said 

 to amount to over six hundred dollars, yet that wagon 

 load was comparatively an insignificant item in the 

 grand total of the daily wholesale distribution through 

 this and other channels entirely outside of what are 

 known as the legitimate retail flower stores. It is evi- 

 dent to any one familiar with these wholesale marts that 

 really a very small proportion of each day's receipts can 

 be consumed by the regular flower stores as at present 

 conducted and the conviction is forced upon us that 

 there is something radically defective in our accepted 

 methods of flower distribution. Everybody is fond of 

 flowers; they like to see them and to have them con- 

 stantly about the home, the ofiice and the person, and in 

 every place of public resort. To supply even a small 

 fraction of probable buyers would require many times 

 the biggest "over production" ever yet seen. From this 

 distance it looks to us as if the majority of the retail 

 flower sellers were sleeping at the post. The question of 

 what can be done to create and stimulate a wider, more 

 stable and permanent market is ,1 very live one. 



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