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H O K T 1 C U L T U R E 



June 5, IMOl) 



horticulture: 



TOL. IX 



JUNE S, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— House of Phalaenopses. 



WATER IN THE GARDEN AND HOlVrE PARK— Fied- _ 

 erick Moore — Illustrated ^9^ 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 797 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred ^ 

 Rehder ^^" 



NEW PLANTS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY— Frederick Moore 799 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN: 



Program of Rochester Convention — Portraits of Of- 

 j5pers 800-SOl 



SPECIMEN DA VALLIAS— Vernon T. Sherwood 801 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Florists' Hail Association— Florists' Club of Wash- 

 ■ ngton — Florists' Club of Philadelphia — American 



Peonv Sopletv— Royal Horticultural Society 802 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society— Club and Society Notes 80:3 



SEED TRADE: 

 An Unwarranted Attack on the Canning Industry- 

 Crop Prospects- The Conventions— Personal 804 



American Seed Trade Association, Convention Pro- 

 gram — Incorporated — Notes 80G 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Business Changes 808 



Flowers bv Telegraph 809 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Detroit, Philadelphia 811 



Chicago, New York 8I0 



OBITUARY: 



John E. Andre— George W. Earl — Norman C. Cookson 

 —George T. Waldbart— Mrs. Marie M. Cornell- Julius 

 Friedlander — Edmund Hersey 820 



.MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 801-818 



Personal 801 



Catalogues Received 806 



Publications Received 806 



Philadelphia Notes 809 



Chicago Notes 809 



Patents Granted 818 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 819 



The losses adjusted liy Swretarv Eslev of 

 The hail tlie Florists' Hail Association between May 

 section ,5 and June 1, 1909, amount to $11,084. It 



is interesting to note the localities in which 

 the greatest losses were sustained. None are reported 

 from east of Indiana although it does not necessarily 

 follow that there have been no losses in the cast as the 

 reports cover only those cases where hail insurance is 

 carried. In Indiana the amount is .$S.')9, in Illinois 

 $101, in Michigan $77, in Wisconsin $200, and in 

 Missouri $194, totaling $14.31 cast of the Mississippi. 



The balance, $9653 is distributed over the trans-Missis- 

 sij)pi states of Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, 

 'i'c.xas and South Dakota. The project of insurance of 

 greeniiouses against hail losses w'as one of the incentives 

 in the organization of the Society of American Florists. 

 It is to be noted that the main strength of the -Hail 

 .Vssociation is now in those sections where the S. A. F. 

 has the h'Mst following and vice versa. 



Tiie season for respite and recreation 

 Relaxation in all departments of horticultural ac- 

 weH earned tivitv is fast approaching. Memorial 

 Day has passed, June iioral festivities 

 of various hiiinds will shortly follow it; trees are in leaf 

 and liowcr and the nurseryman's digging, and packing 

 anil pUtnting for the spring of ]909 has already passed 

 into history; counter trade, mail order trade and all 

 other jjliases of tiie seedsman's calling have shrunk rap- 

 idly within the past few days; interest now turns to the 

 outings and picnics, and the society conventions which, 

 despite their tlourisli of business, are, after all, the real 

 article in the picnic line for many. Nest week the nur- 

 serymen start the series with their convention at Roches- 

 ter — a town with more snap and ginger in it when it 

 comes to Jollification than any place of its size on the 

 map; only a few days later the seedsmen will gather at 

 Niagara Falls, Ontario, where, if the experience of oth- 

 ers who have tried it counts for anything, they will have 

 the time of their lives; Florists' Club outings innumer- 

 able will punctuate July from start to finish and the 

 clima.x of merry-making adroitly interwoven with the 

 acquisition of serviceable knowledge, will be reached in 

 the silver jubilee of the S. A. F. at Cincinnati in August. 

 One needs only to read the names of the active partici- 

 pants in these merry yet industrious events to get a 

 good line mi the intellecttial and progressive forces, the 

 bone and sinew of present day horticulture. If you 

 want to find out "who's who in horticulture"' don't waste 

 vour time looking among the chronic stay-at-homes. 



'J'lie attacks upon the canning industry to 

 A manifest which extended reference is made in our 

 injustice p^cd trade notes in this issue should be 

 regarded with grave concern by seedsmen, 

 fruit growers and the horticultural profession in general. 

 Unfortunately no distinction is made by the agitators 

 and alarmists between the "canners" of fruit and veg- 

 etables and the products thereof and the "packers"' of 

 meats, fish, etc. As to the practices of the latter we have 

 notliing to say at present but sterilization by heat is 

 practically the universal custom in the fruit and veg- 

 etable canning business and it is nothing short of rascal- 

 ity to include, even by implication, these people in any 

 denunciation or criticism that may, with or without 

 reason, be ntade concerning the methods of meat pre- 

 serving and thus mislead the public and tend to bring 

 suspicion and great injury upon a reputable industry the 

 products of which constitute one of the greatest bless- 

 ings of modern civilization. The Pure Food Law is 

 something we should all be grateful for and whoever is 

 caught violating its provisions should be given the limit 

 of punishment, whatever branch of food manufacturing 

 or food preserving lie may be identified with. Fresh 

 frtiit and vegetables need no chemical preservative. If 

 the fruit has reached that condition where chemicals are 

 needed to make it keep it should be destroyed, if not 

 voluntarily then under compulsion. Regulations to this 

 effect will not disturb the canners of garden products, 

 please them rather, as any writer desiring to deal out 

 unprejudiced information can readily ascertain by 

 pro])er invcsti,gation. 



