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HORTICULTURE 



June 26, 1909. 



1^#^"0'1*1'^^¥ T¥ *¥*¥ yW IT HoirricuLTUEE to uote the increasing and steady growth 



^^ •*'^ •* •*• ^^ ^^ •*^ •*• ^"^ ■M-V.M.^ qj' confidence in the paper as unquestionably indicated 



yQ, j^ Tijpjc 26 1909 fjQ^ 26 ''-^ ^'^''' ^'"PPoi'' accorded by the most reliable advertising 



' linuse?. We believe this to be based upon real value as 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY all advertising medium, due to the high character of 



HOR.TICV7LTURE PUBLISHING CO. (||g reading matter which we have been enabled to pre- 



II Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. ^^.„t^ ^nd we take pleasure in stating that still greater 



•i»»M I c^^tr/'T'oT ZlT'^ ^'^ M advancement on this line is assured for the immediate 



NVM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager t i- i 



^^=^^^=^:^^^:=i=:^^=^:^=:^=:^^:^^^ luture. ue realize that no better foundation can be 



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Disc^unt^on^contrac^t^s^for^c^on^secutivemsen^o^ the most advauced and representative men of today in 



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CONTENTS "Time is a sort of river of passing 



„^„^„ ,r T TT^r„Ti .-T^T^^T T, , T , J T1 1 ^^^^ ^^ " 61^1116111 evcnts." Thc changc In thc pepsonuel of 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— F H. Siannard, Pres.-elect u„,,„„ n, i t j i i i jx t 



Amer. Asso. of Nurserymen, """"^^ the old and world-renowned firm of 



NEW H"iTjRlD CALCEdL.A.RiAS— H. J. Moore— Illus- Hugh Low & Co., which is announced 



trated i93 jn our advertising columns will doubtless prove of more 



^n-^MlH^^^^^^'i^'^crt' ^"L^- KALOSANTHES COC- jj^^j, ^^:^^^^ j^^^^.g^t ^^ ^f our readers, for from 



CINEA— George F, Stewart 893 , , . , ^^■ ^ . -, "i ■ i , , » 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred this establishment have graduated a large number of 



Rehder 895 our leading gardeners. In the early part of the last 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 895 century it was already a power in" the horticultural 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION: world-under the late Hu-h Low whose enterprise 



Proceediiigs at Niasara Falls Meeting — Presidents , , , , ,. . f . ,. -.r ■ i x /^ i 



.Address— Reports of Ofilcers and Committees— Re- brought to notice many varieties of Mexican plants, Cal- 



ports on Seed Legislation— Officers Elected 896 ifornia conifers, New Holland species, Cape heaths, 



Natioiial Association of Seed Analyst^Irrigation in camellias, etc. When the reins were taken up by the late 



NEWS^'oFTHE CLUBS 'and SOCIETIES': ^^' ^t"«^'^, ^enry Low orchids were a specialty and no cor- 



Massachiisetts Horticultural Society— Tarrytown Her- "er of the world was exempt from his collectors, his 



ticiiltural Society— Commercial Florists' Association brother Sir Hugh Low, Blunt, Boxall, Smith, Tucker, 



of Rochester— Morris County Gardeners' and Flor- Bruckmuller, Lehmann, White, Curnow and others all 



ists' Society-New Jersey Floricultural Society- sending home large shipments of what are now the main 



Postponement of Newport Show 898 ° , r. i-i i i i • i- 



Royal Horticultural Society, Frederick Moore— Amer- occitpants of our orchid houses and during his regime 



lean Rose Society— Westchester Horticultural and the glass at Clapton Nurseries was increased four- fold 



Agricultural Society— Huntington Horticultural and and "the nresent Busli Hill Park Nurserv was started 



Agricultural Society.. ...... ....... 899 ^^.|^j^ y^ ' g^ .^ jj j^^ ^ ^^^ assisted by his 



Pennsvlvania Horticultural Society — Park Supenn- , -, -m t -it t i • n i 



tendents Visit Boston— B. H. Farr, President-elect younger brother Edward V. Low who is well known 



American Peony Society, portrait— Club and Society personally among the trade in the United States. 



SEED TR\DE- This week, from the Atlantic to 



Bermuda Onion Seed Crop Prospects, F. C. Varela— ^ privilege the Pacific, the country is all 



The Corn Crop— Canning Peas— The Value of Experi- and a recompense aglow with the peony and the rose 



OFTNTERESTTORETAiL-FmRfsTS: '"' .-,,,. "^/^ ^"Wch Iv^ature has given us 



Steamer Departures 904 ^^ fairer benetaction. At sight ot their splendor and 



Flowers by Telegraph 905 scent of their perfume humanity is constrained to stop 



FLO'VST^R MARKET REPORTS: for a moment its strenuous rush and submit to the sway 



Boston, Buffalo, Washington^ 907 ^j ^j-,g gentler emotions and the fierce struggle of traffic 



Chicago, Indianapolis, New York 909 i ■" i i- • j. -i i? ii. ■ ii 



Philadelphia. Rochester 914 and speculation is temporarily forgotten m the con- 



OP.ITUARY: templation of the garden glory. Nurseryman or florist, 



Mrs, T D. Cobb— Mrs. Julia D. Stroud 914 have you ever given a thought to the part you are priv- 



^r^rv^^^J^ x^vaij'^- ^^^ ileged to perform in the great onward and upward 



St Louis News . 897 march of refinement? To your industry and skill, 



Rochester Personal and News Notes 897 perhaps more than to. any other influence, is due the 



. Greenhouse Glass Drops in Tariff Schedule 899 fact that the land is decked in such loveliness today. 



Personal 900 Eloquently these flowers are speaking in your behalf — - 



Catalogues Received 902 , , , ' ■ -, , , n j.i • a j j. j 



Pansies at Pittsburgh 902 better persuaders than all tlie pictures and agents and 



Nev.'s Notes .", 904 books. The pity is that so many who seek to sell 



Chicago Notes 905 these things to the people neglect to use the splendid 



Business Changes. ^''''"^^^ means that i= within their £;rasp, paving no more atten- 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 915 ,. , ,i n in 'j. i xi •' i " i ■ 



Patents Granted . . 915 tion to the floral adornment of their homes or business 



Philadelphia Notes and Comments 916 premises than a bricklayer or sausage dealer might be 



=^=^===^=^=^^==^== expected to show. There is something radically wrong 



>Vith tlii- is-iii' clii>es ^'ol. IX of TTorti- with the florist or nurserTOian who fails to display his 



Another ci'LTiRE. It i-outains forty-eiglit pages art in its most impressive possibilities in and around 



mile stone rnore than the corresponding volume, first ]ii= place of business. The surroundings of the offices 



half of last year, necessitated by the very and work rooms of the men who deal in trees, plants and 



"•ratifying increase in advertising business. It is a flowers sliould invariably set tlie standard of home 



matter of no small satisfaction to tlie publishers of adornment in the ueigliborhood. 



