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HORTICULTURE 



November 30, 1907 



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VOL. VI 



NOVEMBER 30, 1907 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— The Paris Show. 



SEDUM SPECTABILE— Richard Rothe— Illustrated. . tjST 



THROW AWAY THE MOLE TRAP— C. S. Harrison.. 097 



VALUE OF SWAMPY LAND— T. D. Hatfield G99 



A PATENT ON GRAFTING— Jackson Dawson TOO 



THE FASTIGIATE GINKGO— Warren J. Chandler- 

 Illustrated ■?oo 



RUST ON CARNATIONS— Wallace R. Pierson 700 



EXHIBITION CHRYSANTHEMUMS— William Duck- 

 ham ""1 



PARIS AUTUMN SHOW— C. Harman Payne— Illus- 

 trated '^*'~ 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Civic Association — American Rose So- 

 ciety—Toledo Florists' Club— Detroit Florist Club 

 — The Landscape Gardening Classes — Club and 



Society Notes ■?04 



FLORAL COLORS— Arthur Smith 705 



THE BROAD OUTLOOK FOR THE AGRICULTURAL 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS— Dr. A. C. True 708 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Indianapolis, New York, Phila- 

 delphia '713 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Movements of Gardeners "00 



Local and Florists' Shows 701 



Pei-sonal 703 



Ornamental Leaves and Grasses Appraised 706 



Catalogues Received 706 



New Retail Flower Stores 711 



Business Changes 711 



Philadelphia Notes 713 



Fire Record 713 



News Notes 720 



New Heating .\ppardtus 720 



Incorporated 720 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 721 



The unsatisfactory state of the flower 



The flower markets which we have been called upon 



market to report for several weeks back seems 



to liave been confined principally to 

 eastern centers, no very serious reports having thus far 

 been received from points west of Buffalo. There may 

 be one or several causes for this, but the eastern florists 

 ■with practical unanimity hold the late financial slump 

 wholly responsible and with apparently some good 

 foundations for the belief. We hope that the more 

 hopeful tone which seems to be coming into general 



business circles will quickly start a resumption of activ- 

 ity in the flower market. The season is already well 

 along and it is full time that something was doing. As 

 we go to press, on the eve of the first of the season's 

 holidays, it is pleasant to note the stir made by the 

 Thanksgiving Day demand in the local flower market, 

 which seems to be normal in volume although prices are 

 low on many things as compared with last year. 



The back of the fancy violet price seems 

 The violet to be effectually broken at last. Year 

 situation after year as violet houses have multiplied 

 predictions have been freely made that 

 over-supply would soon put an end to the annual infla- 

 tion of values in the early part of each season, but, 

 somehow, the violet always got the mastery and soared 

 at will during the horse-show and foot-ball period, hold- 

 ing its own, as a rule, until after the holidays. This 

 year the long-expected has come to pass. Horse show 

 and foot-ball days have come and gone without any ap- 

 preciable inflation of violet values and in all probability 

 we liave .seen the last of the big prices. It has been 

 contended by many that the aggregate of the violet 

 business for the entire season has been adversely af- 

 fected by the annual fall boost in prices which, it was 

 claimed, excited wide-spread hostility to the otherwise 

 popular little flower, and tliat with a more moderate 

 beginning, a steadier demand and better average re- 

 turns for the season would ensue. We shall have a 

 chance this season to learn just what there is in this 

 theory. 



The organization of the various sub- 

 The National (■oiniuittees of the S. A. F. general 

 Flower Show committee of fifty for the work con- 

 nected with the National Flower 

 Show to be held in Chicago next November, reads 

 well and gives evidence that the magnitude of' 

 tlie undertaking and its possibilities are realized 

 by those upon whom the responsibilities rest. Active 

 work cannot begin too soon for eleven months is 

 not an over-long time in which to perfect the details of 

 such a project. We call attention with much pleasure 

 to the following editorial note in the Los Angeles, Cal., 

 Times : • 



"The Society of American Florists have under way the 

 making of a national flower show, to be held in Chicago, 

 in the autumn of 1908. If such an event proves a cer- 

 tainty our State should make a small appropriation for 

 aiding the movement to the end that California may 

 have on hand a creditable exhibit of native plants and 

 flowers, with cones, barks, woods, etc., showing all the 

 horticultural wealth of California so far as native orna- 

 mental plant life is concerned. Should the State fail to 

 make the necessary appropriation, the Southern Califor- 

 nia Horticultural Society should endeavor to raise suffi- 

 cient funds so that our southland should be well rep- 

 resented. After the dates are permanently determined 

 it would not be a difficult matter to cause some of our 

 showiest natives to flower out of season in case such 

 treatment became necessary." 



No doubt the committee will be glad to take advan- 

 tage of the spirit of cordiality here shown and possibly 

 follow the line of action suggested by adopting some 

 sy.stematic plan for enlisting the co-operation of the 

 various States in making this a truly national affair 

 and altogether the greatest event up to date in Ameri- 

 can horticulture. Exhibits of sensational interest from 

 our Pacific possessions can probably be .secured through 

 the Department of Agriculture at Washington which 

 has on more than one occasion given evidence of its 

 willingness to assist the S. A. F. in work of an educa- 

 tional character. ' 



