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HORTICULTURE. 



December 14, 1907 



HORTICUIvTURE 



VOL. VI 



DECEMBER 14, 1907 



NO. 23 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE-Palm House, A. R. Peacock Con- 



CHRYSAtT^EMUMS^^I PITTSBURG^^IUustrated: ! 769 



ROSES UNDER GLASS-J. E. Simpson 7^u 



A NEW ROSE STOCK-Wm. C. Strong. 770 



RWTTISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 771 



PLANTS WORTHY OF MORE GENERAL CULTIVA- 

 TION— Robert Cameron TJ^t 



A CHOICE WHITE ORCHID lli 



COLD STORAGE LILIES l'^ 



PRIMULA STELLATA— Illustration .^- 7 (^ 



A CHOICE DECORATIVE GROUP— C. Harman Payne 773 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: , . ^ , 

 Pittsburg Florists' and Gardeners' Club— Florists 

 Club o£ Washington— New Bedford Horticultural 

 Society— Southampton Horticultural Society— Ver- 

 mont Horticultural Society— Detroit Florists' Club 774 

 New York Florists' Club. Portraits— Society of 

 American Florists— New Jersey Floricultural So- 

 ciety— Washington State Horticultural Society... 775 

 Maryland Horticultural Society— Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society— Minnesota State Horticul- 

 tural Society ;■••■., ', ^^^ 



Royal Horticultural Society— Montreal Gardeners 

 and Florists' Club, Portrait— Club and Society 



j,jotes '^^ 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 792 



IN MEMORAM, P- J. Hauswirth 779 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS— C. Harman Payne 780 



Single and Pompon Chrysanthemums— Illustration 780 



Chrysanthemums at Peacock Conservatories 780 



THE BROAD OUTLOOK OF THE AGRICULTURAL 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS— Dr. A. C. True 782 



A New Experiment Station 784 



Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station 804 



A MODEL CARNATION ESTABLISHMENT 786 



SEED TRADE '^^^ 



CHRISTMAS PLANT NOTES 790 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Pauline Engelman— George D. Kel- 

 ley— Abram L. Richards— Luke M. Deeds— Rev. 

 Joseph Jenks— John Ringier— Edward Keller- 

 Mrs. J. F. Huss 792 



CHRISTMAS OUTLOOK IN PHILADELPHIA 795 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, 



Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington 803 



PETROLEUM EMULSION FOR SAN JOSE SCALE.. 804 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture 778 



Personal ^''^ 



Jamestown Exposition Awards 779 



Incorporated '^^^ 



Catalogues Received 789 



News Notes ' "* 



New Retail Flower Stores 793 



Business Changes 795 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 804 



New Heating Apparatus 804 



List of Patents 805 



Our 



Again, at the close of another year of 

 progress on the lines which we helieve 

 thanks to gy to make a paper worthy to bear the 

 our friends honored name of Horticulture, we ex- 

 tend greeting to those friends and sup- 

 porters who have stood by tis and with us from the 

 start and the many besides who have been pleased to 

 add their name from time to time to our rapidly length- 

 ening list of appreciative patrons. During the three 

 delightful years that have passed since our entry into 

 tlie journalistic field many changes have taken place — 

 some pleasant, some sad — but the progress of American 

 horticulture has been uninterruptedly upward and it is 

 with rare satisfaction that we listen to the frequent as- 

 surances which come to us from friends at home and 

 abroad that in the advancement which has been made 

 Horticulture is recognized as having borne an honora- 

 ble part. To the host of friends and well-wishers whose 

 generosity and loyalty have made possible the success 

 which has thus far crowned our labors we extend our 

 appreciative and grateful thanks. 



Judging from reports as received 

 Pool" from widely separated localities 



outlook for and from what we have had op- 



low grade material portunity to see in various mar- 

 kets it seems likely that the pub- 

 lic will be afforded the opportunity this season of buy- 

 ing the best flowers, the best plants and the best material 

 altogether that have ever been provided for their holi- 

 day demands. The only apparent exception is the 

 native holly wluch seemis to be inferior, generally. The 

 quality of all the staples grown for the cut flower mar- 

 kets of the great cities, especially, has been advancing 

 steadily from year to year and material which would 

 have found appreciative buyers a few years ago is today 

 contemptuously spurned even by the street fakirs. Noth- 

 ing is more noticeable in the wholesale flower markets 

 than the widening divergence between the prices 

 realized on first-class stock and the returns from that 

 of lower grade. In fact, the grower whose abilities or 

 whose equipment do not admit of his producing a fair 

 proportion of high-grade stock must before long, it 

 would seem, be forced to abandon the metropolitan 

 wholesale markets and find what consolation he can 

 in the disposal of his product through local channels 

 where competition on quality is less keen and buyers are 

 less critical. 



The prices of cut flowens are much 

 The below the record for corresponding 



advantage dates for past years. Whether 



of modern houses they will remain so no one can 

 predict for flowers are very sus- 

 ceptible to influences of a transient nature and the 

 "why and wherefore" are not always apparent even to 

 those who should be best judges of the market's ten- 

 dencies. While it is diflicult to set a cost figure, even 

 approximate, on the cut flower product of an establish- 

 ment yet it does seem as though the limit of safety had 

 been about reached in the prices realized in the whole- 

 sale markets this season and that, unless a change for 

 the better takes place very soon, the prospects for the 

 small, antiquated greenhouse establishment which hith- 

 erto has furnished its owner with a livelihood and some- 

 thing more, are not at all encouraging. Some observ- 

 ant people look upon the shrinkage of flower values and 



