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H ORT1CULTURE 



August 1, 190S 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. VIII 



AUGUST 1, 1908 



NO. 5 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION'— A Field of Japan Iris (lae- 

 vigata) 129 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Render 129 



BRITISH HORTICCI.TrUE— W. H. Adsett...... 129 



IRIS LAEVIGATA— Robert Camei on 131 



ROSES UNDER GLASS -J. E. Simpson 131 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Floi ists — Hotels in Niagara — 

 Cincinnati to Niagara Falls — American Association 

 of Park Superintendents. Convention Program — 

 American Carnation Society— Los Angeles Florist 



Club 132 



Pasadena Gardeners' Asociation — Club and Society 



Notes — Coming Events 133 



DURING RECESS: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Lake Ge- 

 neva Gardeners' and Foremens' Association — De- 

 troit Florist Club — Indianapolis Florist Club — 



Omaha Florist Club 133 



ROSES FROM A RETAILER'S VIEW— Paper by J. F. 



Sullivan 131 



THE W1TTBOLD CEMENT BENCH— Illustrated 135 



EXPOSITION AT GAND^ HOLLAND— Translation by 



G. Bleicken 136 



LIBRARY NOTES— C. Harm an Payne 136 



NORTHERN GROWN COTTON— Illust ruled 137 



A NORTHERN ENTERPRISE— C. S. Harrison 137 



SEED TRADE HO 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Florist Stores 112 



FLOWER" MARKET RETORTS: 



Boston. Chicago. Indianapolis, New York. Phila- 

 delphia li: ' 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 135 



List of Patents 135 



Catalogues Received 137 



Incorporated 13" 



News Notes 138-143 



Publications Received 139 



Tunica Saxifraga fl. rosea pi 139 



The Ubiquitous Brownlai! 139 



Personal W3 



Handy Hand Book 113 



Business Changes 115 



We have taken frequent occasion? to remind 



Time to ovir readers of the coming S. A. F. conven- 



wake up tion at Niagara Falls and to urge upon 



them the expediency of their presence and 



participation in that important event. Our earnestness 



in so doing i^ solely because we know what mighty 



Where 

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results would follow if the horticultural industries 

 which are legitimately represented in the make up of 

 1 In- society could he awakened to the great possibilities 

 thai lie within such a body when adequately supported. 

 Further, it should never be forgotten that neither the 

 individual who counts for anything nor am really live 

 organization ran long exist in this world without en- 

 countering restraining and coercive influences. The 

 Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 

 turists is xception and it behooves those engaged 



in horticultural and floral occupations, ever} one of 

 whom is vitally concerned, to see to it that any and all 

 movenn hi- tending to circumscribe tin 1 society's work or 

 weaken its position are firmly resisted. 



The course of the express , on,], hum- in 

 refusing to make allowance for weight 

 of iic used in shipping cut flowers, as 

 in their custom with shipments of 

 other perishable commodities, is in line with their in- 

 sistence in every other controversy which has come up 

 that flowers are a luxury and nothing more, and that 

 consequently the grounds on which they allow certain 

 privileges in other cases cannot be admitted as applying 

 in (ill flowers. Considering the uses to which flowers 

 are put and the enormous daily consumption of this 

 product it should be easy to show the weakness of any 

 argument classing them as luxuries and celery or mush- 

 room spawn as necessities. The weakness of the florists 

 consists, as it always has, in their lack of cohesion. A 

 united front and general willingness to make sacrifices 

 and -hare responsibilities individually in measures for 

 the common good would long ago have placed the florist 

 in a much more favorable position commercially than he 

 enjoys today. Express companies and others air awake 

 to this lack and it may be expected that they will take 

 full advantage of it. 



In the eastern States the markel 

 seems to have reached the point where 

 old-time methods of culture are hardly 

 profitable. To successfully compete with 

 the bountiful productions of the more fertile West, lie 

 must practice more scientific and advanced cultural 

 methods, and obtain if possible a higher grade of 

 products from his naturally less productive soil. It is 

 true that he has the advantage in markets of large, pop- 

 ulous and wcalthv cities, whose attractions and com 

 forts seem to have such magnetic influence upon those 

 who acquire wealth in other sections of the country that 

 they are irresistiblj drawn towards their luxurious life. 

 The wealth and luxury of our Atlantic coasl cities are 

 the elements which afford opportunity for intensive 

 gardening. As we heat today of hothouse chickens and 

 milk-fed ducklings — so shall we hear speedily of inten- 

 sive-culture vegetables and salads. In the larger cities 

 of Europe a demand for such vegetable products has 

 existed for generations, and has been supplied chiefly 

 ii\ the market gardeners of France. France has been 

 noted for her ability to obtain better prices than other 

 countries for her products, for while others have strug- 

 gled with their necessities, she has catered to the de 

 mands of luxury the world over. Even in the United 

 States we are dependent upon her for many of the Sner 

 vegetables and salads served in our best hotels and clubs. 

 For instance, fresh grown cauliflower during spring 

 and early summer are imported from France and, later 

 in the season, globe artichokes, endive, chicory, etc. 

 That the supply of these delicacies at practically all 



Intensive 

 cultivation 



