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HORTICULTURE 



August 29, 190S 



horticulture: 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION—A Group at the S. A. F. 

 Convention 



THE CHESTNUT DISEASE— G. B. Stone 2S1 



THRIPS IN GREENHOUSE 281 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— \V. H. Adsett 283 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 283 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 2S4 



CARNATION SPLENDOR— Louis Router Illustrated 2S4 



ROSE CONRAD F. MEYER 2S4 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 



Story of the Convention Continued— Report of 

 the Judges — Thursday Afternoon Session — Fridaj 



Morning Session 285 



Report of the Committee on Horticultural Edu- 

 cation Report of the State Vice-President for 



Maryland 286 



DURING RECESS 



The Convention Bowling Contests — Elberon Hor- 

 ticultural Society 287 



NEWS OK THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Rose Society Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural SocietJ Canadian Horticultural Associ- 

 ation New Oil.ans Horticultural Society— Flor- 

 ists' Hail Association Club and Society Notes.. 288 



OUT-OF-DOOR ROSES— \V. C. Barry 289 



SEED TRADE 292 



OBITUARY Patrick II. Median Clarence Penistou 29."i 

 FLOWER MARKET RETORTS 



Boston. Chicago, Indianapolis. New York. Phil- 

 adelphia 297 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Some New Gladioli 287 



Corrections 287 



shout Iris 290 



Publications Received 292 



Catalogues Received 292 



Easter Lily Bulb Prospects 293 



Freight Rates from Japan 293 



Personal 294 



Movements of Gardeners 294 



Steamer Departures 294 



News Notes 294, 295, 297 



Coming Events 295 



Neighborhood Flower Shows 295 



Incorporated 295 



Philadelphia Notes 297 



Business Changes 297 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 307 



List of Patents 



exhibitor at the Niagara Con- 

 Master of the \entinii look orders for "Nci- 

 situation thousand dollars' worth of one line 

 of bulbs. We do not know that 

 this case was ■ others did as well — 

 perhaps better. We i this will reach the eye 

 of many upon whom words extolling the business value 

 of i'i, s. \. F. meetings have hitherto availed oothing. 



were ninety-five firms from all parts of the coun- 



tr\ willing to paj in the aggregate nearly $2300 in 



iges besides the heavy cosl of freight and the 



of their employes and when we read over the 



ni >s we find a majority of them the sail corded 



year after year in the past, their course undoubtedly 

 governed by the satisfactory results obtained, while 

 their inert, obstinate or timorous competitors ~i a \ at 



home and lament over the | r business conditions. It 



»a- always so and probably always will be. 



We agree heartily with Mr. Burdette's 



A flower-show views as expressed at the discussion 



necessity ,>u the conduct of the National Flower 

 Show, at the meeting in Niagara Falls 

 la-t week. Mr. Burdette represents the best promoter of 

 the -how from a financial standpoint — the daily press — 

 and his plea thai special features he given such prom- 

 inence that the press agent will have something to 

 work on should be heeded. Flowers, as such, are no 

 longer a sensation. The modern florist store is a daily 

 exhibition in itself and people arc not agoing to pay for 

 the privilege of looking at a lot of plants grouped 

 together in a hall nor can they he aroused to an\ fever- 

 ish interest in the routine features of competition m 

 technical points which so absorb the grower's attention. 

 We take opportunity to repeat what we have heretofore 

 maintained in these columns thai an] attempt, now-a : 

 days, to run a self-supporting flower show without spe- 

 cial features, as was possible some years ago. is almosi 

 certainly doomed. The flower show records of the pasl 

 iVw \ear- abound in embarrassments and bitter disap- 

 pointments all because these demands have been lost 

 sigbl of. "It is a condition which confronts us — not a 

 theor] ." 



Tariff revision is in the air and no time 



A time should he lost by the nursery, plant and 



for action bulb trade in deciding up. in what they 



eve to be for the best interests o( 



American horticulture so that when the time come-, as 



it undoubtedly will within a few months, the legislative 



commit t >f the S. A. F. can appear before the tariff 



maker-, sustained and upheld in their claims by the 

 trade of the entire country. When the matter was dis- 

 cussed in the meeting at Niagara Falls the sentiment 

 of those present was unmistakably in favor of a specific 

 duty on all these horticultural products. The adoption 

 specific duty would mean the importation of a bet- 



cla goods and would tend to keep low grade 



-c materia] out of the country. It would put an 

 end to d si onesti and collusion in invoicing shipments 

 and relieve the trade of all the trouble, uncertainty and 

 eontroversj in the appraisers' department which im- 

 porters have experienced under the presenl s] 



these manifest advantages in sigh! our husiness 

 interests should get busy and speak out through every 

 local and national organization SO thai there can he no 



-ion as to their earnestness and unanimity. Tf 

 . they do so they will get what they want. Tf the] do 

 not it may he man} years before the opportunity eomes 

 again. 



