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HORTICULTURE. 



September 19, 19"8 



horticulture: 



VOL. VIII 



SEPTEMBER 19, 1908 



NO. 12 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER DESIGN— A Conservatorv View. 



PHALAENOPSIS STUARTIAXA— M. J. Pope— Il- 

 lustrated 37 . 



HORTICULTURE AT THE FRANCO BRITISH EX- 

 POSITION— C. Hannan Payne 3 . , 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— 

 Alfred Render 378 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— \V. H. Adsett 379 



A CONSERVATORY MEW 379 



DURING RECESS: 



New York and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers — Illustrated 381 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



The National Flower Show— Schwaben Volksfest 381 

 New York Florists' Club — Nassau County Horti- 

 cultural Society — St. Louis Florist Club — New- 

 Bedford Horticultural Society 382 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Gardeners' 



and Florists' Club of Boston 383 



Society of American Florists — Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society — New England Dahlia Society — 

 Newport Horticultural Society — Connecticut Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Club and Society Notes 384 



OBITUARY— Emil Johansen, Portrait — Charles E. 

 Richardson — William Butcher, Portrait — Mrs. T. 

 D. Hatfield— Henry Regan— A. Pinoteau 386 



SEED TRADE 388 



THE TRADE OUTLOOK: 



Some Chicago Views 391 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadel- 

 phia, Washington 393 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



A Wideawake Suburb 381 



Bulb Notes 385 



1 hrysanthemum Notes 386 



Publications Received 388 



Catalogues Received 389 



Personal 390 



Steamer Departures 390 



Coming Events 391 



New Retail Flower Stores 391 



Fairs and Neighborhood Shows 391 



Philadelphia Notes 393 



News Notes 393, 395, 401 



Business Changes 395 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 402 



New Heating Apparatus 402 



List of Patents 402 



A- indicated in our report? from 



The work and various sources activity in clubs 



influence of the a nd societies is being resumed and 



Club and Society policies are being pro- 



by dull officials with a 

 view to making the coming year in their respective or- 

 ganizations "the 1" This is all a very simple 

 matter in an after-dinner s and easily achieved on 



paper, bul experience and • history are burdened with 

 evidence that in real life these ideals are seldom 

 secretary of club or assoi union has 

 been called upon many times to answer the question. 

 "What good will it do me to become a member . What 

 _ r et for my money?" The temptation is to reply, 

 "1 (on'l be so selfish; Forget self for once and think what 

 you may do for the common good by contributing your 

 little -hare." but such altruistic sentiments might as 

 well as a rule be kept to one's self in these prai 

 days. The ground is entirely too stony for that kind of 

 seed i" sprout and it behooves "the powers that be" in 

 any organization to scan the horizon for opportunities 

 and formulate policies and plans of immediate and 

 direct application to the daily interests of the people 

 - supporl is sought. What can you give them that 

 they want in exchange for their annual dues? 



Of presidents and secretaries aud 

 Enlisting the committeemen there are many va- 

 sympathy of the rieties. Occasionally we find one 

 retailer who lives and thinks years in ad- 



vance of his lagging constituents. 

 Ten or twenty years hence the rank and file may grow 

 up to esteem that which he utterly fails to interest them 

 in today. But if the period of his incumbency is to be 

 "the best ever' he must relax from his standards aud 

 be content to limit his leadership to the capacity of his 

 available constituency to follow him. It will probably 

 be unanimously agreed to that the toughest problem any 

 florists' organization ever tackled was how to enlist the 

 interest and loyal support of the men engaged in the 

 retail store business. Individual exceptions may be 

 cited but if the universal key for the solution of this 

 question has ever been found it has not become public 

 property thus far. We read that it is proposed in the 

 Buffalo Florists' Club to take up the subject of harmony 

 in colors. Xow, if this topic is of value to anybody it 

 is to the retail florist who presumes to handle colors 

 for decorative purposes in such manner as to appeal to 

 the most refined and critical people. The men and 

 women to whom pre-eminence in this direction means 

 so much ought to show up. But will they? 



We hope that the effort about to be 



Where made by the Horticultural Society 



development ,,f \ ( . w - York to induce the public- 



is most needed exhibition of floral decorative work 



by tlie retail trade of the metropolis 



with abundant success. The leading florists 



of Nev \ "■ have in their employ son clever 



ers but outside of a few circles there and in other 



ut the country it is only rarely that 



idence of superiority in the art of 



mem. The great preponderance of the 



design and decorative work seen is anything but con- 



vincin| the artistic ability of the workman and it 



must he generally admitted by those who have been on 



the ground long enough to observe and form an opinion 



that the arl of flower growing has advanced much more 



rapidly than that of flower arrangement. In fact, the 



principal diffi o be noted between the design 



work of today and that of a generation ago is the better 



quality of the material used. The literature devoted to 



this decorative end of business is woefully deficient in 



quality and recent additions to it present practically 



nothing different from what the ordinary florist of a 



feneration ago knew and its perusal is calculated to give 



a chill to anyone who approaches it with a desire for 



arl istic light. 



