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HORTICULTURE. 



October 24, 1908 



horticulture: 



Y«L. VIII OCTOttfcR 24, 1908 NO. 17 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Rhododendron Plantation. 

 ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAMBLES— L. H. Pamniel— 



Illustrated 537 



TREE TALKS— Jackson Dawson 538 



PROPAGATION OK PHLOXES— C. S. Harrison 539 



SOME LESSONS FROM A BOSTON "FLOWER FAC- 

 TORY" 541 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Morris County Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Society — Mt. Desert Horticul- 

 tural Society — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. -7,42 

 Society of American Florists — Ladies' Society of 

 American Florists — Southampton Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Chrysanthemum Society of America — Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society — Club and Society Notes — 



Coming Events 543 



HARDY CLEMATISES AND OTHER USEFUL VINES 



AND SHRUBS— Antoine Wintzer 544 



OBITUARY— Gustav Hanson— John A. Balkwil— 

 Henry Glins — George A. Saunders — F. O. Frederick- 

 son — T. H. Geraghty 546 



SEED TRADE 548 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Economy in Window Dressing — Steamer Depart- 

 ures .■ 550 



New Retail Flower Stores 551 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, 



Philadelphia, Washington ' 553 



New York 555 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Fern Grower 541 



Personal 541 



Poehlmann Bros.' Establishment — Illustrated 544 



Incorporated 545 



Chrysanthemum Gloria — Illustrated 545 



A Presentation 545 



Chicago Plant Trade 545 



Plant Imports 546 



Pittsburgh Exhibition 547 



News Xotes 551 



Business Changes .- 551 



Philadelphia Xotes 553 



Catalogues Received 560 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 562 



Patents Granted : 562 



It is gratifying to those in the less favored 

 The localities to learn of the very satisfactory 

 business conditions prevailing in many cut flower 

 situation an( j plant centres where, as reports indi- 

 cate, fall business has started up in good 

 shape and supply and demand are nicely balanced. The 

 knowledge that this prosperity exists elsewhere helps to 

 inspire confidence in those markets where the summer 

 stagnation lias not yet lifted that their time will soon 

 follow along and that before long the activity which is 

 now so unevenly distributed will become universal and 



the flower trade extricated from the predicament into 

 which it has been forced by the untoward circumstances 

 which it lias had to contend with. One cause of the 

 embargo from which New York (and in some degree 

 Philadelphia) has been suffering is the remarkably salu- 

 brious weather all through October which has kept 

 flower buyers in the country and left the hotels half 

 empty. A good attack of disagreeable weather is 

 needed to drive people back to city life and its flower- 

 absorbing activities. This accomplished and election 

 perplexities past, there is every reason to expect a gen- 

 uine revival all along the line. 



Our recent brief notes illustrating 

 Looking the need of greater caution in the 



to better matter of credit giving seem to have 



business ethics stirred up a spiteful hornet's nest 

 in the office of our New York 

 contemporary. There is nothing in the remarks in 

 question other than a desire to facilitate the exposure of 

 the swindler under whatever guise he may operate and, 

 by timely warning, to reduce to a minimum his oppor- 

 tunities for fraud. We believe this to be the proper pol- 

 icy for a dealer, publisher or other business man to 

 pursue when he sees his neighbor being made a fellow- 

 victim with himself of an impostor, and a grateful co- 

 operation in thwarting the rascal would seem to be the 

 right course in return, and not the slinging of mud. 

 None of us are so profoundly discerning that we can 

 claim immunity from imposition and the primitive pro- 

 pensity to stand aloof and chuckle with delight over 

 i in lumcoing of a business competitor, when it is in our 

 power to prevent it, finds little favor in these enlight- 

 ened days other than among the constitutionally nar- 

 row-minded. We applaud the New York wholesalers 

 for their action in establishing and adhering to a com- 

 mon standard in the collection of accounts and assum- 

 ing of risks in connection therewith, and, as before 

 stated, we hope to see something of the same co-oper- 

 ative spirit displayed in other departments of our busi- 

 ness, for the common good. 



We receive occasional communica- 



Pertinent reading tions from our readers urging that 

 contributions W e devote a larger proportion of 

 welcomed our reading space to topics con- 



nected with this or that department 

 in which they are particularly interested. We are glad 

 to receive these suggestions and would be grateful if 

 many more were sent in. It is our especial desire to 

 provide for our readers the sort of material that they 

 will peruse with interest and benefit and to so diversify 

 it that each of the many interests will find in every issue 

 a liberal serving of that which must directly concerns 

 them in their respective departments. In some lines, 

 we think it will be generally acknowledged that we have 

 been notably successful. In others, no one recognizes 

 the deficiency more than we do. The fault in this re- 

 spect is not entirely ours and the remedy lies with our 

 readers among whom are unquestionably numbered the 

 most intelligent and refined exponents of every branch 

 of horticultural industry, who can easily accomplish the 

 desired end by contributing liberally to those depart- 

 ments which lack and in such manner as to incite others 

 to do likewise. We know that, in our big family of 

 readers there are many well-versed and capable men 

 and women who have thus far never written a line for 

 publication who, if they could only be induced to begin, 

 would quickly be accorded a distinction as writers, ex- 

 celled by none. Send along the goods and Horticul- 

 ture will do its part in placing them where they will 

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