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HORTICULTURE 



September 5, 1908 



horticulture: 



TOL. VIII 



SEPTEMBER 5, 1908 



NO. 10 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Anemone coronaria 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Render 313 



SHADE TREES— P. P. Williams 315 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 315 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 316 



ANEMONE CORONARIA 316 



A DOUBLE-FLOWERED AURATUM— Illustrated 316 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



North Shore Horticultural Society — Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society — Southampton Horticultural 

 Society— Florists' Club of Philadelphia— El Paso 

 County Horticultural Society — Society of American 



Florists 317 



Gardeners' and Florists Club of Boston — American 

 Carnation Society — New England Dahlia Society — 



Club and Society Notes— Coming Events 318 



OBITUARY— Mrs. E. M. Wood— Job Davis— J. H. 



Lowry 318 



THE VALUE OF STATE FLORIST ASSOCIATIONS— 



Albert T. Hey 319 



OUT OF DOOR ROSES— W. C. Barry 320 



PARK ADMINISTRATION— J. A. Pettigrew 320 



BULB GROWING IN AMERICA 323 



SEED TRADE 324 



Holland Seed Crop Report — Market Report from 



Cauarv Island 321 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia 329 



MISCELLANEOUS 



A Tribute to J. H. Morton 316 



An Acknowledgment 316 



Some Select Dahlias 316 



Menace to American Bulb Trade 322 



Movements of Gardeners 322 



Personal 326 



Steamer Departures 326 



Fairs and Neighborhood Flower Shows 327 



Chicago Personals 327 



News Notes 327 



Business Changes 327 



Incorporated 327 



New Retail Flower Stores 327 



Philadelphia Notes 329 



Catalogues Received 336 



Publication Received 336 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 338 



List of Patents 338 



Now begins the fall season The 



road to success stretches away in 



front of each one of us and it is 



now full time to take up the course, 



bearing in mind that standards have 



again advanced and that the coming "top-notchers" are 



bound to outstrip last year's pace as last year spoiled 



the records of its predecessors. Steadily, notwithstand- 



"There is a tide 



in the affairs 



of men" 



ing all the business depression, has our profession been 

 advancing in numbers, and in intelligence and business 

 capacity, individually and collectively. "We have better 

 greenhouse and nursery equipment today than ever be- 

 fore; finer stock and more of it will be grown this 

 season than ever before, and he who plans to hold his 

 relative position with his fellows must take all these 

 facts into the reckoning. The distance between top- 

 grade and lowest grade stock grows wider and wider and 

 in like manner, as the standard advances the gap grows 

 also hot ween the men who handle the stock — between 

 the man who goes in bound to surpass and the laggard 

 who knows nothing beyond old conditions and old ways. 

 Where do you get on? 



The complainants against the 

 The attitude of alleged discrimination by the 



the express companies Express Companies in hand- 

 ling flower shipments made 

 out a good case at the hearing in the S. A. F. Conven- 

 tion and we believe that, especially as regards the heavy 

 charges for ice used in packing flowers, the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission will look upon the complaint 

 as a just one. It has been predicted that the Express 

 Companies would take every possible opportunity to 

 punish the florist trade for their audacity in demanding 

 and their sitccess in getting relief last year from the 

 retaliatory oppression from which one section of the 

 country was suffering and recent developments would 

 seem to indicate the fulfillment of the prediction. How- 

 ever nobody should lose any sleep in worrying over this 

 11 n [lending danger. The argument that it is better to 

 -11 l.mit to abuse rather than incur greater severity by 

 resistance is not worthy of attention. When convinced 

 of the justice of one's case such timidity is little short 

 of cowardice. That the Express Companies are con- 

 scious of their own weak position is evidenced in the 

 lame and almost childish excuses they fall back upon. 

 Insist on a "square deal." 



So unmistakable has been the advantage 

 "Standard" to the trade in the general use of the 

 flower pots standard flower pot adopted by the So- 

 ciety of American Florists some twenty 

 years ago that it is greatly to be regretted that certain 

 manufacturers, especially in the West, have begun to 

 work from special moulds' of varying pattern, as was 

 stated at the Niagara Falls Convention. If, as is main- 

 tained by some plant growers, the Standard Pot is 

 clumsy and hard to use in decorative work and hence 

 open to improvement in one or more respects it might 

 be well for a special committee to take up the subject 

 and gather all possible information and suggestions 

 from those who have been using the pots to any ex- 

 tent. Then if it should appear that there is a general 

 desire for modification in the adopted patterns the 

 Society and the manufacturers can govern themselves 

 accordingly. Moulds are expensive and the potteries 

 are not likely to change them very often and then only 

 on the urgent demand of their customers. Once a pat- 

 tern becomes generally acceptable to the growers it is 

 hardly probable that any manufacturer will be so rash 

 as to persist in turning out odd goods and the fact that 

 this is being done would seem to indicate that the grow- 

 ers are not all agreed as to the present standard. 



