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HORTICULTURE, 



October 31, 1MUS 



horticulture: 



TOL. VIII 



OCTOBER 31, 1908 



NO. 18 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Coliseum. Chicago. 

 ROCKY MOl'NTAIN RAMBLES— L. H. Pammel— Illus- 

 trated 569 



TREE TALKS— Jackson Dawson 569 



EARLY FLOWERING CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Wm, McM. 



Brown . 57" 



FERTILIZERS— Dudley M. Pray 571 



NEWS OF THE CI. CBS AND SOCIETIES: 



National Chrysanthemum Society — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America — Minnesota State Flor- 

 ists' Association — Boston Co-operative Flower 



('■rowers' Association — Club and Society Notes... 574 



Spokane Interstate Fair — Illustrated 575 



Coming ©vents 576 



OBITUARY: 



George I. Evans — Mrs, George Yantz— Mrs. Marj 



E. Johnston — Gilbert Rogers — Gustav Harrison... 579 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Berry Globes— Robert Kit't— Illustrated 582 



New Retail Flower Stores 5S3 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore. Boston. Chicago, Louisville, Philadel- 

 phia, Twin Cities, Washington 585 



New York 587 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Local Exhibitions 575 



Washington Chrysanthemum Shows 576 



Zinnia Red Riding Hood 576 



Chrysanthemum Indiana 576 



A Pittsburgh Show Place — Jas. Hutchinson 576 



Philadelphia Notes 577 



News Notes 577-8 



Cypripedium Actauis Bianca — Illustrated 577 



An Exaggerated Report— G C. W 577 



A Serviceable Tree Stand— Illustrated 578 



A Great Retail Florist Establishment— Illustrated 57S 



Publications Received 580 



Catalogues Received 580 



Chicago Plant Notes 581 



Plant Imports 581 



New Steamship Line from Japan 581 



Business Changes 583 



Personal 585 



A New Chicago Enterprise 592 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 594 



Patents Granted 594 



Incorporated 594 



declare the rales demanded by these companies Eor the 

 transportation of goods between Boston and the cities 

 and towns within a radius of fifty miles to be "exces 

 -i\i and unreasonable.'' The railroad commissioners in 

 their report give adequate reasons for their decision, 

 The territory within fifty miles of the State House in 

 Boston contains three million inhabitants. The Amer- 

 ican Express C pany, which is not a corporation but 



a form of partnership, has absorbed within twenty-five 

 years the express business of about twenty corpora- 

 tions, linns and individuals doing business in Massa- 

 chusetts and also controls the National Express Com- 

 pany. It appears that the gross amount invested in the 

 conduct of the business of the two companies in Massa- 

 chusetts is only about $000,000, more than half of which 

 is invested in stables and the major portion of the bal- 

 ance in horses and wagons. Little, if any credit is 

 extended and the risk involved in the conduct of the 

 business is small. 



.lust what action the express monopoly 



Organization w m take in the face of this verdict is 



a formidable 110 t yet apparent. Unfortunately the 



weapon State Board is not invested with the 



power to name and compel a rate which 



they believe to be just and reasonable as is the case with 



the Interstate Commerce Commission, but that power 



can be given by the people and probably will be if the 



warning is ignored. In the face of such a powerful 



monopoly the individual who feels their oppression 



stands little show for redress if he goes it alone, but 



the power of organized protest cannot be over-estimated 



and with the example of what was accomplished in the 



name of the Society of American Florists last year the 



florists of Massachusetts who have been complaining of 



the excessive transportation rates they have had to pay 



to get their product to market need not throw up their 



hands and stand helpless while they have clubs and 



societies whose business it is to take aggressive action 



on these things which so vitallv concern their members. 



After a full investigation of the 



Express subject of express charges the 



charge's "excessive Massachusetts railroad commis- 



and unreasonable" sioners lind no justification for the 



increase of rates by the American 



and National express companies in February last, and 



A huge monopoly. 



its methods 



and the lesson 



Let no one take the foolish posi- 

 tion which some selfishly blind' 

 S. A. F. members assumed at the 

 time of the tussle with the United 

 States Express Company, to wit. 

 that these aluises are only local and it is no part of the 

 outsider's business to concern himself so long as it is 

 •'not his ox that is gored." Depend upon it every ship- 

 per in even seel under the domination of any one of 



the big companies is slated for his share of the imposi- 

 tion in due time if the initial efforts arc allowed to 

 slide through unopposed. How closely the affairs and 

 operations of all the companies are interwoven may 

 perhaps lie better understood after reading the follow- 

 ing extract from a recent statement by the New York- 

 Public Service Commission: 



"It appears that the Adams Express Company holds 

 $906 ni'iO of the $10,000,000 of stock issued by the United 



