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HORTICULTURE: 



October 10, 1908 



horticulture: 



TOL. VIII 



OCTOBER 10, 1908 



NO. 15 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— New Show Dahlia "Dreer's 

 White." 



HORTICULTURE AT THE FRANCO-BRITISH EX- 

 HIBITION— C. Harman Payne 473 



CHRYSANTHEMUM GOLDEN GLOW — William 



Scott 473 



ROSE MRS. JARDINE— Louis J. Reuter— Illustrated 475 



THE NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 475 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Washington — Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America — Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia— Elberon Horticultural Society — Chicago 

 Florists' Club — Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Club and Society Notes 476 



Officers of the Minnesota State Florists' Associa- 

 tion—Illustrated 477 



Coming Events 477 



A RHODE ISLAND INDUSTRY 478 



TENDENCIES IN MODERN LANDSCAPE GARDEN- 

 ING — Translated from Moller's 479 



SCALE OF POINTS FOR FLORAL ARRANGE- 

 MENTS 479 



PITTSBURGH'S CELEBRATION— Illustrated 480 



OBITUARY — George Nicholson. Portrait — Charles 

 Weisbecker — William D. O'Connell — H. R. Akers — 

 Galvin — Gordon Wolf — Julius Schoelner — A Sad 



Fatalitv 481 



SEED TRADE 484 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit. Indianapolis, 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington 489 



New York 491 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Fairs and Neighborhood Shows 477 



An Honor Well Won 477 



Mt. Kisco Fair 477 



An Amherst Show Place 477 



"Texas Heath" as a Florists' Flower — Illustrated 478 



Catalogues Received 478 



Plant Imports 479 



Some More Nonsense 480 



Incorporated 481 



News Notes 482-487 



A New Cut Flower Market 482 



A Useful Device 482 



Patents Granted 482 



New Freight Schedule from Japan 485 



Business Changes 486 



Steamer Departures 486 



Personal 487 



New Retail Flower Stores 487 



Fall Openings 487 



A Department Store Opening 487 



Chicago Plant Market 489 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 498 



In our issue of September 5 there 



A swindle appeared an advertisement in the 



which miscarried name of J. H. Henry, 1157 Myrtle 



Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. The order 



for same had reached us late and one insertion was 



given hurriedly but on after-consideration our sus- 

 picions were aroused and we started an investigation 

 which resulted in our bringing the circumstances to the 

 attention of the Posl Office Inspector at New York and 

 the detention of all the mail addressed to Henry in re- 

 sponse to his advertising in our columns and in those 

 of a contemporary which had declined to join with us 

 in the investigation. Later, all the mail, some of it 

 containing money, was returned to the writers and thus 

 a swindle was nipped in the bud. We arc inclined to 

 the belief that Henry is the same party who worked a 

 similar game last winter under the name of J. Lambert 

 with address at 150 Nassau Street, New York City. If 

 any of our readers can give us any information that 

 will lead to the apprehension of the rascal we shall be 

 duly grateful. 



While on the subject of shady busi- 

 A better uggg operations we might, with pro- 



mercantile priety, call attention to certain other 

 system needed practices which have been the cause 

 of great annoyance from time to 

 time to reputable dealers. There are parties who seem 

 to be in the habit of giving orders for goods, import 

 orders generally, and then after the goods have been 

 shipped to their address and recall is out of the ques- 

 tion cancelling the order with or without explanation. 

 The proper course for the dealer to pursue in such 

 cases is obvious but, unfortunately, methods of proced- 

 ure which have long been the rule in mercantile affairs 

 generally are but scantily observed in commercial hor- 

 ticulture and irregularities such as the above' men- 

 tioned, the giving of overdrawn checks, non-payment of 

 notes, dishonoring of sight drafts and similar lapses 

 which other lines of business would not tolerate, are 

 often condoned and overlooked until our credit system, 

 or rather lack of system, has become such that the aver- 

 age buyer pays his accounts at his own convenience and 

 doesn't always take kindly to any insistence otherwise. 



So strongly entrenched had the lax methods 

 Credit J,, credit-giving become in New York, as 

 control we \] as elsewhere, that when the wholesale 

 ilouer dealers got together last winter and 

 announced their agreement on a definite limit for settle- 

 ments to which all buyers must conform in the future 

 the scheme was derided by many as an impracticability. 

 Had not the wholesalers been driven to desperate action 

 by the untenable position in which they found them- 

 selves it is a question whether the necessary joint-cour- 

 age would have been forthcoming but necessity is an 

 all-powerful incentive and in this instance led on to a 

 course of action which is now acknowledged to have 

 hern one of the best reforms ever sprung upon the 

 florist trade. And, it may be added, the retail trade 

 have accepted the situation and met their imperative ob- 

 ligations in a manner greatly to their credit, thus dem- 

 onstrating how deep-rooted abuses and assumed impos- 

 sibilities may be overcome by determined action. Other 

 interests will do well to emulate the example which the 

 New York wholesalers have set. Shorter and more 

 carefully considered credits will be better for all con- 

 cerned. The retailers, especially as the initial collec- 

 tors of all the money which must pass through their 

 hands to wholesalers and supply dealers and thence to 

 manufacturers and producers, have plenty of room for 

 reform in their own method of collection from society 

 patrons. Here, indeed, lies the foundation of most of 

 tin' trouble. 



