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HORTICULTURE 



November 21, 190S 



horticulture: 



TOL. VIII 



NOVEMBER 21, 1908 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Chrysanthemum William 



Duckham. 

 THE TREE BUYER— Luke J Doogue— Illustrated. . 669 



TREE TALKS— Jackson Dawson 670 



LAELIO - CATTLEYA DIGBYANA - MENDELLII - 



James Hutchinson — Illustrated 671 



NATURALIZATION OF FLOWERS— Wm. MeM. 



Brown 671 



DURING RECESS: 



The New York Florists' Club Smoker — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Bowling at Astoria 673 

 THE EXHIBITIONS: 



National Flower Show— Visit to Poehlmann's. . . '17 » 



Florists' Club of Washington 674 



New Haven County Horticultural Society— New 

 Jersey Floricultural Society — New Orleans 



Horticultural Society '. 675 



New York Horticultural Society— Rhode Island 

 Horticultural Society— Supplementary Awards 

 at Philadelphia Show— Worcester County Horti- 

 cultural Society — Mt. Kisco Show 676 



Lenox Horticultural Society— A Notable Event 



for 1910— Local Flower Shows 677 



Coming Events 678 



NOTES ON CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Edwin Jenkins. 678 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society — 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island — 

 North Shore Horticultural Society — Springfield 



(O.) Florists' Club 679 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— St. 



Louis Florist Club 680 



Mass. Horticultural Society — Notes 681 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 682 



OBITUARY— Joseph Bradford— Mrs. Ida S. H. Gor 

 man — Dr. James Fletcher — George M. Kellogg 



portrait— Mrs. P. M. R. Pierson 682 



SEED TRADE — New Freight Rate on Japan Bulbs- 

 Change of Partnership 684 



Reliability of American Sweet Pea Trade 685 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New York Retail Florists Organize— 'Steamer 



Departures — New Retail Flower Stores 686 



A New York Celebrity — Illustrated 687 



FLOWER M \RKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit. Phila., Pittsh'g 689 



New York 691 



MISCEL1 AXE' 



Propagating Whitmanii Ferns — Planting Holly- 

 hocks and Montbretias— Ruffled Gladioli — Keep 

 Pegging Awn Pro perity Starts — Movements 

 of Gardeners- Personal -Notes from the Rockies 673 



Chrysanthemum P Taft— Illustration 678 



Catalogues Received 678 



Pittsburg Notes 682 



News Notes 687-689-698 



Business Changes 687 



Philadelphia Notes 689 



Greei 3 Building: — Patents Granted 698 



■I 'ill whirl) a i) OUT 



An orchid g 0( am ,,i t j,, .,,]: exhibition 



exhibition. ,,. which is to be held at Boston 



iii thi - of L!>10 should focus the 



■ hid Eanciers and o I specialists in this 



count iv and abroad on this event which', as proposed, 

 will be unprecedented in magnitude in this country. 

 As all know, the orchid has made remarkable strides 

 within a few years and while it has firmly retained its 

 position as the mosi precious floral possession of nobility 

 and wealth it litis also been broughl within the reach 

 of the commercial florist and his appreciative patrons in 

 all important (enter- in tin. country where the use of 

 these flowers, in the many lovel] species already avail- 



able, is recoerni 



ing to floral decorative work a 



refined beauty unattainable by an\ other mean-. 



li appear- to be generally ac- 

 chicago for the next C epted thai the National 

 National Flower Flower Show which closed last 



Show. Saturday night was a success 



in all thai word can reasonably 

 be expected to imply, taking all the circumstances into 

 consideration. Chicago proved equal to the occasion 

 and the wisdom of the selection of that city as the 

 place in which to pull off the first National Flower 

 Show has been well confirmed. Why is not Chicago the 

 besl location for the second National Flower Show 

 which is already talked about? It is central, enthusi- 

 astic and, so far as we know, has never had a spring 

 show of any great magnitude and undoubtedly the same 

 elements and conditions which insured the success of 

 the first will be equally or even more effective in a 

 sec 1. Weak spots in the handling of the recent show- 

 will have been located and strengthened and from every 

 important standpoint Chicago is the logical conclusion. 

 Eeports front widely separated 

 Striking the right sources are generally favorable as 

 chord, regards attendance and general 



public interest in the flower shows 

 this season. Whether this means simply a transient 

 whim in the public fancy or something more permanent 

 will appear in due time. We are inclined to the belief, 

 however, that the gain is due in some degree to a better 

 understanding of the public's disposition on the part of 

 those at the helm in the management of these ex- 

 hibition enterprises. Thus the lessons of the past have 

 not been without their salutary effect and the conviction 

 has been driven home where it was most needed, that 

 the public's standard and the gardener's standard of 

 what constitutes an interesting exhibition are often dis- 

 tinctly different. The more thoroughly this fact is ap- 

 preciated and acted upon the better will be the treas- 

 urer's report when the day for settlement comes and the 

 less complaint we shall hear of public indifference. 



We have heard much favorable com- 

 A commendable m ent on the sentiments expressed by 

 suggestion. President-Elect Valentine at the 

 banquet in the Chicago Auditorium 

 last week suggesting that men of wealth should be 

 encouraged to provide means for the study of 

 plant life and floriculture in schools and col- 

 leges. That the instilling into the minds of 

 the young a better knowledge of and familiarity 

 with flowers would act as a valuable refining and 

 civilizing influence of far-reaching effect cannot be ques- 

 i. There ari ■> more philanthropic and al- 

 together worth} objects to which endowments can be 

 i rees, plants and flowers is one 

 with affection for home and for humanity, compatible 

 only with sweetness of character and the highest ideals 

 of happy living. This is an influence which is destined 

 to be more generally recognized than it has been and Mr. 

 Valentine will find not only the S. A. F. and the ele- 

 ment- it represents but the general public by a large 

 irity ready to endorse and applaud any movement 

 on the lines suggested in bis very timely remarks. 



