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HO KTI CU LTU RE. 



December 5, 1908 



horticulture: 



prise as marking the beginning of a new epoch in the 

 culture and marketing of the king of fruits. 



VOL. VJJI 



DECEMBER 5, 1908 



NO. 23 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Young Apple Trees. 



GRAPES UNDER GLASS— Robert E. Ballantyne— 

 Illustrated 737 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 738 



BUFFALO'S UNIQUE FLOWER SHOW 739 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 741 



CARE OF STRAWBERRIES IN WINTER— Wilfrid 

 Wheeler 741 



GROWING ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS FROM 

 FRONDS— W. R. Pierson 741 



DEFORMED BRIDE ROSES— Alex. Montgomery 741 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Baltimore — Society of 

 American Florists — Florists' Club of Washington 

 — Chrysanthemum Society of America — The Min- 

 nesota State Florists Association — New Orleans 



Horticultural Society 742 



New York and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers — Los Angeles Florist Club — Florist Club 

 of Philadelphia — American Carnation Society — 

 Club and Society Notes 743 



OBITUARY — Louis E. Marquisee, portrait — John 

 Archer — A. L. Black 744 



THE KING OF FRUITS 744 



A SCHULTHEIS CHRISTMAS SPREAD— Illustrated 746 

 trated 746 



SEED TRADE '. 748 



Notes on the Next Crop of Bermuda Onion Seed 

 Grown in Teneriffe ' 748 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Retail Flower Store — Steamer Departures — 

 Business Changes 750 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia. Twin 



Cities 753 



Detroit, New York. Washington 755 



M1SCELI ANKOUS: 



Local Flower Shows 739 



Coming Events 739 



Dianthus Napoleon III.— G. C. W 741 



Ellwanger & Barry's Fruit Exhibit at New York 



State Fair— Illustrated 743 



Philadelphia Notes 746 



In Bankruptcy 751 



News Notes 751 



Personal 751 



New Heating Apparatus 762 



We congratulate our far away western 



The national fellow horticulturists on the splendid 



apple show enterprise and enthusiasm evidenced in 



the preparations for the great Apple 



Exposition which opens at Spokane, Washington, next 



week. Every feature is planned on a Male befitting the 



occasion and we have no doubt the response from far 



and near will be of a character to stamp this great enter- 



Our cover illustration speaks for itself. 

 Even the plainsman used to handling ex- 

 clusively the choicest of Nature's purely 

 ornamental product will look a second 

 time at the picture and acknowledge the beauty of the 

 subject. We are glad to present it to our readers as 

 showing what our western friends have on which to 

 base their faith in the greatness of their horticultural 

 future. But, fortunately for us all, the apple in its 

 many varieties cares nothing for latitude and not much 

 about longitude and the picture reproduced in our illus- 

 tration is not an impossibility in any part of our coun- 

 try excepting perhaps the extreme southern portion. At 

 the recent conference of New England governors at Bos- 

 ton Prof. John Craig spoke of "New England's Oppor- 

 tunity in Orchards" and did not hesitate to say that the 

 people of this section were culpably neglectful of the 

 opportunities at hand for profitable fruit growing on 

 their thousands of acres of idle land well adapted to 

 the production of the finest apples in the world. West- 

 ern growers, however, have nothing to fear from any 

 eastern awakening, however great, for, as has been well 

 said, it will, in fact, never be possible to produce the 

 quantity of first-class apples requisite to meet the world- 

 wide demand. 



Among seedsmen, nurserymen and flor- 

 Tariff revision ists, wherever an expression of prefer- 

 ence has been elicited, there appears to 

 be a general sentiment in favor of specific duties in place 

 of the ad valorem tariff on horticultural products which 

 has been a source of continual vexation, annoyance and 

 misunderstanding. The nurserymen have been repre- 

 sented by an influential committee before the Ways and 

 Means Committee at the hearing on tariff revision and 

 the seedsmen are in readiness to present their views. 

 Whether the S. A. F. committee has taken any action 

 we do not know but at the various conventions of that 

 body the topic has been frequently aired and the present 

 opport unity to go on record where it may amount to 

 something should not be neglected. So far as we have 

 been able to judge there is no clamor for abolition of 

 duties where such exist or even for reduction. The 

 amount collected under a specific tax may be as large in 

 the aggregate but what the importer desires to escape 

 is the hardship of delays, penalties and other burdens 

 incident to the operation of the present system and we 

 have reason to believe that the change to specific duties 

 would be equally welcomed by the collector's and 

 appraiser's department. A tax of one dollar a hundred 

 on lilies, two dollars on tulips -"nd four on hyacinths a 

 thousand, for instance, while not likely to reduce the sum 

 total of amount collected would eliminate most of the 

 hardships and abuses that have been complained of un- 

 der the present tariff. Verification of count would be the 

 only formality required and delays in delivery would be 

 at an end. The immediate effect of such an arrangement 

 would be to promote the importation of a better quality 

 of goods and discourage the bringing in of inferior 

 grades of stock. If. on top of this reform we could have 

 a substantia] License fee collected from every itinerant 

 salesman sent over here, thus compelling foreign houses 

 to maintain residenl representatives in this country, the 

 bulb and nursery stock business would be placed on a 

 much more satisfactory footing and we believe the for- 

 eign dealers would also find it more profitable in the end. 



