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HORTICULTURE 



December 26, 1908- 



horticulture: 



vol. VIII DECEMrthR 26. 1908 HO. 26 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Chicago Floral Establish- 

 lishment. 



ANGRAECUMB— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 861 



TREE TALKS— Jackson Dawson 863 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Nassau County Horticultural Society — American 

 Rose Society— Elmer D. Smith, Portrait— Western 

 Association of Nurserymen— American Carnation 



Society — Society of Iowa Florists 864 



Society of American Florists— Violet Growers' 

 Mutual Association — Toledo Florists' Club — James 



Robertson, Portrait— Club and Society Notes 865 



Paris Autumn Show— C. Harman Payne 866 



LIME-SULPHUR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR BOR- 

 DEAUX MIXTURE— H. A. Aldrich 868 



OBITUARY: 



Charles Baltet— F. M. Strong— Hugh Mehorter— 

 Isabella Lilley— George Kahles— E. D. Spaulding. . 869 



TO SAVE THE PHOSPHATES— H. C. Rizer. 871 



SEED TRADE: 



American Seed Trade Association— Bulb Growing 



in Santa Cruz 872 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Chicago Holiday Window Displays— Steamer De- 

 partures—New Retail Flower Stores 874 



A Chicago Floral Establishment — Chicago Retail 

 Notes 875 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, 



Toledo, Twin Cities, Washington 877 



New York • 879 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



National Apple Show 865 



A Fruit Exhibit at Boston— Illustrated 867 



Floricultural Education at Amherst 868 



News Notes 869-870 



Philadelphia Personal and Business Notes 870 



Personal 870 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 871 



[ncorporati d 871 



Catalogues Received S73 



Business Changes 877 



A Caricature 877 



Patents Granted 885 



Th. largest apple exhibition in 



Booming the fruit the world's history closed recently 



industry a t Spokane, Washington. Council 



Bluffs, Mo.,, has just been through 



the excitements of tin i horticultural congress 



ever held," and St. Joseph, .Mo., not to be outdone an- 



nounces for next winter ''the greatest horticultural con- 

 gress ever held in the west."" All of which goes to show 

 i Inii orcharding is beginning to assume an importance 

 in the west little realized by anyone who has not been 

 u;ii, hing dculopineiits closely. We look to see it grow 

 in volume and intensity for the passion for horticulture, 

 once well started) is wonderfully prolific and all must 

 agree thai the results will be good — good for the west, 

 good for the east, good for the whole world and good for 

 the besl avocal ion open to mankind. 



This is Horticdltcre's last word for 

 1908 good-bye 1908. For many of our readers the 



year about to pass into history has 

 been one of apprehension and disappointment. In com- 

 mon with other business interests, everyone engaged in 

 horticultural pursuits has felt in greater or less degree, 

 the pinch of financial stringency and the burden of bus- 

 iness depression and enforced retrenchment. Yet with 

 all this cloud upon its record we must admit that 1908 

 has not been wholly bad and that it should be credited 

 ■with the fact that in its latter weeks, conditions have 

 shown a gratifying improvement, and its passing away 

 is with a kindly benediction and unmistakable signs of 

 returning prosperity. We do not need to tell our readers 

 that Horticulture has more than held its own through- 

 out the period of general adversity, for the evidences are 

 plainly written in its well-filled advertising pages, which 

 bear witness to the fact that the business interests are 

 wide awake to the purchasing power behind its excellent 

 circulation. Our friends far and near have not been 

 slow to repeatedly express their approval of Horticult- 

 ure's course on questions of vital interest to the trade 

 as these have come up from time to time. So it is with a 

 feeling of grateful satisfaction that we pen these final 

 lines for the volume which closes with this issue. 



Communications have recently been 

 Where reform is received at this office in numbers 

 demanded sufficient to indicate beyond a ques- 



tion of doubt that shippers, large 

 and small, are rapidly nearing the limit of endurance 

 under the treatment accorded them by the freight and 

 express transportation companies. Documentary proofs 

 of over-weighing, over-charging and falsifying have been 

 shown us which, on a bare statement, we could hardly 

 have given credence to. Delays, rough handling and 

 breakage seem io be a daily experience with those who 

 aiv constantly shipping goods, and it is alleged that 

 complaints are shelved or held up for months regardless 

 of all appeals. On top of it all. rates are advanced at 

 will and the contention which some of our correspond- 

 i 'Hi- make, that the attitude of the railroads and express 

 companies towards the public of late is actuated by 

 motives in which resentment figures strongly, would 

 seem to be pretty well supported by pertinent facts. A 

 measure of relief is looked for in the proposed Parcels 

 Tost Bill, but even that will be of little help to the gen- 

 eral shipping trade unless its scope is extended very 

 much beyond its provisions as now contemplated. In 



