62 horticulture: January 18, 190S 



•Kj ^^ "JJ ^W* ¥ ^^ ¥ T¥ np¥ TlJIi* '^^O'' years made a special study of .this subject fvoin a 



■*• •*• ^^ — practical florists' stand{X)int and present the inforina- 



VOL. VII JANUARY 18, 1908 NO. 3 tion in a quite different style from that followed in the 



' ordinary Experiment Station analyses. At the beoin- 



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COPYRIOHT. 1908, BY HORTICULTURE PUB. CO. possible to get a passable flower has always 



Eniered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass. seemed incomprehensible to US, for there is no incentive 



under the Act o( Congress of March 3, 1879. J^ 



=^ • of price or demand. Quantities of stemless abortive 



CONTENTS flowers prematurely driven out of rootless bulbs are not 



rage 3JJ uncommon sight in the markets at the present time. 

 FRONTISPIECE-Cattleya Percivaliana Alva. 



CYPRIPEDIUM FAIRRIEANUM HYBRIDS— James ^"^ '^^^^ P"°<^ ^^ ^'"'^" ^'^^^ ^^° '^^ ^°'^ ^° ^"*^ ^"^^P 



Hutchison Illustrated ^1 cemetery florists cannot possibly cover more than the 



SALVIA ZURICH— J. L. Schiller tjl hare cash cost of the bulbs and is often less than that. 



THE PAEONY DISEASE— C. Bet-scher 63 ^j^^^ ^^ consider that two or three weeks more allowed 



FERTILIZINCx WHILE WATERING— Dudley M. Pray 63 ^^^^^^ ,^^j^,^g ^^ develop their flowers would have enabled 



NEWS OF THE CLI'BS AND SOCIETIES: ^j^g^^^ ^.p produce something creditable and saleable we 



Gardeners' and Florists' CUib at Boston— St. Louis \ i x '? ii 1. e ^ e i.\ 



Florists' Club-Newport Horticultural Society- are at a loss to understand the wasteful course of the 



Pasadena Gardeners' Association — The Carnation grower who is supposed to do these things for the profit 



Meeting at Washington— Connecticut Horticultural there is in it. 



Society— .A.merican Rose Society 64 



Society of American Florists; The New Directors- At this time, when new officers are begin- 



American Carnation Society — Pittsburgh Florists' m^i,: • j.i ■ j • • j. i- j j „ 



ai^ Gardeners' Club-New Bedford Horticultural ^^^'"^ nmg their administrations and new and am- 



Society— Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 6.5 a record bitious policies are being introduced in our 



New York Florists' Club— New York State Fruit , , i ■ i- n j- 4- -i 



Growers' Association-Nassau County Horticul- clubs and societies an excellent opportunity 



tural Society— Club and Society Notes 66 is ofiEered for society members generally to forget past 



COMPETITION FAIR AND FOUI^S. S. Skidelsky.. 67 differences, drop old iind threadbare controversies and 



MASSACHUSETTS EXPERIMENT ST.A.TION— Wm. .,, -i' li i 4.1 ■ • v 1 • i, t ^ 



p Brooks 68 ""'i^h cordiality and enthusiasm give a helping hand to 



SEED TRADE 70 any movement which promises to promote the pros- 

 European Crop Conditions 70 ^.-^ ^^^^^ usefulness of the organization and help the 



A Maine View on Free Seeds i2 , . , , • , -^ • . , i • 1 ^ , •. 



ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE-Professor Herman objects for which it exists. .\nd right here, it may not 



Beckenstrater 72 be out of place to remind our readers that mere num- 



OBITUARY-Yictor S. Dorval, Portrait-Marston B. ^ g ^^^^ u^t |-,e depended upon as evidence of any 



Bunker— Sol. De La Rosh— Fred Thayer— Mrs. f r j 



Lydia B. Manning 74 great or permanent prosperity in any organization. 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: Some officers rely much upon their success in inducing 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York. . . .1 1 i? j.i • j? • j 



Philadelphia 77 many accessions to the ranks from among their tnends. 



Twin Cities, Washington 84 This may or may not have permanent value according 



CATTLEYA PERCIVALIANA ALVA 84 .,g |.jjg accessions are due to simply the personal popu- 



BOSTON HEAD LETTUCE AT IRONDEQUOIT. N. Y. 1 x j: a- ■ 1 ' ^ e 11 



— H. R Peaohev 85 lantj of an official or mean support tor some well- 



MISCELLANEOUS; planned and far-reaching policy calculated to redound 



News Notes 74-7o ^q ^j^g i^stre of the society and the good of its eonstit- 



Busmess Changes 75 



Personal 84 uency. Presidents are. or should be, chosen for some- 



^r-^^^^T*^ Florist. . — 84 thing more than to sit on a platform and preside at 



The Happy Gardener 84 '^ 



List of Patents 85 meetings and members in electing their fellows to these 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 85 positions of honor and duty should understand that 



New Heating Apparatus 85 ^ .,,.., 



they are themselves assuming other responsibilities than 



We trust every one of our readers who "* ^^P^J' ^^^l^'^^S *° ^^'^ ^^^eetings and participating in 



Intelligent conducts a greenhouse for plants or ^^ g^°^^^l pleasantry, admirable as that undoubtedly 



plant feeding flowers will carefully read the series of '«' ^et us hope that every newly installed officer to- 



articles on the use of fertilizers now gether with those over whom he presides may see to it 



K„;«^ 4. -u 4. J V, -r. 11 nf T. m, i, ■ 1 • that his year IS made notable for some distinct achieve- 



bemg contributed by Dudley M. Pray. The third m ^^^^^ ^^ '^^-^^ -^ ^^er vears he and his supporters may 



the series appears m this issue. These contributions revert with a proud consciousness that it furni.shes 



are written for Horticulture by a gentleman who has ample justification of his elevation to official honors. 



