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HORTICULTURE 



February 1, 190S 



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FEBRUARY 1, 1908 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— Marcellus A. Patten, President-elect 

 American Carnation Society— Portrait. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MILDEW— R. L. Adams 133 



PEACHES UNDER GLASS— James Wheeler 133 



ASPERULA— David Miller 1^3 



NOVELTIES AT WA-NO-KA GREENHOUSES— Illus- 

 trated 1>^5 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



Opening Session— President's Address 13ti 



Secretary's report 137 



The Judges' report— Wednesday's Session— Charles 



McCauley , Portrait 138 



Thursday's Session— Mrs. A. M. Herr, Portrait— 



Briefly fold— Marcellus A. Patten 139 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Society of American Florists 140 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society— Detroit Flor- 

 ist Club— Louisiana State Horticultural Society— 

 St. Louis Horticultural Society — Lenox Horticul- 

 tural Society — Twin City Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club — American Rose Society 141 



Club and Society Notes 142 



Park and Forestry Association 157 



SEED TRADE 142 



American Seed Trade Association 142 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, 

 Twin Cities 14» 



OBITUARY 



Wm. H. Ford— J. F. Noll— James Henry Durkee— 

 Simon Held— Christopher H. Shaffer 156 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 135 



Canadian Postage Discussion. . a 140 



Catalogues Received 143 



Incorporated 143 



News Notes 146 



Fire Record 147 



Business Changes 147 



New Retail Stores 147 



Philadelphia Notes 149 



List of Patents 157 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 157 



Horticulture Society at Wellesley — Illustrated 157 



It is hard to comprehend the flower 

 Costly grower who, having turned out a credit- 

 carelessness able product, handles it as he would any 

 old rubbish. While this abuse ib less 

 frequent than it was a few years ago yet one does not 

 have to look far in the wholesale markets to find good 

 roses, lilies and similar things giving evidence of care- 

 less, rough handling and packing, sufficient to reduce 

 their selling value one-half or even much more — some- 



times almost the entire value wiped out by bruising and 

 tearing. It is a fact that those establishments known 

 to receive the highest market returns for their product 

 give the greatest of care to the time and method of 

 dandling and shipping and that the beautiful condition 

 in wliich their goods reach the consumer is due in no 

 small degree to this attention. The percentage of profit 

 on cut flower growing at the present time is not so 

 large that one can safely take the chance of carelessness 

 in any of the processes througli which his produce must 

 pass to get to the hands of the consumer. 



The position taken by President 

 A broad gauge Lemon in his address to the Carna- 

 course tion Society as to what the certifi- 



cates of the Society do and do 

 not stand for is logical and provides a verj' 

 safe mooring for the organization on this treach- 

 erous question. As advanced in our editorial last 

 week the qualities that go to make a carnation 

 a commercial success, from tlie cut flower trade 

 standpoint, are not always demonstrable on tlic ex- 

 hiliition tal)le and the Society does well to place itself 

 on record to this effect. The propensity to pronounce 

 varieties '"worthless,"" on the one side because tliey do 

 not size up to the exhibition scale of points or, on the 

 other side, because they prove unprofitable commercially, 

 has been indulged in perhaps too much. Mr. Lemon is 

 right, everlastingly right, in advocating the utmost 

 freedom in the admission of the products of the mem- 

 bers of the society to the exhibition table. The judges 

 will quickly decide as to their worth or worthlessness as 

 measured by the exhibition standard and the trade may 

 have a word to say. later on, from a quite different view- 

 point. 



.^notixer praiseworthy recommenda- 

 To demonstrate tion by President Lemon is the sug- 

 decorative value gestion that the American Carnation 



Society put into effect some plan for 

 displaying the adaptability of the carnation for vari- 

 ous decorative uses. In this particular all our special 

 societies have been conspicuously remiss. The grower 

 should be the first to demand that this feature be given 

 more attention by those who are entrusted with the pre- 

 [)aring of prize schedules or the management of exhi- 

 bitions. It is well to display to the public the beauti- 

 ful products of the skill of hybridizer and grower but 

 the welfare of these is inseparably woven with the dis- 

 posal of these products after it has left their hands and 

 the mission of the Society in advancing the interests of 

 its members and the art to which they are wedded is 

 only half-accomplished until the ptiblic have been awak- 

 ened to the possibilities in the decorative use of such 

 material. There are other points upon which Mr. 

 Lemon speaks with that wisdom wliich comes only from 

 experience and observation. Altogether we regard it as 

 one of the best papers ever presented before the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society and well-worthy of a careful pe- 

 ru.sal by those who were not present to listen to it. 



