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HORTI CULTURE 



March 28, i90S 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII MARCH 28, 1908 NO. 13 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE — August Poelhmann, portrait 



ECHINOPS— Richard Rothe— Illustrated 401 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rehder 401 



BRITISH HORTICUI^TURE— W. H. Adsett 403 



THE PRESENT CARE OF THE HERBACEOUS 



BORDER— Fredericlv J. Rea 403 



SPRING SHOW AT BOSTON— Illustrated 404 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 



The Annual Meeting — President's Address 406 



Secretary's Report — Treasurer's Report 407 



Thursday Morning Session^ — Buffalo the Next 

 Meeting Place— The Election of Officers— The 



Exhibition 408 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SO.CIETIES 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Society 

 of American Florists — New Haven County Horti- 

 cultural Society — American Society of Park Super- 

 intendents — Florists' Hail Association — -Chicago 



Florists' Club 408 



National Horticultural Society of France — Na- 

 tional Chrysanthemum Society of England 409 



Club and Society Notes 421 



OBITUARY— William H. Spooner, portrait— J. M. 

 Gasser. portrait — E. J. Castle — John Moller — 

 C. T. C. Deake — James P. H. Ruth— E. D. Darling- 

 ton — Joseph Kaiser — Alfred Hildred 409 



SOME NEW THINGS IN AN OLD COUNTRY— 



J. Otto Thilow 410 



SEED TRADE 414 



LIBRARY NOTES— C. Harman Payne 416 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS 



Chicago — Detroit — New Retail Flower Stores 418 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Twin 



Cities, Washington 421 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Perkins Seedlings to be Propagated 405 



Plant Imports 412 



Catalogues Received 414 



Trip to the Ghent Quinquennial 415 



A Great Aster 418 



Incorporated 418 



News Notes 418, 419, 421 



Business Changes 419 



Personal 419 



Notes from Twin Cities 421 



During Recess 421 



List of Patents 429 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 430 



We present in this issue the first install- 

 A story ment of the delightful account of a brief 

 well told European trip, read before the Philadel- 



plua Florists' Club by J. Otto Thilow. It 

 was our purpose, owng to the length of the paper and 

 our limited space to exercise our editorial prerogative 

 and, selecting some of the most interesting points 

 touched upon by ilr. Thilow, make a summary which 

 would come within our limits but found ourselves so 

 absorbed in the story so entertainingly told that we 



hadn't the heart to do any dissecting and concluded 

 that after perusing it our readers would agree with 

 us that we had made good use of our space in giving 

 them Mr. Thilow's observations practically as presented 

 by him to the Philadelphia club. 



In liability to criticism the reporter 



Reporting the stands a good second to the judges in 



exhibition dealing with the exhibitors at a large 



show. Woe be unto him who in his 

 story of the exhibits and the awards inadvertently over- 

 looks an item, however small. In fact, the small con- 

 tributor is the more exacting. But, as all newspaper 

 men know, it is a question how far it is wise to try to 

 go in the publication of unimportant items in awards, 

 etc., which contain nothing of general interest. Just 

 why, for instance, a man would feel slighted because 

 of omission to record the fact that he had been given a 

 third prize, is rather hard to understand; to the unini- 

 tiated it would seem that he should be grateful if ac- 

 corded obscurity under such conditions. But large 

 exhibitions are coming with increasing frequency, while 

 the problem of stretching paper pages still remains un- 

 solved in the editorial cloister and while this fact re- 

 mains we hope that forgiveness and free absolution will 

 not be witliheld from the man with the scissors. 



Many an anxious business man is wishing to- 

 The day that he could peer into the future and 

 remedy have some foreknowledge of how the com- 

 mercial situation will shape up for the com- 

 ing season. That we are only entering upon the be- 

 ginning of a year's business depression in horticultural 

 industries is a view one hears frequently expressed by 

 men whose ^ride experience and keen instincts entitle 

 them to something more than a mere hearing. These 

 observers tell us that we need look for little im- 

 provement in trade conditions imtil after the approach- 

 ing political contest has been settled. On the other hand 

 we find some — but we confess they are in the minority — 

 who point to the fact of our great agricultural pros- 

 perity, our unlimited resources and who draw from this 

 and other premises the reassuring sequence of returning 

 confidence and reviving activity. No doubt, if there 

 was less pessimistic talk, prosperity would be more 

 quickly achieved, for there is no question that a restora- 

 tion of the good times of a year ago rests mainly with 

 ourselves. Depressing expressions and gloomy fore- 

 bodings do much to aggravate and prolong dullness. A 

 gleam of light indicative of the dawn of a brighter day 

 has already come from the seedsmen who report trade 

 better than they had expected it to be and actually 

 showing a substantial gain over last year. For the nur- 

 serymen we predict a like experience. The country was 

 never more solvent than it is today and the majority of 

 the nurseryman's patrons will order their regular quota 

 of stock for ornamental as well as for economic pur- 

 poses — possibly more of the latter. The florist, too, 

 will have his share, for his products have now become a 

 necessity with most of the people. Fortunately for all 

 those who deal in goods horticultural, the existence of 

 such a paper as Hoeticulture affords an unexcelled 

 means of promoting business, accelerating the move- 

 ment of material and providing every one with some- 

 thing to do, through a liberal use of the cheap but poten- 

 tial medium for wide publicity afforded by its advertis- 

 ing columns. In other words, Horticulture's pre- 

 scription for this business interruption is, Advertising, 

 in big and frequent doses. The time has really come for 

 us to resume our normal course. 



