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HORTICULTURE 



March 14, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. VII 



MARCH 14, 1908 



NO. 11 



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^ CONTENTS 



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FRONTISPIECE — Phalaenopsis Aphrodite. 



THE CULTURE OF PHALAENOPSIS— M. J. Pope— 

 IlUistraterl _• 325 



POINTS ON FIELD AND INDOOR CULTURE OF 

 CARNATIONS— Wallace R. Pierson 327 



FASHION IN FLOWERS— Wm. H. Long 327 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 329 



THE "JAPANESE SHAMROCK"— THE IRISH SHAM- 

 ROCK— G. C. Watson 329 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New Jei-sey Florioiiltural Society — North Shoro 

 Horticultural Society — New York Florists' Club — 

 Gardeners' and Floi-ists' Club of Boston — Pittsburg 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Chicago Florists' 



Club 331) 



Florists' Club of Washington — V. H. Kramei'. por- 

 trait 331 



American Rose Society — V/orcesler County Horti- 

 cultural Society 332 



Spring Flower Show — Some Toledo Florists — 

 Southampton Horticultural Society 333 



OBITUARY — Henry F. Rauss — Austin Craig Apgar — 

 Rob't B. Leuchars — Wm. Sabin — Allen Dodge — 

 FYank Cummlngs, Sr. — Prof. Kellerman — John E. 

 Mitchell 333 



THE PRIVATE GARDENER— Roliert Craig 334 



SEED TRADE 338 



Wholesale Seedsmen's League 338 



Plant Imports 339 



Catalogues Received 339 



BY WIRELESS FROM ROBERT CRAIG 340 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS 342 



New Retail Flower Stores 343 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston — Buffalo — Chicago — Detroit — New York — 

 Philadelphia— Twin Cities— Washington 345 • 



SOLUBLE FERTILIZERS— George A. Bishop 353 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Ilex Crosses ? 329 



Some Wise Advice 329 



Carnation Exhibition at (,'nrnpll 337 



Fire Record 337 



Publications Received 337, 353 



Business Changes 343 



Personal 343 



News Notes 343 



Toledo Notes ..." 345 



A Daily Plant Auction 345 



Catalogues Received 3.53 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 354 



List of Patents 354 



HoiiTicuLTUEE's Value to the progressive 

 Reciprocity i-ulturist is well recognized. Advertisers 

 know it and the liberality with which they 

 use its eolunms is good evidence that tliey are aware 

 Ihe ])a]icr is read by the best buying element in the 

 trade. Novertlieless we are far from satisfied. The 

 usefulness of Hokticulture would be vastly increased 

 if every reader would lielp by contributing little items 

 of experiences, the reading of which would help his 

 fellow-grower or dealer, or liy a.sking questions on points 

 concerning which lie himself feels the need of advice. 

 There is an unlimited amount of knowledge and ex- 

 |.ierienee tied up in the heads of gardeners and florists 

 uliieh. if given out freely, wotild be of immense practi- 

 cal benefit to others, yet would worlc no injury to the 

 interests of tlie giver. 



One of the daily pipers expresses regret 

 Vicissitudes at the decadence of the sense of chivalry 

 of Fashion of a generation back when etiquette de- 

 manded that flowers be sent always to a 

 hostess before even the least formal entertainment and 

 ^vhen a debutante had better stay at home than go to a 

 fiall without a bouquet of flowers. We are in full sym- 

 pathy with the sentiments expressed by our contem- 

 porary, and no doubt otir readers will also agree unani- 

 mously. One cannot but wonder where all the flowers 

 which are produced in such overwhelming profusion 

 by the wholesale growers go to, especially when we con- 

 sider how little evidence is in sight as to their use. 

 Perhaps the pendulum may swing back again to the 

 conditions that prevailed years ago and fresh flowers 

 be once more recognized as an indispensable feature of 

 es'ery .social afl'air, large or small. When it does, 

 what a wealth of beauty the flower growers will be able 

 to jilace at the disposal of their jiatrons as compared 

 with the |iroiliictions of the olden time! 



Another glaring manifestation of retro- 



A duty of grcssion and degeneracy is the use of 



every florist artificial plants and flowers for the 



adornment of liotels and other places of 

 public jpsort. .lust lidw far our plant growers and deal- 

 ers are responsible for the existence and prosperity of 

 establishments devoted to the sale of artificial material 

 we shall not attempt»to say. Ft is doubtless true that 

 disheartening experience with plants of delicate texture 

 or unfitted for exposure through overforcing or other 

 imjiroper treatment has had its effect on those who should 

 be buyers of quantities of fresh material but,' whatever 

 the reaf3on may be, the present tendency to indulge in 

 make-believe floral material wlien there is such an 

 abundance of the natural product, calls for deliberate 

 reflection and consideration as to the best means for 

 directing pttblic appreciation on right lin6s and bringing 

 discredit on all forms of hortictiltnral shams. And we 

 might add that so long as the florist trade itself can be 

 caught "with the goods on," in the form of green-dyed 

 carnations or painted cycas leaves it is hardly in posi- 

 tion to do much effective figbtina' on the right side. 



