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HORTICULTURE 



April 11, 1908 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII 



APRIL 11, 1908 



NO. 15 



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CONTENTS 



Page. 

 CX)VER DESIGN— Easter, i9(iS. 

 FLORA'S HARBINGERS OF SPRING— Robert 0am- 



eron— IlhistratPd 471 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 472 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rebder 473 



PINTS PONDEROSA— C. S. Harrison 47:! 



RHODODENDRONS— Wm. McM. Brown— lllustvated. . 475 

 NARCIPSI AND DAFFODILS— Kenneth Pinlayson. . . . 477 



TWO GOOD ANNUAL CHR YS.A.NTHKMUMS 477 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Floi ists — New .Tersey Flori- 

 cultural Society — Detroit Florists' Club — Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York — Winnipeg Florists' 



Association 478 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Southampton Hor- 

 ticultural Society— New Bedford Hort'i Society. . 479 



Club and Society .Votes 496 



OBITUARY: 



Warren Ewell, portrait — Charles Ingram — William 

 GrifEn, portrait — Mrs. Bernard Beers — John David- 

 san — George O'Biien — Samuel Gass — Christopher 



Hans^OfJten 480 



HORTICTTLTTIRE AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 



—Illustrated 480 



SOME NEW THINGS IN AN OLD COUNTRY— J. Otto 



Thilow, portrait 481 



THE CITY BEAUTIFUL— Mrs. E, S. Walker 482 



PROPER SIZE OF A COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSE 



— W. H. Elliott 4S;; 



SMALL FRUITS— Wilfrid Wheeler 4S4 



SEED TR.ADE 488 



The Mann Bill — Government Seed Laboratory 48S 



MORE ABOUT FORMOSA LILIES— Illustrated. .".... . 490 



POT ROSES FOR EASTER— Robert Craig 494 



PICKED UP BY "WIRELESS" 195 



THE ROSE FROM A RETAILERS VIEW— J. F. Sul- 

 livan 497 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Simplicity and Harmony, Illustrated — Easiter Sug- 

 gestions '. 502 



Easter Prospects — New Retail Flower Stores 50:J 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, 



Philadelphia, Winnipeg 507 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



National Apple Show IbO 



Best Ten Outdoor Rhododendrons 480 



H. P. Rose Marshall P. Wilder— Illustration 483 



Florists' Hail Association 486 



Publications Received 487 



Catalogues Received — List of Patents 488 



U. S. Appraisers' Decision 490 



A New Factor in the Plant Trade 496 



Personal 499 



News Notes 499-503-507 



Plant Imports 500 



Incorporated— Business Changes .504 



A Liberal Ofter 504 



The Glass Marlcet 516 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 516 



Colored Plate •w^ith This Issue 



Again, Easter is with us — its inseparable 

 Seasonable worries and misgivings increased by the 

 good wishes peculiar conditions prevalent in this dis- 

 turbed year. In this, Hokticultuhe's 

 fourth annual Easter number, we extend to the florist 

 trade, so indispensable to the proper observance of 

 this vernal holiday, and to the seed and nursery trade 

 without W'liose aid the people's spring would lose much 

 of its chann, our' earnest liope that the season may be 

 in the fullest degree a joyous one for them, yielding 

 profit and encouragement beyond anything experienced 

 in the past. To the large and ever increasing number 

 ivho have given us their support as subscribers and ad- 

 vertisers through the trying season just passed, we feel 

 deeply grateful. For those who have seen fit to use the 

 columns of this special issue to bring the attention 

 of our readers to their spring offers we solicit the patron- 

 age of all who are pleased to see Horticultdre flourish. 

 We know that the most enterprising and honorable firms 

 in American horticulture are represented in our list 

 of advertisers. Eead what they have to say. 



When Eichmond first came upon the 



Position scene the prediction that it would in time 



fairly won supplant Liberty as a popular commercial 



cut flower was received with more or less 

 doubt. That it would put even American Beauty upon 

 the defensive was, however, something that its most 

 ardent admirers did not dream of. Yet it has done so 

 as flori.sts coining in contact with discriminating buyers 

 will testi fy and as is realized by those who have at- 

 tended recent exhibitions and have made due use of eyes 

 and ears. In fact, Richmond and Killarney, represent- 

 ing the highest development in rose growing in two 

 continents up to the present time, seem now in a way 

 to put all the favorite florist roses of yesterday into the 

 background for good and to be practically the pioneers 

 of a new generation of roses for a new generation of 

 buyers, different in standard of tyjie from any that 

 have gone before. The advent of these superb varie- 

 ties has injected new life into all departments of com- 

 mercial rose industry and there is a certain satisfaction 

 in knowing that neither one of them came into being 

 through chance or haphazard experiment btit were in 

 each instance the product of long continued effort on 

 well considered hnes. 



Having enjoyed opportunity on 

 An opportunity several past occasions to see what 

 neglected the Chicago retail florists are capa- 



ble of doing in the way of table, 

 drawing room and boudoir floral adornment 

 we were much disappointed over the .omission at 

 tlie recent exhibition of the American Eose So- 

 ciety of any provision for displays of the decora- 



