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HORTICULTURE 



May 2, 190S 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII 



MAY 2, 1908 



NO. 18 



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~ CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Calceolaria hybrida. 



STOCK: queen Alexandra— a Herrlngton— illus- 

 trated 589 



CULTURE OF THE C \LCEOLARIA— H. B. Vyse.... 589 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfre<l 



Rehder 591 



BRITISH HORTICULTl^RE— W. H. Adsett 591 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



American Rose Society— Twin Cities Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club— Society of American Florists- 

 Toledo Florists' Club — Newport Horticultural So- 



cietv— Club and Society Notes 592 



PITT'=;BURG EASTER SHOWS— J. Hutcliinson 593 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— 



Illustrated 593 



PLANT FOODS— George A. Bishop 594 



INFERIOR DUTCH BULBS 594 



SEED TRADE 598 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



T-svin Cities — CMcago Jottings— New Retail Flower 



Stores 602 



FLOAVER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia, Twin Cities, Toledo 605 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publications Received 592 



Improving the Marguerites 593 



A I.euthy— Portrait 594 



Personal 594 



Obituan- 59 1 



Four Best Zonal Geraniums 595 



Plant Imports 595 



Shrub Chat 596 



News Notes 596-603-614 



Catalogiies Received P98 



Business Changes 603 



A New Flower Market Proposed 603 



Incorporated 603 



News of Twenty-eighth St.— A. J. Guttinan— Por- 

 trait 605 



Court Decision in Custom House Case 613 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 614 



List of Patents 614 



Now is the time to push along on 

 A "tip" tlie chrysanthemums for next fall's 



for the fall show exhibitions. We hope the man- 

 agers of the various shows will keep 

 prominently in mind the growing interest of the trade 

 and the public in the hardy pompons and the new sin- 

 gle flowered varieties and make due provision for ex- 

 hibiting these flowers, not simply in little labelled 

 bunches in bottles, but in such manner as to bring to 

 the attention of the public tlieir best use for decorative 

 effect both alone and in association with the big flowers. 

 This is something which, has not been done to any extent 

 at any of our exhibitions thus far although it holds out 

 perhaps the very best means for reviving tlte waning 

 interest in chrysanthemum shows. There are in every 

 community florists of exceptional artistic ability and 



gardeners also who are blessed with the same talent. 

 Fix the prize' schedule so as to get them interested and 

 do it early enough to give the necessary time for the 

 growing of the stock required. The novelty has about 

 gone from tlie showing of new varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums or the bestowal of names of prominent people 

 thereon as far as the ticket-buying public is concerned. 

 What can we provide to fill the gap? 



A bill has been introduced in the 



A proposed United States Senate by Senator 



insecticide bill Alfred B. Kittredge of South Dakota, 



entitled, "A Bill for preventing the 

 manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or 

 misbranded fungicides, Paris greens, lead arsenates and 

 other insecticides and for regulating trafiic therein, and 

 for other purposes." This has been drafted at the in- 

 stance of the Committee on Proprietary Insecticides of 

 the Association of Economic Entomologists which in- 

 cludes all the official entomologists of the United States 

 and has their hearty support. We understand it also 

 has tlie support of many of the leading manufacturers- 

 of insecticides. As a measure in the interest of the 

 manufacturer of and dealer in reputable insecticides 

 and fungicides, we hope our readers, so many of whom 

 are interested in having at their disposal reliable prepa- 

 rations for combatting the ever-increasing army of plant 

 scourges, will give this bill a careful reading and, find- 

 ing it worthy, write to their congressmen and senators 

 in its support. The bill is very lengthy and we have 

 not the space to present it in tliese columns but copies 

 may be obtained on application to E. Dwight Sander- 

 son, Entomologist, N. H. Agri. Exp. Station, Durham, 

 N. H. While heartily approving the bill in its main 

 features we think we can see where modifications of its 

 provisions might wisely be made and would again 

 recommend a careful reading. 



We have received a number of letters 

 The problem and many verbal communications, 

 of the forcing most of them commendatory, on the 

 bulb Holland bulb problem, since the publi- 



cation of our editorial note on that 

 subject two weeks ago. The letters from Messrs. A. N. 

 Pierson and Peter Eeinberg, which appear in this issue 

 fairly represent the sentiments of the large flower grow- 

 ers as same have come to our knowledge. No hostility 

 to the Holland bulb-growing interests is expressed in 

 any of the comments nor was any inherent in our edi- 

 torial, but the method of sending annually to this coim- 

 try an army of travelling salesmen who penetrate every 

 nook and cranny in quest of small orders, which our 

 liome houses are fully able to handle, and very often 

 without due care in extending credits, is naturally 

 looked upon by local wholesale and retail distributers as 

 adverse to the best interests of American dealers and 

 Holland exporters alike. The high-tension demand 

 during the period of the btilb forcing prosperity in this 

 country has tended also to cause more or less complaint 

 from florLsts of inferior qualities and of exorbitant 

 prices on the most popular forcing varieties and now the 

 demoralization in a none-too-strong market for the 

 flower growers' product, caused by the dumping thereon 

 of large quantities of bulb stock for whatever price they 

 will bring, is sure to have its effect on those who feel 

 that they have suffered because of it. A certain amount 

 of forcing bulbs will always be required but the present 

 emergency calls for some deep thinking, as neither 

 foreign producers nor exporters, nor American import- 

 ers, forcers or flower dealers, can afford to repeat the 

 experiences of the past season. And this applies with 

 equal truth to material from places other than Holland. 



