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HORTICULTURE. 



May 9, 190S 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII 



MAY 9, 1908 



NO. 19 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS 



Pase 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Carnation Bay State. 

 NOTES FROM THE .•\RNOLD ARBORETTM— Alfred 



Rehder 621 



NOTES FROM YORK EXPERIMENT STATION— 



0. S. Harrison 621 



"DREADNAUGHT" RHODODENDRONS— Wm. McM. 



Brown 622 



A PRAC?riCAI. SCREEN— Luke J. Doogue— Illus- 

 trated 623 



OBITITA RY— George Moore, Portrait — August L. Ehrle 



— John O'Brien — Miss Nina Holton — Alonzo Henricks. 625 

 A SINGULAR CARNATION FLOWER— W. E. Hall- 

 Illustrated 625 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Naticnal Flower Show Committee— Florists' Club 

 ol Philadelphia— New Jersey Floricultural Society 

 —New Haven County Horticultural Society— Tar- 

 rytown Horticultural Society— May Flower Show 



at Boston 626 



Club and Society Notes 627 



WINTER FLOA\T53RINa SWEET PEAS— Wm. Sim. . . 628 



SEED TRADE 630 



SAN JOSE SCALE 630 



MARYLANDERS IN HOLLAND— R. Vincent, Jr 632 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Detroit Retailer's View — Frank Danzer 634 



New Retail Flower Stores 635 



FLOWER M.ARKFT REPORTS: 



Boston, B\i£falo, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington. 637 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 627 



Twin Cities Planting and Park Notes 627 



Business Changes 627 



Publications Received 627 



Daphne cneorum 628 



Plant Imports 631 



Buddleya variabilis Veitchiana 632 



News Notes 63.T 



Incorporated ■ 635 



A Prosperous Boilar Manufacturing Concern 645 



Gresnhouses Building or Contemplated 645 



Amidst all the doubts and apprehen- 



Prosperlty in gion attendant upon the adverse busi- 



full swing ness season through which we have 



been passing one encouraging fact 



which has stood out conspicuously is the unprecedented 



activity in the retail seed trade. "We have yet to learn 



of a single instance of a well-managed seed house r>3- 



porting a falling ofF in business as compared with one 



year ago. Mail order houses have also enjoyed a tre- 

 mendous demand wliich started early in the season and 

 has continued without any slack and, as the weeks move 

 along, it becomes more and more evident that the 

 nursery trade as a whole has found things very much 

 better than was expected. These facts must be accepted 

 as reflecting the confidence prevalent in that section of 

 the general public known as the middle classes. It is 

 very plain that they find no special occasion in existing 

 conditions for the exercise of exceptional frugality. 



During the Easter season just past 

 tlie plant dealer having an electric 

 delivery van at his disposal enjoyed 



The electric van 



in horticultural 



trade 



a great advantage. To maintain 



such an outfit is, however, quite ex- 

 pensive, and only the larger concerns with business 

 enough to keep a chauflEeur constantly occupied can 

 afford to invest under present conditions. It is not 

 alone their value as compared with horse power that 

 makes these motors so desirable in horticulture but the 

 fact that they afford a means of competition with the 

 transportation companies. It is to be hoped that in the 

 near future tlie cost of these machines and methods of 

 operating them may be brought well within the reach of 

 the small grower and the trade thus rendered indepen- 

 dent of the railroads and their exactions. Complaints 

 that have reached us from several suburban sources indi- 

 cate that conditions as to express service are constantly 

 growing more unsatisfactory. 



One does not need to go far in the neigh- 

 An unequal borhood of any of the larger cities in the 

 struggle older settled parts of the country to en- 

 counter greenltouse establishments which, 

 a few years ago, were yielding a good income to their 

 owners but are now totally inadequate for the purposes 

 to which they were formerly devoted. At the time 

 when these structitres were erected money was easily 

 made in rose growing, one or two wooden-frame houses 

 often furnishing a livelihood for an industrious grower 

 and his family. That, in time, competition and over- 

 production would bring market values down, down, 

 down, that buildings would rapidly depreciate in 

 efficiency from age and decay and demand a heavier re- 

 pair expenditure each year, that enterprise and inge- 

 nuity would in time introduce structural improvements 

 brought about through experience and better mechani- 

 cal skill and thus put the later-built houses far ahead in 

 efficiency and place the older estalilishments at a great 

 disadvantage seems in many cases to have been over- 

 looked; the forethought which would have laid aside a 

 liberal percentage of each year's income for the inevi- 

 table reckoning day was not exercised and today the 

 pathetic ruin tells the story. Bedding plants, small 

 ferns, forcing bulbs, are still possible but one by one 

 tliese places once conspicuous for rose growing must 

 drop out of the unequal struggle in which they made so 

 proud a start and the outlook for their owners is far 

 from encouraging if nothing has been accumulated 

 against this contingency. The big steel-ribbed factory 

 with capital back of it seems to have taken the right of 

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