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horticulture: 



June 13, 1908 



horticulture: 



YOL. VII 



JUNE 13, 1908 



NO. 24 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COYER ILLUSTRATION— Peony Dnchesse de Nemours. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Relider '^81 



PEONY DUCHESSE DE NEMOURS 781 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 783 



SUPERFLUOUS BULB FLOWERS-August Poehl- 



mann "'^'^ 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN: 



Opening Session— President's Address 784 



Secretary, Treasurer and Committee Reports— 



Aftei-noon Session 786 



Thursday Sessions 787 



THE TEMPLE SHOW— Edgar Elvin— Illustrated 787 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New Jersey Floricultural Soeietj— Retail Florist 

 Association— New York Florists' Club— Meetings 

 Next Week — Florists' Club of Wa.shington — Ameri- 

 can ,\pple Growers' Association — Albany Florists' 



Club -Chicago Florists' Club 788 



Horticultural Society of New York — Rhododendron 

 Show at Boston — Society of American Florists — 

 Missouri State Board of Agriculture — Club and 



Soci'^ty Notes 789 



DURING RECESS 7St) 



OBITUARY' — James Shanley, Portrait — Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones — Robei-t B. Graves. Portrait— George Roy, 

 Portrait— George H. Linsdale, Portrait 790 



SEED TRADE 79:- 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, 

 Washington 797 



MISC'ELLANFOUS: 



LongiflOTum vs. Multiflorum 787 



Primula obconica as a Bedding Plant 7S7 



News Notes 791-792-794 



Propagation of Sciadopitys verticlllata 791 



A Notable Society Fete 792 



Spring Plant Trade in Chicago 792 



Incorporated 792 



Missouri Botanical Garden 793 



Business Changes 794 



New Retail Flower Stores 794 



Steamer DeparUires 794 



Personal 795 



Philadelphia Notes 797 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated S04 



List of Patents 805 



Evidence is not lacking to indicate 

 Cooperative that the flower trade people are 

 sentiment should donning their thinking caps and 

 be encouraged \]^r^^ ^ strong sentiment exists in 

 the ranks of the growers, whole- 

 sale dealers and retailers against allowing their several 



Cohesion is 

 better than divergence 



class interests to continue to suffer as they have, in in- 

 creasing degree during recent years, through lack of or- 

 ganization and co-operation according to modern business 

 cu.stom. The primitive policy of "everv man for him- 

 self" lias been a serious obstacle to the progress com- 

 mercially of the flower business. The growing of 

 flowers has made phenomenal ad\ancement as compared 

 with other interests because growers have been disposed 

 to meet and discuss freely on topics of mutual concern. 

 It is refreshing to see at last, that others are coming 

 lo realize their great need and that men who have 

 been deaf hitherto to any and all appeal for their 

 support of organizations existing for the express pur- 

 pose of helping the individual through the strength of 

 union, are now beginning to see a new light. But while 

 HoRTicuLTCKE is and always has been a consistent be- 

 liever in a multiplicity of societies, we do feel that as 

 much harm as good may come from movements within 

 the profession which tend to isolate interests which are 

 interdependent and to aggravate any distrust which 

 may already exist between the different sections. Segre- 

 gation of this sort is certain to be detrimental to the 

 best growth and development of the business as a whole 

 and any policy which tends in that direction has in it 

 elements of far-reaching mischief. 



In most cases where a new 

 organization is started in 

 the same field in which a like 

 body already exists it may be 

 argued with some show of reason, that neglect on the 

 part of the older body to properly fulfil its legitimate 

 mission makes it responsible for the disaffections thus 

 crystalized. Unfortunately, wise diplomacy is not an 

 overabundant quality in the councils of any association, 

 ])articularly if it be a strong one, and statesmen, even in 

 ( 'ongress as we have good reason to know are not easily 

 found when most needed Ijut that all reasonable and 

 available means for conciliation and the establishment 

 ol' harmonious co-operation between closely related in- 

 terests shonlil lie exhausted before any step is taken 

 which may tend to split the profession into factions 

 and array one section against another is a proposition 

 that should appeal to every intelligent man. It must 

 he plain to all wlio stop to consider the situation that 

 tiie horticultural industries as they exist today arc only 

 a fraction in extent and commercial importance as com- 

 pared with what they are destined to rapidly grow to, 

 and this without regard to any slight set-back that may 

 have been sustained through the iniiuence of the re- 

 cent financial disturbances. We are surely getting 

 ready for a great development all along the line in the 

 near future and it is a first duty to ourselves individ- 

 ualy and to our profession in its broadest definition, to 

 get together wherever, however and whenever we can 

 for the purpose of building up and cementing together 

 witli the strongest ties possible all departments of the 

 industn-. What the business now needs more than 

 anything else are better business methods and closer 

 cohesion between individuals and between all depart- 

 ments. "Let us reason tocjetlier." 



