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HORTICULTURE 



May 16, 1908 



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MAY 16, 1908 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER DESIGN — Baccharis halimifolia. 



CYPRIPEDIUM CURTISII NOBILIOR— Illusl rated. . . 653 



NOTi^S FROM THE ARNOl.D ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 653 



SOME REMEMBRANCES OF SOME POT ROSES— 

 Johr. Thorpe 655 



AN EVIL TO BE REMEDIED —W. H. Long C55 



BACCHARIS HALIMIFOLIA 655 



A CHAT WITH ROBERT SIMPSON— Illustrated 656 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Sor-iety of American Florists — Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society ^i>S 



Florists' Clul) of Washington— Chicago Flor-ists' 

 Club— New York Florists' Club — Pittsburg Flor- 

 ists' and Gardeners' Club 659 



New Orleans Horticultural Society — New Bedford 

 Horticultural Society— The Nurserymen's Conven- 

 tion 660 



American Rose Society— Horticultural Society of 



New York 662 



Club and Society Notes 661 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS; 



Chicitgo- Ne^sv Retail Flower Stores 666 



OBITUARY'— Alfred 'V'ick- Thomas Copeland— Charles 

 Smith 667 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS; 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago. Detroit, Indianapolis, 

 New York, Philadelphia. Washington 069 



MISCELLANEOUS; 



A Boon for Cabbage Growers 663 



Recent Business Reverses 663 



News Notes 666-667 



Business Changes 666 



Personal 667 



Philadelphia Notes 669 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 677 



Incoi porated 677 



Memorial Day, daj' of all days tliat the 

 Memorial florist and gardener should jiay homage 

 day to, is once more on the threshold. Garden 

 and greenhouse, field and thicket, will 

 give up their fragrant product for the most sublime use 

 to whicli flowers can be devoted, on this great floral fes- 

 tival of sweet remembrance. It is a pleasure to learn 

 from innumerable sources that the observance of Me- 

 morial Day is rapidly growing in intensity throughout 



tiic country. The more it grows the better it will be for 

 llic common weal. Its sentiments and its lessons are, 

 to use a popular plirase, "all to the good." So plan to 

 liring along your flowers in greatest profusion each year 

 for this event. There is almost no limit to the quantity 

 that will be taken. 



AVe have no doubt that Mr. Long's plea in 

 Sunday another column of this jiaper for a Sunday 

 closing qI j-gst for the florist will find a responsive 



echo generally throughout the trade. The 

 exactions of the florists" business need not be enumer- 

 alcil I'm- the enlightenment of the readers whom Hokti- 

 CULTfUii serves. That they are almost tinbearable will 

 not be denied. That they operate against the best ad- 

 vancement of the art by dissuading many capable and 

 intelligent young men from taking up the florist's busi- 

 ness as an avocation is a logical proposition. That the 

 closing of stores on Sitnday wottld entail no serious loss, 

 ])rovided the custom is made uniform throughout the 

 community, will be generally admitted, we think. How 

 to Ijriiig about the needed ttniformity of compliance 

 is the problem. Compulsory closing, wherever tried, has 

 not been permanently sticcessful so far as we are aware. 

 Agitation through the chibs and trade papers with a 

 view to developing the reform sentiment among the 

 florists themselves might in time accomplish something. 

 It is worth trying and Hoeticultcee's columns are 

 open to any who have views to express on this or any 

 other topic of interest to the profession. 



Secretary Eudd's communication 

 Limitations of the stating the position of the S. A. 

 registration bureau F. ^yith regard to the regis- 

 tration of new plant names, 

 which appeai-s in this issue, is timely, to the point and 

 eminently wise. By limiting the scope of the registra- 

 tion bureau as indicated he will save the society much 

 possible embarrassment and accomplish practically all 

 that such a department can accomplish under the aus- 

 pices of a society equipped as the S. A. F. is at the 

 present time. There is an old saying that will apply 

 here — -"Let well enough alone." The S. A. F. list of 

 registrations since the bureati was established is the 

 liest monument to the practicability of the system as 

 conducted liitherto. The horticultural profession has 

 found it acceptable, the jjlant introducers have wel- 

 comed its help, and its operations have been singularly 

 free from friction. Dttring the time the system has 

 been in operation botanical authorities have been burn- 

 ing the midnight oil overhauling genera and species,, 

 changing old names to new ones and new ones to old 

 ones again. The S. A. F. does well to keep out of any- 

 thing tliat will involve it in these scientific contro- 

 versies. If any one doubts this let him peruse Nichol- 

 son's list of sjTionyms and cross references. At this 

 juncture it is refreshing to read in Professor Bailey's 

 .thoughtful preface to the fourth edition of his Cyclo- 

 predia, these words: "Botany, however, has declined 

 until recently, to extend its sphere to subjects that 

 come too near to real human affairs, and therefore has 

 left a very large part of its domain uncultivated. 

 Horticultttre has seized some of this territory. It 

 should hold tlie territory. Tlie S. A. F. has been doing 

 business in a simple, sensible and tmpretentious method' 

 and not trying to do impossible things. That method 

 has served its purpose well and is good enough for the- 

 S. \. Y. to stick to for twenty vears to come. 



