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HORTICULTURE 



May 30, 1908 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII 



MAY 30, 1908 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Bridle 1'at.h, West Roxbury 



Parkway, Boston. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLIJ ARBORETUM— AU red 



Rehtier 717 



THE HARDY RHODODENDRON QIIESTION- Hans 



J. Koehler 719 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— Mon-is County 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Society — American Peony 

 Society — Society of American Floris.ts — New Or- 

 leans Horticultural Society — Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society— Detroit Florist Club 720 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES 721 



AMERICAN A.SSOCIATtON OF NURSERYMEN 721 



THE MOST USEFUL OP THE CATTLEYAS— George 



E. JlcCIure 722 



A SIXTY MILLION FLOWER SPIKE— G. C. Watson. . 724 



SPRING BULB BEDDING — Illustrations 724 



SEED TRADE: 



American Seed Trade Association i2G 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Distributing Problem — W. H. Long 730 



New Retail Flower Stores 731 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Wash- 

 ington 733 



OBITUARY— George McRae— F. B. Forbes— Mrs. 



Thomas Young 733 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Correction 722 



Cover Illustration 723 



Hydrocyanic Gas for White Fly 725 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 725 



Spring Plant Trade in Chicago 725 



NeT\s Notes 726-731 



List of Patents 726 



Publications Received 726 



Catalog-.ies Received 727 



Incorporated 727 



Business Changes 731 



Personal 731 



Memorial Day (Poetry) 733 



Commercial floriculture has made a 

 Unfrllled well-clefined stride within the past 



orchid growing few years in its adoption of the or- 

 chid as its standard of highest quality 

 and beauty in floral work. The movement was very 

 slow to gain headwaj' at first and it was only by the 

 exercise of rare patience and tenacity that the pioneers 

 in orchid introduction for commercial cut flower pur- 

 poses made any advancement, but, at last, the barriers 



seem to have come down all at once and in every section 

 where a progressive florist exists the orchid now re- 

 ceives a welcome. Mr. MeClure's practical paper on 

 this topic, which appears in this issue, is therefora very 

 timely, selecting for consideration, as it does, the most 

 conspicuous and useful class of orchids and imparting 

 rational and undistorted instruction in their cultivation. 

 The publication of the facts as to the simplicity of the 

 requirements of this class of plants in this country 

 sliould bring good results in extending their culture by 

 the flower growers who have hitherto been deterred by 

 the exaggerated notions heretofore disseminated as to 

 their requirements. Indeed, it is a question whether 

 more orchid plants have not reached the rubbish heap 

 through the mystic coddling at the hands of the highly 

 specialized expert than under the shnple treatment of 

 the ordinary unpretentious gardener. Our zealous grow- 

 ers have been too prone to base their practice with such 

 subjects on the experience and methods in other coun- 

 tries, forgetting to take into account our very different 

 climate. Instead of taking our lessons so literally from 

 abroad American growers will do well to listen to men 

 like Mr. McClure who have tried out our climatic con- 

 ditions and, regardless of old traditions, adopted their 

 methods accordingly. 



Editor Myrick of the 

 For the better development ^eiv England Homestead 

 of New England is out with a public ad- 



dress to the Governors of 

 the Xew England States calling for a development con- 

 ference and urging co-operative effort to advance the 

 material progress and development of Greater New Eng- 

 land. He represents that these six States, isolated as 

 they are to some extent, geographically, from the great 

 bulk of United States territory, are so interlaced and 

 interdependent that a closer union of- sentiment and 

 effort than has heretofore prevailed, is necessary if the 

 land, markets, factories and other agricultural and in- 

 dustrial advantages which this section enjoys are to be 

 adequately appreciated and used to best advantage. 

 New England people have been so absorbed in the open- 

 ing out and building up of the vast territory to the west- 

 ward that they seem to have almost forgotten the great 

 opportunities that lie at their own doors. The encour- 

 agement of wise forestry methods, the conservation of 

 streams and lakes and their utilization for power or for 

 recreation, the regulation of water and railroad trans- 

 portation, the enlargement of industrial f&cilities, the 

 development of better markets domestic and foreign — 

 these are all questions to be approached in a patriotic 

 and statesmanlike spirit. As an institution with a 

 world-wide range and a New England headquarters, 

 Horticulture is pleased to give its endorsement and 

 will endeavor to do its part in am- movement which 

 seeks to uplift this or any other section of our great 

 cotmtry to the level nf its highest possibilities. Horti- 

 culturally New England wields a wide infltience; her 

 institutions, her gardeners and florists, her gardens and 

 parks, are second to none and Nature has here lavished 

 shores, mountains, lakes and forests of sublime beatity, 

 but the fame of all this can be vastly increased and 

 New England's position in commercial horticulture 

 greatly benefited by active intercity and interstate co- 

 operation, with this specific purpose in view. Every 

 horticultural society, every florists' club and every agri- 

 cultural educational institution should be represented at 

 the proposed conference. 



