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HORTICULTURE. 



June 20, 190S 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII 



JUNE 20, 1908 



NO. 25 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVKli ILH'STK.\T10.\— President-elect Chas. J. 



NOTES FROM THE AR.XOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



RehdPr - 813 



THE HARDY RHODODENDRON QUESTION— Wm. 



Mc.M. Drown S13 



ROSES TT.NDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 815 



HYDROCYA.NIC GAS FOR WHITE FLY— John N. 



Summers ^l" 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT SIT 



FREIGHT RATES ON BULBS 817 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES; 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Meet- 

 ings Next Weel«— Tarrytown Horticultural Society 818 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society — St. Louis 



Florist Club S19 



American Association of Park Superintendents — 

 ■ Pittsburg Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen 820 



Club and Society Notes 821 



PARIS SPRING SHOW— C. Harman Payne— Illus- 

 trated 822 



DURING RECESS 824 



SEED TRADE 825 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS 826 



Steamer Departures— New Retail Flower Store. . . 82(5 



OBITUARY — Lawrence Lundberg, portrait — A. David 

 Rose, portrait — Alexander Wallace — Ira L. Russell 



— Wm. Barr 827 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago. Indianapolis, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Twin Cities. Notes 829 



MISCELLANEOUS; 



Personal 817 



The Lily Bulb Situation 817 



A Song for June. Poetry 817 



Business Changes 819 



Movements of Gardeners 824 



List of Patents 824 



Catalogues Received 824 



Incorporated • • • 825 



Philadelphia Notes 829 



News Notes 836 



Fire Record 836 



Spring Plant Notes 837 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 837 



Jii'porls from all aj^riiiilliiral sei'- 



"Bi mper" crops fioiis oonlinue i'avoralile. The con- 



and good times dhioil of crops oil ,Iune 1, aj; found 



on the \Aay \,y the Rurcau of Statistics of the 



T'. S. Departiiieiit of Acfriciiltiire in 



every section of the country sliows in jiractically every 



item throutrhout the li<t of fruits ami cereals a !ar<jely' 



increased percentage not only over last year hut over 



the averaire for ten years and "buiupef"" crops in all 



staples seem to he now pretty well assured. The occu- 

 pation of the pessimists is al)Out gone and they have 

 ceased to tell us that "hard times are only just begin- 

 ning."' for, in the face of our glorious agricultural pros- 

 perity, iiohody will believe them. This prevalent confi- 

 dence is a most excellent symptom. We hope to see it 

 extend in fullest measure to the flower trade, which has 

 sullVred its full share of the .adversity of the past 

 season. As compared \vith the outlook of a few months 

 ago there is today every cause for hopefulness and eveiy 

 encouragement for all to get a move on, eager for the 

 jirosperity which is now coming along at full speed. 



A trade visitor in Boston who toi>k 

 Unappreciated (,|iportiinity to attend the recent 

 flower shows rhododendron show at Horticultural 



Hall expresses astonislmrent at the 

 inditference of the Boston public to this really beau- 

 tiful exhibition as evinced by their almost entire absence 

 from the hall although the announcement was placarded 

 outside that admission was free. Although in this 

 special instance tlie fete at Holm Lea was undoubtedly 

 tlie cause of the absence of many on Saturday and not- 

 withstanding that on Sunday the halls are generally 

 crowded in mid-afternoon yet we have to acknowledge 

 that the criticism is, in the main, well-founded. The 

 apathy of the people to such an attraction is hard to 

 understand and it is not limited to Boston. When flor- 

 ists and the gardeners from suburban estates undertake 

 to transport and stage their products for the pleasure 

 of the public, at much expense and loss of time, it is 

 very disheartening to have the effort go unappreciated 

 and a very strong argument is presented in support of 

 the contemplated reduction in the number of summer 

 free shows given by the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society and the concentration of effort on a limited 

 number of speetactilar affairs during the inclement sea- 

 son of the year to which an admission fee shall be 

 charged. 



The nurserymen, in their convention at 

 Nurserymen Mil-n^aukee last w^eek, showed by their 

 headed right discussions and resolves that they are 

 thoroughly awalce to the glorious Inisi- 

 ness possibilities that lie within their reach and also to 

 the menaces that exi-st in ill-advised hasty legislation in 

 \i!ii(h their interests are involved and in the reprisals 

 whicii the transportation companies are so ready to 

 make wherever they think they can find a victim unpre- 

 pared to resist. We particularly like the sentiments 

 which President Hill expressed concerning forest pre- 

 servation and would also especially commend to every 

 one in the nursi-ry trade his straightforward advice on 

 the subject of advertising. A more general adoption of 

 liberal advoiiising methods throughout the season 

 would do much to keep stock moving in a legitimate 

 \va\-. and go far to eliminate the "surplus stock" sales 

 at the end of the season of wliich President Hill and 

 many others complained. An industry having, as Pres- 

 ident Hill informed us, more than sixty million dollars 

 invested, giving employment to fifty-five thousand men 

 and three thousand women and devoted to "the noble 

 vocation of bettering and up-lifting mankind," is surely 

 entitled to the advantages of the mo.st modern business 

 facilities, and President Hill is unanswerably riglit 

 when he places enterprising and truthful advertising at 

 the head of the list. 



