June 20, IflfS 



horticulture: 



817 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 

 Attention is called to the information 

 given on this nage concerning freight 

 rates on bulbs from OUioules. Rotter- 

 dam and Yokohama. 



So 'ong as dealers in one place are 

 short of material which in another 

 place is at the same time over-stCK-ked 

 and being sold at sacrifice figures or 

 going to waste, the assertion stands 

 good that there is something wrong at 

 one end or tjie other. One of the 

 main factors in "the art of selling" 

 is to wake up the dormant business. 



It has been said that "show win- 

 dows are the eyes of a store." Keep 

 the "6} es" open and bright even though 

 there be little going on in the sum- 

 mer days now coming. The store- 

 keeper who neglects his windows is 

 liable to be neglected by the cus- 

 tomers later on. This is a case where 

 a good front is never an extravagance. 



Watch .lur Buyers' Directory and 

 Ready Rotorence Guide. There are 

 quite a number of small advertisements 

 there fioni firms that will appear with 

 big ones next season after they have 

 come to realize how good the re- 

 sponse from the buyers is even when 

 the offer is a wee one. And when 

 you buy don't fail to tell them that 

 "HORTICrLTl'RE did it." 



Have yon a surplus of anything for 

 which the selling season is waning'? 

 Advertise it now, as a surplus, and at 

 a price that will turn it into cash 

 for you and enable it to make a 

 profit for the buyer who takes a 

 chance on it. People don't know you 

 have bargains for them unless you tell 

 them. Xever throw anything away 

 which somebody else may have use 

 for. 



Train your customers to prompt set- 

 tlements and adopt the same policy 

 yourself in paying bills, to the great- 

 est possible extent. A small, amount 

 of money will pay a big lot of bills 

 if permitted to circulate. If every- 

 body wouldn't "get the habit" we 

 should all be happier and the flower 

 trade, bulb trade and nursery trade 

 would all stand far better commer- 

 cially. Six and twelve month credits 

 are a heavy weight for any business 

 to carry. 



The merchants' associations and 

 large shippers are up in arms against 

 the recently announced general ad- 

 vance in freight rates. Instead of go- 

 ing up it would seem that freight 

 rates ought to go down and it is not 

 easy to resist the conviction that the 

 present course of the railroads sug- 

 gests more of retaliation than of jus- 

 tice. Here in X-^w England we have 

 just escaped the legalization of a most 

 dangerous railroad monopoly. The 

 American Cultivator, in commenting 

 on the recent maneuvres in Massachu- 

 setts says that "President Mellen is 

 deemed by his admirers the most effi- 

 cient railroad president in the United 

 Sta'es," hut that he "has evinced an 

 inadequate conceiition of the import- 

 ance of retaining favorable public sen- 

 timent.'' We would add that if ex- 

 asijeratiug the public by holding them 

 up at every available turn is efficiency, 

 then judged by tills test President Mel- 

 len has achieved a notable success 

 during the few years since he ascend- 

 ed the throne. 



PERSONAL. 

 .Jesse F. Avlin has resigned his posi- 

 tion at the Davis greenhouses, Dover, 

 N. H. 



R, Vincent, .Ir., of White Marsh, 

 Md., has returned from his trip 

 abroad. 



JI. Norhen Le^avasseur has been 

 elected Mayor of Boulon, near Caen, 

 France. 



George .McWilliam, of Whitiusville, 

 Mass., with his wife, sailed on June 

 2 for a visit to Scotland. 



Philip Einsman, of Long Island City, 

 N. Y., will sail for Bremen on the 

 Kaiser Wllhelm II, June 23. 



August Muller, of Philadelphia, is 

 famous for his choice strain of ver- 

 benas. His father before him was also 

 a celebrity in this line fifty years ago. 



Visitors in Boston: S. S. Skidelsky, 

 I'hiladelphia, Pa.; H. S. DeForest. 

 representing Pierson U — Bar Co., New 

 York; Prof. L. R. Taft, Agricultural 

 College, Mich.; George F. Struck, of 

 Knight & Struck. New York; R. M. 

 Grey, Cuba. 



Chicago visitors this week: Edw. 

 -Vmerpohl, Janesville, Wis.; Thos. A. 

 JIacbeth, Springfield, O.; Elmer D. 

 Smith, Adrian, Mich.; F. J. Olson, 

 Ames, la., buying glass and building 

 material for two new greenhouses: R. 

 Dintleman. Belleville, 111., en route 

 from nurserymen's convention. 



THE LILY BULB SITUATION. 



We quote frc^m the June market re- 

 port of R. M. Ward & Co., New York, 

 the following notes on present condi- 

 tion and prosi-ects of supply' and de- 

 mand on various florists' lily bulbs: 



Lilinm Harrisii (August del'y): crop 

 is imiu'oving. 



Japan Lilir?.— bongifloruni (Sept., 

 Oct.). small demand. Multiflorurn 

 (Sept.. Oct.). i^ioderate demand: crop 

 is improving. Gigariteum (Oct., Dec), 

 strong demand: early orders advised; 

 large sizes scarce. Aurf'tum (Oct., 

 Dec), demand is increasing. Spec.io- 

 sum Album (Oct., Dec), scarce; early 

 orders adviseo. Speciosum Rubrum 

 (Oct., Dec), moderate demand. Specio- 

 sum. Magnificum (Oct., Dec), demand 

 is increasing. Speciosum Melpomene, 

 or Roseum (Oct., Dec), small demand. 



Formosa Lilies (July, .\ug.), early 

 orders advised; quantities of large 

 sizes limited. 



A SONG FOR JUNE. 



'Tis Jmie! the glad time when I found 

 thee. 



Of thou, my sweet flower of love! 

 The dear olden glamor is 'round thee. 



The same tender sk.v bends alx>ve. 

 New lieauties the summer discloses. 



But none that can rival thee now; 

 Not ono of its fairest young roses 



Is perfect as thou. 



One .tune liiin.gs tlie red rose of passion 



And marks its frail beauty decline. 

 But JiHie upon June could not fashion 



The rose of a love such as thine. 

 Not long in the gardens of pleasure 



Are love's sweetest flowers possessed; 

 The love that hath leavening measure 



Of sorrow is best. 



This June its new beauties discloses, 

 But none that can rival thee now. 



Not one of its fairest young roses 

 Is ijerfect as thou. 



T. A. DALY. 



FREIGHT RATES ON BULBS. 



We have compiled for the benefit of 

 our readers who buy French. Dutch 

 or Japanese bulbs, the following infor- 

 mation concerning transatlantic and 

 overland freight rates which will, per- 

 haps, be found worthy of a careful 

 perusal. 



Rate sheets of freight on bulbs 

 from OUioules via Marseilles by Nor. 

 Deutscher Lloyd or Fabre line per 

 lOOO Kilo to New York, Boston and 

 Philadelphia and inland cities by 

 through bill of lading all rail from 

 New York are quoted as follows: 



Lots Lots of Tons 

 of 12 



Parcels 5 T ons CL Lts 



Xew York 



Boston 



Philadelphia .... 



t'hicago. Louis- 

 ville or Mil- 

 waukee 



Uo<*hester 



Syracuse 



Pittsl.uri: or Erie 



.\lhany 



rinirnuatl .... 



t;ast St. Louis. . . | 



Toronto 



St. Paul 



Richmond 



Buffalo 



Toledo. (^olum- 

 bus or Detroit. 



Indianapolis 1 



rit-veland j 



100 Kilo is equal to 220 pounds 

 avoirdupois. The average full-size 

 French bulb case, full, weighs about 

 75 Kilo. Shipments by the Fabre line 

 are prefered. 



Better rates for Holland bulbs are 

 afforded by the Cosmopolitan Line 

 via Philadelphia than via the Rotter- 

 dam Line especially when quantities 

 are shipped. Carload rate from Rot- 

 terdam to Chicago via that route is 

 62 cents per 100 lbs., whereas the 

 rate from New Y''ork to Chicago alone 

 is more. viz.. 75 cents per 100 lbs. 

 The Dutchmen, we believe, get no re- 

 bates via Philadelphia and conse- 

 quently do not ship that way unless 

 so instructed. 



"The Great Northern Railway Rail- 

 way Co. has announced the fact that 

 the present freight rate from Yoko- 

 hama to New York, Chicago and other 

 inland cities, will be abolished June 

 30th and a new tarift will be issued 

 July 1st. to conform to the rules and 

 logulations of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission. This will greatly 

 affect the cost of .Japanese bulbs, 

 plants, etc. which have heretofore 

 enjoyed an extremely low freight rate 

 considering the distance covered, or 

 ?1.25 to $1..50 per 100 lbs. from Yoko- 

 hama to New Yoik. The rate on the 

 same goods from Pacific Coast ports 

 is ?3.00 per 100 lbs. to New York via 

 the same route: and should the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission raise the 

 rate accordingly, it would make a dif- 

 ference in the cost of Japan Lily bulbs 

 of from SIO.OO to $20.00 per 1000. ac- 

 cording to sizes of the bulbs. Ship- 

 ments via Suez are impractical. The 

 matter of freight rates from Japan 

 is therefore of much importance to the 

 im))ortcrs and the final decision of the 

 I. C. C. is awaited with interest." 



I am compelled to ask you to dis- 

 continue my ad. for chrysanthemum 

 cuttin.gs as I ha\e now as many or- 

 ders as I will be able to fill. 



H. L. CAMERON, 



No. Cambridge, Mass., June 4, 1008^ 



