HOKTICULTURi: 



February 23, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



FEBRUARY 23, 1907 



NO. 8 



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CONTENTS 



frontispiece:— House of Orchids 



CYPRIPEDIUM LEEANUM VAR. ADELA— A. J. 



Loveless — Illustrated 221 



CYPRIPEDIUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM— James Hutchin- 

 son — Illustrated 221 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 222 



ROOTING MEDIUM FOR ORCHIDS— James Hutchin- 

 son — Illustrated 223 



OUR FRONTISPIECE 223 



THE DECIDUOUS CALANTHES— George McWilliam 224 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 224 



CHILDREN'S GARDENS AND THE TRADE— Henry 

 Saxton Adams 225 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New York Florists' Club — Columbus Florists' Club 

 — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society — St. Louis Florists' Club — 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 227 



Chicago Florists' Club — North Shore Horticultural 

 Society — Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club — Schedule for the Great Rose Show— New 

 England Dahlia Society — Club and Society Notes. . 228 



AMERICAN CARNATIONS IN ENGLAND— Papers by 

 C. Engelmann and A. F. Dutton 229 



SEED TRADE 232 



Statement of Imports 232 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston. Buffalo, Columbus, Indianapolis, New 

 York, Philadelphia, Washington 239 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 230 



News Notes 236 



Business Embarrassments 236 



An Old-Time Florist— G. H. Higgins 236 



Obituary 236 



Landscape Work at Jamestown 239 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 246 



List of Patents 246 



COLORED SUPPLEMENT "WITH THIS 

 ISSUE— Oriental Poppy Mrs. Perry. 



We hope that every one to whom this 



Help the paper comes will read carefully the 



school gardens interesting and convincing article 



concerning the relations of children's 

 gardens to the horticultural trades, from the pen of 

 Henry Saxton Adams, which appears on another page. 

 Mr. Adams has been one of the hard working, enthusi- 

 astic, and unselfish leaders in the long uphill struggle 

 on behalf of this patriotic work which is now just begin- 

 ning to get recognition. The appeal should meet with 

 an appreciative, enthusiastic response from every liorti- 

 cultural organization in the land. 



The sentiment most strongly brouglit out 

 Tightening jn the discussion in the Gardeners' and 

 the ties Florists' Club of Boston in regard to the 

 proposed laws regulating the use of steam 

 boilers is that of mutual responsibility and the recog- 

 nition of the principle that the troubles of one should 

 be the concern of all. We do not think that this senti- 

 ment has been fostered to the extent it should be by the 

 florists' organizations, membership in v/hich is not in- 

 frequently more in the nature of an "armed truce" 

 ihan an efficient fraternal reality. But we see indica- 

 tions of the growth of a more sensible feeling, gradual 

 liut steady, and much promise for future advantage to 

 all because of it. 



Nothing in the history of 

 The the flower trade for the 



rise of the orchid l^gt two or three years is 



as a commercial flower more noticeable or sugges- 

 tive than the onward prog- 

 ress of the orchid as a commercial flower. From 

 an uncertain, intermittent demand, the orchid indus- 

 try has now developed into regular and stable 

 lines, the call for the blooms coming from widely sep- 

 arated localities and furnishing conclusive evidence of 

 the place in the public estimation to which the regal 

 cattleyas, Iselias. phalasnopses, dendrobiums, vandas, 

 coelogynes, oncidiums and other gems of the orchid 

 world have already attained. Among the leading and 

 progressive florists the orchid has by general consent, 

 been accepted as an indispensable factor in their decora- 

 tive work and a standard item in their daily stock. 

 Thus, at last, comes the reward to the enterprising, far- 

 sighted collectors and specialists who have, year after 

 year, kept this choicest of all flowers constantly before 

 the public by means of the exhibitions throughout the 

 country and have with remarkable tenacity of purpose 

 and at enormous expense done more than all other in- 

 strumentalities to place the orchid in the position which 

 it merits. It will be a long long time before their star 

 will wane or their pre-eminence suffer from the rivalry 

 of any other class of material. 



A movement among the Greek 

 The Greek florists of New York to organ- 



in the New York jzg a local association or club 

 flower trade for alleged social and benevolent 

 purposes seems to have been 

 the basis of a rumor that the Greeks contemplated 

 a union for the purpose of affecting to their 

 particular advantage the wholesale flower and plant 

 markets. The Greeks deny that they have any such 

 intention. They call attention to the fact that people 

 of other races have organizations for mutual advantage 

 and justify their present movement on these grounds. 

 Their stand seems a reasonable one. We can see no 

 benefit, but on the contrary a considerable injury, that 

 may come to the flower trade through the stirring up 

 of an antagonistic feeling between the Greeks and the 

 rest of the flower trade of the metropolis. The Greek 

 element is here to stay, undoubtedly, and while it is 

 true that their main reliance is the cheap street trade 

 yet there are those among them who have aspired and 

 attained to something better. Their indispensability to 

 th.e trade, in the distribution of the enormous product 

 coming daily to the city, is well understood by the 

 wholesale flower trade but we do not doubt the latter's 

 ability to take care of its own interests, and we appre- 

 hend no serious results from the proposed organization 

 of the Greek fraternity but we do see possibilities of 

 harm in any hasty talk tending to instigate discord and 

 incite factional feeling. 



