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HORTICULTURE, 



April 13, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



APRIL 13, 190r 



NO. 15 



are apparently learning that the newspaper reporter, 

 wisely handled, may be made a very influential agent 

 for their benefit. It is not so very long ago that many 

 of the flower dealers seemed to consider it quite the 

 projjer thing to boast and exaggerate concerning the 

 details of their business, to spin fabulous yarns and on 

 the approach of any special holiday to give currency 

 to most alarming prediction? as to scarcity and in- 

 flated values of flowers. Today we find the paperd 

 teeming with alluring news and gossip of the flower 

 stores, telling of the good things being prepared to ap- 

 pease the flower hunger of everybody — ^thosc with 

 slender purse as well as those with abundant means — 

 and that there will be plenty for all. We note with 

 pleasure other auspicious movements, on which the 

 trade may be congratulated and to which we shall have 

 occasion to refer at another time. 



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finlered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post OfBce at Boston, Mass. 

 under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79, 



r^r^-m:t'w^w>^T'w^ It is in the air that the recent Easter 



p The forcing exjDerience with lorced bulb flowers 



FRONTISPIECE— Hybrid Rhododendron Mary Weld ''""' industry has so discouraged the growers of such 



ARTISTIC INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT OF CON- stock that the importations of bulbs 



SERVATORY WITH TROPICAL PLANTS-Robert _ for this use next season are likelv to be much reduced. 

 Cameron 485 ■' 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE FORCING AT IRONDE- ^^'^"^"^ "° °"' ''•"'' ^^"'""^ ^^'^ S^wer for feeling keen 



QXJOIT, N. Y.— H. R. Peachey— Illustrated 486 disappointment when he finds himself compelled to 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 487 accept a return for his flowers which scarcely covers or 



CUCUMBERS UNDER GLASS— G. E. Stone— lUus- possibly does not cover the first cost of the bulbs, yet 



"^ ^ °° it must lie evident to anv one comizant of the condi- 



A PALM HOUSE AT OAKDALE, N. Y.— Illustrated.. 489 ., . ., , „ " , .1 -, ■, , • 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 491 t'ous that the bulb growers, methods might be improved 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES much to his own advantage and for the benefit of the 



New Jersey Florlcultural Society-New York flower market in general, 'in no branch of the floricul- 

 Flonsts Club — North Shoie Horticultural Society i c ■ t r- ■, 



— Conterence at Newport. R. I.— Pittsburg and tural profession do we find such haphazard methods or 



Allegheny Flonsts' and Gardener's Club 492 j^ore wasteful extravagance. Take for instance the 



New Bedford Horticultural Society — Dayton Flor- . ° 



ists' Club— Detroit Florist Clun— New Haven quantities of early-forced tulips that are to be seen in 



wTsWngt^n'""''"'^'"''" ^''°"^^y-^'°'''^'^' Club of ^^^ fj^e wholesale markets at the Holidays— mere shreds of 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Ameri- color and practically valueless, vet every bulb thus de- 

 can Carnation Society-Club and Society Notes.... 494 .^royed had to be paid for in good money. -Indeed a 



HEATING TOPICS— Daniel IlifEe, Portrait 494 , ,. i ,,,,., • , ,• 



EXTRACTS FROM 'RAMBLING NOTES ON TREES ^^''«*^ proportion of the tulip shipments reaching the 



AND SHRUBS"— J. W. Duncan 495 markets all through the forcing season show poor Judg- 



SOME EXPERIENCES IN HYBRIDIZING— ,Tohn Cook 495 nient in the selection of varieties, over-forcing, rough 



^^r., ^.„ r^,,^^ ' V ^ '.U^^ \ ',^^'J,^ handling, and hasty packing. Apparently little thought 



POT CULTURE OF CARNA'nONS— Wni. Duckham.. 502. , , •' 6 11 J o 



DAHLIAS-J. K. Alexander 502 ^^^^ ^^"^^^ S^"''^^ ^° bringing out the finer character of 



OBITUARY 502 these flowers or to provide the buying public with the 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS finelv cupped, stout petaled blooms which it is possible 



Boston, Buffalo, Coluinbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, , * , ^ j! 1 1^ n t t 



New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Newport.... 505 to produce under careful culture. Good form is an 



MISCELLANEOUS essential in the tulip as it is in all other florists' flowers 



pSa^l'"". .''.°.'!"'!'.'™7"'"'"'''*^'' : Ill ''"'^ *'^^ fl'™sy looking specimens usually seen r.re not 



Palm House, Buffalo Botanic Gardens — Illustrated. 493 calculated to help this flower in the estimation of the 



rnt.\-poraTed ^^'^!!"^: ! .' ! .' ! ." ! ! ! ! ! .' .' ! ! ." ! ! ! ." .' ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! I9I '"'.«"'• '^^'^ ^^"'^'^ observations apply with equal force 

 Catalogues Received 498 to the narcissus in all its forms. One finds it difficult 



Bu^?ness™^Chan<^ea 503 ^^ i*^c-ognize in the fragile, flabby material so abundant 



News Notes 503-507 in the fiower markets, the sturdj' sorts which produce, 



Gr'elnhousesBuiloingoV ■contemplated;:::;:".:;;;; 613 ""•^"" favorable conditions, those superb heavy-textured 

 " ■ flowers which compel the admiration of everyone. It 



-n, ,, J! TTi i. -J. 1-1 would be interesting to know and, we doubt not, would 



l^rom the mass of Easter items clipped ° ' ' 



Makinn f i-\ ^ ■ \ ii u J 4. dlsclosc soiuc startHug figures if a reliable estimate 



MaKing irom the daily papers we gather abundant '^ ° 



progress evidence that" the florist business all over ™"^l ^^^ '''f' °^ tlie proportion of the entire forcing 



Ijulb importation which goes to loss, eitlier through in- 

 the country is being conducted on a higher f,.,iority of bulbs or unwise treatment in forcing and 

 and more intelligent plane than in times past. Florists marketing the product. 



