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HORTICULTURE 



July 17, 1909 



■KJ^^Ij'ipi'^^'r JW '¥*¥ TfJir national anniversary and advises a campaign in behalf 



^ ^ V^ J^ -M^ ■!■ Vi^ ^i^ *^ ■^ \J ^\-M1^ Qf a floral rather than a gunpowder observance of the 



_„, „ JULY~Tr — 1909 NO, 3 day. This sounds good. What have the florists to say 



= about it? What are they ready to do to promote this 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY , reform'^ 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. si^<»i- xlioiui . .. a i -^^ + J 



,^ ^ ■, ^, WM ... »* _ i^ie prohibition ot floral gifts at i 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. ci„.,i ^-.rt^ i i i 4^ u„ „* I 



^ , . rs , A Floral gifts school graduations m a number of ■ 



Telephone, Oxford J92 . ° 



WM J STEWART, Editor and Manager ft"" graduation placos has naturally Called forth a 



=:^^=:^^=^=^==:^=^=^^==^^^==^=: scholars very general protest among the flor- 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ■ i "^ 1 1 ■ 1 xi i_ 



On«Year,inadvance.$..oo;ToForeignCounlries,$2.oo;ToCanada,$..5o ISts, whoSC busmeSS haS thuS been 



ADVERTISING RATES interfered with. The overdoing of the custom by the 



Per Inch, 30 inches to page .............. $1.00. fi-ignds of somo pupils and Consequent humbling of 



Discounts on Contracts for consecutive insertions, as follows: ni^^j^..- uj. u^i. ^ ^^ . ^' , ° . 



One month (4 times) 5 per cent. ; three months (13 times) 10 per cent.; tlTOSe children IcSS lortunatc, whlcll IS glVCn as the main 



•ix months (26 times) 20 per cent.; one year (52 times) 30 per cent. x. xi • j. j- i- x j. v, v, 11 „ 



Pageandhaif page spaces, special rates on application. cause lor the interdiction, seems to US to be hardly a 

 , , ,. V o ^ p r»« . p . ivi.„ valid reason for the cutting off of a custom so pretty and 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post OfEce at Boston, Mass . -rrri ■ ■ -< i-nj? 



under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. mipressivc. We have m mmd a certain college tor 



_^-^--_ .— --— .— ~ young ladies where for a number of years very stringent 



CONTtNTa Page -^.^^^^ ^^,.^^^ enforced as to the garb of the students at 



°™mn toVde^""""'^' ~ ''"'"'""'^' ^^"^^ '"^ ^^^ graduation and other public exercises, for reasons sim- 



NEW MICHAELMAS DAISIES— Arthur E. Thatcher— ilar to the above mentioned. The ban was eventually 



Illustrated 69 removed — wisely, we think, for the result has shown that 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred ^^ gg g^ j^jg g^g^ gense has prevailed, undue ostentation 



CLERODENDRON THOMSONAE ' f BalfourU ! ! ! .' ! ! .' .' ! .' ! ! 71 being of rare occurrence and then harmless to everybody 



NEW HYBRID FREESI AS— Frederick Moore 71 excepting the party indulging m it. Children who have 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: reached the age for scliool graduation have already lived 



A Joint Meeting at Minneapolis— Society of American i enough to fully realize their comparative lot among 



^l^^^^'^^^T'^':. .'^'. . """"^'•^: . ^:''- n thefr teHow beings. IJose less fortunate have become 



National Sweet Pea Society- Club and Society Notes.. 73 inured to privation and in the great majority ot those 



OBITUARY— A. G. Burtnett— A. C. Ullrich— Mrs. John to whom fortune has given an abundance their natural 



E. Haines— Philip Hagenburger— Mrs. Godfrey Asch- nobility and generous impulse can usually be relied upon 



DURING RECESS- " ^^ restrain them from any undue assumption of superi- 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 73 ority. Let the children have all the flowers their friends 



RELICS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE— Wm. McM. like to give; the time will not be long a-coming when 



Brown— Illustrated /;; ' ;;avv,:t\' ' ' t'^-:',^^-^ '^* there will be more lemons than flowers for all of them, 



BOUGAINYILLEA GLABRA SANDERIANA UNDER . , . ' 



GLASS— Frederick Moore 7.5 "cn or poor. 



CARNATION BRITTANIA AS A POT PLANT— Illus- ^ The suggestion has been made that 



trated • ■• • • ■ • 75 To appeal this grievance regarding graduation 



Ieed\™E^ ^^^UCARIA EXCELSA 7. t, the S. A. F. tioweit be brought to the attention of 



Secretary Wilson's Reported Retirement— The Corn tbo Society of American Florists at its 



Crop— Pea Pi-ospects- A Good Outlook— Notes 77 next meeting in Cincinnati and that the Society be 



Seed Legislation, Its Uses and Abuses, Prof. L. H. .^g],g^ ^^ ^g].^ ^j^g matter on behalf of the florists of 



Pammel— Philadelphia Seed Trade Notes 78 ,, 4. mi j.- • j a ii 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL I-'LORISTS: the country. The suggestion is a good one and the na- 



Steamer Departures 80 tional organization is the proper intermediary in all 



Flowers by Telegraph 81 .^uch business whicli virtually concerns the trade in gen- 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: gj.g]. ^^r^ ^-^^^ remark by" way of encouragement that 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia 83 ,, o, » -p T, 1. " . 4. ■ „ 



Indianapolis, New York. 85 the S. A. F. has usually come out on top m any cam- 



OIL AS A FUEL— A. Pengel— Illustrated 90 paign which it has seriously entered into for the benefit 



A DESTRUCTIVE BORER— R. J. Hayden 93 of the profession. It is certainly very nice and con- 



MISCBIXANEOUS: . venient to have so potent a champion which may be 



Civic Improvement m Chicago 74 1 i j. • i- i! i. i_i mi c ■ 4. t. 



Second National Apple Show-Ren H. Rice, portrait. 74 appealed to m time of trouble. The Society has never 



Totty Leases Florham Farms Greenhouses 75 demanded any assurance of compensating allegiance on 



New Public Parks and Gardens in Germany 75 the part of those whom it has befriended in the past 



A Profitless Narcissus-Wm. S. Jurgens 75 ,^^^ -^ ^^^^-^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^i more creditable to the 



Impatiens Holstii nana Liegiiitzia '" a • j. j. i 1 i x-i_ ■> j n • i_ 



Among the Palm^G. C. Watson 80 Aonst trade had gratitude and allegiance been more 



Business Changes— Personal— Incorporated 81 generally displayed by the beneficiaries and it is to be 



Southern California Notes 85 lioped that the future mav see a great improvement in 



Stuart Low & Co. Nurseries. Frederick Moore 90 ^j^j, respect. Considering what the S. A. F. has been 



Catalogues Received 90 114. v 1 -4.1, Ti 4- j; 11 



Chicago Notes 91 ^°'^ ^^ accomplish with the support of so small a per- 



PhiladPlphia Notes— Illustrated 92 centage of the horticultural trade as appear on its rolls 



News Notes— Publications Received 92 t^},g possibilities with a full representative membership 



A l.ozi Miner— 1 M. •■••••■ — • ■ • ■ • • geem almost boundless. Eeturning for a moment to the 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 94 ji .• , • ,° ,i 



Patent s Granted 94 nower question, we note in a contemporary the over-npe 



^^^:^=^=:rz^=^=^:===^^==^=^=:=' statement that the city of Boston annually provides a 



A rorrcspondcnt reminds us that bouquet for each graduating pupil in the public schools. 



Flowers we liavc six great festival days in Tliis Avas true up to three years ago, when the custom 



and the "Glorious our calendar year and that July was abandoned. It has been said that one reason for 



Fourth" 4th is the only one in which we the discontinuance was the unsatisfactory character of 



don't use flowers. He comments many of the "creations" supplied to the city on such 



severely on our heathenish way of celebrating this great occasions under the name of bouquets. 



