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horticulture: 



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when we recall the support given by eastern legislators J 

 when the plans for the vast irrigation operations in the 



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JULY 31, 1909 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Decorative Planting at Alas- 

 ka-Yukou-Paciflc Exposition. 



EUPHORBIA FULGENS AND E. POINSETTIA PUL- 

 CHERRIMA— George F. .Stewart 133 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 133 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 135 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Preliminary 

 Program tor Convention — Transportation — Trade Ex- 

 hibition—A Word irom President Valentine — Cincin- 

 nati Convention Notice 136 



Hotels Recommended 137 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIEyTlES: 

 Horticultural Society of Lake Forest — Philadelphia 



Florists' Cluli — American Rose Society 137 



Royal Horticultural Society 140 



Detroit I<"lorist Club 149 



German Rose Amateui s' Society 155 



Club and Society Notes 157 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY- Report of Committee 

 on Nomenclature — E. H. Farr 138 



FLORAL DECORATIONS AT ALASKA - YUKON - 

 PACIFIC EXHIBITION— Illustialion 138 



BEDDING ROSE CLIO AT MINNEAPOLIS — IIlus. 139 



ODONTOGLOSSUM CRI3PUM VAR. E. B. DANE— lUus. 140 



NURSERYMEN PULLING TOGETHER— J. H. Dayton 141 



SEED TRADE: 

 Seed Trade Latitude, G. C. Watson— A Short Crop ot 

 Peas and Beans — California Seed Crops — About Vine 

 Seeds — Notes 142 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Personal Notes — Steamer Departures — New Stores. 144 

 Flowere by Telegraph 145 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia.. 147 

 New York 149 



OBITUARY: 



Thomas C. Thurlow, Portrait — Arnos Reynolds — Wil- 

 helra Richter— Nicholas Beirie— Thomas Parrow 154 



DURING RECESS: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club ot Boston — St. Louis 

 Florist Club — Chicago Florists' Club — Minneapolis 

 versus St. Paul 156 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



'ncorporated 144 



News Notes 144-145-158 



Chicago Notes — St. Louis Personals 145 



Philadelphia Notes — Business Changes 145 



Detroit Notes 149 



Funeral of John Thorpe 154 



Foreign Notes 155 



v5reenhouses Building or Contemplated 15S 



Patents Granted 15S 



'•'The Message of the West to the 

 Applying East" is the title of one of the ad- 



the golden rule dresses to be presented at the Nation- 

 al Irrigation Congress to he held next 

 month at Spokane. Washington. We shall read the 

 "message" with interest. "^The West" as represented by 

 certain senators in their action on the Appalachian bill 

 in Congress administered a rude shock to the friends of 

 conservation and reclamation which is all the more acute 



West were before Congress. No wiser or more patriotic 

 proposition is before the country at the present time 

 than this to prevent the laying waste of the remnants of 

 original forest still standing in the White and Southern 

 Appalachian Mountain ranges, and no more comforting 

 and encouraging message can come from our fellow 

 countrymen in the far AVest than the assurance that the 

 killing of the ^Appalachian bill was antagonistic to the 

 sentiments of the western people and that they wish to 

 be so understood when the question is again brought up. 



Judging from the news columns of the 



Seed trade Des Moines, la., News our friend C. 



east and w/est X. Page, president of the Iowa Seed 



Company, has been having something 

 to tell the folks after his return from a trip to Washing- 

 ton and the meeting of the Seed Trade Association at 

 Niagara Falls. "Eastern seed dealers are fast losing 

 their supremacy in the seed business of the country! It 

 was but a few years ago when the East had all the seed 

 business, but the West is now taking the rank which it 

 should have in this line of business," Mr. Page is quoted 

 as having said. The gentleman does not indicate where 

 he draws the line as to what constitutes P]ast and what 

 West, and this makes it rather vague as to where the 

 lemon is presumed to fall. Neither does he specify what 

 sort of seeds he has in mind. Whatever interpretation 

 may be put upon the claim, however, we doubt very 

 much whether the seed dealers East of the Mississippi 

 for instance, or even in the line of cities fringing the 

 Atlantic Coast are losing sleep over any fear of the 

 diversion of their "supremacy" to the great and growing 

 West. None, so far as -wc know, will admit that they 

 ever had a better business than they have enjoyed this 

 present season. And the dealer who will see to it that 

 his supremacy in quality is uniformly maintained need 

 have no fears for his futtire, whether he be in the far 

 East, far West, or any other old place. 



The coming Convention of the Society 



On to of American Florists at Cincinnati should 



Cincinnati be made memorable — not alone by the 



work accomplished, the speeches made, 

 the plans matured and the mammoth trade exhibition 

 which is assured, but by a record attendance from all 

 parts of the country. There is no question but that 

 every individual who honors the good old Society on 

 this quarter-centennial celebration will get full value 

 many times multiplied for every dollar of money and 

 every hour of the time spent regardless of the distance 

 he may have to travel. And we should not forget that 

 Cincinnati is entitled to all the respect we can show her 

 on this occasion and the very least we can do is to appear 

 in large numbers, thus helping to make the affair im- 

 pressive and showing that the horticultural interests re- 

 member with gratitude the honorable part she took in 

 giving the organization a good start in life. Cincin- 

 nati, through her florists, her hotel people, her city 

 officials and through the generous co-operation of the 

 Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton R. E. Company, set 

 the pace for every S. A. F. Convention which ha? fol- 

 lowed. The reception extended was a princely one. the 

 welcome had the true ring, for it came from the heart 

 and the signal success achieved by the Society to which 

 Cincinnati so ho=pitahly played the host owes not a little 

 to the comradeship so well exemplified in Cincinnati's 

 greeting to her florist visitors. So pack up and join 

 tlie happy pilgrimage and help swell the crowd for your 

 own sake, for Cincinnati's sake and for the sake of the 

 noblest avocation that man can follow. 



