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HOKTICULTURE 



August 7, 1909 



horticulture: 



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AUGUST r, 1909 



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CONTENTS Pag^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Farquhar Rose. 

 ROCKY MOUNTALX RAMBLES— L. H. Pammel— Illus- 



ti ated 165 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM.— Alfred 



Rehder 167 



TURKISH METHOD OF CULTIVATION OF GARDE- 

 NIA FLORIDA— Frederick Moore 169 



A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS C. THURLOW— C. S. Har- 

 rison 169 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES; 

 Society of American Florists — Ladies Society of Amer- 

 ican FlorisLs — Hotel Rates at Cincinnati — Cincinnati 



Florists' Club — American Cai nation Society 170 



Park Superintendents at Minneapolis — Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia — Chrysanthemum Society of America 

 — American Institute — Detroit Florists' Club — Club 



and Society Notes 171 



DURING RECESS: 



Buffalo Florists' Club 171 



A Pleasant Send-Oft — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Boston — New York Bowling Team 172 



Greek-American Florists' Association 179 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Asa Gray — Varnum Frost— Mrs. Car- 

 oline C. Massey — Richard G. Beneke — Edward M. Ly- 

 man— John R. Hellenthal— Herman Copeland — George 



Walker 172 



ItOSES AND THEIR CULTURE! FOR COMMERCIAL 



PURPOSES- W. G. Badgley 173 



SEP]D TRADE— The Other Side oi; the Free Seed Con- 

 troversy, A. .1. Pieters — Notes — Incorporated 174 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 176 



Flowers by Telegraph 177 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago Philadelphia, New York 179 



NURSERYMEN PI LLING TOGETHER— J. H. Dayton. 186 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Poetry — Keep Fishin' 169 



Scale of Points for Dahlia .Judges 169 



Personal 172 



Albany Notes 176 



Chicago Notes 177 



Philadelphia Notes 177 



Catalogues Received 181 



St. Louis Notes 181 



National Apple Show 186 



Park Improvement for Washington. 187 



Irondequoit Peach Prospects 187 



Borers in Maple Trees 188 



National Inspection Law Needed 188 



Concerning Strawberry Pests 188 



Green-Striped Maple Worms 188 



Ant Hills in Grass Plots 188 



Practical Cement Benches 190 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 190 



News Notes— Patents Granted 190 



The statements which are repeatedly 

 An alleged made as to the deadly eflects on the 

 source of danger birds, of the poisonous sprays so 

 generally used for insect extermina- 

 tion, are lioth startling and disquieting and furnish good 

 cause for anxiety as to where our present methods of 



handling insect problems may lead us. The well-marked 

 absence of birds from territory where thorough spraying 

 of large tracts have been practiced seems to give warn- 

 ing that in our zeal to escape one danger we are hazard- 

 ing another. It was asserted by a member at a recent 

 meeting of a certain liorticultural society that twenty 

 four dead robins and fifty dead sparrows had been found 

 in a place which these birds usually frequented, soon 

 after the trees in that locality had been sprayed. This 

 is a phase of the insect campaign which seems to de- 

 mand attention and careful investigation. 



The increasing scarcity and advancing 



Wood price of wood has spurred ingenuity in 



preservation various directions to find material to take 



its place in the different uses to which 

 wood is put and to prolong its usefulness when used. 

 The experiments which the national government is 

 now conducting with reference to increasing the dur- 

 ability of timber and boards by chemical treatment are 

 of particular interest and value to the owner of green- 

 houses. The high humidity and heat of the greenhouse 

 is conducive to rapid decay, and if any process can be 

 perfected whereby this may be arrested, and whereby as 

 a further resTilt a lower grade of lumber may be used, it 

 will be a great help and material saving in expense of 

 construction and repair. The investigation now going 

 on and the conclusions reached by the government ex- 

 perts will be followed with much interest by the horticul- 

 tural fraternity. 



The Manufacturers' Association and other 



A local business interests centering in Salt Lake City 



issue are agitating the question of home grown 



shrubs and trees versus nursery stock shipped 

 in from eastern sources. "That representatives of east- 

 ern houses should come here and capture the trade they 

 do is a matter of mystery to the nurserymen of the city," 

 says the Salt Lake City Telegram. It states further that 

 "an effort will be made to start a campaign against the 

 eastern orehardists, in line with the general fight for the 

 patronizing of home industries and home products." 

 Nobody can reasonably find fault with all this. It is a 

 laudable purpose. But the rule which prevails univer- 

 sally wherever buying and selling are carried on must be 

 reckoned with, viz. — that the goods must be equally good 

 and equally cheap in price and the terms equally favor- 

 able if the local dealer is to control the business; and 

 then, after all has been said and done, there remains the 

 good advertiser whom, everything else being equal, you 

 can't beat out, no matter where he comes from. 



News from northwest Washington 



A promising relative to the outcome of experi- 



"infant industry" nicnts carried on Ijy the government 



for the past five years is very en- 

 couraging to all wlio would like to see the biilb-growing 

 industry well established on American soil. So firmly 

 has the idea been rooted among horticultural people that 

 the peculiar adaptability of the lowlands of Holland, to- 

 gether with low cost of labor there, presents an insuper- 

 able ob.stacle to profitable competition on this continent, 

 that it has been the custom to scout as visionary and 

 absurd any suggestion that home production of the so- 

 called Dutch bulbs might yet be made a commercial suc- 

 cess. That the proper soil and requisite climatic condi- 

 tions have at last been found by the Department of 

 Agriculture, seems now, however, probable. In fact, it is 

 boldly stated that the bulbs produced in this land are 

 superior in health, blooming, and all other qualities to 

 the best Holland product. Furthermore the land value 

 is but a fraction of that of the Holland farms. 



