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impress, satisfactory or otherwise, on the men and the 

 movements in liorticulture of the present day. It is 

 unavoidahle tliat views should differ widely as to the 

 wisdom or value of what was aeeomplished at Cincin- 

 nati, according as individual preferences and judgment 

 found endorsement or repudiation in the decisions 

 reached and the manner in which they were reached. 

 But those whose efforts were doomed to defeat, as well 

 as those who returned home with ambitions gratified 

 and the thrill of approval, will now best serve the So- 

 ciety, which is far greater than any man or possible 

 clique of men, by accepting the verdict in which they 

 were interested and leaving to time, the great evener-up, 

 the adjustment of all that for the moment appears ir- 

 reconcilable with what they may have favored as just 

 and wise. 



Entered as secjnd-cUss matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Bostoa, Mass 

 under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



~ Everyone having the Society's welfare at 



CONTENTS Page A duty heart will no doubt agree that it is most 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— House of Calceolarias. neglected hmieutable when, as in the meetings just 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM-Alfred ^ ^ questions of vital importance to the 



Rehder 30o _ • i i 



SABBATIA CHLOROIDES— G. C. Watson-Illustrated 305 organization and to the profession, are settled by the 



THE PROPAGATION OF THE PHLOX— C. S. Harr.sDn 305 vote of from three to five per cent of the members 



HYBRID CALCEOLARIAS— W. H. Waite 306 i^ attendance at the convention— less than a quorum, 



CALCEOLARIA CLIBRANI-H. J. Moore-Illustrated 307 -^^ ^^^^_ Whether decisions thus arrived at fairlv rep- 



FRANK R. PIERSON— President-elect S. A. F 309 . ^ e .-, 1 '11 



A PEONY INQUIRY F,ROM NEW ZEAL.VND 305 '^''^''^ ^^e Views and judgment of the members nobody 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: knows, yet it is also true that those who absented them- 



American Rose Society 309 selves, knowing that important questions were awaiting 



North Shore Horticultural Society— American Carna- settlement and lial)le to be brouoht up at any time, have 



tion Society-Massachusetts Horticultural Society- forfeited their riaht to find fatilt if policies distasteful 



Lenox Horticultural Society iZb , ., , /• ' ^ . rm 11 ji 



Railroad Gardeners' Convention 327 to them have found approval. 1 he problem of how to 



Bar Harbor Horticultural Society— Gardeners' and insure a creditable audience for a lecturer or a repre- 



Florists' Club of Boston— Club and Society Notes.... 328 sentative number for debate and defining of the So- 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: ciety's position on important questions is as old as 



Convention Report Completed--Thursday Evening- ^^ g j ^ j^ jj j outranked by none which the 



lu-idav-The Exibition— List of Exhibitors, Illustrated _, ,. •, ^ ' ,, , •' ,, ,■ ■^ 



-Convention Notes-Frederick W. Vick, Vice-presi- Executive Board are called upon annually to consider 



dent-elect. Portrait— The Shooting Contest— Ladies' wlien formulating plans and program. The conveu- 



Bowlin?— The Bowling Tournament— Report o£ Legis- tion of 1909 certainly reached the limit of transgression 



lative Committee Concerning Ice Charges— Annual j^^ |]jj^ reo-ard 



Report of Maryland State Vice-president 310-oH ' ^' 



LURING RECESS— Florists' and Gardeneis' Club of _^ From the beginning the relative irn- 



„„„^ ^_, f^" "" Ti'e jjortance of the Trade Exhibition as a 



American Seed Trade Association— Notes ."lo 'backbone of feature of the annual Convention has 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: the convention i,eeQ growing apace. Once of secon- 



New Retail Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 316 , j_ -, 1 i. , 



Flowers by Telegraph 317 "ary account, it has now come to be 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: the backliono of the event, and it is a debatable _question 



Boston, Buffalo Chicago . 31? whether or not the exhibition, even in its present di- 



Detroit, New York. Philadelphia 321 . i 



MISCEI LANEOUS- mensions, w-ould not draw together a full attendance of 



Business Changes.. 316 the trade, even if all lectures, papers and discussions 



Chicago Notes •. 317 1 • • 1. i i ±\ mi 1 1 1 • 



Rochester Notes 317 ^^'^'"'^ eliminated from the program. 1 he plans looking 



Detroit Notes 317 to the adding of a public horticultural exhibition as 



Personal 317 an adjunct of all future conventions seem timely and 



Incon)orated 317 eniinentiv wise. The great horticultural exhibition at 



Horticultural Instruction 326 ir ■ tt'h td 4. ' xi • c ^i • i. a-ji 



A Maple Tree Pest-Sylvanus Van Aken 328 ^'"'^'c Hall, Boston, on the occasion of the visit ot the 



Addenda to Sweet Pea Review— G. C. W 329 S. A. F. to that city in 1890 is frequently referred to 



Patents Granted 330 as one of the most attractive and instructive features 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 330 p^.pj. provided at a convention. The time seems now to 



News Notes 330 , ^ , , i-j.- -uix 



have come when such an adjunct is possible at every 



— convention. The bright intellects in the trade are 



Events have moved rapidly and with far- coming to realize the tremendous influence tliat may 



Now reachinc: influence since our last chat he exerted with the ])ulilic through such a means and 



all together with our readers. The second Cincinnati ^^ '^^''^^ ""^ h'jvc been losing through failing to pro- 



vide such an attraction to enthuse and enlisjhten tne 



convention of the S. A. F. so long looked p^^^^jg ^^ ^j^^ convention city as to the puriwses of our 



forward to as an occasion of great intere.-it and moment, National Society. We hope that the powers that be 



has already lieen written into history and lias left its will make provisions for such an accessory next year. 



