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horticulture: 



September 11, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL, X SEPTEMBER 11, 1909 NO. 11 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



-HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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CONTENTS Page 



■COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Well Grown Cyclamen. 



PROMISING SHRUB INTRODUCTIONS AT THE AK- 

 NOLD ARBORETUM— .\lf red Rehder 369 



THE CYCLAMEN— David Miller 369 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 370 



li'LORAL DECORATIONS AT THE ALASKA-YUKON 

 EXHIBITION— Jackson Dawson 371 



A TRIP THROUGH BELGIUM AND FRANCE— A. 

 Leuthy 373 



A VISIT TO COURTLAND— Illustrated 373 



GALEGA HARTLANDII 373 



JSTEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Washington— Florists' Club of Phil- 

 adelphia — Newport Horticultural Society — North 

 •Shore Horticultural Society — Nurserymen in Ireland, 

 "W. H. Adsett — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 — Joint Exhibition In AVinnipeg — Minnesota State 

 Florists' Association — Club and Society Notes 374 



A SUMMER OUTING— Geo. F. Stewart 375 



.SEED TRADE: 



The Pea Seed Crop — Shortages Difficult to Cover — A 

 Nebraska Report — Trans-.Atlantic Items of Interest, 

 W. H. Adsett 378 



OBITUARY: 



John W. Dunlop— Edward 0. Graham 381 



i'LOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Win- 

 nipeg 383 



Indianapolis, New York 385 



PEONIES AT CORNELL— Illustrated 390 



THE EFFECT OF CROSS POLLINATION IN HORTI- 

 CULTURAL PLANTS— Prof. R. J. H. DeLooch 391 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Grandfather and the News, Poetry 371 



Personal 380 



Steamer Departures 380 



New Flower Store 380 



Chicago Notes 381 



Philadelphia News Notes 381 



Flowers by Telegraph 381 



Detroit Nev;s 385 



Indianapolis Personals. 385 



Business Changes 385 



Landscape Gardeners 390 



Children's Exhibition in Boston 390 



Boston Flower Market 390 



News Notes 390 



Oreenhonses Building or Contemplated 394 



Catalogues Received 394 



Incorporated 394 



Publications Received 394 



Patents Granted 394 



Where is that great revival of business 

 Ours for that SO many people have been confidentlj' 

 the taking predicting for the past few months? Is 

 it a proven reality or does it still exist 

 only as a fond hope — a batch of chickens yet to be 

 hatched ? The replies to our query would probably be as 

 diverse as the character and circumstances of the indi- 

 viduals replying. Many have shut off the pressure and 



allowed their affairs to smoulder along, sluggishly await- 

 ing the hour when "good times" shall have arrived once 

 more. These men will tell you they have seen nothing 

 to indicate a business revival. For others the depres- 

 sion of the past has acted as an impelling force, inciting 

 them to redoubled exertion with a determination blind 

 and deaf to all that the grumblers have to present. 

 These will tell you that there's nothing the matter with 

 business. A lesson we should learn from them is that 

 our success or failure for the coming season depends 

 upon ourselves. 



Let the man of naturally timid dis- 

 Modern business position and conservative policy take 

 ways a lesson in courage from his hus- 



tling neighbor. Instead of criticis- 

 ing him, imitate him and then "go him one better." 

 That time has gone when a man must carry a lot of 

 unsold stock on his benches and finally throw it away for 

 lack of a buyer. The grower with a knowledge of mod- 

 ern methods and the enterprise to adopt them, doesn't 

 do things that way. When you see a little mountain be- 

 hind the greenhouse, of stock which had occupied bench 

 room, time, heat and labor for months, dumped because 

 "nobody wants it," you can conclude that the owner 

 "couldn't afford to advertise" or there was something 

 radically wrong with his method of advertising, the 

 price or the goods themselves. With the means of pub- 

 licity which is now within the reach of everyone through 

 the trade papers — Hoeticultuke especially — there is 

 seldom any need for surpluses to accumulate or excuse 

 for dumpheaps to eat up the profits of a season's labor. 

 There are buyers somewhere for all of it as things exist 

 today, perhaps a thousand miles away, but very likely 

 Just around the ne.xt corner. Eeach out and you'll get 

 'em. 



The business of the florist, nurseryman, 



How to seedsman, landscape gardener and allied 



"get there" industries has made an enormous growth 



within the past few years; everybody can 

 see that. It will undoubtedly make a much greater pro- 

 portionate growth in the immediate future; everyone 

 should see that. Conservatism in reasonable proportion 

 is a good safeguard in any enterprise but there is no ele- 

 ment of recklessness in the presumption that there is at 

 present a practically unlimited field for the extension 

 and enlargement of every department of horticultural 

 industry. Eighty million of the most active, ambitious 

 and progressive people on earth are at our service and 

 their wear and tear of the goods we produce will make 

 a constant and ever increasing demand. For him who 

 is awake to the opportunity and will make a bold reach 

 to get his full share there is abundant prosperity ahead. 

 Build more greenhouses and better ones, plant bigger 

 nurseries, open new flower stores and seed stores in 

 every community ; read the trade papers, text matter and 

 advertisements — particularly Horticultdee — and so 

 hive Icnowledge, inspiration, ambition and method, de- 

 velop your resources, advertise liberally and continuous- 

 ly- — especially in Horticulture — join the chib or socie- 

 ty nearest to you and give them loyal support in their 

 meetings and exhibitions ; use every means to get posted 

 on what is going on and what others are accomplishing, 

 "stay on your Job" and see what the next few years will 

 do for you. The much latidcd development of the past 

 will not be a circumstance to the record of the next 

 decade when it has been written. 



