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H O R T I C U L T U R E 



September 18, 1909 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— House of White Orchids 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rehder '^"1 



THE ROSE IN SOUTH AFRICA— Frederick Moore. . 4U1 



A GREAT POMOLOGIST— C. S. Harrison 4U3 



GARDEN LEAVES— W. H. Adsett 403 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New York Floi-ists' Club— Morris County Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Society— New England 



Dahlia Society *^^ 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston— Pittsburgh Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club— American Rose Society— So- 

 ciety of American Florists 405 



DENDROBIUM NOBILE VIRGINALE. 406 



THE LILY BULB SITUATION 4"7 



THE VIOLET OUTLOOK *'^^ 



SEED TRADE: 



The Attitude of the Department— An Enterprising 

 Seed House, Henry Holmes, portrait— Notes 410 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Steamer Departures— "Green 



Goods' • • • ■ "^l.^ 



Flowers by Telegraph ■ll'> 



OBITUARY— Frank A. Koerner— T. M. Waters 41'3 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago. Detroit, Indianapolis... 415 

 New York, Philadelphia 417 



DURING RECESS: 



Baseball at Chicago '522 



New York and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers, Illustrated— A Long Island Festival. 



Illustrated ■'^^ 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Honor to a Chicago Nurseryman 40tj 



Movements of Gardeners -107 



Chicago Notes "ilS 



Incorporated '^^^ 



Personal 4-^ 



A Growing Western Nursery Firm— Illustrated. . 422 



British News Jottings— W. H. Adsett 422 



Strealor Winter Vegetable Growers 422 



Philadelphia Notes— Illustrated 423 



Colorado Fruit Show 423 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 426 



News Notes 426 



Business Changes 4p6 



Patents Granted 426 



Exijibition 

 essentials 



W'c ;H-( in ri'ccipt of a i)r(isi)tHtus for 

 A convention tlie meeting of the National Xut Grow- 

 handicap ers' Association to be held at Potilan, 

 Ga. By what strategic and sulitk' in- 

 fluence lias the energetic sec-retarv of that society been 

 enabled to niancenvre the Trunk Line Association. Cen- 

 tral Passenger Association and Western Canadian Pas- 

 senger Association into granting a rate of one and 



three-fifths fare, and the Southeastern Passenger Asso- 

 ciation a rate of one fare plus fifty cents for the round 

 trip, when the Society of American Florists, a much 

 larger organization, failed to get a "look in" for their 

 convention at Cincinnati although they had received lib- 

 eral concessions every year previous for nearly a quar- 

 ter century? Xew York to Cincinnati and return, in 

 1885, $16.00: ditto in 1909, $31.50 : and all other points 

 got the same dose. If delegations of old-fashioned 

 proportions are wanted for Rochester next year the 

 transportation problem is one of the first things for 

 consideration by the powers that be. 



Xow that the season of exhibitions is at 

 hand, problems connected with these af- 

 fairs will demand attention from those up- 

 on whose shoulders the burden of manage- 

 ment has been placed. Three things are essential to the 

 full success of a show, viz., a satisfied public, satisfied ex- 

 hibitors and a financial balance on the right side of the 

 account. The latter depends largely upon the attain- 

 ment of the- first. The second depends upon neither of 

 the others. It may be asserted by some, and with pretty 

 good reason, that a full set of satisfied exhibitors is an 

 impossibility; that the competitor who has failed to 

 reach first place will rarely admit that the judges' de- 

 cisions were riglit and that there always has been and al- 

 ways will be something for him to find fault with. Still, 

 we can't have shows without him and too much wisdom 

 and diplomacy cannot be exercised beforehand to pro- 

 vide against anything that may later on afford a basis 

 for complaint. In other words the judges cannot be 

 selected too carefully, tlie schedules and rules cannot be 

 too explicit in their wording and all sources of past dis- 

 sension should be removed as far as possible. 



It is unfortunate that some more general 

 To insure standard — something in the w^ay of a 

 uniformity niore uniform system of judging, is not in 

 in judging existence. A good start has been made 

 in that direction by the chrysanthemum, 

 rose and carnation societies and it should be followed up 

 and worked out until a universally accepted set of 

 scales for all classes of exhibits has been assembled for 

 tlie use of judges. The Society of American Florists 

 should take up this work and is in a better position than 

 any other existing l)ody to formulate rules and regula- 

 tions and bases for judging that will be generally recog- 

 nized and gladly submited to by exhibitors who,hitherto, 

 have had to take all kinds of chances if desiring to shoiv 

 at divers places and to accept the dictum of judges of 

 varying experience and widely dissimilar viewpoints. 

 Xothing in the above should be construed as reflecting 

 on the ability or integrity of those who have heretofore 

 served as jttdges or on their decisions. So far as our 

 experience extends we know that judges are carefully 

 chosen, their decisions impartially made and verdicts 

 that have been questioned have generally been found 

 able to stand analysis. Yet the duty of judging is not, 

 under present conditions and possible contingencies, one 

 that many care to assume. The best men are none too 

 good, however, for such a service and everything possi- 

 ble should be done to remove existing sources of misun- 

 derstanding and consequent heart burnings so that able 

 men who have heretofore been inclined to avoid the re- 

 sjionsiblity may become willing to serve on judging 

 committees. 



