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HORTICULTURE 



September 25, 1909 



horticulture: 



TOL. X SEPTEMB ER 25, 1909 WO. 13 



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CONTENTS Page 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Herbaceous Perennial Ex- 

 hibit at Boston. 



NEW DAVIDIAS AT ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Relider 433 



THE AVENUE — Frederick Moore 433 



FUCHSIAS— George F. Stewart 435 



TRAINED GOOSEBERRY PLANTS— Frederick Moore, 435 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Newport Horticultural Society— Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston 436 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society Autumn Ex- 

 hibition, Illustrated— Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 icety — Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club- 

 New^ England Dahlia Society 437 



Horticultural Society of New York, Illustrated— New 

 Bedford Horticultural Society — New Orleans Horti- 

 cultural Society 438 



Greenhouse Vegetable Growers' and Market Garden- 

 ers' Association— National Dahlia Society, C. Har- 

 man Payne— Society of American Florists— Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society 439 



Club and Society Notes 440 



BY WIRELESS FROM CONNECTICUT— E. J. Taylor, 

 R. G. Hanford, Fillow Cut Flower Company 441 



SEED TRADE: 

 A Philadelphia Outing— Notes— Catalogues Received, 442 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Steamer Departures— The Best 



Green Thread 444 



Flowers bv Telegraph 445 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis 447 



Philadelphia, New York 449 



Rochester 458 



OBITUARY: 



Aaron W. Morgan— Alex. Bogie— In Memoriam 4o4 



DURING RECESS: 



Retail Florists' Association of New York— Rochester 

 Never Tires— Chicago Prepares for Rochester— As- 

 toria Florists' Bowling Club 456 



A QUESTION OF HEATING 458 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Roses at Auburn, R. 1 441 



Publications Received 442 



Chicago Notes ■ 445 



News Notes 454 



Business Changes 454 



Philadelphia Notes • 455 



St. Louis Notes 456 



Visitors in Boston 456 



Indianapolis Personals 456 



Personal 456 



Boston & Maine R. R. Garden Prizes 45j^ 



Crating Flower Pots 457 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 458 



Xow is till' fcasnii when the \ il- 



The florists' lage improvement associations, 



interest in garden clubs and neighbniliood 



local flower shows horticultural societies get together 



and old and ynung display for one 



another's edification the products of garden and flower 

 bed and distribute prizes for best kept premises, chil- 

 dren's home garden.S; potted plants and vases of flowers. 

 Horticulture believes in these affairs and only lack of 

 space prevents our making extended record of their do- 

 ing.s — not for the public, as we do not reach them, but 

 for the purpose of indicating to our florist, nursenanan 

 and seedsman readers a field which they might, with sub- 

 stantial benefit to their business, cultivate much more 

 assiduously than they do. It is not the custom of the 

 trade to give much serious attention to such occasions 

 but a little reflection must quickly make manifest the 

 splendtd immediate advertising value they contain as 

 well as their indirect but still greater advantage to the 

 commercial horticulturist in awakening a popular ap- 

 preciation and interest in the goods he produces and 

 stimulating a rivalry in their possession. We know of 

 no more promising avenue for the local florist or seeds- 

 man, to extend his acquaintance and expand his business 

 and it is most surprising to note how little he seems to 

 realize it. 



Those of our readers who have been famil- 



Masters of iaj- with the flower business for a decade 



their art gr longer can all recall the condition and 



quality of the roses that were available 

 for market at this season of the year and cannot well 

 avoid making comparisons now, much to the discredit of 

 the former. After an inspection of the stock being re- 

 ceived at the wholesale flower markets the conviction is 

 forced upon one that in a strictly cultural direction the 

 rose grower has made a remarkable advancement unex- 

 celled by any other special department of floriculture. 

 The effect of the specialization of the growers' occupa- 

 tion in the large establishments has been to produce a 

 limited class of very highly developed experts who have 

 turned to good account their opportunities and have so 

 familiarized themselves with the most minute details 

 of their work that they have become masters of their art. 

 Even in the tiny buds cut from the young plants there is 

 a pleasing uniformity in color and other conditions and 

 a healthy cleanness that one likes to see and if there are 

 in evidence any lots that are weazened, scrubby and 

 crippled in the manner once so prevalent it will usually 

 be found, on investigation, that they are not the product 

 of the establishments and the particular class of men 

 we have in mind. These men are being sifted out con- 

 stantly from among their fellows as fitted for positions 

 of important responsibility. The finished product of 

 their skill and industry fills us with admiration wlien 

 we see it in the market and yet the name or identity of 

 the workman is rarely in evidence and, unfortunately, his 

 return for his acconii^lishment is in many cases much 

 below what would in many other industries be considered 

 a reasonable compensation. Among these men we find 

 a large proportion who take pride in their work and a 

 thoughtful interest in every detail not alone from a 

 commercial point of view but from higher motives and 

 a distinct purpose to turn out something that will bring 

 credit to the place with which they are connected. Hardly 

 a day passes at this season of the year that inquiry is 

 not made at this office for such men — specialists skilled 

 in their profession who can take charge of establishments 

 of large extent and be entrusted with weighty responsi- 

 bility but the salary mentioned as awaiting "the right 

 man" is, in many instances, so inadoqu.ite that we are 

 almost ashamed to repeat it. 



