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HORTICULTURE: 



October 2, 1909 



horticulture: 



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OCTOBER 2, 1909 



NO. 14 



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CONTENTS Page 



•COVER ILLUSTRATION— Trlchopelia torUlls. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rehder ^^° 



IRAMBLES IN THE BLACK HILLS— C. S. Harrison.. 4b5 

 NEW CHINESE VINES AND THEIR USES— Frederick 



Moore *66 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 4bb 



THREE GOOD ORCHIDS— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 4b7 



ABOUT CONVENTION RATES 469 



POLYGONUM LANIGERUM— F. M 469 



BY "WIR'ElESS" FROM THE HEART OF THE COM- 

 MONWEALTH *69 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— American Carna- 

 tion Society- Society of American Florists— Buffalo 

 florists' ciub— Minnesota State Florists" Association 

 Newport Horticultural Society— American Rose So- 

 ciety 470 



• Royal Horticultural Society, F. Moore— Chrysantlie- 

 inum Society of America— New England Dahlia So- 

 ciety— Club and Society Notes 471 



SEED TRADE: 



Seed Corn— Seed Peas— Pea Quotations— The Short- 

 age in Vine Seeds— We Told You So— California 



Beans— The Corn Paclt- Notes 473 



Another Seed Fann for Burpee, Edwin Lonsdale, por- 

 trait G O. Watson— A Wedding at Cambridge, N. Y. 474 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS 476 



Steamer Departures— Retail Flower Stores 476 



Flowers by Telegraph 477 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago '. 479 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Washington 481 



Indianapolis 486 



DURING RECESS: 



Chicago Sports — A Presentation— Buffalo Bowlers... 486 

 OBITUARY: 



Edward T. Alburger, Jr.— John Forbes— Thomas J. 

 Johnson— Peter Barr, A Reminiscence, portrait, G. 



C. Watson 488 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Scarcity of Azaleas and Palms 469 



The Culture of Lilies— E. H. Jenkins 472 



X.ilium Longiflorum Multiflorum Crop in Japan 472 



Catalogues Received 474 



Chicago Notes— News Notes 477 



A Horticultural Building Wrecked 486 



Business Changes 486 



New England Fruit Show 487 



Personal 487 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 489 



Patents Granted 489 



Just twenty-four years ago, September 



A memorable 30, 1884, an event of all-absorbing im- 



occasion portance in the orchid world took place, 



for then the world-renowned collection 



made by tlie late Mrs. Mary J. Morgan was put on sale 



in New York. The buyers came from everywhere in 



this country and even from England. William Elliott, 



the veteran auctioneer, never faced a more aristocratic 

 audience. Vanda Sanderiana, the beautiful orchid illus- 

 trated in this issue, reached the highest price of the sale, 

 H. A. Siebrecht paying $900 for the plant which had 

 originally cost Mrs. Morgan not far from $2,000. Mr. 

 Siebrecht had, as competing bidders, Louis Menand, 

 Isaac Buchanan, William Court representing Veitch & 

 Son, and John Bergman representing Sander & Co. 

 Charles J. Osborn of Mamaroneck was said to be the 

 party Mr. Siebrecht represented. There were other 

 sensational sales recorded;- Cypripedium Morganiamira 

 went to Veitch for $750 and Vanda Lowii to the late W. 

 S. Kimball for $400. Cattleya labiata, now the great 

 stand-by of the commercial florist, was a rare bird 

 twenty-four years ago. G. W. McKenzie paid $160 for 

 a C. labiata with eight bulbs ; Veitch paid $90 for a labi- 

 ata and $200 for a Cattleya Skinneri alba. 



Little did the orchid enthusiasts of that 



The orchid time think that within a couple of 



as a florists' decades there would be tens of thousands 



flower of square feet of glass devoted to Cattleya 



labiata, C. Mossise, C. Trianae and other 

 rich and beautiful orchids for the every day use of the 

 commercial florist. A few j'ears later F. Sander visited 

 this country and took occasion to make a prediction 

 regarding the use of orchids in cut flower work which 

 has been fully verified and there is every prospect vhut 

 for many years to come the growing and the sale of or- 

 chids for such use will continue to increase. The scar- 

 city of this class of flowers at certain periods will un- 

 doubtedly be eliminated in time through the cultural 

 skill and ingenuity of our growers. There are many spe- 

 cies not as yet grown for commercial purposes that will 

 in time find favor. For the famine season of early fall 

 more might be grown to advantage of the sorts whicli 

 are responsive at that time of year such as Cattleyas 

 Bowringeana, Gaskelliana and Eldorado, Odontoglossum 

 grande, Vanda ccerulea, Dendrobium formosum, several 

 of the oncidiums, etc., and we have no doubt the florist 

 trade would absorb them. The irregularity of the sup- 

 ply and the disappointment of being unable to procure 

 them sometimes when most needed has been the main 

 damper upon the orchid's more general use by florists. 



The twentieth century is conspicuous 

 Shorter hours for many steps forward. Science and 

 sociology have gone hand in hand and 

 the business world has done its best to keep pace. One 

 of the many ameliorating conditions brought about has 

 been shorter hours for the workers. For many a day 

 the florist, both wholesale and retail, has had no hours. 

 Now all this is changing. In most of our big cities, 

 the wholesaler at least, gets through early in the after- 

 noon, and is in good shape to hustle by da3'light of the 

 ne.xt morning. Conservative Philadelphia is a laggard 

 in this humane field; but at last comes the news from 

 there, that the time-honored 8 P. M. closing hour of 

 the commission houses has had its death knell sounded. 

 One big house there (the Pennock-Meehan Co.) has had 

 the courage to face the issue and announces that from 

 now on their store will close at 6 P. M. the year round 

 (holidays and such special occasions excepted). They 

 may lose some trade at first, but eventually they will 

 gain and get full 'credit for progressiveness and an apti- 

 tude to conform to the spirit of the age. We should not 

 be surprised to see the idea of earlier closing gain favor 

 with the retail dealers also. Once the public get accus- 

 tomed to it they will accept the situation as they liave 

 in other lines of retail trade where a similar reform has 

 been put in operation within a few years. 



