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HORTICULTURE 



October 9, 1909 



HORTICULTURE, 



TOL, X 



OCTOBER 9, 1909 



NO. 15 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilacs at Highland Park, 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 497 



WHAT 1909 HAS TAUGHT ITS ABOUT PEONIES— E. 

 J. Shavlor 497 



THE LIL.A.C— W. C. Barrv— Illustrated 498 



CYPRIPEDIUM SALLIERI MACULATUM OR C. 

 NITENS— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 501 



NOTES FROM BRITAIN— Frederick Moore 501 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia, Portraits — North 

 Shore Horticultural Society — Lenox Horticultural 

 Society — Florists' Club of Boston — French Chrys- 

 anthemum Society 502 



Royal Horticultural Society — Club and Society 



Notes — Prospective Exhibitions 503 



Judging Scales — Society Notes from Abroad, W. H. 

 Adsett 504 



DAHLIA "BOSTON YELLOW"— Illustrated 505 



NOTES ON NEWER ROSES 506 



BY "WIRELESS" FROM THE HOME OF FAIR MAID. 506 



AMERICAN INSTITUTE 508 



SEED TRADE: 



British Vegetable Trials — Contraband Tobacco — 

 The Grass Seed Market — The History of Alfalfa or 

 Lucerne, G. C. Watson— The Aster Seed Crop 512 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL BXORISTS: 



To Retail Florists, J. A. Valentine — Steamer De- 

 partures — New Flower Stores 516 



Flowers by Telegraph 517 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia 519 



Detroit. New York, Washington 521 



OBITlfARY— B. Hasselbring— James Dennis— George 

 Lambert 526 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Mons. Viger 504 



Carnation Dorothy Gordon — Spokane Aster Show 505 

 A Meritorious Novelty — Some Roehrs Specialties 505 



The Canua 506 



The Search for New Pern Forms 508 



Convention Rates and Headquarters 508 



Auto Flower Parade at Washington 508 



Astoria Bowlers 508 



Salvia Sethellii 510 



Publications Received 514 



The Lily Bulb Situation — Movements of Gardeners 514 



Business Changes — Personal 517 



New Bedford Notes 517 



John Young's Window. Illustration 521 



An Insect Friend — New Orleans Notes 526 



Railroad Gardening — Kansas City Park System.. 527 



Chicago Notes, Illustrated 528 



Catalogues Received 529 



Patents Granted — News Notes 530 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 530 



HoRTicuLTUKE extends its sincere regret 



After the to New Orleans over the destruction of its 



cyclone horticultural building and contents in the 



memorable cvclone of last week. The in- 



surance of $10,000 against damage by wind, which we 

 understand was in force, will go a long way towards re- 

 building and we hope it will be found practicable to 

 repair the building and restore the collection of rare 

 and beautiful ferns and tropical vegetation to its former 

 condition. 



The tone of our reports from 

 l^utual flower trade centres seems to 



relations of indicate that the wholesale 



wholesaler and retailer and retail trade have not yet 

 arrived at that period of 

 ]5eaceful harmony called the millennium. Each can still 

 detect failings in the other for which he would be ready 

 and willing to prescribe a remedy at any time. The 

 protest by the retailer against the supplying by the 

 wholesale dealer of any flowers to the consumer direct 

 is an old one. It was "old enough to vote," long ago — ■ 

 in fact, is as old as the wholesale business itself, yet it 

 bobs up today as nimbly as ever and "time, the wisest 

 counsellor of all," seems not to have made any visible 

 impression on either side. We don't think the whole- 

 saler questions broadly the justice of the retailer's con- 

 tention. In fact, any call for flowers by the public must 

 be, in any well-ordered wholesale house, something very 

 much in the nature of a nuisance but if they are to 

 agree to comply with the demand of the retailer that 

 they shall refuse all such business, then there does seem 

 a compensating justice in the wholesaler's insistence 

 that the retail dealer shall in turn support him loyally 

 and not tamper with the latter's sources of supply by 

 dealing direct. We do not doubt that every wholesaler 

 in the country would be glad to sign off all his rights to 

 supply flowers even for his own grandmother's funeral 

 in exchange for legitimate protection against direct 

 overtures to his growers. Of course, conditions vary 

 greatly in different markets, but, under any circum- 

 stances, a middle ground on which all concerned could 

 agree ought not to be an impossibility. 



Views as to the business situation and out- 



Now look, in horticultural lines, vary somewhat. 



get busy Many see evidences of returning prosperity 



in the heavier orders for goods, others in 

 the more prompt settlement of accounts, still others in 

 higher values on whatever they have to sell. A glance 

 through our advertising columns this week will go far 

 to convince the reader that there are some houses — and 

 very representative ones they are — that believe in the 

 oft-quoted old adage that "the best way to resume is 

 to resume." That the houses showing this enterprise 

 at the present juncture wnll keep far in the van of their 

 fellows who lack the courage to come forward in mod- 

 ern business fashion, nobody can doubt. The man who 

 gets busy now on right lines is destined to come in for 

 a good hustling trade during the season just starting and 

 we can imagine no way in which one can better help 

 towards the realization of a "bigger, better and busier" 

 horticulture than by buying liberally from those adver- 

 tisers who favor with their patronage and support a 

 paper which so well represents the best men and the 

 most advanced phases of the business as does this issue 

 of HoRTicuLTDEE. There is wisdom and inspiration in 

 good measure to be drawn from the words of the able 

 men who have so willingly given their best thought and 

 advice for the benefit of our readers. In the credit for 

 having thus given "a good push and a push all to- 

 gether" for the advancement of the general prosperity, 

 cori'espondent and advertiser share equally and we hope 

 our readers will take due notice thereof. 



