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HORTICULTURE 



October 30, 1909 



HORTICULTURE, 



fOL. X 



OCTOBER 30, 1909 



NO. 18 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Oncidium varicosum Roger- 

 sii 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 601 



ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM ROGERSII— M. J. Pope 601 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 603 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — National Chry- 

 santhemum Society — National Dahlia Society — Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club 604 



Society of American Florists— Convention Rates — 

 Boston Cooperative Flower Growers' Association... 605 

 Horticultural Society of New York — New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society — Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America — Buffalo Florists' Club— National Nut 

 Growers' Association — St. Louis Horticultural So- 

 ciety 606 



L'Association Francaise des Amateurs et Jardiniers 

 Chrysantheniistes — American Carnation Society — 



National Sweet Pea Association of America 607 



Exhibition at San Francisco 613 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 624 



Club and Society Notes 625 



SEED TRADE; 



Wholesale Seedmen's League — "Farmers' Alaskas" 



— Vine Seeds Short — Notes — Catalogues Received.. 608 



Sweet Pea Trial Grounds 610 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Washington — Steamer Departures — New Flower 



Stores 612 



Flowers by Telegraph 613 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia 615 



New York 617 



OBITUARY: 

 E. Sutermeister, Portrait — Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard 

 — Mrs. Mary A. Free 623 



TWO PINE CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Illustrated 624 



DURING RECESS: 



Astoria Florists' Bowling Club— Chicago Bowlers... 626 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publication Received 610 



Personal 613 



New Bedford Notes ' 613 



A Boston Plant Growing Establishment 617 



Chicago Notes 622 



New Azalea Indica, A. Leuthy 624 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 626 



News Notes 626 



Patents Granted 626 



Paris Autumn Show 626 



That the question of the arrangement 

 Proficiency df the ehns on Commonwealth avenue, 

 set at naught Bopton, it; still very much alive is evi- 

 dent from a lengthy commnnication 

 illustrated with views and diagrams, from the pen of 

 Prof. C. S. Sargent, whicli has recently appeared in a 

 leading daily newspaper. Tlie incomprehensible action 

 taken by tlie park commission in adopting a plan of 



planting at variance with that originally recommended 

 as best, after careful consideration by two such masters 

 of the subject as Prof. Sargent and the late F. L. Olm- 

 sted and in opposition to the e.xpressed views of far- 

 seeing experts generally, goes to substantiate the opinion 

 often expressed that on all park boards there should 

 always be at least one man whose training has given him 

 expert knowledge of sylvan and horticultural matters 

 from a practical standpoint. The property abutters on 

 any avenue are, for obvious reasons, among the worst 

 advisers in any question of tree planting or tree removal 

 and their short-sighted clamor has often stood in the 

 way of wise procedure. Subservience to such influences 

 in \he case of sucli a thoroughfare as Commonwealth 

 avenue seems too bad especially as there is no doubt that 

 had the planting been wisely done originally their oppo- 

 sition to any change at the present time would have been 

 equally vehement. 



The production of flowers is an 



The trend expense. The selling is another 



of wholesale flower and distinct expense, equally una- 



marketlng voidable. It has always been a 



cherished hallucination with the 



average grower for the wholesale trade that he could 



save money by doing his own selling. Usually a short 



experience serves to disillusionize him. It may be re- 

 corded as a broad truth that no man who is a successful 

 grower can afford to devote his time, all of which is 

 needed at the growing end, to the business of market- 

 ing; tliat under existing conditions and competition no 

 man can expect to dispose of to advantage in a couple 

 of morning hours at a market, the product of a place of 

 any consequence but will often find himself up against 

 the necessity of letting his goods go at sacrifice price 

 or adopting the alternative of making some arrange- 

 ment whcreliy they can be held in stock ready for tran- 

 sient demand throughout the day. The latter course 

 tends irresistibly to a commission plan and either course 

 means unavoidable expense, and, in addition carries 

 with it almost invariably the ultimatum of giving credit 

 and sometimes taking long chances as to collection. 

 These phases of the business were discussed at length at 

 the annual meeting of the Boston Co-operative Flower 

 Growers' Association and the above were the conclusions 

 reached by most of the speakers. 



President Valentine has called a 

 To interest meeting of the retail florists of the 

 the retail florist United States and Canada at Chi- 

 cago on November 5, as noted in our 

 S. A. F. new'S in this issue. The call seems somewhat 

 obscure as to what is proposed but we presume that the 

 project specifically referred to is to devise some feasible- 

 plan for the interchange b}' telegram of orders for local 

 delivery of flowers. This class of business has been 

 steadily increasing for a number of j'ears ever since the- 

 more progressive retail florists in various centres began 

 to advertise in the trade papers their facilities for carry- 

 ing it on and no doubt there may be evolved a good mag- 

 net for drawing .support for the S. A. F. from tliis sec-^ 

 tion of the business if some method can be devised in 

 which llie national society will figure as an advantageous 

 intermediary. Of course the great majority of florists 

 everywhere are retailers. The class particularly re- 

 ferred to, however, in the oft-repeated complaint con- 

 cerning their disregard of the S. A. F., comprises those 

 who are engaged in store business in the larger cities. 



