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HORTICULTURE 



November 6, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. X 



NOVEMBER 6, 1909 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Rose "Professor Sargent" 

 and Jackson Dawson who raised it. 



NOTES PROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 633 



ALTERNANTHERA "JEWEL"— Wm. Tricker 633 



TREATMENT OF CATTLEYAS— M. J. Pope— Illus- 

 trated 635 



A NEW RAMBLER ROSE— Illustrated 636 



CARNATION SHASTA— Illustrated 636 



THE LONSDALE BANQUET— G. C. Watson— Portrait 637 



DAHLIA WM. J. STEWART— Illustrated 637 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



Lenox, Mass., Flower Show, Wm. Scott — Flower 



City's Flower Show 638 



Boston Chrysanthemum Show — Nassau County Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Madison, N. J., Show 639 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Horticultural Society of New York— American Car- 

 nation Society — Florists' Club of Washington — So- 

 ciety of American Florists— Florists' Club of Phila- 

 delphia — St. Louis Horticultural Society — Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America — Detroit and Toledo 

 Florist Clubs Visit Elmer D. Smith & Co., Illustrated 640 

 American Nurserymen's Association 644 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SEASON AT PITTSBURGH— 

 Jas. Hutchinson 642 



SEED TRADE: 

 About Wholesale Prices— For the Good of the Trade 

 — Notes 646 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures — Trade 



Notes 648 



W. G. Matthews, Portrait.. 649 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo 651 



Chicago, Indianapolis, New York 653 



Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington 658 



OBITUARY: 



George D. Henson, Portrait — Percy Jones — John H. 



Beach 658 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Mushrooms in Carnation Bed 636 



Pterostyrax (Halesia) hispida, F. M 636 



Tree Preservation 636 



Chrysanthemum Donatello, Illustration 639 



Business Changes 642 



Personal 649 



New Orleans Notes 659 



Chicago Notes 660 



New Bedford Notes 660 



Incorporated 660 



A New Fungicide 660 



Cucasa 660 



A Triumphant Insecticide 661 



News Notes 661 



Catalogues Received 662 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 662 



Publications Received 662 



We are especially proud of our cover 

 A rose illustration this week. It is a very 



and a gardener happy combination — Jackson Daw- 

 son and one of his most highly prized 

 rose productions — and the excellent likeness of this uni- 

 versally loved gardener will be appreciated at home and 

 abroad by a myriad of friends. The handsome rose, 

 appropriately named in honor of Professor C. S. Sar- 

 gent is delicate pink in color and grows to a height of 

 ten feet. It is the result of a cross between Wichuraiana 

 X Crimson Rambler and a pink H. P. It was awarded 

 a silver medal at the Rose Exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society, June 26, 1909. 



A disposition to break away from 

 Where novelty the beaten path in flower exhibition 

 and originality arrangements is somewhat in evi- 

 are indispensable dence this season and should be re- 

 garded as a very hopeful sign. It 

 is not possible to perpetually interest people in monot- 

 onous lines of blooms and conventional mounds of potted 

 plants, however finely they may be grown, as has been 

 repeatedly proved, to the sad discomfiture of well-mean- 

 ing promoters, and novel effects must be forthcoming to 

 insure financial success for flower shows as is the case in 

 every other venture for which continued public support 

 is sought. It is equally true that the skill to produce 

 plants and flowers which are tritimphs of the growers' 

 art does not always carry with it the ability to arrange 

 artistically or to conceive and carry into execution orig- 

 inal and impressive efiects. Here is one prime reason, 

 in addition to others which are obvious to everybody why 

 the professional floral decorator should always have 

 something to say about planning our public exhibitions. 

 To the fact that he has been of tener than otherwise con- 

 spicuous by his absence is undoubtedly due much of the 

 inertness and stagnation which so often characterize ex- 

 hibitions that from a cultural standpoint are highly 

 meritorious. 



The attentive observer cannot fail to 

 One effect notice the steady trend in the wholesale 

 of abundance flower markets for several years back, in 

 the direction of a wider and wider di- 

 vergence between selling value of stock which is first- 

 class as to quality and that which is not. The variation 

 between the selling price of best and second best, for- 

 merly but a trifle, is today a wide gap and the probability 

 is that it will become more so. As the sources of supply 

 increase, so the buyer grows more and more insistent as 

 to grading and quality and the grower or the wholesale 

 dealer finds he can get standard prices only on the top 

 grade material. Except in rare cases of scarcity on some 

 special line the balance of the stock, which of course is 

 the main bulk, becomes a subject of dicker, with the re- 

 sult that the figure at which the small fraction of choice 

 stock was sold often bears but little relationship to the 

 actual average for an entire cut. There was a time 

 when published quotations in the trade papers, from 

 week to week, meant something but that time has gone 

 and, while one may do everything possible to insure ac- 

 curacy in such quotations, it is a fact that they convey 

 very little information to anybody. The grower who is 

 able to produce regularly the largest percentage of first 

 grade flowers is the one who will come out on top. The 

 bare number of flowers cut becomes of less and less im- 

 portance under these conditions in which it often hap- 

 pens that, of one thousand blooms, one hundred will 

 realize as many dollars as will the remaining nine 

 hundred. 



