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HORTICULTURE 



November 13, 1909 



HORTICULTURE, 



TOL. X 



NOVEMBER 13, 1909 



NO. 20 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Vield of Dahlias. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 669 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 669 



ALLAMANDA— Geo. F.' Stewart 671 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



The Chicago Show, Illustrated 672 



New York's Great Flower Show 673 



Tari'ytown Horticultural Society's Flower Show — 



Rochester Flower Show, Illustrated 674 



Philadelphia Show. F. O. Canning 675 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Washdngttom 



Flower Show 676 



The Boston Exhibition 677 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 678 



Royal Horticultural Society 679 



Awards at Madison, N. J 681 



Exhibition at Red Bank, N. J. — Exhibition at Long 



Branch 696 



Mt. Kisco Flower Show 698 



SEED TRADE: 

 Dissolution of Partnership — Advance in Conti-aot 

 Growing Prices — Philadelphia Seed Notes — Con- 

 tinental Early Vegetable and Salad Plants — Notes... 682 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 684 



Flowers by Telegraph 685 



MISSISSIPPI MATTERS 685 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia 687 



NEWS OF TTIp; CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 New York Florists' Club — Sec'y-elect John Hall, 

 Amer. Nurserymen's .Association, Portrait — Minne- 

 sota State Florists' Association — Pittsburgh Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club— Gardeners' and Florists' Club 



of Boston 694 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 696 



Club and Society Notes 698 



OBITUARY 

 Lyman A. Budlong— James S. Grant — Hippolyte Mil- 

 let — David Thomson — Albert Reichshfarr — A. W. 

 Steiincke — Mrs. Wm. Falconer 695 



DURING RECESS; 

 Pittsburgh Florists and Gardeners Go Visiting — 



Detroit Florists Have Another Outing 696 



A BENEFICIAL INSECT, H. A. Surface 697 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Pompon Dahlia Field, Illustration 678 



Incorporated 682 



Personal 684 



New Orleans Notes 685 



Philadelphia Notes 689 



News Notes 6S9 



Iris pallida Dalmatica, Illustration 696 



Publications Received 697 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 698 



Patents Granted C98 



In undertaking to enlist the interest and 

 Enlisting favor of the retail florist trade for the 

 on new lines Society of American Florists, President 

 Valentine is making a laudable and val- 

 iant push for support in a direction in which the nation- 

 al society is known to be sadly lacking. Mr. Valentine's 

 predecessors and their associates in office have made fre- 

 quent effort to discover a means whereby the indiffer- 

 ence of this large and growing wing of the floral frater- 

 nity might be overcome but the "open sesame" has thus 

 far remained undiscovered or, if discovered, was not dis- 

 creetly used. There is a ring of practicability about Mr. 

 Valentine's attempt and he has gone about it in such a 

 way as to warrant a reasonable hope of success. He 

 can leave no better legacy to the S. A. F. when he steps 

 down from the president's chair than a well-started 

 boom among the retail trade. His address on this sub- 

 ject, delivered in Chicago last week, which we shall 

 present in full in our next issue will be found worth 

 reading and we bespeak for its suggestions the serious 

 attention of those in that branch of florists' occupation 

 to which it is particularly addressed. 



In considering the oft-repeated com- 

 A problem plaints of exhibition managers and 

 in which all others that SO many of the retail deal- 

 are interested ers — the "floral artists" — shun clubs 

 and societies and ignore flower exhi- 

 bitions, we have often wondered why the flower 

 growers have not stepped up and made vigorous effort 

 to have remedied a state of affairs which is so detri- 

 mental to their own interests as producers. Every grow- 

 er of flowers for the wholesale markets might well ask 

 himself for what purpose his flowers are intended and 

 whether these flowers are enjoying adequate opportunity 

 to fulfil that purpose. An often heard lament on the 

 part of the growers is that their products are not priv- 

 ileged to reach the people at retail prices sufficiently 

 reasonable to make their use more general. Wiiether this 

 be so or not, it is our conviction that the producers have 

 in the question of how their gOods are presented before 

 the public a much more promising field for thoughtful 

 attention. It is generally conceded that, in our flower 

 shows, we have failed of much desirable public support 

 through limiting the displays to the raw material and 

 overlooking the feature of adaptation and combination. 

 If the shows suffer from this condition must it not be 

 true that the general demand for flowers must also be in- 

 juriously affected by neglect to take advantage of such 

 opportunities to extend their popularity? Think it 

 over. 



We find within the ranks of the 

 Looking to great general horticultural in- 



harmony as con- dustry many divergent interests 

 duclve to prosperity which are not slow to "put on 

 the gloves" and try conclusions 

 with one another whenever a discordant issue intrudes. 

 While it is distinctly the province and duty of a periodi- 

 cal, such as Horticulture aspires to be, to gather and 

 disseminate all the interesting news of the profession for 



