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HORTICULTURE 



November 80, 1909 



horticulture: 



TOL. X 



NOVEMBER 20, 1909 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Chrysanthemum Show at 



Garfield Park, Chicago. 

 NOTES PROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— 



Alfred Rehder 705 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 705 



ALLAMANDA WILLIAMSII— W. N. Craig 707 



EPIDENDRUM DECIPIENS— M. J. Pope— Illus 707 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



Dobbs Ferry Show — Pasadena Flower Show — 

 Chrysanthemum Show at Garfield Park, Chicago — 

 Milwaukee Flower Show — Show at Albany, N. Y. — 



Worcester County Exhibition— Notes 708 



St. Louis Horticultural Society— The St. Ixiuls 



Show as a Lady Saw It 709 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society 710 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — American 

 Carnation Society — Horticultural Society of New 



York 710 



Florists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island — 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society^American 

 Rose Society — Chrysanthemum Society of America 711 



Elberon Horticultural Society 713 



TO UNITE THE RETAIL FLORISTS— J. A. Valentine 712 

 RAMBLER ROSE LADY DUNCAN— Illustrated 712 



SEED TRADE: 

 "Future" Peas and Beans — Effect of the Decreased 

 Averages — In Justice to the Growers — The Bean 

 Situation — About Limas 718 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Trade Notes — Steamer Departures 720 



The Crepe Puller at Work, Illus. — New Flower 

 Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 721 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo 722 



Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New York 723 



ORCHIDS AT ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



— Frederick Moore 730 



AN INTERESTING NURSERY— W. H. E 730 



OBITUARY: 



Samuel J. Thompson — August W. Steineke — Ernest 

 H. Schmidel— Thomas McKenna Ulam 731 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Hymn of Thanksgiving, Poetry 710 



French Bulb Prospects 715 



News Notes 715, 733, 734 



Catalogues Received 718 



Philadelphia Notes 725 



Basket Plants, Frederick Moore 730 



Chicago Notes 732 



During Recess 732 



A Suggestion for Fall Planting 732 



Personal 732 



Business Changes 733 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 734 



Fire Record 734 



Patents Granted 734 



It is with much satisfaction and with 

 Advancement sanguine hopes for the future of our 

 on right lines, horticultural exhibitions that we learn 

 of the efforts being made in various 

 places to break away from the conventional monotony 

 of the old-fashioned flower show and introduce novelty 

 in arrangement and studies in adaptability and har- 

 mony in color effect in plant and flower grouping. 

 This movement is in line with the views frequently ex- 

 pressed by HoETicuLTUEB in considering ways and 

 means whereby public interest in flower shows may be 

 reawakened and retained and we are glad to see that 

 oui' efforts have not been futile. Eochester with its 

 17,000 paying visitors, Chicago with its record breaking 

 attendance and Boston in its last spring's success give 

 good evidence that the right spirit is active among the 

 show managers and that the innovation of presenting 

 a perfect and harmonious picture instead of a motley 

 assemblage of individual contributions has the elements 

 of popularity in it wMch make for success. And then 

 thev are distinctly educational from an artistic stand- 

 point — something much needed by the peoi>le generally 

 and also by the florists themselves. 



We noticed, a few days ago, in the 



"If the blind windbW of a prominent flower store 



lead the blind" i^ a certain city a spray of the tiny 



blossoms of the pompon "Baby" 

 chrysanthemum in a little vase and, alongside of it, a 

 specimen bloom of one of the largest market varieties 

 — the former labelled "The chrysanthemum of our 

 grandmothers" and the latter marked "The chrysan- 

 them^um of today." The florist who displayed them 

 would have the public believe that the difference be- 

 tween the two represented the line of development 

 siiice our grandmothers' days and he probably believed 

 it himself, in ignorance that the one represents fully 

 as modem a development as the other and comes from 

 a distinct ancestry. The term "our grandmothers' 

 days" in somewhat indefinite. Some of us have grand- 

 mothers still alive and healthy ; others have to ■ trace 

 back many years to find when tlieir gi-andmother lived. 

 But, at least, it is a fact that about fifty years ago they 

 were having chrysanthemum shows in London where 

 blooms grown four or five to a plant were shown, from 

 foiir to six inches in diameter, and many new sorts were 

 being constantly raised and imported to Great Britain 

 and to America. We know of one writer who, in des- 

 cribing some of the chrysanthemum novelties of 1863, 

 remarked that "very little if any improvement has been 

 made in the past ten years." Our florist friend should 

 revise his clironology. 



Another instance of willingness 



An assumption to distort history in order to ex- 



without foundation dte sensational comparisons may 



be seen in the window of a florist 



who is displapng an absurd composition of jwmpon 



