December 18, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



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horticulture: 



TOL. X 



DECEMBER 18, 1909 



HO. 25 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLVSTRATION— Portrait Abraham L. Miller. 



NOTE? FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORKTUM— Alfred 

 Rehder S77 



GERANIUM RED WING— Illustrated 877 



PROGRESS IN GERANIUMS— R. A. Vincent 879 



OBITUARY- 



William K. Harris, Portrait SSQ 



Sewall Fishei — Mrs. H. J. Kranljs 881 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM HOWARD GOULD— 0. H. 

 Tott> 881 



HOUSE OF LORRAINE BEGONIAS— Illustration 881 



NEWS or- THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 New York Florists' Club— President Elect A. L. Miller 882 

 A Vi'sit to Nashua, N. H.— Milwaukee Florists' Club.. 883 



St. Louis Florist Club 884 



Newport Horticultural Society — James Robertson, 



Portrait SS5 



.American Carnation Society — Morris Co. Gardeners' 

 And Florists' Society — North Shore Horticultural 



Society — American Peony Society 902 



Lenox Horticultural Society — Albany Florist Club.. 903 



.S):ED TRADE- 



Opposition to Pea and Bean Contract Prices — Postage 

 on Sealed Seed Packets — Short Deliverier on Garden 

 Beet Seeds— Notes 890 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 892 



Trying to Make an Impression, Illustration — Flowers 

 by Telf graph 893 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit 895 



Indianapolis, N'ew York, Philadelphia 897 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Potash For Sale to All 890 



Personal 892 



Chicago Notes 903 



The Soluble Oils for San Jose Scale 904 



An Aphine Test 904 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 90C 



An Explosion 906 



Fire Record 906 



Incorporated 906 



Patents Granted 906 



Tlie seed trade appears to be threatened 



More trouble with another hardship, according to 



for the the report in our seed news cohimn, 



seedsman which we sincerely hope will prove to 



have been incorrect. The insistence on 



first class postal rates on all sealed seed packets would 



certainly make a lot of trouble and expense, for a while 



at least, until some ingenious inventor has solved the 

 problem of a scaled, yet not sealed, packet. 



Societies devoted to the protection of 



A wasteful native plants are making a strong appeal 



custom on behalf of the Mountain Laurel (Kal- 



mia latifolia) which is being used up in 

 such quantities for garlanding at all seasons, but es- 

 pecially at the Christmas holidays, that it is becoming 

 very scarce and almost e.\tinct in many sections. It is 

 much to be regretted that this beautiful native flower- 

 ing shrub should be wantonly destroyed, especially as 

 neither artistic taste nor any other purpose of real 

 beauty are served" by the present approved methods 

 of festooning the exterior.s and interiors of buildings 

 with this laurel roping, so called. Bouquet green, 

 lycopodium, ground pine or princess pine, as it is vari- 

 ously termed, has Ijeen mostly superseded by the laurel, 

 however, in n large section of the country and, as to 

 its use in bouquet making, that was abandoned by 

 llorists long ago. I-et us hope that the same advance 

 in good taste which has banished bouquet green from 

 the florists' work room may yet bring forward some ac- 

 ceptable decorative material that will supersede the 

 wasteful "roping" methods and so help to preserve our 

 mountain laurels for more noble purposes. 



While feeling much in accord with the 



The florists' sentiments and aims of the organiza- 



duty tions which are endeavoring to arouse 



public interest on behalf of the hollj', 

 laurel and other gems of the wildwood we fear their 

 efforts will avail but little at the present time. Florists 

 should really be their most active allies, and for the 

 best of reasons. The florist business must depend for 

 its dev elopment and success upon the general utilization, 

 by the people, of the cultivated products of the florists' 

 industry and skill rather than upon the use of material 

 gathered in the wild or upon the trade in artificial 

 manufactures or imitations of any kind. It is mani- 

 festly the fiorists' duty to himself and to the business 

 ho follows to place first and foremost the products of 

 his craft before the public in such shape and manner 

 as to develop a more general taste and appreciation for 

 fresh flowers and plants and to discourage the use of 

 substitutes in any place where natural twining vines 

 or florists' products of ■ any kind are practicable. 

 Have we not already too many make-believe palms in 

 hotels and other places of public resort; too many 

 artificial cattleyas and violets on the ladies' muffs; 

 too many gaudy cloth poinsettias in the windows? 

 Florists follow the most elegant and beautiful avoca- 

 tion on the face of the earth; they should stand up for 

 it in its purity and use everj' means at their command 

 to educate the public to the idea that nothing in ex- 

 istence can ever take the place of a fresh flower or a 

 growing plant with people of refinement. 



