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HORTICULTURE 



December 25, 1909 



HORTICULTURE. 



TOL. Z 



DECEMBER 25, 1909 



NO. 26 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Railroad Station Gardening. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rehder 913 



ARDISIA CRENULATA— Geo. F. Stewart 913 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 915 



SWEET PEA NOTES— John Horn 915 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society — Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston — J. W. Duncan, portrait — Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York 916 



Elberon Horticultural Society — Pittsburgh Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club — New Jersey Ploricultural So- 

 ciety — Wm. Reid, portrait 917 



Minneapolis State Horticultural Society — ^Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Iowa State Horticultural Society 



• — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 918 



Rochester Commercial Florists' Association — Amer- 

 ican Rose Society — Maryland State Horticultural 



Society 919 



Society of American Florists — New Orleans Horti- 

 cultural Society— That Nashua Trip, Gustave Thom- 



men — Club and Society Notes 920 



THREE NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Illustrated .922 



HORTICULTURE IN FRANCE 922 



RAILROAD GARDENING — Illustrated— Paul Huebner, 

 portrait 924 



A GLIMPSE OF CALIFORNIA 924 



SEED TRADE: 



The Canners and Their Allies — Postage on Sealed 

 Seed Packets — Danish Cabbag'e Seed Crop — Notes 



from Lompoc — Notes 926 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Washington — Steamer Departures — New Flower 



Stores 928 



"Orders Promptly Executed" — Illustration — Flowers 



by Telegraph 929 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit 931 



Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia 933 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Orleans Notes 921 



Personal 921 



Fire Record 922 



Parcel Post Advocated 925 



Proposed Flower Show at Lincoln, Neb 925 



Catalogues Received 926 



Patents Granted 926 



News Notes 927 



Incorporated 928 



Chicago Notes 938 



Portland's Roses — Illustrated — F. J. Koch 940 



Publications Received 940 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 941 



HoRTicuLTDRE extends the compliments of 



Merry the season to its rapidly increasing family 



Christmas of readers and advertisers hoping they will 



enjoy the holiday season to the fullest ex- 

 tent ; to those, as well, who are still outside the family, 

 hoping that they will promptly recognize the wisdom of 

 getting within the lines ; to the profession at large, gar- 

 dener, florist, nurseryman and seedsman, wherever his 

 lot may be cast, hoping that everyone will have the 

 wherewithal to procure that rare luxury of these days — 

 a big turkey — and the keen appetite and good digestion 

 wliich is due such a bird on such an occasion. 



We wish to record our approval of the 

 Get busy appeal on behalf of the adoption of a 



for parcel post parcel post system, which the Connect- 

 icut Horticultural Society has issued 

 and which is published in full in this issue. Every line 

 should carry conviction to the reader. It is a matter of 

 common knowledge that the opposition of the big ex- 

 press monopoly is primarily responsible for the present 

 conditions which place the American public at the mercy 

 of those companies. If it be true, as asserted that the 

 annual deficit of $20,000,000 in the post office depart- 

 ment is attributable largely to the fact that the rail- 

 road companies get about four times as much for the 

 transfer of low-class mail matter as they do for com- 

 mercial merchandise, it would seem that it is about time 

 for the people to wake up and do something. We don't 

 forget the lame excuse advanced by the attorney for the 

 United States Express Co. when the S. A. F. had that 

 concern before the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 that they were forced to charge exorbitant rates to their 

 customers because of the exorbitant rates they were 

 obliged to pay the railroads ! As to what the parcel post 

 privilege has done for horticulture in France, since its 

 extension to shipments of cut flowers, our readers will 

 find something worth reading and thinking about in our 

 notes on the growth of French horticulture, which 

 appear in another column of this paper. 



Two subjects are disturbing the peace of 



Paying mind of the florists around Boston at the 



the piper present time. One is the avowed purpose 



of the Framingham board of assessors to 

 levy a tax upon the stock of the flower growers and nur- 

 serymen of that town. The other is the failure of the 

 Board of Public Works of Woburn to allow the horti- 

 culturists the benefit of the low water rates which man- 

 ufacturing concerns enjoy. As to the Framingham af- 

 fair we presume the proposed levy is in the nature of an 

 "emergency" tax. The good people of Framingham 

 allowed a dishonest town treasurer to steal $150,000 of 

 their funds and the amount must be made good some- 

 how. Local florists, believing their growing stock is 

 not legally taxable, do not take kindly to this proposed 

 move on the part of the assessors and some have already 

 engaged counsel to act in their behalf and defend their 

 position. We have no opinion to advance on the merits 

 of the case but will say that we are very sorry to see any 

 additional burdens of any kind placed upon our horticul- 

 tural industries. We fear, however, that this Framing- 

 ham affair is only a beginning — a sort of entering 

 wedge — and that this movement to mulct the florist to 

 the limit is liable to prove a "rapid propagator." The 

 popular opinion of the florists' affluence is well-known 

 to our readers. Perhaps a little less display of automo- 

 biles and a little less newspaper rant about "harvests" 

 and holiday profits, might tend to put off for a time the 

 day of reckoning. 



