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HORT I CULTURE 



January 16, 1910 



HORTICULTURE, 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Three Cypripediums of High 



Degree. 

 PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson- 

 Illustrated 69 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 70 



ANTHURIUMS— Geo. F. Stewart 70 



THE GLADIOLUS— L. Merton Gage 71 



TRANS- ATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 73 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Newport Horticultural Society — Commercial Florists' 

 Association of Rochester — National Council of Horti- 

 culture — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — 

 Pittsburgh Gardeners' and Florists' Club — Detroit 



Florist Club — Chrysanthemum Society of America 74 



New York Florists' Club— Chicago Florists' Club — 

 Florists' Club of Washington — New England Dahlia 



Society — Club and Society Notes 75 



BUILDING UP A RETAIL TRADE— Edw. A. Stroud 76 



PLANT COLLECTING IN CHINA 78 



SEED TRADE: 

 About Potatoes— California Seed Products— The Can- 

 ners' Interests — Department on Adulteration — Notes — 

 Uniformity of Varietal Character in Garden Vege- 

 tables, concluded 80 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — Washington — Miscellaneous 



Notes 84 



"Every Florist Has Been There," Illustration- Flowers 



by Telegraph 85 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia 87 



New York 89 



OBITUARY: 

 Hermann Kuhley— Jas. Stocksill— J. D. Chamberlin— 



Mrs. Josephine Garland 94 



THE CULTIVATION OF THE CYCLAMEN— Geo. 



Cruickshank 94 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Rose Miss Octavia Hesse 75 



In Bankruptcy 75 



Field of Lilium lancifolium rubrum — Illustration 75 



Publications Received 77 



Chicago Notes 79 



German Demand for Tobacco Extract 82 



Sulfocide 82 



Personal 85 



Philadelphia Notes 89 



News Notes 89-97 



Florists' Establishment Wrecked 94 



Catalogues Received 95-98 



Movements of Gardeners 95 



Fire Record 97 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 98 



Patents Granted 98 



We believe there is a general feeling of regret 

 Pinchot among the friends of the forests over the 

 loss of Gifford Pinehot's services as chief of 

 the forestry department. He was zealous and honest — 

 one of the few whose appointment was due to no influ- 

 ence of politics but because he understood his business. 

 The selection of such a man for such a position stands 

 to the credit of President Eoosevelt. We are glad to 

 learn that the new forester and his assistant are both in 

 sympathy with the methods and policy of Mr. Pinchot. 



The talk by Edward A. Stroud before the 

 A helpful Florists' Club of Philadelphia which we pre- 

 document gent in full in this issue, will be found dis- 

 tinctly helpful, sound and practical and 

 will repay a careful reading by every florist. While en- 

 thusiastically in sympathy with horticultural progress 

 on the highest plane it is at the same time a thoroughly 

 sensible business document. Dissemination through the 

 medium of the trade press alone seems hardly adequate 

 for such a production. Papers of this character might 

 be acquired as they are delivered from time to time by 

 the S. A. F. for distribution in pamphlet form. They 

 are well worthy of preservation in some such permanent 

 manner for the edification and inspiration of the horti- 

 cultural trade. 



It is announced that the promenade 

 A questionable committee of the junior class of Yale 

 reform has adopted a plan by which the cost- 



ly expense of flowers at the prome- 

 nade for chaperons and partners will be abolished. All 

 applicants for tickets were forced to sign a pledge that 

 they would give no flowers under penalty of not getting 

 tickets. Where is "the milk in the cocoanut" in this 

 proposition? Is there any reason for the boycott on 

 flowers other than the specified "costly expense?" From 

 what we know or think we know of the expense accounts 

 of the average college student we are inclined to the 

 belief that this action is all a case of saving at the spigot 

 and wasting at the bung-hole. Surely the least repre- 

 hensible of a students' follies is the bestowal of flowers 

 on his friends. It is a bad sign for any class in college 

 or out of college when flowers — the most innocent and 

 beautiful of nature's gifts — are put under the ban. 

 What will the "junior class at Yale" take up as a sub- 

 stitute ? 



Ten weeks until Easter. From the 

 From now standpoint of the wholesale plant grower 

 until Easter jt is but nine weeks, for his "harvest" 

 will have been about all gathered a week 

 before the great day and to that end all his energies will 

 now be turned. The city florist isn't bothering his head 

 much about Easter yet. What he is most concerned 

 about is the little four weeks which lie betwixt him and 

 Ash Wednesday and the dreaded Lenten season which it 

 ushers in. Yet the dullness in flower buying during 

 Lent is, and has been for some years back, a rather in- 

 tangible spook. Certain people cease for a while cer- 

 tain gaieties and thus, it is true, one source of income is 

 lost to the florists. On the other hand flower buying for 



