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HORTICULTURE 



June 11, 1910 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. XI 



JUNE II. 1910 



RO. 24 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in the garden of iVIrs. 



D. Willis James, gardener Wm. Duckham. 

 RHODODENDRONS AT HOLM LEA— T. Mellstrom.. 881 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 881 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 



STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 883 



LILIUM KRAMERI— Illustrated 883 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



American Association of Nurserymen — Portraits — 



Reports of Secretary and Treasurer 884 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Tarrytown Horticul- 

 tural Society — Yonkers Horticultural Society — Amer- 

 ican Association of Park Superintendents — National 



Flower Show 885 



Society of American Florists — The Rochester Con- 

 vention — Elberon Horticultural Society — -Isaac S. 

 Hendrickson, portrait — American Peony Society — 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — -Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York — Club and Society Notes 886 

 A Visit to William Sim— Illustrated 887 



OBITUARY: 

 Joseph W. Hulsizer — John Crimmins 888 



DURING RECESS: 

 Ball Game at Madbury — Chicago Bowling 889 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Seedsmen's Convention — Losses on Onion Sets 

 and Potatoes — Low Prices on Canning Peas — The 

 Next Canner's Convention — A Canning Company in 

 Trouble — Another Frost — Notes 892 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Philadelphia Retail Happenings — Steamer Depart- 

 ures 894 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 895 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago 897 



New York, Philadelphia 899 



Cincinnati, St. Louis 904 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



E. 0. Orpet Goes West 883 



Carnation Countess Knuth 883 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 887 



Incorporated 887 



News Notes 887-888-890-893-895 



Personal 888 



Cincinnati Personals 888 



Philadelphia Notes 888 



St. Louis Notes 889 



Detroit Notes !!!!.! 889 



Publications Received 892 



Chicago Notes 895 



Patents Granted . ; 906 



The Los Angeles Herald coyly ad- 

 Defending jyjjtg ^-j^^^ "more progress has been 

 the championship ^ade in floriculture in California 

 than in any other State in the 

 Union or any other country in the world" and lest some 



one should cherish doubts regarding this proposition 

 proceeds to instance, as proof, the discovery by the park 

 superintendent at Long Beach of the secret of inducing 

 roses to wear colors to order and the assertion by that 

 gentleman that he "can produce a patriotic rose, colored 

 red, white and blue." We hope our horticultural friends 

 across the Atlantic who would come under the classifi- 

 cation of "any other country in the world" will not feel 

 hurt or regard this timid reminder of California's su- 

 premacy in the realm of floriculture as evidence of an 

 inclination to boast. Indeed, it is all due to Georgia's 

 vainglory over the recent exploit of one of her sons in 

 discovering the long-sought black rose. We didn't think 

 California would stand it long. There is a limit to 

 human endurance and we realized when Georgia's defy 

 came out that our friends in California would be com- 

 pelled to notice it, much as they would prefer to "do 

 good by stealth and blush to find, it fame." 



Baltimore is learning some things and 

 Culture and from her experience the people of other 

 horticulture communities besides Baltimore might ac- 

 quire some timely wisdom. Baltimore is 

 not the only city where park boards are appointed "not 

 on account of anything they know about parks, trees, 

 landscape gardening, the floral kingdom or anything of 

 that nature, but just because they are good prominent 

 citizens." Boston has had a rude awakening very re- 

 cently, not only to the unwisdom of placing her public 

 parks under the absolute control of highly respected but 

 horticulturally ignorant citizens, but also to the difii- 

 culty of overcoming the very evident disinclination of 

 the officials having the appointing power, to replace gen- 

 tlemen of this class with those who have the needed 

 knowledge but who lack in certain qualifications which 

 politicians set a high value on. To find among the leis- 

 ure classes here, as is the case abroad, men who are well 

 versed in horticulture — such men, for instance, as the 

 late H. H. Hunnewell — is not always easy. As we have 

 repeatedly urged in these columns, we think there should 

 be on every park board at least one member practically 

 experienced in the work of constructing and planting. 

 To bring this about will require some time and hard 

 work, but it is a duty the craft owes to itself as well as 

 to the public. 



The horticultural industries generally 

 Back to will respond with a hearty Amen to the 



outdoor life sentiments expressed by Chancellor Day 

 in his remarks before the graduating 

 class at Syracuse, N. Y., last Sunday, calling attention 

 to the enormous amount of money absorbed by the auto- 

 mobile infatuation, which is held responsible for the 

 withdrawal of many millions of dollars from the pro- 

 ductive capital of the country, the mortgaging of homes 

 and many other disturbing things which invariably fol- 

 low in the train of a luxury over-indulged in. Mr. E. 

 H. Gary, chairman of the executive board of the U. S. 

 Steel Corporation in an interview this week is reported 

 as having said that "we are now in the centre of one of 

 the greatest harvests of prosperity the country has ever 

 witnessed." We think those engaged in the horticul- 

 tural industries will be disposed to question Mr. Gary's 

 assertion. The halt in the growth of many branches of 

 this business has been evident to every observer and a 

 valid explanation for this otherwise unaccountable fact 

 is possibly suggested in Chancellor Day's "broad and ap- 

 parent" illustration. "Back to out-door life" is a motto 

 which we have had reason to believe would make for the 

 direct benefit of the plant and planting interests and 

 allied industries. Unfortunately the realization seems 

 to have taken an unforeseen course. 



