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HORTICULTURE 



January 22, 19W 



horticulture: 



▼OL. XI 



JANUARY 22, 1910 



no. 4 



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~ CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Begonia Glory of Cincin- 

 nati. 



PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson- 

 Illustrated 105 



BEGONIA GLORY OF CINCINNATI 106 



NEMESIA LILACINA— Frederick Moore 106 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 106 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 107 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 109 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— Program of 

 Pittsburgh Meeting — List of Officers — The Exhibi- 

 tion — Schedule of Premiums — Headquarters, Illus.... 110 



Portraits of Officers 110-111 



Pittsburgh Florists' Club, Portraits of Officers 112 



Pittsburgh Ready for the Convention — Exhibition 



Hall, Illustration 113 



Registration of New Carnations 114 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 115 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Horticul- 

 tural Society of Chicago — State Florists' Association 

 of Indiana — Spring Exhibition of American Rose So- 

 ciety — St. Louis Florists' Club 116 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Elberon Horti- 

 cultural Society — St. Louis Ladies Organize 118 



Society of American Florists — National Flower 



Show 132 



Rochester Florists' Association — Nassau County Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Alabama State Horticultural So- 

 ciety 135 



Florists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island 136 



SEED TRADE: 

 Winter Tares or Vetches — A Clever Guarantee on 

 Seeds — Notes — Catalogues Received 118 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — Detroit 122 



Flowers by Telegraph 123 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Washington 125 



New York, Philadelphia 127 



OBITUARY: 



Joseph A. Dirwanger, Portrait — George Milne — 

 George P. Bloomer — James M. Dean— Mrs. J. C. Craig 

 — T. W. De Mott— Luther A. Line 132 



DURING RECESS: 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Club — The 

 Greek Ball — Pun at Morrisville, Pa 133 



MISCELLANEOUS; 



Duty on Imported Nursery Stock 109 



Carnations or Asparagus 109 



Carnation Lady Algy — Edwin Jenkins 109 



A New Enterprise in the South 114 



Chicago Notes — Fire Record 123 



In Bankruptcy 127 



News Notes 133 



Personal— Springfield (0.) Notes 136 



A Fertilizer Approved 136 



The daily papers have been pa3dng their 



A patriot respects to the Indiana congressman 



of distinction -(vho, it is stated, worked the limit of his 



prerogative in the distribution of free 



seeds by dispatching through the post oflBee, under his 

 frank, sixty-one big mail bags full of seeds for his con- 

 stituents. No doubt this enterprising law maker will 

 be found lined up with the bunch who are clamoring for 

 an increased postal rate on magazines and trade papers 

 in order to meet the deficit in postal income. And 

 should any seed dealer have the audacity to criticise the 

 gentleman's assiduous zeal in giving away seeds he may 

 be punished by finding this generous congressman 

 among the 99 per cent, purity advocates and others who 

 seem to think it is always "open season" to hunt the 

 feedsman. 



Our seed trade correspondent has a 

 The seedsman word to say in this issue regarding 



and his customer the seed trade guarantee or dis- 

 claimer, so called. The subject is 

 one of vital interest to every seedsman but it has been 

 subjected to the sharpest scrutiny by tlie keenest in- 

 tellects in the seed trade for many years, with the object 

 in view of conserving the rights of both dealer and pub- 

 lic, and the official disclaimer of the American Seed 

 Trade Association can fairly be regarded as the outcome 

 of much combined wisdom. Still, there may be weak 

 spots in it tliat will bear strengthening, as some think. 

 It is much to be desired that the public should under- 

 stand that the purpose of the disclaimer is not to shield 

 the dishonest dealer but rather to protect the honest 

 dealer against the dishonest or misguided customer. "We 

 know there are those who seem to prefer to believe 

 otherwise and the seed trade has been forced to take 

 much unmerited abuse from such sources. It stands to 

 reason that any rational merchant will take every possi- 

 ble precaution against serving his customers in such a 

 way as to shake their confidence in him and his goods. 

 Bather than have a customer suspect he has been im- 

 posed upon, even when such suspicion is absolutely 

 groundless, he will replace goods that have been con- 

 demned by the purchaser and give all reasonable guaran- 

 tees as to the integrity of his dealings. He should not 

 be asked to do more. 



Boston invites the orchid admirers 

 A rare of America to a rare treat nest May. 



treat in prospect Preparations are being made, not 

 only in this country but abroad, to 

 present in Massachusetts Horticultural Hall a spectacle 

 of the most gorgeous character bringing together a col- 

 lection of orchids and rich tropical vegetation sucli as 

 has never before been grouped under one roof on this 

 continent. For many months back, intending ex- 

 hibitors have been on the alert to secure, regardless of 

 expense, unique additions to their collections, all striv- 

 ing to qualify for successful competition for honors at 

 this notable event. The orchid, as represented by sev- 

 eral species of cattleyas, dendrobiums and cypripediums 

 and a few other genera, has within recent years been 

 accorded a high place in the cut flower industry but it is, 

 we think, generally recognized that this is only a be- 

 ginning. The time is coming when our present rela- 

 tions with the orchid as a commercial flower will only 

 parallel our attainments in the line of roses or carna- 

 tions thirty years ago when the Bonsilene and the De- 

 Graw were the "high-liners." The Boston orchid show 

 will leave its indelible impress on tlie commercial flor- 

 ists' industry and the gardener or florist who willingly 

 absents himself from this unprecedented demonstration 

 of the cultural and decorative possibilities of the most 

 refijied representatives of the floral kingdom will have 

 reason to regret liis short-sightedness as such an oppor- 

 tnnitv comes but seldom in a man's life. 



