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HORTICULTURE 



June 18, 1910 



horticulture: 



VOL. XI JUNE 18, 1910 HO. 25 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Paris Spring Show. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 913 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 913 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Jolin J. M. Farrell 915 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY: 



Annual Meeting at Boston — Secretary's Report — The 

 Exhihition— Pres. B. H. Farr, portrait 916 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Engelmann Botanical Club 916 



New York Florists' Club — American Rose Society — 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — Amer- 

 ican Gladiolus Society — National Sweet Pea Society 917 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society — American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen — C. S. Harrison, portrait — 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Cincinnati 



Florists' Society 918 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Huntington Hor- 

 ticultural and Agricultiiral Society — St. Louis Flor- 

 ists' Club — St. Louis Retail Florists' Association — 



Club and Society Notes 919 



Royal Horticultural Society, F. Moore — Paris Spring 

 Show — Society of American Florists — National 

 Flower Show 920 



OBITUARY: 

 M. Ernest Calvat, portrait — Frank DeWitt — James 

 McNab— H. J. Billings— Frank Linowski 921 



SEED TRADE: 



Crop Notes on Corn, Peas and Beans — Market Price 

 on Canners' Peas — European Seed Crops — Grass 

 Seed Prospects in Europe — The Convention — Per- 

 sonal 924 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Detroit — Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores.. 926 

 Flowers by Telegraph 927 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 929 



New York, Philadelphia 931 



DURING RECESS: 



New York Florists' Club Outing 936 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Exhibit of Orchids by Jos. A. Manda — Illustration.. 915 



Well-Know-n Estate Changes Hands 915 



Peonies in Nebraska — Illustrated 919 



Some Notable Visitors 920 



News Notes 920-921-927-929-938 



Chicago Notes 922 



Personal 922 



Washington Personals 922 



The Resuscitation of Otto 927 



"Pity 'Tis, 'Tis True"— Illustration 927 



Philadelphia Notes 931 



Incorporated 937 



Patents Granted 938 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 938 



Portland, Oregon, has just conclucJed a week 

 A rose Qf i-yjQ carnival. It is estimated tliat no less 

 festival than 100,000 visitors flocked to the city and 



gave themselves over to the enjoyment of the 

 spectacular event. The festival spirit was dominant 

 everywhere. There were floats, electrical parades and 

 pageants symbolical of the growth of the city and of the 

 magnificent resources of the great "Golden West." 

 There were naturally many features not even remotely 

 connected with roses but the roses were there, too, and 

 the advertising value of it all to the Queen of Flowers 

 cannot be overestimated. It is asserted that since the 

 Rose Festival movement was started three j'ears ago 

 there have been planted in Oregon gardens more than 

 five million roses. That sounds good and we congratu- 

 late the people of Oregon on the fact. Developing a 

 popular interest in gardening means refinement and 

 does more for the advancement of horticulture than a 

 lifetime of the black roses and other freak gimcracks 

 which some communities are being taught to look upon 

 as the standard of horticultural progress. 



The English correspondent of our New 

 The orchd's York contemporary writes of the wan- 

 future jjjg of interest in orchids and is 



authority for the assertion that orchids 

 over there "arc done." The sale of the entire Eochford 

 stock is put in evidence as proving the truth of the 

 statement. This is certainly disquieting news, if true, 

 but from what wc" have been told by a well informed 

 English autliority — one not in any way connected with 

 the orchid business — we conclude that it is not borne 

 out by the general facts. On the contrary, we are 

 assured that there are not only no signs of diminution 

 in orchid interest but that their culture continues to 

 increase in all part< of that country. That the giving 

 up of their orchid business by the Rochfords does not 

 necessarily indicate a general decadence any more than 

 the abandonment of rose culture as a specialty by any 

 one of our large rose growers here would prove that 

 the rose is losing caste in America, is something we like 

 to believe. The orchid is possessed of qualities which 

 assure it a unique and unassailable position in the 

 floral kingdom for all time and we submit that our 

 .\merican horticulturists can with entire safety con- 

 tinue to extend its culture as a commercial proposition. 



Eeading the oft-repeated tale of congested 

 Where is markets, over-production and slaughter 

 the hitch? prices in the wholesale flower markets of 

 some of the most populous centres the 

 question must suggest itself as to what is being done or 

 can be done to provide a remedy for this unfortunate 

 state of affairs. The regular retail distributors in these 

 districts, it must be confessed, have proved entirely in- 

 capable of providing any adequate outlet for the product 

 now at their disposal. The retailer naturally views with 

 disapprobation the advent of the department store into 

 the field of operation but suggests nothing in the way of 

 an alternative promising a plausible remedy for the con- 

 ditions existing. In the meantime the situation becomes 

 worse each succeeding year. The great object to be 

 sought is to get the big daily floral product effectually 

 and inexpensively into the hands of the people. The 

 man who must be the heaviest loser every day tmtil this 

 problem has been solved is the grower and he is the man 

 who will have to tackle it eventually, beyond a doubt. 

 Flowers need be a luxury no longer — they are plentiful 

 enougli at all seasons of the 3'ear and, provided all are 

 sold, can be sold at a price within the reach of the hum- 

 blest classes. The department store seems to be doing 

 a good work in that it is calling the attention of the 

 public to this fact. 



