January 29, 1910 



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CONTENTS P^ 



■COVER ILUSTRATION— Fred Burki, President-elect 

 American Carnation Society. 



PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson- 

 Illustrated 145 



XANTHOCERAS SORBIFOLIA— Arthur E. Thatcher- 

 Illustrated 146 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY: 



Proceedings of Convention — President's Address 148 



Secretary's Report — Treasurer's Report — Nomination 

 ot Officers — Thursday Morning's Session — Illustration 149 

 Boston Next Meeting Place — Thursday Afternoon 

 Session — The Exhibition and Report of Judges — New 

 York to Pittsburgh — Carnations Registered 150 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Southampton Horticultural Society — Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society — Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 — North Shore Horticultural Societj- — Society of 

 American Florists — New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety — New York and New Jersey Association of 



Plant Growers 151 



Club and Society Notes 151-170 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— J. J. M. Farrell. 



SEED TRADE— Lawns and the Mail Order Trade— For 

 the Seedmen's Eye — Notes 158 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— New Flower 



Stores — Steamer Departures 160 



Flowers by Telegraph 161 



FIiOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, New Orleans 163 



Philadelphia 165 



DURING RECESS— Astoria Florists' Bowling Club- 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Albany Flor- 

 ists' Club — Dobbs Ferry Horticultural Society 170 



OBITUARY'— John J. Kuratle— Richard Shannon— John 

 Keefe— John P. Burn 171 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Philadelphia Notes 150 



News Notes 157-171 



Movements of Gardeners — Catalogues Received 158 



Business Changes 160 



Chicago Notes 161 



Personal — In Bankruptcy 165 



A Great Nursery '. . . 170 



Tnteresting Letter from the Sunny South 170 



Fire Record 170 



The Aphine Test — Incorporated 173 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated — Patents 

 Granted 174 



The good seed sown in the organizing of 

 A happy a- ladies' society in afBliation with the S. A. 

 thought Y. has begun to bear fruit in a very practi- 

 cal and gratifying way, as shown by the 

 action taken by the St. Louis ladies as told in our news 

 columns last week. We predict for this St. Louis local 

 organization a great success from the very start and look 

 to see the example thus set followed in other places. 



"Please send Horticulture to my 

 Horticulture's home address so that I may have a bet- 

 qualities ter chance to read it." The above note 

 just received from a well-known, al- 

 ways-busy florist, is identical in sentiment with many 



written and verbal testimonials which come to us from 

 various sources all indicating that Horticultuee is in 

 the enjoyment of that highest and most valuable asset — 

 a clientage who support the paper for its reading value. 

 In these days when our contemporaries are imputing 

 "padded circulation" and various other misdeeds to one 

 another it is gratifying to realize that Horticulture's 

 policy of endeavoring to provide that quality of reading 

 matter which will be carefully read — not merely glanced 

 over and then cast aside — has the approval and appreci- 

 ation of the trade. Its circle of readers is constantly 

 widening and its influence unquestionably extending in 

 a most substantial way. 



As we go to press the carnation enthu- 

 The siasts in session at Pittsburgh, having 



carnationists completed the serious work of the con- 

 vention, are enjoying themselves around 

 the festive board as the guests of the generous-hearted 

 representatives of Pittsburgh horticulture. We have 

 given our readers, in this issue, all the news of the con- 

 vention which has come to us thus far and whatever is 

 missing will appear in full next week. When all the re- 

 turns are in we have no doubt that the prediction made 

 by Mr. Fred. Dorner, ten years ago, still holds good. Mr. 

 Dorner said, "Many will not admit it but it remains 

 nevertheless a potent fact that the interest manifested in 

 new varieties centers in the American Carnation Society, 

 and is its moving spirit; remove it and the society will 

 crumble and decay." The interest in novelties is still as 

 keen as when the esteemed ex-president of the Carnation 

 Society expressed the above quoted sentiments and, apart 

 from the ever-potent factor of sociability and fraternity, 

 it furnishes the main incentive for the annual gather- 

 ings of the carnation hosts. We think the time will 

 come, however, and in the very near future — when the 

 society devoted to the interests of the "divine flower" 

 will see the necessity and wisdom of exploiting their pet 

 specialty from another standpoint — one which will 

 widen its influence with the public, increase its use for 

 many purposes and place carnation culture on a higher 

 pedestal than it has even yet attained. 



The post 

 office "deficit" 



Much has been said and much written, 

 of late, concerning the alleged post 

 ofiice deficit and the responsibility of 

 the magazines and trade papers for a 

 large proportion of it, by persons either prejudiced for 

 selfish reasons at the start or seemingly very ignorant 

 of their subject. Exaggerated estimates of the loss 

 sustained by the Department in the carrying of 

 second-class mail matter have been diligently cir- 

 culated and the bias is well-shown in the fact 

 that the influence of the class magazines and 

 weeklies in creating new business in the first-class 

 postage department is studiously ignored. Take the in- 

 dustry followed by the readers of Horticulture, for in- 

 stance — almost infinitessimal as compared with the great 

 interests of agriculture, science, mechanics, finance, med- 

 icine, religion — and tliink for a moment of the amount 

 of letter writing induced by the advertising alone, which 

 is carried from week to week, all of which pays first-class 

 rates and which could never have materialized except for 

 the reasonable charges made in the past for circulating 

 these mediums of interchange, agencies which have no 

 equal in the diffusion of useful, practical and business- 

 building knowledge. The project of placing a heavy 

 burden of additional postage on those who publish and 

 those who read these publications will, we believe prove 

 as unpopular as it is unprogressive. as soon as all tlie 

 facts concerning the business methods of the post oflBce 

 department become public. 



