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HORTICULTURE 



February 12, 1910 



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""^ CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Dendrobium formosum gigan- 



teum. 

 PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson- 

 Illustrated 221 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 222 



VITIS. THUNBERGII— Arthur E. Thatcher 223 



DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM GIGANTEUM 223 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 



STOCK— J. J. M. Farrell 225 



AZALEA MADAME PETRICK— Illustrated 225 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



National Council of Horticulture — Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Newport 

 Horticultural Society— Florists' Club of Washington. . .226 

 Banquet of New York and New Jersey Association of 

 Plant Growers, Illustration — Connecticut Horticultural 

 Society — A New Horticultural Society — Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society— Chicago Florists' Club 227 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society — Pittsburgh Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club — American Carnation Society. .. .228 



Arkansas State Horticultural Society 248 



Club and Society Notes 228-230 



PRESENTATION OF H. J. VEITCH'S PORTRAITS 



— Frederick Moore 229 



Harry .Tames Veitch, Portrait— E. H. Wilson 229 



THE ROSE SOCIETY, ITS AIMS AND OB.JECTS— 

 Adolph Fahrenwald 230 



SEED TRADE 234 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 236 



A Test, Illustrated— Flowers by Telegraph 237 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis 239 



New York, Philadelphia 241 



DURING RECESS: 

 Twin City Bowlers 246 



VINES. PEACHES, NECTARINES, GLOXINIAS 248 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chicago Notes 232 



"Impure" Fruit Trees - 233 



Incorporated — Business Changes 234 



Personal 236 



Obituary. John Orsesky 237 



News Notes 241-250 



Catalogues Received ; 246 



Philadelphia Notes 247 



Don't Spray in Too Cold Weather— B. G. Pratt 248 



Fire Record 250 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 250 



We have heard, thus far, no un- 



In the nature favorable comment on the decision 



of an experiment of the American Carnation So- 



.ciety to suspend its time-honored 



custom and hold its meeting next year jointly with the 



Eose Society at the National Flower Show in Marcli. 



Friends of all three organizations generally seem much 

 gratified. Of course, it is a special occasion and the 

 Carnation Society's move must be regarded largely as 

 an experiment ; nevertheless it may be reasonably ac- 

 cepted as an evidence of a changing sentiment among 

 the rank and file of the Carnation Society towards the 

 S. A. F. and the beginning of a closer relationship be- 

 tween these organizations in their work. Time will 

 gradually w-ork out the problem as to the best form 

 which the cooperative movement should take so as not 

 to hazard the best interests of all concerned. The out- 

 come of next year's trial at Boston will have a decided 

 bearing on the policies and future relationships of both 

 national and local organizations. 



The agitation and enactments in va- 

 For wise seed rious states of so-called pure-seed 

 inspection laws ]aws must, of necessity, hasten the 

 time when a national law for seed 

 inspection will be inevitable. The wisest course for the 

 seed grower and seed dealer under the circumstances, it 

 seems to us, is now to take advantage of every means 

 of disseminating a better knowledge of the truth as to 

 seed admixtures and impurities, that the public may 

 have a proper conception of the situation, its causes 

 and its remedies as the seedsman knows it, to the end 

 that when a national seed inspection law is framed it 

 may be a just one, and the expression not of a blind 

 prejudice but of an enlightened public sentiment. Much 

 of the present inconsiderate clamor may be laid to igno- 

 rance of facts and conditions, and it is likely to go on 

 continuously as long as these misconceptions exist. The 

 average man who sows down a piece of lawn and dis- 

 covers eventually that it is full of quack grass, dande- 

 lions or other noxious weeds, will invariably be found 

 ready to join the hue and cry against the seedsman. A 

 campaign of education through the newspapers might 

 do a world of good. Is not this in line with the aim 

 and scope of the "Council of Horticulture"? 



The Pittsburgh Sun, in an editorial, 

 iVlcKinley Day while giving due credit to the generous 



and almost reverent sentiment which 

 was and is so strong a factor in the establishment and 

 the nurture of the McKinley Day carnation custom, has 

 some things to say about the movement which, although 

 based on some measure of truth yet seem harshly severe 

 and will, we doubt not, awaken a resentful protest in 

 the hearts of many who, otherwise might take little 

 notice of McKinley Day. The remarks of the "Sun" 

 are brought out by the proposition looking to make the 

 scarlet carnation the State flower of Ohio "as a token 

 of love and reverence for the memory of William Mc- 

 Kinley," and it is disposed to criticise the movement as 

 a "purely partisan" affair. It is too bad to bring to the 

 surface even a suggestion of such motives and from our 

 distant viewpoint it looks as though the journal quoted 

 was itself the first transgressor. Still we question 

 whether the custom of carnation w-eariug on McKinley 

 Day has any strong element of permanency in it and we 

 see no reason to change our views, as expressed in these 

 columns several years ago, that the less fuss, from a 

 business standpoint that the florists make about it the 

 longer they will have the benefit of McKinley Day de- 

 mand, such as it is. Above all else the quickest way to 

 kill the custom is to advance the price of carnations on 

 that day. 



