260 HORTICULTURE February 19, mo 



¥J[^^'0'TP1'#^¥ J¥ Tr¥TJFE, lislied elsewhere in this paper. With systematic busi- 



* ■*• ^^ ^^ *• •*• ^"^ V/ *-«^ j^ggg nianagement conventions are by no means so for- 



TOL. XI FEBRUARY 19, 1910 NO. 8 midable as some regard them. We have had opportu- 



r=^=^^^=^=^^=^^=^=^==^=^=^=^^= nity in the past to see how Kochester does these things 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY gmj ^ looks Very, very simple in the hands of these 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO, well-seasoned experts. If you want to see a model 



II Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. convention, in every particular and detail which goes 



wM J STEW A°RT. Editor «^ Manager to make such an affair a business and social success, 



= plan to go to Rochester next August. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE . t ->-. 



0««Year,inadvance,$i oo; ToForeign CounirieB,$2.oo; ToC«o«(J«,»l.S« ()^jr editorial note in isSUe ot January 23 



ADVERTISING RATES , „. . . ^ . .,, , ' . , 



FariBch, 30 inches to page • *'•">■ Righting protesting With some veliemence against 



DIacouBts on Contracts for consecutive insertions, as follows; , p p ^ £ 



One month (4 times) 5 per cent ; three months (13 times) loperceot.: a wrong the CnormOUS shipment Ot tree SeeOB irOm 



•ta months (a6 times) 20 per cent; one year (52 times) 30 percent. ,_,.,, t t l. 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on application. Washington to an Indiana Congressman nas 



BMared as second-da., matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, MaM drawn fortli the followiug letter frOm the gentleman 



under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879^ „ , 



CQUJTENTS Page The 61 bags of seed, my alotment, came to me by virtue 



, ,, „ , „ ,. „ .,„, of an ap!)ro])riation made before I took office. My pre- 



COVBR ILLUSTRATION-House of Carnation Alma decessor, the Hon. Jesse Overstreet, then chairman of the 



Ward. Post office Committee, expected to distribute these seed. 



PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson— jjg jg uot recorded as opposing the appropriation. 



Illustrated 257 ] jy^^ ^^y ggj,^ rvjarch 15, 1909. In April, 190'J, I was in- 



DIEFFBNBACHIA— George F. Stewart 258 formed by the Indianapolis Municipal Improvement Asso- 



RTJTTTQH HnPTim TTTRR— W H Adsctt 258 elation of Indianapolis that 10,000 packages of seed 



BRIIISH f^ORTICLLl LlK^ W. H AQsett. promised by Overstreet, for use by the Association through 



NEMESIA STRUMOSA SUTTONI-Richard Rotl^e- J^^^ ^^^^^.^ schools, had not arrived, and I was asked to 



Illustrated ■■■f'°'' ij„r,.v them along. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS Investigation developed the fact that Overstreet in a fit 



STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 261 ^j pique had net ordered the seed for the schools. 



NEW CARNATION LADY ALGIE — Illustrated 261 The Indianapolis papers deprecated my inability to get a 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: few seed for the school children and praised Overstreet 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston-Connecticut who was "always powerful enough to get 20,000 extra 



Horticultural Societv-Morris County Gardeners' and packages tor the school children. 



Florists' Society-New York Florists' Club 262 At that time I told the people of the Indianapolis dis- 



Massachu setts Horticultural Society-American Rose trict that I was opposed to the distribution of seed by the 



^ . . 263 government, but that I would do my best to recover the 



New Jersey FioriculturaV Society-Portraits: '.'.'...'.... .2U seed Promised by Overstreet-and that in future I would 



Rochester Florists' Association 265 see that seed intended for the Qistnct would get to the 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 266 district. . . , , ^ . . ». ^^ , .. * 



Illinois State Florists' Association 269 The Municipal Improvement Association thanked me for 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore-St. Louis the seed I got for them at that time and asked me for 



FU^rist Club -270 10,000 packages this year. I promised them. 



Ti%-Prtn Horticulturai'societv"" 282 This association is promoted by the Commercial Club 



Tuxedo Horticultural ^^I'^J;^---- of Indianapolis and works to beautify the city. The seeds 



BY WIRELESS FROM ROB T CRAIG S 268 ^^^^.^ used for that purpose. 



SEED TRADE: The sixty-one sacks constitute my 20,000 packages; my 



An Interesting Test — Notes 270 entire allotment. 1 would not undertake to distribute these 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: seeds— 1 have not time— so I sent them in bulk for dis- 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 272 iribution through the schools. 



A Model Retail Florists' Place, Illustrated — Flowers The same papers which denounced me last year because 



by Telegraph 273 I could not get seed, denounced me this year because I 



FI OWER MARKET REPORTS' '^''^ ^et them; and started the newspapers of the country 



Boston Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit 275 against me. ,.^ ^ r .. 



New York Philadelphia, Washington 277 I am impliedly accused of grafting, although I do not 



' approve of seed distribution, do not want It, and wont 



OBITUARY: jjg bothered with it 



Patrick Sutton-David Walters-Mrs. Elizabeth V. j ^^ ^^^ j^ ^^^^^ ^j increasing postal rates on magazines 



Schmid— S. M. Owen -so _and the whole case is a gratuitous insult. 



MISCELLANEOUS: C. A. KORBLY. 



Chicago Notes 266 



Horticultural Inspection Bill Withdrawn 270 Mr. Korbly has not even suggested, much less de- 

 Personal 272 manded, that anybody should retract the criticisms of 



Business Changes _^^^ j-^jg course with wluch the newspapers and magazines 



Phlladelnhia Notes ...................■■■■■■■■■■ -282 were flooded from one end of the country to the other. 



A Happy Man, Illustrated 282 We all the more cheerfully and earnestly, on this ac- 



Catalogues Received 284 count, hasten to do him the justice which his letter 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 286 ^,^^^_g ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^j^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ indicate to be his due. The 



Fire Record— Incorporated ^^oo v . j. i • i i ■ ■ ■ j.- ai 4.1 i j 



Patents Granted 286 light which his communication throws on tlie system and 



its workings will, no doubt, interest many of our readers. 



Note in our reading columns the excel- On our part we are satisfied that Mr. Korbly was a 



Rochester lent start already made by the Eochester victim of circumstances for which he was in no way 



. ^, . , , , ... . ,. ■ „,- „i? responsible and while we are sorry to have been among 



primed and Florists Association m anticipation ot ^^ .• ■ i j • xi ij.' 1 i,- 



r those who participated m the attack upon him we are 



ready the S. A. F. Convention which is to especially pleased to be enabled to do our share towards 



meet in their city next August. Eoches- placing liim right before the horticultural industries of 



ter has had plenty of experience in handling gatherings the country. Apparently Indianapolis is the centre of 



of this kind and no better manifestation of this could good missionary ground for those wlio wish to abolish 



be given than is seen in the list of committees as pub- the free seed distribution. 



