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HOKTICULTURE 



February 26, 1910 



horticulture: 



▼OL. XI 



FEBRUARY 26, 1910 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— House of Cattleya Trianae. 

 PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson- 

 Illustrated 293 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 294 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLOR- 

 ISTS' STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 297 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New Bedford Horticultural Society — Illinois State 

 Florists' Association — Charles L. Washburn, Portrait 

 —Lenox Horticultural Society— Elberon Horticul- 

 tural Society—New Orleans Horticultural Society — 



American Carnation Society 298 



Newport Horticultural Society— Nassau County Hor- 

 ticultural Society— Detroit Florists' Club— E. C. 

 Brucker, Portrait— Society of American Florists — 



Minnesota State Florists' Association 299 



Yonkers Horticultural Society— A Cup for Six Roses, 300 



OBITUARY: 



Joseph E. Fuller, Portrait 300 



George W. Schroyer — Mrs. Elizabeth Panning 

 Brooks — Mrs. N. A. Benson 301 



SEED TRADE: 



The Canners' Convention — Government Seed Con- 

 tracts—Seed Trade Activity — Free Seeds and Parcel 



Post Notes 306 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Detroit — Washington — Steamer Departures — New 



Flower Stores 308 



The Real Black Rose, Illustration — Flowers by Tele- 

 graph 309 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New Orleans 311 



New York, Philadelphia 313 



BY "WIRELESS" PROM CRAIG'S 320 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Modern Delivery Vehicle — Illustrated 297 



Straws 297 



Personal 301 



Chicago Notes 302 



A Cuban Expedition '. 303 



Business Changes 309 



News Notes 309-311-318 



Incorporated 313 



J. W. Duncan Goes West, Portrait 318 



Philadelphia Notes 319 



Publication Received 319 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 322 



Patents Granted 322 



Horticultuee's views on this mo- 

 Arrangement mentous question have been ex- 

 of Commonwealth pressed freely and decisivelj' here- 

 Ave. trees tofore. "We are glad to see so 

 practical a body as the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston interesting itself in the 

 movement to discourage the carrying out of the short- 



sighted and altogether unwise plans of a park commis- 

 sion whose knowledge of arboriculture would certainly 

 stand a little brushing up. Xow comes a similar vote 

 of a Saturday lecture audience in Horticultural Hall — 

 than which no more horticulturally intelligent popular 

 audience can be found — and we understand that, in the 

 few weeks remaining between now and the time when 

 tree removal must begin, other influential circles will be 

 heard from. Prof. ('. S. Sargent, J. A. Pettigrew, John 

 K. M. L. Farquhar, Samuel Parsons and others who 

 have made a life study of the subject are entitled to be 

 heard and their advice should be heeded. We believe 

 that the publicity now tardily started will, if persisted 

 in. induce an effective public awakening. 



The advocates of a higher rate of post- 



The people's age on magazines and technical papers 



turn next j^ave heard something drop and some 



of them, undoubtedly, wish they had 

 let it alone. The agitation over the postal deficit is 

 likely now to continue, however, until it is settled and 

 settled right, the storm centre shifting from the 

 minor issue of the postage on magazines to the larger 

 question of the alleged prevalent inaccuracies and un- 

 businesslike methods in contracting and accounting in 

 the Poist Office Department. The claim of the Post- 

 master General that the second-class mail was responsi- 

 ble for a big deficit, based upon figuring which seems to 

 have been astoundingly loose and fallacious, has been 

 refuted in a most convincing manner. The press of the 

 country has been aroused and will now proceed to show 

 up the antiquated methods, extravagant railroad con- 

 tracts and other wasteful procedures which they claim 

 are largely responsible for present intolerable conditions. 

 We hope every reader of Horticulture will lose no op- 

 portunity to declare himself for a business post office, 

 managed on business principles, and absolutely inde- 

 pendent of politics. When we get that we shall have a 

 parcels post, the abominable burden of express extortion 

 will be removed and every individual in the land will 

 be a direct participant in the "consummation so devout- 

 ly to be wished." 



Proud in the conviction that their 

 Horticulture gtate is better adapted to fruit growing 

 or Pomology than any other in the East and perhaps 



anywhere else on the continent the 

 Virginia Horticultural Society is after the legislature of 

 that state for an appropriation of $5,000 annually to 

 advance the industry of frtiit growing. That their 

 claim is well worthy of recognition cannot be ques- 

 tioned. Public money could be devoted to no more use- 

 ful object and we of the eastern part of our great coun- 

 try should be duly grateful to the wideawake enterpris- 

 ing fruit growers and farmers of the far west for the 

 example they have set before us and the stimulation they 

 have furnished for their drowsy eastern brethren to be 

 up and doing. The horticulturists of Virginia who 

 don't happen to be either farmers or orchardists should 

 see to it, however, that their State Horticultural Society 

 represents fairly all the interests which its name priv- 

 ileges it to stand for, and if public money is to be ob- 

 tained for the avowed purpose of aiding horticulture, 

 insist that it be used accordingly, giving encourage- 

 ment to every branch in proportion to its importance 

 and needs. And there are other states than the one 

 here mentioned in which a little display of backbone on 

 the lines suggested might also be used to good purpose. 

 Set it down for a fact that these due rights and privi- 

 leges will never be bestowed but must be demanded and 

 demanded. 



