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HOKTICULTURE 



March 5, 1910 



horticulture: 



my stuff in, all right." Fortunately, the weather con- 



ditions and prospects at the present moment are pro- 



• pitious and in the three weeks remaining wonders can 



TOL. XI MARCH 5. 1910 WO- 10 be accomplished if only Old Sol will do his part to 



PUBLisHE ^ WEEKLY BY average up for his shortcomings of the past month. ^ 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. ^^^^j^^^ ^^^^^^.^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ 



11 Hamilton P»*ce, Boston, Mas.. Adulteration leth has been issued by the Depart- 



Telephone, OxIqtA tgi ,,„_,.,.■'. , . i. 



WM. ] STEWA RT. Editor a»d M.Bmger ^9^'" mcnt at Washington givmg results of 



~ analyses of samples of alfalfa, red 



e..Ye.r in.dv.nce.$ro"oflo?ofeTgnCoun,ifef,$a.«o;ToC«.d.,$..s. clover, Orchard and Kentucky— bought in open market. 



ADVERTISING RATES The word adulteration, which of course implies inten- 



5!^"u1I't.'?nCo''n"«trfrrcon;eoutW ' ' '""■ ^io^al mixing by the seed trade, is put in first place as 



Oae month (4 times) 5 per cent. ; three months (13 times) lo per ceBt. nSUal, showing that the Uniust and Seemingly vindictive 



MKmonths(i6times)2opercent.; one year (52 times) 30 per cent. n n, T-, , j. • iii j/ i i. 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on application^ animus ot the Department agamst the Seed trade has m 



■ ., ... p„ :77;^;r., IV..,.. »»■. "o wise abated. If the Department would cut out the 



fcl«ed •» leoond-claii matter December 8, 1904, at the Pott Office »« BostOB, Ma«« i « j 1, ,• ,) 1 ,• .i . .i 1 j -: j 



^^ under the Act of Coagress ot March 3, 1879. word adulteration wc bclieve that they would nnd 



^■♦^ ~ ^^'® ^^^^ trade of the country instantly in S3'mpathy with 



COriTEPlTS them — as, almost to a man, they are and always have 



COVER ILLUSTRATION-View in Boston Park System.^^' been striving to educate the public up to buying and 



PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA-E. H. Wilson- paying for higher quality. 



Illustrated 



COMMERCIAL ORCHIDS FOR THE SOUTH— Robert In our issue week before last we ad- 

 Lockerbie ^ The Federal vised our readers that we had received 



BAUERA-George F. Stewart ............. ^.^. ^^1 Inspection Bill a telegram informing us that the 



STANDARD LILACS— A. E. Thatcher— Illustrated i6\ ^ -n-u tt -d -tKn^r 1 ;i i, 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' Simons Bill H. E. 15656 had been 



STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 333 withdrawn. We now find that our correspondent was 



NEVV^S OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: mistaken. We have seen a letter from Eepresentative 



Connecticut Horticultural Society-Society of Arn^n- ^^ ^ ^ Chairman of Committee on Agriculture, 



can Florists— Gardeners' and Florists Club ot Bos- . , 4.1 i , -n i 4. 1 ui i ? i • i--n 



ton-New York Florists' Club-Florists' Club of Phila- who states that bill has not been withdrawn but is still 



delphia— Elberon Horticultural Society _ 334 pending before that Committee. The Simons Bill, 



National Chrysanthemum Society— St. Louis Horticul- ^g jjjany of our readers know, calls for dock inspection 



tural Society-Club and Society Notes iio ^ ^ ^j imported nursery stock, etc. 



Manchester and North of England Orchid Society Hb y . J' . i" . •' ' 



French Gardeners' Society of London-C. H. P 355 It IS quite impractical and impossible of execution. No 



MID-WINTER SHOW IN BOSTON 337 nurseryman or importer would care to import a single 



OBITUARY: case under its provisions. The Department could not 



Mary A. Hunt-Charles Reid Barnes-James J. H. possibly inspect one-tenth of the cases arriving. Those 



Gregory- H. J. Parker— Mrs. William Leiferman— 1, , • -^ , , n , , 1 i • 4.1 



" <* , -L., ,. 338 that were inspected could not be repacked m the same 



SEED TRADE: cases and the contents would be practically worthless 



The Army of Unemployed 342 when released. We hope that every reader of Hokti- 



THE GLADlOLUS-E. ?_M.^- -/-•;--•_••_■ •.v.-^^'t;^^^ CULTURE will use his influence toward the killing of 



^•^Tl^T-'^Sd R^oefktJ''.^''^.':''..^'''^^. 342 the Simons Bill and the substitution of the Bilfen- 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: dorsed by the American Association of Nurserymen. 



New Flower Stores— Steamer Departures 344 



Flowers by Telegraph 345 ^ Georgia daily calls attention to the 



■ DURING RECESS— Twin City Bowlers 345 Southern fact that the southern gi'owers of tender 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: possibilities plants are not realizing as they should 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago J*' i 4. 1 • -i -vi' •4.i,- 



Detroit, Indianapolis, New York. Twin Cities 349 the great business possibilities withm 



MISCELLANEOUS: ' their reach through the use of modern greenhouses for 



Carnation Wisdom 333 ^j^g forcing of cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and other 



A Song for March-T. A. Daly ^^6 f j^ material for which there is at all times an eager 



A T ilv Talk oov o 



St Louis Notes;' 'a Big Enterprise 337 and remunerative demand all over the country through- 

 Catalogues Received; Incorporated 342 out the inclement season of the year. The south cer- 



Personal _ ^^^"qik tainly has great advantages in this direction, and we 



A Diagnosis— Illustration '345I349 can imagine the revolution which will surely come as 



PhUadelphia Notes '..........•••••■•■ ••■•••■•••■'• 349 soon as the southern growers awake to the possibilities 



Chicago Notes ^^'^ within their reach. The revolution will come, however, 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 35S j^qJ- Jjj^ disaster or discomfiture to northern growers who 



Patents Granted; Fire Record So. ^^^^ already invested large fortunes in glass-forcing 



=^^=^=^===^^-— ^-— ^— — ^^~^^~^^^^^^^^~^^^^^ houses, but in an immeasurably increased consumption 

 The Easter plant grower has been put of hothouse products by the people in every part of the 

 A question to the test this season as never before, country. Business methods followed up on a broad 

 of weather He was, in a measure, prepared for a scale, the use of labor-saving devices and other expense- 

 strenuous struggle, owing to the early reducing expedients will cut down the cost of produc- 

 date of the celebration, but he could not foresee the tion and eventually place fresh and health-giving foods 

 additional handicap which the weather man had in store of greenhouse production within the reach of all. Hot- 

 for him. Take it all through it has been a hard winter beds have their sphere of usefulness, we all know, but 

 and the lack of sunlight during February has been an in competition with properly constructed and heated 

 especially perplexing factor in the plant growers' task. 

 A large gi'ower remarked the other day, "If we only 

 get some sunlight and the coal mines hold out I'll get 



glass houses they are of little account. Southern grow- 

 ers are only beginning to perceive the tempting oppor- 

 tunities that are open to them. 



