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HORTICULTURE 



March 12, 1910 



horticulture: 



▼OL. XI MARCH 12, 1910 WO. 11 



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CONTENTS 



COVER DESIGN— Bv George E. Dow. Page 



PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson... 367 



JOHN COOK IN FLORIDA— Illustrated 369 



BRITISH HORTICULTLRE--W H. Adsett 370 



THE BLUE ROSE— Illustrated 370 



EXTENDING THE FLOWER DEMAND— M. C. Ebel.. 370 



DIANTHUS BARBATUS— Richard Rothe 371 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY: 

 Program of Proceedings and Prize Schedules — Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History — Portraits 374-375 



Horticultural Society of New York— J. A. Manda, 



Supt. of Exhibition, Portrait— The Banquet 376 



Officers of New York Florists' Club— Portraits 377 



WOMEN IN HORTICULTURE— Laura Blanchard Daw- 

 son 376 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— Andrew McKendry 377 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 North Shore Horticultural Society — Yonkers Horticul- 

 tural Society — American Association of Nurserymen — 

 Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Halto. — Soc. of American Florists 37S 

 National Gardeners' Association — Nebraska Horticul- 

 tural Society — Western New York Horticultural 

 Society — Washington State Horticultural Association 

 — Tuxedo Horticultural Society — Tarrytown Hor. Soc. 379 



Club and Society Notes 396 



CALENDAR OF THE CARNATION— Joseph H. Hill.. 3S0 

 OUTDOOR FLORICULTURE IN THE NORTHERN 



STATES— Richard Rothe— Portrait 381 



VALUE OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION TO THE 



FLORIST— Prof. J. C. Blair 383 



"WIRELESS" FROM COLLEGE POINT 3S4 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON FLORISTS' STOCK— J. J. 



M. Farrell 3S5 



"WIRELESS" FROM NAHANT 385 



SOCIETY NEWS PROxM ABROAD— C. Harman Payne 3S6 

 NOVELTIES IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES— Illustrated. . . 388 

 SEED TRADE— Catalogues Received— Henry Eckford.. 390 

 The Burpee Premiums, G. C. W— The Seed Trade 



Disclaimer, C. E. Kendel 392 



OBTTUARY^F. B. Dwight— Percy Taylor— M. Butterfield 392 



DURING RECESS— Tuxedo Horticultural Society 396 



M. LEMOINE'S NOVELTIES— Frederick Moore 400 



CULTURE OF THE CYCLAMEN— James Stuart 401 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— New Flower 

 Stores — Dissolution of Firm — Steamer Departures... 404 

 "Caught in the Act," Illust. — Flowers bv Telegraph.. 405 

 FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Phila- 

 delphia, New Y'ork 413-415 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Shamrock 381 



Pioneer Rosarians— John Cook, E. G. Hill 382-383 



A Portland, Me., Florist Store— Illustrated 384 



English Comment on Some of the Newer Carnations. . 3^6 

 Artificial Warming of Fruit Plantations — F. Moore.. 399 



News Notes 399-405 



Cornell Notes 400 



Publications Received — Movements of Gardeners 402 



Business Changes 404 



Chicago Notes — Personal 406-407 



A Well Arranged Floral Wreath — Illustrated 408 



Philadelphia Notes 415 



Catalogues Received — Incorporated 422 



Greenhouses Building — Patents Granted — Fire Record 424 



The Queen of Flowers will hold court next 

 The Rose week in the very centre of refinement and 



modern luxury in the great Metropolis of 

 America. The museum of lifeless things will be trans- 

 formed into a garden, glowing and fragrant. The de- 

 votees of the Queen will ilock from far and near to do 

 her lienor and she will speak eloquently to them in si- 

 lent but no less eloquent voice — a language that only 

 the rose lover understands. The assembling of the rose 

 growers on this occasion will, we feel sure, mark a sub- 

 stantial advancement in the work and the strength of 

 the American Eose Society. This organization, while 

 opening its doors freely to the amateur, has at last se- 

 cured itself in the affection and fealty of the profes- 

 sion — something without which no organization of its 

 character, as things stand in this country, can substan- 

 tially prosper. Good men are at the helm, and the 

 American Eose Society, after a tempestuous beginning, 

 is now sailing on under sunny skies and a favoring wind. 

 Horticulture extends sincere congratulations. 



Vicissitudes of 

 the flower market 



Flower market reports from vari- 

 ous localities — always more or less 

 erratic — have shown exceptional 

 irregularity for some weeks past. 

 Even allowing for the fact that correspondents are like- 

 ly to have their deductions colored in a greater or less 

 degree according to their view point, whether as retail 

 dealers or in more direct touch with the sentiment pre- 

 dominating in the wholesale market, yet the great di- 

 vergence in conditions of supply and demand as indi- 

 cated in trade reports would seem to suggest some seri- 

 ous undelying defect in the prevalent methods of hand- 

 ling flowers as a commercial commodity which, for the 

 best interests of all concerned, should be studied out 

 and a remedy of broad application sought. Some years 

 ago it was quite customary to attribute tlie circulation 

 of reports of a depressing character in some of the more 

 active markets to possible speculative influence, but 

 nobody with any clear knowledge of the situation as it 

 stands today in these centres would think seriously of 

 looking for the explanation in such a motive. Ob- 

 servant judges realize that there is something deeper 

 and more vital back of the present emergency. But 

 what is it? 



It is worthy of notice in consider- 

 who can answer? jug the conditions above men- 

 tioned that those flower markets 

 which have succeeded in holding a regular ship- 

 ping trade to outside districts run more even- 

 ly than do those that have come to depend mainly 

 on local business; also that the number of the former 

 is growing less each year and shipping trade limits are 

 constantly contracting. It is a little singular that Bos- 



