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HORTICULTURE 



March 19, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— SAMBUCUS AND LILY 

 POND, ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 



PLANT NOVELTIES FROM CHINA— E. H. Wilson- 

 Illustrated 433 



CALCEOLARIAS— George F. Stewart— Illustrated 435 



SEIASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— John J. M. Parrell 437 



OBITUARY— Edward Hatch, portrait— Frederick J. 

 Broetje 437 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY— Annual Meeting and 

 Exhibition — List of Awards — Report of Secretary 

 and Treasurer 438 



CONSTRUCTING HOT BEDS— Richard J. Hayden 439 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Morris Co. Gardners' and Florists' Society — Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — New York Flor- 

 ists' Club — Lenox Horticultural Society — Connecticut 

 Horticultural Society — Society of American Florists. 440 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 441 



National Gardeners' Association of America— 



Yonkers Horticultural Society 442 



Buffalo Florists' Club 443 



National Sweet Pea Society of America — Nassau Co. 

 Horticultural Society — Elberon Horticultural Society 444 



Florists' Club of Washington 445 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society — Club and Society Notes 446 



SEED TRADE: 

 Trade Conditions — Notes 450 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Stores — Steamer Departures 452 



A Hot Time in Prospect. Illustration — Flowers by 

 Telegraph 453 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati 455 



New York, Philadelphia, Washington 457 



SPRING FLOWER SHOW AT PHILADELPHIA— G. 

 C. Watson 464 



LILIES AT EDGAR'S 464 



DURING RECESS: 



Lenox Horticultural Society — Grand Trunk Horti- 

 cultural Society 465 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 439 



A New Potato Disease 450 



Business Changes 452 



News Notes 453 



Chicago Notes 457 



Li/ies in the Home Garden 462 



Incorporated 46:; 



Appraisers' Decisions 46;j 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 46G 



Publications Received 466 



As we close otir forms the devotees 

 The assembling of the Queen of Flowers are in the 

 of the roses midst of their annual celebration 

 and the public of tlie great city are 

 doing homage to the grace and beauty of the first and 

 fairest of the floral kingdom. We expect that, after the 

 returns are all in and the complete story of this occa- 

 sion is told, it will transpire that the present is, in all 



that makes for prosperity in an organized capacity, the 

 most useful and influential gathering of professional 

 rose growers ever brought together in this country. The 

 present opportunity for reaching and focusing the at- 

 tention of a refined and affluent community on the radi- 

 ant product of the rose grower certainly has never been 

 surpassed. 



Two problems intimately related to the 

 A burning prosperity of the flower industry have 

 question ^ggn referred to in these columns on a 



number of occasions of late, in the desire 

 to properly fulfil our duty as a journal devoted to the 

 welfare of the profession. We mean the artificial flower 

 craze and the backwardness of the florists as a class in 

 adopting modern ways and means of business exploita- 

 tion. These questions are closely allied to each other as 

 both are to the subject we considered last week — that of 

 the lack of stability in the wholesale values of the flower 

 product and the extreme and unhealthy variation in 

 prices in different centres at one and the same time. It 

 is our conviction that the subject broadly comprising 

 these topics is one the urgency of which the clubs, socie- 

 ties and associations will be obliged to recognize and take 

 up in a vigorous and comprehensive way before long. 

 The organizations have done a world of education on 

 social and cultural lines. They have brought the work- 

 ers, isolated before, into amicable relationship and are 

 to be credited with a large share of the prodigious ad- 

 vancement in the art and science of plant development 

 and cultural methods under glass which fills so illustri- 

 ous a page in the history of American floriculture for 

 three decades. Now the horizon widens and there spreads 

 out before the S. A. F. and her numerous kin a vast field 

 hitherto almost untouched, and insistently demanding 

 strenuous attention. We must have a bigger and better 

 market for the products of our industry. Salesmanship 

 in the flower business is as yet in its infancy. 



To attempt proper inspection of 



A preposterous nursery stock at ports of entry as 



proposition provided in the Simmons Bill, H. R. 



15656, which is now before the House 

 Committee on Agriculture at Washington would be to 

 undertake an impossible task and would entail extended 

 delay and practical ruin of the goods. It is stated that 

 the arrivals of French nursery stock at the port of New 

 York for the last eleven days of January — a fair aver- 

 age of the past three months — amounted to 1375 cases, 

 containing an approximate total of 17,000,000 seedlings, 

 having a value of about $100,000 including about 

 $26,000 paid to the United States Government in im- 

 port duties. The goods are almost exclusively raw ma- 

 terial for nurserymen, which cannot — at least under 

 present conditions — be produced in this country. The 

 seedlings are packed tightly by special machinery and 

 their proper examination and repacking would be a man- 

 ifest impossibility. The American Association of Nur- 

 serymen fully realize the necessity for and cordially 

 approve of the effort to guard against the introduction 

 to this country of insect and other plant pests. They 

 have prepared a bill which provides full protection while 

 it is free from the serious defects of the proposed Sim- 

 mons act and it would seem only just and reasonable 

 that they be given an opportunity to have it considered 

 by the House Committee as a possible substitute for the 

 Simmons bill. Eeaders of this paper can render no bet- 

 ter immediate service to the nursery industry than to 

 express their disapproval of the Simmons Bill, urging 

 the substitution of the Nurserymen's Bill or that other- 

 wise an adverse report be made. 



