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HORTICULTURE 



April 2, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



/OL. XI APRI L 2, 1910 W»- '"* 



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' CONTENTS Paw 



COVER ILLUSTRATION^Spring Display at Gar- 

 field Park, Chicago. 



SWITZERLAND AS SEEN BY AN AMERICAN HOR- 

 TICULTURIST— John H. Taylor o"» 



TRANS-ATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 510 



NEW MONTBRETIAS— Arthur E. Thatcher 510 



ERICA- George F. Stewart 511 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— John J. M. Farrell o^-^ 



HARDY ROSE AMERICAN PILLAR— Antolne Wint- ^^^ 

 zer 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Florists— National Sweet Pea 



Society of America ^ 



Club and Society Notes— »^° 



OBITUARY: ^^ ^ ^ „^ 

 Benj Kimball— John Christiany— Abraham Dean 

 Hartley— Arthur Boyle— Drewett O. Drewett 519 



SEED TRADE: ^„„ 



Seed Package Ruling °^^ 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Steamer Departures oZ4 



As Some People Think it is After Easter, Illustration 



— Flowers by Telegraph 5-& 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston ^i' 



New York, Philadelphia O"^ 



Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis ^rfb 



Washington ^"^ ' 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Still Fancy Free ^^^ 



Incorporated A' " ; '■ J" ' V,,' ' V " 



Wreath of Lily of the Valley and Orchids. Illustra- 

 tion 515 



An Independent Attitude 0^^ 



Sweet Pea Novelties— W. H. Adsett 515 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College— Illustrated 516 



To Develop Floriculture in the Empire State 51 1 



Chicago Notes Viq ^99 



News Notes ?,; 



Business Changes koo'^oA^l 



Catalogues Received t)^^-Oi54-Dso 



Saving the Peach Crop 522 



Fire Record 522 



The Mystery— Poetry • ■ 522 



Personal c Jo 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 538 



Onr observation.? in last week's issue 



More com- jn reference to the di.'proportionate 



petition wanted number of competitors as compared 



-with the many liberal special pre- 

 miums listed in certain prize schedules has brought an 

 unusual number of comments to the editor's desk, all 

 approving of the sentiments expressed. It has become 

 qtiite the custom among organizations, both local and 

 national, when contemplating an exhibition to solicit 

 cups and other special premiums from seedsmen, 

 .specialty growers and others, and the number of appeals 

 of this nature is increasing so rapidly from year to 

 vear that with some firms it means quite a heavy out- 



lay. It not infrequently happens that the prizes tlius 

 pledged are not even com])eted for and again there is 

 often but one entry, wliicii may or may not be fairly 

 worthy o]' the award. It is true that in most schedules 

 a clause is inserted authorizing the judges to withhold 

 awards when exhibits are not worthy, but how seldom 

 this most unpleasant function is exercised by the judges 

 is pretty' well known. We frequently read in the ac- J 



counts of various exliibitions that Mr. "captured" % 



this or that prize when those who happened to be 

 present at the affair know that it was simply an award 

 through default of competition. The remedy suggested 

 by some of our correspondents is the adoption and en- 

 forcement of a rule prohibiting any award when there 

 is only one entry in a class. Donors of special prizes 

 have it in their power to make this stijnilation in eases 

 where the rule is not a general one if they so wish, 

 but it miglit be better to make it of universal applica- 

 tion. At least there are many who so think. 



In regard t<i the )iill now before the Xew 



A call York IjCgislature providing for the building 



to duty and equipment of a range of greenhouses 



for the jjurpose of education in floriculture, 



a copy of which appears on another page of this paper, 



Mr. W. F. Kasting writes: 



"In order to get this bill out of the committee and 

 not let it get asleep, I would request every florist in New- 

 York State to write to the Assemblyman or Senator for his 

 district, urging him to have the bill pniented. This state is 

 doing considerable in the agricultural department and I 

 believe that we, as horticulturists, should see that our in- 

 terests- are taken care of." 



We gladly endorse Mr. Kasting's appeal. The State 

 of New York has already done nobly for horticulture, 

 especially the fruit interests. "The Grapes of New 

 York," and "The -\jiples of Xew York," are works that 

 stand without a peer in the literature of any other state 

 or of the nation, and Geneva and Ithaca have long ago 

 earned in many ways the respect and gratitude of the 

 iioricultural industry of the Empire State. But agri- 

 culture is growing — growing away from those lines in 

 the field nf horticulture on which the interests of flori- 

 culture touch, and it must lie a]jparent to anyone who 

 is at all observant that horticulture must in the near 

 future be accorded recognition independent of its rela- 

 tionship to agriculture. Not only in New York and 

 other states, but at Washing-ton, the time now ap- 

 proaches when horticulture's needs must be cared for 

 by a separate and independent deiiartment in which 

 floriculture w-ill receive its due slmre of consideration. 

 The Agricultural Department at \\'ashington already 

 finds its hands full with pure food laws and inspection 

 work not dreamt of when the department was inaugu- 

 rated. A package of Department literature just re- 

 ceived gives details of prosecutions for misbranding 

 "Headache Cure." misrepresentation as to the efficacy 

 of "Mother's Friend" and other advertised nostrums, 

 adulterations of milk and of hydrogen peroxide, mis- 

 branding of turpentine, etc., etc. — all w-ork of vital im- 

 portance to the welfare and health of the people, but 

 having no correlation with the bureau of plant industry, 

 Avliich also is finding boundless fields of activity in 

 which horticulture as an art has no concern. Illinois 

 has set an excellent example to her sister states in thi:- 

 provision made for the advancement of education in 

 ornamental horticulture. But Illinois would never have 

 gotten it if her florists and gardeners had not got busy. 

 So ;Mr. Kasting's call for similar activity in his State 

 merits attention and a willing response. "God helps 

 tbcin that help tliemselves." 



