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HORTICULTURE 



April 9, 1910 



horticulture: 



ftETxi APRIL 9, 1910 NO. 15 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Arnold Arboretum, Kalmia 



latifolia at Hemlock Hill. 

 ANEMONE CANADENSIS SYN. PENNSYLVANICA 



— Richard Rothe — Illustrated 545 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 545 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 547 



PRIMULA REINII— Illustrated 547 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY— 



Schedule of Orchid Exhibition — Illustrated 548 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



A Notable Exhibition — The Brussels Exhibition — 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America — Springfield, O., 

 Florists' Club — American Association of Nurserymen 549 

 Elberon Horticultural Society — Club and Society 



Notes 550 



MAKING SKYLINE— Gerhard Bleicken— Illustrated. . . 550 

 SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 



STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 551 



SEED TRADE: 



Condition of Trade and Prospects — Canners' Plans 

 — The Pea Outlook — Notes — A Sure Sign of Spring — 



Illustration 558 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Florists' Supplies on Exhibition — Steamer Depart- 

 ures 561 



A Progressive Business — Flowers by Telegraph — 



New Flower Stores 561 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 563 



Indianapolis, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia. 565 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Incorporated 550 



Another Aphine Demonstration 550 



A Field of Harrisii Lilies — Illustration 551 



"Profaning the Rose" 552 



Personal 552 



A Presentation — Portrait, Alex: Montgomery, Jr. . . . 554 



News Notes 557-559-574 



Fire Record 558 



Business Changes 560 



Chicago Notes 561 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 574 



Trade Notes 570 



In Bankruptcy 570 



Philadelphia Notes 571 



Catalogues Received 572 



OBITUARY: 



Mrs. George M. Stumpp — Joshua L. Wilcox — Mrs. 

 George E. Fancourt — Mrs. E. C. Meyers 572 



Sensation, for the time being, switches 



"Befuddling from waning Burbank to a new luminary 



nature" jjj the wizard firmament and now we 



have the newspapers from the Pacific to 

 the Atlantic lauding the reputed wondrous accomplish- 

 ment in "cross-grafting" by Hugo Lilienthal who 

 claims to have thus given to the world the inestimable 

 treasure of a climbing rose bearing edible fruit. Mr. 

 Lilienthal, it should be said, hails from Burbankland 

 where, as the Boston Advertiser naively remarks, "horti- 

 culturists are liabitually dissatisfied with nature and 

 seek to befuddle her !" Imagination fails us as we hold 

 our breath and wait for the news of the next surprise 

 from that land of marvels. 



The canning industry of the United 



To develop States, in annual meeting assem- 



a bigger market bled, at Atlantic City, a few weeks 



ago, assessed themselves for news- 

 paper advertising at the rate of one cent per case of 

 output, which will net their Association the sum of 

 about a quarter million dollars to be used for purposes 

 of publicity in the year 1910. Instead of lamenting 

 about their business being overdone and advising one 

 another against the folly of putting up more factories 

 they get to work in a practical way at the other end to 

 enlarge their market. There is a lesson in this for the 

 horticulturist. We hear florists bewailing the overdoing 

 of greenhouse building and nurserymen gravely recom- 

 mending the burning up of the surplus stock as prefer- 

 able to unloading at cut prices. Why not try the caur 

 ners' remedy when congestion threatens ? Two hundred 

 and fifty thousand dollars is, of course, away beyond 

 the possibilities for the florist, but if the cohesion and 

 co-operative spirit so much to be desired existed among 

 the trade which the S. A. F. represents, a start on the 

 work of broadening and developing a bigger market 

 and building up a steadier demand for our products 

 could be made and we believe the results would fully 

 justify the investment. 



The most significant act of the S. A. F. 

 A radical Executive Board at its annual session, as 

 proposition indicated in the report of its delibera- 

 tions by Secretary Dorner in our last 

 week's issue, is the approval of a proposition to decide 

 the date of each annual convention of the S. A. F. by 

 vote of the Society at the previous meeting. This move- 

 ment contemplating, as it would appear, the practical 

 abandonment of the time-honored annual mid-August 

 convention, is all the more surprising when we consider 

 the strength of the older and presumably more conserv- 

 ative element in the personel of the present Executive 

 Board. It would be interesting to learn something of 

 the reasons which influenced the Board to favor a de- 

 parture so radical. A very large section of the Socie- 

 ty's membership will be, we believe, like the man from 

 Missouri when it comes to deciding a proposition so 

 revolutionary in character. In any event the purpose 



