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April 16, 1910 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XI 



APRIL 16 , 1910 



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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Easter Display at the Frick 

 Conservatories, Pittsburgh. 



TRANS.\TLA.\T1C XOTES— Frederick Moore 581 



HANGI.NG BASKETS— George F. Stewart 583 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Cincinnati Flor- 

 ists' Society — New York Florists' Club — Newport 

 Horticultural Society — .American Pomologica! Society 584 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society — Lenox Horticul- 

 tural Society — Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Club 

 and Society Notes 585 



THE GROWING OF LILIES FOR EASTER— Henry I. 



Faust 586 



Seasonable Notes on Culture of Florists' Stock — 



John J. M. Farrell 588 



Pittsburgh Conservatory Displays — James Hutchin- 

 son — Illustrated 588 



SEED TRADE: 

 A Breathing Spell — The Help Problem — Onion Sets 

 and Seed Corn — The Pea Situation — Notes 594 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Flower Trade of Barcelona — Steamer Departures — 



New Flower Stores 596 



Flowers by Telegraph 597 



OBITUARY: 



Mrs. W. J. Vesey, Portrait — Mrs. Anton Kill 597 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit 599 



Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 601 



DURING RECESS: 



Bowling at Chicago 607 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 585 



Carnation White Fair Maid 589 



Petunia Bar Harbor Beauty 589 



Incorporated 589 



Publications Received 590 



News Notes 590-593-597-610 



Catalogues Received 594 



Philadelphia Notes 595 



Business Changes 596 



An "Extra Hazardous Occupation" 60G 



A Lecture Course 607 



Chicago Notes 608 



Luxuries for the Tramp, Illustrated 608 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 610 



Fire Record 610 



Patents Granted 610 



In the latter part of Mr, Faust's ad- 

 "Stumbling mirable paper on Easter lily growing 

 along in the which appears in this issue we detect 

 dark" ;,n echo of the discontent which the 



flower growers for some of the whole- 

 sale jnarkets are not slow to express over the course 



which the flower trade has taken of late. He asks, "Are 

 we not stumbling along in the dark ?" and other pointed 

 questions, some of which are readily answered and 

 others which are not so easy. We agree with him 

 ■when he says "Xone of us make enough money," also 

 with his frank acknowledgment that if it were not for 

 the cominission man and his hustling and liberal adver- 

 tising to find an outlet for the growers' product the 

 business would be still worse off. All will concur that 

 something should be done to improve the present status 

 and circumstances of the flower trade. Whatever the 

 remedy may be, one thing is certain — talking alone will 

 accomplish nothing and until some basis of widespread 

 organized action on the line of "a strong pull, a long 

 pull and a pull all together" has been found, isolated 

 individual effort, however wisely it may be directed, will 

 bring about nothing of general benefit. This is a case 

 wliere "letting the other fellow do it" will not work. 

 Perhaps a Florists' Board of Trade as suggested by Mr. 

 Faust might furnish the means through wliich united 

 action on practical lines could be secured. Let it be 

 understood, liowever, that whether it be done through 

 the S. A. F. or on an independent scheme, any plan 

 that may be devised will take money and plenty of it to 

 make it a success. The services of the kind of men 

 needed for such work can't be had for any small com- 

 pensation. But it will pay. as has been proven in many 

 other industries. 



Until a man knows he is sick and 

 Not over- willing to acknowledge it there 



production but i^n't much hope of getting him to 

 under-consumption a doctor. There is something of 

 promise in tlie fact that the sub- 

 ject of flower market congestion and its train of evils is 

 being thoughtfully discussed, wherever and whenever 

 two or more of the craft get together. The patient is 

 really beginning to realize that he needs medicine of 

 some kind. The immediate and tlie ultimate effect upon 

 the trade, of the continually increasing inequality be- 

 tween production and outlet are variously deduced ac- 

 cording to the direct interests or liias of the party doing 

 the talking but there is certainly hope in the recent evi- 

 dences that all sides are beginning to recognize the exi- 

 gency. Now let them get together. They'll find plenty 

 of common ground on w'liich to stand. With the society 

 ladies of San Francisco incorporating to grow flowers 

 because tliey "cannot afford to purchase them" ; with tlie 

 G. A. R. at Pittsburgh uniting to use artificial flowers 

 and boycott the florists because "tliey are raising their 

 prices unduly"; — all this at a time when wholesale mar- 

 kets are swamped with material for which the retail 

 stores have proved absolutely incapable of providing an 

 outlet, it is manifest that there is surely a big screw 

 loose somewhere. We have thought and have repeatedly 

 expressed it in these columns and elsewhere when oppor- 

 tunity favored, that if anything practical is to be ac- 

 complished it must be done from the standpoint of the 

 popular end. In short, we believe it is not so much a 

 question of over-jiroduction as of inadequate selling. 

 Talk of calling a halt in greenhouse building is a waste- 

 ful and profitless use of breath and time. Prosperity 

 and better prices can never be attained or street fakirs' 

 dictatorship overthrown that way. Get busy with the 

 people. They don't consume a fraction of the flowers 

 they ought to consume. If there were twice as many 

 greenhouses for flower growing as exist today the public 

 could easily get away with the product and there would 

 be no use for the dump heap. What, after all, have the 

 men who have the most at stake and who are the princi- 



