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~~ CONTENTS P^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — New French Hydrangea 

 Mile, de Tremault. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Bou- 

 vardias— Care ot Carnations— Housing Tender Plants 

 —Odontoglossums— Propagating Geraniums — Stevia 

 —John J. M. Fan-ell 297 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Summer 

 Pruning Peach Trees— Prepare to Pot-Up Trees — 

 Feeding Strawberries— Making Up Mushroom Beds- 

 Melons for Christmas— Georr/e H. Penson 298 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Side Ventilators in 

 September— Syringing — Mulching — Lime — Using 

 Cracked Ice— Burning of the Foliage After Mulching 

 — A rthur C. Kuzicka 299 



GROWING FIGS AT EXPRESS RATE— Edivin Jen- 

 kins. Illustrated 301 



THE MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION— Concluding Re- 

 ports — Report of Committee on Final Resolutions — 



The Bowling Contests — Here and There 302 



The Outdoor Exhibit— Exhibit of Aphine Mfg. Co., 



Illustration 303 



American Gladiolus Society 306 



The Minneapolis Convention Group, Illustration. 310-311 



OBITUARY — Charles M. Hooker — Charles Krombach — 

 Charles Crawford 308 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 312 



Flowers by Telegraph 313 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lancaster County Florist 



Club 299 



American Carnation Society — American Association 

 of Park Superintendents — Massachusetts Agricultural 



College — North Shore Horticultural Society 314 



Lenox Horticultural Society 315 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 317 



Philadelphia, St. Louis 319 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 308 



Starting Vegetables in Cold Frames 308 



During Recess 308 



St. Louis Notes — Incorporated 313 



The Visit to Michell's 319 



The controversy over the intrinsic 



Exactness in viilue of a cup donated for award 



the prize schedule iit a recent exhibition is only one 



of several incidents which empha- 

 size the need of extreme care in the wording of a prize 

 schedule, as to what is offered, what it is offered for 

 and what the conditions are. We recall a case where a 

 prize was offered for hyacinths in "pans" and much 

 hard fccliiig was enpcndorcd when the judges dis- 

 qualified a leading entry because azalea or "half pots" 

 were used. Very often the admission or exclusion of 

 certain foliage or flowers as accessories to a display of 

 cut blooms leads to endlesi? arfjument and dissJitisfac- 



tion becatise of divergent interpretations of the sched- 

 ule terms. These incidents, with their often unpleasant 

 outcome admonish us that we cannot be too explicit in 

 the wording of a prize scliedule, every provision of which 

 should be stated in terms that admit of but one con- 

 struction by exhibitors, judges and all others concerned. 



The appeal of the retail florist trade, as 



A turn represented by the Telegraph Delivery 



in the tide Association, for some special recognition 



in the councils of the S. A. F.. discloses 

 a somewhat significant turn in the tide of sentiment 

 towards the national society. The lack of interest and 

 widespread indifference regarding the national organiza- 

 tion on the part of the retail clement has for many years 

 been a subject of wondering comment and a certain 

 amount of rather severe criticism. Now they "clamor 

 at the gates," supporting their overture with a very 

 practical and persuasive argument, viz., that their or- 

 ganization is the only one in existence which makes 

 membership in the S. A. F. a pre-requisite to admission 

 and that to this fact is due the addition of some forty 

 new members to the national society during the past 

 year! Their argument is certainly the real thing — "all 

 wool and a yard wide." In principle it is substantial 

 proof of the soundness of the conviction, which we have 

 always held and often reaffirmed, that the kindred so- 

 cieties, instead of being a disintegrating menace to the 

 S. A. F., should be regarded as useful adjuncts and 

 feeders for the great central body, crystalizing forces 

 which, rightly directed, would bring to the S. A. F. an 

 accession of strength and influence otherwi.<e impos- 

 sible of realization. We hope the Executive Board will 

 give most careful study to this subject not only in its 

 bearing upon the immediate proposition but in its 

 broader effect upon the future relationship between the 

 S. A. F. and the many other bodies organized for work 

 on special lines. 



At the ^^^ executive committee of the American 

 partinq of f^rnation Society found itself with a 

 the ways rather difficult problem on its hands. At 

 the session in Jfinncapolis, in which quite 

 a number of the members of the Society participated, it 

 was sho^\Ti that since the .society abandoned its inde- 

 pendent midwinter meeting and exhibition and merged 

 its activities with the other special societies at the 

 National Flower Show in Boston, its membership and 

 interest had noticeably fallen off and the conclusion 

 was forced upon the society that it must get back to its 

 former custom in order to restore its prestige. Then 

 developed a diversity of views as to how tliis could best be 

 accomplished — whether by accepting the invitation to 

 convene at the Illinois State College where they were 

 offered many unique privileges for scientific and practi- 

 cal experiment and comparison, or by meeting in some 

 city such as Cleveland where accessions to the member- 

 ship might be gained from the commercial carna- 

 tion growers. The latter course was finally chosen 

 but it is by no means certain that the society 

 would have been any better off today had it ad- 

 hered to its former custom and stood aloof from the 

 National Flower Shows. No argument is needed to 

 convince far-sighted observers that the establishment of 

 the National Flower Show and the entry of the Experi- 

 ment Stations and State Colleges into the domain of 

 floriculture, not to mention the tremendous educa- 

 tional influence (if the trade papers, have a direct bear- 

 ing upon tlie relationship of all the Societies to the trade 

 and to each other, and must henceforth be taken into 

 account when seeking fields for useful societv activity. 



