HORTICULTURE 



July 2, 1910 



horticulture: 



VOL. XII 



JULY 2, 1910 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Tulips, Pansies and Daisies 



in Spring Bedding by Wm. Duclihani, Madison, N. J. 

 BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 5 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Hollyhocks, Housing the Carnation, Ivies, 

 Nepenthes, Primulas, Oncidiums — John J. M. Farrell. 7 



SHOWS AT ANTIBES AND HYERES— F. Moore 7 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Newport Horticultural Society, Illustrated — Morris Co. 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Society — Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists — Tarrytown Horticultural Society 8 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Yonkers Horticul- 

 tural Society — American Carnation Society 9 



Elberon Horticultural Society — ^Florists' Club of Phil- 

 adelphia 12 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 13 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION: 



Convention Story Continued — Report of Committee on 

 President's Address — Thursday Afternoon's Session — 

 A Visit to Pordhook Farm and Trial Grounds 10 



DURING RECESS: 



The Opening Frolic at Waretown — New York Flor- 

 ists' Club Outing — New York and New Jersey Associ- 

 ation of Plant Growers 12 



THE FREEZE IN IOWA— L. H. Pammell— Illustrated . . 13 



SEED TRADE: 



Seed Pea Crop — California Seed Crops — Wholesale 

 Grass Seed Dealers — Notes 16 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 18 



Flowers Bv Telegraph — New Flower Stores 19 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia 21 



New York 23 



OBITUARY: 

 George R. Wheeldon — M. D. Jones — Bernard G. 

 Schramm 23 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Heating System Installed at Cornell — Illustrated 11 



News Notes 15-19-23-29 



Catalogues Received 16 



Personal 18 



Chicago Notes 19 



St. Louis Personals. .■ 23 



Publications Received 28 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 30 



Now is Ihe time when our columns devoted 

 Low tide to the doing.s of the craft "during recess" 



are likely to be well filled up. It has been 

 a strenuous year in many respecrts since the call from 

 work lo recreation was last heard. Few, perhaps none, 

 have quite realized the prosperity which they confidently 

 looked for at the opening of the season which now comes 

 to a close. Many conflicting conditions have been 

 forced upon ris which cpuld not be foreseen and, as 

 has been the universal experience since the world began, 

 full fruition of our sanguine hopes has been withheld. 



Yet, it has been a year of fair returns to those who have 

 toiled persistently and wisely. The man who is most 

 disappointed over the outcome will be found invariably 

 to be tlie one who held to old ways of doing things 

 and is obdurate to everything suggesting progress. To 

 those so bent nothing seems quite right and the future 

 looks forlorn. The remedy is obvious and it will effect 

 a cure, everytirae. 



Possibly til ere is no single item in the 

 A hint entire list of nurserymen's offerings 



to the peony that gives less satisfaction to the im- 

 dealer patient buyer than the peon}', and none 



that is more liable to bring the dealer 

 and the variety into bad repute. Mr. Shaylor, whose 

 work in the peony field was the subject of an article 

 in our issue of last week, dwelt particularly on the fact 

 that frequently varieties which when well established 

 under favorable conditions are grand in all respects are 

 liable to throw, for several years after transplanting, 

 a scanty crop of single or semi-double flowers, and the 

 nurseryman is liable to be unjustly criticised by cus- 

 tomers who are not aware of this fact. Men like Mr. 

 Shaylor, who understand the behavior of the peony, 

 look complacently on its vagaries and are willing to 

 wait patiently until a new variety has had time to get 

 established before passing judgment on its merits or 

 demerits. The public needs a little education in this 

 re?pect and Mr. Shaylor thinks that the dealer should, 

 in justice to himself and his goods, see that they get it. 



Considerable space in our columns 

 The seedsman for the past two weeks has been de- 

 and the public voted to matters conne(rf;ed with the 

 seed trade and the proceedings of the 

 American Seed Trade Association. As the president 

 of the Association truly said in his address at the open- 

 ing of the Convention at Atlantic City, the public eye 

 has of late been on the seed trade in a degree hitherto 

 unknown and the seedsman has been brought to a 

 realization of that fact in a manner frequently abrupt 

 and decidedly uncomfortable. It is well, then, that the 

 wise men of the seed trade should take a philosophical 

 stand and meet the authorities who are called upon to 

 act for the public in what is believed to be a conserva- 

 tion of their interests and show them that the seed 

 trade has nothing to be ashamed of, nothing in which it 

 need take a position in the defensive, nothing which it 

 is unwilling to discuss from the standpoint of fair 

 dealing and justice to all concerned, and no disposition 

 to shield the individual who has done wrong or to 

 oppose reasonable legislation calculated to eliminate 

 wrong doing. Tiespect for the seed trade is bound to 

 come from a persistence in the frank and dignified 

 policy advocated by President Robinson and endorsed 

 by his Association. "Pure seed" legislation is "a con- 

 dition and not a theory." and the acceptance of the 

 situation and disposition to aid rather than hamper and 

 oppose such by the seed.<mpn's national organization 

 will, we ho]5e. result finally in le,gislation that will not 

 only protect the puhlic but ]irotect the seedsman, too. 



We regret to announce that Mr. Eehder will be out 

 of town for a few days and will be unable to furnish 

 liis tisual notes from the Arnold Arboretum this week 

 or possibly next. He will resume regular contributions 

 on his return. 



