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HORTICULTURE 



July 9, 1910 



HORTIC UI^TURE 



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~ CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— New York Florists' Club 

 at Witzel's Point. 



ROSE CONRAD F. MEYER — Illustrated— Arthur E. 

 Thatcher 37 



FOREIGN NOTES— C. Harman Payne 37 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Asters; Cyclamen; Freesias; Mignonette; 

 Painting Inside; Pot Roses for Flowering— John J. M. 

 Farrell 39 



SWEET PEA SHOW AT PHILADELPHIA 39 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 National Sweet Pea Society — American Gladiolus So- 

 ciety — North Shore Horticultural Society — New Or- 

 leans Horticultural Society 40 



Society of American Florists — Club and Society Notes 41 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY— President's Address... 44 

 Report of Nomenclature Committee 45 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — Frederick 

 Moore 46 



A VISIT TO MARION— Illustrated 41 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS— C. S. Harrison 42 



A RECORD BREAKING APPLE TREE— Illustrated 43 



THE ORCHID AS A COMMERCIAL PROPOSITION— 

 Alphonse Pericat .■ 46 



SEED TRADE — Erford L. Page. Portrait 48 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Detroit — Washington — Steamer Departures — New 



Flower Stores 50 



Flowers by Telegraph 51 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago. Cincinnati 53 



New York, Philadelphia 55 



OBITUARY: 



Thomas W. Dee— Louis A. Smith— Mrs. Malvina Sa- 

 pina Geng 60 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Carnation Countess Knuth 43 



W^aretown Visitors — Illustration 45 



A Little Learning— G. C. W 48 



Incorporated 48 



Pop])ies and Primroses 48 



Chicago Notts 51 



Philadelphia Note -.—Cincinnati Personals 55 



Personal 55 



Publications Received 60 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 62 



Patents Granted — News Notes 62 



But live weeks intervene Ijetween now 

 The S. A. F. and the time when we shall be jiaeking 

 Convention u)i for Eochester. On general principles 

 there is talk of a good attendance, at 

 least from Eastern points, and information at hand 

 shows that a grand exhibition is assured. But what 

 has become of the pulilicity bureau ? A little "advance 

 agent" activity would not be amiss. Wake us up, gen- 

 tlemen, and tell us what is going on and what's in 

 store for iw. It's time to start the overture. 



President Eobinson in his address 



Centralization before the American Seed Trade 



without absorption Association, congratulated that 



body on the perfect harmony pre- 



vailing between the Association and its sister organiza- 

 tions — the Wholesale Seedsmen's League and the Whole- 

 sale Grass Seed Dealers' Association. Each having a 

 special field of operation, he believed it to be better able 

 to care for its individual interests than the parent or- 

 ganization whose work must necessarily be of a more 

 general character and maintained that these lesser 

 bodies cotild organize for special work without detract- 

 ing in the least from the strength and efficiency of the 

 latter, whiclt should always stand ready to extend a help- 

 ing hand. This, it has always seemed to us, is good 

 principle and good logic as applying to the relationship 

 between the Society of American Florists and the or- 

 ganizations of specialists which have sprung up from 

 time to time among those who are its members or sliould 

 be, and the proper attitude of the latter to the gi'eat 

 national society. The problem of the relationship of 

 these bodies, which has been, at times, a somewhat dis- 

 turbing element, if it is ever settled, must be settled on 

 tlie lines of cooperation and mutual recognition of the 

 usefulness of each in its particular field, the genei'al 

 society being accorded a paramount importance as em- 

 bodying and safeguarding the combined interests of all. 

 This is a position which the S. A. F. is conspicuously 

 lifted to occupy because of its tinique possession of a 

 national charter. 



While on the suljject of President Eobin- 

 The long- i^mfj.; address we might further call atten- 

 credit evil tion to his remarks on the prevalent cus- 

 tom of long credits on garden seed which 

 lie characterized as ''a relic of the old days and out of 

 line with present day business methods." What business 

 man is there, who reads these lines, who has not felt the 

 actual pinch of poverty while at the same time his 

 ledger was fairly bristling with overdue accounts re- 

 ceivable ? If tliere is such a one he must be well within 

 the millionaire class. Least satisfactory of the various 

 expedients adopted with the idea of securing a more 

 expeditious transfer of accounts from the ledger to the 

 cash book is the plan of cash discounts which puts a 

 ])remium upon what is simply a duty, is taken advantage 

 of onh^ by those who would pay promptly anyway as a 

 matter of principle, makes a serious encroachment on 

 legitimate business ])rofits and leaves the slow payers 

 just wJiere they were. Much has been said of late, in 

 advocacy of shorter credits and a nearer approach to a 

 cash system in all lines of horticultural industry but it 

 is a hard nut to crack and thus far the agitation does not 

 appear to have produced any tangible result. Plainly 

 the reformation should begin with the retail dealer, for 

 it is he who controls all the inlets through which the 

 money must enter which is to support wholesaler, job- 

 ber, manufacturer and producer and all who are de- 

 pendent upon them. I'ntil the retailer gets seriously to 

 work with this reform in view not much general im- 

 provement can be expected. 



Our Sixth Annual Convention 

 Number 



Will be issued under date of August 13, 1910. It will 

 be full of interest for those who go to the Convention 

 at Eochester, and e(|ually so for those who stay at 

 home. It will be widely distributed and in publicity 

 value to tlie advertiser will have no superior. Take a 

 generous sized space. You'll find yourself in good 

 company. 



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