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HORTICULTURE 



July 36, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Magnolia as an Avenue 

 Tree in Rochester. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 1^3 



COMMENDABLE ROSE NOVELTIES — Winfried 

 Rolker 1^3 



POT GROWN STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR SUM- 

 MER PLANTING— Wilfrid Wheeler 135 



A MAGNOLIA AVENUE 135 



ROSE SHOW AT LIEGNITZ, SILESIA— Frederick 

 Moore ^"^^ 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 



Special Rates to Rochester— Headquarters— Dues- 

 Proposed Constitutional Amendments— New State 

 Vice-Presidents— Exhibition— Convention City Prepa- 

 rations — Prospective Attendance 138 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES; 



National Sweet Pea Society, London— Frederick 



Moore 136 



Newport Horticultural Society — American Associa- 

 tion of Park Superintendents — New Orleans Horti- 

 cultural Society 140 



Northern Indiana Florists' Association — Elberon Hor- 

 ticultural Society— Club and Society Notes 141 



DURING RECESS: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— St. Louis 



Florists' Club Outing 142 



Cincinnati Florists' Society— A Philadelphia Catas- 

 trophe 143 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Production of Vegetable Seeds— Crop Shortages 

 —Notes 144 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 146 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 147 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 149 



Cincinnati. Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 151 



OBITUARY : 



Isaac C. Wood— Mrs. D. H. Sheehan— W. G. Gano— 

 Alexander Youngston— George H. Sheppard 156 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



About Seasonable Notes 136 



Preparing for Spokane Apple Show 136 



Personal 1^^ 



A New York Flower Dealer— A. Moltz, portrait 137 



The Castle Automatic Circulator Changes Hands- 

 Illustrated 13"^ 



A Seventy-fifth Anniversary 137 



The Shaw Banquet 139 



Incorporated 144 



Chicago Notes 147 



News Notes 158 



Philadelphia Notes 157 



St. Louis Personals 157 



Fires 1^^ 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 158 



Patents Granted 158 



Anotiier "horticultural wonder" we 

 Grafting again are informed has come to light — this 



time at Cincinnati — a man named 

 Tromey who has a flower store on Vine street having 

 iliscovered and brought home from the Elks' Conven- 

 tion at Detroit a genuine black hollyhock. This remark- 

 rtlile treasure-trove, the Cincinnati Enquirer informs its 

 readers, "is the result of grafting last season when a red 

 blossom was grafted into the stem of a blue hollyhock." 

 We don't know, of course, what they do to a man at the 

 Elks' incantations but the mere fact that this happened 

 on the way home from Detroit should not necessarily lay 

 Mayor Breitmeyer or his beautiful city open to any sus- 

 picion. Were there any Calif ornians there? These 

 ■'romantic flights" are undoubtedly contagious. 



In a letter received from one of the 

 Baltimore's Southern vice-presidents it is suggested 

 opportunity that an occasional visit by the S. A. F. 



to Southern territory would have an in- 

 spiring eifect on the florists of that section and result in 

 bringing to the National Society a substantial member- 

 ship increase in States where it is now numerically weak. 

 No doubt our friend is right. The Asheville Convention 

 unquestionably helped the Society very much in the 

 South. Asheville, however, because of its high altitude, 

 where we were told one might almost reach up and tickle 

 the feet of the angels, had the advantage of other South- 

 ern cities in availability as a place for a hot-weather 

 meeting and it is doubtful if an equal attendance from 

 the large northern centres of horticultural activity could 

 be secured at any other Southern point in August. 

 Tliere is one city, though, the selection of which, we 

 believe, would be regarded with much favor by the 

 Southern people, while also drawing a big representative 

 attendance from the North. We refer to Baltimore — a 

 city which has made more than one earnest, altliough un- 

 successful, attempt to induce the S. A. F. to choose it as 

 a convention city. If it be that Baltimore still enter- 

 tains the same desire she certainly has the strongest 

 claims on the Society's consideration and it would be 

 a very proper action for other places which have already 

 liad the honor of entertaining the S. A. F. to stand aside 

 now and gracefully yield the privilege to the Monu- 

 mental C!ity. Baltimore has many strong points which 

 are obviously in her favor and, as before said, would un- 

 doubtedly draw a large attendance from both old and 

 new territory. 



We have just received the following letter : 

 is a cycas Springfield, L. I., July 23, 1910. 



a palm? Editor of HORTICULTURE. 



Dear Sir: — Will you kindly inform me if 

 the Cycas revoluta is a palm. I have always 

 been under the Impression it was. For years I have im- 

 ported the fresh cut leaves from Bermuda free of duty. 

 Within the last week the Assistant Appraiser of the port 

 of New York insists they are not palm leaves and has put 

 a duty of 60 per cent, on them. I would like to know your 

 opinion on the matter at your earliest convenience. 

 Respectfully yours, 



J. D. OUTERBRIDGE. 



Although the plant in question is popularly known as 

 the "sago palm"' and its leaves, so largely used as 

 funeral emblems, have been bought and sold for genera- 

 tions as "palm leaves" yet we do not believe that the 

 use of the name palm as applied to a cycad can be suc- 

 cessfully defended as proper. Loudon says of the 



