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August 13, 1910 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Rochester Aster. 



NOTES PROM ARNOLD ARBORETUM-AIf d Rehder. 190 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON THE CULTURE OF 



FLORISTS' STOCK— J. .1. M. Farrell 199 



PESTS AND DISEASES OF MELONS— G. H. Penson. 200 

 PROFITABLE ORCHIDS FOR THE CUT FLOWER 



MARKET— M. J. Pope 201 



DIPLADENIAS— George F. Stewart 202 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 202 



FOREIGN NOTES— C. Harman Payne 203 



ROCHESTER AND THE BRANCHING ASTER— 



George Arnold 205 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FI.ORISTS: 



Officers and Program— Portraits of Officers 206-207 



Glimpses of Rochester — Illustrations 209-211 



Baltimore to the Front 210 



Rochester Florists' Asso. — Nat. Sweet Pea Soc. — 

 Amer. Carnation Soc. — Am. Gladiolus Soc, portrait 



L. Merton Gage— Ladies' S. A. F 212 



PAST, PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE OF THE 



SEED BUSINESS— Francis Brill 213 



VIEWS IN JAPAN LILY GROWING DISTRICTS 213 



OF INTEREST . TO RETAIL FLORISTS— Steamer 

 Departures — Flowers by Telegraph — International 



Flower Delivery * .... 220-221 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS— Boston, Buffalo. Chi- 

 cago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Detroit 223-225 



PHILADELPHIA— Men and Firms that Have Attained 

 Distinction — Burpee's California Seed Farm, Illus- 

 trated — Some of the Newer Cannas — Some New 



Things in Floral Requisites 229-242 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



American Association of R. R. Gardeners — Yonkers 



Horticultural Society — Chicago Florists' Club 243 



American Association of Park Superintendents 244 



Lenox Horticultural Society — Hort. Soc. of Chicago. 246 



Canadian Horticultural Association 252 



Apple Growers' Congress 253 



Vegetable Growers' Convention — Royal Hort. Society. 255 



DUKE'S PARK GREENHOUSES- Illustrated 254 



DURING RECESS— Nassau County Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Long Island Florist Club 256 



MISCELLANEOUS — Seed Trade Notes — News 



Notes 218-220-221-224 



St. Louis Notes — Personal — Incorporated 221 



Three Representative Chicago Houses 225 



Prof. B. S. Mackintosh Goes to Penna. State Coll... 238 



Philadelphia Notes 238 



Fall Spraying 255 



Greenhouses Building — Patents Granted 256 



Loyalty to hearth-stone, hospitality to the 

 "Do it for stranger and enthusiasm in every move- 

 Rochester" ment for the renown of the former and 

 the entertainment of the latter is nowhere 

 developed to a higher degree than in the fair city which 

 is about to extend the hand of welcome to the floral and 

 horticultural fraternity of America. "Do it for Roch- 

 ester" is the inspiring slogan under the stimulus of 

 which the people of the "Flower City" have attained 

 a pre-eminence and efficiency as hoists which no other 



communi'.y can sui'pass. Foremo.st in everything that 

 will bring lustre to their city are the great nursery, 

 floral and flower seed interests of Rochester and the 

 popular recognition' of this fact is emphatically mani- 

 fested in the adoption of a florists' flower, — the China 

 aster — as the civic emblem. We could think of no more 

 ap](ropriate subject for our title page on this occasion 

 than this flower which in recent years has attained such 

 a splendid development through the genius and skill of 

 our Rochester brethren. We are pleased to have the 

 privilege to thus "Do it for Rochester." "Long life to 

 her." ' 



How time does fly now-a-days ! Here 



A request ■^,3 are again on the threshold of an- 



and a reason other S. A. F. Convention and here, 



too, .is the sixth Annual Convention 

 N amber of Horticultuee. We hope everyone who 

 receives a copy will peruse it with pleasure and profit. 

 Its reading columns reflect the views of many wise men 

 on many momentous subjects; its news notes cover a 

 wide territory ; its advertisements are the infallible 

 g-uide-book to all that is promising, worthy and essen- 

 tial in the stock of the most reliable producers and 

 merchant.* in every department of horticulture. The 

 name? of the majority of advertisers represented herein 

 are those of firms of world-wide repute; amongst them 

 will be found the leading exponents of tlie wide-awake 

 commercial horticulture of our day. We are proud of 

 the standing they thus .accord to Hokticultuee in 

 making it a medium of trade communication with the 

 fraternity and we can ask no greater favor for ourselves 

 — and one which we know will be equally to the advan- 

 tage of both buyer and seller — than that the thousands 

 who read these' lines shall, as far as possible, bestow 

 their patronage on these worthy houses. 



The Convention at Rochester will have 

 "Show Me" a considerable amount of serious business 



to attend to and if it goes about it with 

 the deliberation and far-sighted discernment which its 

 importance demands the members will have well 

 earned the day of relaxation and frolic which the 

 Rochester brethren have planned for them on Friday. 

 Among other propositions of a more or less radical 

 cliaracter they will be asked to give their approval of 

 Ihe proposed changes in the Constitution and By-Laws, 

 whereby the time-honored privilege of selecting two 

 members of the board of directors will be taken away 

 from the president and vested in the Convention, and 

 the selection of a Secretary and Treasurer will be 

 taken from the Convention and vested in the board of 

 directors. We fully coincide with the views of our 

 J>; ew York contemporary as set forth in an editorial on 

 this question last week. Nothing that has been ad- 

 vanced thus far by the coterie of clever gentlemen who 

 have framed up this program strikes us as sufficient 

 justification for the innovation proposed. We do not 

 wish to be understood as opposing any and all de- 

 ]iartures from old methods, but a change .so sweeping as 

 the one in question — when the old system has worked 

 so well — should not be adopted on the mere assertion 

 of its .sponsors that it is a "modem improvement.". The 

 memAiers of the Society have the right and should 

 exercise it. to 'liail from Missouri" for the time being 

 and insist on being shown what advantage will accrue 

 to them and to the industries wliich they represent, by 

 devoting their valuable convention hours to tinkering 

 their constitution when so many matters more directly 

 appertaining to the welfare of the profession await con- 

 sideration. 



