268 HORTICULTURE, August 20, mo 



¥^^^"OTp¥^^¥ J¥ Tp¥ yWli* communistic — it has been philanthropic in spirit and in 



— operation and a great credit to those who have nursed 



VOL. XII AUGUST 20, 1910 HO. 8 and developed it" to the high efficiency and extended 



PiiBLisHED WEEKLY BY usefulness which is set forth so plainly in Secretary 



110R.TIC\JI,TURE PUBLISHING CO. Esler's report which we present in this issue. The in- 



11 Hamilton Place. Boston. Mass. stitution has done all it promised and has done and is 



Telephone, Oxford 292 -, ■ ■, -,-, 



WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Uanager llOmg K WeJl. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Well-mcauing people have frequently 



on. Tear, In advance, »J,-»«^ J",,^^""*™ Conntrle.. ft.OO, T. ^n object been heard to Speak of the Socicty of 



ADTERTisiNO BATES. and a leader American Florists' Convention as a 



Per Inch, 30 Inches to page ♦1.0» 



Dlsconnts on Contracts for consecntlTC Insertions, as foUows: SeriouS burden OH the COmmunitV in 



One month (4 times) 6 per cent.; three months (IS times) 10 per -" 



cent.; six months (26 times) 20 per cent.; one year (82 times) which it is held and to decrv the cfEorts made bv their 



it per cent. '' '' 



Page an d half page spaces, special rates on appUcation. hosts to provide entertainment foT the visitors as being 



Entered as seeond-elass matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at likely to discourage other places from any disposition 

 Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. .i ct x • -j. xi itti i ^i • ^ 



to have the Society visit them. While this may have a 



CONTENTS P*ge certain basis of truth yet it seems to us that the other 



COVER ILLUSTRATION-George Asmus, President- gi^g of the question is very often overlooked— the com- 



elect Society of American Florists^ pensating advantages that come to the town or city as- 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred • ,, • i, i , i r, . j^ ■^ . 



265 summg this so-called burden. One cannot fail to 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' notice how the prospect of any such happening inspires 



STOCK— John J. M. Farrell— Illustrated— Cattleyas, and infuses with new enthusiasm for the National So- 



Browallias, Cocos, Geranium Cuttings, Myosotis, Sweet ^ ,.igty and its activities large numbers of those within 



PROFiVrBLE"°oVcHmr?OR^TO^^^ '^^ ^^^°'^ '°°^^^ ^""^ ^"^^°^^^ "^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^°* ^^^^ as a 



MARKET— M J. Pope 266 Convention or Exhibition is to take place. All that is 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: required to awaken the latent forces at such a time is 



The Opening Session— President's Address 269 the well-directed effort of a hustling and popular leader 



Secretary's Report possessed of good executive ability. Massachusetts is 



Treasurer's Report . 272 



The President's Reception-Wednesday's Sessions- especially fortunate this year in this respect and is to 

 Baltimore the Next Meeting Place— Thursday's Ses- be congratulated on the splendid showing made by the 

 sions — Election of Officers— The Exhibition 273 Bay State florists under their efficient State vice- 

 Ladies S. A. F.— Convention Notes 274 president- 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



American Association of Park Superintendents 274 A Spokane man has submitted a proposal 



Florists' Hail Association 275 Another to the national apple show to erect a 



SEED TRADE: Monument maninioth monument to Adam and Eve 



Crop Notes on Corn— The Pea Pack— The Bean Crop . i , ,, , ,, ,, 



-Canners- Convention 280 m one of the apple belts of the northwest. 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: There have been monuments and monuments erected 



St. Louis— Steamer Departures 282 to all kinds and conditions of men and dieties and it 



Flowers by Telegraph— New Flower Stores 283 cannot be denied that if this notorious pair are ever to 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: j^^^.^ ^ monument it is high time it was started. It i* 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 285 ^ ^ ^ , , , , , . , . . , , . ,, . , . , 



Cincinnati, Philadelphia 287 "°^ ^^^^^^ y^^ ^'^'^^ particular incident m their history 



MISCELLANEOUS: the gentleman proposes to commemorate but pre- 



Personal 275 suraably it is -their eating of an apple, an act which, if 



Obituary— Louis Dragon 275 all accounts are true, did not prove an unqualified 



St. Louis Notes 279 luxury. We are told by Jackson Dawson, who knows a 



Catalogues Received 280 ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^,^^^ ^j^^ ^^.^^^^ ^^ ^^.^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ 



Cement Benches 280 '■ >■ ■ ° 



Incorporated 280 as we know it at the present day was not larger than an 



In Bankruptcy 280 ordinary Boston bean and Mr. Dawson thinks Adam 



News Notes 280 must have been an easy mark for Eve on the occasion 



Cincinnati Notes 282 ^f j^g^. historical presentation to liim of a specimen. 



Chicago Notes 283 ^j^ . ^ j^^^ considerable place in human his- 



Philadelphia Notes 287 ^^ , , . , , / . ^ . .^^ 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 292 tory— authentic or legendary— as, for instance, m New- 



— ton's discovery of gravitation through seeing an apple 



One of the most utilitarian results fall. The row over the famous apjole of Discord, Prince 



The which were the outcome of the Ahmid's apple that cured every disorder and the green 



Hail Association awakening of the cooperative spirit apple which proved the undoing of "Poor little Johnnie 



among the horticultural forces a and his sister Sue," not to mention the apple-pie which 



quarter of a century ago was the establishment of the is one of the bulwarks of our civilization. Let us have 



Florists' Hail Association. Its work has been more than the monument liy all means. 



