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HORTICULTURE 



August 27, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XII 



AUGUST 27, 1910 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleya Harrisoniae. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Housing Tender Plants— Otaheite Orange — 

 Feeding and Disbudding Chysanthemums— Laelias— 

 Housing Bouvardias— Lifting Hydrangeas— John J. M. 

 Farrell 301 



CATTLEYA HARRISONIAE 301 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMEN- 

 TAL HORTICULTURISTS— Convention Story Contin- 

 ued—The School Garden Movement— Value of the Ex- 

 periment Stations— Presentation to President Pierson.303 

 President Pierson's Response — Final Resolutions- 

 Presentation to Supt. Charles H. Vick— Awards in 

 Trade E.xhibition- Florists' Telegi-aph Delivery Sec- 

 tion— Bayersdorter & Co.'s Exhibit, Illustrated 304 



Displays by Vick. Kroeschell and Dreer, Illustrated — 

 Parcels Post — For Greenhouses at Cornell — The Pan- 

 ama Exposition 305 



The Shooting Contest— Ladies on Auto Ride, Illus- 

 trated — Convention Notes 306 



Model Greenhouse, Illustrated 307 



Convention Group, Illustration— Reports of State Vice- 

 Presidents for Maryland and Indiana 314-315 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



American Rose Society 306 



National Sweet Pea Society— American Gladiolus So- 

 ciety 307 



St. Louis Florist Club— Royal Horticultural Society- 

 New Orleans Horticultural Society, Pres. Richard Eich- 

 ling, portrait— Nassau County Horticultural Society- 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society— Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists— Club and Society Notes 309 



DURING RECESS: 



Connecticut Nurserymen's Association, Illustrated — 

 Omaha Florists' Club— Trophies for Baltimore 308 



OBITUARY: 

 George Redford, portrait— William Roach— Frederick 

 A. Katoll 310 



FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS, Illustrated 310 



SEED TRADE: 



Onion Sets Around Chicago— The Three B's of the 

 Seed Trade, G. C. W.— Seed "Warehouse Burned— An- 

 other One for Dr. Osier. G. C. W.— Notes 316 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 318 



Flowers by Telegraph 319 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 321 



New York, Philadelphia 323 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Sweet Pc'a in Oregon : 308 



Some Graceful Dendrobiums, F. M 308 



"De Big Fiel' bv de Town," poetry 308 



News Notes 308, 309, 310, 311, 322, 328 



J. F. Huss in Switzerland 312 



Publications Received 312 



Catalogues Received 316 



Personal 318 



Chicago Notes 319 



In Bankruptcy 319 



Philadelphia Notes 323 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 328 



The Toad's Useful Appetite 329 



Incorporated — Patents Granted 339 



To the man who never attended an S. 



Keeping up A. F. Convention before — and there 



the stock Ti^'ere many such in attendance at 



Eochester — the personel of the Society, 

 the character and quality of the discussions and pro- J 

 ecedinps generall)-, and, above all. that stupendous ex- 1 

 hibition, must have served as an eye-opener to the 

 splendid virile force which has made and is still making 

 this unique organization the wonder of friend and op- 

 ponent alike. We have frequently found cause and op- 

 portunity to commend the wisdom displayed by this 

 Society, particularly in recent years in the providing 

 for and encouragement of those features which tend to 

 make the annual meetings inviting to the younger ele- 

 ment. Grand material is thus being trained for the 

 harness and as the old workers, one after another, cease 

 their activities, there stands ready an eager, efficient 

 and loyal phalanx from which to draw leaders in whose 

 hands the prosperity of the grand old Society will suffer • 

 no relapse. I 



The addresses and practical discus- I 

 Broad gauge sions on the floor of the Convention 

 principles ^yere all of a high order, eliminating 



the small talk on unimportant trifles 

 which wa.SLC-< so much valuable time at the meetings of 

 many well-meaning societies. On questions of policies 

 and internal management the same careful foresight, 

 clear perception and deliberate conviction so often dis- 

 played in the past were constantly manifested and we 

 are confident that time will amply establish the wisdom 

 of the decisions which were arrived at. Scramble for 

 control for the sake of control by a few ambitious and 

 brainy men has come to be an almost universal con- 

 comitant of industrial and corporation life and we 

 should glory in tlie fact that thus far the S. A. F. has 

 escaped this blight. To open up new and wider avenues 

 for Ihe commercial development of horticultural in- 

 dustries, to lend a helping hand wherever there is a 

 struggle against adverse or oppressive conditions, and 

 in general to seek out and foster everything that tends 

 to the advancement and welfare of the profession, is 

 a noble purpose and the field for action on these lines 

 is certainly big enough. The Society's outlook has J 

 never been more promising than it is today. ■ 



The number of replies received 

 Winter versus by Secretary Dorner, expressing 



summer meetings the preferences of S. A. F. mem- 

 bers as to a change of Conven- 

 tion date from August to mid-Lent, viz., 238 in favor 

 of the change, 369 opposed, and 8 indifferent, shows 

 jilainly enough that a strong majority of the members 

 are satisfied with the time-honored custom of summer 

 meetings. It does not follow, however, that they are 

 equally opposed to a spring meeting, and very likely if 

 the question should be similarly put in reference to a 

 spring meeting, in addition to the summer session, a 

 majority of favorable votes would be cast. Indeed, we 

 confess to much surprise at the size of the vote in 

 favor of an entire change. It shows a strong tide of 

 interest in the Spring Flower Show idea, and should 

 the affair at Boston next March prove financially suc- 

 cessful the advocates of a spring convention will un- 

 doubtedly be heard from in a manner that will com- 

 mand attention. Very few communities, however, have 

 the facilities for carrying out an enterprise of the mag- 

 nitude oi that which Boston has assumed and the So- 

 ciety displayed good judgment in laying the whole mat- 

 ter on the table until next August. 



