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HORTICULTURE, 



September 3, 1910 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XII 



SEPTEMBER 3, 1910 



HO. 10 



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CONTENTS P^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleya Mendelli Stuart 



Low. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rehder ^^^ 



CATTLEYA MENDELLI STUART LOW 337 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLOR- 

 ISTS' STOCK— Amaryllis— Sowing Cyclamen— Cut- 

 tings of Vincas — Dracaena indivisa — Lorraine Be- 

 gonia— Lilium candidum— Pandanus Veitchii— Stevia 



—John J. M. Farrell 338 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 339 



SOME MASSACHUSETTS GROWERS 341 



SWEET PEA FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE— Illus- 

 trated 341 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— Detroit Florist 

 Club — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — 

 American Carnation Society 342 



DURING RECESS: 



Elberon Horticultural Society 342 



Snap Shots at the Convention — Illustrated 343 



THE GLADIOLUS AT ROCHESTER— L. Merton 



Gage 343 



FLORISTS' TELEGRAPH DELIVERY— Wm. C. Glo- 



eckner 344 



SEED TRADE: 



The Onion Crop-Peas-Corn— Beans— An Active 



Season Coming — Notes 348 



Dutch Bulb Notes, F. M 348 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures— Beauty a Drawback— New 



Flower Stores 350 



Flowers by Telegraph 351 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago 353 



Detroit. New York, Philadelphia 355 



OBITUARY: 



William Benjamin Whittier, portrait— Everett C. 

 Lufkin 360 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



Conservation 341 



News Notes 346-355-362 



Gladioli in London— F. M 348 



Chicago Notes 351 



Personal 355 



Newport Notes 355 



Philadelphia Notes— Chas. E. Meehan, portrait 361 



Incorporated 361 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 362 



The Ani(?rican Gladiolus Society has 



A wide-awake get a shining example for the special 



youngster focieties already in existence or to be 



organized in the future, in the enthu- 



i=ia.~in shown and the methods employed to bring the 



organization into desired publicity. It was largely 

 througli its efEorts that the unprecedentedly fine display 

 of its favorite flower was made at Rochester and there 

 is plenty of evidence that the Gladiolus Society pro- 

 poses to be a real live force in American horticulture. The 

 spirit manifested in its meetings showed very clearly the 

 cordial feelings of its members toward the S. A. F. and 

 we hope to see the latter take prompt steps to provide a 

 means whereby practical afBliation with this body of 

 intelligent specialists may be brought about now while 

 the spirit moves. 



If the plans of the prime-movers in the 

 Evolution new organization known as the Florists' 

 on new lines Telegraph Delivery should be success- 

 fully carried out, the roster of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists will certainly show a great 

 change and, from being a very slim minority numeri- 

 cally in membership as heretofore, the retail store florist 

 will loom up as a factor of no small importance and in- 

 fluence. Membership in the S. A. F. as a pre-requisite 

 to membership in the Florists' Hail Association would 

 have been a tremendous bulwark for the former, if incor- 

 porated in the Constitution of the latter at the time of 

 its birth. Tlie retailers' affair is so novel in its most 

 vital features that the outcome can hardly be predicted 

 and its progress will be followed with much interest by 

 all who wish to keep well informed as to tendencies and 

 outlook in tlie florist trade and in the career of the 

 jSTational Society. Our readers are urged to read care- 

 fully through the contribution on this subject by Mr. 

 Gloeckner of Albany, N. Y., which we present in thi.s 

 issue. 



The interesting article on Eochester's 

 The modern flower — the aster— which appeared in 

 aster om- Convention Number seems to have 



attracted considerable attention. We 

 understand there is a disposition in some quarters to 

 question the exactness of some of the statements as 

 there given concerning the history of the remarkable 

 development of this flower in recent years. Thus far, 

 liowever, no one lias seemed willing to come out into the 

 open with his views in print: Our columns are at the 

 service of anybody having anything to advance on this 

 topic. All will admit that a great stride has been 

 made, and that the development is still going on needs 

 no better proof than is furnished by the flowers dis- 

 played at the present time on the tables and in the win- 

 dows of the florists' stores. In one class the dash and 

 picturesque beauty of the Japanese chrysanthemum are 

 well simulated, in another the prim and regular finish 

 of the show dahlia is almost rivalled, there are fixed 

 types of incur\ed and reflexed and ragged petalage 

 M'hich become more pronounced each year, and new and 

 more intense tones of color are constantly appearing. 

 What the aster of a decade hence will be is a question 

 which furnishes a good field for the imagination but its 

 position as a florists' flower, apart from its place as a 

 garden ornament, is already close to the top of the lad- 

 der and it is still climbing. 



