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HORTICULTURE 



September 17, 1910 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XII SEPTEMBER If, 1910 NO. 12 



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CONTENTS P»ee 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Conservatory and Garden. 



IPOMOEA PANDURATA— A. E. Thatcher— Illustrated.. 401 



AESCHYNANTHUS— Geo. F. Stewart 401 



CONSERVATORY AND GARDEN 401 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Ardisias; Crimson and Baby Ramblers; 

 Crotons; Peonies; Phlox; Snapdragons — John J. M. 

 Farrell 403 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 New York Florists' Club— Connecticut Horticultural 

 Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society — St. Louis 



Florist Club — Lenox Horticultural Society 406 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — New York 



Bowlers, Attention 407 



Yonkers Horticultural Society — State Florists' Associa- 

 tion of Indiana— Club and Society Notes 408 



SEED TRADE: 



"Malefactors of Great Wealth," G. C .Watson— Window 



Displays 412 



Notes 413 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures— New Flower Stores 414 



Flowers by Telegraph 415 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit 417 



New York, Philadelphia 419 



OBITUARY: 

 Mrs. John T. Allan 424 



DURING RECESS: 

 Das Schwaebische Volksfest, Illustrated— New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society — Bar Harbor Horticultural 

 Society *25 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Philadelphia Notes 4U4 



St. Louis Notes *"* 



An Effective Floral Piece, Illustrated 4^* 



Pennock-Mechan Co.'s New Move 407 



Severe Hail Storm, Illustrated 41U 



Catalogues Received 410 



Incorporated " 



Publication Received y^ 



Messrs Vincent's Annual Festival 4i^ 



Chicago Notes 419-4251426 



News Notes *^^ *^° *24 



Personal ,,. 



The Aster Beetle •■■•• ; 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated i^^ 



Clubs and societies generally will now 

 Starting right resume the activity which has been 



su$pen(]ed during the summer season. 

 The prospect? for a successful career during the months 

 to come hang very largely upon the manner in which 

 the start is made. Officers and members alike carry 

 individual responsibility and duties, upon the perform- 

 ance of which depends in no small degree the measure 

 of usefulness and repute wliich any society may attain. 



The closer the officers come into touch and sympathy 

 with the rank and file and the matters that most con- 

 cern them the greater will be the efficiency of the organ- 

 ization and the stronger its, hold on the community. It 

 is advisable to look the field over early and carefully and 

 plan well ahead for features of general interest and 

 when we see a president calling his committees and 

 other active spirits together for frequent consultation we 

 know that the welfare of the body which they repre- 

 sent is in good hands and can confidentially expect that 

 when the report for the year is made up it will be one 

 not to be ashamed of. So, all get busy now and see 

 what you can accomplish during the season of 1910-11. 

 What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 



Reference is made in our news notes, to 

 A problem the fact that in the arrangements for the 

 in schedule Indianapolis flower show the number of 

 making classes for which premiums will be 

 offered has been kept down so that liberal 

 premiums may be available in the classes retained. It 

 is the belief of many that good-sized premiums in a few 

 classes will bring out more entries and larger interest 

 on the part of the visiting public than a lot of small pre- 

 miums spread over a long list of classes. While recog- 

 nizing the truth that many small growers are thus kept 

 from the privilege of competition and are liable to feel 

 slighted on this account, yet we cannot shut our eyes to 

 the advantages, as seen from the standpoint of the gate 

 receipts, which follow on the securing of large and sen- 

 sational exhibits and we know many cases where con- 

 cessions have been made to the minor exhibitors, with 

 the laudable purpose of giving the small grower a chance 

 to get in, which it was well-understood by the schedule 

 makers were simply and solely additions to the expense 

 account, adding nothing whatever to the drawing qual- 

 ifications of the show as a financial venture. The ques- 

 tion is a difficult one to straddle and much could be 

 said on both sides. 



Exhibition time is on and for weeks 

 The exhibition to come will be at its height, not only- 

 season in the big communities with their im- 

 posing displays of floral and pomo- 

 logical wealth but in hundreds — possibly thousands — of 

 little hamlets in every part of this big country. Natur- 

 ally, we all look with approval on the ambitious demon- 

 strations of cultural skill made by experts in the various- 

 departments of horticulture and recognize in these en- 

 terprises a mighty agency for the dissemination of hor- 

 ticultural knowledge and the extension of popular in- 

 terest in the products of the gardener and florist. But 

 are we not liable to underestimate the minor village 

 events, conducted by guilds, improvement clubs and 

 neighborhood unions of flower-loving folk? These 

 groups, with their lively little competitions in garden 

 annuals, house plants, etc., are doing good work in their 

 modest way for the benefit of the seedsman, the nursery- 

 man and the florist and the local tradesman in these 

 lines makes a big mistake in ignoring them as he too 

 often does. We are glad to note that there are some, 

 however, who are always ready to give encouragement 

 to the promoters of these affairs, contributing exhibits 

 not for competition, serving as judges and in other ways 

 showing a disposition to help along anything that tends 

 to more beautiful home surroundings in their town. 

 Bread thus cast upon the waters will not wait "many 

 days" to return. The recompense begins right on the- 

 spot. 



