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HORTICULTURE 



September 24, 1910 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. XII SEPTEMBER 24, 1910 HO. 13 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Champion Decorated Fruit 

 Table. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLOR- 

 ISTS' STOCK — Auraucarias — Azaleas — Lifting 

 Shrubs for Forcing — Masedvallias — Poinsettias — 

 Roses— John J. M. Farrell 433 



A GREAT SHOW— Illustrated 435 



FOUR DAHLIAS OF MERIT— Illustrated 436 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New England Dahlia Society 435 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Detroit 

 Florist Club— Royal Horticultural Society— George 

 E. Browne, portrait— Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society— Buffalo to Have a Flower Show— Elberon 



Horticultural Society 437 



Philadelphia Dahlia Show— Club and Society Notes. 438 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Pea Crop— Corn and Beans — Vine Seeds— En- 

 couraging Foreign Reports — Potatoes Short — Sweet 

 Peas— Notes 444 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 446 



Flowers by Telegraph 447 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago 449 



Cincinnati, New York. Philadelphia, St. Louis 451 



OBITUARY: 



George Wittbold, portrait— H. A. Tracy— Simeon 

 Marshall— Frederick W. Flight— James McBean— 

 Prof. W. M. Munson — Marie I. Dickinson 457 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



For Parcels Post .- 439 



Philadelphia Notes '• 439 



Personal 439 



Detroit Notes 442 



Publication Received 442 



Incorporated 442 



Chicago Notes 447 



News Notes 451-457-458 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 45S 



The Aster Beetle 458 



We learn with regret of the failure of 



A back- Mayor Breitmeyer of Detroit to receive 



ward step the nomination for another term. It is a 



triumph for the politician.?, we are told. 

 So much tlie worse for Detroit. We know Mr. Breit- 

 meyer and know that he is the kind of man who cannot 

 be used in any way by politicians or bosses. Such men 

 are not overplenty in public life but when such indepen- 

 dence and honesty are associated with capability and ap- 

 plication, as in the case of Philip Breitmeyer, then the 

 community which he serves makes a great mistake in 

 allowing the heelers to force him out. 



The boss is a man of strong mentality 



Time for usually — one whose abilities, if put to un- 



action =elfish use would shine among his fellows. 



There are signs in plenty, however, thaftiis 

 era is passing. He doesn't always win out, now-a-days, 

 and it disturbs him greatly. The boss may be individ- 

 ual or corporate and one is as execrable as the other. 

 One of the worst of the latter, from which the American 

 people have been suffering, is the express monopoly. 

 Every individual who reads these lines and every mem- 

 ber of his family has been paying heavy tribute every 

 day for the enrichment of the managers of this and the 

 transportation monopolies with which it has divided its 

 loot. Were it not for the money power and influence 

 of this boss we should have had long since, as other civ- 

 ilized nations have, a parcels post which would mean a 

 huge saving annually to the people in the cost of trans- 

 porting merchandise and in bringing comforts otherwise 

 unattainable except to the few, within the reach of all. 

 In our reading columns, this week, it appears that the 

 Farmers' National Congress which is soon to meet at 

 Lincoln, Neb., has undertaken an active campaign on 

 behalf of a parcels post. The present time, when the 

 politicians have their wistful ear to the ground as never 

 before, is, as F. R. Pierson would say, the "psychological 

 moment" for action and to draw the line between can- 

 didates who consult the people and those who consult 

 only the bosses. We hope to see every florists' club and 

 every horticultural association take it up in earnest and 

 all liclp in the general onslaught. 



One of the most hopeful signs for the 

 Education floriculture of the future is the notice 

 will count which the florists are beginning to take 

 of the agricultural colleges. Some of the 

 brightest of the younger generation in flower growing 

 and general horticulture are graduates from one or the 

 other of these institutions, and ))roud of the fact. The 

 old prejudice against the education gained from books 

 and study seems to have largely disappeared and the 

 florist who wishes to have his sons- follow successfully 

 the business in which he is engaged today recognizes 

 a college course as one of the essentials in a proper 

 fitting for the work. No man can make rules for him- 

 self or for another which will always assure success in 

 any crop. It is possible, however, to reduce the con- 

 tingency of failure to a minimum by a thorough un- 

 derstanding of the laws of Nature, and the young man 

 who starts out with the resourceful, scientific knowledge 

 which the agricultural college instructor is prepared to 

 impart has very much in his favor as compared with 

 his competitor who learns only from experience what 

 to do, with little knowledge and very often little care 

 as to why he does it. Floriculture has now become too 

 important an industry to be content to struggle along 

 under the methods that prevailed a generation ago, 

 and he who aims to make his mark in the art now or 

 hereafter, must utilize all the help that science makes 

 available. .\nd if the agricultural institutions of his 

 State are not providing this it is "up to him" to make 

 the demand. Wherever this has been done the response 

 has thus far been all he could ask. 



"A haze on the far horizon, 

 The infinite, tender sky. 

 The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields. 

 And the wild geese sailing high,— 

 And all over upland and lowland 

 The charm of the goldenrod,— 

 Some of us call It Autumn, 

 And others call U God." 



— William Herbert Carruth. 



