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HORTICULTURE 



October 1, 1910 



horticulture: 



VOL. XII 



OCTOBER 1, 1910 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Dimorphotheoa aurantiaca. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLOR- 

 ISTS' STOCK — Acacias — Canterbury Bells— Carna- 

 tions — Herbaceous Perennials — Nepholepis — Polypo- 

 diums — John I. M. Farrell 465 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— »'. H. Adsett 467 



DIMORPHOTHECA AURANTIACA 467 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — American Rose 

 Society — New York Florists' Club — Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society 468 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — American In- 

 stitute of New York 469 



Horticultural Society ot New York — Springfield, O., 

 Florists' Club— Florists' Club of Philadelphia— Club 

 and Society Notes 470 



CYPRIPEDIUM CA3TELL BUTTON, Illustrated... 469 



AN AUTUMN ROSE SHO"W^— H'. H. Adsett 472 



SEED TRADE: 



The Seed Crop Outlook— The Michell Trial Grounds, 



G. C. Watson— ^otes 476 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 478 



Flowers by Telegraph 479 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 481 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Washington.... 483 



OBITUARY: 



Frederick Ehrenberg — Frank S. Sherburne — Marie 

 M. Keitsch— Henry B. Crosby— Emily D. Schultheis 488 



DURING RECESS: 



Newport Horticultural Society Ball — Bowling 489 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



College Point Plant Outlook 470 



The Washington Show 470 



Michell's Dahlia Show 471 



An Interesting Nursery 472 



Catalogues Received 473 



Personal 474 



Philadelphia Notes 474 



A Mt. Clemens Grower — F. Dan:cr 474 



News Notes 478-489 



Chicago Notes 479 



Appraisers' Decisions 489 



A New Florist Firm, portrait — F. Daitzcr 480 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 490 



Holiday Weather Insurance 490 



Patents Granted 490 



Whicliev^r way we turn — among nursery- 



The water men, seedsmen, florists, or -wherever a 



famine. garden is cultivated — we encounter the 



same complaint of suffering and damage 



to crops b)' the extended period of drought which has 



prevailed over a large section of this country. The 

 condition of horticultural industries generally is not 

 such that crop losses can be regarded with indifference. 

 We feel sorry for the very many of our readers and 

 patrons who have told us of the hardship brought upon 

 them by the diminution or complete shutting otJ of their 

 regular water supply. It will take many days of heavy 

 downpour to fill up the springs and water courses and 

 we shall be willing to undergo the discomforts of a 

 week of old-fashioned rain storm in order to get back 

 to normal conditions before the ground freezes. Unless 

 we get it the losses of the coming winter must be con- 

 siderable. 



Our readers have no doubt noticed 



A hint to the high quality of the lily of the 



the bulb forcing valley blooms now offered in the 



industry flower markets as compared with 



the stock seen generally in the past. 

 This improvement in quality of product is not to be 

 attributed to the greater cultural skill on the part of the 

 forcers but is due, unquestionably, to the change of 

 import duty from 25 per cent, ad valorem to $1.00 per 

 1000 specific on pips. So we liave in this, at least one 

 result of the tariff change wliich has turned out as pre- 

 dicted by its advocates. It has been well-known in past 

 years that a veiT small proportion of the best lily of the 

 valley pips ever came to this country and, even now, we 

 do not fully realize the possibilities with the highest 

 grade material proditced in Europe. Our importers 

 will do well to encourage by all possible means the buy- 

 ing of the highest quality pips as an incentive to the 

 use of lily of the valley in floral work in the place of 

 inferior Eoman hyacinths and thus help to curb the 

 greed of the French bulb sradicate which controls the 

 Eoman hyacinth market. 



The dahlias have been on dress parade 

 What and the displays that have been made 

 the dahlia this j'ear have surely never before been 

 might do paralleled in extent and in size, quality 

 and variety of bloom. As seen in the 

 ranks of individual specimens on the exhibition tables 

 the dahlia, like the chrysanthemum under similar cir- 

 cumstances, gives little idea of its decorative possibili- 

 ties when used with long stalks and foliage. Here we 

 think the commercial dahlia growers are very remiss in 

 neglecting the opportunities which the exhibitions afford 

 for setting forth any qualifications which would tend to 

 further popularize their specialty and increase its sale. 

 It is true that the dahlia takes a very unpropitious time 

 of the year for its flowering season, so far as the regular 

 demand for decorative floral work is considered, yet one 

 cannot look upon a va,se of well-arranged dahlia blooms 

 without being impressed with its unrivalled adaptability 

 for bold ornate work and the conviction that this fact 

 is not being demonstrated to the public as it should. 

 Pushed and followed up by the enterprising methods 

 used by manufacturers and dealers in other wares for 

 public consumption the dahlia might be made to yield 

 thousands of dollars more than it does each year to the 

 florist business. 



