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HORTICULTURE 



October 8, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XII 



OCTOBER 8, 1910 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Calceolaria hybrida. 



TRICKY PEONIES— C- S. Harrison 497 



ARNOLD ARBORETUM NOTES 497 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Chrysanthemums — Dutch Bulbs — English 

 Ivy — Ficus pandurata — Lily Bed — Miltonias — /. /. M- 

 Farrell 499 



CALCEOLARIA HYBRIDA 499 



OBITUARY— Max Leichtlin— Mrs. Richard Witterstaet- 

 ter ' 500 



THE VINCENT DAHLIA SHOW— Illustrated 501 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America — New Jersey Floricultural 



Society 502 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia— Rhode Island Horti- 

 cultural Society — Royal Horticultural Society 503 



Club and Society Notes 500-503 



THE UP-TO-DATE AT SUNNYBROOK— G. C. Watson 504 



DURING RECESS— Bowling 506 



SEED TRADE: 

 Discouraging Estimates on Peas and Beans — Enor- 

 mous Losses to Growers^Where is the Favored 

 Land? — Record Prices— The Aster Seed Crop 508 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — Notes 510 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 511 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis 513 



New York, Philadelphia : . 515 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



To Curb the Express Companies 500 



The Washington Flower Show 500 



A Silver Wedding 500 



Mushrooms in Europe 501 



Free Strawberry Booklet 501 



Personal — Jackson Dawson, Portrait 506 



Chicago Notes 511 



Philadelphia Notes 515 



Incorporated 515 



A Notable Sale 515 



News Notes 505-515 



Patents Granted 520 



St. Louis Notes 521 



Insecticide and Fungicide Regulations 521 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 522 



A gentleman connected with the man- 



A retailer's agement of one of the largest and most 



advice prosperous retail florist establishments in 



the West expresses strong disapproval of 



the constant effort being made by flower growers to 



produce flowers out of their regular blooming season. 



He thinks that the chrysanthemum, for instance, would 

 bring more money to the grower if the shorter and more 

 normal season was adhered to, because the fact of the 

 chrysanthemums' being in market from midsummer on, 

 as has been the case this year, decreases the buyers' ap- 

 preciation of them in their regular season. He 

 instances also the lily, which is now in market reg- 

 ularly all the year 'round, as another suffering victim 

 of the gi'owers' injudicious course. We always have to 

 smile when we hear an out-and-out retailer give a dis- 

 sertation on what his dear brother the grower ought to 

 do. And then we have another attack of mirth as we 

 think of how industriously the grower will apply him- 

 self to trying to do things in accordance with the advice 

 of his esteemed brother the retailer. Byron said : 

 "Happiness was born a twin." So was the flower 

 business. 



Referring to the small greenhouse 



Encourage exhibit of Lord & Burnham Co., at 



the amateur Kochester last August, which attracted 



considerable attention, we have often 

 wondered that the florist trade have not done more 

 than they have to encourage the multiplication of such. 

 The demand for florist-grown material would not be 

 diminished but largely increased, we believe, if these 

 little conservatories were as common an adjunct to the 

 city or suburban home as is the veranda or bay window. 

 We know of a little greenhouse (9x17) in the back- 

 yard of a very shallow lot at 2 Forrester street, in Sa- 

 lem, Mass., where the owner, Mr. Henry Bedinger, will 

 be glad to show the visitor the possibilities with such 

 an outfit. From Nov. 1 till middle of May this little 

 conservatory is full of luxuriance and color, and the 

 value of such as an inspiration and educator in the use 

 of plants and flowers throughout the inclement months 

 (annot be overestimated. Florists with short sight and 

 narrow views are often inclined to look with disfavor 

 on the introduction of these facilities for amateur 

 flower growing, but we think they make a great mis- 

 take in so doing. 



Our esteemed friend Benjamin 

 What Hammond of Fishkill, N. Y., who 



home gardening unselfishly devotes a large part of 

 might do hjg time to school garden propa- 



ganda and interesting the children 

 in healthful rural exercise, in a letter recently written 

 to Horticulture, reasons that the tendency to buy 

 everything and raise as little as possible on the home 

 premises has much to do with general high prices for 

 food. In the many arguments on the causes of and 

 remedies for the prevailing high prices of the neces- 

 saries of life, to which much space has been given of 

 late in magazines and newspapers, we do not remember 

 liaving seen any that touched upon the point which Mr. 

 Hammond brings forward. It sounds reasonable and 

 logical and will bear reiterating throughout the length 

 and breadth of this country. Observant visitors from 

 Britain, France, Germany and other European coun- 

 tries frequently express suprise at the absence, here, 

 of the well-tilled gardens which, over there, are a 

 familiar adjunct to so many homes. When we stop to 

 think of the countless unproductive plots that line the 

 roadways in our suburban communities and the results 

 that a little well-directed industry might extract from 

 them, the school garden and home garden movements 

 loom up more and more impressively as among the 

 most worthy instrumentalities now working for the 

 people's good. 



