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HORTICULTURE 



October 15, 19lO 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XII 



OCTOBER 15, 1910 



NO. 16 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Landscape Effect Con- 

 sidered in Greenhouse Construction. 



MIDSUMMER FLOWERING SHRVBS — Arthur E. 

 Thatcher 529 



LANDSCAPE EFFECT CONSIDERED IN GREEN- 

 HOUSE CONSTRUCTION 529 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Allamandas — Coreopsis grandiflora — Lo- 

 marias- Oxalis — Rhododendrons— Storing Roots and 

 Tubers— John J. M. Farrcll 530 



NEW ROSES OF THE YEAR— Frederick Moore 530 



THE RHINE VALLEY— /o/i„ H. Taylor 531 



HOLLAND—/^, fiucciit. Jr 533 



THE SPENCER TYPE OF SWEET PEAS— f-F. Atlee 

 Burpee < 533 



A NOTABLE GREENHOUSE RANGE— Illustrated. . . 535 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New York Florists' Club— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club — American Association of Park Superintendents, 

 Eastern Branch — The Morristown Show — Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Chicago Florists' Club 536 



Cincinnati Florists' Society — Society of American 

 Florists- Club and Society Notes 537 



COMING EXHIBITIONS 539 



DURING RECESS— Bowling at New York, Chicago and 

 Cincinnati 540 



HOW TO PRODUCE NEW PHLOXES— C. 5". Harrison 542 



SEED TRADE; 

 Agrostis stolonifera and canina — Grass Seed Crops — 

 A New Seed and Flower House — Currie Bros. Re- 

 organize — Notes — Catalogues Received 544 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 546 



Flowers by Telegraph 547 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia 549 



New York 551 



FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS, U. S. DEPT. 

 OF AGRI 556 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Nursery Merger 535 



Obituary— Mrs. John Walt 537 



Personal 540 



News Notes 540-551-558 



Care of Memorial Trees, etc. — Frederick Moore.... 542 



Catalogues Received 542 



Incorporated 544 



Chicago Notes 547 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 558 



Patents Granted 558 



We note witli pleasure the superiority in 

 Catalogue make-up and topographical merit in the 

 excellence catalogiies of lea(iing American nursery- 

 men and seedsmen as compared with 

 (hose issued by their European compeers. There are a 



few foreign publications which will compare favorably 

 in this respect with the best issued here but the great 

 majority, even including some of the biggest ones and 

 those that far excel the American lists in extent and 

 variety of their offerings, are not to be compared in the 

 (juality and character of theii- illustrations and in pro- 

 giessive artistic quality generally. Each season sees a 

 ilecided advance in excellence. 



Have you consulted or written to your favored 

 Your candidate for Congress this fall to ascertain 

 duty his attitude toward the parcel post agitation? 

 It's of much more vital importance to you, if 

 you are engaged in any department of horticultuj-al work, 

 than all the time-worn topics that political aspirants 

 are wont to rave about in pre-election speeches. There 

 are very few candidates at this time who feel so certain 

 of their election that they can afford to ignore tlie senti- 

 juents of their constituents and if you do not take advan- 

 tage of the present opportunity to voice your demand for 

 what you believe to be just and right you are neglecting 

 your duty to yourself and to the industry in which you 

 are engaged. Now is the time to act. Three weeks 

 more and the opportunity will be gone forever. 



Our list of coming exhibitions is a 

 Busy times for lengthy one and betokens busy times 

 the specialist in the next few weeks for all who 



contemplate making use of the facil- 

 ities for trade publicity which these occasions present. 

 It requires no small supply of any new plant or flower 

 to give it the proper showing required in these days at 

 even those few of the larger exhibitions which are rec- 

 ognized as pre-eminent in influence. Thus it is becom- 

 ing a more and more difficult undertaking for the in- 

 troducer ambitious for honors that will count when the 

 time comes for disseminating his novelties, and the list 

 of dealers who have the required facilities for effectively 

 staging and exploiting a new thing in widely separated 

 localities and at practically the same time must, of 

 necessity, be limited and also each year become more so. 



Only an interval of about five 

 Trade interest in the months separates us from what 

 National Flower Show jg generally expected to be the 



most brilliant horticultural 

 event the present generation of American florists and 

 gardeners have been privileged to participate in. Reports 

 from the center of activity in the management of this 

 enterprise are more than encouraging on the only line 

 on which doubt has been at any time expressed since 

 Boston was selected as the place for holding the exhibi- 

 tion — that is, the financial outlook. It has been ac- 

 cepted from the beginning that the show will be an un- 

 precedented success from a cultural and artistic stand- 

 point. Now looms up the trade exhibition, so-called, 

 which at the outset was regarded as a minor adjunct, 

 but which, from present indications, promises to go a 

 long ways toward supplying the substantial revenue 

 which will be needed. It is now settled beyond any 

 doubt that the trade section of this big affair will far ex- 

 ceed in extent and importance any trade exhibition held 

 heretofore at any convention of the S. A. F. The eager- 

 ness with which the large growers, manufacturers and 

 dealers all over the country are booking choice space in 

 which to make their display indicates that they look for 

 a very large attendance of trade buyers from all direc- 

 tions. That these dealers are good judges and well-in- 

 formed will not be questioned and this gives convincing 

 force to the forecast which they seem to have reasoned 

 out. 



