598 horticulture: October 29, 1910 



¥^^^'0'¥*¥^^¥ T¥ Tp¥ J'R'ir little practical Ijenefit to Springfielcl plant growers and 



_;^______^^____— — _^-^— --^— — -^^:::;;33^^;^^^^^ sliippcrs, and that their interests were more closely allied 



VOL. XII OCTOBER 29, 1910 FO. 18 to those of the Association of American Nurserymen. 



PUBLISHED wKKKiiY BY ' '^^^ •'^^^ named organization is a noble body doing splen- 



HOR.TICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. did work and when we say that we think the speakers' 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. advice a mistake we don't mean to reflect in the least on 



Telephone, Oxfard 89* ,i at ; i • i- nr i i i i i- j 



WM. J. STEWART, Editor and usnmser the Nurserymen's Association. We should lie disposed 



' - to question first of all whether anyone whose name had 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ^ ^, iiiij-cii i. 



oa. Year, In .dvance, »i.oo; Te Foreign conntrie., fi.Ms T. never appeared OH the membership roll of a Society such 



Canada, »i.50. , ^^ ^j^g g_ j^ -p jg ^^ ^ position to make so broad h state- 



ADVEBTISING BATES. ,. . ^ , , 



Per Inch, SO inche. to paee ; »i.o» "lent in public. The Same speaker recommended the or- 



DUcoontB on Contracts for conMifjntlTe Insertion*, m foU»w»: rnni^i+inn nf a 'Nrn + inTial Ausnfintion nf Plnnf Shinnprt! 



One month (4 tlmee) S per cent.; threo months (IS times) !• per ganizatlOn 01 a iMatlOnai AbSOCiailon 01 riani; Ollippers. 



jent.i six month, (26 times) «0 per cent.; one ,e« (U time.) rpj ■ • j^^ , desirable and, aS it looks to US, the best 



M per cent. o ^ ' 



Page and half page spaces, special rate, on appUeatlon. coUrse to purSUe in Carrying Out SUch a project WOuld 



iBtered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Poit Offlc* at be to follow the example set by the retail florists last 



Boston, Mass., nnder the Act of Congress of March S, 187». , , . 1,1 • j; 



summer and organize as a section under the auspices of 



QQItfTENTS Page tlie Society of American Florists. With all due respect 



COVER ILLUSTRATION-Aniuial Banquet of Boston fo the nurserymen, we think this would be the more 



Flower Exchange, Inc. . logical alliance and probably the nurserymen would 



CORNUS CANADENSIS— 7? (W;<!)-d 7?o//ii?— Illustrated... 597 ,>,• , j.^ ' ■ 



AMONG THE PHLOXES— C. S. Harrison 597 ^mnk SO, too. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' Preliminary information in regard 



STOCK- Calceolarias -Housing Primulas -Lifting Modernizing fo the fall' flower exhibitions which 



Peonies for Forcing — Sweet Peas — Useful Ever ** '" "'^ ^''^^ uuwei ejuiiuiuuiis. wuieii 



greens— John J. M. Farrell .• 599 the flower show are soon, to open seems to indicate a 



CANTERBURY BELL— CaW Hagenburger 599 wide'^nread awakenincr bv show nro- 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: wiuespieaa awaKeniUg 03 biiow pio 



Newport Horticultural Society — Elberon Horticul- inoters to the need for some carefully studied plan in 



^l^'!l^: F^o^s- TsoT.^:n^sJTe^o advance so that the exhibition shall p-esent an impres- 



Floral Association — Massachusetts Horticultural sive and dignified effect as a whole, which has not always 



l?^/^'-V,'^-'''°''^° ^'°"^*'' Club-Florists' Club of ^ j ^-^^ ^^^^^ ^j^^^^^^ Buffalo, for instance, 



Philadelphia oOU ' n • i 



Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society, England — has placed the planning and decoration of the hall m the 



ROTTlNG^OFtATTLEYA LABIa'ta Bi^S-Paui de "" ^^^^^ ^^ ^ well-known firm of landscape gardeners and 



j^'az'e 601 it will be the aim to so arrange and group the exhibits 



DURING RECESS; _, . . , ^ ,. „ „.„ and accessories in such relationship to the concrete effect 



New York Bowling — Chicago Florists Bowling 602 '■ 



SEED TRADE: that a well-balanced and harmonious spectacle will gi-eet 



The New League Prices-The Pea Situation-Frence ^j j j^ instead of the incongruous and piece-meal 



Celery Seed— California Limas— Notes 608 ' r 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: picture SO often presented. It is announced from Ghi- 



Steamer Departures-New Flower Stores . 610 ^j^^^^. j^^g ^f similar character are to be carried out 



A Floral Picture Frame, Illustrated — Flowers by => ^^^ 



Telegraph 611 there, and among the attractions will be a reproduction 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: j y famous Luxembourg gardens in Paris. Eoches- 



Boston, Buffalo 613 , ^ ° 



Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 615 ter has alreaay, a year ago, demonstrated what might be 



OBITUARY: , „,. , „„, done in this direction and made such a success of it 



Peter Lambert— John R. Lesh— Frank Nicola 622 , ,, . ,11 , -i, ,.,• m, 



MISCELLANEOUS: that this year the plans are still more ambitious. Ihere 



Chrysanthemums at Hartford 601 ^yi^ ^g a Japanese garden, waterfalls, fountains and 



Rochester Florists Lead the Way 602 „■ ^ . ,, » , ■ ■, t • , , 



New Orleans Notes 602 landscape effects, for all of which designs have been 



Boston Flower Exchange 602 prepared by an artist of repute. Elaborate settings and 



The Insecticide Act of 1910— Bfn/. Hammond 603 ' . ^. , ■; , . , . .^, j_, , j_ , 



A Failure in Boston 603 original color schemes, m. keeping with the character ot 



Catalogues Received 603 |||g exhibits, will contribute to the impressiveness of 



Philadelphia Notes 604 



Personal " 604 the scene. The sequence oi competitive exhibits as we 



Chicago Notes 605 ^re accustomed to see them will undoubtedly be dis- 



Washington Notes 605 , , , i 1. j.i • x i? j.i • 



Comin°^ Exhibitions 606 turbed more or less by the carrying out oi these innova- 



Bulb Industry of the Netherlands 608 tions but it is generally acknowledged that the "still 



An Event at Amherst 608 ,...,,, , , . , , 



News Notes 601-620-622 l''e ' show has come to be a very precarious venture and 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 622 if -^ye w'ant to have these affairs "animate with human 



— life" and to hold their own as a magnet for the amuse- 



We learn from an interesting account of ment loving public something radical must be done. 



The plant the annual banquet of the Springfield (0.) HORTICULTUEE has for years persistently urged the 



shippers' Florists' Chili, published in a local daily necessity of reform in this direction and we now extend 



affiliations paper, that one of the speakers advpnced the heartiest commendation to our progressive friends in 



opinion that what he heard at the annual their effort to elevate the art of flower show arrange- 



gatherings of the Society of American Florists was of ment to a higher standard. 



