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horticulture: 



November 5, 1910 



HOHTICULTURt: 



VOL. XII NOVEMBER 5, 1910 NO. 19 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Elizabeth Pari?. 

 Hartforri. 



INCAftVIiLEAS— /?;f/!(7)-<y /^oZ/ir— Illustrated . -. 629 



NEW ROSES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY 

 — Frederick Moore 629 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 Stock- Cyclamens — Cypripediums — Bulbous Stock — 

 Early Freesias— Florists' Winter Requisites — Roses — 

 John J. ^f. Farrcll 630 



THE SUNKEN GARDEN AT HARTFORD. CONN.— 

 G. A. Parker 631 



ROTTING OF CATTLEYA LABIATA BUDS— .-(. ./. 

 Panh 631 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



Nassau County Horticultural — New Jersey Floricul- 

 tural — New Haven, Conn. — San Francisco — Morris- 

 town, N. J 633 



Washington, D. C. — Red Bank, N. J. — Lenox, Mass. — 

 Orchid Novelties in a London Show — Horticultural 

 Society of New York 634 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 



Annual Meeting — Election of Officers — Address of 

 President Elmer D. Smith, Portratt — Work of Com- 

 mittees 635 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston — Society of American Florists.. 636 



DURING RECESS: 



New York Bowlers — Chicago Bowlers — Chicago 

 Wholesale Employees 636 



THE HO.ME OF THE SCOTTI FERN 637 



OBITUARY; 



David Pearce Penhallow— William Kolberg 637 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Cincinnati, Washington 63S 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 645 



New York, Philadelphia 647 



SEED TRADE NOTES 640 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Doyle Failure — Steamer Departures — New 



Flower Stares 642 



Flowers by Telegraph 643 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Azalea Supply 631 



A Yellow Bridesmaid 635 



Personal 635 



Fire Record 636 



Cincinnati Personals 637 



News Notes 637-63S-640 



Catalogues Received 640 



Chicago Notes 643 



Crreenhouses Building or Contemplated. 654 



incorporated 654 



Following up briefly our remarks 

 Scenic features in jn last isstie, on the present ten- 

 the flower show (k'ncies in flower ,«liow matters, we 

 nre ]ilea?e(l to note that Milwau- 

 kee pro])oses to conic forward this year with a spectacu- 

 lar feature deFciihed as "a river of real water emanating 



fnm a nictttre^^ciiK' 2;orffe twentv-five feet above the 

 » I . . . 



aii'ua floor, witli a mountainside forest background," the 

 ii\('r wimrmg inegularly over tlie Auditorium floor foi- 

 a stretch of "2:2.5 feet under rustic l)ridges. disappearing 

 into a rocky cavern. The Minnesota State Florists" As- 

 sociation also has ambitious plans for the show to be 

 held in Minneapolis next week. A complete diagram 

 of the floor arrangement has been published in the daily 

 I'apeis. showing tlie plant groups artistically placed in 

 stietches of lawn flanked liy a series of arbors. The 

 \ew London Horticultural Society has decided to elim- 

 inate entirely the competitive idea and the efi'ort will 

 be to iiiit u]ian ornamental show using the material 

 sent in wlcic it will best flt, without regard to owner- 

 slii]). This hitter is rather too radical, we should say, 

 f(ir gciic'j-al a(1o|iti(Ui, But the sentiment all over the 

 coiintr\' ^eellls to tend iu one direction and next year 

 we expecl lo see still more o1' it. 



Kxhibitors at several of the eastern flower 

 Effects of shows scheduled for this week have, in 

 the strike common with the plant and flower ship- 

 ping industry generally, a very awkward 

 situation fm'ced upon them through the almost paralys- 

 ing interruption of transportation caused by the express- 

 men's strike. At practically all points in the eastern sec- 

 tion of the country merchandise has only been accepted 

 by the transportation companies suliject to indeiinite de- 

 lay and it is only when independent local carrying facil- 

 ities have been availalile that any assurance of delivery 

 on time has been possible. Exhibitors whose stuff must 

 pass tlnough New York City are liable to have it held 

 up there as the express companies are unable to give any 

 guarantee that they will transfer the flowers from station 

 ti) station. The effect on the shows to which so much 

 preliminary thought and effort have been given is sure 

 to be disastrous and the inevitable result will be keen 

 disappointment in many quarters. A cessation of hos- 

 tilities at an early date wotild be a welcome relief. 



This strike of the employes of the 

 The right and express companies which has crip- 

 the wrong way plgd transportation in New York 



City and neighborhood and at pres- 

 ent outlook threatens to spread to other sections is 

 exceptional in that the strikers unquestionably have the 

 sympathy of the business community despite the incon- 

 venience and loss which the latter are obliged to suffer. 

 ITnfortunately, as so often happens, acts of violence have 

 occurred which tend surely to alienate the public sym- 

 pathy and, equally ill-judged is the avowed determina- 

 tion of the strike leaders to extend their ojierations far 

 beyond the main issue should their first demands not 

 he granted. The American public has suffered so much 

 from the exactions of the great -express monopoly that it 

 is not sur)irising that many who are unalterably opposed 

 to strikes as a matter of principle, should find their 

 sympathies going out to these men in their effort to 

 secure better hours and better wages from employers 

 who are known to be making exceptionally large profits 

 'II their business. As a class the express drivers have 

 merited the gratitude and good-will of the plant and 

 flower ship]iing industry by their many acts of courtesy 

 and accommodation in season and out of season and it 

 is a pity that their cattse should now be jeopardized 

 tbrouorh hot-headed leadership. Had the men made 

 their appeal in a straight-forward manner to the business 

 men of New York City to give them llieir support in 

 taking tlieii' ( n-c befoie the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 nrttcc we fi'cl -lire the appeal would not have been made 

 in vain, and there can be little doubt of what the out- 

 conic would have been. 



