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HORTICULTURE 



December 10, 1910 



horticulture: 



TOL. XII 



DECEMBER 10, ItlO 



HO. 24 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



TROLLIUS— i?(f/iarrf ;?o//i£— Illustrated 805 



AMAZONIA PUNICEA— (Jforgc F. Sleivart 805 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Christmas Cultural Suggestions — Azaleas — 

 Berried Plants — Cyclamens — Poinsettias — Primulas 



and Lorraine Begonias — John J. M. Farrell 806 



RENANTHERA COCCINEA— M. /. Fo/>c— Illustrated . . 807 



CUCUMBER DISEASES— /o/i;i /, M. Farrell 807 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Straw 

 berries — Pruning and Tying Peach Trees — Making a 

 Vine Border — Asparagus — Chicory — Radishes — G. H. 



Poison 809 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston— Chicago Florists' Club — 

 Cincinnati's Propoposed Big Exhibition — Connecticut 

 Horticultural Society — American Carnation Society. 810 

 Maryland State Horticultural Society, Illustrated.. 811 

 American Gladiolus Society — Chrysanthemum Society 



of America— British Hardy Plant Society 812 



THE NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 812 



THE GEORGE ROBERT WHITE MEDAL OF HONOR 



—Illustrated 813 



THE MISSION OF BEAUTY— C. 5. Harrison 814 



SWEET PEAS— Fred. Pautke 815 



BULLETIN OF FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS. 



816-849 

 THE MISSION OF THE TRADE PAPER— Robert Kift- 816 

 DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers— Cincinnati 



Bowlers 817 



ANNUAL REPORT OP SECRETARY OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE 818 



CARNATION HOUSES AND SELECTION OF VARI- 

 ETIES— (('. 7\ Pell 819 



EUROPEAN NOTES-Frederick- Moore 820 



SEED TRADE: 



A New Seed House — Prices on Future Peas — Can- 

 ners' Peas— Retailers' Topics — Bolgiano & Sons' New 



Warehouse, Illustrated 824 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 830 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 831 



A PROMISING NEW ROSE— Cfo. C. Watson 831 



OBITUARY— Mrs. William C. Smith 831 



ACTIVITY AT COLLEGE POINT 832 



CARNATIONS IN ENGLAND 833 



CARNATIONS AT TEWKSBURY, MASS 835 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



. Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati 841 



New York, Philadelphia 843 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



British .lottings— IK. H. Adsett 812 



A Philadelphia Surprise — Ceo. C. Watson 813 



Spring Bedding — Illustrated 815 



An Effective Subtropical Bed— Illustrated 817 



Single Chrysanthemums at Minneapolis — Illustrated. 817 



Personal — Philadelphia Notes 813 



Chicago Notes 834 



News Notes 843-851-852 



An Apple Premium — Illustrated 851 



Incorporated — Fire Record 851 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 852 



We frequently receive from appreciative 

 For the readers of Horticulture words of corn- 

 busy man mendation for the convenience and practi- 

 cal usefulness of that section of our adver- 

 tising department entitled the Buyers' Directory and 

 Ready Eeference Guide. The busy man finds this fea- 

 ture to be just what its name would indicate and its 

 value becomes more and more apparent. It will be 

 noticed that in this system of listing — original with' 

 Horticulture^ — the interests of those who are running 

 display advertisements are carefully conserved through 

 reference in this classified arrangement to the page on 

 which their respective offers appear. This is carefully 

 revised every week and there can be no question of the 

 good value to the advertising trade of sucli a handy 

 guide for the information and use of the buyer who is 

 in a hurry. 



The advertiser is the man who makes 

 The advertiser possible the trade paper with its 

 priceless practical information and 

 its splendid services in the interests of the people whose 

 welfare it promotes by every means in its power. With 

 the advertising patronage left out, instea(i of one dol- 

 lar for a volume of fifty-two issues where do you sup- 

 pose the subscription price would soar if the trade paper 

 is to live? HoKTicui>TURE is grateful to the men who, 

 with their trade announcements, have stood by and given 

 their efficient help in its struggle to become a useful 

 promoter and servant of the horticultural profession 

 and allied industries. We hope that those of our read- 

 ers — and this includes most of them — who value the 

 paper for its reading matter, will cheerfully do their 

 part and wherever possible extend their full trade sup- 

 port to the enterprising growers, dealers and manufac- 

 turers whose advertising patronage has been so freely 

 given to this our Sixth Anniversary Number. 



.Judging from the comments and 



Vicissitudes of the criticism heard very generally 



bulb business among the seed houses, the fall 



bulb trade is rapidly falling into 

 disrepute. In many establishments the present season 

 lias been a very unsatisfactory one, much stock being 

 left on hand unsold, and the decline is invariably 

 charged to the rapidly growing custom of the traveling 

 representatives of the Dutch bulb houses in seeking out 

 the small growers and selling them direct at wholesale 

 prices. This policy, we are informed, they liave pur- 

 sued in Great Britain already to such an extent that 

 leading seed houses there have given up the bulb busi- 

 ness as undesirable excepting such stock as may be 

 needed for the small counter trade. Any one who has 

 access to the lists of individual imports coming into 

 Xew York will be surprised at the large number of sin- 

 gle case sliipments of bulbs, often to parties whom the 

 American jobbers look upon as undesirable risks. This 

 indiscriminate ci'edit giving must foot up a considerable 

 loss each year to the shippers but it seems to have no 

 deterrent effect. We think our Holland friends are 

 making a costly mistake. 



From the information gained 

 Chrysanthemum through news items and corre- 

 holds her ground spondence as well as through ob- 

 servation in the exhibitions which 

 we have been privileged to see wc can confidently say that 

 there is no evidence to show that the chrysanthemum has 

 yet sustained any loss in popularity. It is probably true 

 that the high retail prices exacted for fine specimen 

 blooms in past years have not been possible this season. 

 In fact, this feature of the chrysanthemum trade has 

 been undergoinjr a steady reduction in each successive 



