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HORTICULTURE 



December 24, 1910 



horticulture: 



TOL. XII 



DECEMBER 24, 1910 



NU. 26 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Fancy Leaved Caladium. 



PLATYCODON GIiANDlFL.ORVU— Richard i^o^/ic— Illustrat- 

 ed 897 



FANCY LEAVED CALADIUMS— Af. /. Pope 897 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS: 

 Pruning Vines — Extending the Peach Season — Green 

 Peas— Turnip Tops vs. Sea Kale — Cauliflowers — George 

 H. Penson 898 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK: 



Anthericums — Bouvardia Cuttings — Care of Palms 

 and Foliage Plants — Callas — Double Petunias — Lilium 

 speciosum— /o/ni /. M- Farrell 899 



A PEEP AT PETER FISHER'S 901 



FURTHER NEWS FROM E. H. WILSON 901 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston; Peter M. 

 Miller Portrait — Yonkers Horticultural Society — Mor- 

 ris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society — New 



Orleans Horticultural Society 902 



New Jersey Floricultural Society — Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society — Nassau County Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Society of American Florists 903 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Lenox Hor- 

 ticultural Society — American Carnation Society 904 



A EUROPEAN CARNATION EXHIBIT— C- Harman 

 Poyne- Illustrated 904 



OBITUARY: 

 J. William Colflesh — Uhei Suzuki — M. Dauthenay — 

 David Flory 906 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Buist Estate — -Notes — Catalogues Received 908 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 910 



To Curb the Curbstone Florists — Flowers by Tele- 

 graph 911 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati 913 



New York, Philadelphia 915 



DURING RECESS: 

 New York Bowlers — Cincinnati Bowlers 921 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Appreciates Novelties 901 



Publications Received 901 



Chicago Notes 904 



Philadelphia Notes : 908 



Personal 911 



Incorporated 915 



Fire Record 921 



News Notes 922 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 922 



The flower men among Horticulture's 

 Compliments patrons will have little time and slight 

 of the season disposition to read trade papers or any 



other kind of papers this week but we 

 hope they will all just give attention long enough to 



allow us to wish them a Merry Christmas. Merry 

 Christmas to the florist means something quite the 

 opposite of what it means to the majority of people. 

 Instead of festivity and relaxation it implies work and 

 hustle. It means throngs of impatient buyers, an abund- 

 ance of the kind of goods they want and a little army 

 of tireless employees who care no more about sleep or 

 rest than the boss does, until the last order is filled and 

 the last salable plant or flower has been disposed of — 

 after which holiday merry-making isn't "in it" for a 

 moment as compared with the glorious and blessed 

 privilege of going to sleep ! This is the sort of Merry 

 Christmas, then, that we hope every one of our florist 

 friends will enjoy. 



It is not easy to follow up to any satis- 



Not "too factory conclusion the proposition that 



many roses" "there are too many new roses," which. 



as E. G. Hill stated at New York, is a 

 remark frequently heard. It seems to us that so long as 

 it is possible to improve in form, fragrance, color, size, 

 productiveness, or any other of the many points that 

 contribute towards the ideal rose, efforts for such im- 

 provement should never be relaxed, and those of us who 

 are not in a position to participate in such work, should 

 at least contribute by extending encouragement and sup- 

 port in whatever direction our opportunity permits. It 

 may be accepted as certain that the absolutely perfect 

 variety will never be produced; there never will be a 

 rose in which improvement is not possible. Why call a 

 halt or say anything to discourage the man who is 

 striving to give us something better? Bose growers will 

 appreciate the communication by J. H. Troy which 

 appears on another page of this paper. It shows the 

 right spirit and expresses the attitude which all pro- 

 gressive dealers should take towards the novelty pro- 

 ducers. 



A reader of Horticulture writes us 



The dawn a letter endorsing in the main, our 



of a better day sentiments on the gardener question 



as expressed in our editorial note of 

 last week under the heading of "Made in America." He 

 declares, however, that in this country we have not yet 

 got to the point where we appreciate a good gardener, 

 and asks very pertinently, "How can you expect a young 

 American, well-educated and ambitious, with the thous- 

 ands of better opportunities within his reach, to settle 

 down to a gardener's career, at the salary even which 

 the best-paid gardeners get ?" We agree it is true that 

 a good gardener is not yet properly appreciated in this 

 country and we would go further and assert that he is 

 not appreciated in any other country either — excepting, 

 of course, in a few isolated cases. Conditions here, how- 

 ever, are much more favorable for a successful assertion 

 of one's prerogatives and the exaction of a substantial 

 recognition of merit and attainment, and we do not 

 doubt that the American gardener will in due time find, 

 and if necessary enforce, an open door to all the emolu- 

 ments his abilities deserve. As the people advance in 

 refinement, and as the attachments and affection grow 

 for attractive homes as contrasted with mere living 

 quarters, the garden and the gardener will become more 

 strongly established as essential to a full enjoyment of 

 life. It is now in order to prepare for the good time 

 coming. 



