HORT I CULTURE 



January 7, 1911 



horticulture: 



TOL. XIII 



JANUARY r, IfU 



HO. 1 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Melon House at Bar Har- 

 bor, Me. 



TRITOMA SYN. KNIPHOFIA— Richard Rothe, Illustrated 5 



FORCING MELONS— Illustrated 5 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Alocasias — Fuchsias — Heliotrope — Longiflo- 

 rums — Propagating Crotons — The Propagation of 

 Dahlias— /o/,„ /. M. Farrcll 7 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 

 Appointments by President — George Asmus, E. Allan 

 Peirce, Harry A. Bunyard, portraits 8 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — American Gladi- 

 olus Society — Perpetual Flowering Carnation Society 

 —Florists' Club of Philadelphia 9 



OBITUARY: 

 Fred Dorner, portrait — John J. Gormley, portrait — • 

 Louis Muth — The Late Uhei Suzuki : 10 



SEED TRADE: 



Steps Retraced — A Troy Failure — Sweet Corn — Pea 

 Prices Maintained — Notes 16 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORiSTS: 



Steamer Departures 18 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 19 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 21 



New York, Philadelphia 23 



Rochester 28 



DURING RECESS: 



Chicago Bowlers — New York Bowlers — Christmas at 

 Burpee's 29 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Canadian Express Rates '. 9 



Chicago Notes • 11 



Philadelphia Notes 11 



News Notes 15-30 



St. Louis Notes 19 



Personal 23 



New York Notes 29 



Fire Record 30 



Incorporated 30 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 80 



SUPPLEMENT WITH THIS ISSUE 

 Index to Vol. Xn. 



Only ten weeks now remain before the 

 Come one, doors of Mechanics Building, Boston, will 

 come all swing open, presenting to the American 

 public and the horticultural trade the 

 grandest floral spectacle ever witnessed on this conti- 

 nent. No event planned for the immediate future can 

 compare with this stupendous undertaking in direct im- 

 portance and practical value to the plant and flower 

 trade and allied industries. It is, in itself, sufficient to 

 monopolize the attention and interest of every individual, 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, who would like to see 

 liorticulture attain its proper position among the refined 

 and refining influences of our land. All those who can 

 possibly do so owe it to themselves and to their business 

 to join in the great pilgrimage which is expected to move 

 Bostonward in the latter part of March. It may be a 

 very long time before an equal opportunity is again 

 offered. 



The note on another page of this issue 

 Give us in reference to the action of the Canadian 

 parcel post Railway Commission on express tariffs 

 will have a very familiar sound for any- 

 one who has followed up information regarding condi- 

 tions on this side of the line. The facts therein pre- 

 sented show the utter inconsistency from every principle 

 of a fair-price-for-the-service standard, in the carrying 

 cliargcs as now made by the express companies. With a 

 system of railway transportation using the same rails, 

 engines and service as is used for the transportation of 

 other goods and passengers, yet simply on account of the 

 collection and delivery, a charge for additional service is 

 made which is so excessive and unjust as to demand 

 emphatic action by the proper authorities. Patient and 

 submissive, the public have permitted the extortion to go 

 on for years with scarcely a word of protest and, judg- 

 ing from the apathy still shown, prefer to submit indefi- 

 nitely rather than to take action to bring about a reform. 



President George Asmus lias sliown good 

 B°ys> judgment in the selection of directors to 

 get busy serve for the next three years on the execu- 

 tive board of the National Society. They 

 are young men and have been chosen, apparently, not 

 only as representing the younger element in the Socie- 

 ty's membership, but in recognition of tlie record already 

 made by both appointees as loyal and efficient workers in 

 any capacity in which they have ever been called upon 

 to serve. Intelligent study of the needs of the organiza- 

 tion and persistent following up of live issues, with a 

 determination to broaden the Society's scope, enlarge 

 its usefulness and impress upon the horticultural pro- 

 fession the splendid possibilities in such an organization 

 are among the qualities most needed in the official repre- 

 sentatives of any association with a practical mission, 

 and which have never been more urgently needed in the 

 S. A. F. than at the present time. Tlie trade and profes- 

 sion all over the country are now in the same sort of re- 

 ceptive mood as in the early days of the Society's history 

 and there is an abundance of young healthy enthusiasm 

 which wide-awake action now will be sure to set in mo- 

 tion. Boys, get busy. 



