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HORTICULTURE 



January 14, 1911 



horticulture: 



▼OL. XIII 



JANUARY H, 1911 



HO. 2 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleya Trianae The Presi- 

 dent. 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS; 

 Strawberries in Pots — Varieties of Vines — Potatoes — 

 Capsicums — Onions for Exhibition — Leeks — Aspara- 

 gus — George H. Peiison 37 



Mushrooms — John J. M, Farrcll 38 



AN HONOR WORTHILY BESTOWED— Jackson T. 

 Dawson, portrait 38 



THE MARTYRS OF HORTICULTURE— C. i^. Harrison- 38 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Abutilons — Acalyphas— Canterbury Bells- 

 Hydrangeas — Odontoglossums — The Care of Stock 

 Left Over— /o/„i /. M. farrcll 39 



CATTLEYA TRIANAE THE PRESIDENT 39 



ALPINE ROCK GARDENIN(3 — Illustrated 41 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 British Societies — Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 41 



New York Florists' Club— Tarrytown Horticultural 

 Society— Samuel J. Trepess, portrait — Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club — Tuxedo Horticultural Society 42 



Newport Horticultural Society — National Sweet Pea 

 Society of America — Yonkers Horticultural Society. . . 43 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia— Cincinnati Florists' So- 

 ciety — New England Dahlia Society— Club and Society 

 Notes 60 



SEED TRADE 48 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



• Steamer Departures 50 



Flowers by Telegraph 51 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 53 



New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities 55 



OBITUARY: 



Mrs. Charles Hunt— John L. Turner— Charles Brice 

 Bowditch— J. F. H. Meinhardt 60 



DURING RECESS: 



New York and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers— New York Bowlers— Chicago Bowlers— Cin- 

 cinnati Bowlers— Dinners Ahead 61 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 62 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes Jo 



Low Fares to Ithaca *° 



In Brankruptcy *° 



Philadelphia Notes 48 



Incorporated •" 



Chicago Notes ^1 



A Correction 55 



Personal • "0 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated b J 



Patents Granted 62 



Preparations for the National Flower 

 "Shoulder Show are rapidly nearing completion 

 to shoulder" and the Boston committees on whom 

 has fallen most of the burden of work- 

 have been laboring diligently on the jnvriad of details 



which appertain to such a gigantic undertaking. To 

 fully please and conform to the views of everybody in an 

 enterprise of this kind is a manifest impossibility. Final 

 decisions must be arrived at and definite rules of action 

 laid down and it is to be hoped that a general and cor- 

 dial acquiescence in what has been done may be accorded. 

 No one will doubt that those gentlemen who have given 

 their time and best abilities to the fulfilment of the 

 obhgations imposed upon them have been actuated solely 

 by the desire to do right and to conserve with singleness- 

 of pui-pose and fidelity to duty, the best interests of 

 1 he profession and of the Societies which stand back of 

 I liis enterprise. Now is the time for a long pull, a strong 

 pull and a pull all together. 



The movement inaugurated in Bos- 



For better ton some weeks ago for the purpose 



business methods of better controlling the giving of 



credit in the trade and protecting 

 the dealers against a repetition of the heavy losses of the 

 past has begun to take definite shape and the unanimity 

 displayed by all interests is a very hopeful omen. The 

 Boston agitation is largely based upon the signal success 

 achieved by the wholesale flower trade of New York City 

 in the system adopted by them two years ago. The plan 

 finally agreed upon in Boston and eventually in other 

 centres may vary somewhat from that of New York as 

 local conditions may demand more or less elasticity but 

 the principle involved is identical. We look to see the 

 matter taken up in due time in all the central sources 

 of supply, with tlie result that eventually mutual co- 

 operation will bring about a well-established organization 

 of all commercial horticultural interests and thus will 

 be effect uated a most notable and much needed reform. 

 The enforcement of a reasonable credit limitation in the 

 wholefale trade will txnavoidably compel prompter col- 

 lections on the part of the retailers and thus all depart- 

 ments of the business will stand upon a sounder and 

 altogether better basis. 



'Pure seeds" 



A correspondent, well-acquainted with 

 tlie seed-trade, writes "If the Ameri- 

 can public wants the very best in 

 seeds it will have to pay more." We have some doubts 

 as to the sincerity of some of the more active advocates 

 of stringent seed legislation, whose zeal impresses us, by 

 its range and tenor, as inspired by political rather than 

 ])liihinthropic considerations. Yet no seedsman or 

 friend of the seedsman will be found opposed to the prin- 

 ciple of better seeds. If better seeds are possible they 

 are possible only through greater care and increased 

 lalwr on tlie part of the man who grows them. If the 

 standard of the men who grow a-nd the men who market 

 the seeds is impaired, because of prices which are too low 

 1 enlist ability of the highest order, then the standard of 

 the seeds will surely deteriorate and the result would be 

 a national calamity instead of a public benefit. Purity 

 and reliability in seeds is "a consummation devoutly to 

 be wished" but you can't have them unless men with the 

 necessary ability and conscience are kept on the job and 

 that is a consummation you must be prepared to pay 

 for. It is a question whether the "rank and file" will 

 take kindly at first to the prohibition of cheap seeds 

 and it may be accepted as a foregone conclusion that the 

 squealing will not all come from the seedsmen. 



