January 28, 1911 



horticulture: 



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HORTICULTURE 



▼OL, XIII 



JANUARY 28, 1911 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Spring Flowering Bulb Ex- 

 hibition at Pittsburgh. 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Illus- 

 trated : 



Fruit Trees in Pots — Reference Boards — Beans for 

 Pot Work— Egg Plants— George H. Penson 101 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS- 

 STOCK — Asparagus — Cattleyas and Laelias— Primu- 

 las— Seeds to Sow — Sowing Palm Seeds — Sweet Peas 

 —John J. M. Farrell ^ 102 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Gardeners* 

 and Florists' Club of Boston — Cincinnati Florists' So- 

 ciety — Florists' and Gardeners' Club of R. I. — West- 

 chester and Fairfield Horticulture Society — Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia— St. Louis Florists' Club— North 



Shore Horticultural Society 104 



Society of American Florists — Nassau County Horti- 

 cultural Society 106 



DURING RECESS: 

 Chicago Bowlers — New York Bowlers — A St. Louis 

 Feast — Tarrytown Horticultural Society 105 



OBITUARY: 

 Samuel C. Moon— H. C. W. Siebrecht- Moses F. Tiger 

 —William Amos, Jr 106 



SEED TRADE: 

 About Sweet Corn — Peas Present and Future — The 

 Josiah Young Failure— The Next Seed Trade Conven- 

 tion, Where? — The Canners' Convention — Personal — 



Notes 112 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 114 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 115 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 117 



Cincinnati, New York, St. Louis 119 



Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington 125 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chicago Notes 105 



Philadelphia Notes 105 



News Notes 107-126 



St. Louis Notes 114 



Personal 115 



Fire Record 124 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 126 



Incorporated 126 



In Bankruptcy 126 



Since our last report the flower mar- 

 vlcissitu(Jes of ket has experienced a brief feverish 

 the rose market period, in which roses of all classes 

 were the active factors. A sudden 

 and very decided drop in temperature after a warm spell 

 which had encouraged rapid blooming appears to have 

 been the main cause and it can hardly be said that the- 

 brisk call and sharp advance in values which ensued* 

 affords any very substantial basis for the erection of addi- 

 tional rose houses at once. That the spurt was but tem- 

 porary in character was plainly evidenced by the rapidity 

 with which a "bull" market was transferred into a "bear" 

 market after one day of balmy sunny skies. So far as 

 the growers were concerned they seemed to look upon it 

 as merely an episode — a very welcome one which they 

 would like to see often repeated, of course, but not to be 

 construed, as it would have been in the past, as justify- 

 ing any hope for continued high values. Only those 

 few growers who "live in the past" and base their pre- 

 sumptions upon conditions and consequences which for- 

 merly prevailed entertain any notion nowadays of the 

 feasibility of enforcing values other than those which 

 result directly from the fluctuations of supply and de- 

 mand. Experience has taught us that unfortunately 

 markets, like corporations, have no souls and that where 

 perishable material is concerned, the cost of production 

 counts for but little as an immediate factor. 



Following the line of the foregoing 

 Production and remarks, it requires no argument 

 distribution to convince any reasonable person 



that one of the things most to be de- 

 sired for all interests in the flower trade is a practical 

 means of distribution of the products, which will tend 

 to promptly unload surpluses and prevent accumulations. 

 We think that most observers will agree with us when we 

 say that, in the flower industry, the art of productioB' 

 has made infinitely greater progress than has the science 

 of distribution. Had the latter kept pace with the 

 former no one can deny that conditions today would be 

 very different from what they are. As recently re- 

 marked in these columns, the existence simultaneously 

 of a surplus in one market and a famine in another, with 

 absurd ineqtialities in market quotations, as not infre- 

 quently happens, is a condition which warrants serious^ 

 thought and which in any other line of business would 

 long ago have called forth general consideration and an 

 effort towards remedial measures. Our societies, clubs 

 and associations have, within the past two or three 

 decades, done an inestimable amount of good along the 

 line of cultural advancement, and, today, as a result, 

 we lead the world in the quality of many staple products, 

 Tliere are indications that these organizations are now 

 about to turn a goodly share of their time and effort 

 towards improvement in the direction suggested abore 

 and we look for helpful results if the work proposed is- 

 followed up to a finish. 



