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HORTICULTURE 



March 11, 1911 



horticulture: 



TOL. XIII 



MARCH 11, 1911 



NO. 10 



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vahies wliieli. in tlieir regularity and freedom from 

 sharp fliictuations, liave certainly established a record. 

 We cannot, from now on, expect these conditions to 

 continue. Undoubtedly there will be surpluses in all 

 lines and the usual smashing of values which is sure 

 to follow a congested market, but, taken all together. 

 we think the season will be found, at the finish, to 

 have averaged u]) as well as, if not better than, any 

 in recent years. Indeed, the winter of 1910-11 has 

 gone far to demonstrate for the flower-growing industry 

 that quality of stability which is sure to interest and 

 attract capital, and its record will have a direct effect 

 on the business development in the immediate future. 

 We look to see a lively spring season for the greenhouse 

 builders. 



Entered as second-clasB matter Decembers, 1901, at the Post OfBce at 

 Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



Ballinger is out, at last. As one of the 

 Ballinger "liysterical body of headline readers," on 

 whom the President has thought proper to 

 make uncomplimentary comment, we confess to a sense 

 of gratitude over the announcement of Ballinger's 



^Qjyj'gj^'pg Page resignation and the appointment of a man in his place 



who is disposed to conduct his ofBce with some regard 



COVER ILLUSTRATION^Lupinus polyphyllus roseus. (^^^. ^^g public's property and to pay some attention to 



LUPINUS POLYPHYLLUS ROSEVS.-Richard Rothc. 317 (h^ patriotic, economic and scientific plans for the pro- 



CROWDED PEACH TREES-J oseph Tillsou 317 tection and con.servation of our natural resources as 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS: advocated bv his fellow citizens for the public good. 



Repotting Young Vines, Illustrated — Orchard House — it i i "ii • j.- j; i Vl- ? xi 



Heiling in Peach Trees-Cucumbers-Miscellaneous '/ ''«« ''^^ii ^'i*; convjction ot a large proportion of the 



Vegetables—','. H. Penson 317-31S American people that tlie ex-Secretary ot the Interior 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' '''1* been pru'suing a mistaken and pernicious policy, 



STOCK: Bulbs — Care of Young Roses — Dieffenbachias ready to condone evasions of the law by predatory 



—Spira?as— Sweet Peas— Van das— ./oft « J. M. Fnrrcll. 319 interests, and deaf to all appeals for protection of the 



THE DREER CELEBRATION, Illustrated 321 public domain against the wild scramble to strip it 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: „f its wealth. It is high time to call a halt on the 



Society ot American Flonsts-Worcester County Hor- |,„,d crrabbina- and forest spoliation which has been 



ticultural Society — Florists Club ot Philadelphia — • V • j.i • i? t. n- i /• 



Chicago Florists' Club 322 f^'"'^8 "^^^ '^"^^ ^^ the passing of Ballinger a great for- 



Detroit Florist Club— Cleveland Florists' Club— Club "'^I'd step towards a patriotic policy m this respect 



and Society Notes 323 has been taken. 



A BEAUTIFUL NEW CATTLEYA 323 ,, , , , t i , 



OBITUARY-Mary E. Habermehl 323 . «"* t ^'O "ceks distant, the gTcatest hor- 



DURING RECESS: """^^ National licultural exhibition ever undertaken in 



Nassau County Horticultural Society— The New York Flower Show the western hemisphere, if not in the 



Banquet — Ladies' Night at Astoria— Rutherford versus 1 1 it ■ j. j 



New York— Chicago Bowlers— Cincinnati Bowlers.... 325 world, will swing open its doors to 



SEED TRADE— A Virtuous Seedsman, Portrait— Notes 332 Ihousauds of interested visitors from all parts of the 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: continent of North America and from Europe also. 



Steamer Departures 334 riii ,. ,i at j.- i -m m -in 



Flowers By Telegraph-New Flower Stores 335 J^e success ot the National Flower Show is already 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS' assut'cd — a thrce-told success! Success in the number. 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 337 "i^e and rare quality of exhibits; success in universal 



Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 339 interest elicited, in enterprise on the part of intending 



MISCELLANEOUS: exhibitors and in the number and eagerness of coming 



A Line of Novelties 323 visitors, and further, success in financing, as shown bv 



cfncfn^natrNoIef HI ""^ ^"" subscription of the guarantee fund, by the un- 



News Notes 323 pi'ecedented demand for trade exhibition space, sales 



Chicago Notes 324 "'" which now aggregate about three times the amount 



Philadelphia Notes 324 ever obtained on any former occasion bv the S. A. F. 



sT L^rr^N t' ' ^>f '"^ -^ ^^ ^- ^''°™ ^^"^ ^°^^°'^' ^^^ ^^ the' indications al- 



Fire °Record.''^' 396 "^'"'^-^ manifest, of nn attendance far sui-passing that of 



Patents Granted . . . . . . . . . '. . '. '. '. '.'.'.'..'. [ '. ' 332 '^^y previous Flower Show^ The vast amount of work 



Personal ' . 325 of the National Flower Show Committee and of the 



Greenhouses Building or Coiitemplafed 34.5 Local Board of Control, accomplished during the past 



year and a half, was earnestly undertaken, and has been 



,,,,,.,., ... , , , , assiduously carried out, and well deserves the golden 



We tliink it will be conceded by the flower harvest, which is even now in sight. All honor to 



A good growers genei-ally that the season thus far Boston for her great achievement! Boston has been 



season jigg liecn a good one — better, in fact, than ever in the van of Horticulture in the United States, 



we had i-eason to expect everything con- ^^® ^® ^'^^ centre of Horticulture today and she is now 



sidered. The meagre mid-wmter cr'ops of which the aTwel!°.f fZ''Tr°°' 'TV^^~*''™ ^f'n"^^ ''"'^^ 



, . f as well as from the remotest corners of the new — 



rosegrowers and carnation growers have complained "Welcome, Thrice Welcome, to the Hub of Horticul- 



have been well offset by the steadily maintained market ture!!!" 



