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CONTENTS P»ee 



COVER DESIGN, by £. A/. Claggett. 



ACQ-NITVMS— Richard i?n/;!^-mustrated 391 



GLADIOLUS NOTES—/.. Merton Gage 391 



GREVILLEA ROBUSTA— Luke I. Doo^iif— Illustrated . 392 

 JAPANESE YEW (Taxus cuspidata) — Ernest F. Coe. ■ ■ 393 

 SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Anthuriums — Asters — Candytuft and 

 Stocks — Nephrolepis — Care of Orchids — Prepara- 

 tions for Easter— /o/(M /. M. Farretl 394 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Mus- 

 cat Vines — -Packing Strawberries — Apples and Pears 

 — -Late Peaches and Nectarines — Kitchen Garden — 



6'. H. Pciison 395 



BOSTON — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Ar- 

 nold Arboretum — Gardeners' and Florists' Club — 



Park System — Illustrated 397-400 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Members of Commit- 

 tee and Board of Control, portraits 401 



Program of Society Meetings — Portraits of Exhibi- 

 tion Officials and Officers of S. A. F. and Allied 



Societies 402-406 



American Rose Society — Ladies' S. A. F 406 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Horticultural Society of 

 New York — Newport Horticultural Society — Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston — Pittsburgh Flor- 

 ists' and Gardeners' Club — Lenox Horticultural So- 

 ciety 407 



Dayton Florists' Club — North Shore Horticultural 

 Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society — Penn- 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— (Continued) Page 

 sylvania Horticultural Society — -Spring Show — Con- 

 necticut Horticultural Society 408 



St. Louis Florist Club — Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society — Yonkers Horticultural Society — A Zealous 

 Official — Wallace R. Peirson, Portrait — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America — Bar Harbor Horticultural 



Society 409 



Club and Society Notes 411 



DURING RECESS— New York Florists' Club, Illus- 

 trated — Chicago vs. Milwaukee — Cincinnati Bowlers. 410 



MUSHROOMS— (!^!H,am Grey 412 



OBITUARY — George Lorenz — Herman Lawrentz — Mar- 

 cus C. Longfellow — 412 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— I'F. H. Adsett 413 



Foreign Notes^C. Harman Payne 414 



ACACIA PUBESCENS— Illustrated 414 



THE GLADIOLUS—//. Ynnell 420 



EASTER NOTES FROM CRAIG'S— G^o. C. Watson... 422 



THE MARKET VALUE OF ORCHIDS 430 



SEED TRADE— Mail Order Trade Light— Potatoes 

 and Onion Sets — Unsatisfactory Stock Situation — 

 Seed Houses, New and Old — Embarrassing the Late 



Ones 434 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— A Model 



Florist Establishment 440 



Retail Store Management — Irwin C. Bertermann 442 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 444 



Flowers by Telegraph — Back Bay Store of Thos. F. 



Galvin, Illustration 445 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS— Boston, Chicago, 



Cincinnati 455 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 457 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Bar Harbor Personals — Cincinnati Notes 411 



Personal 411 



Williapi Robertson and Trophies, Illustrated 411 



News Notes 411, 445, 457 



An American Nurseryman in Japan — A Noble Be- 

 quest 412 



Carnation Washington, Illustration 413 



A Recognition of Achievement — Catalogues Re- 

 ceived 415 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes — Fires 416 



An Accredited Fungicide 416 



William Kleinheinz, Portrait — George C Watson 418 



The Boskoop Exhibition 422 



Stray ^j^mhs— George C IVatson 434 



In Bankruptcy 457 



An Irrigating Flower Pot 4G5 



Government Positions Open — Beautifying Washing- 

 ton 466 



Publications Received 468 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated — Patents 

 Granted 470 



A Memorable Occasion 



The great event to which the horticultural world 

 had been eargely looking forward for months is at 

 last a reality and Boston bound trains from north, 

 south and west are bringing visitors by hundreds, all 

 imbued with the same purpose to see and participate in 

 the most ambitious project ever carried tlirough in 

 American horticulture. A hearty welcome awaits the 

 visitors, in which Horticulture fervently joins. 

 With the liveliest interest we have watched the prepara- 

 tions for the big show from their beginnings as they took 

 form and were gradually perfected from day to day; 

 followed the sentiment and interest as it has developed 

 at home and abroad; shared alike in the hopes and in 

 the doubts as to the final outcome of a scheme so colos- 



sal ; exulted as we saw the whole-hearted way in which 

 the right men stepped up in the right time and place 

 for the right work — and now that the structure is prac- 

 tically completed and ready to be opened to the gaze of ■ 

 the world we can all look back with pardonable pride ^ 

 over the harmonious and resolute manner in which one 

 difficulty after another has been surmounted and the 

 many-sided enterprise brought to completion. The in- 

 flux of floricultural visitors to Boston promises to be ^ 

 unprecedented in numbers. We feel confident that they ■ 

 have made no mistake in undertaking the pilgrimage T 

 but will find full compensating value for it all in the 

 inspfring spectacle which this day opens its doors to 

 the flower grower and the flower lover. And — the bigger 

 the crowd the happier the Boston bunch. 



