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HORTICULTURE 



April 1, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



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APRIL 1, 1911 



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CONTENTS P«« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— National Flower Show; 

 View in Grand Hall. 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Fig 

 Houses— Cropping Vines— Peach Trees Stoning — 

 Melon Beds and Crops- Vegetable Houses — George 

 H. Penson 4'9 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Amaryllis— Hardy Roses— Hardy Stock tor 

 Late Spring Sales — Salvias — Shading — ^Verbenas— 

 Joht J. M. Farrell 48) 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW — An Unparalleled Suc- 

 cess *8l' 



Exhibition Details — Rose Garden, Illustrated — Trade 



Exhibits 48- 



Rose Exhibit, Illustrated — Italian Garden, Illustrated 484 



The Awards 485-486-4S7 



Meetings of Societies — Society of American Flor-. 



ists — American Rose Society 488 



.\nierican Carnation Society 490 



iVational Sweet Pea Society 494 



National Association of Gardeners — The Reception 



and Dance — Ladies' S. A. F. — Notes 500 



W. R. Smith on the National Flower Show 515 



Our Visitors, poetry 515 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Department 

 of Registration 502 



SEED TRADE 502 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 504 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 505 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS— Boston— Buffalo- 

 Chicago — Cincinnati — New York — Philadelphia 507 



OBITUARY: 



Amasa T. Hoyt — Thomas T. Connors — Charles 



Barnard — David Mundell 51'3 



DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers— Chicago 



Bowlers 517 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Philadelphia Notes 502 



News Notes 502-518 



Chicago Notes 505 



Personal 505 



Hail Storm in Pennsylvania 515 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 518 



Fire Record 5t>* 



For the present week Boston is in the grasp 



"Getting of the gardener and florist and his product, 



there" as no city in the country has ever before 



been. They came and they have con- 

 quered and the proverbial austerity of the New England 

 character lias simply melted in the warmth and geniality 

 of the flowers' inspiring presence. "The most beautiful 

 spectacle ever seen in Boston or elsewhere" is what one 

 of the daily newspapers says of this supreme effort of the 

 allied floral organizations. A magnificent success in 

 every other respect, it now only remains for the financial 

 results to be computed and should this, too, be a success 

 in the same degree, tlien, indeed, we have surely entered 

 upon a new and glorious era for the horticulturists of 

 America. 



We listened with interest to the dis- 

 Cheap glass and cussion in the American Eose So- 

 ils effect ciety meeting on the question of 



glass tariff and glass prices. The 

 unprecedently low price at which glass may be bought is 

 not regarded by well-intrenched growers as an unmixed 

 lilessing, however favorably the new operator may re- 

 gard it. The inducement to large greenhouse building 

 enterprises during the coming season carries with it tlie 

 thought of overproduction and falling market values on 

 the product and naturally the men who are in don't take 

 kindly to such a possibility. Yet, after all, as one 

 s])eaker said at the discussion in question, it is largely a 

 waste of time for even the rose growing interests to talk 

 about influencing tariff legislation to any appreciable ex- 

 tent on such a commodity as glass, in which their 

 strength as consumers is infinitessimal as compared with 

 the total consumption. After all, is it not more in line 

 with good business policy to devote time and thought to 

 the question of how to enlarge the demand for our goods 

 rather than to the futile task of trying to curtail expan- 

 sion and limit production-' 



The old pi'oblem of how to unite in one 



A choice of society the active support of trade and 



routes amateur interests is again brought to the 



surface by the American Rose Society. 

 It is offered in evidence of the possibility of such an alli- 

 ance that it has been done in England, hence is not im- 

 possible here. Perhaps it is not an impossibility and we 

 grant that it would give a great strength to the organiza- 

 tion if a favorable solution may be found. But the Rose 

 Society is not yet in a position financially or otherwise to 

 take any risks of cooling the ardor of such trade sup- 

 port as it has succeeded in rallying to its cause, and that 

 is just what is liable to be the outcome of a change of 

 base under present conditions. Across the water social 

 and other relationships are quite different from what 

 they are here, as everybody knows, and it is obvious that 

 there is a limit to the distance we can successfully fol- 

 low their lead in such matters, even though the object 

 sought be a laudable one. In this instance there are 

 still some wide gaps to be bridged between the two ex- 

 tremes and it will be well to "go slow." Eloquent plead- 

 ing and practical doing don't always travel the same 

 road. 



