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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleya Mossiae. 



JAPANESE QUINCES AT THE ARBORETUM— 

 Arthur E. Thatcher 737 



AMARYLLIS— A'. Finlayson 737 



CATTLEYA MOSSIAE 738 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Spider 

 on Peach Trees — Packing Melons — Keeping Grapes 

 — Mixed Orchard House— Scorching, Scalding and 

 Mildew on Grapes— George H. Pciison 737-738 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Antirrhinums for Next Winter — Cinerarias 

 for Christmas — Callas — Cycas — Miltonias — Roses — 

 John J. M. FarrcU 739 



MENDEL'S LAW AS RELATED TO HEREDITY AND 

 BREEDING— Or. Herrmann Decker 741 



POLYPODIUM GLAUCUM CRISTATUM— Illustrated. 741 



THE PAEONY— £. ]. Shavlor 742 



PHALAENOP3IS RIMESTADIANA— Illustrated 743 



: BRITISH HORTICULTURE— fF H Adsctt 744 



'CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



-G.ardeners' and Florists' Cluh of Boston — Westchester 

 and Fairfield Horticultural Society — Tuxedo Horti- 

 cultural Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society. 745 

 American Gladiolus Society — Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society and American Peony Society — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — St. Louis Florist Club 

 — Club and Society Notes ; 746 



SEED TRADE: 

 Federal Seed Bill — Agricultural Department Tests — 

 Notes 750 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 754 



Flowers by Telegraph 755 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago 757 



Detroit, New York 759 



Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Syracuse 766 



DURING RECESS: 



A Good Time at Tuxedo — New York Bowlers 767 



OBITUARY: 



Charles F. Mielenz — B. Latour-Marliac, portrait — Ella 

 Wende — May E. Campbell — Gustave Peters — J. R. 

 Tranter— Tina Schenck 765 



"INSECTS"— /I/. C. Ebel 768 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Federal Nursery Inspection Bill 742 



Some News and an Invitation 744 



Personal 747 



Chicago Notes 748 



News Notes 749-750-755-767 



Actinidia Chinensis, Yang Tau Vine — Illustrated.... 750 



Philadelphia Notes 750 



St. Louis Notes 755 



Decorated Firemen's Graves 767 



Protecting Washington's Shade Trees 768 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 770 



Incorporated — Patents Granted — Fire Record 770 



Catalogues Received 770 



We read with some interest the publishe(3 

 "As others notes on the reminiscences and impres- 

 see us" sions of our recent Englisli visitors, par- 

 ticularly their estimate of the National 



Flower Show in Boston which at least two of them have 

 mildly criticised. One avers that, of course, the affair 

 was not comparable to the Temple Shows in London 

 and the other records his opinion that the exhibitors at 

 the Boston show have yet much to learn in respect to 

 staging and arrangement. We shall not attempt to re- 

 fute this latter intimation for we know it to be tiiie but 

 would respectfully remind our British friends that there 

 is no particular advantage in the "pot calling the ket- 

 tle black" and we should like their opinion as to where 

 this needed learning may be accpiired. Having never 

 yet had the pleasure of visiting a show across the water 

 wo do not feel justified in maldng any comparisons but 

 would say that we did take opportunity to bring the 

 matter to the attention of certain of our British-Ameri- 

 can neighbors who know all about the Temple shows 

 and they just laughed and made some pertinent remarks 

 about the pronounced self-conceit afflicting some of 

 their countrymen ! 



Much uneasiness is felt over a large section 

 Rain of this country as regards the effect of the 

 nee(detJ continued lack of rain. In suburban dis- 

 tricts around Boston garden material is 

 stunted, lawns parched up and forlorn and many trees 

 seem unable to develop their newly opened foliage to 

 more than half size. Many evergreens of unquestioned 

 hardiness are dead — winter killed, doubtless, because of 

 insufficient moisture last fall rather than because of 

 any unusual winter severity. We have seen the same 

 conditions in New Jersey during a recent visit there 

 and elsewhere. Seed of many vegetables planted in the 

 field at usual time has either failed to germinate or has 

 died out soon after sprouting. At the same time, hot, 

 c-loudless weather has brought vegetation forward so 

 rapidly that the three weeks' baclcwardness noted at 

 end of April has been caught up and spring flowering 

 trees and shrubbery are blooming at normal date. The 

 nursery trade has been placed at a great disadvantage, 

 first by the abbreviated season, and secondly by the 

 parched condition of the soil, which makes planting 

 operations precarious. All are praying for rain and 

 lots of it. 



A speaker at a dinner recently given by 

 Finding out a club of advertising agents declared 

 where we itt that "selling is more difficult than man- 

 ufacturing." This is, of course, a very 

 broad statement and would not be accurate in all cases, 

 yet as a general proposition it is undoubtedly true that 

 successful salesmanship calls for qualities in no way in- 

 ferior to those that go to make for success in producing 

 the commodity to be sold. The salesman's great study 

 must be his fellow man. As he is proficient in mind 

 reading, resourceful in strategy, convincing in argu- 

 ment, and shrewd in reasoning out probabilities, just to 

 that extent will he make his mark. As applied to the 

 flower trade this is a favorite topic with us, as our fre- 

 quently recurring editorial notes on various phases of 

 the subject attest. Seldom do we see a more interesting 

 and convincing exhibition of a man "up against the 

 real thing" than that of a grower in periods of over- 

 production trying to negotiate a sale to the wily manip- 

 ulators that congi'egate about the wholesale marts at 

 such times — as much out of his element as these artful 

 dodgers would be if given a job at growing the goods. 

 We heard recently of one large rose grower who, visit- 

 ing the wholesale district of New York, declared that 

 this would be his last appearance in the neighborhood 

 until the close of the season. We don't blame him. 



