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HORTICULTURE 



June 10, 1911 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Railway Station Gardening. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Adiantums— Benching Chrysanthemums — 

 Cuttings of Poinsettias— Ferns in Frames— Left-over 

 Astiibe Japonica— Pruning of Flowering Shrubs— 

 John J. M. FarrcU 841 



A BEAUTIFUL MASSACHUSETTS ESTATE 843 



THE BOSKOOP SHOW— Illustrations 843 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 American Peony Society— American Seed Trade As- 

 sociation — Yonkers Horticultural Society — Union 

 Club Meeting at Milwaukee— Florists' Club of Phila- 

 delphia— S. A. F. Convention Reminder — Some In- 

 teresting Facts About Baltimore 844 



Diagram of Fifth Regiment Armory, S. A. F. Con- 

 vention Hall, Baltimore 845 



National Sweet Pea Society— Florists' Club of Wash- 

 ington—Club and Society Notes 846 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— IC. H. Adsett 847 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Drought Broken— The Pea Crop — About Onions 

 —For Rochester in 1912— Counter Trade— Pennsyl- 

 vania Seed Bill— Notes 850 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Flower Marketing Litigation— Steamer Departures 852 

 New Flower Stores— Flowers by Telegraph 853 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit 855 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis. Washington 857 



DURING RECESS: 



Good News for Barnegat, Illustrated— British Hor- 

 ticultural Traders' Reunion— New Y'ork Bowlers.... 862 



RAILROAD STATION GARDENING 862 



OBITUARY: 



Wm. Russell Dudley— John K. Richter 863 



RHODODENDRONS AT THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM 865 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Rose Melody 843 



Philosophy Real and Spurious 843 



The Shaw Banquet 843 



Personal 847 



Chicago Notes 853 



Fathers' Day 857 



St. Louis Notes • 863 



Philadelphia Notes .' 863 



Coldwell Lawn Mowers 864 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 864 



News Notes 865 



Incorporated 866 



Patents Granted 866 



Some have surmised that the place 



The Seedsmen's chosen for this year's Seed Trade 



Convention Convention, while ideal so far as 



the hotels and surroundings go, is a 



little too far ea.st to draw the western members. Doubt- 



less those who decided on Marblehead, Mass., gave the 

 matter their very careful consideration and quite pos- 

 sibly could not have selected a more desirable spot. It 

 would seem that many of the western members who 

 seldom get a snifE of sea air, would be glad to journey 

 a few hundred miles further in order to enjoy this 

 pleasure. It is generally conceded that the convention 

 at Atlantic City last year was thoroughly enjoyed by 

 all, and there is no reason why this year's meeting 

 should not be equally enjoyable. We hope to see a large 

 and representative turnout. 



Very welcome is the rain which has 



One effect of come at last to refresh the thirsty 



the drought crops and restore the parched-up land 



to normal condition and fertility. The 

 aggregate loss to all departments of agriculture and hor- 

 ticulture because of the scanty rainfall of the past two 

 seasons is almost beyond computation — far up in the 

 millions and hundred of millions. The showers, thus 

 far, welcome as they have been, are but as a drop in 

 the bucket that is needed, but perhaps they are only a 

 beginning of what is to be a season of rainfall which 

 will go far towards averaging up for past deficiency. 

 The destruction wrought in nurseries and gardens, in 

 the eastern section of the country, at least, during the 

 winter of 1910-11 is most pitiful, especially among the 

 conifers. The winter-killing of evergreens is something 

 not easily explained, as a rule, so contradictory are the 

 effects under what seem to be parallel conditions but, 

 in the present case, all experts seem agreed that the 

 insufficiency of moisture during the two previous sea- 

 .sons was a dominant factor in the ruin w'hich this 

 spring has disclosed — much more so than the imme- 

 diate winter inclemency. 



The extended and constantly lengthening 

 Give the lists of varieties of peonies, rhododendrons, 

 novelties roses, sweet peas and other plants of com- 

 a chance mercial jKominence have been the subject 

 of frequent criticism, as is well known. In 

 a general way the protest is justifiable, the lists of too- 

 nearly-alike varieties and the introduction of new sorts 

 that are no better than those already in general use 

 furnishing good reason for such disapproval. But we 

 should not forget that the well-known standard varieties 

 of today were the untried novelties of yesterday and it 

 is only by raising and testing new things that any 

 progress can be made. Again, there are always local 

 conditions and influences that play an important part in 

 establishing the merits or demerits of a plant in dif- 

 ferent locations. For instance, we find in the Arbore- 

 tum Bulletin in this issue a list of rhododendrons that 

 have proven reliably hardy in the Arboretum, some of 

 which are quite similar to one another, yet it would be 

 unwise to cut such a list down, as the worst behaved in 

 one garden would often prove to be the best behaved in 

 another and, again, the best behaved in one particular 

 year might be the worst behaved in the next. This 

 reasoning would apply generally to all classes of plants 

 and flowers and condemnation based on individual tests 

 should be sparingly indulged in. Somebody else may 

 liave equally good reason to ilraw opjiosite conclusions. 



