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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Pedigree H. T. Rose P. R. 

 Patzer. 



iiQUILEGIAS— Illustrated 873 



Hybrid Tea Rose F. R. Patzer 873 



MUSHROOMS— //aroW £(igar— Illustrated 873 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Begonias — Nerines — Orchids — Pansies for 

 Winter Flowering — Roses Carried Over — Smilax — 



John J. M. Farrell 875 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Horticultural Society of New York — American Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen — Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society — Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Horticultural Society — American Peony Society.... 876 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society — New York Flor- 

 ists' Club — St. Louis Florist Club — Massachusetts 



Horticultural Society 878 



Park Superintendents at New Haven — Postal Ex- 

 press Federation — National Sweet Pea Society — 



Club and Society Notes 879 



OBITUARY— Mrs. J. M. Charlton— John Jorden— John 

 Flanag an — Otto Kaiser 879 



A TALK ON ADVERTISING— L. IV. C. Tuthill 880 



SOUTH AMERICAN FLORICULTURE—/. McHidchisou. 881 



AN IXTFRESTIXG EXPERIMENT IN ROSE GROW- 

 ING— f!',,;. R^id 883 



HAIL INSURANCE—/. G. Eslcr 884 



DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers— Chicago Bowl- 

 ers — Chicago Baseball 886 



SEED TRADE— The Disclaimer Disclaimed— Notes. . . 888 



THE TRUE EUGENE VERDIER PEONY— £. /. 

 Shuylor 888 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



St. Louis Retail Florists' Association — Steamer De- 

 partures 890 



Flowers by Telegraph 891 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 893 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 895 



Syracuse, Washington 900 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 879-885-886-890-891-902 



Personal 880 



An Improved Ventilator Arm — Illustrated 883 



Seen at Manda's 883 



Plant Trade in Syracuse 883 



Great Hail Storm in Maryland 884 



Damage by Hail in Michigan — Other Storms 884 



New Azaleas of Merit 884 



An "Ui-the-Hudson" Establishment 885 



Chicago Notes 886 



Incorporated 886 



Philadelphia Notes 891 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 902 



In Bankruptcy 902 



In the "upward revision" of the rules 



Improving and regulations regarding the annual 



the Exhibition convention exhibition of the S. A. F. 



as announced in our recent report of 

 the doings of the Executive Board the influence of the 

 Xational Flower Show at Boston is plainly seen. After 

 its experience at Boston winch was certainly an eye- 

 opener, the Society is justified in assuming a position 

 of more confident firmness in the establishment and 

 enforcement of regulations more in accord with the 

 practice in other lines of similar industrial enterprise. 

 The ruling as regards display signs will perhaps meet 

 with the most opposition but its wisdom and fairness 

 are evident and the general appearance of the exhibition 

 will be more in keeping with what the people are Justi- 

 fied in expecting from the representatives of a profession 

 in which refinement and good taste are supposed to be 

 particularly well developed. 



AVe commend to the special attention of ,our 

 Hail readers who own greenhouses, the little talk on 



liail and hail insurance, by John G. Esler at New- 

 York, which appears in this issue. It happens to be a 

 most timely subject and one that was brought home in a 

 most forcible manner at the very time when Mr. Esler 

 was speaking, to a large number of growers about Bal- 

 timore as our news notes from the stricken district in- 

 dicate. Mr. Esler remarked that it is usually after and 

 not before a hailstorm that a man makes application for 

 insurance — a statement unfortunately true but entirely 

 in accord with human nature ever since the world be- 

 gan, we presume. As to the attitude of the S. A. F. 

 towards the Hail Association, Brother Esler knows full 

 well that the S. A. F. has been at all times friendly and 

 we do not think he will be disposed to disagree with us 

 when we say that the success achieved by the Hail Asso- 

 ciation was only possible through an independent or- 

 ganization such as was fonned as the outcome of the 

 S. A. F. discussions. 



There are unmistakable signs of the 

 Shortening the approaching end of the flower-buying 

 flower "season" season in and about the centres 

 where fashionable society doings are 

 tlie source and support of a large part of the florists' 

 business. This early close of the season is attributed by 

 some to the exodus to P^ngland to witness the coronation 

 pageant. That event may have more or less influence 

 in the present case but it is, nevertheless, a fact which 

 all city florists can vouch for, that the term of metro- 

 politan gaieties has been going througli this shortening- 

 up process steadily for quite a number of years — com- 

 mencing later and ending earlier and thus gradually 

 shrinking at both ends. There are other and various 

 explanations put forth but we have no doubt that the 

 rapidly growing appreciation for country attractions and 

 rural pastimes, aided and abetted by the automobile is 

 really the controlling factor in this trend of the people's 

 fancy away from the florist and his flowers for so large a 

 part of the year. 



Thus, througli the seasonable sedjictions of 

 "•"^•6 Qut door life the florists' exotic offerings 



gardeners' are neglected, the garden and the park 

 opportunity encroaching upon the cut flower's posi- 

 tion in like manner and with like effect 

 as the greenhouse plant grower has stolen a march on 



