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HORTICULTURE 



June 24, 1911 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— J. H. Dayton, President- 

 elect American Association of Xurserymen. 

 SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' . 

 STOCK—Asparagus Plumosus— Care of Asters— Hy- 

 drangeas— StoclfS for Next Winter — Summer Care of 



Palms— /o/,» y. M. Fan-cll 909 



THE LURE OF THE IRIS— C. S. Harrison 911 



MUSHROOM PRANKS— G. H. Pcnson 911 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION: 



Opening Session — President's Address — E. L. Page, 



portrait • 912 



Secretary-Treasurer's Report— Tuesday Afternoon- 

 Wednesday Morning— W^ednesday Afternoon — The 

 Banquet— Leonard H. Vaughan, President-elect, por- 

 trait 913 



Thursday Morning— Election of Officers— That Ball 



Game— Members Present 914 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— (C. H. Adsctt 914 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 916 



The Shaw Banquet 916 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES; 



Society of American Florists— Minnesota Horticul- 

 turists—National Sweet Pea Society of America- 

 North Shore Horticultural Society— Nassau County 

 Horticultural Society— Pennsylvania Horticultural 



Society 915 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 916 



DURING RECESS: 



New York Bowlers — Chicago Bowlers 917 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 918 



SEED TRADE: 



California Sweet Pea Outlook — Notes 920 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 922 



New Flower Stores— Flowers by Telegraph .923 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 925 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 927 



OBITUARY: 



W. D. Bastow— Mrs. A. Woerner— Chas. H. Magoon 

 — Preston W. Butler — Mrs. Mary Hanson — Chauncey 

 P. Coy— John Trusty— Mrs. A. B. Packard— Mrs. Al- 

 fred Hannah— Wm. Russell Dudley— W. Taat 932 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



White Banksia Rose— Illustrated 914 



Personal 917 



A Beautiful Medal— Illustrated 918 



Carnations and American Beauty Roses Together?.. 918 



Present-Day Gardening 918 



News Notes 918-923 



Catalogues Received 920 



Philadelphia Notes 920 



Patents Granted 920 



Chicago Notes 923 



Cincinnati Notes 923 



St. Louis Notes 927 



To Combine Express and Postal System 933 



Incorporated 933 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 934 



"Kentucky Blue Grass/' writes a 

 The Grass Seed prominent Kentucky grass-peed op- 

 Combine erator, "is sliowing an increase of 



fifty per centum over tlie yield 

 of last year." "Nevertheless," he continues, "because 

 of the operations of the Grass Seed Combine, prices 

 ranging as high as those of last year are maintained." 

 Intending purchasers should take their time. There will 

 he more than enough genuine Kentucky Blue to meet 

 the demands of the trade — more, in fact, than the aver- 

 age annual sale. Artificially inflated prices reduce de- 

 mand and we are assured that the crof) is sufficient for 

 the usual demand at normal prices. We advise the 

 lanilis to wait. 



This office has received, in two instances, 

 A warning recently, advertising copy from parties 



in .France, offering French bulbs for 

 delivery in America at prices far below what we know 

 to be the normal market values. This was sufficient to 

 arouse suspicion, as was also the stipulation of a large 

 per cent, of cash in advance and, the parties being un- 

 known to us, the advertising orders were pigeon-holed 

 and inquii7 made of reliable French exporting houses 

 which elicited replies confirming our suspicion. One 

 of our corre.spondents advises that we sound a warning 

 to buyers of French bulbs who may be approached by 

 these irresponsible people. It is stated that many large 

 finns have been victimized, attracted by the low prices 

 quoted and induced to send cash in advance for dis- 

 eased or wrongly named bulbs. The game is by no 

 means a new one Init its repetition does not seem to 

 lessen the number of victims or the audacity of the 

 operators. 



The American Seed Trade Association's 

 Well done very successful meeting at Marblehead 



this week seems to have fully demon- 

 strated the wisdom of having selected the quaint old 

 rocky New England coast town for this annual gather- 

 ing. There were misgivings on the part of some that 

 the remoteness of ilarblehead from the centre of activ- 

 ity in the seed trade Avould have an unfavorable effect 

 upon the attendance but in this foreboding they were 

 happily mistaken. The unusually large number of 

 ladies present shows that the delights of sea air and 

 russed shore scenerv were no small factor in inducing 

 members to make the trip, from far-away Nebraska and 

 other inland states and we have no doubt that the 

 ladies are entitled to much of the credit for some of 

 the pilgrimages. It is a grand tribvite to any such 

 association that men of such large business affairs, with 

 weighty responsibilities, should consider it worth their 

 while to travel such distances for the pui-pose of at- 

 tending its meetings and assisting in its deliberations. 

 The American Seed Trade Association is more strongly 

 intrenched than ever as a potential factor in the life 

 of the American seed trade, in consequence of this in- 

 spiring exhibition of loyal interest. 



