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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Gold Medal Garden of 11. T. 

 Roses. 



NOTES ON CLLTLRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Crotons — Dieffenbachias — Easter Preparations — Glox- 

 inias—Palms from Seed — Starting Cobaea scandens — 

 John J. il. FarrcU 483 



ROSE GltOWING UNDER GLASS— Earth Worms in 

 the Benches — Shading the Cross Houses — Disbudding 

 — The Young Plants — Arthur C. Rtizicka 485 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Illustrated 486-487 



AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY 487 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Prize Awards. . . 488 



SEED TRADE — Onion Seed — Embarrassing State En- 

 actments — The Disclaimer Controversy — Lifting the 

 Embargoes — One Week's Imports — Customs Decision 

 —Notes 492 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — A Bit of "Old Rome" in Flowers, 



Illustration 494 



Flowers by Telegraph 495 



NEAVS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Chicago — Pittsburgh — Boston — Washington 496 



OBITUARY— F. H. Fisher — Alpheus Packard— John R. 

 Shein — Robert Greenlaw — Mrs. B. P. Burchel 497 



THE GINGE}R JAR— G. C. W 497 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 

 Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis, Washington 499 



DURING RECESS— N. Y. Florists' Bowling Club 501 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 506 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — Notes 507 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Life of a Cattleya 485 



The Kewite Meeting 490 



Easter Preparations at Waverly, Mass 491 



New Corporations 492 



Business Troubles — News Notes 497 



Visitors' Register 501 



Personal 505 



Patents Granted 508 



Catalogues Received 508-509 



Publications Received 509 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 510 



A coneipondeut rair^es llie question, 

 Catalogue "Do any number of purchasers, pai- 

 iiiustrations ticularly of nursery stock, who place 

 substantial orders depend to any consid- 

 erable extent on elaborate catalog descriptions and illus- 

 trations of standard stock when placing their orders? 

 Are they not more generally guided by what they have 



actually seen, have road about in current mngazines and 

 books, or reconunended by friends ?" Possibly the pro- 

 [tounder of this projwsition is correct in his iissumption 

 I hut many buyers of garden inaterinl know what they 

 want without reference to catalogue illustrations. But, 

 on the other liand, there is also n large pro|)ortioii of 

 would-be buyers who are not so well-informed and who 

 are undoubtedly influenced largely by the descriptions 

 and pictures which they find in the catalogues of nur- 

 serymen and seetlsmen. Of this class there is a new crop 

 every year and it is surely good business to cater to 

 them and by every proper means try to whet their ap- 

 [ictites for beautiful garden material. .Ml will agree 

 that colored pictun^ of cheap quality and any and all 

 e,\aggerations in illustrations or text should have no 

 place in the publications of an otherwise good house. 



In that very interesting book, "How to 

 Rose Society Grow Roses," we read that '"Ten years 

 progress ago the American Rose .Society was in 

 no very prosperous state. Amateurs had 

 almost no part in it. Little attention was given to out- 

 door roses or to rose gardens. All that is changing." 

 The change referred to, such as it is, will meet with 

 universal approval. But it was much better tliat the 

 Rose Societj' existed as it did ten years ago than if it 

 had not existed at all. We assume that the author 

 above quoted did not intend to cast any reflections on 

 the efforts of the commercial men wlio at that critical 

 time assumed the responsibility of carrying the strug- 

 gling organization tlirough its days and years of ad- 

 versity' — a condition which was due in a large measure 

 to the indifference of the so-called amateur element of 

 those days, of whicli much liad been expected by the 

 founders but which proved a broken reed. Had it not 

 been for the commercial rose lovers who, following 

 Roosevelt's precept, "Do what you can with what you 

 liave where you are," there would probably have been a 

 defunct rose society. In the meantime the Soc-iety has 

 been doing pioneer work and conditions are different 

 now from what they were ten years ago. President Pen- 

 nock in his address before the American Rose Society, 

 wliich ap])ears in full in this paper, tells of one eminent 

 amateur rosarian who asserted that he had left the Rose 

 Society "because it offered the amateur so little." That 

 is scarcely the spirit which builds up useful and pros- 

 perous organizations. Years ago when the writer was 

 an official of the Society of American Florists the ques- 

 tion he was most frequently called upon to answer was 

 "Wliat use is the S. A. F. to me?" The answer was 

 •'Isn't that a selfish attitude to take? Better a.sk "What) 

 can I do for the S. A. F. ?' " A spring cannot rise 

 higher than its source. If the American Rose Society 

 is to attain the desired prestige and influence and reach 

 a position worthy of the name it bears the support of 

 all interests is indispensable. The British National 

 Rose Society is frequently held up before us as an ex- 

 amjjle of what a rose society should be. There is no 

 good reason why our Society should not be equally pros- 

 perous. This cannot be ac-coniplished in a day but the 

 outlook certainly is more promising now than ever be- 

 fore. Let us minimize as far as possible class distinc- 

 tions. All love the rose and should be eager to assist. 



