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CONTENTS P«««« 



CON'ER ILLUSTRATIOX— Portrait of William V. 

 KasUng. 



NOTES ON CULTLUE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— As- 

 paragus plumosus — Decorative Plants — Gladiolo — 

 Rambler Roses — Sowing Perennials — Shading Ferns 

 and Palms — John J. If. Farrcll 819 



STEM ROT IN PEONIES— £. J. Shaylor 819 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Do Not Neglect 

 the Voung Plants — Keep the Fires Going — Spraying 

 Roses — Arthur C. Ruzicka 821 



OBITUARY— William F. Kasting— W^ L. McKay— G. 

 Supper 822 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club- 

 Meetings and Exhibitions— St. Louis Florist Club — 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 822-823 



Club and Society Notes 823-825-842 



Peony Exhibition 826 



AMERICAN ASSOCI.\TION OF NURSERYMEN 824 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— Notes 826 



SWEET PEA HISTORY— An«. C. Zvolanek 826 



OF INTF;REST to retail FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 828 



Flowers by Telegraph 829 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Washington, Boston 830-831 

 Philadelphia 842 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia 833 



WHAT THE S. A. F. HAS A RIGHT TO EXPECT 

 AT THE HOUSTON CONVENTION— R. C. Kerr 840 



ARBORETUM NOTES 840 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Peony City— C. S. Harrison 826 



News Notes 828-841 



Welch Bros. Co., Reorganize — Portraits 831 



Personal — Visitors' Register 835 



View in the S. A. F. Convention City— Illustrated .. . 840 



Rose Gardens at Arlington, Va. — Illustrated 841 



New Rose Los Angeles 841 



Ithaca Test Rose Garden " 841 



Rose Week at Springfield, Mass 841 



Business Troubles 841 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 842 



The noal sum of $1.5.707.09 i.= to 



The power !,(. flivirlud oquallv hctwfcii the Xew 



of "pull together" York Flori.=ts' Club and the TTorti- 



eultiiral Societ)' of Xew York as 

 their profits on the recent successful flower show in the 

 Grand Central Palace. But a few years asro the boldc-^t 

 optimist would not hare presumed to predict such a 

 thing as a possibility. Such are the results of zealous 

 co-operation and well-directed effort on the part of the 

 two factors which are indispensable for the complete suc- 

 cess of such an enterprise anywhere. It can safely be 

 said that neither one of tlie two orsranizations which par- 

 ticipated in this great undertaking and its happy out- 



i(>nio could pnssibly have done it nlone iis it wa; dtnie 

 nnd (hf ffentloiiu-n of New York and vicinity whose spirit 

 "'■ -I. illation and harmony and wliosi' hard work no 

 li'.-. ;;-lily pcrfonned were so largely rcsjwnsilile fur 

 this brilliant achievement are well entitled to congratiihi- 

 tion anil the gratitude of all friends of horticultural 

 prestige. Promoted in the some spirit of hearty concord 

 there is no reason why the success of lOlG may not l»e 

 repeated or even excelled in each coming year. 



It is "in the nir" that rock-gardening is 

 Rock soon to play an inijmrtant part in the art 

 gardening „f garden making in this country. One dif- 

 ficulty that is stire to confront and dis- 

 lunci'rl any one trying to do rock-ganlcning here on 

 the lines which succeed so well in England and some 

 other Kuropean countries is that much of the most high- 

 ly prized alpine material in which tbe gnrdciier abroad 

 is ]irivileged to revel is really out of the question with 

 us. Yet (here is no insurmountable reason why this most 

 fascinating branch of gardening may not be indulged in 

 here :ind with channing results. We shall find —as we 

 have been finding out in recent years in regard to our 

 slinibbery planting — that there is an abundance of splen- 

 did niitive material which can be brought into effective 

 use and. in as.sociation with such exotics as are found 

 tractable, will amply fill the requirements of the most 

 ambitious and exacting planter. There can be no doubt 

 of the growing appreciation of rock-gardens and the in- 

 teresting classes of plants which find their appropriate 

 setting amid such conditions and surroundings and the 

 nurseryman who will prepare intelligently to meet and 

 supply the special demand that is sure to come will find 

 Ihat he has made no mistake. 



Practically ever since the florists broke 



Two away f?om the original allied association of 



societies nurser_\Tnen and florists, thirty-two years 



ago. there has been a constantly widening 

 divergence in methods and policies and in the avowed 

 ])urposes and ideals which have shaped the course of the 

 national bodies representing these two interests. While 

 the .\ssociation of Xurserymen has been invariably con- 

 ducted as an exclusively business organization, the S. A. 

 F. has been pursuin? a more altruistic course, in which 

 the immediate well-being of the strictly commercial ele- 

 ment is not always dominant. In slioH. the nurserymen 

 have had. for a definite object in maintaining a national 

 f>rganization, the protection and fostering of their busi- 

 rss interests, while the S. A. V. and 0. H. has cho.sen 

 to direct its energies in a considerable degree for the 

 promotion of horticultural advancement in a broad 

 sense. During these years the S. A. F. has forged far 

 ahead in numerical and financial strength as com]iared 

 with the ])arent organization which, at the time of the 

 separation, came under the undivided control of the 

 7;ursery people. .\ perusal of the program for the nur- 

 serymen's convention to beheld this month in Milwaukee 

 .■ihows a vast amount of jireparation for a very bu.sy time 

 and will be interr-stins to compare it with the one which 

 the S. A. F. will put out shortly for the coming meeting 

 at Houston. Texas. Some of the critics of the S. A. F.. 

 who have been persistently endeavoring to relegate that 

 body into the category' of strictly commercial organiza- 

 tions might find in the comparison subject for a little 

 second thought. As is generally known the nurserymen 

 are now trying out a new system of membership from 

 which much financial strength and influence is expected. 

 Hoirricii.TrRK extends its very best wishes for an un- 

 equivocal success. 



