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HORTICULTURE 



Kobruary 27, r.U5 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXI FEBRUARY 27. 191S NO. 9 



11 III.ISIIKII «tl:KI.V UY 



HORTICULTURE. PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



TrIrlihoDr. (Ixford tWi. 

 MM. J. >TK\V.\KT. Ktlllor anil MsiUKcr. 



SI I(,S('KirTION KATKS: 



One \riir. In B<l\norr, fl.oo; To Forrlcn Countrlo, $2.00: To 



( Hnailii, (1.50. 



.XKVKKTISINt; KATKS: 



IVr Inrli. 30 iiulicf to pilKP $1.00 



IHhrounlH on < onlnit'lH fur conMM'Utlvr InNrrtlunH, uh followa: 



tino nionlli <4 tiincN), fi prr cent.: IhriM' niitnthn (13 times). 10 

 pn ipnt.; t.l\ montlix C.'O tiniro), Vi p»r cent.; one year (5i tiincH). 

 30 per rent. 



I'nKe iinil linlf paffe spiKe, ttpeclal ratCH on application. 



i;i, ,'cond-cla88 tualter Decembers, 1901, at tlie Tost OflJce 



:: 1 . .MuBs., under tlie Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS P^ 



COVKR I LLISTK.\T ION— Specimen Cattleya Mossiae 



Kt'iiiwkiana 

 NOTES ON CILTIRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Aza- 

 leas — Bulbs for Kaster — Chryaantheraunis — Easter 

 Lilies — Gladioli for .Memorial Day — Sowing Moon- 

 flowers— Jo/iii ./. .1/. FnrnU 269 



RHIPSALIS PACHYTERA—M ontapuc /•Yet'- Illus- 

 trated 270 



THE CHINESE TREE LILAC— C. S. Harrison 270 



HOLLY Cl'LTURE— y^ Vinxiil. Jr 270 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Crowding Roses- 

 Ventilation — Mulching — Houses for Summer Flower- 

 ing — Arthur C. Uuzhka 271 



MELO.NS UNDER GLASS—/. IV. fimith 271 



A BF:aUTIFUL cattleya specimen 272 



A CARNATION TRIO 273 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— ir. H. AdsctI 273 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lanca.ster County Florists' 

 Club — American Association of Park Superintendents 

 — Chrysanthemum Society of America — Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York — .American Association of 



Nurserymen 274 



American Rose Society — Chicago Florists' Club... 27(i 

 Holyoke and Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club— Club and Society Notes 277 



SEED TRADE 278 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Jottings from the Peii-n, Henri/ Pcnn — An Artis- 

 tically Arranged Bouquet of Orchids — Illustrated... 280 



New Flower Stores 281 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston — San Francisco — Philadelphia — New York — 



Washington 282 



Chicago 283 



flowh:r market reports: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 285 



Philadelphia, St. Louis. San F'rancisco, Washington 287 

 OBITUARY— H. Frank Darrow— William B. King... 283 

 THE .MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION GARDEN— Illus- 

 trated 292 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Do You Know That— 270 



Feast of Reason at Philadelphia 273 



Hay Fever and Golden Rod— B. C. Autrn 273 



Catalogues Received 278-294 



Business Troubles 281 



New Corporations 281 



News Notes 281 



Publications Received 292 



Visitors' Register 294 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 294 



New York Florists' Bowling Club 294 



Many of our readers will probably 

 For have noticed in our account last week 



better business ,,f thg formation of a protective as- 

 methods sociation by the wholesale dealers and 



growers in Boston, the statement that 

 no retail dealers were |)resent at the meeting. Of 

 course, this was quite natural as the business in view 

 primarily concerned the wholesale trade. Yet the men- 

 tion of their absence would seem to mildly intimate 



|irobablc unfriendliness on the jmrt of the retail dealers 

 towards such n movement. While the inference may be 

 quite correct as regards a considerable section of the 

 utaii trade, yet it surely is not tnie of all, for there 

 are to he found among the retail trade of ever)' city 

 many finns who in their regard for sterling business 

 principles and modern financial practice liave no su- 

 jieriors anywhere, whose approving co-operation would 

 lie given to any reasonable plan for tlie improvement of 

 |iresent conditions and who would welcome the general 

 .idojition and enforcement of proper credit regulations, 

 cine tcnilency of which would be to weed out unscrupu- 

 lous and irrespon.sible business competition. The in- 

 stallation of rules to prevent the abuse of tni<le cnKJit 

 "ill be more easily accomplished and its provisions more 

 clieerfully coin|ilied with if the element of antagonism 

 lictween iiitfrested ])arlio8 is eliminated as much as pos- 

 sible anil, if the proposition of llic wliolcsalc dealers is 

 presented in such .•spirit and iiuiniuT. no organization of 

 retailers can find justification for opposition or com- 

 plaint. Events of frequent occurrence in the past have 

 emphasized the great need of some better system of 

 credit giving and when this shall have become a fact 

 it will contribute not a little to the welfare of both 

 buyers and sellers. 



The Panama-Pacific Exposition is now a 



Westward, reality and for months to come the great 



Ho! tide of travel will trend westward to the 



City of the Golden Gate. The great dis- 

 tance which a majority of the present members of the 

 Society of American Florists and kindred organizations 

 must travel in order to attend the sessions of the annual 

 convention this year will materially deplete the attend- 

 ance from the older sections but there are favorable in- 

 dications for a much better showing than has been 

 generally believed to be possible. The wearisome feat- 

 ures of such a journey across the continent in mid- 

 summer can be greatly modified and to a very consider- 

 able extent eliminated by the social advantages offered 

 in the several plans wliieh are now being matured for 

 travelling together and the breaking up of the monot- 

 ony of the long trip by visits to places of note en route. 

 It is quite likely that there will be at least two of these 

 main parties, one composed of those who prefer to start 

 siifliciently early to spend some eight or ten days in 

 sight-seeing on the westward trip and the other for 

 those who desire to go straight through and limit their 

 iiidulgence in the .stop-over privilege to the homeward 

 trip. Thus all tastes may be fairly gratified without 

 sacrificing the pleasure of- agreeable company. On be- 

 half of tlie gentlemen who are giving so much of their 

 time and best thought to the perfecting of these itiner- 

 aries for the general comfort and pleasure we would 

 urge upon our readei"s who contemplate going to San 

 Francisco the desirability of giv'ing prompt considera- 

 tion to the plans presented and making known their de- 

 cision as early as jiossible, for the preparatory labor in 

 the effort to please and accommodate all in such a prop- 

 osition is far from simple. 



A Beautiful Cattleya Specimen 



Otu- cover illusii-alion shows a remarkable specimen 

 of the lovely white-pet ailed Cattleya Mossiaj Reineckiana 

 which flowered as sliown in the Julius Roehrs Co., estab- 

 lisliment at Rutherford, N. J., and is said to be the 

 finest blooming plant of this variety ever seen. When 

 photographed it carried sixteen leads bearing sixty-eight 

 flowers of exceptional size, many of them being seven 

 inches across. 



