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HORTICULTURE 



July 8, 1911 



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TOt. XIV JULY 8, 1»11 MO. 2 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cypripedium tibeticum. 



TWO NEW HARDY CYPRIPEDIUMS FROM WEST- 

 ERN CHINA— E. H. Wilson 33 



SEASONABLE NOTE? ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Annuals for Late Cutting — Compost tor 

 Bulbs — Care of Young Roses— Freesias— .iu/i// J. 11. 



Farrell 35 



VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES FOR FORCING— 



<,' o) '« 11. Benson 35 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY OF AMERICA— 

 The Exhibition — Secretary Bunvard's Report — Notes 



3G-37 



The Fordhook Visit 38 



A SWEET PEA AND WHAT IT WON— Illustrated US 



CLL'BS AND SOCIETIES: 



Rose Show at Newport — Joseph Heaeock, portrait — 

 St. Louis Florist Club — Horticultural Society of New 



York — Yonkers Horticultuial Society 39 



Royal Horticultural Exhibition — Notes 4U 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— li\ B. Adsetl 40 



OBITUARY— A. B. Lewis 40 



THE ROMANCE OF ORCHID HUNTING 41 



CYPRIPEDIUM CAUDATUM— Illustrated 41 



DURING RECESS— New York Florists' Club Outing— 



An Interesting Fishing Trip — Chicago Bowling 43 



SEED TRADE 44 



Rhododendrons at Regents Park — C. Barman Payne'.. 44 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 46 



Flowers bv Telegraph 47 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit 49 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Syracuse 51 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Incorporated 3S 



A Notable Cape Cod Estate £0 



Gladiolus Pink Beauty 42 



Publications Received 42 



Some Industrious Boys 4 ! 



An Important Legal Decision 46 



Chicago Notes 47 



News Notes 47, 57, 58 



In Bankruptcy ' 51 



Personal 51 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 56 



Patents Granted 58 



The week just passed will go down into 

 The history as one of the most trving evet 



torrid wave experienced by the horticulturist. All 

 records have been broken as to high tem- 

 peratures and the wave seems to have covered practically 

 the entire country east of the Eockies. In some sections 

 the conditions were modified somewhat by copious rains 

 previously which prepared the ground and growing 

 things for the ordeal. In others not even this link 

 adva i- enjoyi and everything is parched up 



for want of rain. An excess of sunshine, with lack of 

 rain ami unprecedented torrid heat day after day has 

 de the life of many growers one of anxiety. Of 

 course a Erst-class product in flowers or anything else 

 n an impossibility under the circumstances. 



Nothing of late has given us greater sat- 

 Disarming isfaction than the evident determination 

 the bully f t ] ie pe0 ple of the United States to get 

 at the facts in connection with the ex- 

 press monopolies and their relations with their side 

 partners, the railroads, in the transportation plundering 

 that has been going on tor so many years. The an- 

 nouncement of a proposed sweeping investigation by 

 'in [nterstate Commerce Commission is glorious news. 

 We have no doubt the facts when revealed will fully 

 justify the undertaking. It stands to the credit of the 

 s. A. F. that, as an organization, it was the first with 

 the courage to tackle the bullying giant and first to 

 take a fall out of him. Let us hope that the end of 

 the oppression is now near and that in consequence, a 

 new and better day is about to dawn in the industrial 

 world. 



The outcome of the sweet pea meeting and 

 Excuses exhibition at Philadelphia has been a pro- 

 not valid H. nc ca use for criticism and discussion 

 whenever the devotees of the popular flower 

 happen to congregate. Many local gardeners and also 

 many of those north and east have been excusing their 

 poor -bowing on account of the date. If that holds good 

 bow did Burpee do it in the latitude of Philadelphia 

 and how was it that the next positions of honor were 

 obtained by growers from Connecticut and Yew York? 

 For smile it was too early — for others, too late. But 

 really wdiere expert gardeners are concerned this hulla- 

 balloo about a date seems rather far-fetched. Given a 

 specified locality for a show the expert gardener has 

 di oionstrated time and again that he can so arrange 

 his methods as to exhibit at that point and that a week 

 or two makes little difference if he knows his business. 

 We are learning from season to season just as they did 

 in Great Britain on this point but over there they are 

 further advanced. Of course we shall get there in time, 

 lint there is no use making weak excuses and hiding our 

 heads in the sand. We can never make any progress 

 that way. 



Many close observers, watching the 



A "transition ]},„ . ,,f development and studying 



period" ..,. . m {\ effect as it appears at the 



present stage of the flower business 



are of the opinion that we have entered upon a sort of 



transition period, which', although its progress from 



day t<> day mav not be apparent, will in time work 



changes oi - i tl a character that the florist of a 



few years" hence will have to deal with totally different 

 conditions from those that have appertained heretofore. 

 The new allignments as they gradually assert them- 

 selves in different influential centres seem so variant 

 that judgment as to how things will shape themselves 

 differs according to the viewpoint of the observer. The 

 future of the flower industry as read by a Chicago 

 operator would, for instance, be quite different from that 

 reasoned out by one whose point of observation is Bos- 

 ton, Yew York or Philadelphia, and the divergence of 

 forecast would be equally wide a- between growers and 

 dealers, and between those who specialize in plants or in 

 flowers. However, the readjustments are bound to come 

 and. we doubt not. they will all be in the direction of 

 better business methods and a more influential position 

 lor the florists' art among the leading commercial in- 

 dustries of our country. 



Our notes this week on strawberries, from the pen 

 of G. II. Penson. are the last contribution from that 

 gentleman until fall as he is now about to start on a 

 well-earned vacation. In due time he will resume his 

 regular writing on ■'Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass''" 

 for Horticulture. 



