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HORTICULTURE 



September 30, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



TGL. XIV SEPTEMBER 30, 1911 BO. 14 



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CONTENTS Page 



COYER ILLUSTRATION — New Perennial Border. 

 Franklin Park, Boston. 



A NEW BERRY— A'. H. Wilson— Illustrated 461 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Azaleas — Formosa Lilies — Irises — Pot 

 Plants for Christmas — Rambler Roses — Variegated 

 Vincas — John -I . M. Farrell 462 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Straw- 

 berries — Vineries — Peaches and Nectarines — Melons 

 for Christmas — Mushrooms — Winter Lettuce — Beans 

 — George H. Penson 463 



A PERENNIAL BORDER— Illustrated 465 



PROVIDENCE WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKET IN- 

 CORPORATED 465 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Western Dahlia and Gladiolus Society — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America — Texas Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation — Society of American Florists — Connecticut 

 Horticultural Society— Rhode Island Horticultural 



Society — Good Time Coming 466 



Vegetable Growers' Association of America — Vege- 

 table Show at Boston — American Rose Society — Ex- 

 hibition Group of Vegetables, Fruit and Flowers, 

 Illustration — Club and Society Notes 467 



OBITUARY — Gen. Samuel C. Lawrence — Isaac L. 

 Powell, portrait — Sebastian P. Fischer — A. A. Hixon 

 —Mrs. A. J. Dorward— George M. Langbridge— Mrs. 

 A. J. Vescelius — Mrs. John Geib 468 



MICHELL'S DAHLIA SHOW— G. C. Watson 47" 



DURING RECESS — Newport Horticultural Society 

 Ball — Cincinnati Bowlers 470 



SEED TRADE — Seeds That Are Scarce— Notes 472 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 474 



Flowers by Telegraph 475 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 47. 



Detroit. New York, Philadelphia, Providence, St. 

 Louis, Washington 479 



HISCELLANEOl 3 



A Model Estate 465 



Incorporated 470 



Personal 471 



Philadelphia Notes 4T _-j 



Providence Notes 472 



News Notes 47l'-474-484 



Washington Notes 475 



St. Louis Notes -^-j 



Chicago Notes 475 



The Niessen Opening 484 



Crops 



from improved 



backyards 



A complaint comes from a western 

 nt\ that the exploitation of the 



"improved backyard" idea in that 

 neighborhood had resulted mi the 

 launching of a lot of amateur flor- 

 ist? whose consign!) asters and other flower gar- 

 den products to tlie wholesale markets had of late ma- 

 terially contributed lo the demoralization of established 

 - nn these things. Looks like "a tempest in a tea 



pot" doesn't it? It is up to the florist to keep ahead 

 of the backyard amateur. If lie can't produce some- 

 thing which tlie latter cannot produce and a better and 

 more saleable quality, be must take the consequences. 

 Long live the "improved backyard" and if it did noth- 

 ing nunc than to lone tin straggling tailenders in the 

 florisi procession to "get a move on" it has certainly 

 served a very useful purpose not exactly contemplated 

 bv its promoters. 



The vegetable growers of New 



About England have won the congrat- 



exhibition reports ulations of the profession at large 



by the superb exhibition of vege- 

 tables staged at Horticultural Hall. Huston, Mass.. last 

 week. It was a vast ami comprehensive display of the 

 choicest products of the vegetable garden, grown to per- 

 fection by expert gardeners despite the almost uncon- 

 trolable drawbacks of the worst season in many years. 



Again the superiority of the Lenox gardeners lias I n 



demonstrated in the arrangement of a splendid veg- 

 etable display and alter these repeated demonstrations 

 of their abilities in this line they must lie recognized as 

 about invincible. One objection we would submit in 

 regard to the judges' report in this as in very many 

 other shows i- tin- failure to record the names of win- 

 ning varieties under the classes for "any other variety." 

 Recording ami publishing the names of growers winning 

 first, second and third in the standard varieties listed 

 in the schedule is all right and necessary but it carries 

 little or no educational value. In classes where un- 

 listed ami often obscure varieties are pitted against one 

 another, however, there is much to be learned as to 

 comparative qualities which is, of course, open to the 

 observant visitor but is lost to the vast number of inter- 

 ested persons who were not present, unless noted by 

 the judges. Without such comparative trials many 

 worthy varieties not yet widely known or generally 

 grown would often be left in undeserved obscurity and 

 we believe it is a great mistake to omit mention of 

 them in the prize reports. 



Last year and the year previous, the 

 An apparent (J. S. custom house authorities at the 

 injustice various ports of entry collected $2.50 

 per thousand on all hyacinth bulbs im- 

 ported to this country during that time. It then came 

 to light that the tariff law had been misinterpreted by 

 the collectors and that according to the tariff law the 

 ilut\ should be only fifty cents per thousand and under 

 this latter figure hyacinths are being admitted this 

 year, h would seem reasonable to expect that the gov- 

 ernment would at once refund to the importing florists 

 and other- the $2.00 per thousand bulbs which had been 

 illegally imposed. This rebate, however, it seems can 

 only hi' collected by those importers who entered their 

 goods under protest through an attorney with an agree- 

 ment to give up fifty per cent of the amount refunded 

 to the attorney in case of a successful outcome for the 

 protest. So it stand-, under the position which the 

 government assumes, that all importers of these bulbs 

 who. in good faith, paid the duty demanded, without 

 protest, have no recourse and those who did enter a pro- 

 test will get their money back, but are obliged to give 

 half of the refunded money to the lawyers. To the 

 unprejudiced observer it docs appear that the govern- 

 ment ha- in i In- instance been taking tin unfair advan- 

 tage of a technicality. As a matter of simple justice 

 the excess money which, it has been acknowledged, was 

 exacted in error should, as it appears to us. be at once 

 returned in full to the people to whom it rightfully 

 belongs. 



