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HORTICULTURE 



November 4, 1911 



HODTIPIIT T1TW1T '''"' we ' ,ave l: " 1 ' 1 ,,i:lt ''"' "''''' "" u '" ,| ".- r 50wn Wl " 



nUiv 1 1 V_^ \J !-*• 1 V> IV.L' bear i : rni i and look to a resull of tl fta 



= cational uplift now inaugurated, the coming i" the fronl 



vol. xiv November 4^1911 no. 19 leaders and attain 



= in exalted station in the annals of American hortieul 



ri BLI8HED WBKKLT BY lure. 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. \ correspondent in this issue reiter- 



11 Hamilton Place. Boston, Mass. The florist ,,,,,< the oft-repeated criticism oJ 



Telephone, Oxford ttt. an authority? [ & ck ,,f knowledge OH llie part of the 



mi. . i. stewart. Editor «n<t M.nacer. average flower Btore salesman as re- 



— gards the Q8J i tin' flowers lie sells, li is true 



■ntered at Beeond-rlaes matter December 8, 1904. at the Post Offlce there I in a majoritj of instances We 



«t Bo.ton, M.M.. under th. Act of Congr*. of torch 8. 1OT. ^^ {] ^ ^ , ^ ||];|| ,,„,.',„„,.;..,„ „„,,,„ v s| 



meiii is borne out. This is all the more regretable be 



CONTENTS cause of the growing disposition of the public and of 



Page the aewspap rs to look to the florisl for correct informa- 



COVBR ILLUSTRATION Primula pulverulenta. tioil on ,,].,„, all ,| ,],,„,.,. matters, li was encouraging 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' ' , , , , i i i 



... K Camellias Carnations Gardenias to note, a few days ago, where a prominent daily, having 



Pandanus Veitchii Odontoglossums— Pot Roses— received an absurd sensational statement coneerning a 



/. .1/. Farrell '>-] certain I lower, published it with the comment that "1111 



rc-iV^v^c 1 ;'™^ florists - ■' incline<3 *" brand the ,hm " i,s a w»- M " 



Pol Pruit Trees Melons tor Christmas- Tomatoes should ho a matter of pride to the florist that the public 



in Pots Cucumbers George //. Penson 625 should look up to him as an authority on floricult ural 



PRIMULA PULVERULENTA H. Wilson 625 matters instead of swallowing without question all 



THE kxiiiiuti;)ns ANTS_/I "' "'''*"" 626 ldaBiB of nonsensical, stuff as they have been all too ready 



Morris Countj Gardeners' and Florists' Society- to do in the past, and he should strive in every possible 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 629 manner to make himself worthy of this very desirable 



Lenox Horticultural Society Yonkers Horticultural . 1I1( ] proper confidence. 



Societj North Shore Horticultural Society 631 ■,., ,, ' , N v .1 , , • _ 



Cl t BS AND SOCIETIES- luiral .\cw Yorker has been carrying 

 National Association of Gardeners Massachusetts Marketing on a vigorous denunciation of the middle- 

 Horticultural Society American Rose Society 632 flowers men and the system of marketing farm 



chrysanthemum Societj of America— A Reunion and garden product through this means. 



Plan The Philadelphia Show 633 .. , 11, ,1 1 1 



DURING RECESS Nev Fork Bowlers-Chicago Bowl- '' " ,a . v be u ' rv desirable that the producer ami con- 

 ing Cincinnati Bowling 633 sumer oi these goods should he brought more directly 



MAY FLOWERING AND DARWIN TlLIPS-Illus- together and the Rural New Yorker mav he justified in 



.,,V,'i','''. iU-' ",'.,"', ',,'., U ,,',•.•■,••; 634 its contention that there are grievous wrongs in the 



OBITUARY— Charles I'llomm— George M. Woodward , . , ,, 6 , ,. • , .. 

 Benjamin R. wiism, m,s. Elsie Martini— John prevailing system and that the cost of getting the farm- 

 Lamb 634h it's ware- lot he public is out of all reasonable propor- 



SEED TRADE Mr. Grenell Will Not Retire— The Ad- tion to the price the I'a finer gets. On tins question we 



vance in Pea Prices — The Bean Situation — Seed n • ,. , j . „,.■ „ ■„ „„. n , 



„ . . .. „ , . , Q .„„,„ ... _ £,„ . „ co - are not well inloriiieil and so have nothing to sav. nut 



Trade in New Zealand — Seed-Grain from Sweden... 63o • . ■ 



Cucumber Losses at Reeky Ford— Notes 636 when our bustling c.nteniporar\ extends it- attack so 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: a- to include the commission men in the cut flower 



Steamer Departures 638 business, as it has in its latest i^sue. we are impelled to 



New Flower Store rs tic Telegraph 63!i ■ , , -, . . , . , ,. .'. 



Fi owkr MARKET kfports- question its knowledge oi that subject. Certainly somi 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 641 of the statements regarding the situation in the New 



New York, Philadelphia. Providence 643 York wholesale flower trade seem to he based on a mis- 



■ ,: ■■!■', ■",' i "\-^/!r- 1, ' ns;r "' 648 e 'l ,l|nM if ""' "" absolute misinformation. The 



MIS< LI.LAM-.c »US i.ii-i e n- j> 



BriUsh Horticulture if. //. AAseit 62s incentive to the establishment oi cooperative selhng oi 



Lonsdale Appreciated 631 (lower-, as we recall it, was not so much to put a stop 



Personal Incorporated 633 to "the absorption of profits by greed} non-producers" 



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New Mallows 634 sl '"' "' ""' reputed enormous profits oi the retailers 



Fall Bearing Strawberries 634 through the establishment of higher and 1 stable 



c ; Harms 634 wholesale values. Whether this end was attained 



News Notes 634b-634c-634d 1 ,, , , 



Chicago No ""' mattei r° T """• '' '« an evident truth 



Washington hiladelphia Not td that "crop production without profitable marketing 



636 i- labor thrown awav," and thai the legitimatt 



' ' - '' :in f of the middleman is to serve pro, nd 



In Bankruptcy 639 ,. , , . , ' 



Greenhouses Building ,r Contemplated 64f> eonsurn e T a ? a medium through which maximum hem 



comi 1 vThether this has oi has not Iwen 



fully accomplished in the New York flower business 



the mav also be a di batable question, but that a better 



■ r aspirations in our method of marketing flowers in a community like V n 



revival horticultural world and re-echo the words York, other than through an honest, capable and indus- 



of '' ,]| ' irili enthusiasm with trious commission , I, ,,le,- has vet been devised, we think 



which the leaders m the e^ orticultural revival will invol difficulty in proving, while the direct 

 •o rally and spur on I Innumerable implication of dishonesty on the part of the flower com- 

 tnrn the hearts of the peopli mission men as a class is nothing less than an outrage. 

 country-ward and it would be to the everlasting humilia- Theory and conditions in business don't always fit 

 tion of the horticultural profession should it lag behind, together. 



