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HORTICULTURE 



March 17, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL 



DEVOTED TO THE 



FLORIST, PLANTSMAN, LANDSCAPE 



GARDENER AND KINDRED 



INTERESTS 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



II HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephone, Oxford 292 



WM. J. STEWART. Editor and Manager. 



We take much pleasure in presenting 

 ° ur our subscribers with the magnificent 



supplement rose picture which accompanies this is- 

 sue of Horticulture. The variety rep- 

 resented, J. B. Clark, has not yet been disseminated 

 long enough to prove its value as a forcing rose; those, 

 however, who have seen it blooming in England are 

 most enthusiastic over its marvelous beauty. The cost 

 of the colored plates which we are issuing twice a month 

 compels us to limit their distribution to regular sub- 

 scribers hereafter. "A word to the wise is sufficient." 



This is our last opportunity to say a 

 Meeting of word concerning the approaching rose 

 American festival at Boston before the opening 

 Rose Society f that interesting event. Visitors 

 from far and near will be present in 

 goodly number and will receive a hearty Boston wel- 

 come. The occasion combining as it does the Rose So- 

 ciety's best effort with the great spring show of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, is one that will 

 leave its impress on our horticultural progress and can- 

 not fail to definitely benefit those who are so fortunate 

 as to be present. Don't stay away if you can possibly 

 attend. 



Tlic visit of the seedsmen to Washing- 



The free ton, which our news columns record, 



seed abuse was a well-timed and well-directed effort 



and will undoubtedly bear good fruit. 

 It is almost ton much to believe that the free seed abuse 

 is to come to an end within the next few days, but the 

 changing sentiment among those who have it in their 

 power to accomplish this is most encouraging, and per- 

 sistent work on the present lines of attack will surely 

 bring victory sooner or later. It has been a long and 

 seemingly, at times, hopeless struggle, and congratula- 

 tions on the improved outlook are in order. We urge 



upon every reader of these lines to write at once to his 

 Senator and Representative asking that they oppose the 

 appropriation for free seed distribution. The matter 

 must be settled before March 31. 



This is our second rose number and we 

 The Queen f ee ] somewhat proud of it. As the pre- 

 of Flowers cursor of the Rose Society's exhibition 

 it will be perused with especial interest 

 by all who are seriously concerned in the reinstatement 

 of the rose to its merited prominence in our gardens. 

 Tn the rose Nature has given us her best in floral grace 

 and comeliness. Its indescribable charms have glad- 

 dened human eyes and souls with sweet inspiration in 

 times of gladness and of sorrow alike and from time im- 

 memorial it has been loved as no other flower has been 

 loved. It is well that earnest endeavor should be made 

 by those in whose life work rose growing forms so im- 

 [h hi ant a part to stimulate a new appreciation and to 

 awaken more widespread interest in the work of adapt- 

 ing it to better withstand the rigors of our climate. 



To those who have for many years ad- 



An outdoor vocated the giving of an outdoor exhibi- 



exhibition tion in connection with the annual con- 



at Dayton yentions of the S. A. F., as well as to 



those friends of the society who have de- 

 sired to see its activities extended in new and practical 

 directions, the announcement in our news columns of 

 the proposed outdoor display at Dayton will come as 

 welcome news. That the nurserymen and garden plant 

 growers will take prompt and enthusiastic advantage 

 of this opportunity to display summer blooming and 

 decorative material in proper form before the trade 

 cannot be doubted and that a ready sale for the goods 

 shown and many more besides will be found in a city 

 which is credited with having made remarkable prog- 

 ress in the appreciation and practice of civic and home 

 adornment is a foregone conclusion. The idea is a suc- 

 cess from the start. 



The national flower show project 

 Tne has again been taken up by the 



proposed national g. A. F. committee appointed at 

 flower show Washington last August and an 



active canvass of the trade has 

 been started to secure the guarantee fund of 

 ten thousand dollars, which is regarded as necessary be- 

 fore anything else can be done. We hope to see the com- 

 mittee successful in raising this money. Even though the 

 show should not be a big financial success there can be 

 no question as to the ability of the great floricultural 

 interests of the country to assemble together the ma- 

 terial to make an exhibition of unprecedented extent 

 and grandeur which cannot fail to benefit the trade to 

 a much greater extent in the aggregate than the value 

 of any financial risk which may be taken. It is to be 

 hoped that the right sentiment may be aroused and 

 that work may begin promptly, as the time is already 

 too short if the show is to be held as proposed — in the 

 spring of 1907. 



