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HORTICULTURE 



March 24, 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 



WU. J. STEWART. Editor and Manager. 



How did our Bose Edition of 

 What the i as (. wee ^ strike yon? As soon 



Rose Number did as tflat splendid colored rose sup- 

 plement made its appearance 

 Horticulture's subscription list began to feel the 

 momentum. The relationship of that single issue with 

 its forty-eight pages of valuable reading matter and 

 equally interesting advertising, to the cost of a year's 

 subscription to Horticulture, is worth taking into 

 consideration, is it not? 



We are simply delighted to read 



Better protection „f the frequent instances in vari- 



for the trees oug parts of the country where 



electric light companies, trolley 

 and gas light concerns have been brought to justice and 

 compelled to pay substantial damages for injury to the 

 wayside trees. The sentiment in favor of better pro- 

 tection to trees on the public highways is rapidly grow- 

 ing and soon the butcberings done with impunity in 

 recent years will be impossible of repetition. 



We would refer again to the pro- 

 Dayton's out- posed out-door exhibition in connec- 

 door exhibition tion with the S. A. F. convention 

 at Dayton next August. The ad- 

 vanced sentiment in Dayton as regards home adorn- 

 ment will do much to make this a profitable venture in 

 a fruitful field for the dealer in ornamental nursery 

 stock and hardy garden material. We learn that al- 

 ready civic pride has been stimulated by the announce- 

 ment of the plans of the society and that the people of 

 Dayton are preparing to take a hand themselves and it 

 begins to look as though the exhibiting will be by no 

 means one-sided. It behooves the progressive nursery 

 man to take advantage of the opportunity. 



As we go to press with this issue 



Boston greets Boston visitors are arriving and the 



the rosarians hustle and bustle of unpacking and 



staging the most ambitious rose show 



ever attempted in this country is on. It is an event i" 



which the horticultural fraternity of the Hub have been 

 looking forward with intense interest and everything 

 has been done that could be done in the way of prepara- 

 tion by willing hands spurred on by willing hearts. It 

 may be many years before the Boston fraternity shall 

 again have the honor and pleasure of entertaining the 

 American Bose Society. Wherever it may go in its wan- 

 derings it can feel assured of the hearty good-will of 

 the Boston rose lovers whose loyalty to the Queen of 

 Flowers has been newly awakened by these visits of the 

 brethren and to whom it is fondly hoped has been com- 

 municated in these delightful events some measure of 

 that inspiration which makes for enthusiasm and un- 

 interrupted success. 



The ornamental treatment of pub- 

 Opportunities in ii e an( j private grounds is a subject 

 landscape work f rapidly growing importance not 



only in the older-settled sections 

 of our country but also in the newer communities where 

 we have become accustomed to look upon these more 

 refined accessories to human existence as of minor in- 

 terest. No more tempting outlook exists for the young 

 man with the proper artistic temperament than is of- 

 fered in the landscape gardening possibilities of the 

 immediate future. There is abundant room for hun- 

 dreds of such to attain emolument and honor in this 

 delightful pursuit. Let it be fully realized, however, 

 that the taking of a couple of years' course in a college 

 and hanging out of a shingle will never, in itself, make 

 a man a success in landscape work. The Downings and 

 the Olmsteads of the future will, no doubt, have all 

 that, but they must have much more besides. 



We have devoted a large part of this 



The florists' j ssne f HORTICULTURE to topics aS- 



interest in sociated with out-door decorative 

 hardy material planting. There is a growing ap- 

 preciation of hardy material on the 

 pari of the public and that department of the garden- 

 ers' avocation is rapidly gaining the ascendancy, as it 

 should ; not that the soft-wooded material so long fa- 

 vored is to be abandoned in garden work but that it is 

 to be used with better judgment and in its proper rela- 

 tion to other things much better adapted in many ways 

 for certain desired effects. The judicious floriculturist 

 will take note of these tendencies of the times and pre- 

 pare himself to take advantage of business conditions 

 a- they develop on these advanced lines. The only suf- 

 ferers in such periods of transition are those who stand 

 still and find fault instead of grasping the opportunity. 

 A good selection of the choicer sorts of hardy shrubs 

 and herbaceous perennials, also ornamental lawn and 

 -tied trees, should be a part of the stock of every local 

 florist who has or can secure the land necessary for 

 their cultivation. They will sell as fast as they can be 

 produced, for some time to come and, in addition, 

 there is the by-product of flowers which can usually he 

 turned to good profit. 



