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HORTICULTURE 



January 23, 190» 



horticulture: 



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JANUARY 23, 1909 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION'- Carnations. 



SELENEPEDIUM GRANDE ALBO-MARGI.\ATA— 

 M. J. Pope— Illustrated 97 



PRUXIXG PEACHES— .lames \Vheeler 97 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE — Frederick Moore... 99 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY: 



Program and Exhibition Schedule for Eighteenth 

 Convention — ^Portraits of Officers and Judges. .100-101 

 Portraits of Chainnen of Local Committees — 



Illustration, Wiegand Trophy 102 



Illustration, State Florists Asso. of Indiana Trophy 103 



CHICAGO CARNATIO.N SHOW 102 



PROSPECTUS FOR BOSTON MARKET SHOW 103 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — St. 

 Louis Florist Club — Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society — Canadian Horticultural Society — New 



Haven County Horticultural Society 104 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Newport 

 Horticultural Society — Society of American Flor- 

 ists — Ladies' Society of American Florists — Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society— Cincinnati Flor- 

 ists' Society — Club and Society Notes 105 



DURING RECESS: 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society — 

 Tarrvtown Horticultural Society 106 



TWO CARNATIONS— Illustrated 107 



OBITUARY— Theodore K. Gibbs— Arthur Mellor— 

 Lord Annesley — James McBride — J. W. Crane 108 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— Richard J. Hayden 109 



LIBR.ARY NOTES— C. HaiTnan Payne 110 



AN LMPORTANT APPRAISERo' DECISION Ill 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— 

 Prof. E. A. White Ill 



SEED TRADE: 



About Seed Limas — "Johnny on the Spot" — Can- 

 ner Prospects — The Ramblers' Club— Notes — Cat- 

 alogues Received 116 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Nature as a Guide, W. H. Long— Steamer De- 

 partures 118 



FLOWTER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, 



Washington 121 



New York 123 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Carnation Mrs. J. C. Vaughan, Illustration 103 



Fire Recoi"d 106 



Personal— W. F. Gude, Portrait 106 



White Killarney — Bougainvillea lateritia 107 



Newport Weather Notes 107 



Leaf Cuttings of Anthurium 107 



Chrysanthemum Edith de Clausonne 107 



Liriodendron Chinense 107 



Decoration at State Capitol, Albany— Illustration 109 



Publication Received 110 



Patents Granted Ill 



Philadelphia Notes 112 



Ne\^'s Notes 117-119 



Incorporated 119-121 



Establishment of Frank Beu 121 



Business Changes 123 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 128 



A few days more and all eyes and 

 A Word ears will be trained on Indianapo- 



t° the lis. The American Carnation So- 



American Carnation cietv occupies a position of pecu- 

 Society liai- resi)ousibility in its relation 



to the floral industry and to the 

 great flower-loving public which lies beyond. At last 

 years meeting of the Society the subject of the obliga- 

 tions of the introducer to the grower and what the latter 

 has a right to expect from the former was freely dis- 

 cussed. The claims of the .grower and dealer on the 

 Society itself are no less paramount. Such advance- 

 ment as the carnation has made in recent years in pop- 

 ularity and in commercial importance is credited, and 

 justly so, to the well-directed work of the American 

 Carnation Society in a large degree. Naturally the 

 trade look to the Society to still exercise a salutary ma- 

 lornal influence and to so foster the lusty child whose 

 protection it has assumed that it will continue to grow 

 strong and healthy not only as a brilliant demonstra- 

 tion of the hybridizer's art and the grower's skill but as 

 a commercial product- indispensable to all classes of the 

 public. As we have ^ before urged, nothing will more 

 effectively accomplish this mtich-to-be-desired result 

 than to show to the people at every opportunity the pos- 

 sibilities of the carnation as a decorative flower for all 

 occasions. The carnation is worthy to be elevated away 

 from the lowly position it has occupied too long in 

 so many florists' hands, as a mere ground work for pil- 

 lows, anchors and other funeral design work. The so- 

 ciety, by encouraging artistic displays of the use of the 

 carnation in other ways, can do much to widen its 

 sphere, increase the demand and stay the sagging of 

 values which is so discouraging to the grower who, hav- 

 ing done his part so well, yet finds himself helpless 

 when it comes to realizing a fair return for his invest- 

 ment and labor. 



The- apple is coming to its own. World- 

 Booming renowned and first of all fruits in history 

 the apple from the Garden of Eden down through 



legend and mj-thology and, as Downing 

 asserts, succeeding better in the United States than in 

 any other part of the world, it is only now that a large 

 section of our country is beginning to realize its pre- 

 eminent value as a commercial crop. Even in New 

 England, whence apples were exported in considerable 

 abundance to the West Indies in 1741, and to England 

 as long ago as 1773, it has been deemed necessary at a 

 recent convention of governors and other dignitaries, to 

 urge upon the people the great possibilities that lie in 

 commercial apple-culture on their own abandoned lands. 

 We are inclined to look upon the development of the 

 apple industry in the northwest as something of very 

 recent birth, yet it is true that forty years ago a collec- 

 tion of twenty-five varieties sent from Nebraska to the 

 exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Societ}', at 

 Boston, created a sensation by their fine appearance. We 

 have given space, of late, to some interesting matter and 

 impressive pictures, from time to time, illustrating the 

 apple craze which has stirred the horticulturists of the 

 west to tmprecedented activity and which prompted 

 President James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad 

 in his speech at the opening of the Spokane Apple Show, 



