6 HORTICULTURE ^^''''^'^ ^- ^^'^^ 



— .^^•n^f^f^^Y Tf Tf TWIT lionor and lustre of the name it bears, Horticultuke 



jn vJ*V \. 1. V^ \J l-^ A ^ JV. J-^ lij^j. jQj^g jj-g ^jest during the year now gone to hive that 



„n 1 wisdom which has its birth only in studious investiga- 



vm IX JANUARY 2, 1909 ""• ' ■ ^ ■, j • ■ i <- (• 



''"'- '^ - tiiin, persevering toil and ripe experience and to pass it 



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 HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO- p.operly apply it, avenues of profitable and happy em- 

 it "*"»"*°^^J^**;=*;,„^^**°"' ployment otherwise unattainable. This policy we 



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inch., to .*e^^''^.'^"'.°.''*'^^^ »'-~- The seed catalogues for 1909 are begin- 



K.wD»?B'contr«£r'o^c^^^ Seed ning to arrive. Some are triumphs of 



tumontbi f»' \'""' " P'\"Vo;.,-^»i' rates o^d «Do"»^o'ii" "" ' catalogues art and business sagacity; others are not, 



p^e and half pa£e spaces, Bpct-mi i»icb«« pk _ o ^ ^ 



==^^^nd-cias. matter Dec.mbc, 8, .90,, a, .h. Post Office St B0..00, Mass. but ou tile avcragc a great advance has 



"" " ""° under the Act oi Congress oi March }, 1879. j^g^j^ made from the Standard of a few years ago when 



■ ^ CONTENTS Page crude illustrations of impossible things on cover and 



Page inside pages were the rule. We occasionally see one 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Entrance and Lxjdge, J. B. which recalls the old days, with cover designs showing 



Duke Estate. marvels calculated to make the rural folk gape, autos 



ROPKY MOUNTAIN RARrBLES— L. H. Pammel— ^ , , , .,, . ,. ,, ,, . « , i, .q 



KUL-ts.x iviyLi>i 5 loaded with onions bigger than the chauffeur s head, 



Illusti-atecl . °* ' 



AN AMERICAN RIVAL TO THE BARBADOBS — Felix pars of com as long as the wagon seat and other amaz- 



j, Koch— Illustrated • ;j,„ products but these fantastic outbreaks are the ex- 



MONSTERA UELICIOSA— Illustrated ' '^ f i 4.1, ■ j; u j. i + t. 



nRT'niARY- ception, nowadays, ami the aim ot the up-to-date cata- 



Dennls Lee — H. J. Ball— Alex. Newett, Sr 7 logue maker is to show things just as they are. As to 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: jj^p ^g^^ matter there seems to be a tendency in the di- 



Washington Horticnltu.al Association-Society of ^.^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^ descriptions and to 



American Floiists-Gardeners' and Florists Club . ■ . .-, . • i ■ ,■ ^ . 



of Baltimore-Massachusetts Horticultural Society refrain from grandiloquent overpraise of varieties but 



—Newport Horticultural Society 8 there is still plenty of room for further ref omi in this 



Cluh and Society Notes ^ respect. Taken all in all, the seed catalogues wield a 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: mightv influence and, as such, they must be classed 



Baltimore^ Boston^ Buffalo, Detroit. Toledo ........ 10 ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ beneficial agencies in the dissemination 



^ ' ' 19 of horticultural knowledge and the sharpening of the 



New York ° . ' ° 



Indianapolis ^'* public appetite for gardening diversions. 



Washington 



«?FFnTRA.DE •^^ "Since the giant oactus, which is by 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: Cereus far the most impressive feature of the 



Some Chicago Christmas Decorations— Steamer giganteus desert vegetation of the Far Southwest, was 



_ . ^^ "° "'°^^ studied and named by Dr. George Engel- 



Frank Polites, Illustrated— Albany— Washington. . 15 mann, in 1S47, it has been known to bot- 



MTSCELLANEOUS- anists as Cereus giganteus. Now Dr. N. L. Britton and 



Plant Breeding ^ ^''- ^- ^- f'ose of the New York Botanical Garden have 



Fniitin" Strawberries Under Glass— Wilfrid found that it is not a cereus at all, but belongs to a 

 Wheeler ^ separate genus, of which it is the only species. They pro- 

 Personal ^ P°^^ ^° name the genus Camegiea in honor of Andrew 



Our Exchanges "^ Carnegie.'-.Yr«- Yorl^ Hvn. 



News Notes Undoing one another's work has long been a ruling 



Catalogues Received passion with many of our esteemed friends, the hot- 

 Business Changes ^=* ^ . , - •■ . ,.,,. ,, . , , 



— anists, and genus anrl species-splittmg their ever-beset- 



Happy New Year! Old 1908 with its joys ting sin. The establishment of this monotypic genus 



1909 and its sorrows, its hopes and its disappoint- in honor of the Laird of Skibo looks questionable. 



nients with all it had to bless or to vex, has With all due respect to the learned gentlemen men- 

 gone and experience and reminiscence is all it has left tioned in the above extract we are disposed to credit Dr. 

 with us And now we look well to the east, to the Engelmann and our German contemporary Schumann 

 sunrise of a new and, we all hope, a better year. Wise with a better knowledge of the spiny inhabitants of 

 is he who has watched the indicator on the dial and in the desert than even our New York and Washington 

 his planning for the coming weeks and months, has scientists. We know of none who have done more de- 

 carefully hoarded the knowledge which comes only to voted and painstaking work on the Cacteae and Coni- 

 those who are on the alert, and can draw upon it for ferae and allied classes of plants in America than Dr. 

 inspiration in the struggle which now begins anew. Engelmann and it is to be regretted that the name 

 Eao-er to fulfil its legitimate mission, zealous for the given by him should not be permitted to stand. 



