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HORTICULTURE 



April 3, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER DESIGN— Easter, 1909. 



RHOUORA CANADENSE— Richard Rothe, Illustrated. 467 



EUROPEAN HORTICILTU RE— Frederick Moore 467 



GODETIA SCHAMINI FL. PL 468 



BRASSO-CATTLEYA SUSANNAE— E. O. Orpet. Illus- 

 trated 469 



HORTlCULTrRE IN THE NEWSPAPEiRS— H. C. 

 Irish 469 



ROSE MY MARYI,ANI>— George Morrison 471 



THE FORMOSA LILY— Charles Le.nker 471 



THE CONCOLOR OR SILVER FIR OP THE ROCK- 

 IES- C. S. Harrison 471 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — South- 

 ampton Horticultural Society — Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society — New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety—Detroit Floi-ist Club— Rochester Florists' 

 Association — Scranton Florists' Club— Araei ican 

 Carnation Society— Club and Society Notes 472 



BOSTON SPRING SHOW: 



Views in the Japanese Garden 473 



Views of Various Plant Groups 475 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



St. Louis Spring Show— Rhode Island Prepares for 

 New England Fruit Show^ — Exhibition Notes 474 



THE ROSE GARDEN— J. F. Huss 476 



WHY SO MANY SMALL GROWERS FAIL WITH 



ROSES— W. W. Coles 477 



AMERICAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE— Prof. 



F. A. Waugh 478 



CEMENT BENCH CONSTRUCTION— C. M. Dickinson 



—Illustrated ' 479 



PLANTING FOR WINTER EFFECT IN THE 



NORTHERN STATES— Geo. E. McClure 480 



OBITUARY: 



Ernest Weber— Edward Dale— Warren B. Madison 



— Mrs. Wm. E. Doyle — Edward Gill 483 



SEED TRADE: 



The "Pure Seed Bill" at Albany— Plant Imports.. 484 



CULTURE OP ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS 494 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS AND THE CARNATION 



GROWER— Prof . H. B. Dorner 496 



CARNATIONS UP TO DATE— Louis .1. Renter 498 



SELECTION AND CROSS FERTILIZATION OP THE 



CARNATION— Peter Fisher 500 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Rochester Plant Note;?— Steamer Departures 504 



Flowers bv Telegraph — New Stores — Detroit 505 



FI,OWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis, Phila 507 



New York— Washington 509 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Some New Roses 474 



New Park Commissioner for Boston 474 



Bungalows and Roses in Calif., Felix J. Koch, Illus. 477 

 Short Course Class at Massachusetts Agi-icultural 



College— Illustration 481 



Personal — News Notes 484 



During Recess— Tri-City Contest at Philadelphia.. 484 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 486 



A Valuable Appliance— Patents Granted 486 



Publications Received 488 



Catalogues Received 492 



An Interesting Comparison, G. C. Watson 503 



Business Changes — An Assignment 505 



Incorporated ^^^ 



Oiii- nous columns in this issue supple- 

 Boston iiii'iit the cheering report of last week in 

 warms up connection with the Spring Exhibition at 



Boston, with the very gratifying news that 

 the ail'air will bring an unprecedented profit to the Mass- 

 achusetts Horticultural Society. The key to the hearts 

 and the pocket hooks of tlie Boston public, generally 

 looked upon as iniiKM'vious, has been found for once, any- 

 way. A contributor to The Bean Pot said recently, "Every 

 Boston woman has — A Boston Bag. A subscription to 

 The Transcript. A bill at E. H. Stearns. A seat at 

 the Sympiiony concerts. A rubber plant. A Purpose." 

 Developments of the past fortnight indicate that she has 

 had something else, for the time being, at least — a ticket 

 to the Spring Flower Show and A Purpose to traverse 

 the paths, bridges and grottos of the Japanese Garden, 

 and we might add that it required the services of two 

 policemen at the gates to hold her in check. The two 

 groups of views which we present in this issue, together 

 with the large view used as a cover illustration last week, 

 will, we think, convey to our readers evidence on which 

 to base an idea as to whether or not the Boston woman 

 got full value for her ticket. 



To its rapidly growing family of readers, 

 Easter HORTICULTURE extends its fifth annual 

 greeting Easter greeting, with sincerest wishes that 

 the cheery coniidence and btioyant hopeful- 

 ness characteristic of these spring days 



"While ilka thing in nature join 

 Their sorrows to forego" 



may as the season glides along prove to have been but 

 the foretaste of a happy reality. Apart from its re- 

 ligious sentiment the Easter time awakens in us a joy- 

 ous response to the exultant spirit of reanimated Nature, 

 the very mention of the word brings the aroma of daffo- 

 dil, primrose and apple blcssom, and he surely must be 

 in the lowest depths of despondency who cannot, under 

 such inspiration, cast ofE his burden of past reverses and 

 brace himself for a new tussle with fortune. For the 

 florist, Easter has an added significance — a very practi- 

 cal side. For many it means the fruition of long 

 months of preparatory application and unremitting toil. 

 We would express our hope that good weather may favor 

 them at this critical time, that every plant and flower so 

 carefully nurtured through the long winter- for this 

 great festival may be just ready at the right moment 

 and that business for the florist throughout this broad 

 land may hum as it has never hummed before. 



It is quite evident from the reports on 



A success Clubs and Societies which have been ap- 



and its lesson pearing in our columns of late that 



there is awakened activity all along the 

 line and that especially the exhibition enthusiasm is again 

 rampant after a period of timidity due to various causes, 

 one of which was undoubtedly the manifest lack of in- 

 terest in these enterprises on the part of the public. The 

 unprecedented success of Boston's spring show after so 

 many years of torpidity will no doubt have a bracing 

 effect and arouse new confidence in places where bitter 

 experience has taught wariness heretofore. Some will 

 begin to question whether the public indifference to our 

 displays, put up with so much labor and self-sacrifice, is 

 not, after all, largely our own fault and possibly reflect 

 that we ask too much when we expect the public to inter- 

 est themselves in our products from the same view point 

 as ourselves. If the Boston experience is to help brace 

 tip our courage let it also teach us the lesson we have 

 been so slow to learn, that, if our exhibitions are to 



