HORTICULTURE 



July 6, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



▼OL. VI 



JULY 0, 190? 



NO. 1 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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Telephone, Oxford 292 

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CONTENTS 



Page 



FR0NTISPIEC5E— Cattleya glgas 



THE MAIDENHATR TREE— H. H. Thomas— Illustrated 5 



CATTLEYA GIGAS 5 



BRITISH HORTICUI-TURE— W. H. Adsett 7 



ROSE WM. R. SMITH— E. G. Hill. 7 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society— St. Louis 

 Florist Club— American As.sociation of Park Super- 

 intendents-Worcester County Horticultural Society 

 —New Orleans Horticultural Society — Huntington 



Horticultural Society— Elberon Horticultural Society 8 



American Peony Society— Club and Society Notes.. 24 



THE 20TH CENTURY SEED CATALOGUE— J. Horace 



McFarland ^ 



THE CONGRESSIONAL FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION 



—Alex. Forbes 1^ 



DURING RECESS 



New York Florists' Club 15 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



New York, Philadelphia 17 



OBITUARY 25 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 1^ 



Movements of Gardeners 12 



Publications Received 14 



Montreal Personal and Trade Notes 15 



Catalogues Received 17 



Business Changes 19 



Incorporated "* 



Detroit Observations 24 



A Uniform Bill of Lading 24 



News Notes 25 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 25 



List of Patents 25 



De-lighted we should be to know that 

 The the half-tone engraving has at last 



passing of the killed beyond any resurrection the old- 

 wood-cut fashioned wood-ent as a seed catalogue 



illustration and that we have seen the 

 last of these "ugly, inappropriate and inaccurate" old 

 marvels. Still it "is well to bear in mind that neither 

 photograph nor the half-tone are beyond human ingenu- 

 ity to mend and when it pomes to inaccuracies and 

 exaggerations there is almost no limit to the Uionkey- 

 shines that may bo perpetrated through these "truthful" 

 processes. 



Mr. McFarland's talk to the Ameri- 



Reform can Seed Association, on catalogue 



in the "novelty" making, which appears in part in this 



business issue, will bear reading over and over 



again. Whatever one's opinion may 

 be as to the correctness of some of the essayist's views, 

 there can be bttt one sentiment on the "Novelty" ques- 

 tion, and that will be one of entire harmony with Mr. 

 McFarland. Nothing has done more to discredit the 

 seedsman and to discourage enthusiasm in garden mak- 

 ing than the over drawn descriptions and bald misrepre- 

 sentations which have figured in so many novelty lists 

 in the past. Foreigners have not been the only offend- 

 ers, but they have .set the pace oftener than otherwise, 

 and American dealers in their eagerness for sensation- 

 alism have been an easy mark. It is full time, as Mr. 

 McFarland says, that the seed dealers should unite to 

 discountenance the exploitation of novelties unworthy 

 of the name. 



Mr. McFarland's argunijent for direct 



The seed dollar value in the contents of every 



catalogue as an page of a catalogue is in line with 



educator good practical Imsiness advice, btit 



when carried to the extent of elimina- 

 ting from the catalogue the time-honored department of 

 instruction in garden operations, seed sowing, making 

 and manufacturing hot beds, etc., it wall need to be 

 weighed carefully and due consideration given to what 

 may be the ultimate indirect effect of devoting every 

 page of a seed catalogue to the interests of the selling 

 department. The educational value of the typical cata- 

 logue of the past has often been extolled and there are 

 many who are now devoting their lives to horticultural 

 pursuits who are wont to attribute their first incentive 

 in the work to the allurements of some old-time seed- 

 mjin's catalogue. It cannot be denied that the cultural 

 instruction in these books disseminated through millions 

 of families has had a very far-reaching effect in the 

 development of horticultural intelligence. Cut it out 

 and what have we to take its place? The answer will, 

 of course, be "The popular garden magazines of the 

 present day." But let us not be too sure of that. Think 

 it over. 



With this issue begins a new volume of 



Horticulture's HORUCULTUEE. A glance over the ac- 



progress companying index to the contents of 



Volume V will, we think, coirvince the 

 reader that Hoi!TiCbi.T0RE has provided good equiva- 

 lent for the trifle which the six-months' subscription has 

 cost. A more careful perusal will impress him with 

 the great variety of topics covered and their uniform 

 high character and permanent value. In accordance 

 with our avowed poliev the minimum amount of space 

 has been devoted to matters of transient intercst and 

 the pens of earnest progresi5ive-minded men who love 

 horticulture for horticulture's sake and who by their 

 devotion and experience have become .skilled in their 

 art. have been freely drawn upon for the best they have 

 been able to contribute. HoktiCUlture has made 

 many new friends and supporters during th.e progress 

 of Volume V and wc will, no douljt, be pardoned even 

 l\v our scoffing New Y,'^rk contemporary if we indulge 

 in a little jubilation over the fact that our weekly issues 

 show an increase of twelve to fifteen per cent, in num- 

 ber of advertisers and twenty to twenty-five per cent, 

 in advertising space a,-; compared with the corresponding 

 issues of last year. As to the new volume w.hich now 

 opens the outlook jii?tifies the most sanguine assurance. 

 It will "make £jood." 



