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HORTI CULTU RE. 



July 20, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. VI 



JULY 20, 1907 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— A Model Range of Iron-Frame Houses 



A NATIONAL ROSE SHOW— H. H. Thomas 65 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— Wm. H. Adsett 66 



ROSE SOILS— George Wright 66 



THE FORMAL GARDEN FOR PERENNIALS— F. J. 



j^ga, ^'^ 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 69 



OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS— Wilfrid Wheeler 69 



THE MISSOURI BOARD OF HORTICULTURE— Geo. 



T. Tippan 69 



KOCHIA SCOPARIA— P. K. Nott 69 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



North Shore Horticultural Society— St. Louis Florist 

 Club — American Rose Society — New Bedford Hor- 

 ticultural Society— New London County Horticul- 

 tural Society ''^ 



Club and Society Notes ■ ■ • 70-83 



SOME NE\\ HARDY PERENNIALS— G. C. Watson— ^ 



lUustratGd ' -^ 



TWO ANDEAN ORCHIDS— R. G. Leavitt— Illustrated. . 72 



THE DREER PEONY FARM — ^Illustration 76 



PEONIES IN 1907 76 



THE PEONY— J. Eliot Coit 76 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Indianapolis, New Y'ork, Philadel- 

 phia SI 



DURING RECESS 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Washing- 

 ton Florists' Club 88 



Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club — New York Florists' Club, Illustration 89 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Boston Old Home Week 6.t 



Movements of Gardeners 69 



A Hybrid Iris 73 



Publications Receivod 73 



Rose Notes 74 



Shrub Chat 74 



Boston Head Lettuce — H. R. Peachey, Illustrated.. 74 



Catalogues Received 74 



Our Frontispiece 74 



Richmond Abroad ; 76 



News Notes 79 



Incorporated 79 



Newport Notes 81 



Business Changes 81 



A Great Supply House 81 



Obituary 81 



Personal 83 



Successful Road Treatment in Newport 83 



The German Apple Demand 88 



List of Patents 88 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 90 



Among all its pleasant responsibilities that 



Pulling are most highly esteemed by Horticulture 



together is the privilege of joining hands with the 



worivers in any movement for the uplifting 



and advancement of the profession from which it takes 



its name. It is our conviction tliat much well-meant 

 worlc in this direction falls short of its legitimate effect 

 for lack of organized co-operation. That the greatest 

 good to tiie greatest number individually and collec- 

 tively can always be attained by united effort is some- 

 thing that few will be bold enough to question, yet when 

 it comes to putting it into practice there are too many 

 who are ready to say, "I^t the other fellow do it."" 



Xo one can fail to notice tlie remark- 

 More gardens able increase in nttmbers of well-kept 

 mean more gardens about town and suburban 

 business homes each successive summer. Not 



only in number but in character and 

 display of good judgment and cultivated taste do these 

 efforts at home adornment impress us and it is easy to 

 see that the seed of jiopular education in the art of 

 gardening which has been industriously sown by so 

 many ptiblic-spirited agencies is beginning to bear- 

 abundant fruit. Dealers in seeds, shrubs, trees and 

 garden implements all assert that the spring season just 

 ended has broken the record as to the sale of these 

 things. It requires no argument to show that the direct 

 l)eneficiaries from the campaign for more beautiful 

 homes are the florist, seedman and nurseryman. This 

 being so, why do we not see those engaged in these in- 

 dustries lined up in the front rank of every movement 

 to diffuse a love for and a proper knowledge of home 

 gardening? 



The consideration of the topic above al- 



The s. A. F. ]uded to brings to mind the approaching 



In the van convention of the Society of American 



Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists at Philadelphia. The expressed sentiments of the 

 most active spirits in shaping the society's policy at 

 the jjresent time indicate a wholesome appreciation of 

 the situation and the glorious opportunity which has 

 been brought to the very door of the American horti- 

 culturist. In its earlier years the S. A. F., with rare 

 tact and patience, took up minor questions concerning 

 the ordinary routine of the florist, groping in the dark, 

 as it were, with practically no generally accessible ave- 

 nue through wdiich the fragments of dearly-bought ex- 

 perience of the individual might be gathered up. sifted 

 down and incorporated into well-matured rules of prac- 

 tice in the fundamentals of his work. There were sel- 

 fish doubters in abundance who vehemently condemned 

 the door-opening which the society's policy inaugurated, 

 but where shall we find one to-day who would like to see 

 the florist trade put back to the incoherent conditions 

 that prevailed when the S. A. F. began its campaign of 

 education in first principles? Considering the rich 

 accunrulation of practical instruction stored up in the 

 literature of the past tvvent3--t\vo years, and its wide 

 dissemination by means of the Society publications and 

 through the trade press, the Society shows commend- 

 able judgment in devoting its time and effort to broader 

 topics than the minute details of every-day routine. 

 Biggest and best and fullest of promise for the future 

 welfare of every horticultural avocation and allied 

 trades is the question of developing the popular appe- 

 tite for the products of these industries through school 

 gardens and other means. Having done its part in de- 

 veloping the great floricultural industry it can now turn 

 its attention to the task of securing for those industries 

 tliat universal popular favor and support which they 

 so well merit. And. in so doing, the Society should 

 have the zealous lielp of every individual whose inter- 

 ests it thus serves. 



