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HORTICULTURE 



July 18, 1907 



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JULY 13, 1907 



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CONTENTS 



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FRONTISPIECE— George S. Green, President-elect of 

 American Seed Trade Association 



GERMAN IRIS— F. J. Rea 33 



PEONY NOTES FROM STONYCROFT GARDENS— 

 E. J. Sliay lor 33 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 35 



NEW PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SEED TRADE 

 ASSOCIATION 35 



NEPHROLEPIS AMERPOHLII— Illustration 35 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Peony Society — Huntington Horticultural 

 and Agricultural Society— New Jersey Horticultural 

 Society — New London Horticultural Society — St. 



Louis Florist Club 36 



New Bedford Horticultural Society — Florist Club of 

 Philadelphia— Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club— Newport Horticultural Society- 

 Florists' Club of Washington— Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society— Club and Society Notes 37 



Albany Florists' Club 39 



THE REDEMPTION OP THE HOG-BACKS— Thomas 

 J. Oberlin 38 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY— Thomas Bun- 

 yard "9 



THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SEED CATALOGUE— 

 J. Horace McFarland 40 



SEED TRADE 42 



MELONS UNDER GLASS— Robt. Tyson 46 



DURING RECESS 



Annual Picnic of New Y'ork Florists' Club- 

 Illustration 46 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, San 

 Francisco, Washington 49 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 35 



San Francisco Notes 35 



Exhibition at Wenhara, Mass 39 



Duty on Evergreen Seedlings 44 



Catalogues Received 44 



News Notes 47 



Incorporated 47 



Obituary 47 



Philadelphia Notes 49 



Business Changes 51 



Appraisers' Decisions 56 



A Beautiful S. A. F. Trophy— Illustrated 57 



Publications Received 57 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 58 



Are you plaiming to go to Philadelphia 

 Preparing next month? The intervening time is 

 for the short and preparations made with delib- 

 convention eration well in advance go far to assure 

 the pleasure such a trip should afford. 

 Consult your State vice-president about railroad rates 

 and give him early inforrantion of your intentions so 

 that he may know something of the number to be pro- 

 vided for; write to the hotel committee for accommoda- 



tions; confer with your friends and try to induce them 

 to go with you. They'll not regret going; no one ever 

 does. One vice-president, Mr. Young of Missouri, has 

 special rates all settled, list of the party and other 

 details well in hand ; how many others can say the 

 same? Yet nothing goes further to insure a big and 

 successful meeting than a line of hustling vice-presi- 

 dents each taking jiride in heading a delegation which 

 in size and dignity will represent his State in a credit- 

 able manner. 



The older florists' and gardeners' clubs 



Own are now coming to quite a respectable age. 



your home ^p -^tq occasionally road of one attaining 



its majority the thought comes to us that 

 with the exercise of a little more !;elf-reliance and far- 

 seeing business judgment many of these organisations 

 might today have something more .substantial than a 

 record of usefulness from year to year and a balance of 

 a few hundred dollars in the liands of the treasurer ; 

 might, in fact, be in possession of a remunerative 

 property appreciating in value as time passes and fur- 

 nishing a permanent home with all the advantages, 

 material and social, which such an asset always carries 

 with it. Located, as the florists' associations are, 

 almost invariably within the limits of some enterpris- 

 ing city, the selection of a corner lot on the line of 

 future real estate advancement and the securing of the 

 funds necessary to erect a building thereon shoitld be a 

 simple matter. That every club and society has within 

 its ranks men well qualified to manage such a property 

 in its interest and willing to assume such responsibility 

 goes without saying and there seems no good reason why 

 the financial history of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society showing the accumulation of a million dollars 

 within a period of seventy-five years, largely through 

 wise real estate investments, might not be paralleled in 

 the case of many other organizations of like character. 



Mr. Oberlin's paper on the 'liog- 



Reclothing backs" of Pennsylvania, which ap- 



the "hogbacks" pears elsewhere in this issue presents 



a very vivid picture of what these 

 barren spots must be. The author makes no attempt to 

 account for the existence of these refractory excrescences 

 but we may infer from some of his remarks that he 

 legards them as natural features of the ground. It is 

 more than likely, hov,ever, that these, as well as the 

 depressed areas surrounding them were once covered 

 with good soil supporting forest growth and that their 

 present condition is only the inevitable result of erosion 

 by fire and flood after .the stripping of the forest 

 growth. Our original settlers gave no thought to the 

 ultimate effects of forest clearing and that we of today 

 are not much better is painfully in evidence when we 

 contemplate the processes which are making of our 

 rugged mountains and hills gigantic hogbacks on which 

 our descendants will sp.md much fruitless labor in the 

 endeavor to restore a fi'rtilitv which can only come after 

 ages of slow repairing through Nature's means. It is 

 certainly a most laudable aim to turn these places to 

 the production of plnnts and flowers of commercial 

 value but w-e have always supposed that Pennsylvania 

 offered an abundance of fertile land for such purposes 

 and if the Berks county "hogbacks" are to be started off 

 for any permanent condition of verdure we think that 

 something quite diff'-rmt from peas and hydrangeas w'ill 

 have to lie resorted to. In this connection we would 

 advise a perusal of Gifford Pinchot's two little vol- 

 umes on Practical Forestry, published by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to anyone interested in the recloth- 

 ing of such naked spots. 



