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HORTICULTU RE, 



August 3, 1907. 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. VI 



AUGUST 3, 1907 



NO. 5 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Pergola Entrance to Hardy Plant 



Garden 

 A HARDY PLANT GARDEN— David Miller— Illus- 

 trated ^"^ 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY— Thomas Bunyard 130 

 NOTES ON FLORAL ARRANGEMENT— Edgar Elvin 130 



THE PEACH BLIGHT— S. S. Rogers 131 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 133 



GREENHOUSES AND ROSE HEDGE OF JOSEPH 



HEACOCK — Illustrated 133 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNA- 

 MENTAL HORTICULTURISTS 134 



St. Louis to Philadelphia 135 



Diagram of Philadelphia Streets and Hotels 136 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Elberon Horticultural Society 135 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society 136 



Maryland State Horticultural Day— Club and 



Society Notes 137 



OBITUARY 137 



SEED TRADE 138 



DURING RECESS 



St. Louis Florists' Club Outing— Gardeners' and 



Florists' Club of Boston— Illustrated 142 



Picnic of the Florists' Club of Washington— lUus- 



tr3,tGd ....••••••••••••••• -LOo 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Indianapolis, New York, Philadel- 

 phia, Twin Cities 145 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Movements of Gardeners 133 



A Geranium Pest 137 



A Good Mower 138 



Mass. Agricultural College Summer School 138 



News Notes 143, 152 



Philadelphia Notes 145 



Incorporated 145 



Business Changes 147 



Maryland's Variety of Fruits 152 



Washington Personals 153 



Toledo Personals 153 



Personal 153 



Greenhouses Building or Centemplated 154 



It is very gratifying to read of the 



The gardener stand taken by the president of 



in the ascendant the City Glub of New York with 



regard to the appointment of a 

 superintendent of the parks of Manhattan and Rich- 

 mond boroughs. "To convert the office into what it 

 should be," Mr. McAneny recommends an increase in 

 the salary and the selection of a man of high standing 

 in the landscape gardening profession who will bring 

 to the office the efficiency and the technical ability that 

 it demands. This has the right ring to it and indicates 



the approach of an era of rational methods in the man- 

 agement of the great public reservations in many cities 

 where hitherto politics and incompetency have been 

 in control and neither the services nor the counsel of 

 the proficient gardener were wanted. Horticulture 

 welcomes with delight every evidence of a higher 

 appreciation of the gardener and his art and every in- 

 dication of increasing self-respect on the part of the 

 gardener himself. As the latter gains strength the 

 former will also develop. It is now up to the gardener 

 to earnestly proceed to demonstrate his fitness for su- 

 preme responsibilities. "Too low they build who build 

 beneath the stars." 



St. Lonis is now the possessor of a won- 



Floral derful "flower globe" said to be a "clever 



gew gaws representation of the earth, all the oceans, 



continents, etc., being exactly represented 

 liy plants and the lines of latitude and longitude cor- 

 lectly indicated by strings." It stands fourteen feet high 

 and some of the local newspapers seem to be proud of 

 the thing and the public clamor to gaze upon it. Here 

 is an opportunity for good missionary work on the part 

 of the youthful horticultural society as well as of the 

 local florist club. They are addicted to these things 

 over in England, too. as would appear from an account 

 recently published in the Journal of Horticulture de- 

 scribing the ceremony of setting in motion a floral 

 clock at Bridlington, built by the town gardener, where 

 thousands of people gathered to see the mayoress cut 

 the white ribbon with a pair of silver scissors and set 

 the clock going. It is stated that this floral time-piece 

 is "the only one in England," ■\\hich is at least en- 

 couraging. We are not informed whether these con- 

 trivances play music as they revolve but this addition 

 would be a very simple matter and no doubt another 

 season will see them doing this as vrell as other wonder- 

 ful mechanical stunts. 



It would apjiear from the tenor of 



The value of some of the remarks at the recent 



good seed meeting of the American Seed Trade 



Association that the wholesale dealers 

 are "in a state of mind" as to recent and proposed legis- 

 lation concerning inspection and purity of agricultural 

 seeds. Some express themselves as ready to welcome 

 the closest scrutiny ; others can see little in the proposed 

 methods but meddling and persecution, and are par- 

 ticularly severe in their criticism of the State Experi- 

 ment Stations; all emphasize the necessity of extreme 

 caution in the adoption of methods and selection of 

 officials in the campaign for seed purity — so called. It 

 is our belief that there are no people more sincerely in 

 favor of good seeds than the seedsmen; quality rather 

 than price is the foundation on which they must make 

 their bid for confidence and the assumption that they 

 are disposed to practice or condone adulteration does 

 not appear to be borne out by either the logic or the 

 facts in the case. Has any one ever seen grass seed of 100 

 per cent, purity? We think not. One ultimate result 

 that should be aimed at is the education of the farmer 

 to a proper appreciation of the vital importance of 

 good seed to him from a pecuniary point of view and 

 of the small country dealer to a realization that cheap- 

 ness is of small consequence as compared with quality. 

 Of the higher grade grass and clover seeds there is never 

 any surplus. Every pound of it is in demand and 

 naturally commands a good price, but every seedsman 

 knows and every farmer should know that it is well 

 worth the difference. 



