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HORTICULTURE 



July i7, 1907 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Lupinus polyphyllus 



LUPINUS— Robt. Cameron 97 



BRITISH HORTICUI.TURE— W. H. Adsett 97 



THE SHOW AT HOLLAND HOUSE— Thomas Bun- 

 yard 99 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



National Nut Growers Association — New Orleans 

 Horticultural Society— St. Louis Florist Club — 

 St. Louis Horticultural Society— The Shaw 

 Banquet — Massachusetts Horticultural Society; 



The Sweet Pea Show 100 



French National Chrysanthemum Society — 

 The French Rose Society — Newport Summer 

 Show, Illustrations — Club and Society Notes lOi 



THE S. A. F. CONVENTION 



Convention Rates to Philadelphia — St. Louis to 

 Philadelphia — S. A. F. Auxiliary — A Letter from 

 the Ginger Jar, G. C. Watson 102 



AN AMATEUR'S SUCCESS— O. A. Miller— Illus- 

 trated 103 



THE PEONY— J. Eliot Coit 104 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROSPECTS IN WEST- 

 ERN NEW YORK— H. R. Peachey 105 



SEED TRADE 106 



VALUE OF HEDGES AS CROP PROTECTORS— 

 H. R. Peachey — Illustrated 



A WINTER TRIP TO EUROPE BY AN AMERICAN 

 GARDENER— M'm. Kleinheinz 110 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Indianapolis, New York, 

 Philadelphia 113 



DURING RECESS 



Picnic of Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 —Chicago Florist s' Club Picnic 120 



OBITUARY 



Samuel Henshaw, Portrait, — M. Louis Lacroix.. 121 



ROSE PLANTS BY MAII^P. Joseph Lynch 121 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Introduction of the Chrysanthemum 102 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 103 



Personal 103 



Review of New Books 103 



A Moth Scheme Which is a Failure 103 



Inspecting the Millionaire — Illustrated 105 



Fruit Crops in Washington 105 



Celery Growing in Irondequoit, — H. R. Peachey. 10(3 



An Interesting Bulb Suit 108 



Business Changes . , 113 



Philadelphia Notes 113 



Toledo Notes 113 



Movements of Gardeners 113 



News Notes 115 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 122 



List of Patents 122 



In this period of relaxation from business 

 Looking cares — vacation days practically forced upon 

 forward many by tlie cessation of all call for their 



services or their products, the ambitious, 

 diligent man will not fail to take advantage of the op- 



portunity thus afforded to consider and plan ways and 

 means for the betterment of his business in the coming 

 season. It has been truly said that he who makes no 

 progress forward is in reality going backward. There 

 are big openings ahead for anyone willing to use his 

 pyes in the right direction. 



As every one wlio has attended S. 



A great \ f conventions in recent years 



trade exhibition knows, the trade exliibition has 



come to be probably the most im- 

 portant and generally appreciated feature of the con- 

 vention. Each year brings its quota of new appliances 

 intended to increase the efficiency and convenience of 

 every operation connected with plant culture, the best 

 of the new plant introductions are placed on inspection 

 and an infinite variety of novelties in goods for florists' 

 use is sure to be forthcoming in increasing proportion 

 at each succeeding exhibition, luilike the displays at 

 ordinary horticultural shows, here each exhibit is in 

 cliarge of attendants ready and anxious to explain tlie 

 meritsi and comparative points of excellence. To fully 

 convey to the mind of anyone who has never attended 

 these exhibitions a clear idea of the advantage gained 

 by a leisurely inspection of this vast amount of useful, 

 up-to-date material is simply out of the question. "'It 

 must be seen to be appreciated." Certainly no one en- 

 gaged in any line of horticultural work can hold aloof 

 and still expect to advantageously compete with those 

 who make the most of these opportunities. Tlie outlook 

 is very bright for an exhibition at the Philadelphia con- 

 vention excelling any of its predecessors and intending 

 exhibitors should not delay in securing space. We are 

 informed that it is being rapidly taken up. 



Some work 

 ahead for the S. A. F. 



The prevalent opinion seems 

 to ]w that the convention at 

 Philadelphia will be a big one 

 in eveiT respect. The belief 

 is probably well-founded even though, as it api>ears now, 

 some luirdship may be experienced in the matter of rail- 

 road rates and the attendance from some st^ctions 

 reduced in consequence. Fortunately, however, for 

 many the Jamestown Exposition excursion rates will be 

 conveniently availalile and, in point of numbers, the 

 meeting is likely to lie a surprise. There are other and, 

 at the present stage of the society's career, more impor- 

 tant things than large attendance, boundless hospitality 

 and hearty enthusiasm, that will have a strong bearing 

 on the final verdict as to the value of the convention of 

 1907. It is generally recognized, we think, that the 

 S. A. F. lias got beyond its kindergarten period and 

 must take up in a serious and thorough manner subjects 

 of broad import which have a direct bearing upon the 

 healthy development of our commercial interests. Our 

 most intelligent and prosperous business jnen must be 

 enlisted to work for the society, to frame wise policies 

 which, in its capacity as their representative organiza- 

 tion, it may adopt and follow up to a successful conclu- 

 sion. Tlie attitude of the .horticultural interests as to 

 tariff on glass, bulbs and certain other commodities 

 shoidd be defined by something more than a few spas- 

 modic utterances at a convention session. Questions of 

 transportation and express rates, the teachirrg of horti- 

 culture in the puldic schools, plant nomenclature and 

 registration, the mail order trade, park control and 

 many other subjects, professional or semi-public in their 



