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HORTICULTURE 



September 7, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. VI 



SEPTEMBER 7, 190? 



NO. 10 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIKCE— The Value of the Open Lawn. 

 HORTICULTURE'S ADVANCEMKNT— George Moore. 313 



OUR FRONTI.SPIECE 313 



JAP.ANESE MAPLES— Edgar Elvln 311 



OVERCROWDING — David Miller 314 



BRITISH HORTICULTrRT-)— W. H. Adsett 315 



AFTER ADJOURNMl'JNT ... 317 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY EXHIBITION— 



Thos. Bunyard 317 



NEW ROSES AT THE MANXHEIM EXHIBITION... 317 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS .AND 30CIBTIES 



Society of .'American Florists — Florists' Club o£ 

 Philadelphia — New Bedford Horticultural Society — 



North Shore Horticultural Society 31S 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club ot Boston — Fruit 



Growers Meet 31') 



Club and Society Notes 321 



Florists' Club ot Washington 336 



HARDY SHRUBS, THEIR PLANTING AND TREAT- 

 MENT— S. C. Moon 319 



DAHLIA SHOW AT BOSTON 322 



SEED TRADE 323 



THE FLOR.A. OF YELLO^VSTONE PARK AND 



PUGET SOUND— J. Otto Thilow, Portrait... 324 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, San 



Francisco 320 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Baby Ramblers for Christmas 317 



A Sweet Pea Quartette, Illustrated 322 



Catalogues Received 323 



Movements of Gardeners 323 



Personal 327 



Detroit Notes 329 



Pacific Coast Society Doings 329 



San Francisco Notes 329 



Philadelphia Notes 329 



News Notes 323 



Publications Received 336 



Obituary 336 



A Labor Saving Oevice, Illustrated 337 



Florists and the Glass Trust 337 



Greenhouses I'uilding or Contemplated 338 



Business Changes 338 



An encouraging 

 outlook 



Now that the ITnited States Express 

 Company have finally removed every 

 vestige of the oppressive flower ship- 

 ping rates let us hope tliat peace and 

 harmonious relations may prevail throughout the coun- 

 try between transportation companies and the plant 

 and flower shippers. Low rates are essential if the in- 



terstate trade in these goods is to grow as it should but 

 of even greater importance is the assurance of careful 

 handling and quick delivery. The express companies 

 can. if they are so disposed, do much to foster this class 

 of business. As a general thing w'e believe that they 

 have done so and many jjlant and flower shijiper-s have 

 found the officials and employees of the company serv- 

 ing them to be actuated by an earnest desire to please 

 and oblige. Wliere the reverse is true it is not unlikely 

 that tlie announced intention of tlie Postmaster Gen- 

 eral to inaugurate a parcels post will have a healthy con- 

 ciliatory effect. Altogether the outlook is most encour- 

 aging from whatever standpoint we may view it. 



A distinction 

 without a difference 



Certain industrious members of 

 tlie S. A. F. have been struggling 

 ■with the rather elusive problem 

 of how to bring florist and pri- 

 vate gardener together in harmonious and efficient 

 union. To us it appears that the distinction between 

 these two branches of horticultural activity is more in 

 tlie minds of .some people than in fact and this is one 

 reason why the imagined problem is so elusive. If we 

 will only look upon it in the light that there is no 

 brciich, that the apjaarent divergence of paths is largely 

 imaginary, that the question of whether a gardener gets 

 Jtis living through the sale of his products or the sale 

 of his skill is irrelevant and that tlie terms "good gar- 

 dener" and "good florist'' are practically synonymous 

 and interchangeable at very short notice, we shall see 

 that all this effort which some of our friends are 

 thoughtlessly making to seggregate these two classes is 

 both profitless and unwi,?e. There is rarely an issue of 

 HoETicuLTDRE that docs not mention the cliange of 

 some private gardener to a commercial basis or vice 

 versa and it all seems perfectly natural, for he who is 

 proficient in either, may safely change at will and the 

 man who is limited in any of the essential qualifications 

 for either is weak for the other in an equal degree. 



Missionary work at 

 the country fair 



These are the days when the 

 country fair flourishes. There is 

 no more democratic institution in 

 the world than the country fair. 

 It caters to everybody, regardless of sex, age, color, tem- 

 perament, religion, condition in business or society, 

 antecedents or ambitions, and whatever a man, woman 

 or child is interested in the country fair can put it to 

 use. We liave often wondered why it is that the florist, 

 nurseryman and seedsman are so conspicuously indif- 

 ferent to the possibilities of business in participating in 

 these rural round-ups. Everybody goes to the fair and 

 where everj'body goes is the place of all places for the 

 enterprising business man looking for local support to 

 show liimself and his goods. The floral and plant dis- 

 plays on these occasions are left, as a general thing, to 

 the amateur of the feminine persuasion and are good 

 examples of well-meant but sadly misdirected effort. 

 Instead of holding aloof in a sort of supercilious self- 

 superiority local florists might materially serve their 

 own business interests by an enthusiastic participation 

 in the exhibition and by encouraging through example 

 and advice the horticultural ambitions of the neighbor- 

 hood. In the occasional instances where this policy has 

 been followed the reward has been ample. More gar- 

 dens and better gardens are an essentiality to the future 

 prosperity of those who deal in any sort of garden 

 material and all signs indicate that the fleld is all ready 

 for the missionary. 



