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HORTICULTURE 



September 21, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. VI 



SEPTEMBER 21, 190V 



NO. 12 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FROXTISPIEICE— Clump of Ornamental Evergreens 



POLYGONUM BALDSCHUANICUM— H. H. Thomas 

 —Illustrated 377 



SEASON FOR TREE PRUNING — Geo. Moore 377 



THE HIPPOPIIAE, SIBERIAN SAND THORN— C. S. 



Harrison 378 



COMMERCIAL CYPRIPEDIUM— Edgar Elvin 379 



PLANT LICE— R. L. Adams 379 



HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION AT AGRICULTUR- 

 AL COLLEGES— Theodore Wirth 381 



HYDROCYANIC-ACID-GAS FOR WHITE FLY 381 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society — Society tor Horticul- 

 tural Science — Chrysanthemum Society of America 382 



St. Louis Florists' Cluh 385 



THE EXHIBITION SEASO.V 



Recent Flower Shows — El Paso County Horticul- 

 tural Society, Illustrated— National Dahlia Society 



— i-toyal Horticultural Society 383 



Montreal Flo'ver Show 384 



Coming Flower Shows — Rhode Island Horticul- 

 tural 'Society — Worcester County Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Horticultural Society of Buffalo— Florists' 

 Club of Washington — Monmouth County Horticul- 

 tural Society- New Haven County Horticultural 

 Society — Horticultural Society of Chicago— Deni- 

 son Civic Improvement League — Illinois State 

 Fair 384 



DURING RECESS 



Washington Florists at White Marsh 385 



SPJED TRADE 386 



BEDDING PLANTS, THEIR USES AND ABUSES— 



J. T. D. Fulmer 386 



BABY RAMBLERS FOR CHRISTMAS —Robt. Craig.. 388 

 HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS FOR BEDDING AND 



CUT FLOWERS— G. A. Heyne 390 



A MODERN FLOWER STORE— illustrated 390 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, New 



York, Philadeliihia, Washington 393 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE— R L. Adams— Illustrated .. . 401 



MISCELLANEOUS 



News Notes ■• 385 



Publications Received 386 



Catalogues Received 387 



To Bloom Bougainvilleas in Summer '. 388 



Chrysanthemum Maximum 388 



An Extraordinary Plum Crop 388 



Indianapolis Activities 391 



Obituary 393 



Philadelphia Notes 393 



Personal 393 



List of Patents 400 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 402 



Lightening 

 the load 



111 a .-ummer such as we liave just 

 pa.ssed through, with hiwns sere 

 and brown and much garden ma- 

 terial dried up and useless because 

 of the lack of raiu. the value of the tough little annuals 

 M'hich are so froouentlv forgotten in the craze for fancy 

 novelties, becomes apparent. Many a garden bed pre- 

 tentiously planted with asters of high degree, prize 

 Ijegonias and roses from wdiich much was expected, has 

 been saved from complete wreck through the persistence 

 of such unconquerable subjects as the portulaccas, 

 sweet alyssura, poppies, morning glories and old-fash- 

 ioned petunias, often self-so^vn and actually stealing 

 their way into the privilege of simply living. We are 

 not referring to the garden under the constant watch 

 and care of 'the skilled gardener with every facility at 

 hand for combatting unfavorable conditions, but rather 

 tlie little home garden of the artizan or business man 

 v.'hieh in time of stress must often talce care of itself, 

 but the existence of which means so much to the seeds- 

 man and plant dealer. The useful qualities of the 

 more resistant of these eheeiT little subjects under con- 

 ditions of crude culture or sheer neglect are not always 

 appreciated as they deserve, standing as they often do, 

 between the amateur gardener and utter discomfiture 

 and encouraging him to try again. 



The old saying attributing all kinds of 

 fl'itless simplicity to him who "doesn't 

 know beans" loses its application after 

 one has turned the pages of Mr. Tracy's 

 elaborate bean report to which reference is made in 

 another column of this paper. To know the hundreds 

 of varieties of Boston's favorite food therein described 

 is certainly an attainment far beyond the most of us. 

 One result of the ijeru.sal of the report will be to estab- 

 lish a conviction of the absurdity of such a vast num- 

 ber of synonyms and the desirability of reducing to a 

 reasonable lengih such a puzzling array of superfluous 

 catalogue material. Substantial as is the reduction 

 already made l^y Mr. Tracy we have no doubt it could 

 and probably will be, in the near future, carried much 

 further. The sentiments of the trade today seem to 

 favor a thorough sifting out and general simplifying of 

 tlie cumbersome seed, fruit and plant varietal lists and 

 no better evidence that such is needed can be presented 

 than we And in this exhaustive compilation which the 

 Department of Agriculture has prepared. We can 

 recall the time wdien the exhibitor showing the largest 

 number of varieties of pears, running up into the 

 liundrcds, was the ]iroudest personage at the shows of 

 the iMassachusetts Horticultural Society. Later on the 

 ambition cf the chrysantliemum grower took the same 

 turn and today the devotees of the dahlia are franti- 

 cally trying to excel one another in the list of sorts 

 they can place upon the exhibition table. The chrys- 

 anthemum growers soon got tired of the caprice and 

 nctvr it only requires the production of a superior 

 variety to drive the sensational variety of yesterday into 

 oViliviou. The British sweet pea society's course in 

 reading out of recognition a host of superseded varie- 

 ties is another case in point and we have no doubt tliat 

 the dahlia lists will in due time aet a similar slnsliing. 



