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HORTICULTURE 



September 28, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. VI SEPTEMBER 28, 1907 NO. 13 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE — Young Gardeners at Jamestown 

 Exposition 



AUTUMN TINTS IN TREES AND SHRUBS— Edwin 

 Matthews 409 



A FEW REMARKS ON PHLOX DECUSSATA— Fred- 

 eric J. Rea 409 



CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GINKGO— James C. 



Scorgie 410 



ZONAL PELARGONIUMS FOR WINTER FLOWER- 

 ING — David Miller 410 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 411 



EURYA LATIFOLIA VARIEGATA— Edgar Elvin 411 



OBITUARY 



Henry A. Jones— Chas. H. Grigg— Other Deaths. . . 413 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



President-elect Canadian Horticultural Society, 



John Walsh, Portrait 413 



Congress of Horticulture — North Shore Horticul- 

 tural Society— Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Boston — Illinois State Florists Association 414 



New Orleans Horticultural Society — The Philadel- 

 phia Party at R. Vincent Jr.'s. Illustration — Detroit 

 Florists' Club— Club and Society Notes 415 



THE EXHIBITIONS 



Recent Shows — Newport Horticultural Society — 



London Dahlia Union, C. Harman Payne 416 



New York State Fair— Michigan State Fair— Floral 

 Society of Victor, N. Y.— Chestnut Hill Horticul- 

 tural Association— Indiana State Fair— Union Agri- 

 cultural Society— Worcester County Horticultural 



Society ^1'^ 



Coming Shows— St. Louis Horticultural Society— 

 Marin County Horticultural Society— Alabama 

 State Fair — Notes 417 



SEED TRADE *]l 



Conrad Appel's Report 418 



LIBRARY NOTES— C. Harman Payne 422 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo. Detroit. Philadelphia, Indianapolis 425 



SHADE TREE TROUBLES— George E. Stone 433 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Decoration of Geo. Schneider— C. H. P 41,5 



New Rose Harry Kirk 413 



Our Frontispiece 413 



Personal • • ', HI 



News Notes 41,i-425 



John Cook, Illustration 415 



Formosa Longifiorums 420 



Statement of Plant Imports 425 



Business Changes 4^5 



Movements of Gardeners 4-o 



Incorporated ^"^ 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 432 



Our brief editorial on "the value of 



Some common things" in last week's issue 



faithful garden has evokecl favorable comment. It 



friends was, of necessity onh' briefly suggest-- 



ive on a topic on which many columns 



might iirofitably be written. The garden which its 



owner mav go awav from and leave to the chances of 



drougbt and heat for two or three weeks in mid-sum- 

 mer and yet find smiling brightly on him when he re- 

 turns is the kind that w\\\ win the appreciation of the 

 ordinary type of present-day amateur, and here the an- 

 nuals such as we mentioned are efficient au.xiliaries of 

 the seedsman and plantsman making friends for him 

 wliere. without them, he would surely he discontent. 

 We luight add to the list of tough annuals suitable for 

 low borders and bright bedding effect under unfavor- 

 able conditions of weather and attention, the dwarf 

 Phlox Drummondi, verbena. Zinnia Haageana, single 

 dwarf French marigold, larkspur, acrocliniura, rhodan- 

 the. balsam, Bianthus. chineusis, erysimum, eschscholt- 

 '/.ia, argemone. coreopsis, schyzanthus, mignonette, ni- 

 gella and all the mesem-bryanthemums and similar 

 '"flesliy" material. Tt is a fact not as well known as it 

 should be that the dwarf sweet peas will stand drought 

 and continue full of flower long after the tall-growing 

 types have succumbed. They are extremely pretty, too, 

 as border plants, although not of much use for cutting 

 because of lack of sufficient stem. These observations 

 are the direct result of the exceptional summer through 

 which a large section of the country has just passed. In 

 times of adversity it is as true witli jilants as with men 

 tb.at faithful friends are proven. 



The Shrewsbury Show, Shropshire's great 

 A means annual floral and musical fete, according 

 of popular to accounts which we have received, has 

 education again demonstrated the mighty possibili- 

 ties in an affair of this character under 

 eli'MT iiianageiiient. Even our British cousins, giver^ to 

 condemnation of the American propensity for bom- 

 bastic expression in describing its glories, find them- 

 selves obliged to resort to the stock phrase of Ameri- 

 ca's celebrated showman and bestow upon it the title 

 of "The greatest show on earth." And when we read 

 that the attendance on the second day approximated 

 70.000 persons — a figure more than double that of the 

 jiopulation of the town — that the premium list, exclu- 

 sive of cups and medals amounted to $6000 and that 

 the entries reached nearly five thousand, it cannot be 

 denied that the claim is not without foundation. It is 

 freely acknowledged that the various side-shows and 

 sporty features of the fete are potent factors in its 

 success and that the bands and fountains and spectacu- 

 lar diversions have a strong influence in drawing the 

 vast attendance whicli this far-famed exhibition enjoys. 

 We see no reason for adverse criticism on this account 

 any more than we see in the merry games that have 

 become a factor in enhancing the interest and attend- 

 ance at the summer meetings of our own S. A. F. John 

 Westcott's favorite saying that "to make a successful 

 school yen must first get the scholars," is everywhere 

 and always true and applicable. It cannot' be gainsaid 

 tbat the rustic who goes to Shrewsbury with no thought 

 of horticulture returns a more receptive pupil for gar- 

 den knowledge and, consequently a more likely buyer of 

 garden material after • inspecting the big dis.play of 

 garden products there presented. 



