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HORTICULTURE 



August 31, 1907 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— George W. McClure, Vice-Fresident- 



eleet, Society of American Florists 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 281 



BEET ELIG LIT— R. L. Adams "SI 



PYRAMIDAL GINKGO— A. Hans and E. Y. Teas... 283 



WHOLESOME CHJOS TNUTS 283 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNA- 

 MENTAL HOHlICLLrURISTb 

 Convention Proceedings Concluded — Ladies Out- 

 ing— Outing at Belmont Mansion 2S4 



Trade Exhibition — Convention Notes — Conven- 

 tion Ginger Jar, O. C. Watson 285 



Schedule of Prices for National Flower Show . . 287 

 . Repoit of State Vice -president for Massachusetts 



East 304 



SPOKANE ASTER FAIR— August Wulf . . 285 



DURING RECESS 



Convention Sporting Events — Bowling Tourna- 

 ment — Ladies' Auxiliary Bowling — Sliooting 

 Contest 286 



BOZEMAN SWEET PEA CARNIVAL— Illustrated. . 288 



SEED TRADE 290 



SEEN AT RI\'ERTON— Illustrated 292 



THE IDE.\L PARK— Then. Wiith— Portrait 292 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Florists' 

 Hail Association — Pasadena Gaideners" Associa- 

 tion — Southampton Horticultural Society — Club 

 and Society Notes 291 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, New Y^orlc, Philadelphia 297 



OBITUARY— Thomas J. Johnston— Portrait— Other 

 Deaths 297 



MODERN GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION- F. R. 

 Pie' son 205 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Whom Was He Chasing?— G. C. Watson 283 



Personal 283 



Good News 283 



Publications Received 290 



Catalogues Received 291 



News Notes 297 



Incorporated 297 



Business Changes 297 



Greenhouses Building or Coutemplate.i 306 



List of Patents 306 



A Valuable Insectici-.le 306 



September is at the door. The sum- 

 Exit summer mer has passed and the cool breath of 

 aiitiimn comes to us in invigorating 

 whiffs stirring us to new activity. Home com- 

 ing is in order. From abroad, from mountain, farm 

 and seaside the march has begun and again the 

 ■worker takes up his task, refreshed by the brief inter- 



mission which the summer dullness made possible for 

 him. Those who have deferred putting houses in order 

 for the winter's strain liave no time to spare now. 

 Already the chill and dampness of low morning tem- 

 peratures warn of the danger of unpreparedness for 

 resisting the evils that follow sudden changes of tem- 

 perature. Don't defer anything now. Get busy. 



The uppermost subject of interest 



A remarkable wherever the craft congregates this 



convention week is the convention of the Society 



of American Florists and Ornamental 

 Horticulturists which made Philadelphia the Mecca of 

 the American horticultural world last week. When 

 we stop to consider chat out of a total of 17 ex-presi- 

 dents now living 13 were present on this occasion and 

 tliat of the remaining four, three were kept away only 

 bv sickness it is apparent that all the enthusiastic loy- 

 alty which the Society has enjoyed in the past is still to 

 be counted upon as an clement of conservative strength 

 to supplement the vigorous activity of the youthful 

 forces which are now forging to the front in the work 

 of the organization. 



It is a very hopeful augury to see these 



A unifying young men, many of them sons of hon- 



force ored pioneers in the service of the 



national Society, gradually coming in, not 

 by sensational or revolutionary methods but by a quiet 

 process of assimilation and taking their places along- 

 side of the old-timers ready to assume their share of the 

 burdens and responsibilities of the serious work of the 

 Society. Attracted at first, in many instances, by 

 the social pastimes upon which the Society has wisely 

 smiled its approval, they have absorbed the grand in- 

 spiration with which the convention atmosphere is al- 

 ways charged and when their time comes we find them 

 ready for the harness. In no other organization in the 

 country are the special interests and peculiar needs of 

 the older and the younger elements more skillfully 

 interwoven than in the S. A. F. 



In the closing paragraph of the address 

 A discredited of the President of the Society of 

 critic American Florists at Philadelphia, un- 



der the heading of ^'Business first, 

 pleasure afterwards," occurred the following words : 

 "TDut with all their vociferation they (the bowlers) are 

 among the hesi promoters in the Society's service." Our 

 New York contemporary, exercising its prerogative as 

 critic, makes the following misquotation editorially as 

 the basis of an attack upon the cordial attitude of the 

 President towards the athletic contingent in the So- 

 ciety's membership : "the bowlers are the best promoters 

 in the Society's service." (The italics are ours.) No 

 one has had better opportunity to estimate the ultimate 

 value to the Society of the youthful element which has 

 been attracted to the conventions in part by the sporting 

 rivalries there engendered, than the late secretary who 

 this year fills the position of presiding officer, yet there 

 may be sincere differences of opinion on this and our 

 contemporary has a perfect right to entertain such, but 

 when, as in the present instance, whatever force its ar- 

 gument may have derives its strength from a misquota- 

 tion, there can be but one opinion of the tactics em- 

 ployed in the effort to demonstrate that the President's 

 remark was "'a nuUifvinglv bad break." 



