442 



HORTICULTURE 



October 5, 1907 



fj g^ffV^W f^'W I'M nPTTWlP Long before the advent of the present 



n ^»/ fv ■!■ * ^^ ^ ■i-^ ■* V/ JV. JLk a point generation of liorticuUurists, and contin- ■ 



^^^-;^^ OCTOBER 5, 1907 NoTu ^*" ^^^^" uously ever .-^ince, has the discussion on 



' the relative merits of practical and theo- \ 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY rctical education in h'.rtieulture gone on. Never, how- j 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. f^j. ^^ ^^^j. kpowledce goes, has the insutficiency , 



II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. j. J „ i i i i \ i u ' 



Telephone, Oxford 292 of the coUcge graduate lacking actual experience been 



WM. J. STEWART. Editor and Manager ^^ frankly admitted by those high in college work as at j 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE the JamcstowH Congress last week. It was asserted ' 



One Year, in advance, $.^M^To^Forei^nC^untne5,2.oo; To Canada, $1,50 jj^^^ Jf ^.J-^g agricultuiTil College pupil is to be WOrth, 



Per Inch, 30 inches to page $i-oo. when turned out, what it cost to make him he must 



Ditcouius on Contracts for consecutive insertions, as follows: , , j.^1 t l ^ l \ 



One month (4 times) 5 per cent.; three months (13 times) 10 per cent.; be glveu teachers a part ol whose llVeS, at least, has 



•iz months (s6 times) 20 per cent. ; one year {52 times) 30 per cent. 1 cnent on the farm and in the o-arden attaining bv 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on application. uei.ii speuL uii iiii, laiui <iiiu Jii uii- j^eiiucu, dLLdiuiUp, uy | 



^=^ actual experience that knowledge which books and lee- ' 



COPYRIOHT, J907, BY HORTICULTURE PUB. CO. , never imnar( but wbinh is now renoCTni7Pfl in 



Kniered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass. tUrCb Can never imparl OUI WUlCn 1& nOW reCOgniZCa tO 



under the Act of Congress ol March 3, 1879. bg indisppnsable in suocessful tcaching and demonstra- 



" orVM^rV'^N^rS tion. To the ranks of the practical working horticul- 



Page turists, then, must the colleges go for instructors before i 



FROXTIsriECE— Lalia elegans. they can fully carry on the work for which they have ' 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. B. Simpson 441 been created. No "doubt "the man with the hoe" will ' 



FORMS OF EUONYMUS RAD)CANS-Hans J. Koehler 44 L ^ ^-j. himself with dignity and credit when put to the 



PYKETHRUM FOR WHITE FLY— M. J. Pope 441 /i & .; f 



A CARNATION WITH A FUTURE— Illustrated 441 l^^St. 1 



THE QUESTION OP THE HOUR-David Miller 44J ^y^ ^j.^^^, ^^^^ ^j^g Market Growers' i 



NEWS OF THE Cl>Ui3S AND SOCIETIES: ..Hands across Gazette a iournal published in Lon- ' 



Marvland Horticultural Society— Lenox Horticul- Y''"*^''^^' f' J""'^" , puuiisnea in i^on , 



tural Societ.v— Florist Club ot Philadelphia 44i ^"^ ^^^ don, that the relations between the ; 



Washington Florists' Club— Tarry town Horticul- fruit and flower growers and the 



tural Society— Club and Society Notes 445 transportation companies are no more satisfactory in j 



THb^EXH "bitioNS- '"^ '^°'"''^' England than they are in this country. At a meeting , 



Recent" Shows— Huntington Horticultural and Agii- held at Badsey to protest against existing conditions i 



cultural Society— Connpcticut Horticultural Society and rates it was asserted that practically all the pro- I 



—Aster Show at Spol:ane— Houghton Horticultural ^eeds from the huge crop of fruit being marketed from ■ 



Society... ;;;:;':h,\'..kW=«Avt,v,,Vti,VaVc:Ap,vtv hk that district this year goes into the pocket of the rail- ' 



ConiiiigShows — Massachusetts Hoi ticultural bocicty I4b -^ o ^ ., , , . , .,, 



HORTICULTURE IN THE EASTERN STATES— J. K. I'oad company. Among the instances cited which will j 



M. L. Farquhar. I'o' trait 14'.; find a responsive echo with some of our flower ship- \ 



OUR FRONTlfcPHSCi:- A. DiuimocK 449 jjgrs was that of one man who shipped one pot ( ?) of \ 



SEED TRADE...... ........••..■•• ••■^■■- 4.5 jigj^^jg ^q g Manchester salesman; the asters were sold ; 



Gloxinias tor Florist,'^ Use, Illustrated 4-50 ,. „ in -i i o o i a ti. I 



Seed Trade Notes 451 tor Zs. and the railway charge was 2s. 3d. Another 



LANDSCAPE G.ARDfJNING— John 0. Olmsted 454 consigned some wallflowers to Newcastle which arrived ! 



FLOWER M.\RKET REPORTS: after two days, spoiled; they were sold for Is. and the | 



Boston, i?ufLalo, Oincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, earriage cost" 2s. Another protester argued that at the 



New YorK, Philadelphia. Washmeton 4b7 ° i i i- i i j « i j_i j. j_i i < 



CARE OF HEATING PLANTS WHEN NOT IN USE- '""tes demanded shippers should "ask that the produce i 



G. H. Bancroft 464 should not be trampled on by the porters and that it ; 



BOILER EXPLOSION AT THE KELLOGG GREEN- _ ,-liould be quickly delivered !" Fight it out to a finish, 



HOrsES-liiustrated „■■••■ .V ' ' •; ' ' '^ ;^- ■•;,;•• ' trr ,!-':entlemen. You'll get yourrights if you only hang on ' 



MSCELlJnEOUS- Po>-tra.t-Other Deaths. . 4i,o ^^^^^ ^j^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^,^^ J ^^^^ |^^.^^^^^^_.> ^ S , 



An Entoprising'TexasCitV::::::::::::. :::::::::. '^ ... ,,,,., seemingly as^far off from determination 



Cincinnati Personals 440 i ne creait as ever, the old problem of a better system ; 



The Japan Buib Business 452 problem of credits and collections in the whole- j 



Plant Notes 453 sj,[g pi^^t and cut flower trade is again i 



NewrNotes"*^ Gardeners ... . ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; y ;; " f-l agitating the growers and wholesale dealers, who find ^ 



Bi^isiness°Changes .................... ■■■•••• -'So themselves about to open the new season with books j 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 466 still burdened with accounts receivable held over from 



List of Patents— Incorporated 446 ].^^i ygar. The framing of any method of credit lim- 



itation, combining tiie necessary justice, elasticity and 



The ease with which young pines may be efllectiveness, is no easv matter. There are to be found, 



Protect raised from seed and the advisability of of course, among the retail tradesmen of all large cities, 



the pines their extensive planting on waste tracts firms of 'all grades of reliability and the estimates of 



all over the country was the keynote of comparative responsibility in the case of many of them \ 



one of the addresses at the hoi-ticultural congress at are as divergent as are the experiences of those who j 



Norfolk last week. In this connection it is very grat- have severally had dealings with them. Methods of ■ 



ifying to note how freely the white pine is coming up classifying and rating which work satisfactorily in cer- ' 



spontaneously all over New England, particularly where fain other lines of trade prove impracticable in the mar- J 



the deciduous growth which followed the cutting of the keting of perishable flowers with their widely flttctuat- \ 



primeval pine forests has been taken off. In vast dis- ing values from day to dav or from hour to hour and J 



tricts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine it there are times also, when a consi.gnor's wishes cannot 



would seem that protection, not planting, is all that is be ignored. Yet the need of reform must be apparent j 



now needed. The coming generation of New England- to anyone conversant with the facts. If the extent to { 



ers should have i)ine lumber in abundance provided which the wholesale trade in the agirrogate is furnishing ^ 



proper protection is given now against fire and the rav- capital for the retail flower trade in the large centres i 



aging pulp mill. . could lie known, we believe it would create a "sensation. 5 



i 



