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HORTICULTURE 



October 12, 1907 



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We are somewhat surprised at the 



The S. A. F. peculiar "digression" of our esteemed 



and the catina Iowa friend in his paper on Cannas 



which appears on another page of 

 tJiis issue, in which he questions the claims of the S. A. 

 F. to the support of tlio florists and attributes the 

 formation of the rose, carnation and chrysanthemum 

 societies lo dissatisfaction on the part of the growers of 

 these specialties v,'ith the treatment accorded them by 

 the S. A. F. We think there is no foundation in fact 

 for the latter projxisition. As to the alleged neglect of 

 the interests of the canna wliieh Mr. Temple imputes 

 to the S. A. F. we would ask if Mr. Temple was not 

 chairman of the canna committee to which he refers and 

 if, as he states, the committee was '"lot off with a 

 meagre report," where should the responsibility be 

 placed other than on the chairman of that committee? 



«vr^ M. ^ Page ''1^*^ breezy paper presented by 



FRONTISPIECE— The Fowhatan Oak. Tl^s middleman, ^f^. McKissiek before the Phil- 



NYMPHAEA x IXION- Carl Blomberg, Illustrateil 173 his joys and sorrows adHphia Florists' Club, which 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE-W. H. Adsett 473 apDrtirs on i.nother page of 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 17o . n • * , i • i tc j 



SWEET PEA CMMPAlCxN OF 1908-G. C. Watson.... 476 this issue, will mteivst and amuse anyone identified 



NEW SWEET PEAS— Burpee's Primrose Spencer— with the growing, selling or buying of cut flowers at 



Illustraiion 47i) wholesale. We are delighted to learn that the pros- 



Biiipee's White Spencer-Illustration 477 .^^ f^j. ^|^^, jnid,;iieman in Thiladelphia are so roseate 



""""lirjrs?. ^l;'rrcuut^a° IS^-lJrdeners' and and extend our sincer. compliments on the high plane 



Florists' ciub of Boston— American Carnation So- on which the wholesale salesmen ot that town now 



ciety— Montreal J^lorists' Clnb 477 move but must confess that we are shocked to learn 



Massachusetts Horticultur.al Society 484 ^^^^ different they have been in the past. Now that 



^Klstrck'''""^''^ °'" ''"'' ''™'^'™'^^ : ': 17S the cat is out of the bag, wholesale dealers in other 



HORTiCULTUR.Vl/ SCHOOLS AND JEXPERIMENT eities can shake hands with their fellow-sufferers in 



STATIONS— Dr. A. C True 4S0 Philadelphia in full sympathy for their common woes 



SEED TRADE 4^2 and best wishes for immunity, henceforth, from all vex- 



publi™ons^rSved ■.;"::::::::: 484 atlon? that have hitherto made the wholesalers' exis- 



CANNAS— John T. Temple. 48<i tence an incipient rarebit dream. 



FLOWER MARKET REPOl^TS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Montreal, Lommenhng upon Leonard Bar- 

 New York, Philadelphia. W.ishington 4S9 Always more icon's oxcellont address at the Con- 



OBITUARJ-Z.^DeForest Ely-Hugo Book-John E. ^^^ than your money's gress of Horticulture upon the 



LANDSCAPE''GARDENfNG-John ' C. ' Olmsted . '. '. '. \ '. '. '. 197 ^°'"*'^ I'Torti cultural I'ress, and referring 



MISCELLANI20US: _ particularly to Mr. Barron's com- 



An Open Air Wedding 475 plaint of the "quadruplication" of weekly news by four 



The Philadelphia Way 475 "trade" pai>ers.' our Sew Vork contemporary submits 



Phila°delUia' PensonaV and Business Items'. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. 47.5 that while a quadrupling of actual news is necessarily 

 Movements of Gardeners 470 unavoidable yet there is a wide difference m the char- 

 Incorporated 47tj acter and value of what may be termed the solid or 



Plant Imports 484 permanent portion '.f the reading matter provided 



Definition of an Auction S^'^' ; ; ; ' ' ' ' ; ' ' ' ' ' ;; ' ' ; ^l.j weekly by each of the four papers alluded to." We 



Coming Exhibitions. ..........■■■■.■ 48(5 agree with our contemporary and also subscribe to the 



Business Changes *8" logical conclusion which our contemporary passes over. 



Greenhouses Building or Projected 49S ^^^.^^^ because of the wide difference in' character of 



reading matter jirovided, the progressive craftsman 



The time for bulb planting is now on will not limit his reading to one or two but will make 

 Plant and we feel justified in repeating our it a weekly duty to at least glance over the pages of 

 bulbs freely advice, often given before, as to the all four. Between these papers and between the vari- 

 adormnent of available spaces about the ous issues of each there is certainly a great variation as 

 offices and wherever it may attract the eye of the to practical value, judged, as they must be, by the re- 

 pa.'iser. on the grounds of t!ie retail florist or nursery- speetive individual needs or tastes of their readers but, 

 man. A few hours and a few dollars devoted now to take the poorest issue ever sent out by either of these 

 the planting of masses of spring flowering bulbs will journals and the man who cannot extract from its con- 

 bring pleasing reward next spring, attracting wide- tents more than full equivalent of what it cost, must 

 spread attention as an advertisement, uplifting the be very dull of comprehension. In fact the price 

 home ideals of the public and whetting their appetite asked for these papers — less than two cents per copy 

 for similar displays and thus bringing in many orders weekly — is absurdly disproportionate to their value and 

 for next fall delivery and booming the garden senti- yet, undouliledly. the pidilishc-rs of every one of them 

 tnent at the beginning of the season, and then the sale are lying awake nights pondering as to how they can 

 of tlie flowers will go well towards paying for the give even greater value for the same price. Economy 

 entire cost. Truly an investment "all to the good." is a virtue, Init one's trade or professional literature 

 Attend to it now may well be exempted from its application. 



