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HORTICULTURi: 



November 9, 1907 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



frontispiece:— Dahlia Charles Lanier. 

 CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA 



President's Address— Alfred J. Loveless, Portrait— 601 

 Single Flowered Chrysanthemum, C. H. Totty— 



The Work of Committees 602 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New Jersey Floricultural Society— Gardeners' Mu- 

 tual Protective Association of New Orleans— Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society— North Shore 

 Horticultural Society— Detroit Florists' Club- 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia— aub and Society 



Notes ^'^^ 



Worcester County Horticultural Society 624 



THE FASTIGIATE GINKGO— Edwin Lonsdale— Illus- 

 trated 605 



DAHLIA CHARLES LANIER 6O0 



THE EXHIBITION SEASON 



Recent Shows: The New York Exhibition— The 



Tarrytown Exhibition— Pittsburg Exhibitions 606 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Club- 

 United Bav Shore Horticultural Societies— Mon- 

 mouth Countv Horticultural Society— New Haven 

 County Horticultural Society— San Diego Floral 



Association ^yl 



Coming Shows— St. Louis Horticultural Society... 607 



Local and Floral Shows 608 



THE VALUE OF ART AND SKILL IN INDUSTRY— 



Carroll D. Wright 608 



SEED TRADE l]" 



New Vegetables ol'' 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia, 



Twin Cities 6" 



OBITUARY ^ ^ „ , 



Peter Weissenberger — Richard Purdue — Hugh 



Chesney— Alexander Aikman 61' 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Begonia Perle de Multiflores ou^ 



Personal 6O0 



A Correction ""^^ 



Catalogues Received 610 



Lilium Auratum— Illustration °io 



Publications Received 611. 



The Pine Tree Blight 614 



Decisions of the U. S. Appraisers y.^l;; 



News Notes cTr 



New Retail Stores 61.. 



Incorporated 60? 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated bjo 



List of Patents ^'^° 



TTnfortimately for those who would like 



The fall to attend — as exliibitors or as interested 



awakening spectators — the many widely separated 



fall shows, there are insurmountable lim- 

 itations of time and space to which all must submit and 

 the most ambitious traveler must content himself with 

 a visit to comparatively few of the pleasant affairs with 

 which this week and' the next are crowded. Again. 

 there are many who by reason of location or business 

 confinement, vriW be deprived of the advantage of at- 

 tending even one of these events which are so inspiring 



and instructive to those who are willing to learn. There 

 is no areater incentive to new aims and activities tlian 

 the opportunity to see what others are doing and tliis 

 is not onlv true in the case of the florist but applies 

 equally to the people to whom the florist looks for 

 patronage. A'othing so awakens the desire to possess 

 beautiful plants and flowers as the opportunity to see 

 them at their best. Here is where the "fall opening" 

 comes in and the retail florist who does not take advan- 

 tage of this to such extent as his means and opportuni- 

 ties permit, rejects a valuable aid, for there is no better 

 trade stimulant than a well-managed and widely-adver- 

 tised fall opening e.xhiljition. 



President Wm. Butcher of the National 



A serious Association of Audobon Societies is 



plight authority for the assertion that because 



of the decrease in birds the United 

 States is losing yearly a sum larger than the 

 capitalization of all the national banks in the 

 country. This .statement was made by President 

 Dutchcr at the annual meeting of his association in 

 Xew York City last week, statistics being given to show 

 that eight hundred million dollars' worth of agricultural 

 and horticultural crops are destroyed by insects every 

 year, the destruction being directly traceable to the rapid 

 decrease in the number of insectivorous birds. The 

 savage instincts which thrive on killing as a pastime 

 are allowed entirely too much liberty. The hordes of 

 immigrants of low intelligence which we are admitting 

 are, no dcubt, responsible for much of the trouble but 

 not for all. The boy with the shot gun is entirely too 

 !iumerons and his elders encourage him in the notion 

 that the more lives he can take in a given time the 

 greater his claim to distinction. It is time for the hor- 

 ticultural and agTicultural interests to wake up, now 

 that the truth, is out, and ally themselves with the game 

 protective associations and other instrumentalities with 

 a view to put a stop, as soon as possible, to this whole- 

 sale slaughter of the best friends of the tiUers of the 

 soil. 



The happy outcome of the widespread 



Monuments protest against the proposed destruction 



and trees of the liistoric trees that adorn the 



National Botanic Garden must be inter- 

 preted as an expression, through the press and the 

 nation's representative men, of the higher estimation 

 of tree life which is obtaining with the people. It 

 would seem that henceforth s.mction for the removal of 

 useful or noteworthy trees to make way for so-called 

 public improvements will not be so readily granted and 

 that it will be necessary to make out a very strong case 

 before such destruction as has Ijeen tolerated in the 

 past can be repeated. The lesson has been a slow one 

 to learn but the public are at last coming to a realiza- 

 tion of the fact that the penalty for recklessness in 

 forest destruction, bird and animal slaughter and other 

 interferences with the established balance of Nature's 

 operations is not only inexorable but insufferable. We 

 agi-ee with the editor of one New England paper who 

 s.tys that arboricide ought to be regarded as a crime 

 and that every movement calculated to impress the 

 voung and inspire public opinion to resistance against 

 the encroachments of those who have no regard for trees 

 other than their value as wood is a true philanthropy. 

 As between a tree which has required lialf a century to 

 mature and a monument or building which can be con- 

 structed in a few months there should be no hesitation. 

 The countrv is big and there is abundant room for 

 monuments but we have no trees to spare. 



