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HORTICULTURE 



November 2, 19l>7 



«_» ^-^ n op f f^ ITT Tl T W IT plavins- chrvsanthomums with long stems and foliage in 



Il^^IV 1 IV^ V>.t-/ 1. V>.IV11^ ^.jjg^j, peceivod its first stimulus here in Boston. To a 



yj I SuVEMbER 2, 1907 NoTTs certain extent chrysanthemum shows have lost their sen- 



' .-atiGniil '1 rawing power here as elsewhere but it has 



horticulture" Pu'^BlVsHING CO. "ever occurred to us to charge it up to the disappearance 



II Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. ot tlie sprawling belieaded bloom from the exhibition 



Telephone, Oxford 292 tublo. On tlic coiitrarv, wG are satisfied that the show- 



WM. ]. STEWART, Editor and Manager , -0.1 x j r r 1 1 1 i 



_JZI1. ' ing or chrysanthemums with stem and foliage has helped 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .,,^,] -^y,^ i\„rt the exhibition in the eye of the public. 



Oae Year, in advance, Si.oo; To Foreign Countries, s.oo; To Canada, 51.50 1 -x j! ii 1, 



"" • ADVERTISING RATES What IS needed now to regain populaiity lor the shows 



wic^DtJ 111 cln".«s7oVconsecutiveinsertions, as follows; ' ' *'''*" is morc attention to the displaying of the decorative 



One month (4 times) 5 per cent.; three months (13 times) 10 per cent.; possibilities of the chrysanthemum in all its varioUS 



•Ix months (26 times) 20 per cent.; one year (53 times) 30 per cent. 1 ,, , -,, •, ,. iii- 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on ap plication. claSSeS. .\lm0St WlthOUt eXCeptlOn OUr exhibitions are 



copyr iqht7^7. bThokticulture pub. CO. conducted from the standpoint of the culturist. To the 



Eniered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass. expcrt thev are profoundlv interesting and instructive 



under the Act ot Congress oJ March 3, 1879. ^,^^^ jf ^j^g' pul^Ug p^^j-SC i.s' to be allurcd to the ticket 



CONTENTS office, something must be done to whet the interest and 



FRONTTSPIKCE— Rose -Mrs. .Jardine. Page curiosity of the great majority to whom scales of points 



AMERICAN BEAHTY— .1. F. Pimpson 56:t offer 110 inducements. 



EUCHARIS STEVWNSII-Kdgar Elvin.. oM .pj^^ Society of American Florists 



CARE OF THE KARDY BORDER— David Miller oW) „ , , 1 i- ^ 1 j. 1 j- 



BRmSH HORTiCTTLTURE-W. H Adsett 571 P°^t^l ''"^ .li--t™e.l o more or less dis- 



PARCFJLS POST IN PROSPECT— W. Atlee Burpee, Progress in sight cussion of the advantages ot a 



portrait 572 parcels post at its recent con- 



A QUESTION OF NOMFNCL.vrURE ............... 573 ^.pj,^;^,,^^ .„ij ..^ two occa.sions pledged itself, by 



IN TOUCH WITH THE BKAIJTIFUL-C. &. Harnscn :,U Pstablishment of -l svstem 



AMERICAN POMOLOGlCAL SOClFT\ 57?. vote, to work tor tne estaioiisiiment 01 a system 



OHIO HOHTlci;LTUR.\L S(jCIiOTY 57:! ot parcels delivery through the post othce department 



NE\VS OF TIIK 01. UPS .AND SOCIETIES: on lines similar to those followed in many foreign 



Chrysanthemum Society of America— Toledo Flor- countries. Xo doubt the members of tliat Societv. and 



iqtV Club — New Orleans Horticultural Society — Coil- r, • . i i 1 i n -li ' j 



necticut v,ortk.ultur.-U Society-Newport Horticul- Aorists seedsmen and plantsmen generally will read 



tural Society— .Matimal Flower Show Committee— with pleasure the sentiments ot the new Postmaster 



Club and SiJcietv Notes 574 General on this topic as presented in another column 



THE EXHIBITION SEASON: of this paper and reioice that at last this reform, long 



^^-^^-^nnS^A^^S^S^'f^ f.f \«ted as an antidote . for express company rul. is 



santhemums, James Hutchinson— Menlo Park Hor- likely to be given a fair tnal. Enjoying, as certain 



ticulturul Society 5J^ liorticultural products do, a special advantage in exist- 



Exhibition at Washington 570 j,j„ pQ^faj rates, our particular industries would gain, 



CHR^^Y^iNTlfEMUM' pXciFIC ' SUPREME-IUustrated 575 Vf^^V^- only a ininor advantage under the plan now 



BUMPER-CROP MELONS— H. R. Peachey, Illustrated. .570 advocated by the Postmaster General but as an enter- 



LIBRARY NOTES — C. Harman Payne 577 ing wedge" the innovation will no doubt prove most 



AMERICAN PEONY SOf'lET'i 577 weleonm 'and. the principle of popular service through 



A WARD FIELD OF LII.ITIM LONGIFLORUM GIGAN- ^j^j ^^^^^^^^ .^^. ^^^^ established, it is reasonable to 



TEUM IN .IAl'AN— IlUistration ol!-> s n-i.- -n 1 i ii 1. 1 A 1 



BY WIRELESS FROM ROBERT CRAIG 5S0 ''xpect that its facilities will be gradually extended and 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: lower rates become a reality in the near future. The 



Boston, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Newport, New York, pee;;^ trade has good reason to feel proud that it can 



Philadelphia. San Francisco WashJngtcn ..._ 5S.5 ^,^_^jj^^ ^^^.^-^^-^ .^^ ^-^^j.^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^,j^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^j^^ .^^.^^^^ 



OBITUARY— O. B. Hadwen, Portrait— Other Deaths M,i i? . 1 1 • , . • a • i-i j 



MISCFI LANEOUS- ^'™'' " ™'^" ^^ ^^ highest influence m mercantile and 



Helplessness of Cultivated Plants - 57-t political life as Mr, W. Atlee Burpee was able to do in 



Publications Received 577 JIiq remarkable meeting at Philadelphia last Saturday 



List of Patents 3;i^' evening. 



SoJuTReceived: :.■:;;: ;!.'::.': ":;;;;.■. ;■.'.'.;.:'. 57s a pessimistic feehng seems to prevail in 



Phoenix Roebelini— Illustrated 5S0 The pome quarters as to the business outlook for 



Cromwell Notes 5S0 business the comins season. This is especially 



Plant Grow ers Organize rji gs"^ outlook true in New York and is undoubt- 



?rrwI{son'Establishment-Iliusirated::.\'\":::^.V^2 edly due largely to the influence of 



Personal ''•^^ 1'^^ stock market aetn'ession and those interests 



New Retail l<''lower Stores 5S3 niost directly concerned therewith. Mucli stress 



Business Changes 5^J is phaced upon recent "shrinkage in values" of 



Western New York Apple Crop ^^.... 59., properties and the consequent economies 



Greenhouses Buildina; or Contemplated jji i i i 



: — forced upon the class of people who have been 



An Encrlish writer bemoans the good spenders in the llower market. Perhaps it is a 



The public and abandonment of the "board sys- case of tlie wish being '"father to the thought" but we 



the chrysanthemum ic^r of exhibiting chrysaiithe- are inclined to think that these forebodings will turn 



show mums and is disposed to attribute out to have been without substantial cause and that the 



the abatement of public interest elfect of present stock vicissitudes on an otherwise 



in chrysanthemum shows to the change from boards to prosperous countrv has been overestimated. It has been 



vases in stapinc blooms. Tt is human nature, from freely charged tbat the hysterical conditions which cul- 



ehildhood up. to lay blame elsewhere than where it minated in the calamities of the past two weeks were 



belongs. "Now, see what you made me do," says the deliberately promoted for the purpose of raising a 



little girl to her companion when she gets herself into clamor against the President's policy towards monopo- 



trouble. Tt is our recollection that the method of dis- li-iic eor|iorations. Be tbat as it may, we see nothing 



