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HORTICULTURE 



November 9, 1907 



for special exhibits with equal liber- 

 ality. Copies of the prize list can be 

 obtained from Otto G. Koenig, secre- 

 tary, 6471 Florissant avenue, St. Louis. 



on November 4 and was satisfactory to 

 both visitors and the firm. 



The following have been mentioned 

 at length in preceding issues of HOR- 

 TICULTURE: 



Florists Club of Washington (D. C), 

 Nov. 12-14. Chas. McCauley, 18th and 

 Kearney Sts., Washington, D. C, sec- 

 retary. 



Horticultural Society of Buffalo, 

 Buffalo, N. Y.. Nov. 11-17. J. H. Tran- 

 ter, P. O. Box 994, secretary. 



St. Louis Horticultural Society, 

 Grand and Park Aves., St. Louis, Mo., 

 November 12-15. 



Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, Chrysanthemum show, Nov. 13- 

 14, Victoria Rifles Hall, Montreal, Que. 

 W. H. Horobin, 283 Marquette St., sec- 

 retary. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, Nov. 

 12-15. David Rust, secretary. 



State Floral Society of Arkansas, 

 Little Rock, Nov. 14-16. Chas. Vestal, 

 secretary 



Annual flower show, Waco, Texas, 

 Nov. 13-ie. Capt. J. D. Shaw, Presi- 

 dent. 



Worcester County Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Chrysa.nthemum show, Worces- 

 ter, Mass., Nov. 14. A. A. Hixon, sec- 

 I'etary. 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Fore- 

 men's Association, Lake Geneva, Wis., 

 Nov. 15, 16. Albert Meier, Lake 

 Geneva, Wis., Sec'y. 



Ontario Horticultural Exhibition, 

 Massey Music Hall, Toronto, Ont., 

 Nov. 12-16. H. B. Cowan, Parliament 

 Building, Toronto, secretary. 



November 16 is the date selected by 

 the Toledo Florists' Club, Ohio, for 

 their chrysanthemum show. 



Denison Civic Improvement League, 

 Denison, Tex., Nov. 20-22. T. W. Lar- 

 kin, secretary 



Maryland State Horticultural Socie- 

 ty, Fifth Reg. Armory, Baltimore, Dec. 

 3-4. T. B. Symonds, College Park, 

 Md., E,ecret3.ry. 



The chrysanthemum show of the 

 Columbus Florists' Club (Ohio) will 

 be held on November 12. Two special 

 prizes of $3 each will be given for the 

 best 6 and 12 cut blooms. 



LOCAL AND FLORISTS' SHOWS. 

 November 2 was observed as Chry- 

 santhemum Day at the experiment 

 Btation, Earllngton, Vt. 



Highland Park Conservatories, 

 Rochester, N. Y. Chrysanthemum ex- 

 hibit during November. 



The display of chrysanthemums by 

 Henry Barton, Westfleld, Mass., sur- 

 passes anything in that locality. 



Julius Dubois, New Orleans, La., is 

 holding his customary chrysanthemum 

 show with some magnificent blooms. 



John Pchoonmaker .t Son, 94-100 

 Water St., Newburgh, N. Y., had a 

 magnificent display of chrysanthe- 

 mums trom October 19-29. 



Lincoln Park greenhouses, Chicago, 

 are open from November 3-13, for pub- 

 lic inspection of the chrysanthemums 

 which are very promising this season. 



The annual exhibition of chrysanthe- 

 mums, orchids and foliage plants at 

 the Central Park Conservatory, New 

 York City, will begin Nov. 9, and con- 

 tinue for a month. 



In the greenhouses at Eastside Park. 

 Paterson, N. J., in charge of John 

 Prince, about 2,000 chrysanthemums 

 have been displayed since Oct. 31. The 

 show closes on Nov. 10. 



The conservatories of W. T. Hanson, 

 Schenectady, N. Y., were opened to the 

 public on Nov. 2 for the benefit of 

 the Hospital Fund, and the choice col- 

 lection of rare plants was admired by 

 throngs. 



Preparations for the Tournament of 

 Roses at Pasadena, Cal., are under way. 

 The executive committee consists of 

 Messrs. George P. Gary. F. 3. Allen, 

 F. V. Rider. Hugh E. Montgomery, 

 Kingsley N. Stevens and Edward T. 



on. 



The annual show of chrysanthe- 

 mums at Elizabeth Park greenhouses, 

 Hartford, Conn., is now on and a 

 large crowd of visitors is in atten- 

 dance every day. The chrysanthe- 

 mums are under the care of Peter 

 Zuger, the park florist. 



TREES AND LIGHTNING. 



The trees most apt to be struck by 

 lightning are those that conform most 

 naturally to the law of electrical mo- 

 tion — that electricity moves along the 

 path of least resistance. Flammarion, 

 the great French scientist, published 

 in 1905 a list of different kinds of 

 trees, showing the number of times 

 each species had been struck by 

 li.ghtning during a given period. The 

 figures are: 54 oaks, 24 poplars, 14 

 elms, 11 walnuts, 10 firs, 7 willows, 

 6 beeches. 4 chestnuts, but not a 

 single birch. — The Reader. 



INCORPORATED. 



Kirkeby & Guudestrup Seed Co., 

 Chicago, 111., by Marius Kirkeby, Knud 

 Gundestrup, A. E. Ray; capital, $50,000. 



The Farmers' Nursery Co., at Phoe- 

 nix, Ariz., by A. C. Sm"ith, E. M. Mil- 

 ler, A. T. Snow; capital stock, $100,000. 



The Fairview Floral Co., Beatty, 0., 

 by C. H. Kay, Mary S. Kirkpatrick, 

 G. D. Leedle, A. K. Hahn, C. E. Glenn; 

 capital stock, $10,000. 



The second annual show of C. Pe- 

 terson & Sons, Escanaba, Mich., closed 



MOVEMENTS OF GARDENERS. 



James Niven has taken a position 

 with H. E. Botkin, Ross Station, Calif. 



THE VALUE OF ART AND SKILL 

 IN INDUSTRY. 



A paper read by Carroll D. Wright at 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



Oct. 2, 1907. 



To create is the province of the Om- 

 nipotent. The divine power creates 

 the raw material; it makes the ore, 

 but it does not undertake to develop 

 the ore. God has given to man the 

 brain and the skill of hand which en- 

 able him to make the watch. Thus 

 God begins things, and leaves it to the 

 skill He has given to man to finish 

 them. It is omnipotent power only 

 that brings into existence the beautiful 

 and grand effects of nature, as wit- 

 nessed in mountain and valley, river 

 and lake. Natural scenery cannot be 

 produced by the very highest skill of 

 created man, but God does not in all 

 this make the picturesque; it takes His 

 power as represented in the ingenuity, 

 the skill, and the taste of man to make 

 the picturesque. Nature and man cre- 

 ate the art side of nature. This devel- 

 oping power of man is a great attri- 

 bute, and it allies man to his Creator. 

 Thus in all the things that enter into 

 material, intellectual, and aesthetic 

 progress are the co-ordinate works of 

 the Creator and His grandest creation 

 — man. Herein lies the very funda- 

 mental principles, the God-given basis 

 of all technical training. 



Training was not sufficiently diffused 

 to have its effects on the industrial 

 arts. Art in its highest sense belonged 

 to the few; it was exclusive, and per- 

 sistently held as exclusive, so that the 

 man of general aft'airs, the common 

 man, the great body of humanity, had 

 neither any knowledge of the act 

 which projected grand structures in 

 the past nor the skill to carry out the 

 projects. 



Science means knowledge, a compre- 

 hension of facts and principles. All 

 training therefore which develops the 

 ingenuity of man belongs to the realm 

 of science. All technical training thus 

 becomes one of the grandest elements 

 of the purest science. Science means 

 the application of brain power, of skil- 

 ful ingenuity, to the affairs of life, to 

 the development of practical things, 

 and this means the real utilities which 

 are necesfary for development. Let 

 us speak of this part of our subject 

 first. 



We m''ist understand the application 

 of science in every direction. We must 

 know how to develop. We must take 

 the raw pigments out of which the 

 colors are produced and apply the skill 

 which comes from a knowledge of ef- 

 fects. This principle has been applied 

 in mechanics, in agriculture, in artis- 

 tic design, but perhaps more than in 

 all other things in the great engineer- 

 ing enterprises of the past half cen- 

 tury. We do not know what powers 

 were used, or how they were used in 

 constructing the Pyramids, but I doubt 

 if there was skill enough in the whole 

 world at the time the Pyramids were 

 built to have constructed the Mont 

 Cenis tunnel. 



In the mechanical arts there is a 

 specific illustration of what can be 

 done by technical training. I do not 

 speak particularly of manual training 

 in the public and private schools, but 

 more specifically of trade and technical 

 training. Manual training is without 

 definite purpose; its motive is to ac- 



