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HORTICULTURE, 



November 16, 1907 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. VI NOVEM BER 16, 1907 WO. 20 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Prize Vase of Major Bonnaffon, 



THE EXHIBITION SEASON: 



The Boston Show— Illustrated 633 



The Chicago Show — Nassau County Horticultural 



Society ^'""^ 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Dutchess 

 County Horticultural Society— Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society 63(j 



Local Shows 64G 



New Jersey FloricuUural Society, Illustrated — 

 Marion County Horticultural Society 637 



A QUESTION OF NOMENCLATURE 63'j 



NEW DAHLIAS AT CANNELL'S— C. Harman Payne. 639 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Maryland Horticultural Society— Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America— Elberon Horticultural So- 

 ciety— Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club— New York Florists' Club C40 



Washington Florists' Club — Tarrytown Horticul- 

 tural Society— Club and Society Notes 641 



SEED TRADE 642 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, 

 Philadelphia 649 



OBITUARY— August Loeber— Dexter M. Ferry— James 

 H. Spencer — Edwin S. Burnap — James A. Danvers 

 — Adelia D. Ostertag 657 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



H. H. Thomas 639 



Personal 639 



A Leading Holland Nursery 639 



Lilium Wardarai — Illustrated 642 



Plant Imports 644 



November Crop Report 644 



Catalogues Received 644 



A Handsome Trophy — Illustrated 640 



News Notes 647-657 



New Flower Stores 647 



Business Changes 649 



Pacific Coast Notes 649 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 65S 



The iidvertiscnient of a certain New York 

 Brace up! theatre starts with '"Clearing House for 



the lilues" as a head line. The "blues" 

 is a bad disease and an almost invariable symptom is 

 that the victim resists any effort that his friends may 

 be disposed to make for his relief. The malady is very 

 prevalent in both wholesale and retail flower trade cir- 



cles in some quarters and it must be confessed that opti- 

 mism in the face of the stagnated conditions at present 

 existing is not an easy acc[uirement. Yet nothing is 

 gained l)y persistent contemplation of the gloomy side 

 and pessimism besides being profitless is also very un- 

 comfortable. Far better for each individual to make of 

 himself a "clearing house for tlie blues" keeping in 

 mind for himself and impressing upon his associates the 

 fact that our great country with its stupendous agri- 

 cultural and commercial resources will soon resume its 

 accustomed course. And hopeful confidence well dis- 

 tributed is the most effectual means of bringing this 

 about. 



Now that indisputable evidence is 

 The pompon's given of the growing public apprecia- 

 demands tion of the small-flowered chrysanthe- 



mums it will be well for the jDrize- 

 schedule makers to give serious consideration to the 

 pompon elais from the standpoint of its proper place 

 in decorative design. It can hardly be expected that 

 these unpretentious flowers will appeal w'ith any force 

 to the average flower show visitor until exhibitors have 

 learned to stage tliem more efCectively than lias been the 

 case in a majority of instances. Crowded by handfuls 

 into closely packf>d vases or bottles in an obscure loca- 

 tion against the wall has usually been tlie fate of these 

 sturdy little blossoms which in the hands of the artist 

 and in association with Jaj)s and singles may be placed 

 CO that they fairly sparkle. Mr. Duekham tells us that 

 larger, nobler and more stately flowers is the key to 

 continued popularity for the chrv'santhemum. Mr. 

 Duekham is only half way right. The stately flowers 

 alone will not save the chrysanthemum's prestige unless 

 the other classes are brought along in equal prominence; 

 as indispensable accessories. Monotony is what has 

 been cripjding the chrysanthemum as a drawing attrac- 

 tion. 



Whatever may be said — and it cannot 

 An opening for be overdrawn — as to the stately 

 improvement gi-andeur of the massive show chrys- 

 antherau.ms when grown to perfec- 

 tion and disjilayed with long stems and heavy foliage in 

 large vases, yet nothing is more glaringly out of place 

 than these big flowers on single-stem plants packed in 

 at intervals among palms and crotons in the so-called 

 "decorative" groups so frequently seen at the exhibi- 

 tions. These groups, usually constracted in the form 

 of a i-iyraraid or a sloping bank against the wall, built 

 up with the choicest products of the conservatory and 

 displaying cultitral attainments of a high order, become 

 but travesties, from the standpoint of artistic propriety, 

 when one .sees the big globular chrysanthemum flowers 

 peering out from between the leaves of ficuses and kon- 

 tias,. each seciirely fastened at the neck to a rattan 

 stake. We always feel sorry for the chrysanthemums, 

 sorry for tb.e palms, sorry for the orchids which not in- 

 frequejitly are included — that they should be forced into 

 such incongruous association. We predict that the time 

 will soon come when this peculiar type of exhibit will 

 be as obsolete as are now the ring streaked and spotted 

 "liouquets" vith whicb the florist of fortv years ago 

 delio'bted his customers. 



