.'•( HORTICULTURE, Ctotober 26, 190T 



■fc^^^OT*! ^"^■fTf^TT'ITlJ p^ down liistoric trees in the Botanic Garden at Washing- 



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VOL- VI OCTUBfcR 26, 1907 "0- 1? tliat eit}. Thus the emergency is past for the time 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY Bv lipiug and WO mav hope that deliberation and a careful 



HORTICULTURE. PUBLISHING CO. con^deration of the problem may result in some aceept- 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. ^ble plan for tlie location of the Grant statue being 



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WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager Gvolved whorcby Ihesc valuable and interesting trees 



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COPYRIQHT, 1907, BY HORTICULTURE PUB. CO. equalled in quality in any kind of a year heretofore. 



Kniered as second-class matter December 8, 1004, at the 1*051 Office at Boston, Mass, n-, . . -, - ,, ^x "i i_ t i. i-i xi „i „ . 



under the Act of congr^s^ March 3,1879. Ihis IS dircctly attributed to the thorough spraying 



=^ ^^ ~ which the trees received last spring for the esteriuina- 



CONTENTS tion of the gi'psy moth, which also made short work of 



FRONTISPIi:CK— Avenue of Ginkgo biloba the codling m.oth and other pests of the apple growers. 



THREE HOOD oao:-JTOPTi.OSSLMS— .lamed Hatchiu- ^^^ Tj^ig rj^ther unforeseen outcome of the moth campaign 



GINKGO iULOiJ.v—EdwinLonsda'ley.' ''!/./.".!'.!''' sSiV will, no doubt, go far to soothe the feelings of the 



THE AH-OON-YE-YE-PA— C. S. Hanisou SSK farmers who have been considerably disturbed over the 



CENTAUREA IMPERIALS— George Morrison— IIlus- , . , ■ ■ ^ .^ 



trated 53S heavy expense of compulsory spraying against the com- 



BRITISH PiORTlCL'LTURE 53!" ,non pest. Apples at $4.00 a barrel are a verv pleasant 



CHRYSANTHEMI.'MS: , , , , j i ij j-i,- • / i, 



A French Audit-Calvat's Soedlings-C. Harman crop to contemplate and should this circumstance have 



Payne 541 jj deterrent influence on the wholesale cutting down of 



7^^; ^xaTLmON'sEAKON^^^'^""^^''""'^ ^vheeler. . . .542 .,,j,pig ^^^^^ ^^.j^ipj^ h^p ,-,egj^ „^,:^^„ 0^ of late this will be 



™^eceift Shows; Lenox Horticultural Societ.v-Cali- another gain. The only disadvantage apparent this 



fornia State Floi-al Society 544 year has been the breaking down of overloaded limbs 



Comins Shows: Pennsylvania Horticultural So- which suggests the possibilitv that, if thorough spray- 



*ciety-Morns^^<;oiinty Horticultural Society-Deni- ^^^^ ^^„ jg ^^ become a regular annual operation in apple 



SEEID^TRADE "^^ I"'"®' .^^ growing, thinning will also have to be done, as advised 



BULBOUS i>LANTS .'iND TUBEROUS-ROOTE.D PER- by Mr. Wheeler in his admirable lecture on fruit grow- 



ENNIALS- K. V. Haliock 547 mg before the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston. 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Elberon llovticultural Society— Toronto Gardeners' Monev scarce and collections slow is 



and Florists' Association-Southampton Horticul- To start the the eoneral renort from the flower 



tural Socioty— Chrysanthemum Society of America . '""^ gtiitiai lepoii 11 om uil nower 



— ^imerican Carnation Society 5.50 money a-moving trade and those industries wliich are 



Detroit Florists' Club— Chib and Society Notes .551 . Pv-fpnt dpnpndpnt iinnn tbp 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: . ™ '^"^ ^''^^^^ dependent upon tlie 



Boston, liuffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, florist for business. The average florist must collect 



xoSH'';''fl'?Il^'To^^''^'''""^°" '^''''^ before he can pay for there are but few so well supplied 



MISCEL(.ANEO:IS: -1,1 



Forestry Study in Harvard 541 with cash that they can pay as they go regardless of 



Tree and Shrub Chat 541 ^rhether thev collect their own accounts. The banks 



Personal 541 - 



Publications Received 545 are wary and borrowing at present is not so simple an 



Plant Imports -j-ia operation as in times gone by. The money that cir- 



Mr. Parsons Misrepiesented o4.> -^ n • , i , , ., , , ,. 



A Correction 5*5 culates through the florist trade takes its start from the 



Catalogues Received 54i3 j-gtail customer. Through the retail florists' hands it 



San Francisco Florists Rebuild— Illustrated 5.->0 , , i 1 ,1 



New Retail Flower Stores 550 goO'S then the wholesaler and the supply man, then the 



Obituary B.iO grower, after which the builder, the coal man, the bulb 



Oranse (N. J.) Trade Notes.. o5;. • ■ i . n .,1 t, i n 1 i^i i- i 



News' Notes !>5'5 dealer, inciclentally the help all along the line and 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 561 la«tlv the publisher and advertising man set a chance to 



Movements of Gardeners 561 ^ '^ ., j, j. j. mi " 1 • i • 



Incorporated S*-'' hngcr " tor a tew moments. Ihe moral is obvious: 



Business Changes -561 t',ie retail florist is the man we are all waiting for. It 



List of Patents of, I jg notorious that, as a class, he is and always has been 



over-liberal in extending credit to people much better 



We learn that an order has supjflied with the "wherewithal" than he himself is 



The Botanic Garden been telegraphed to Acting Sec- ever likely to he. All efforts at reform in the credit 



trees get a .etary of War Oliver and hy him ^'f'^^ of the trade must take these facts into consider- 



•.,,,, ,, „ , • ation. hy what means can better methods of collectins; 



repr.eve transmitted to Gen. Dodge, pres- ^^^^ ^,,^ ^.^^^-^j^^ ^.^^^.^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^j^^ delinquent sweU 



ident of the Grant Statue Com- customer with a bill be disciplined into the man behind 



mission, direr-tiiisr that action in the matter of cutting ihe flower counter? 



