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HORTICULTURE 



November 23, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. VI 



NOVEMBER 23, 1907 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE — Campanula Medium. 

 ORNAMENTAL BERRIED PLANTS— Edwin Matthews 665 



DRACAENA VICTORIAE— Edgar Elvin 665 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 667 



CAMPANULAS— David Miller 667 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society— National Flower Show 

 — New Orleans Horticultural Society— Scranton 

 Florists* Club— St. Louis Horticultural Society — St. 

 Louis Florist Club— Bloomington Florists' Club- 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America 668 



Twin City Florists Organize— Illustrated 678 



Club and Society Notes 689 



THE EXHIBITION SEASON: 



Washington Florists' Club— St. Louis Flower Show 669 

 Society of Indiana Florists, Illustrated— Ontario 

 Horticultural Exhibition— Montreal Gardeners' and 



Florists' Club 670 



Worcester County Horticultural Society— Columbus 

 Florists' Club— The Chicago Show, John Thorpe- 

 Southern California Horticultural Association 671 



Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Foremen's Association 

 — Rhode Island Horticultural Society — National 

 Chrysanthemum Society of England, C. Harman 



Payne 672 



Local and Florists' Shows 678 



SEED TRADE 674 



Catalogues Received 674 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, 



Philadelphia, Twiu Cities 681 



THE BUFFALO SITUATION— Illustrated 688 



OBITUARY— Prof. Lucien M. Underwood — Jas. C. Luit- 

 .(veiler- Mrs. I. T. Roadhouse— Mrs. C. Held— Frank 

 Lichtefeld— Prof. E. Gale— Mrs. Catherine Waltz . . 689 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Philadelphia Notes 676 



Plant Imports 676 



Business Changes 676 



New Retail Flower Stores 679 



Personal 679 



News Notes 681 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 689 



List of Patents 689 



Otu- observation? in last week's 

 Art issue, on the arrangement of dec- 



in flower and orative plant gronps at exhibitions 

 plant composition and elsewhere, have called forth 

 .some considerable comment, main- 

 ly in approval. Florists and gardeners who are natnre- 

 lovers are ready to acknowledge the unsatisfying artistic 

 quality, the incongruity and lack of unity of expression 

 in the plant compositions nsually seen and wonld wel- 

 come examples or instructive suggestion on lines of 



improvement and there is no doubt that intense public 

 and professional interest would attach to any well 

 directed effort to bring out competition on purely artis- 

 tic and consistent lines at any of the larger shows. To 

 accomjilish fully their educational intent a .-;tatement of 

 the eil'ect sought and the rules followed should accom- 

 pany each group, in such shape as to be avaiLable for 

 use in the public press and tJie judges' report should 

 plainly state the basis on which their awards were 

 made. The Sc'cicly of American Florists might wisely 

 provide for such a class in the great national flower show 

 to be held a year hence. As an incentive to genius 

 nothing niore inviting could possibly be presented and 

 our florists as well as those wlio employ them would 

 have the advantage of an impressive object lesson 

 which would tend to a better discernment of what is 

 really beautiful and fit. 



In periods of business uncertainty and ap- 

 A wise prehension such as the present he is a 

 precaution happy business man who, because of hab- 

 its of close attention to accounts and con- 

 servative management, is able to say that he knows the 

 actual condition of his affairs and feels secure against 

 any possible adverse financial contingency. There arc, 

 in the florist and nursery trade, many concerns that 

 are in a position to make such a statement but we have 

 reason to know that there are also many who are not- - 

 many who have never in their mercantile career kno\^n 

 what it was to have a jjroperly lialanced set of books, 

 whose buying and selling and all other industrial opera- 

 tions are conducted in haphazard manner and who have 

 no means of knowing to a certainty at any time whether 

 their business is being carried on at a profit or at a 

 hiss. The present emergency ]3oints a moral for such 

 and the time is opportune for making a complete in- 

 ventoi-y of resources and liabilities and an audit of 

 every record bearing upon same so that the true trend 

 of the business and actual condition of affairs may be 

 known absolutely now and hereafter. Without these 

 facts being available at any and all times, complete con- 

 trol of one's affairs is an imposibility and trouble may 

 come at any time "as a thief in the night." If your 

 business is good for anytbing it is worth this vigilant at- 

 tention and, when you get down tC' a statement of ac- 

 tual conditions, pos,sibly you may find some eye-openers. 



The landscape class of the Gardeners' 



The gardener's and Florists' Cliil) of Boston is about 



opportunity to begin the course of study for the 



season with a somewhat smaller num- 

 ber of students than were in attendance last vear. It 

 is difficult to understand why the advantages of this 

 movement are not more fully appreciated by those for 

 whose direct benefit it has been inaugurated. Every 

 gardener should read Foudon's arraignment of the gar- 

 deners of his day for their incapacity in landscape de- 

 signing and if it does not -stir him, up to take full ad- 

 vantage of .such opportunities as are now at his dis- 

 posal for strengthening his weak points and developing 

 Ills faculties he has nobody to blame but himself if he 

 never gets beyond the wheelbarrow stage. lioudon 

 wrote : 



"It has often stru ck us with surprise that the proprie- 

 tors of the finest re sidences in England, noblemen and 

 gentlemen of high education and refined taste in other 

 things, possessing c ollections of the finest pictures, and 

 whose eyes must co nsequently be familiar with all that 

 is noble and beautiful in landscape, should yet commit 



the laying out of the ir grounds to their gardeners; 



forgetting that the 1 ife of the gardener has been devoted 

 to the study of the c ulture of plants and not to that of the 



