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HORTICULTURE 



December 21, 1907 



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VOL. VI DECE MBER 21, 1907 NO. 2S 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— A Cook seedling 

 CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE LONDON PARKS— 



C. Hai man Payne 813 



VANDA VARIETIES— Edgar Elvin 815 



A NEW ROSE 81.5 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' Society— Florists' 



Club ot Washington 816 



Newport Horticultural Society — Minnesota Horti- 

 cultural Society— Lenox Horticultural Society. 

 Portrait W. Jack— American Carnation Society — 

 Iowa Horticultural Society— Twin Cities Florists' 



and Gardeners' Club 817 



St. Louis Florist Club— Gardeners' Society of 

 Greenwich— Kentucky Society of Florists— N. Y. 

 Florists' Club, J. K. Allen, portrait— Club and 



Society Notes 818 



OBITUARY 



Wm. W. Edgar, Portrait— Wm. H. S. Wood — Sam- 

 uel H. Walker— Mrs. C. W. Pike— Robert Faulk— 



Alex. Hukill 819 



WINTER PROTECTION OF BOX — Jackson Dawson.. 819 



REMARKS ON ROSES— B. G. Hill 820 



HOUSE OF CROTONS— Illustration 820 



SEED TRADE 822 



THE RETAILER'S POSITION TOWARDS THE 



WHOLESALER— Chas. H. Grakelow 826 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Detroit. Indianapolis. New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Twin Cities 829 



PARK WORK IN A LARGE CITY— M. H. West 837 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Business Changes 818 



Crops of Unprecedented Value 819 



Market Gardening Course 819 



Incorporated 820 



Visitors in New York 820 



Publications Received 821 



Decision of U. S. General Appraisers 821 



Plant Imports 821 



Catalogues Received 822 



Properties of the Chrysanthemum 824 



Sewickly Notes 824 



News Notes 827, 836 



New Retail Flower Stores 827 



Forestry Legislation in Alabama 836 



Appreciating the Gardener 837 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 837 



New Heating Apparatus 837 



List of Patents 838 



Alarmists are again to the front 

 "Much ado -v^rjtli the annual hue and cry about 

 about nothing" the awful destruction of spruce 

 trees in Maine for Christmas pur- 

 poses and the lumbermen and pulp mills are glad to 

 join in the chorus and thus try to blind the people to 

 the facts in regard to the real forest spoliation which is 



continually going on. One wily Maine lumberman is 

 quoted as saying that the Christmas tree business is 

 "doing more to devastate our forests than all the pulp 

 mills combined," and wants the legislature to take ac- 

 tion ! People need not be disturbed by these appeals. 

 Forest trees are valueless for Christmas tree purposes. 

 'J'lie symmetrical, stocky little specimens which are re- 

 quired for this use are found not in the thick growth, 

 Init scattered individually over the pasture lands on 

 the hillsides. Trees of this character are not used for 

 lumber and they would not be allowed to grow on pas- 

 ture land were it not for the equivalent they return for 

 tlie space occupied, in their sale for the holiday trade. 

 Chief Forester Pinchot is oiit with a public reply to the 

 deluge of appeals which he has received urging that 

 something be done to prevent the "needless destruction 

 of the nation's forests," in which he assures the people 

 that all the Christmas trees used in one year could be 

 grown on a 1400-acre farm, an amount utterly insig- 

 nificant when compared to the destruction caused by 

 forest fires and wasteful lumbering. Anyone who has 

 ever visited the lumbering regions needs no assurance 

 on this point 



Our New York contemporary takes 

 Mp. Hill and itself very seriously in its strenuous 

 his critics struggle to impugn the former secre- 

 tary of the S. A. F. for accepting from 

 a well-informed and reputable firm registration of the 

 name Hydrangea arborescens alba grandiflora for a new 

 introduction. The editor of our esteemed contemporary 

 rants about "plights" and other things which exist only 

 in his distorted imagination and demands that this 

 plant name as registered should be withdrawn by Mr. 

 Hill. In our humble opinion Mr Hill will be in no 

 hurry to act upon this advice so freely given, but will 

 wait, at least, until some better evidence is produced to 

 show that he is in error. The truth is that nothing 

 has appeared thus far in the discussion to sliow that Mr. 

 Hill's variety of Hydrangea arborescens has been com- 

 pared with the specimens named by Torrey and Gray in 

 1840. This could be done next summer when the plants 

 are in bloom and the question of identity, at least, set- 

 tled properly. It may transpire that the Hill variety 

 is a much better plant. Dr. Gray who, besides being a 

 botanist, was also an ardent lover of floral beauty, could 

 not have thought much of the variety or he would have 

 carried it down in his later works. In half a century 

 the variety might improve in nature or, by selection, 

 better flowered forms might be obtained. The history 

 of Nephrolepis exaltata in the past twenty years is a 

 case in point. 



Before the time for our next "Good 

 Anticipation Morning" to our readers, Christmas with 



all its apprehensions, arduous responsi- 

 liilities and distractions, will have passed into history. 

 Varying views are expressed as to the influence upon 

 the holiday trade of the recent monetary disturbance, 

 many cautious [leople. like Bre'r Rabbit, being disposed 



