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HORTICULTURE 



December 28, 1907 



HORTIC ULTURE 



VOL. VI DECEMBER 28, 1907 NO. 26 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— A New Hybrid Lily. Page 



SHALL YOU "GO WEST?'— Illustrated.— R. L. Adams. 845 

 WATER SOLUBLE FERTILIZERS- Dudley M. Pray.. 846 



LILIUM PHILIPPINENSR X LONGIFLORUM 846 



BRITISH HORTICULTl RB:— W. H. Adsett 847 



THE WHITE FLY IN CALIFORNIA— R. L. Adams... 847 

 RURAL PROGRESS AT NORTHAMPTON IN EIGHTY 



YEARS— Christopher Clark 849 



M. GEORGE SCHNEIDER— C. H. P 849 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' Association — New 

 Orleans Horticultural Society — North Shore Horti- 

 cultural Society — Chicago Florists' Club — Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society — Southampton Horti- 

 cultural Society 850 



Winter Flowering Carnation Society — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 851 



Two Presidents, Portraits 851 



National Chrysanthemum Society: MaiTset Chry- 

 santhemum Show, C. Harraan Payne — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Show in Scotland. Illustrated 853 



ORNAMENTALS— C. S. Harrison S52 



SOME PHASES OF POLLINATION— W. O. Booth 854 



CHARLES G. PATTEN, President-Elect Iowa Plant 



Breeders' Society — C. S. Harrison 856 



OBITUARY— Thomas Burns, Portrait— William Harris 

 — John Bloompot — James Dell — Wm. N. Oakes — 

 Wm. M. Blackman — Eugene V. R. Thayer — George 



Vair 858 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia 861 



Washington, Twin Cities 868 



MASSACHXTSETTS EXPERIMENT STATION— Wm. P. 



Brooks 869 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Great Violet 849 



Rose versus Carnation 849 



Personal 851 



Catalogues Received 856 



Publications Received 856 



Geometric Beautiflcation 857 



News Notes 857 



Business Changes 859 



New Retail Flower Stores 859 



New York State Apple Crop.— H. R. Peachey 870 



Incorporated 870 



List of Patents 870 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 871 



New Heating Apparatus. 871 



, Nothing that passes under our editorial 

 A shining eye gives us greater pleasure in the read- 

 I'gfit ing or keener delight in the passing on to 

 Horticulture's readers than the elegant 

 compositions of that grand old man of Nebraska hor- 

 ticulture, Eev C. S. Harrison, which from time to time 

 come to our hands. We commend to our readers'" es- 

 pecial attention the paper from Mr. Harrison's pen 



which appears in this issue. How pregnant it is with 

 appreciation of the beautiful and sublime in nature and 

 how felicitous the appeal to the plodding farmer to 

 open his eyes to, the enjoyment to be found in flowers, 

 fruit and verdure, beyond the providing for the bare 

 necessities of living. The more this spirit is dissem- 

 inated, not alone among farmers, but among people in 

 all walk.s of life the more will horticulture flourish. 

 There should be a Harrison in every community. 



The recent jury decision after a trial 

 The seedman's lasting two weeks sustaining the 

 position validity of the disclaimer of respon- 



sibility printed on the seed packages 

 of a Baltimore seed house will be hailed with much sat- 

 isfaction by the seed trade generally and it will not be 

 questioned tliat the $5,000 which the suit is said to have 

 cost was well expended in thus affirming the legality of 

 the disclaimer in general use. At the same time the 

 interests of the farmers and other seed consumers are 

 not being neglected and the advocates of seed inspection 

 arc busy in many States. No reputable seed dealer will 

 interpose objection to any just law framed to prevent 

 dishonesty in the sale of seed but jxirity and vitality, 

 like all other good things, cost money and the man who 

 buys low-priced seed in preference to paying for the 

 best, as well as the man who doesn't take proper care 

 of his seed after he has got it, can hardly have any claim 

 on the government to step in and protect him against 

 the consequences of his own free acts. 



With tliis issue ends volume six of Horti- 

 Maklng CULTURE. At the close of the year one is 

 progress inclined to be reminiscent. We do not 



propose, however, to impose upon our 

 readers any chronological' account of the events, agree- 

 able or otherwise, which have transpired during the 

 year which has passed. The index to Horticulture's 

 contents which is sent out with the number following 

 the close of each volume will be found to contain about 

 everything worthy of permanent record. Notwithstand- 

 ing the somewhat discouraging financial aspects of the 

 final months of the year we believe 1907 may fairly be 

 recorded as a success floriculturally as it certainly can 

 agriculturally. Progress has been made in the science 

 and art of the horticulturist and, on the whole, the pro- 

 fession has attained wisdom and advanced position. To 

 be sure there liave been repeated evidences that perfec- 

 tion is still in the dim distance; the fiorist who imag- 

 ines he is helping his business by dispensing yarns to 

 the newspapers about flowers soaring high for the holi- 

 days is still at it, the man wdio has "made a study of 

 juixing seeds" has cropjied up again with a blue carna- 

 tion f<u- wliicli lie has refused "a large amount of 

 money" and sad to relate, our esteemed contemporary 

 so erudite on matters botanical, has a "plight" in 

 erica nomenclature on its hands, but these little lapses 

 are unavoidable in human affairs and as. the "campaign 

 of education" goes on let us hope that they will become 

 fewer and fewer. 



