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HORTICULTURE 



July 18, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. VIII 



JULY 18, 1908 



NO. 3 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Fruit Growing in Snake 



River Country, Ida- 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Render 65 



ABOUT IRIS— John Thorpe 67 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 67 



GREENWOOD PLANTATION— \. .1. Loveless— Illus- 

 trated 68 



SOME NOVELTIES AT A LONDON SHOW— Thos. 



Bunvard ^9 



AN AZORES LILY FIELD 69 



A FAMOUS AVENUE— Wm. MoM. Brown— Illustrated 70 



AN APPLE OF GOLD 70 



AQUATICS AT RIVERTON— G. C. Watson 71 



NOTES FROM THE FRANCO-BRITISH EXHIBI — 



TION— Edgar Elvin 71 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



The Great S. A. F. Trade Exhibition— Sot iety of 

 American Florists — St. Louis Florist Club— Pitts- 

 burg Florists' and Gardeners' Club— Nassau Coun- 

 ty Horticultural Society 72 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Ladies' 

 Society of American Florists— Club and Society 



Notes 73 



DURING RECESS: 



New Orleans Horticultural Society— Where Chi- 

 cago Rusticates— Detroit 73 



OBITUARY: 



Rudolph Reynders— James Cole— Isabelle D. Poyn- 



ter— Carl R. Pfening 73 



SEED TRADE 76 



Wholesale Seedsmen's League 74 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York 81 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Song for July— Poetry 69 



Bermuda and Japan Lily Bulb Prospects 69 



Primula obconica outdoors 69 



A Useful Instrument 69 



Publications Received 71 



A Valuable Heating Appliance 74 



The Tower Hotel— Illustrated 74 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 74 



I "-Bar Recommended Abroad 74 



Catalogues Received; List of Patents 74 



Movements of Gardeners 75 



Personal : Steamer Departures 78 



Business Changes; News Notes 79 



Philadelphia No*es 81 



The pasl ear has shown a big change 

 The waning j n the relative standing of the Brides- 

 of Bridesmaid maid in the rose markets. In some 

 quarters this once peerless variety 

 i almost abandoned and in others where it is 

 -till grown in quantity its largest sale has been through 

 i traders, at prices so low that it is not surpris- 

 ing thai those who have been growing it heretofore are 



disposed to casl around I'm- something more remunera- 

 tive. Killanicy in the meantime has bounded ahead 

 and large as was lite quantity of this variety grown last 

 vear, the crop of the coming season will be far in ex- 

 cess. Whether the substitution of the latter for Brides- 

 maid as the leading pink commercial rose is to be per- 



mane merel] transitory remains to be seen. It is 



not at all likely that any one rose will ever again hold 

 the position of exclusive pre-eminence for so long a 

 time as Bridesmaid has. The production of new roses 

 as an occupation is now well started in this country and 

 we shall have new claimants for popular favor in con- 

 -tautly increasing ratio from now on. On the ad- 

 vaneemenf made in the essential qualities will depend 

 much 1 In- ultimate fate of Bridesmaid and Killarney as 

 well. But having once become used to a wider choice 

 of varieties it is not to be expected that the flower buy- 

 ing public will henceforth be disposed to limit their 

 favor to any one. two or three sorts as they have in 

 the past. 



To the majority of Horticulture's read- 

 A garden e rs the cover illustration which we present 

 empire this week will seem a very long distance 

 view. We of the extreme East have very 

 little conception of the vast horticultural resources 

 which are being developed with astounding rapidity in 

 the far-away western sections of our great country. The 

 fruit industry of California long ago outstripped in 

 value that State's product of gold. The State of Wash- 

 ington is rapidly developing on similar lines and en- 

 couraging the development with a munificence that is 

 bound to make the whole world "sit up and take notice." 

 Our columns this week tell of the great apple show at 

 Spokane for which plans are now being made, where 

 upwards of $35,000 in premiums are to be distributed 

 and an apple of solid gold given for the most beautiful 

 specimen apple. At the present moment a "Cherry 

 Fair" of great magnitude is in progress in the neighbor- 

 ing State of Oregon. All over the great Northwest are 

 hybridizers at work trying to evolve hardier, more vig- 

 orous and more luscious fruits, inspired by the same 

 spirit that animated the Wilders, Mannings and Hoveys 

 in the days of the shaping of New England horticulture. 

 Across the continent New England sends greetings and 

 good cheer to the horticulturists of the Pacific slopes 

 who are turning hundreds of thousands of acress of 

 splendid land into a garden empire such as the world 

 has never known. 



We find in our agricultural ex- 

 changes frequent communications 

 from their readers on the. bird 

 problem, some farmers and the ma- 

 jority of the small-fruit growers in certain states, where 

 fruit growing is an important industry, having no 

 patience with the efforts being made by nature lovers, 

 humanitarians and the advocates of the birds as insect 

 destroyers, and telling pathetic stories of the wholesale 

 destruction of the product of their labors by the feath- 

 ered tribe. The fruit farmer has, undoubtedly, much 

 to provoke him and it is only natural that he should 

 feel resentful under such aggravation, but the birds 

 must be protected, for the dire results of the depletion 

 of insect-eating birds are now too well proven and it 

 - ii. a likely that the public will tolerate any further 

 slaughter such as has been going on heretofore. There 

 i- one remedy against the bird onslaughts on cultivated 

 fruit which we think has not thus far been given proper 

 attention, that is, the planting of wild fruiting trees 

 and shrubs, selecting those sorts that ripen simnltane 

 ously with the cultivated crops. Much has been writ- 



A square deal 

 for the wild birds 



