HORTICULTURE 



July 4, 1908 



horticulture: 



VOL. VIII JULY 4, 1908 NO. 1 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Schizanthus grandiflorus 

 Boddingtoni. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Allied 

 Rehder 5 



SCHIZANTHUS— W. H. Waite 5 



OBITUARY: 



David Gindra, Portrait— J. W. Minott— George T. 

 Sarabrook— H. Wilson Smith— William H. Allen- 

 William Taylor— Jacob A. Ryser — Mrs. George A. 

 Williams— Marcus Ellis, Fortrait— The Late E. 

 Hippard, Portrait 7 



GARDENIAS FOR WINTER BLOOMING— J. H. Troy. 7 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Nassau County Horticultural Society— North Shore 

 Horticultural Society— Newport Horticultural So- 

 ciety— Tarrvtown Horticultural Society — Club and 

 Society Notes 8 



DURING RECESS 10 



\. w York Florists' Club Outing — Picnics in Pros- 

 pect 10 



SEED TRADE: 



American Seed Trade Association — President's Ad- 

 dress 11 



President-elect, W. i=. Woodruff 12 



Seed Trade Notes 13 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Detroit— Steamer Departures— New Retail Flower 

 Stores 11 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis New York, 

 Philadelphia, Twin Cities 1" 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Incorporated ' 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 8 



Havoc oi Wind and Hail 10 



Horticultural Illustrations 10 



Personal 15 



News Notes 15 



Business Changes 15 



List of Patents 17 



Nov, - the month of vacations, a 



The season joyous one i" those who have toiled 

 of relaxation faithfully and unceasingly all through 

 the long year and have been adequately 

 recompensed and can now turn to rest ami recreation 

 with the consciousness of dtitv well done. There are 

 others, DO doubt, to whom the season of relaxation 

 brings scanty comfort : those who have worked perhaps 



jusl as hard bul have failed t" realize from their labor 

 what i hey felt they had a right in expect; those who- 

 have been mail, in feel the effect of the financial de- 

 pression of the past year — and there are many such — 

 whose vacations will tail far short of what they had 

 beep looking forward to. For such the disappointment 

 will he alleviated by the prospects of the good year 

 which every one believes is coming and cheered by 



"Hope, of all ills that men endure, 

 The only cheap and universal cure." 



The oewspaper never gets a vacation, 

 An inspiring i, e fi le times prosperous or otherwise. 

 outlook With clock-work regularity each issue 

 must appear and it must be ever on 

 the alert with ceaseless vigilance to gather and record 

 the manifold happening that interest the little world in 

 which and for which it lives. With the present issue 

 BOKTXCULTUEE enters upon its eighth volume — the last 

 half of its fourth year. The eyes of thousands have 

 watched it grow and hosts of friends and well-wishers 

 have observed with unfeigned pleasure its healthy prog- 

 ress through infancy towards robust youth. The out- 

 look appears very rosy to Horticulture. Now safely 

 beyond the critical period through which every period- 

 ical must pass and from which so. small a proportion 

 ever emerge it can look forward with complacent confi- 

 dence to the larger responsibilities which are its mani- 

 fest destiny. The field for usefulness on the lines 

 chosen for Horticulture is practically limitless and 

 the situation as it appears to us is full of inspiration. 

 All this has been made possible through the hearty en- 

 couragement and generous support of friends true as 

 -teel. We have found the horticultural profession rich- 

 Iv endowed with such men. 



W • note with much satisfaction 



where the unmistakable growth of late in 



intelligence and numbers and strength of the horti- 



abiiity gravitate cultural organizations as evidenced 



by the club and society news that 



comes to hand from week to week. It is becoming 



iimte and mure evident that in horticulture, as well as 



in every other line of civilized activity, in the clubs and 



societies are to be found the men who represent the 



highest tv| f intelligence, manliness and business 



ability. The really strong men — those who are making 

 or are destined to make their mark on American horti- 

 cultural industry — are to lie found on the membership 

 roll of one or many of the organizations working for 

 horticultural improvement. As intelligence advances 

 ignorance and prejudice must recede and the man of 

 broad-gauge character does not -tup to ask that old ques- 

 tion, as selfish as it is foolish — "What good will it do 

 m< to join?" for he realizes that the ad\antages of affili- 

 ation are mutual and that the individual confers upon 

 and receives from his fellows in such alliances benefits 

 in equal degree. Where you find a man who boasts that 

 he has nothing to do with and takes no interest in any 

 association within whose jurisdiction he follows his 

 vocation, he assured '•there's a screw loose" somewhere. 



