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H ORTICULTURE 



July 25, 19US 



horticulture: 



VOL. VIII JULY 25, 1908 NO. 4 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Gloxinias. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Render 97 



GLOXINIAS— K. Finlayson 97 



BRITTSH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 99 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 



Preliminary Program — Preparing for the Niagara 



Trip 100 



"Buffalo Day"— Trade Exhibition Space— The 



National Flower Show 101 



DURING RECESS: 



St. Louis Florist Club's Annual Picnic— Buffalo 

 Florists' Club — Chicago florists' Club Picnic — 



Notes 101 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Canadian Horticultural Society — Florists' Club of 

 Washington — Summer Exhibition at Lake Forest, 

 Il!.--Emil Bollinger, Portrait — The Bollinger 

 Trophv, Illustrated — Massachusetts Horticultural 



Society 102 



Detroit Florists' Club— New Orleans Horticultural 



Society— Club and Society Notes 103 



PERFECTION IN PETUNIAS— G. C. Watson, Illus- 



Lted 103 



LEMOINE'S DEUTZIAS 103 



FLOWER PICTURES IN PARIS SALON— C. Harman 



Payne 104 



SOME PEONY OBSERVATIONS— C. Betscher 105 



A CAULIFLOWER SEED PLANTATION- Illustrated 105 

 FOREIGN NOTES: 



Exhibition in Turin — A Newspaper Flower Show — 



French Horticulturists in London — C. H. P 106 



FISHKILL 107 



SEED TRADE 10S 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis, New York, 



Philadelphia 113 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Movements of Gardeners 103 



Catalogues Received 104, 108, 109 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 107 



Personal 110, 111 



Steamer Departures 110 



Business Changes Ill 



New Retail Flower Stores Ill 



News Notes Ill 



Plant Trade in Chicago Ill 



Incorporated Ill 



Obituary 113 



Publications Received 113 



Freely Give— Poetry 113 



List of Patents 121 



Every issue of Horticulture contain; 



Civilization's more or less information concerning 



stimulus n ew inventions, labor saving devices 



and clever adaptations intended to 



benefit the horticulturist by simplifying the processes, 



mechanical or otherwise, connected with his art. We 

 think 11 was Hiram M. Stanley who said that "if man 

 were o.o1 a! bottom an animal who cunningly devises 

 means to save himself trouble, civilization would never 

 horn." That the friends and exponents of 

 horticulture stand in the foremost line in developing 

 and expanding civilization of the highest type is a 

 11 which we believe will be assented to by 

 every one who reads these lines. Further it will not 

 be seriously questioned that the horticulturist who per- 

 iily neglects ot epudiates these modern appliances 

 in construction and equipment of greenhouses and in 

 material and methods of culture and use of his product 

 which his talented fellow -workers are constantly placing 

 at his disposal is making a serious mistake. While urg- 

 ing our readers to peruse with care and fully investigate 

 all such evidences of progress as are presented in our 

 columns from week to week we would couple with it a 

 reference to the approaching opportunity in the trade 

 exhibition to be held under the auspices of the S. A. F. 

 at Niagara Falls next month. Every one wishing to 

 keep in intelligent touch with the advancement in any 

 or all branches of his art should make it his business 

 to be present on that occasion. He will find in the 

 exhibition alone plenty of interest and instruction to 

 keep him occupied and will go home with a higher esti- 

 mation of his business and the men engaged in it and 

 a better conception of its possibilities for the future. 



It does seem that, notwithstanding all the 



Tireless time and money used in investigating and 



foes fighting the various insects and fungous 



pests that vex the horticulturists and the 

 community in general, each year sees an actual increase 

 in territory menaced and damage done. Gypsy moth, 

 brown tail moth, tussock moth, elm leaf beetle, San 

 Jose and other scales, weevils and blights may be tem- 

 porarily conquered in .one district and an optimistic 

 feeling is encouraged until we learn that in some other 

 place the attacks are doubled in severity and when 

 another season comes around we find the tables turned 

 and the trouble again doing business at the old stand 

 with intensified activity. Just how much these peri- 

 odic outbreaks are attributable to neglecl caused by a 

 feeling of security may not be apparent but when we 

 read in a contemporary that such a man as Professor 

 Southwick, entomologist for the park system of Man- 

 hattan, "reports that the tussock moth is no longer a 

 real danger to the trees of the city" we are constrained 

 to believe that cither the gentleman has been misquoted 

 or the fool-killer is not attending to his job. If there 

 is any situation where "eternal vigilance is the price of 

 liberty" in its strongest sense it is in dealing with insect 

 pests. The almost inconceivable rapidity of multiplica- 

 tion of these creatures is not sufficiently recognized. 

 The plea of economy touches a very responsive chord in 

 a community after a costly battle has been successfully 

 waged and the enemy, never idle, is given opportunity 

 gather strength for the next onslaught. Not until 

 the laws as to individual responsibility are made much 

 -; agent run we hope for any permanent relief 

 from these pestilent conditions. As it is, one indiffer- 

 ent or obstinate owner can nullify much of the public 

 and private effort to exterminate any one of these 

 ts. The ceaseless enforcement of a drastic law 

 may bring --in individual cases here and there 



but we see no alternative at present. 



