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horticulture: 



September 26, 1908 



horticulture: 



T»L. VIII 



SEPTEMBER 26, 1908 



NO. 13 



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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Home Grounds of a Work- 

 ing Gardener. 



HORTICULTURE AT THE FRANCO-BRITISH EX- 

 HIBITION— C. Harman Payne 409 



HUME GROUNDS OF A WORKING GARDENER.... 409 



"MY MARYLAND" AND ITS HOME— L. .1. Renter. . . 411 



SCALE OF POINTS FOR FLORAL ARRANGE- 

 MENTS 4U 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Florists: Freight Conces- 

 sions on Cut Flowers; The National Flower 

 gho W — Chicago Florists' Club— Minnesota State 

 Florists' Association — American Carnation So- 

 ciety— New Orleans Horticultural Society — New 



England Dahlia Society 412 



Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Club — 



Montreal Horticultural Society 41:1 



New London County Horticultural Society — 



Club and Society Notes— Coming Events 414 



National Dahlia' Society— C. Harman Payne 416 



MUSA CAVENDISHH— Illustrated 416 



SEED TRADE 41 s 



OBITUARY— Miss Emma F. Gill 42:; 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



New York. Philadelphia, Washington 12:, 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



School Exhibitors 414 



Fniis and Neighborhood Shows 414 



An Interesting Carnation Outlook 414 



Hardy Plant Notes 415 



A Rose in Every Garden 415 



Fern Notes 416 



Florists' Plant Notes by 'Wireless" 416 



"Same Old Story" 416 



Catalogues Received 419 



Plant Imports 419 



Reappraisements ' ' '■' 



Personal . ■ •■ '-- 



Business Changes '-- 



News Notes 422 



New Retail Flower s: ores 423 



Personals from Madison, N. J 12" 



Chicago Personals '-•• 



Commodore Westcott Gets a Present 42a 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 427 



New Heating Apparatus 424 



List of Patents '■ :l 



Just sixtj wars ago — on the evening of 

 An September •- , '.\ to be exact — the Massa- 



anniversary chusetts Horticultural Society celebrated 

 i|p ,lose of its twentieth annual exhibi- 

 tion with a fete at Faneuil Hall, Boston, in which over 

 hundred ladies ami gentlemen sat down to the ban- 



quel tables. The exhibition bad been the greatest effort 

 of the Society. Their nun hall not being large enough 

 Faneuil Hall had been secured for the show which had 

 been truly magnificent and the company brought to- 

 gether by this brilliant event was a most notable one. 

 Marshal] I'. Wilder sat m the chair as President of the 

 Society. Among the many men about him who had 

 already or who in later years did make for themselves 

 world-wide renown in literature, art or statecraft, were 

 Hon. Robert ('. Winthrop, Josiah Quincy, William II. 

 Seward, Gen. Dearborn, Prof, doel Parker, Epes Sar- 

 gent, Andrew J. Downing and accredited representatives 

 from many sister societies including the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural, New Medford Horticultural and Delaware 

 Horticultural. All these guests and many others made 

 brilliant addresses. The old "Cradle of Liberty" was 

 lavishly decorated for this memorable occasion. Walls 

 and columns were draped and festooned with green and 

 beautiful sentiments from those of the poets who most 

 loved nature and the garden were tastefully embroidered 

 on the walls and time-honored names of botanists, hor- 

 ticulturists and naturalists shone on transparencies 

 along the galleries. An ode was written for the occa- 

 sion by Mrs. Sigourney and a song also composed for the 

 event by Epes Sargent was sung. Of the latter we 

 quote three stanzas : 



"The Winter chill has pleasures still, 



And Spring is fair to see; 

 In Summer's heat the groves are sweet. 



But Autumn bold for me! 

 With Vine-Leaves on his honest brow, 



And Harvests in his arms. 

 He comes, with all of Winter's cheer, 



And all of Summer's charms! 



Chorus — For there's nae luck about the house, 

 There's nae luck at a', 

 There's little pleasure in the house 

 If Woman is awa'. 



The Flowers and Fruits that deck our board, 



To her a tribute owe; 

 From her the Rose steals all its bloom. 



From her the Peach its glow; 

 The Lily in her purity. 



May see its own eclipse; 

 And where did Cherries take their red 



If not from Woman's lips? 



Chorus — So there's nae luck, etc. 



The purple bloom upon the Grape. 



The Violet's modest hue, — 

 Who does not see they've borrowed, both. 



From certain eyes of blue? 

 And if the Orange Flower is sweet. 



And if the Hyacinth fair. 

 Will any one their lovely tints 



With those we sing compare? 



churns — So there's nae luck, etc. 



The eyes of blue of those days and the tongues that 

 -um: of their charms have long since turned to dust but 

 the good work still goes on and Horticulture in its most 

 comprehensive sense is still "the Fine Art of common 

 life, distributing its productions with equal hand to the 

 rich and the poor and adorning the humble home as well 

 as iIh palace, and the humble bearts which it refines 

 and elevates," as no other art can do. 



