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horticulture: 



November 28. 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. VIII 



NOVEMBER 28, 1908 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Chrysanthemum "Anna." 

 EARLY FLOWERING CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Win. 



McM. Brown 705 



CHRYSANTHEMUM 'ANNA" 705 



TREE TALKS— Jackson Dawson 707 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Detroit Florists' Club — American Carnation So- 

 ciety — Chrysanthemum Society of America — 

 North Shore Horticultural Society — Practical 

 Results for the S. A. F— Club and Society 



Notes 708 



Coming Events 709 



FRENCH NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SO- 

 CIETY— C. Harman Payne 709 



SOME CHRYSANTHEMUM NOVELTIES — Il- 

 lustrated 710 



Chas. H. Totty— Illustration 711 



INDOOR FRUIT CULTURE— Wm. Downs Til 



SEED TRADE: 



Important Decisions Regarding a Seed Growing 



Contract — Notes — Incorporated 716 



The Cauliflower Crop 717 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS. 



Plant and Flower Combinations for Table and 



Mantel Work — Steamer Departures 718 



A Flora] Design, Illustration — New Retail 

 Flower Stores 719 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit. Indianapolis, Philadel- 

 phia 721 



New York 723 



OBITUARY — E. Leedham — .1. E. Sills — James Lewis 

 — J. A. Nisbet — Frank Beu — James Henderson — 

 S. W. Flower 730 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Appraisers' Decisions 716 



Catalogues Received 716 



Business Changes 719 



Personal 719 



Detroit Personals 721 



News Notes 721 



Local Flower Shows 723 



Plant Imports 728 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 730 



Thanksgiving Day with its time-honored 



Hopeful feasting ami good cheer inserts its welcome 



gratitude p r( etwixl and between the business 



activities of the week and bids us forget 



for i ires and worries of past, present 



and future ami turn to view the kindliest, sunniest side 



of our nature. As « with kindred and friends 



in gratitude and Ei li ication this year many may feel 



that it i- nil! so much that which is past as the promise 

 of what is in come that gives especial cause for thanks- 

 giving ami heart e fort. The future certainly looms 



up m much more inviting aspect to most of us than it 

 did one year ago. That it may prove no elusive promise 

 but may yield abundantly of every blessing and bring 

 in each ami every one prosperity and happiness in 

 fullest measure is Horticulture's sincere wish for all 

 who read I In--'' lines. 



"Min." it has been said, "are but boys 

 A Washington f a larger growth." This saying 

 diversion comes to our mind rather pertinently 

 as we contemplate the simple-minded 

 ami exuberant pleasure which our great men and wo- 

 men in Washington seem to take in getting seedling 

 chrysanthemums named after one another and the 

 grai Lous diplomacy with which our friends, the govern- 

 ment gardeners, provide a fresh batch of new varieties 

 for this harmless pastime each season. What matters it 

 that these productions with their aspiring titles are 

 never called upon to pass the ordeal of the chrysanthe- 

 mum committee's searching eye, that their fame makes 

 no stir beyond the charmed circle in which they scin- 

 tillate ami that, in all probability they will never be 

 heard of again. " 'Tis neither here nor there." Out- 

 side of the group of mutually charmed participants the 

 ubiquitous newspaper correspondent seems to be the only 

 party who takes the little comedy seriously. 



Following close on the heels of the 

 organization of the retail florists 

 in New York comes the news of a 

 similar action on the part of the 

 violet growers of the Ehinebeck district "for the pur- 

 pose of encouraging the cooperation of violet growers 

 and for the protection and advancement of their com- 

 mon interests.'' HORTICULTURE has always been ready 

 to applaud organization. Organization makes possible 

 much that can never be accomplished without it. Wisely 

 used, in the hands of broad minded and capable leaders, 

 organization is a tremendous power for good. We can 

 detect elements of danger, however, in the multiplicity 

 of special class organizations, the component parts of 

 which have interests which under misguidance might 

 become antagonistic. Events in connection with the 

 recent football excitement in New Haven and its rela- 

 tion to the violet trade, for instance, are rather disquiet- 

 ing, if our information is correct, and suggest the need 

 of guarding against unconsidered and precipitate 

 action. Whether growers, wholesale or retail, there is 

 plenty of scope for useful work by each of these trade 

 societies but on questions which vitally concern them 

 all, and for their common interests, the need of some 

 means for conference and cooperation will, we believe, 

 soon become manifest. Here is. perhaps, an oppor- 

 tunity for our young S. A. F. strategists who are now 

 taking the reins of leadership in that organization, to 

 evolve a plan of affiliation between these specialized 

 bodies and the great national association whi.ch shall 

 make for harmony through a submission of all disturb- 

 ing questions to dispassionate consideration of an ac- 

 i eptable intermediary hoard as they come up. 



An opening for a 

 diplomat 



