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HORTICULTURE 



December 12, 1908 



horticulture: 



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CONTENTS page 



COVER DESIGN— Merry Christmas 



TABLE CENTRE PIECES— Luke J. Doogue— Illus.. . 773 



TREE TALKS— Jackson Dawson 774 



CATTLEYA CITRINA— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 775 



ROSE NOTES IN SEASON— J. E. Simpson 775 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES— C. Harman Payne 775 



NKK1NE FOTHERGILLI MAJOR— Wm. McM. Brown 



—Illustrated 776 



THE CARNATION BUD ROT— A. C. Beal 777 



CULTURE OF BRUSSELS SPROUTS 779 



CULTURE OP BEGONIA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE— 



Chas. Thomas Veasley ' 779 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Maryland Horticultural Society— Detroit Florist 

 Club— New York Florists' Club— Minnesota Horti- 

 cultural Society— Amer. Rose Society— Michigan 

 State Horticultural Society— Pittsburg Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— Albany Florists' Club— Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America— Amer. Carnation 



Society— Notes 780-781-782 



LINCOLN PARK ANNUAL EXHIBITION 782 



INDOOR FRUIT CULTURE— William Downs 783 



A MELON HOUSE— Illustrated 783 



THE CYCLAMEN FOR CHRISTMAS— Illustrated. . . 785 



CHRISTMAS AT CRAIG'S 785 



THE MOVING OF IRON-FRAME HOUSES— Illus.. . . 786 

 OBITUARY: 



Henry Pearce — Nicholas Studer— W. J. Beatty — 

 Prof. J. G. Lemmon— Peter M. Novik— Walter 

 Slade— Archibald J. Taylor— John Baker, Portrait 



—Martin B. Smith — Mrs. Maria G. Kresken 787 



CHRISTMAS TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA 788 



CHICAGO CHRISTMAS OUTLOOK: 788 



A WEST VIRGINIA ESTATE— G. A. Bishop— Illus.. . 790 



SEED TRADE 792 



SALT ON THE TAIL OF AN IDEA— Charles H. Fox (98 



CARNATION MARCHIONESS- Illustrated 800 



CARNATION GEORGIA 800 



CARNATION EDWARD- Illustrated 801 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Retail Flower Stores— Steamer Departures. 806 



The Washington Season 807 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



Philadelphia, Twin Cities— New York 809-S11 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE... 817 

 JACK ROSE DAHLIA AND A MILESTONE— G. C. 



Watson 817 



DURING RECESS— Chicago Florists' Club 817 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



National Farm School— G. C. Watson 817 



New Art Volume on Gardening — C. Harman 



Pavne 817 



A Rose Grower's Perplexities— A Winter Song. .. 779 



Prize Table Decoration — Illustration 781 



Denison Flower Show— Local Flower Shows 782 



Catalogues Received 791-793 



Plant Imports 792 



rysanthemum House at Budlong's— Illustration 800 



The Money in Hot-Beds— Busy People 801 



Personal- Albany Personals 807 



News Notes and Business Changes 80S-S09-818 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 819 



Patents Granted— Incorporated 819 



It is four years since Horticulture 



Our extended its first "Merry Christmas" 



anniversary greeting to the horticultural workers of 



our land and asked for their indulgence 

 and support of it? efforts to advance the interests of the 

 art and of (hose making it their life work. That the 

 invoked support was generously given at the start and 

 has been steadfastly continued up to the present time 

 needs no proving to anyone who will glance over the 

 pages of this, our anniversary number, and we take the 

 present opportunity to express in as public a manner as 

 possible our deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for 

 the kindness, enthusiasm and loyalty which have been 

 so ungrudgingly extended and without which success 

 for Horticulture would have been an impossibility. 

 We congratulate the horticultural profession and allied 

 interests on the encouraging outlook and hope that the 

 year on which we are about to enter may fulfil its bright 

 promise for every one. Horticulture wishes you all a 

 Merry Christmas. 



After reading the stirring lines con- 



A priceless tributed from time to time by our 



heritage nature-loving correspondents, Bev. C. S. 



Harrison, Jackson Dawson, Prof. Fam- 

 mel and others, one is forcibly impressed with the 

 thought of the wide gap that forever lies between the 

 best achievements of the most gifted landscape artists 

 and the wonderful handiwork of nature as seen in the 

 virgin forest and the vast primeval gardens unmolested 

 by man. It is well that as much as possible of this sub- 

 lime scenery be protected from destruction and pre- 

 served for the welfare and delight of the people and to 

 serve as examples to which mankind may look, for all 

 time, for inspiration in reclothing and rebeautifying the 

 scarred and forbidding s'urfaee of a once-glorious world 

 and every horticulturist should be found in the front 

 rank in support of the widespread movements now on 

 foot for the conservation of whatever is still left to us of 

 our natural resources, more especially the forests. 



A New York florist whose name is familiar 

 An act from one end of the country to the other, 

 of folly having been petitioned into bankruptcy last 

 week and endeavoring to divert attention 

 from the distasteful insolvency facts has taken 

 opportunity to publicly traduce the business which 

 has given him a living, the men who have gen- 

 erously trusted him and the great flower buy- 

 ing public in a manner that will surprise and offend 

 the many who have been disposed to overlook his esca- 

 pades in the past and who have admired and respected 

 him for his resourcefulness and self-reliance. Those 

 who know anything about the situation in the New 

 York florist trade are aware that most of the bombast 

 which the daily papers have been all too ready to spread 

 before the public as the expression of this gentleman, is 

 mere fabrication, but the public will accept it as truth 

 and the flower business and everybody connected with 

 it must share in the unmerited humiliation. The flower 

 business stands for too much that is near and dear to 

 the human heart to be thus recklessly villified and so far 

 as the wholesale trade of New York is concerned, a word 

 of gratitude and of sympathy for those dealers who have 

 lost through this affair would be much more creditable 

 than a public arraignment. We hope our friend will be 

 able 10 carry out his promise to "make good" in all 

 ets within a Year, but we would remind him, with 

 the kindliest motive behind, never to forget when seeking 

 publicity through the newspapers or otherwise, that 

 "Fame's very sweet, yet we should careful be 

 That it is fame, not notoriety." 



