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HORT1 CULTU RE 



December 19, 1908 



U *"*v r% qp ¥ aT"* ¥ J ¥ TT¥ TWIT Like the latter, however, it is believed that the parcels 



* *■ **** *^- ■*• •*• ^^ ^ •*"** •*• ^*^ ^____ post will prove a profitable financial venture for the 



VOL viil DbCEMshR i9, 1908 NO. 25 Department and help to cut down rather than increase 



' the annual deficit. No doubt, the establishment of a 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY . i '11 l l Ui CI ill, 



HORTICULTURE. PUBLISHING CO. I' am ' ls l )osl wlU be fou § ht to a ^^ as ll has been 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. from the start, by the Express monopoly. But the atti- 



Teiephone, oxford 192 hide of the people toward this and some other reforms 



wm. ). stewart. Editor »nd Manager l ias undergone a change, of late, from that of indiffer- 



===== ^ == subscription price ence to that of eager interest. In no place is this fact 



0mm far, in advance,$i.oo; To Foreign Countriea, 1.00; To Canada, $130 better Ulldcrst 00(1 than ill the lialls of Congress and 



advertising rates Express domination will be promptly overthrown as soon 



M lach, 30 inchea to page ................ S1.00. 1 r r J , 



rHacoimta on contracta tor conaecutive insertions, as foiiowa: as the people sliow that they are emphatically in earnest 



One month 14 times) 5per cent., three months d3times) toper cent.: ' ' ,. , , x .. ,•', ,,, 



atxmontha ,a6 timea) ao per cent. . one year <s» times) 30 per cent. in calling for this forward movement which Should have 



P«,« and half pag ejpacea^.pecial rate, on application. |jeen made j ong agQ After t])e barefaced plundering 



f^iared at second-da^ matter December 8, iooj, at the Post Office at Bosion, Mass wllirli HorfstS, 1 1 1 1 r-' ' I' ] 1 1 II ID ; i 1 1 ' 1 ' >! Ili'I'- have had to SUD- 



under the Act of Con g ress o( March 3 , .879. mit to ^ or( j er that transportation monopolies might 



CONTENTS Page continue to pile up millions of surplus and pay huge 



COVER ILLTJSTRATION-An Innovation in Conserva- stock dividends it ought not to require any urging to 



tory Ai chitecture awaken the horticultural interests to activity on behalf 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred f a measure which alone seems to hold out the promise 



Render . . . . ■ • • • ■-•■•• ■""••""■ ' ; '7 " V n. ™ '.A' ' m« of substantial and permanent relief. Write to your rep- 



THE M \N WITH THE SCISSORo— Luke J. Doogue.. S31 n t\ 



AN INNOVATION IN CONSERVATORY ARCHITEC- resentative in Congress. Do it now. 



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SBVCrMEN' 'CHRYSANTHEMUM— Miss Clay Frick— P«'r Sana's Hovey.— This is a rather 



■ Illustration SJ1 Appreciation small, russety pear, but of soft buttery 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: at home and fle f and very P leasant f sweet flavor. It 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, Portrait . . « by no means new, as it has been grown 



Wm Downs-Pittsburgh Florists' Club-Morris abroad >n various parts of England for some 



County Gardeners' and Florists' Society-Horticul- . A y ears - °° f lff f lis it is liable to come 



tural Society Of Chicago-American Carnation So- f""/' b t ut on drier soils and worked on he quince stock 



T, ouva-tj ^ jjjg f rults are swee t am j very pleasant eating. It is a mid- 



New ; YoVkFiorists"ciubVp'ort'rau'w.''a Richards", " £ inter l )ear ' as the f ™ its °" eD k f D wel1 till January 



,, 1 Vi »• ..1. ' 1 c ; ... 39-5 For some reason or other it has not previously been sent 



Jr.-Newpcrt : Hoytivultuial SocietJ ■ . -•-•■•■■■■ ■ • ■ J33 , the Royal Horticultural Society's fruit committee. It 



Bar Harbor Horticultural Society-Lenox Ho t.cul- go on received a prac- 



tural Society-Gardeners and Florists Club of unanimous award of merit. Shown by Messrs. 



Baltimore-New Jersey Horticultural Society 835 Jame > ^^ ^ che]g ^ Thg vari y , 8 said t0 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society-St. Louis haye been ra . ged by Mf Francis Dana Massacnusetts> 



Florist Club-Club and Society Notes Sol him Mf Hovey 



SEED TRADE 838 Garden London !><■■ 7 WW 



NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 3TA- hnraen, bowton, Der. .,, UK. 



TION BULLETIN >:;s Quite so; this excellent little pear was raised by 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: Francis Dana of Roxbury, Mass. On November 13, 



Baltimore — Buffalo — Chicago — steamer Departures. -.11) » 



Detroit— Pittsburgh-- Plant Supply in New York — 1852, it was exhibited as "Seedling No. 16,'' before the 



O^R R MARKET r REPORTS- S41 Massachll sett8 Horticultural Society at Boston. At the 



Boston. Buffalo. Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Pitts- autumn exhibition of the same society in 1865 it was 



hnrgh „.- awarded under the name of Dana's Hovey, the "prospec- 



New York B4D . 



OBITUARY — Mrs. David Weir— Harry C. Smith S50 tive prize for best new seedling pear after a trial of five 



MISCELLANEOUS: years." Tn the meantime it had been fully described in 



Publications Received '•« J . , . . ' . 



Plant Imports 838 Downing s "iruits and Fruit Trees of America and 



Catalogues Received S39 regularly since that time it has had a place in the yearly 



Personal *41 . . . 



Business Changes— In Bankruptcy 841 prize lists of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Pittsburgh Notes S42 T))e good o]d acla "Taste and try before you buy" 



NewfNo P tes a !?*?. :;:::::'.'. '.::'.:::: '. : .".'. "'.■.'.". ^sJs' ^m S to have been very thoroughly practiced by our 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 852 British friends in this instance, it apparently having 



taken them nearly half a century to appreciate the 



It is very pleasant to know that the re- Dana's Hovey. Seemingly they are not so precocious 



A nest egg C ent National Flower Show netted an across the water in everything as our Philadelphia 



actual profit sufficient to pay a bonus of friend Ed. Lonsdale wishes us to believe when in his 



ten per cent, to all contributors to the guarantee^ fund, recent notes concerning the rose Rhea Reid, in a con- 



We hope, however, that a different disposal of this stir- temporary, he says that "this is not the first time a rose 



plus will be made. The subscribers to the fund which has had to go to Europe and win recognition before it 



made the show possible were not actuated by any pros- was appreciated in its native home!" Which moves us 



pect of profit and now that their money has been re- to remark, most modestly, that nearly three years be- 



turned to them hi full we believe that it would please f ore its triumphal visit to Paris, Horticulture appre- 



them best if the surplus could be turned over in full to dated this rose sufficiently to have a photograph made 



the custody of the treasurer of the S. A. F., or, perhaps, f it for use as a cover illustration and in our accom- 



the Horticultural Society of Chicago, to be held in trust panying notes we were not stinted in our praise of its 



as a nest-egg for the next national exhibition. good qualities and bright promise. Reverting to the 



It now begins to look as though we are pear — had the pear men for the past twenty years shown 



Relief in about to get a domestic parcels post. Pos- the same enthusiastic enterprise that Francis Dana and 



sight sihlv in a tentative form but, once a start his associates did in their time or that the rose men have 



has been made, a general extension may be shown of late, undoubtedly the Dana's Hovey and other 



looked for, as was the case with rural free delivery. Un- old standards would have been superseded long ago. 



