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ORTI CULTURt: 



February 22, 1908 



horticulture: 



VOL. VII 



htBRUARY 22, 1908 



NO. 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FROXTISPIfCCE — .lamairaway, Olmsted Park, Boston. 



•'BREAD FROM STONES"— Dudley M. Pray 229 



ART AND NATURE IN GARDEN MAKING— Wm. Mc- 



M. Brown, Illustrated 229 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 230 



AQUILEGIAS— Richard Rothe. Illustrated 231 



HYDRANGEA ABORESCENS GRANDIFLORA— E. G. 



Hill 231 



.TAMAICAWAY 231 



AFTER ADJOURN.MENT 233 



A QUESTION FOR DR. GALLOWAY— Dudley M. Pray 233 



CARNATION TEMPERATURES 233 



BOSTON MARKET EXHIBITION 234 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



St. Louis Florist Club — Morris County Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Society — Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society — Chicago Florists' Club — Buffalo Florists' 



Club — Nassau County Horticultural Society 235 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— St. Louis 

 Horticultural Society— Dayton Florists' Club — Club 



and Society Notes 236 



SEED TRADE 238 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED 238 



A^LASKA- YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION— F. L. Her- 



rick 240 



CARNATION BREEDING IN AMERICA— C. W. Ward. 242 

 FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



New York, Philadelphia, Washington 24.5 



VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Wm. Turner 253 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Commercial Fertilizers Sized Up 233 



Disthorning Instrument for Roses 233 



Library Notes— C. Harman Payne 233 



Personal 233 



A. F. J. Baur, Portrait 234 



International Horticultural Exhibition at Ghent... 234 



•The Private Gardener" 234 



Publications Received 23S 



Appraisers' Decision 238 



Plant Imports 239 



Fire Record 240 



Chicago Retail Trade 243 



Business Changes; Incorporated; News Notes 245 



Greenhouses Building; List of Patents 254 



Exclusively for the 

 commercial florist 



The best waj' to know a man is to 

 meet him face to face. Likewise 

 the value of a flower is best ascer- 

 tained by direct inspection. Es- 

 pecially is this true as regards a flower which is heralded 

 as an acquisition commercially. That unique institu- 

 tion, the annual Boston Market exhibition, had its 

 birth as a result of this need, years ago, and as each 

 successive occasion has come and gone it has come to 

 be recognized as an occasion of increasing importance to 

 the flower growing community until, this year, the 

 event takes on an importance hitherto hardly disclosed. 

 The market exhibition announced in our advertising 

 columns for the -^Oth inst. will undoulitedly bring to- 

 gether the largest assemblage of commercial florists seen 

 in Boston since the moetinss of the carnation and rose 



societies two years ago. Leading men in the trade from 

 far and near realize the possibilities of such an oppor- 

 tunity in the home of Lawson and Enchantress and 

 lliose who want to get a line on the good things in 

 carnations, roses, violets, etc., for next year will iind 

 it to their interest to be present while tliose who have 

 been nursing new candidates in carnations, roses or 

 anything else, for trade iusijcction, cannot afford to miss 

 this uneijuallc'd moans of ptiblieity. 



In the present disturbed financial 



Planning the conditions and the approaching 



business campaign political struggle many wise heads 



think they see the presage of re- 

 stricted business operations during the coming season. 

 We, however, still believe that the unprecedented agri- 

 cultural prosperity of our country may be depended 

 tipon to ward off any great degree of disaster and that 

 much of the pessimism now current is not justified. 

 But the prudent man will always be prepared for any 

 exigency and it now behooves every one who desires to 

 keep the volume of his business for this year up to 

 last year's fiheuomenal record to take steps at once to 

 extend his repute and widen his market through such 

 means of publicity as are provided for him in the adver- 

 tising columns of this paper. Now is the time to take 

 full advantage of the opportunity for if there is to be 

 any reduction in the aggregate of business this year, 

 you may depend upon it that the lion's share of what is 

 left will go to the conspicuous advertiser. In no other 

 line of business is the cost of advertising in the profes- 

 sional publications so low, yet in none are the purchas- 

 ing element more directly and effectively reached. 

 Think it over and if you want your share of the busi- 

 ness of 1908. don't delay any longer. 



A bill reported last week in the Mas- 

 sachusetts House of Eepresentatives 

 provides for the exemption from tax- 

 ation for a period of ten years, under 

 certain stipulated regulations, land planted to trees 

 of any variety approved by the state forester. The 

 problem of equitable taxation for timber lands is one 

 not easy of solution, but perhaps more than any other 

 economic question now before the American people, it 

 demands attention and the penalty for delay is almost 

 beyond conception. Some weeks ago Mr. C. W. Ward, 

 who represents large timber properties in Michigan, de- 

 livered a lecture before the conference of the delegates 

 to the Lake States Forestry Commission at Saginaw, 

 in which he advocated the granting of a certain amotmt 

 i)f relief from taxation to the owner of land devoted to 

 the growing and perpetuating of a sttpply of timber so 

 that he may be enabled to take steps to preserve his 

 forest domains instead of cutting off all of the timber 

 and turning the territory into wastes as is now being 

 done. As ^Ir. Ward truly asserted, the method of tax- 

 ing forest lands hitherto has had the effect practically 

 of penalizing or fining the timber owner for preserving 

 his timber, whereas the policy should be just the re- 

 verse — in fact, to make it expensive for the owner to 

 destroy his timber and require him to make good a 

 percentage of the value destroyed each year by main- 

 taining young trees in quantity to insure a permanent 

 income-bearing forest. Mr. Ward's argument was on 

 irrefutable lines and it is gratifying to see that the sub- 

 ject is receiving attention from the same practical 

 standpoint by the Massachusetts legislature. Happily 

 the people are at last coming to realize how directly the 

 floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures that vex 

 them are due to forest destruction and popular support 

 for any measure which promises to bring relief can now 

 be counted upon. 



To safeguard 

 the forests 



