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HORTICULTURE 



April 4, 1908 



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VOL. VII APRIL 4, 1908 NO. 14 



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~~ CONTENTS 



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FRONTISPIECE— White Killaruey. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 437 



PRUNUS DAYIDI ANA— Daniel A. Clarke 437 



OUR FRONTISPIECE 438 



THE NEW AMERICAN CARNATIONS IN ENGLAND 

 — M C. Allwood 439 



THE FERTILIZER QUESTION— Dr. B. T. Galloway.. 439 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY: 



Tbe Chicago Meeting (continued)— The Banquet.. 440 



PHILADELPHIA SPRING FLOWER SHOW 441 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — New 

 York Florists' Club — National Association of Gar- 

 deners — New Orleans Horticultural Society — Tar- 

 rjtown Horticultural Society — A Hustling Member 

 —Club and Society Notes 442 



OBITUARY: 



E. D. Darlington, Portrait — Simeon Sinndells — 

 Peter L. Guigree — Theo, Williams — Jas. W. Ride- 

 out- G. G. Haven 143 



INDOOR COMMERCIAL ROSE CULTURE— Eber 



Holmes 443 



SEED TRADE 446 



QUALITIES OF FORMOSA LILIES 448 



ANCHUSA ITALICA VAR. DROPMORE— Frederick L. 



Rea— Illustrated 448 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FIX)RISTS 450 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Detroit. Indianapolis. New York. 

 Philadelphia, Washington 453 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Cherokee Rose 441 



Personal 441 



Plant Imports 446 



Publications Received 447 



News Notes 450, 451 



"Grandmothers' Day" in Philadelphia 453 



Business Changes 453 



Incorporated 453 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 461 



A Low-Priced Level 461 



Hail Losses 461 



Earnestl,y hoped for but long de- 

 The rose in f erred, the day of the American rose 

 the ascendant seems at last to have dawned. De- 

 voted men have been working and ex- 

 perimenting during the past few years on many lines 

 which might furnish a possible basis for development 

 of new races adapted to the peculiar conditions of 

 American climate, and now that the foundations are 

 laid we may expect to see results follow in rapid suc- 

 cession which will stimulate rose breeding and ultimate- 

 ly bring rose culture in this country to tlie pre-eminence 



which it has so long enjoyed abroad. The Hills, Daw- 



i^ons, Walshes, Cooks, Mandas and Montgomerys of the 

 coming generation will rapidly multiply. The Egans, 

 Hiawathas, Rhea Raids, Wellesleys and Cardinals of 

 today, beautiful as they are, are destined to be super- 

 seded by children fairer, more productive, continuous- 

 blooming, yet absolutely hardy. All honor to the men 

 who have had the courage to take the initiative. 



Our readers who recognize the importance 

 Progress of and appreciate Horticulture's contin- 

 ued efforts to provide instructive horticul- 

 tural literature from the most advanced standpoint will 

 be pleased to know that the series of notes from the 

 Arnold Arboretum by Mr. Alfi-ed Rehder, begun in our 

 issue of last week, will be continued regularly through- 

 out the year. The new plants brought to light by Mr. 

 Wilson in his North China explorations will be fully 

 noted by Mr. Eehder in these columns as fast as their 

 horticultural value in America is demonstrated under 

 the unerring eye and hand of Jackson Dawson. It is 

 on the lines herein suggested that we look to see the 

 most notable horticultural advancement during the next 

 decade. As heretofore remarked. Horticulture hopes 

 to do its humble part in helping to spread the light of 

 progress in these coming days wliicli promise so much. 

 In this respect we have other good things in store. Tell 

 your friends. 



The problem which intruded itself so forci- 

 A live bly at the American Rose Society exhibi- 

 question tion in Chicago of how to do full justice in 

 judging exhibits from a long distance in 

 competition with those of local production is one which 

 has already assumed a disturbing importance in the 

 American Carnation Society and is sufficiently serious 

 to warrant immediate consideration and prompt adjust- 

 ment if possible. So long as the rules and system of 

 judging leave the jtidges no option but to base their 

 conclusions solely upon what is in sight at the moment 

 of judging it cannot be expected that exhibitors from a 

 distance will subject their product in the classes of ma- 

 terial which are sure to lose certain values by long 

 transportation, to the chances for discredit thus pre- 

 sented. If these societies whose shows must, in the na- 

 ture of things, be composed of perishable material 

 would have their exhibitions anything more than local 

 affairs it seems imperative that concessions in some 

 form in the interests of distant contributors must be 

 forthcoming. The "zone" system with a certain num- 

 ber of points or fractions of points conceded on color or 

 other changeable qualities according to miles traversed 

 seems to present the best solution. 



Our Frontispiece 



Our frontispiece shows one of the most promising 

 roses ever introduced to the American trade. Killarney 

 has more than "made good." White Killarney, origi- 

 nating with ihe prince of rose growers, Alexander Mont- 

 gomery, is destined to take a position of leadership in 

 the commercial cut flower trade, putting into the shade 

 the varieties. that have for many years been indispensa- 

 ble. We learn that the F. R. Pierson Company, of 

 TarrA'town, N. Y., has secured one-half interest in this 

 sterling novelty — another evidence of the far-sighted 

 judgment of the man who first discovered carnation 

 Winsor. 



