June 13, 19US 



HORTICULTURE 



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the nurserymen, and that more care 

 should l)p used in deciding what stocl< 

 to grow and thus have less stocic left 

 to carry over, and that stock to be 

 utilized for a bonfire. He was fol- 

 lowed by an exhaustive and valuable 

 paper by^.Iudge Eugene Stark on "A 

 Pew Points of Improvement." (This 

 paper is so valuable that we will re- 

 berve its publication for future issue.) 

 A resolution was introduced by P. 

 W. Kelsey thanking members of the 

 Society of Economic Entomologists for 

 co-operation with the aims of the .As- 

 sociation and asking the state vice- 

 presidents to use efforts to have the 

 laws of their states amended to con- 

 torm tc laws in those states where they 

 ha\e proven least burdensome to nur- 

 ser.vmen. In speaking on the motion, 

 Mr. Kerr of Texas spoke at length on 

 the subject of inspection laws and said 

 that this is a burning question and 

 would become more drastic as time 

 went on. In illustration, he gave an 

 instance of a nursery company in 

 Texas being sued for trees in several 

 orchards which had been attacked by 

 crown gall, although other orchards 

 from the same block of trees are 

 sound. Trees were sold at four cents 

 and the damages claimed in suits for 

 imagined crojis were now called worth 

 from one to several dollars per tree. 



THURSDAY FORENOON SESSION. 



The meeting opened at in a. ra. The 

 first paper read was on the Pecan by 

 H. D. Simpson of Vincennes, Ind. He 

 described their cultui-e and spoke of 

 the enormous profits to be made. C. 

 J. Malloy referred approvingly to the 

 eduicational work being done by the 

 National Council of Horticulture, and 

 C. L. Watrous made a motion, which 

 was adopted, providing that the com- 

 mittee having this work in hand 

 should be composed of three members. 

 J. S. Kerr of Texas followed with a 

 paper dwelling in srlowing language 

 on the magnificent horticultural and 

 otier advantages of the great South- 

 west. A paper by Mr. Pici-cington on 

 the elements of success in the nursery 

 business came next. Too many varie- 

 ties and too loose ci-edits were his 

 text. Prof. J. B. Phillii^e of Virginia 

 sent in a paper on Peach Yellows, 

 which was read by Prof. E. L. Wor- 

 sham of Georgia. 



Mr. Waters read a feeling obituary 

 tribute to the late M. A. Albaugh. F. 

 W. Kelsey presented resolutions em- 

 powering the transportation commit- 

 tee to confer with the Interstate Com- 

 mission to prevent increase in freight 

 rates and delays of shipments, and 

 commending the reduction in foreign 

 mail rates. Prof. L. R. Taft delivered 

 an able lecture on spraying, and .1. 

 Horace McFarland talked eloquently 

 on the nurseryman's duty in the civic 

 improvement movement. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



This session was devoted to the 

 Question Box and minor committee re- 

 ports. When HORTICULTURE went 

 to press the session was still going on 

 and the members were looking for- 

 ward with eager anticipation to the 

 promised excursion to Oconomowok, 

 Wis., on the morrow. Detailed ac- 

 count of the remaining proceedings 

 will ajiiiear in our issue of next week. 



THE TEMPLE SHOW. 





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John Watereh & Son's Exhiiiit ok Hardy Ehoduuendruns. 



In favorable weather and graced by 

 the presence of Her Majesty the Queen 

 on the opening day, the Temple Show 

 was more choice and beautiful than 

 ever. There is an atmosphere of rarity 

 and richness not noted in more spa- 

 cious exhibitions; limitation of space 

 here, has tended .to give a decided gain 

 in quality, and this year there was no 

 suffocating sense of overcrowding. 

 The orchids were in glorious array. 

 These aristocrats of the floral kingdom 

 greeted and appealed to the elite socie- 

 ty who thronged and richly enjoyed 

 the rare feast of color and form dis 

 played in the orchid groups. Sanders 

 gold medal exhibit was full of choice 

 things, notably of fine Odoutoglossum 

 crispum ; two deep-spotted forms, 

 Mauritania and Lusitania, will be fa- 

 miliar names on both sides of the 

 Atlantic. Dendrobiura Bronckhardtii, 

 an imported species and lately in 

 flower at Kew, is a glorified thry^i- 

 fiorum with more graceful and lengthy 

 racemes than that variety; flowers of 

 a soft pale purple tinge. 



The Veitchian cup, this year offered 

 for orchids, was won by F. Menteith 

 Ogilvie, Esq., of Oxford, with a grand 

 group of plants which also received 

 ihe gold Lindley medal for high culti- 

 vation. Charlesworth & Co. had a dis- 

 tinguished gold medal group which in- 

 cluded their new hybrid Odontioda 

 Cbarles^vorthianu)n, Cochlioda Noeti.- 

 liana x Odontoglossum Harryanum. 

 The flower is a vivid scailcu; the in- 

 fluence of Harryanum is not strongly 



noted except in giving size to the 

 flower. 



Hugh Low & Co. well deserved a gold 

 medal for a most beautiful effect with 

 .American carnations, so deservedly 

 popular now in this country. Arranged 

 in pillar form with a background of 

 mirrors festooned with smilax, it was 

 an object lesson in light and graceful 

 grouping. Roses were finely shown. 

 The new ramblers. Paradise and White 

 Dorothy, were leading features in the 

 groups of all the main growers. Paul's 

 new hybrid tea. Elaine, received an 

 award of merit. 



Begonias in great quantity and 

 quality show a marked advance yearly 

 in compactness and size. Blackmore & 

 Langdon. the pioneers of the fringed 

 singles, hud a fine stand of these in- 

 creasingly popular bedding and green- 

 house plants. The new American Ne- 

 phrolepis Amerpohlii, was represented 

 by a single plant and deserves to be 

 better known here. New plants worth 

 noting were Sander's foliage plants 

 lately shown at Ghent; Pereskia God- 

 seffiana makes a pretty basket plant. 

 Croton Fred Sander, of a rich gold and 

 green color, secured an award of merit. 



Ivy dentata variegata, a rich clear 

 creamy sport from the type, is an ac- 

 qviisiticn. The hardy plant groups ar- 

 ranged on the lawns, the pretty rock 

 garden effects, the choice variety of 

 herliaceous flowers, secured much at- 

 tention and point to a great reyival in 

 outdoor stock in recent years, especi- 

 ally in perennial herbaceous plants. 

 EDGAR ELVIN. 



LONGIFLORUM VERSUS MULTI- 

 FLORUM. 



Can any one of our readers specify 

 the difference between the longiflorum 

 and the multiflorum lily, so called.' 

 The distinction exists, on paper, when 

 bulb orders are given, but, according 

 to some of our correspondents, is a 

 very intangible quality in the bulbs 

 as they grow. If anybody can explain 

 where the dividing line is between the 

 two foruis he will confer a favor on 

 n".an\- interested inquirers. 



PRIMULA OBCONICA AS A BED- 

 DING PLANT. 



As a reader of HORTICULTURE I 

 would like to inquire whether any one 

 has ever tried or known Primula ob- 

 conica being used as a bedding plant. 



C. H. F. 



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