HORTICULTURE 



January 5, igOT 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



JANUARY 5, 190r 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE — Christmas Azaleas 



CYCLES OF THE AMARYLLIS— John Thorpe 5 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 5 



ROSE HOUSE WISDOM— R. T. McGorum 7 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS - 7 



THE NEW S. A. F. DIRECTORS— Portraits— J. K. 



M. L. Farquhar, T'heo. Wirth, Samuel Murray 8 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



S. A. F. Ladies' Auxiliary 8 



Florist Club of Philadelphia 8 



Connecticut Horticultural Society 8 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 9 



Club and Society Notes 9 



SEED TRADE 9 



Catalogues Received 9 



OBITUARY 



Wm. Charlton— John T. Doyle— Mrs. Wm. L. 

 Morris — Elijah W. Wood, Portrait — Harry Graves — 



Mrs. Robert Scott — Harry Brown 10 



THE WIDE HOUSE QUESTION— Illustrated 11 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Des Moines, 



Detroit, Louisville, New Y"ork, Philadelphia 15 



Indianapolis 21 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Entrance to Azalea House — Illustration 7 



To Abolish "Graft" 9 



News Notes 10 



A Promising Chrysanthemum Sport 12 



California Notes 12 



Philadelphia Notes 12 



. Montreal Christmas Happenings 13 



Personal 21 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 21 



A Fitting Tribute 21 



SUPPLEMENT WITH 

 THIS ISSUE 



Horticulture extends to its growing 



A Happy family of readers best wishes for a happy 



New Year ajuJ prosperous New Year and expresses 



tlie hope that the serenity and brightness 



that made January 1, 1D07, the most beautiful New 



Year's Day we have ever experienced be typical of the 



sunny prosperity to come during the year to every one 



who reads these lines. We further hope that Horti- 



culture may win a liberal measure of recognition as a 

 contributing factor in whatever good the year holds in 

 store for the craft. 



Who will go to Toronto? The 



The Toronto carnation meeting is scheduled 



carnation meeting lor January 23 and there is 



every reason to expect that, in 

 all respects, the Toronto affair will equal in interest 

 and profit the very best of its predecessors. Reduced 

 railroad transportation has been accorded to those at- 

 tending and liberal concessions have been made for ex- 

 hibitors taking material across the border. Let every 

 craftsman "this side of the line" who can possibly do> 

 so get ready to pack up and join in this visit to -the land 

 of snow and help to show by their niimbers and enthu- 

 siasm that in horticulture, at least, there is no such 

 thing as a "dividing line." We know that a big-hearted 

 welcome awaits the visitors. Who can afford to stay 

 away ? 



The landscape garden study 



Training class of the Gardeners' and 



young gardeners Florists' Club of Boston has 



for landscape work proven a very popular move, 



particularly with the younger 

 gardeners, who have taken to the le'ssons with com- 

 mendable avidity. The fundamentals of geometry are 

 the topics now under consideration. A talk by Prof. 

 Chas. S. Sargent is on the program for some evening 

 in the near future. The class comprises sixty students 

 and meets twice a week. That some of these young 

 men will yet make their mark in landscape work is a 

 reasonable proposition for some of them are already 

 well advanced in plant knowledge, a fundamental train- 

 ing in which is the best foundation for the successful 

 landscape artist. 



We like to read of the enthnsi- 

 A British asm spreading all through Great 



welcome to the Britain over the so-called "win- 

 American carnation ter-flowering carnation." The 



wave of popularity accorded 

 tliis, our own type of the "Divine Flower" over there^ 

 is all the more gratifying because of the prejudice which 

 its introduction developed — an opposition so strong 

 that it was refu.sed admission to the schedules of the 

 Carnation Society and the only alternative left for its 

 indomitable friends was to organize a special society 

 devoted to its interests. The welcome extended by our 

 English friends to innovations from Yankee-land is 

 not usually remarkable for eager ardor and the pro- 

 moters of the new society have every reason to be proud 

 of their signal success. It is stated that their first ex- 

 hibition which took place recently was so well received 

 that it is proposed to hold another in March, and so 

 appreciative are the flower fanciers of the opportunity 

 to have such attractive blooms in the dull winter days 

 that the amateur growers actually begrudge sending 

 their flowers to the exhibition. 



