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HORTICULTURE 



June 15. 1007 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. V 



JUNE 15, 190r 



NO. 24 



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CONTENTS 



FRONTISPIECE — A Japanese Garden in Philadelphia 

 THE MODERN HERBACEOUS BORDER— Robt Cam- 

 eron — Illustrated 777 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 779 



THE TOMATO — H. R. Peachey — Illustrated 781 



HEATING ORCHARDS— R. L. Adams 781 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — New Haven 

 Horticultural Society — Pittsburg and Allegheny 

 Florists' and Garaeners' Club— New London Horti- 

 cultural Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society 



—Columbus Florists' Club 782 



Chrysanthemum Society of America — ^American 



Peony Society 784 



New York B'lorists' Club — North Shore Horticul- 

 tural Society- Club and Society Notes 790 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 



President's Address 783 



Secretary's Report 784 



THE GREAT TEMPLE SHOW AT LONDON 



Some Notable Plant Exhiliits, Thos. Bunyard — 



New and Rare Plants, H. H. Thomas 785 



Certificates Awarded 786 



SEED TRADE 786 



FIFTEENTH NATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS. 787 

 THE DETERIORATION OF PLANTS BY FORCING 



Antoine Wintzer 788 



A JAPANESE AQUATIC G.ARDEN IN PHILADEL- 

 PHIA— Illustrated 788 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo. Columbus, Indianapolis, New 



York. Philadelphia, Twin Cities. Washington 793 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Duty on Rhododendrons 786 



Incorporated 786 



Washington Garden Notes 786 



Raising Seedling Peonies — George HoUis 788 



To Lav Out a Tennis Court- Chas. Ingram 790 



Obituary 790 



Publications Rnceived 790 



News Notes 791 



Business Changes 793 



Newport Trade Notes 793 



During Recess 793 



Philadelphia Notes 793 



Express Rates to Cana.Ia 795 



Greenhouses Building or Contem|)lated 801 



List of Patents 801 



Catalogues Received 801 



Horticulture 

 takes the lead 



Attention is called in the columns of 

 onr New York oontemporary to the 

 "improvement, contemplated and 

 current" instituted by our Canadian 

 contemporary in the exclusion from its reading columns 

 of cheap jokes and personal comments "such as those 

 that disfigure the columns of some of the United States 

 trade papers." We agree with our friend in New York 

 that this is a sensible course. We also re.spectfully call 



attention to tlie tact that IIouticultuke was the tirst to 

 take the step in the direction of a more elevating and 

 dignified range of reading matter. We are glad to see 

 our neighbor across the line following in Horticulture's 

 footsteps in this reform. As in its case, "a few florists 

 liave found fault with this policy," but we think it is 

 now jjretty evident to all observers that no mistake was 

 made. We note with pleasure the improvement more or 

 less noticeable in the reading material handed out by 

 oitr three older contemporaries since it became evident 

 that Horticulture's policy was meeting with wide- 

 !-pi'ead approval and it was demonstrated that a florists' 

 and gardeners' paper could find ample support without 

 limiting its contents to the calibre of the least intel- 

 lectual of its readers. Let the good work go on. 



In another column we present the 

 The nurseryman annual address of President Harri- 

 and his sphere gon before the American Association 



of Nurserymen, in session at Detroit 

 this week. It is an interesting document containing 

 much food for thought on the part of workers in other 

 departments of culture as well as of the nurserymen. 

 On this occasion we would mention but one point in Mr. 

 Harrison's address, and that in the way of friendly 

 criticism. He seems to have overlooked that sturdy 

 department of the nurserym.en's trade which has sho\vn 

 such a marvelous growth of late years and offers so 

 much of promise for the future — the ornamental section, 

 trees and shrubs which are planted mainly for their 

 beauty and their shade. Consistently with this omis- 

 sion, in his favorable comments on the horticultural 

 press, we note that the fruit grower and the farmer, the 

 fruit and farm papers only are recognized. He then 

 says, with truth, that "the nurserymen are the poorest 

 advertisers and it is our own fault." We would 

 respectfully submit that so long as the nurseryman iier- 

 sists in his assumed indifference towards that horticul- 

 ture which is today showing the greatest progressive 

 vitality, just so long will the above criticism by the 

 president of his Association hold good. 



We are pleased with the approv- 

 The horticulturists' ing response accorded by our 

 interest in nature readers to our recent appeal on 

 t)ehalf of mir forests and the 

 wild creatures which Nature ordained should do a large 

 sliare towards maintaining those conditions needed to 

 make the world a comfortable and luxuriant abiding 

 jilace for mankind. We are told that it was man's own 

 folly that lost to him forever the beautiful Eden which 

 liad been given him for a home, yet the lesson seems 

 to have been wasted on us, for despite all our assump- 

 tion of intelligence we are surely disobeying in the most 

 flagrant and reckless manner natural laws which are 

 inseparable elements of our existence — laws as inexor- 

 . able as that which exiled Adam and Eve from their 

 garden habitation. Where shall we look if not to the 

 Itorticulturist, closeted as he is with Nature in all his 

 operations and interests, for earnest pioneer work in 

 awakening the country to the impending calamity, the 

 burden of which already begins to weigh upon us? 

 AAHien we reflect that vntliin the past year or two an 

 organization of fruit growers and farmers has peti- 

 tioned a State legislature for the right to exterminate 

 the robin, the ignorant Italian and his mania for bird- 

 killing should not surprise us but rather bring us to a 

 realization of the magnitude of the task ahead before a 

 healthy public sentiment can be fully developed. The 

 two communications on another page of this issue are 

 timely. Lot us have some more of the same kind. 



