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HORTl CULTURE 



January 12, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



JANUARY 12, 190? 



NO. 2 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE — Begonia Gloire de Lorraine 



ORNAMENTAL CONIFERS— A. Hans— Illustrated 29 



THE LIMA BEAN— T. D. Hatfield 30 



NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY— C. 



Harman Payne 31 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New Jersey Floricultural Society — American Car- 

 nation Society — Lenox Horticultural Society — 

 Elberon Horticultural Society — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston — Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society — Boston Horticultural Lectures 32 



North Shore Horticultural Society — Club and 



Society Notes 33 



MIDWINTER MEDITATIONS— R. T. McGorum 33 



NAPHTALIN AGAINST PLANT ENEMIES— Trans. 



by G. Bleicken 34 



OBITUARY 34 



SEED TRADE 35 



Catalogues Received 35 



OUR CREDIT SYSTEM— S. S. Skidelsky 36 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS. 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, De- 

 troit Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia 39 



CRAFT AND CRAFTSMAN— W. H. Wyman 45 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Late Count Kerchove de Denterghem 33 



California Notes 33 



News Notes 34 



Plant Imports 35 



Personal 39 



List of Patents 46 



As usual at this dreary season of the 



Death year it has heen our sad duty to report, 



keeps busy ju our recent issues, many deaths in the 



profession, some shining lights and 



others more obscure, but each filling his place in the 



profession as seemed to him best, and each and every 



one a severe loss in his talking away to his associates and 

 fellows. Seriou.s as are such bereavements to family 

 and personal friends they are none the less so to the 

 cause of horticulture generally, although, perhaps, not 

 so keenly felt at the time. We hope that the year now 

 opening will deal gently with us and that the energetic 

 men who are the mainstay of our commercial and so- 

 ciety life today may all be still with us when 1907 has 

 passed into history. 



Attention has been called, some time 

 Plain since, in our seed trade notes to the incon- 

 cataiogues venience suffered by the catalogue mak- 

 th IS year ej-g gg ^ result of the widespread strike of 

 the lithographers. Rarely does the course 

 known as a strike benefit those on whose behalf it is 

 made or permanently remedy any of the evils against 

 which it assumes to protest. So far, however, as the 

 intent is to inflict injury on others the strike is always 

 a pronounced success and, in the long run, all those 

 concerned in it are pretty sure also to suffer equal or 

 greater penalty. The catalogues which are now begin- 

 ning to come to hand are, as expected, models of plain- 

 ness, although there are a few exceptions, such as where 

 one seedsman took the precaution to order his colored 

 covers from aViroad. But the contents and the stock 

 represented is just as desirable as though exploited in 

 the highest style of the lithographic art and it would 

 he absurd to imagine that the sale of seeds for the com- 

 ing season will be any less than it would have been 

 otherwise. So the loss falls not so much on the seeds- 

 men as on the lithographic trade and, furthermore, we 

 should not be surprised to see a permanent curtail- 

 ment of the amount spent annually by the seed deal- 

 ers on lavish catalogue adornment. If it should so turn 

 out no harm will come of it and there will be more 

 money available to put into quality of seed and encour- 

 age careful .seed growing, which will be a better place 

 for it than the lithographers' j)ockets. 



The Lima Bean — Black or White 



Editor HoRTicuLTUBE : — I liave been much inter- 

 ested in Mr. O'Mara's instructive essay on "Sports," 

 and desire to give an experience of my own, with Bush 

 Lima Beans. About ten years ago T bought two kinds 

 of Bush Lima seed — Henderson's, and a black seeded 

 variety — name forgotten. The lilack seeded variety was 

 very hardy and productive — a counterpart of Hender- 

 son's in every way, except in color of seed. They were 

 sown on the same patch — three rows of eacli. Wlien 

 Hearing maturity I noticed among Henderson's an 

 extra robust-looking plant with larger pods and seeds — 

 the seeds were green. Henderson's are white. I 

 marked the plant for .seed. It had besides a running 

 habit — not decidedly so, or as much as the common 

 climbing Sieva Lima. The next season I sowed all the 

 seeds in a long row and watched their development 

 closely throughout the season. Many resembled Hen- 



