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HORTICULTURE 



January 19, 1906 



horticulture: 



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JANUARY 19, 190? 



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CONTENTS 



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FRONTISPIECE— City Hall, Toronto 



ODONTOGLOSSTJM CRISPUM— E. O. Orpet 55 



ABOUT CARNATION BRITANNIA— Hugh Low & Co. 55 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS— C. Harman Payne 56 



MORE ABOUT FENCES— K. Finlayson 56 



ANTHURIUMS— Edgar Elvin 57 



POTASH FOR CARNATIONS— L. S. Hasselman 57 



PARCELS POST— R. L. Adams 59 



DWARF GROWING PERENNIAL PHLOXES— Carl 



Blomberg 59 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



New York Florists' Club— Tarrytown Horticul- 

 tural Society— Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 — St. Louis Florist Club — Cincinnati Florists' 

 Society — Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' 



Society 60 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— American Seed 

 Trade Association— Buffalo Florists' Club— New- 

 port Horticultural Society— Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston 61 



Washington Florists' Club— Monmouth County 



Horticultural Society 63 



New Bedford Horticultural Society — Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island — Pasadena 



Gardeners' Association 67 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



List of Premiums — President John H. Dunlop, 



Portrait 62 



Queens' Hotel, Toronto, Illustration 63 



CARNATION WINSOR, Illustrated 64 



CARNATION BEACON 65 



THE JOHN E. HAINES ESTABLISHMENT, Illustrated 65 



SPLIT CARNATION FLOWERS, Illustrated 66 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 66 



CARNATIONS ARISTOCRAT AND WHITE PERFEC- 

 TION, Illustration , 67 



LIBRARY NOTES— C. Harman Payne 68 



SEED TRADE 70 



STORE OF JOHNSON SEED COMPANY, Illustrated. . 70 



OUR CREDIT SYSTEM— S. S. Skidelsky 72 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo. Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, 

 Indianapolis, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia. . 77 

 MISCELLANEOUS 



The Peony Manual 66 



California Notes 67 



News Notes 65, 74 



Personal '7'* 



Incorporated ''^ 



Obituary "^5 



The Pine Bark Beetle 83 



List of Patents 83 



New Plants 83 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 83 



Catalogues Received 83 



AYliatever may be the prevailing opin- 

 Building for jqh as to the practicability of a per- 

 the future manently located "home" for onr rov- 

 ing national societies the desirability 

 of such a possession cannot be overestimated in the 



case of a local organization. The ownership of valu- 

 able property is one of the strongest bulwarks of any 

 institution, giving a guarantee of permanency and as- 

 suring the support and respect of men of means and 

 influence always. Any community big enough to 

 maintain a horticultural society or florists' club is suf- 

 ficiently progressive to make an intelligently selected 

 land investment remunerative in time. Wise invest- 

 ments of this character years ago were the basis of the 

 present great wealth of many influential institutions 

 now widely known which, without this foresight on the 

 part of their founders, might have dropped out of ex- 

 istence long ago. No florists' club can make a mistake 

 if it will thus provide itself with a home which need 

 cost it no more now than would the rental of hired 

 quarters and which after a period of years would be- 

 come a valuable holding. 



In his inaugural address before the 

 Honors vs. cash ^Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 in prize winning ciety, President S. M. Weld called 

 attention to the possible advisabi-1- 

 ity of reducing the number and amount of cash prizes 

 to be awarded at the exhibitions and the giving, in- 

 stead, of more medals, certificates of merit, etc., as is 

 more the custom among the sitccessful horticultural 

 societies abroad. This is a proposition that is likely 

 to develop consi'ierable discussion, as sharp differences 

 of opinion on the ,?ubjt'ct arc known to exist not only 

 .in the domain of the Massachusetts Society, but else- 

 where and wherever horticultural shows are given. 

 The spirit of emulation stimulated by the love of horti- 

 culture for its own sake has not yet reached in this 

 country the strength which it has attained in the older 

 European centres, and it will take time to bring our 

 American exhibitors up to that standard where the 

 honor of excelling is a sufficient inducement to striving 

 for it regardless of any direct cash return, but it is well 

 to try to stimulate this sort of competition, for where 

 it prevails there the best and healthiest horticultural 

 progress will be found. 



Most clubs and societies start their 

 The strength official year with their January meet- 

 of harmony jng. '^q-^ officers are being installed 



and all are promising unflagging zeal 

 in the positions to which their friends have elevated 

 them. As to the success which they will achieve much 

 depends upon the manner of their start. An oft-ex- 

 pressed sentiment is that when a candidate has been 

 fairly elected to an office of responsibility it is the duty 

 of all members to rally loyally to his support, burying 

 all pre-election differences and partizanship and work- 

 ing shoulder to shoulfler in the common cause. It is 

 equally essential that officers after their election should 

 be governed by the same sentiment. Wlien, as is usu- 

 ally the case, on motion of their late rivals, the cour- 

 tesy of a unanimous vote is extended, it becomes their 

 duty to accept it in good faith and to deal with un- 

 varying "impartiality ■with all members regardless of 

 past affiliations. JSTotliij.g can go farther in making 

 an official popular than the following out of this rule 

 of conduct, while tlie adoption of the opposite tactics 

 will surely help to write the word "failure" across the 

 record of any administration. There' are many things 

 that tend to prosperity in an organization, but the 

 greatest of all is Harmony. 



