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HORTICULTURE 



January 26, 190T 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



JANUARY 26, 1907 



NO. 4 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FRONTISPIECE— Cypripedium insigne 



ORNAMENTAL CONIFERS— A. Hans— Illustrated 93 



CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE 95 



SCHLECHTES WETTER— K. Finlayson 95 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY 



Convention at Toronto— President's Address 96 



Secretary's Report— Treasurer's Report— Are 

 There Too Many New Carnations Introduced? — 



John Birnie, Portrait 9'? 



Report of the Nomenclature Committee 98 



The Exhibition 99 



Mechanical Watering— Louis Wittbold 117 



TWO WEBER SEEDLINGS- Illustrated 99 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



The Nebraska State Horticultural Society- 

 North Shore Horticultural Society— St. Louis 

 Horticultural Society— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— Carnation Night in Philadelphia- 

 National Association of Nurserymen— Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America 100 



Lenox Horticultural Society— Club and Society 



Notes ^^^ 



SEED TRADE l'^* 



OBITUARY 



James Braik, Portrait— James Mallon— Daniel 

 Daffley— James Sharkey 108 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston. Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 

 Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities... Ill 



MISCELLANEOUS 



News Notes 99,109 



Business Changes •, 101 



Philadelphia Notes 101 



About Naphthalin 108 



Personal Ill 



Mr. Wilson's Trip to China 117 



Old Colony Notes 118 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 118 



The death, recently, of two generous 

 A great patrons of horticulture, Mrs. Robert C. 

 loss Hooper and Mr. George F. Fabyan, is a 

 severe loss to the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society, -whose plant exhibitions they supported 

 with frequent contributions, encouraging their garden- 



ers to take an ambitious interest in the competitions 

 and exercising a potent influence on the community 

 through the beautiful estates which they maintained. 

 Mr. Fabyan was a trustee of the Society at the time of 

 his death. 



Tlie sending of Mr. E. H. 



An important Wilson to China by the Ar- 



horticultural enterprise jjold Arboretum is the most 



important and far-reaching 

 l)orticultural enterprise that lias ever been started in 

 America. Mr. Wilson, who is young and enthusiastic 

 and has acquired through his five years' previous ex- 

 perience a thorough familiarity witli the Chinese flora, 

 may be expected to add much to the knowledge of the 

 floral and arboreal wealth of this little-known land and 

 especially in the line of new plants likely to be hardy 

 in this climate. 



Peony enthusiasts are coming to 



Work for the realize more and more the formi- 



peony specialists dable task they have before them in 



bringing into any semblance of 

 order and reliability the tangled up lists and still more 

 tangled up stocks in nurserymen's .hands. The long 

 time required for adequate testing and comparisons in 

 the case of the peony is one of the greatest drawbacks 

 in the work of straightening out identities and calls for 

 a large measure of patience and perseverance as well as 

 a considerable self-sacrifice on the part of those engag- 

 ing in it. One fir.st step should be to apprise dealers 

 at home and abroad that a watch is set and that what- 

 ever of loose practice may have prevailed hitherto it will 

 be tolerated no longer. This will be some assurance 

 that reform is really under way. 



Mechanical watering comes to the sur- 



iviechanical face again in the paper by Mr. Wittbold 



watering before the Carnation Society and in Mr. 



Finlayson's notes in this issue. There 

 are two systems now seeking approval of the practical 

 horticulturists and each finds frftnds ready to approve 

 as well as critics ready to condemn. The advancing 

 demand for plants of difficult culture in greater variety 

 than ever before obtainable in this country calls for the 

 highest skill of the plantsman and careful individual 

 watering with the antiquated ( ?) watering pot is likely 

 to prevail in this line, at least, for many a year to come. 

 Whether wholesale watering in the case of entire houses 

 of one specialty is to displace all other systems is some- 

 thing that will be decided not by claims nor by criticism 

 liut by experience and that takes time. 



A western contemporary is out with 

 A good ;,ii unfavorable criticism of the keep- 

 plant traduced jng qualities of Begonia Gloire de 

 Lorraine. As on a number of occa- 

 sions in the past, we are glad to say a word in refuta- 

 tion of what seems to us an unjust disparagement of 

 one of the best flowering house plants ever introduced. 

 We have in our window at the present time a plant of 



