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HORTI CULTU RE, 



March 2, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



MARCH 2, 190? 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS 



FRONTISPIECE— Castleton Gardens, Jamaica 



GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS OF JAMAICA— 

 Robert Cameron — Illustrated 253 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 255 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS A.\D SOCIETIES 



Society of Southern Florists — St. Louis Horticul- 

 tural Society 257 



Alabama State Horticultural Society — American 

 Rose Society— Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' 



Association — Madison Horticultural Society 25S 



New York Florists' Club— Dobbs Ferry Horticul- 

 tural Association — Elberon Horticultural Society^ 

 Rose Night at Philadelphia— Illinois State Florists' 



Association 259 



Nassau County Horticultural Society — Detroit 

 Florist Club— Club and Society Notes 260 



OBITUARY 



Ferdinand Tschupp— Chas. Zarembo — C. F. W. 

 Gentemann — Other Deaths 260 



SEED TRADE 262 



Catalogues Received 262 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 

 New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington 269 



SOME RECENTLY INVENTED APPLIANCES— Illus- 

 trated 277 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Personal 266 



News Notes 266 



Business Changes 269 



SPECIAL ROSE NUMBER. NEXT MTEEK 

 Colored Plate — H. T. B.ose Dean Hole 



Eeferring to the articles in our two last 

 To issues on James Nichol and William Christie 

 memory -^-e have received much appreciative com- 

 dear ment thereon. It is well that Horticul- 

 ture should speak a word of tribute in the 

 passing of this class of men and the greenhouses in 

 which they delighted — Marechal Niel roses and bougain- 

 \illeas trained to the roof, an abutelon here, an orchid 

 or an amaryllis there. When once abandoned these 

 houses are never duplicated and most of them have al- 

 ready disappeared but they filled their place in the 

 history of horticulture in New England and a line of 

 commendation for the sturdy pioneer work performed 

 by the men who conducted them is only a just due. 



It is much to be regretted that the 

 A just cause practice of "camp following" should 

 for criticism become so flagrant in connection with 



the meetings of any society as to neces- 

 sitate the rebuke voiced by our seed trade correspondent 

 in his notes in this issue, on the canners' convention. 

 One finds it hard to believe that any man with any 

 pretentions to dignity would, for the saving of the mem- 

 bership fee in a society and the desire to get something 

 for nothing so far forget his self-respect as to scheme 

 to participate, unbidden, in the enjoyment of hospital- 

 ities to wliich he has no right, yet it is by no means an 

 uncommon thing and there are few, if any, conventions 

 where more or less of this imposition does not exist, in 

 defiance of all efforts to thwart it. 



The plan proposed liy the Madi- 



A promising son, Wis., Horticultural Society 



plan for fo induce general co-operation on 



home improvement the part of the people of tlie city 



in an effort to adorn and beautify 

 their cit}', as described in another part of this paper, is 

 a very commendable one beginning as it does at what 

 may be called the kindergarten stage of home improve- 

 ment. Unfortunately many of the well-meant efforts 

 of town improvement associations are over-ambitious 

 and too costly to secure at once the cheerful participa- 

 tion of the people whose benefit and refinement is most 

 directly sought. Artistic horticultural appreciation is 

 a plant which requires time for growth and which at 

 first will respond more readily to the sweet alyssum and 

 nasturtium influence than to the more advanced ideas 

 of lawn and border embellishment. Under the stimulus 

 of local rivalry advancement will proceed with rapid 

 stride and each successive year will see progress toward 

 liigher ideals and a better estimation of what is fit. The 

 transition from untidiness and neglect to neighborhood 

 orderliness and elegance depends much upon good ex- 

 ample. It is remarkable how widespread is the influ- 

 ence of one neat garden upon the surrounding 

 community. 



The promoters of the Society of South- 

 Encourage ern Florists and Ornajnental Horticul- 

 organization turists seem to have made good their 



promise of a useful meeting at the 

 first convening of the young society. The attendance 

 was not what it should have been but that was not the 

 society's fault; it was only another demonstration of 

 the unwillingness of those engaged in horticultural pur- 

 suits to take hold and assist in any organized movement 

 the object of which is the general good. We are in full 

 sympathy with the aims and purposes of this society as 

 announced. Some well-meaning persons think they 

 see in the multiplicity of these local and special socie- 

 ties inroads upon the well-being of the S. A. F. We 

 liave never felt any solicitude in that direction. Rather 

 would we encourage them as helpful adjuncts to the 

 great national organization which by wise and compre- 

 hensive policies on the part of the latter may be enlisted 

 as efficient aids in the furtherance of the objects for 

 which it was founded. While the result of an efficient 

 organization in the south may, by the fostering of home 

 industry, curtail in time the purchasing of certain spe- 

 cialties hitherto supplied only by northern growers, yet 

 the developing of the horticultural possibilities of our 

 vast southern lands cannot but benefit .every section of 

 the country and there is no question but that much of 

 the material for which money is now sent abroad might 

 be produced here in equal qiiality and at competing 

 cost. 



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