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HORTICULTURE 



March 30, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. V MARCH 30, 1907 NO. 13 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— Spring Exhibition at Boston 

 PLANTS WITH BEAUTIFUL FOLIAGE— H. H. 



Thomas— Illustrated 421 



A NEW RACE OF HIBISCUS— Warren J. Chandler 421 



FORCING CUCUMBERS— Geo. E. Stone 422 



SOME FEATURES OF THE SIM PLANT AT 



CLIFTONDALE— G. H. Higgins 423 



THE MUSINGS AND MAXIMS OF McGORUM— 



R. T. McGorum 425 



SCHOOL GARDENS— Henry Saxton Adams 425 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 425 



SPRING EXHIBITION AT BOSTON— Illustrated. . . 426 



PHILADELPHIA SPRING SHOW— G. C. W 427 



NEWS OF THE CLI'BS AND SOCIETIES 



Elberon Horticultural Society— Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America— Connecticut Horticultural 

 Society — Tri-CIty T'lorists' Association— Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston— Lenox Horti- 

 cultural Society 428 



Horticultural Society of Buffalo— Scranton 

 Florists' Club— Club and Society Notes 420 



SEED TRADE 430 



Catalogues Received 430 



Statement of Plant Imports 430 



EASTER IN PHILADELPHIA— G. C. W 432 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Henry A. Dreer— B. T. Graves— 

 E. Graves 434 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Indianapolis, New 

 York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington.. 437 



MISCELLANEOUS 



"Field Day" at Waverley, Mass.— Illustrated 434 



Movements of Gardeners 434 



Children's Gardens 434 



News Notes 435 



Business Changes 439 



The F. R. Pierson Co. Cup —Illustrated 445 



M. A. C. Summer School of Agriculture 445 



Greenhouses Buililing or Contemplated 446 



Prizes for Vineyard Apparatus 446 



List of Patents 446 



We read in the Meriden (Conn.) Eec- 

 Frightening ord that the florists of that city report 

 the customer that the Easter flowers will be unusu- 

 ally exi>ensive this year. The florists 

 responsible for this statement in Meriden as well as the 

 florists whr» circulate similar stories in other cities must 

 be very short-sighted people. We often wonder what 

 ihey expect to gain by frightening the public away from 

 the" Easter flower trade. Other lines of business take 

 just the opposite course in dealing with the public and 



never weary of telling them of bargains, mark-downs, 

 and favoraijle prices generally on the goods they wish 

 to dispose of. The florist trade stands alone in its 

 apparent presumption that scare heads are a help to 

 prosperity. 



Anyone who has ever had occasion 

 Better publicity to report for publication the prize 

 methods needed awards and other items of general 

 interest in connection with flower 

 shows well knows the difficulties encountered in the 

 task. Rarely do we find a well-equipped intelligent 

 plan of recording and manifolding tlie judges' reports 

 such as is in operation at exhibitions in other lines and 

 it is not an infrequent occurrence that the only copy of 

 this information, so important in its bearing on the suc- 

 cess of the affair and the personal interests of the prize- 

 winners, is locked up or otherwise inaccessible until its 

 custodian can be found. The obvious need is more cleri- 

 cal help and a modern equipment for quick and accurate 

 news dissemination. Prompt judging, prompt record- 

 ing and prompt announcing' will go far toward making 

 a show financially successful. And, we might add, a 

 number of well-informed guides or attendants to direct 

 visitors to objects of curiosity or interest and to answer 

 inquiries would be another effective step in the same di- 

 rection. 



With the passing of Easter comes an ab- 

 Are you ^upt change of conditions in the daily ac- 

 ready? tivities of many of our readers. Easter 

 crops and prospects no longer concern 

 them, winter has gone, spring is here. Plant houses 

 are empty, ^aolet houses soon will be ; even the rose 

 houses have but a few weeks left until overhauling will 

 be in order. April will be a busy month for the retail 

 florist with weddings and receptions, and it is not too 

 soon to consider preparations for Memorial Day busi- 

 ness. Wliatever your spring rush may embrace — deco- 

 rating, replanting, propagating, rebuilding, gardening, 

 seed-selling or tree-selling — foresight and "all readiness" 

 will do much to lighten the labor and insure success. If 

 you require supplies, implements, stock or equipment of 

 any kind our advertising columns await your interested 

 perusal. Do it now. If you have spring material to sell 

 our advertising columns also offer you the best means 

 for accomplishing that purpose. Do it now. In all 

 these things it pays to take time by the forelock and be 

 prepared. 



There exists no more effective means of 

 An urgent increasing the florist, nursery and seed 

 ''"ty trades than the education of the public in 



garden work. Anything that awakens a 

 fuller appreciation of floral beauty in the garden is sure 

 to also instil a deeper fondness for floral adornment in 

 the season when gardens have lost their attraction. Too 

 little attention has been given to these self-evident 

 truths by our florists' clubs and kindred organizations. 

 Engrossed in the handling exclusively of greenliouse 

 l)looms and often affecting a sort of disdain for the out- 

 door product and those engaged in its cultiyation, many 

 ilorists have overlooked the direct advantage to them- 

 selves and their craft in the cultivation of the public 

 taste and the encouragement of horticulture in its broad- 

 er phases. A fuller recognition of the benefits to be de- 

 rived from inducing public interest in garden topics, 

 and a disposition to aid in a practical manner the es- 

 tablishment of nature study and gardening classes for 

 the cltildren of the ]iublic schools in every community 

 in the land is the florists' first duty to himself today. 



