456. 



HORTICULTURE, 



April 6, 1907 



horticulture: 



VOL. V 



APRIL 6, 190? 



NO. 14 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place. Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 



Obs Year, in advance, $1.00: To Foreign Countries, 2.00: Single Copies, 05 



ADVERTISING RATES 



. $1.00. 



Per Inch, 30 inches to page 



Discounts on Contracts for consecutive insertions, as follows: 



One month (4 times) 5 per cent., three months (13 times) 10 per cent- 

 six months (26 times) 20 per cent. , one year C52 times) 30 per cent. 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on application. 



COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY HORTICULTURE PUB. CO. 



Eniered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass. 

 under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— KALMIA LATIFOLIA 

 CANTERBURY BELLS AND FOXGLOVES— C. Gattrell 



—Illustrated 453 



PRUNING — George Moore 453 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 454 



KALMIA LATIFOLIA— W. H. Waite— Illustrated 455 



ECHOES FROM ENGLAND— H. H. Thomas 455 



OBITUARY— Nathan Smith. Portrait— Other Deaths... 457 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Tarrytown Horticultural Society— Columbus Flor- 

 ists' Club— Florist Club of Philadelphia— Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York— Spring Exhibition at 



Boston, Illustrations 458 



Exhibition of Scranton Florists' Club, Illustrations 



and Portraits 459 



ITALIAN GARDENS— J. K. M. L. Farquhar 460 



EASTER SHOWS AT PITTSBURG— James Hutchinson 464 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus 466 



Philadelphia 467 



New York, Twin Cities, Washington 469 



MISCELLEANOUS 



Dahlia Hints 457 



What the Cut Flower Wholesaler Says 457 



Shrub Chat 457 



Personal 457 



Philadelphia Notes 457 



News Notes 457 



Trees in City Streets— Jackson Dawson 461 



Movements of Gardeners 461 



Plant imports 462 



Publications Received 462 



Catalogues Received 462 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 477 



jSTotwithstanding the efEorts of 

 To increase the plant growers to increase the 



the list of Easter numher of acceptable Easter 

 flowering favorites plants by the addition of new 

 and promising subjects each sea- 

 son for several years back, the list seems to be actually 

 diminishing so far as a general appreciation goes and 

 the number of varieties that can be grown and sold by 

 the "house-full" is disappointingly small. There have 



been added of late a line of forced shrubbery which 

 seems to have made some progress in the public favor, 

 and "Baby Ramblers" which do not ramble and which 

 are liable to be superceded before long by something 

 equally floriferous, but with brighter color. An in- 

 crease in the varieties of true Eamblers offered is also 

 seen but we recall no other notable additions. In the 

 meantime scores of subjects have been tried — -"weighed 

 in the balance and found wanting," at no small expense a 

 to the plant growers and one has only to look at the ^ 

 records of bygone Easters as published in the trade 

 papers to realize how the regular bill of fare once pre- 

 sented by the large growers has been depleted. If, in- 

 stead of depending entirely upon the advice and induce- 

 ments set forth by the foreign nursery traveler soliciting 

 import orders for untried things, the commercial 

 growers would take an occasional jaunt among the gar- 

 deners working on private estates it is not improbable 

 that thev would pick up many useful hints as to Easter 

 flowering plants and find a wealth of beautiful material 

 of which the buying public are, as yet, entirely in igno- 

 rance. Moreover, much of the material found blooming 

 in the private conservatories at this season is such as 

 may be produced at home — a qualification which should 

 not be overlooked or underestimated. 



The appeal of the Society of American 



Not a Florists to the Interstate Commerce 



"local issue" Commission on behalf of some of its 



members suffering under oppressive ex- 

 press charges on cut flower shipments, is characterized 

 by our New York contemporary as "an evil that is only 

 local in its application." This seems to us a very shal- 

 low view. It might with equal truth be said that small 

 pox and yellow fever are only local in their application 

 — at the start — but it has been learned by sad experi- 

 ence that the time to undertake remedial measures is at 

 the first appearance of these troubles and the question of 

 suppression is universally recognized as something af- 

 fecting the entire country which would be endangered 

 if the infection were permitted to spread unresisted. 

 No sane man will upon reflection, imagine that, if the 

 double rates imposed by the United States Express 

 Company had been meekly submitted to, the other big 

 transportation companies would not in a very short time 

 have put similar rates in force all over the country. 

 With the United States Express collecting one dollar 

 per hundred pounds on "return empties" from New 

 York to places twenty miles distant is it reasonable to 

 expect that Adams Express would long continue to re- 

 turn empties from Philadelphia to Westerly, E. I., for 

 instance, a distance via New York of two hundred and 

 thirty-six miles, at ten cents ajriece? This is not a fight 

 by the S. A. F. "for a few of its members in a restricted 

 locality" but is distinctly a fight on behalf of the entire 

 horticultural industry of the country against a mon- 

 strous oppression that had just begun to bestir itself. We 

 agree with our contemporary that the greatest misfor- 

 tune the S. A. F. has to bear is the meagre numerical 

 support accorded it by the trade. A society such as it is 

 should have the loyal, substantial support of every in- 

 dividual engaged in any horticultural pursuit and the 

 willing co-operation of every horticultural organization 

 on the continent. 



