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HORTICULTURE. 



April .27, 1907 



horticulture: 



TOL. V 



APRIL 27, 1907 



NO. 17 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



FKONTISPIECE— Gloxinias 



COLUMBIAN ODONTOCiLOSSUMS— James Hutch- 

 inson — Illustrated 553 



COMMKRCIAL CHRYSANTHEMUM CULTURE IN 



FRANCE — C. Harman Payne 553 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 554 



GLOXINIAS— K. Finlayson 555 



THE CODLING MOTH— R. L. Adams 557 



THE GRAPE HYACINTH— Robert Cameron 557 



NEWS OF. THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Rose Society— American Association 

 of Nurserymen— Gardeners' and Florists' Club 



of Boston — Lenox Horticultural Society 55.S 



State Florists' Association of Indiana — New 

 London Horticultural Society— Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 559 



THE CARE OF STEAM BOILERS— R. T. McGorum 559 

 HIMALAYAN RHODODENDRONS— K. Finlayson.. 559 



HARDY OUTDOOR ROSES— David McFarlane 560 



SEED TRADE .562 



BEDDING PLANTS— R. W. Unger 564 



THE MOTH CAMPAIGN IN RHODE ISLAND 566 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 

 New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washing- 

 ton 569 



MISCELLANEOUS 



To Our Canadian Readers 559 



House of Lettuce at Irondequoit— Illustrated. . . 561 



Catalogues Received 562 



Plant Imports 562 



Publications Received 563 



Heracleum Mantegazzianum— G. Bleicken 564 



Pittsburg Notes 564 



Fruit Prospects in Washington State 566 



Fire Record 566 



Incorporated 566 



Philadelphia Notes 566 



Obituary : 566 



Personal 567 



News Notes 567-569 



Newport Notes 569 



Business Changes 569 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 577 



Scalecide for Roses 578 



Many of the catalogues sent out by cleal- 



Catalogue ers in hardy ornamental stock this year 



Art are a credit to the nursery trade. Some 



of them are truly works of art and the 



seedsmen will have to bestir themselves if they are to 



hold their own in artistic catalogue making hereafter. 



A correspondent, replying to a recent 

 Quality editorial in this paper in whicli corn- 



counts in bulb nient was made on the remissness of 

 forcing many growers in their methods of 



bulb forcing, makes the point that 

 the flooding of the wholesale flower markets in early 

 spring with out-door bulbous flowers from the South is 

 .?o destructive of market values that bulb forcing under 

 glass at that season presents no indticements for special 

 cultural care. As it appears to us these conditions pre- 

 .'^ent the very best of reasons for efl'ort to produce some- 

 thing so superior in finish to the ordinary outdoor 

 raaterial that it will hold its own in any discriminating 

 mai'ket. We have in mind certain growers who have 

 demonstrated this to their own and the buyers' satisfac- 

 tion. In bulb forcing as in everything else the best 

 good.'j will usually command a remunerative price. 



Judging from rejwrts received, the no- 

 "The most tion of dyeing live flowers has already 

 unkindest cut" extended" far beyond the limits of the 

 odious green carnation which has 

 brought reproach upon so many florists, not only be- 

 cause it is a vulgar debasement of one of Nature's most 

 charming products but also because it is a premeditated 

 fraud. A correspondent of the Journal of Horticulture 

 tells of the purchase at a high price of double daffo- 

 dils of a blood-orange hue, in a florists' shop, under 

 the name of "Enfield Tropliy," which afterwards 

 proved to be nothing but the ordinary daffodil dyed. 

 A story is 'going the rounds of the papers that 

 in Germany there lias developed of late a great demand 

 in certain circles for the.se denaturalized flowers^ 'We 

 trust the story is overdrawn, but when we learn that at 

 a recent convention of "naturalists" at the Natural 

 History Society rooms in Boston, demonstrations were 

 given of the artificial coloring of flowers, and that 

 "exquisite tints" were produced we are. about ready to 

 believe anything concerning the rest of the world. 



The discussion at the last meeting of the 

 Nature Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston as 

 and Art to how far the "naturalesque" style of gar- 

 dening may be carried in connection with 

 buildings and the formal features of an orderly, neatly 

 kept residence brought out some very pronounced 

 views, diametrically opposite in character, in each case 

 reflecting more truly, possibly, the present footing and 

 environment of the speaker than what would be his 

 sentiments could he be placed in an entirely independent 

 position. Fi-om the gardener in charge of a private 

 home estate what could one expect other than an advo- 

 cacy of faultless lawns, symmetrical plants and scrupu- 

 lous neatness in every detail? On the other hand the 

 artist, as such, detests these conditions, finding inspira- 

 tion only whore Nature ^^•orks unmolested and ofttimes 

 greater beauty in the half-dead tree than in the perfect 

 specimen as seen from the gardener's view point. We 

 can hardly look for a modification of views at these two 

 extremes but, all the same, there is a middle and better 

 ,£;rotiud where the fitness of things is the dominant in- 

 fluence and where a proper balance between archi- 

 tectural primness and artistic abandon may be maifi- 

 tained without unreasonable strain. Nature, herself, 

 is constantly working to clothe or remove from sight 

 all rough and dilapidated objects and evidently has no 

 love for ruins. On the other hand, the broad guage 

 gardener will strive at all times for general effect and 

 balance, makin,g individual perfectness and symmetry 

 a secondary consideration in the ]iractice of his art. 



