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HORTICULTURE, 



May 4, 1907 



horticulture: 



TOL. V 



MAY 4, 190r 



NO. 18 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE— Rosa setigera and Hydrangea 

 BRYOPHYLLUM CALYCINUM— Carl Blomberg— 



IIluKtrated 585 



PLANT PLENTY OF ANNUALS— M. B. Faxon... .585 

 THE OUTLOOK FOR SMALL FRUITS— Wilfrid 



Wheeler 5S6 



BRITISH FRUIT GROWERS' FOES— W. H. Adsett. 587 

 SPRING CARE OF SMALL LAWNS, ETC.— Charles 



Ingram 5S7 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 589 



THE GRAPE HYACINTH— Ed w. Reagan 589 



NOTES ON NEW ENGLISH CARNATIONS— H. 



Burnett 589 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



North Shore Horticultural Society — Horticultural 

 Society of New Y'ork — Elberou Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Columbus Florists' Club — American Car- 

 nation Society— Club and Society Notes 590 



PROSPECTS FOR FRUIT CROP 591 



IRRIGATION OF GARDEN CROPS— Illustrated. .. .' 591 



SPRING FRUIT PROTECTION 591 



A PLEA FOR THE PICTURESQUE IN LAND- 

 SCAPE GARDENING— B. K. Howard— ^Illu<;trated .592 

 FORCING BULBS— Paul F. Rlchter -594 



SEED TRADE 595 



CERTAIN USES OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN— Anne 

 Withington 59<i 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE CARNATION— Robt. M. 

 Schultz 598 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— David Falconer 598 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo. Columbus, Indianapolis, New 

 York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities 601 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Shrub Chat 589 



Madison Notes 589 



Washington State Fruit Notes 590 



Obituary 590 



Publications Received 595 



Plant Lnports 59 1 



Appraiser's Decisions 594 



Catalogues Received 59 1 



News Nol OS 599 



Personal 599 



Business Changes 601 



Incorporated 603 



Greenhouses Building and Contemplated 609 



List of Patents 609 



"\Vp bid adieii to April,, 1907, with no regrets. 



Fickle Whatever may be said to its credit in other 



, April parts of the country it has certainly been, in 



the northeastern section, the most unseason- 

 able April in manv yi-ars and we need no assurance 



from "the oldest inhabitant" as to this fact. The effect 

 of the repeated cold spells in April on garden trees and 

 shrubs already weakened by a most protracted and 

 severe winter cannot yet be calculated but it cannot be 

 other than harmful. Nursery dealers have some cause 

 for satisfaction in the unexpectedly long selling season 

 they have enjoyed as a result of spring's procrastina- 

 tion and the season's slow advancement has been also 

 a great boon to the moth hunters. In all other lines of 

 horticultural activity, however, April, 1907, stands as 

 a disappointment in many respects. 



Tlie passion for beautifying the home 



A business and public grounds with trees and 



with a great shrubs and flowering plants is, as yet, 



future ojjiy in its incipience in this country. 



The present generation is not far 

 enough removed from the destructive epoch — when the 

 seemingly boundless forests were an incumbrance, 

 when our native flowers were despised because of their 

 abundance, and wlien the "clearing" and not the plant- 

 ing was the recognized mark of civilization's progress. 

 But the awakening now under way has a hearty earnest- 

 ness about it that cannot be misunderstood and no ex- 

 ceptional comprehension is required to see that what is 

 being done today is next to nothing as compared with 

 what the near future will demand. It is safe to pre- 

 dict that the next twenty years will show a development 

 and expansion of the ornamental planting indtistry in 

 this country such as the world has never seen and far 

 beyond our most sanguine imagination. For the young 

 man aspiring to a lucrative horticultural career the 

 opening in this particular line is the best in sight today. 



The Rhinebeck correspondent of a 



An anchor Poughkeepsie paper says, "A large num- 



to windward ber of new violet houses have been 



started in town. Will it ever end?" 

 Rhinebeck certainly has shown unwavering confidence 

 in the future as each year went by, regardless of falling 

 markets and, notwithstanding the pessimists who long 

 ago declared that the violet business was overdone, the 

 passion to build violet houses seems inextinguishable in 

 the breast of every true Rhinebecker. Nobody who has 

 communed with the native of that marvellous country 

 is ever likely to charge him with a jjroclivity fi.T fool- 

 ishness so wc are ready to accept it as settled that the 

 Rhinebecker knows what he is about and that the end 

 of his building operations will come when the violet 

 liusiness ceases to be profitable and not until then. Still 

 it might be advisable for him to bear in mind that quo- 

 tation from Don Quixote, "It is the part of a wise man 

 to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture 

 all his eggs in one basket," and in erecting his new 

 greenhouses to build and equip them in such manner 

 that in case of disaster to violet crop or violet market 

 attention may he conveniently turned to other lines 

 which promise better for the time being, at least. JIany 

 cstalilishments in the violet section are not so con- 

 .--tructed. 



