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HORTICULTURE 



May 25, 19o7 



horticulture: 



TOL. V 



MAY 25, 1907 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS 



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FRONTISPIECE— Carl Von Linne 



CARL VON LINNE— Wm. Trelease —Portrait G81 



SWEDEN'S GREAT BOTANIST— Carl Blomberg 681 



HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS GRANDIFLORA 



ALBA 682 



PLANTS IN THE ROCK GARDEN— Robt. Cameron.. 682 



AFTER AD.I011RNMENT ,, GSo 



RHODODENDRON LADY ALICE FITZWILLIAM— 



Illustrated G85 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Colum- 

 bus Florists' CUih— North Shore Horticultural 

 Society — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 



Newport Horticultural Society 686 



New London Horticultural Society — Club and 



Society Notes 587 



THE IRIS— J. Woodward Manning 688 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS. 689 



SEED TRADE 690 



SHRUB AND GARDEN CHAT 692 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, New York, 



Philadelphia 69'? 



Twin Cities, Washiii.?ton 705 



MISCELLANEOUS 



An Appreciated Appreciation— Wilfrid Wheeler 685 



Personal 685 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 687 



The Moth Fight 687 



Movements of Gardeners 690 



Field Crop Prospects , 690 



Incorporated (|90 



Publications Receiver; 691 



Spring Plant Prices in Detroit 692 



Baltimore Notes— G. C. W 694 



News Notes. . .s 694, 695, 699 



Business Changes 695 



Greenhouses Building or Projected 705 



The success of the Illinois State Flo- 

 Organization rists' Association in securing from the 

 again legislature an appropriation for fiori- 



wins cultural investigations at the State 



Experiment Station is another demon- 

 stration of the elfectiveness of organized effort. More 

 or less directly every florist in the State benefits from 

 this exploit. Let us hope for the day to come when it 

 will be a stigma and disgrace to any florist or gardener 

 to abstain from affiliation with one or more of the local 

 or national associations devoted to the interests of his 

 calling. 



Another year has gone its round and once 

 Memorial more we find ourselves on the threshold 

 Day of the great spring holiday,, the representa- 



tive floral festival of our day. No event 

 in the course of the year has a deeper significance and 

 none touches more closely the heart and sentiment of 



the people than Meniorial Day with its impressive ob- 

 servance. Originally consecrated to the decoration of 

 the graves of departed heroes of the battlefield, now 

 universally appropriated by the people as a day of lov- 

 ing and tender tribute to the memory of friend and kin 

 who have gone beyond, the occasion is one in which the 

 florist must for all time take a leading part. What- 

 ever the changes may be in the observance of other 

 annually recurring holidays, here is one which will 

 always continue to be distinctly floral in its character. 

 Iviph and poor alike will turn to the florist on Memorial 

 Day and there will be no flower so rare and costly and 

 none so cheap and common 'but that it will find an 

 appreciative purcliaser. 



[n all th'e work that is being un- 

 An opening dertaken for civic betterment and 

 that should not public enlightenment in the art of 

 be dispised home adornment the local florist 

 who does not actively participate 

 iiiiikes a serious mistake. One can hardly blame a self- 

 respecting florist for holding aloof from some of the 

 hysterical "Back-yard Beautiful" missions, managed by 

 persons lacking all qualification for such work but, as a 

 rule, the florist will find people more than willing to be 

 advised hy him and, in taking a prominent part 

 in the public education by working to stimu- 

 late a love for flowers, a knowledge of their cul- 

 ture and a general interest in garden work, he not 

 imly raises himself in the esteem and respect of his 

 townsmen but also lays the foundation for the substan- 

 tial advancement of his material welfare through the 

 larger demand for his products which is certain to fol- 

 low such a course. It is to be regretted that there are 

 many who are blind to the splendid opening thus of- 

 fered and who stupidly resist every inducement put 

 forth to pry them out of the old, old rut. 



Writers on garden topics in the 

 The hardy daily press are showing a disposi- 



chrysanthemums tion to encourage a more general 

 interest in the hardy pompon chrys- 

 themum, and the trade growers of these plants assert 

 that the increased demand indicates that the amateur is 

 coming to a realization of the many unique good qual- 

 ities possessed by these sturdy old-fashioned favorites. 

 Since the introduction of the huge-flowered Japanese 

 varieties the hardy chrysanthemums have been 

 neglected by trade and amateur until it may now be 

 truthfully said that many of the present generation are 

 unaware that they exist. We believe that every local 

 florist would find his patrons eager to take up the 

 interest in and cultivation of this class of chrysanthe- 

 mums if its ease of culture, its variety of color and its 

 fine efi'ect in the late fall garden were brought to their 

 attention. In comparatively few of the retail green- 

 houses can it be found, however, although there is as 

 good profit in its propagation and sale as in any of the 

 many other soft-wooded plants that they consider indis- 

 pensable in their assortment for spring sales. A few of 

 the large wholesale dealers throughout the country have 

 been getting together fine collections comprising a wide 

 range of color and the local florist who invests in same 

 will be making no mistake. Unfortunately the pompon 

 chrysanthemums are always seen at a great disadvan- 

 tage in most flower shows. Crowded in untidy hand- 

 fulls into small va'^es or bottles and elbowed by the 

 huge blooms of the greenhouse product they appear of 

 small account. We should like to see a really artistic 

 display of these small-flowered varieties made at each 

 exhibition next fall, shown on long sprays arranged for 

 decorative ett'ect, and in a section distinctly by them- 

 selves. This done, the public will quickly take notice. 



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