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HORTICULTURE 



June 1, 1&07 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. V 



JUNE 1, 1907 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS 



JfRONTISPIECE — The Work Shop at Arnold Arboretum 



OREODOXAS— Robert Cameron— Illustrated 713 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 714 



ORNAMENTAL CONIFERS— A. Hans 715 



THE THREE BEST ROSES— H. H. Thomas 715 



ALPINE PLANTS— David Miller 717 



MEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Royal Horticultural Society of London, Thomas 

 Bunyard— Elberon Horticultural Society— Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — American Peony 



Society , "18 



Lenox Horticultural Society — Southampton Horti- 

 cultural Society— Club and Society Notes 719 



BEDDING PLANTS— Thomas H. Westwood 719 



BULBOUS PLANTS FOR MASSING AND BEDDING 



— W. N. Craig 720 



TULIP DISPLAY IN SUNKEN GARDENS, FAIR- 

 MOUNT PARK— Illustration 721 



SEED TRADE 722 



American Seed Trade Association 722 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 724 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



New York,, Philadelphia, San Francisco 729 



Twin Cities, Washington 737 



MISCELLANEOUS 



"Butchering" the Shade Trees— Beaulieu 717 



Retribution and the Express Companies 717 



The Cape Cod Cranberry Industry 717 



Shrub Chat 717 



Our Frontispiece 717 



The Needs of the New York Botanical Garden ... 721 



Catalogues Received 721 



A New Leader in Education 723 



Pittsburg Garden News 724 



News Notes 726, 727, 731 



Obituary 726 



Personal 'f^ 



Movements of Gardeners 726 



Still in Business 726 



Business Changes 727 



Greenhouses Building or Projected 73 1 



The unprecedented demand f'^r reli- 

 The gardeners' able foremen and assistants for 

 opportunity greenhouse and outside work this sea- 

 son and the difficulty experienced in 

 filling such phices with reliable men is a good index of 

 the prosperous condition of horticultural industries gen- 

 erally. Xo really good steady gardener has idleness 

 forced upon him under present conditions. 



Tt makes one somewliat envious to 



Things we read the details of the displays at 



should like to see such an exhihition as that of the 



Eoyal Horticultural Society of 



London described in this issue, with its wealth of new 



The advent of 



the cluster rose 



In flower work 



The hardy 

 flowering bulbs 



and rare things. Tlie educational opportunity of such 

 a show, e,5pecially to anyone engaged in the horticul- 

 tural profession,, is a rare privilege which in this coun- 

 try we have not yet had provided for us, except in a 

 very limited degree. !N"o time should be lost by those 

 who are preparing for our ISTational Flower Show to 

 arrange for exliibits at that time by these firms abroad. 



We notice, with pleasure, the appear- 

 ance of Lady Gray rose as a novelty 

 in the cut tlower market. This type 

 of rose, coining in profuse racemes 

 of small blooms, charming as to 

 color and often very fragrant, should receive a ready 

 welcome from every floral decorator who is possessed 

 of good taste and the ability to use it. Evidences are 

 not wanting to indicate that we shall soon have roses 

 of the Lady Gay and Hiawatha type that will be con- 

 tinuous liloomers. As soon as this goal is reached the 

 cluster roses will surely take a place of permanent 

 prominence in the list of florists' staples, standing in 

 the same relationship to flowers of the American Beauty 

 type that the pompon chrysanthemums do to the Jap- 

 anese blooms in decorative value and, in some measure, 

 side-trackihg the small inferior grades of standard 

 varieties which have hitherto served this purpose. 



Wo commend to those of our readers 

 who are interested in garden planting 

 and to those who sell to such, the 

 instructive paper on bulbs for bed- 

 ding purposes by W. N. Craig, wdtich appears in this 

 issue. The lists of tulips, hyacinths and narcissi given 

 therein as well adapted for .such work will be found 

 particularly valuable. We can stand much more of 

 gorgeous display and color riot in early spring after 

 the barrenness of the dreary winter months than in the 

 blaze and heat of summer. The hardy bulbs till in as 

 nothing else can, the long interim between spring open- 

 ing' and the time when garden planting can safely be 

 done. It is no wonder that the public admire the gay 

 display and now, while the enthusiasm is on, is the 

 time to canvass for orders for fall delivery. The plant- 

 ing of tulips, daffodils, chionodoxas, seillas and crocuses 

 can and should be made much more general and ex- 

 tensive than it is. ISTow is the time to make up your 

 import orders. 



The remarkably cold spring of 1907, 

 which has broken all records as to tem- 

 perature, caused the loss of potatoes and 

 seeds of various kinds, killed of? early 

 vegetables, blighted fruit buds, depleted the coal bin, 

 retarded the flower crops and, among other vagaries, 

 treated us to snow on May 26 and a thunder storm on 

 May 27, has yet some compensations to its credit. It 

 has, for instance, stretched out what promised to be a 

 hasty, unsatisfactory nursery season to one of the long- 

 est and most favorable planting seasons ever experi- 

 enced. It has kept society people from flitting to sea- 

 side or foreign land, thus lengthening the season for 

 the city florists, entertained the New Yorker with the 

 unheard-of spectacle of apple trees in full bloom on 

 June 1, and given those of us who cannot get vacations 

 reason to be gTateful for so much home comfort. Had 

 it only shrivelled the gypsy caterpillars as it has the 

 early "garden sass" we should have been glad to vote 

 an award of merit to the spring of 1907. But it 

 didn't. 



I 



The Spring 

 of 1907 



