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HORTICULTURE 



June 8, 1907 



hortic ulture: 



▼OL. V JUNE 8, 1907 NO. 23 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE — Rhododendrons at Dana Island 

 AMERICAN RHODODENDRONS— F. Gomer Waterer— 



Illustrated 745 



THE RHODODENDRON— George Moore — Illustrated... 746 



RAISING HARDIf RHODODENDRONS— A. Hans 748 



THE QUESTION OF HARDINESS— T. D. Hatfield.... 748 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— J. E. Simpson 749 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 751 



SHRUB CHAT 751 



UP TO DATE METHODS OF DAHLIA GROWING — 



J. K. Alexander 751 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



American Rose Society — Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton — American Peony Society — Florist Club ol 



Philadelphia 752 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Club and 



Society Notes 758 



SEED TRADE 754 



OBITUARY— T. W. Guy— John Spiess, Sr 759 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 

 New York, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Washington.. 761 

 MISCELLANEOUS 



June Exhibitions at Boston 751 



Musings of McGorum 751 



Irrigated Land Products Exposition 755 



Publications Received 755 



Pittsburg Doings 758 



Washington Notes 758 



During Recess 753 



News Notes 759 



A Correction ■ 759 



Business Changes. . . 76 1 



Incorporated 763 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 769 



List of Patents 769 



Personal 769 



Movements of Gardeners 769 



Catalogues Received 769 



Colored Plate 'With THis Issue. 



R.hoclodenclron PinR Pearl. 



An action to recover the cost of a consign- 

 A shipper ment of lilj' of the valley pips, by a 

 tripped up Holland firm against an English florist, 



was recently decided at Bath, England, in 

 favor of the defendant, on the grounds that the Dutch 



variety had been delivered instead of the Berlin pips 

 which had been ordered, a fact which appears to have 

 been adequately proven by witnesses. This seems good 

 law but there are plenty of parties who are willing to 

 take chances and substitutions, some easy and others 

 difficult of detection, are probably of daily occurrence m 

 nursery, plant and seed trade. A few appUcations of 

 the legal penalty for the deception, on the order of the 

 incident above recorded, would have a healthy restrain- 

 ing effect. 



The rhododendron has been selected 



The as the special subject for our attention 



rhododendron jn this issue of HORTICULTURE. No 



argument is needed to substantiate the 

 right of this most useful and beautiful of flowering 

 shrubs to the distinction we are according it. The rho- 

 dodendron has been deservedly designated "the most 

 glorious of our garden ornaments." Of late years much 

 work has been done in the field of improvement. More 

 attention has been given to the testing of varieties for 

 hardiness in the climate of our northern States and the 

 English raisers upon whom we have thus far depended 

 for the greater part of our supply are earnestly striving 

 to furnish stock that may be relied upon. As urged by 

 one of our correspondents in this issue, there is a good 

 field for American hybridizers in the crossing of the 

 rhododendron with a view to producing varieties that 

 will be absolutely iron-clad in our gardens and at the 

 same time possess the rich coloring and size and pro- 

 fusion of bloom which thus far are rarely found except- 

 ing in sorts that are not always to be depended upon. 



Five important events scheduled for the 

 What the month of June are the meetings and ex- 

 month of hibitions of the American Association of 

 June offers Nurserymen at Detroit, June 13 to 14, 

 Horticultural Society of New York at 

 New York City, June 12 and 13, and American Peony 

 Society at Ithaca, N. Y., June 18 and 19; Twenty-fifth 

 Convention of the American Seed Trade Association 

 at New York City, June 35 to 37, and the Annual Rho- 

 dodendron, Peony, and Rose Shows of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society at Boston on June 

 8 and 9, 1-5 and Ifi, 23 and 23. There is no 

 more deliglitful season for traveling than the month 

 of June and doubtless the attendance at all these 

 important afFnirs will bo large, as indeed it should be. 

 No better evidence of progressive prosi>erity in any 

 branch of the great horticultural industry can be ad- 

 vanced than a full and enthusiastic attendance upon the 

 meetings of the organizations devoted to its interests. 

 Progressive no man can well be who denies himself 

 these opportunities to mingle with his fellow crafts- 

 men, to see and hear what others are doing and to dive.st 

 himself of the narrow-minded provincialism and palpa- 

 ble self-conceit that so often characterizes those who 

 never travel. Beyond a que.?tion he who attends any 

 one or all of the events above noted in the right spirit, 

 will take back with him a full equivalent for all it has 

 cost. 



