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HORTICULTURE 



July 10, 1909 



horticulture: 



VOL. X JULY 10, 1909 WU. 2 



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■ CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Dendrobium nobile Virginale. 



NEW FRENCH CHRYSANTHEMUMS— C. Hai'man 

 Pavne — Illustrated ''^ 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 37 



WATER SCENERY IN THE GARDEN— Fred'k Moore. . 3S 



GYMNOGRAMMAS— Vernon T. Sherwood 39 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 

 Rehder 39 



THE TREES OF COMMONWEALTH AVENUE— Prof. 

 C. S. Sargent 41 



ARAUCARIA EXCELSA SILVER STAR— Illustrated. . . 41 



AN IMPOSING EXHIBIT OF WHITE ORCHIDS 42 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Newport Horticultural Society, Illustrated— Society 



of American Florists . . . .• 43 



Minnesota Horticultural Society— Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York— Florists' Club of Philadelphia- 

 Florists' Club o( Washington— Chicago Florists' 

 Club— National Sweet Pea Society— Florists' Hail 



Association — Club and Society Notes 44 



Royal Horticultural Society 45 



SEED TRADE: 



The Spencer Type of Sweet Peas, G. C. Watson- 

 Wholesale Grass Seed Dealers' Association 46 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 48 



Washington Floral Auto Parade, Illustrated— Flowers 

 by Telegraph 49 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia 51 



New Y'ork Ei3 



OBITUARY: C. Cramer— Justen Olsen 58 



DURING RECESS: New York Florists' Club Outing... 60 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Propagating Araucarias 42 



A Jubilee Flower Show for Haarlem 45 



Catalogues Received — Publication Received 46 



Personal 48 



Business Changes — Incorporated 49 



Philadelphia Notes :')3 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 58 



Chicago Notes — Importers' Protests 58 



Louisiana Gulf Red Cypress, Philip J. Foley 59 



News Notes 58 



Patents Granted 59 



Paris Spring Show 60 



The Moth-Killing Beetles— The Tussock Moth 61 



To Destroy Moss on Lawns — Bird Guano 61 



'I'he comniunieatiou from Profes- 



The Commonwealth .<,jr Sargent which we publish in 



Avenue trees full ju this number presents the 



facts so clearly and convincingly 

 that we can say nothing which can illumine or in any 

 way add strength to the appeal 'which he makes therein 

 for a wise settlement of the question of the arrangement 

 of the trees on Boston's famed avenue. The controver- 

 sy, or — moi'e pi-operly speaking — the attack on the two- 

 row plan adopted by the park commission five years ago, 

 has been going on relentlessly ever since the first of the 

 older misplaced trees fell before the axe but, so far as 

 we know, the plea which I'rofessor Sargent now presents 

 places the matter before the public for the first time 

 from the standpoint which evety unbiased horticultur- 

 ist will recognize as the right one. Tlic paper contains 



Special convention 

 transportation 

 rates refused 



so mucli of practical vahie, not only in this specific in- 

 stance but in every community where the expert planter 

 finds his well-considered work opposed and hampered by 

 a misguided public clamor, that we bespeak for it a care- 

 ful earnest reading. More especially should it be pe- 

 rused liy the horticultural fraternity in and about Bos- 

 ton and an emphatic protest recorded wherever and 

 whenever it can be made to count against the carrying 

 out of the ill-advised plans recently adopted and the 

 complete obliteration of the work so well begun five 

 years ago. 



Secretary Eudd announces that 

 the railroad committees and traf- 

 fic associations have refused to 

 make any special reduced rate for 

 the trip to the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at Cincinnati next month. This attitude on the 

 part of the railroad corporations is consistent with the 

 retaliatory and defiant spirit which they have man- 

 ifested ever since the public undertook through the 

 strong arm of the .federal government to circumscribe 

 their growing arrogance and put them under reasonable 

 restraint. The plea which they advance in justification 

 of their refusal to consider reduced excursion rates for 

 this and other conventions is a bit of sophistry un- 

 worthy of serious attention. The "old 3 cent a mile 

 system" on which it is asserted the former convention 

 rate of one-and-a-third fare was based may be said to 

 have never existed since the S. A. P. began having con- 

 ventions. There may have been some unimportant 

 routes on which a three-cent rate was in force but in 

 the great majority of instances where large delegations 

 traveled between important centres the through rates 

 have been much below that figure as anyone who is in- 

 terested may readily ascertain by going back over the 

 convention rates from various points from year to year 

 as published in the trade journals. That the conven- 

 tion must sufl'er in attendance this year because of the 

 course of the transportation companies no one will 

 question. 



For the past three weeks considerable 

 space in our reading columns has 

 been devoted to the doings of the 

 seedsmen in session at Niagara Falls, 

 a number of interesting papers pre- 

 sented at that convention which we shall publish from 

 time to time as space permits and we are sure that they 

 contain much that is worthy of the attention of all of 

 our readers, no matter what department of horticulture 

 they may be engaged in. One would think from the 

 tone of some of the articles published in the daily press 

 of late that the Department of Agriculture and some of 

 the zealous legislators are all that stand between the 

 dear people and a lot of very unscrupulous sharpers— 

 namely, the seedsmen. The fact is that the progress and 

 improvement of the seed trade is synonymous wuth the 

 progress and improvement of agriculture and horticul- 

 ture. For two hundred years the commercial seed in- 

 dustry has been a much mightier factor in that respect 

 than any government agency, national or state. Admit- 

 ting the valuable services claimed for the national agen- 

 cies — and we believe the seed trade fully appreciates 

 their help and welcomes all the good they do — it remains 

 true that the people at large have been repeatedly fed 

 with innuendo and imputation on the probity of the 

 seed trade in general and some of the magazines and 

 daily papers have shown unseemly eagerness in the dis- 

 semination of anything which, by obscuring the merits 

 of the seedsman, makes for the aggrandizement of am- 

 bitious functionaries. A wider publicity for the pro- 

 ceedings in detail at the seed trade conventions would, 

 perhap'^. have a salulaiy ciuinleractiiig effect. 



Entitled to 

 a "square deal" 



We have on hand 



