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rlORTICULTURE. 



September 4, 19<i9 



■Kj^^ljopw'^^* TW *¥*¥ TIJ IT daughters should be among the most active defenders of 



n V^ *V * ■t ^-^ ^ *^ * ^ aV.J1^ fi^eir feathered allies and the foremost in any crusade to 



y(,L X SEPTEMBER 4 1909 NO. 10 P"* a stop to this shameful destruction which is crip- 



^^ pliiiR their industry and for which no reasonable justifi- 



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CONTENTS Page Mr. Burbank is now tjuoted as saying : 



COVER II.LUSTRATION— View in Flower Garden at "The extravagant estimates of my work has be'en the 



Naugatuck, Conn. hane of my existence. There has teen so much writ- 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred ^ ten about nie by sensational writers who know nothing 



Rehder 337 either of me or my work. I am not responsible for all 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 337 t^ese things and anyone with any knowledge of horti- 



MANCANESE IN THE SOII^— Dudley M. Pray 338 culture could discern at once that much of the stuff 



VFEW IN FLOWER GARDEN- M. J. Pope 338 ggnt out is nothing but space writers' chaff." 



N.ATURAL MANURES— A. Pengel 339 .,, , , xi. j xi i. Ti,r r, , 1 ii + 



REHMANNIA ANGULATA— Wm. Tricker 339 It IS greatly to be regretted that Mr. Buiiiank did not 



OUR AVILD BIRDS— Wm. L. Pinley 341 speak out in this fashion long ago. Hundreds of hor- 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: ticultural people, in fullest sympathy with anyone en- 

 Society of American Florists-Wm. S. Manning, PrcS- in a sincere effort to develot) improved varieties of 

 ident-elect American Association of Paik S iper.n- gagea in a s mcere tnori 10 ueyeiop impioveu vaiieiieb oi 

 tendents. Portrait— St. Louis Florist Club— Eastern liorticultural products, looked for him to call a halt to 

 Branch American Association of Park Superintendents 312 this fool talk which invited the ridicule of the whole 

 —American Association of Railroad Gardeners, Visit world. "Better late than never," thougli, and Burbank 



to Riverton and Ogontz — Club and Societv Notes 6I0 , ,, lii j-ji li •„ 



Roval Horticultural Society, Frederick Moore 358 stock ought now to take a decided upward turn m many 



SEED TRADE: quarters. Wonder where that gi'eat luminary, the 



The Corn Outlook— Pea Delivery Below 50 Per Cent— "Council of Horticulture" stands on the Burbank 



Beans Improving— Optimistic Feelings— Newark En- i|ue-;liiin 



terprise— A Great Fair— The Bnlb Season in Holland ' ,.n * • , ^ « ... 



I-Notps on Nu, serv Stock-Notes 340 Get jealousy out of your system.' - 



__,.i;,. , r,v A lion From W. F. Kastmg's speech at Cincinnati. 



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Professor Einil Christian Hansen — Henry McDonald in the path" Our friend Kasting has . said a 



— F. E. Rawlings— Mrs. P. Scanlan 349 g^y,] ^^^^^y things in his trite outspoken 



^'^oI^^.B^lS'iJhicaYc^m^'anapolis, Philadelphia.. 351 way but never anything more tersely expressive and to 



New York •^^''' '^e point than this bit of advice to the retail florists, 



DURING RECESS: whose participation in the next National Flower Show 



Now York and New Jersey Association of Plant ^^,^^ being urged. It is commonly asserted that the un- 



Growers •■•••■• willingness to place themselves in a position where there 



Mihvaukee Flower Show-Shaw's Garden 344 is possibility of someone surpassing them, is the main 



A California Exhibition— New England Fruit Show.. 345 motive in deterring tlie workers in flowers from display- 

 Personal— Steamer Departures • •• 348 jj^ tlicir art in public exhibitions. Even where assur- 



Philadcl ITrt^otes ^"'"''~^'°!';"'.''^ ^^.''.^. .■. 353 a^ce i^ given that competitive awards will not be made 



Boston'^ Growers' Markets. ....'.......'.■.'■ 353 the reluctance still continues, apparently from the fear 



Catalogues Received- Business Changes 358 that they may be placed in the shade by the proficiency 



Hard Wooded Plants -^ciq nf'' in public of those whom they have been disposed to look 



News Notes ••■••• • • " ^ upon as their inferiors. Eegrettable this all is and, in 



Destroying the Cabbage Worm >5tu 1 , «. , • 1^ i j ■ • i \\ 



Wood Concrete and Xylolith 360 its general effect, a serious hindrance and injury to the 



Patents- Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 362 advancement of the floral decorators' art which, being 



Publications Received 362 ^j^^g deprived of the opportunities for comparison and 



Incorpoiated public demonstration which other lines of fine industry 



^ liave found so helpful, stands today as showing the least 



We commend to every reader of Horti- degree of progress of all the departments of horticul- 



Our friends CULTURE, and particularly to the women ^^■^^■p during the quarter century since the great awaken- 



the birds and children, the forcible presentation [„„ of which the organization" of the S. A. F. was the 



by ]\Ir. Wm. L. Finley, on another page -signal. More elegant work, il is true, is being turned 



of this paper of the value of our wild birds to agriculture out by the retail trade of the present day than twenty- 



and horticulture and the effect of the iniquitous slaugh- five years ago, but it is made possible only by the more 



ter of these creatures wliich is being carried on continu- perfect product of the growers and the more appropriate 



ously to gratify the demands of women for their wings and artistic accessories provided by the supply dealers, 



and plumes. We can say nothing to illumine or neither of which interests would have attained anything 



strengthen Mr. Finley's plea: we only ask that you read like their present higli standards had (hey worked in in- 



it attentively and thouglitfully. Apart from the hu- dividual isolation and shrunk from the wit-sharpening 



mane aspects of sucli a question, it does seem to us that discipline and irresistible inspiration of the exhibition 



the horticulturists, and tlip horticulturists' wives and liall. 



