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HORTICULTURE 



November 27, 1909 



horticulture: 



TOL. X 



NOVEMBER 2r, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— A New Spiraea. 

 NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Alfred 



Rehder 741 



THE EAST AND THE WEST— C. S. Harrison 741 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 742 



ADIANTUMS IN THE SOUTH— Robert Lockerbie... 742 

 WATER SCENERY IN THE GARDEN- Frederick 



Moore 743 



CODIAEUMS— George F. Stewart 745 



CLIANTHUS DAMPIERI AND C. PUNICEUS— Fred- 

 erick Moore 746 



AGAVE NEGLECTA IN FLOWER— J. R.— Illustrated 746 



"JACK ROSE" DAHLIA— L. K. Peacock 746 



TWO GOOD DAHLIAS— Illustrated 747 



SOME NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS— C. Harman Payne 747 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



National Chrysanthemum Society, London — New Or- 

 leans Horticultural Society — Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety of America 748 



Detroit Florist Club — Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Society of American Florists — North Shore 



Horticultural Society — Club and Society Notes 749 



Chrysanthemum Society of America. Address of 



Pres. Elmer D. Smith 766 



OBITUARY: 



J. H. Menard — H. F. A. Lange — Samuel J. Thompson 750 

 SEED TRADE: 

 The American Seed Trade Association, W. Atlee 



Burpee — Notes — Catalogues Received 754 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 756 



Why Florists Grow Grey, Illustrated — New Orleans 



Flower Market — Flowers by Telegraph 757 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis 759 



New York, Philadelphia 761 



A TALK ON THE CHRYSANTHEMUM— W. H. Waite 768 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 754-769 



Personal 758 



Killarney Dropping Leaves, E. Holmes 768 



Hardy Aster "Annie" — Illustrated 768 



Chicago Notes 769 



A Grand Rapids Marketing Plan 769 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 770 



Publications Received 770 



Business Changes 770 



Incorporated 770 



Patents Granted 770 



Ground having now been broken on the 

 National preliminary work for the National 

 Flower Show Flower Show to be held at Boston in 

 preparations 1911, rapid progress on the project may 

 be looked for. March, 1911, seems a 

 long time ahead but it is none too long in which to prop- 

 erly prepare for a show such as the country has reason 

 to expect, considering the location selected and its great 

 horticultural resources. We understand it to be the 

 plan of the committee on schedule to proceed immedi- 

 ately with the prize list for plants and such other ma- 

 teriaj as may call for a long time in which to prepare. 

 This plant schedule and the completion of the guaran- 

 tee fund are the first essentials. 



"By grafting a twig from a chestnut 

 A Touchdown tree on an apple bough it is claimed 



that an apple was obtained inside of 

 which there were three well-grown and well-flavored 

 chestnuts."' 



Now what do you think of that? We clip it from 

 the Nov. 17 issue of the Seattle Daily Times in an arti- 

 cle by F. J. Haskin on the "Bed Apple King of Fruits." 

 Mr. Haskin naively remarks that this "must await the 

 approving seal of some body of scientists" before being 

 accepted as really truly true. He further mentions one 

 famous horticulturist who has "so combined twigs from 

 sweet and sour apple trees that he has produced a tree 

 bearing apples sweet on one side and sour on the other !" 

 In the face of all this stupendous advance on the part 

 of the "famous horticulturists" of the limitless West 

 the New England and New York apple growers might 

 as well turn over their antiquated Baldwins and Green- 

 ings to the brown-tail moth. These wizards have us 

 beaten to a frazzle. 



Another Thanksgiving Day is here with its 



The best gladness and bounty. Whatever may have 



blessing befallen us of disappointment or adversity 



in the course of the year just passed, tlu-re 

 are very few of us who cannot look back and find in our 

 experiences since last Thanksgiving Day very much to 

 feel grateful for, very much that we shall love to cherish 

 in memory, very much to encourage and inspire us to 

 face the unforeseen troubles and joys that await us in 

 the months to come. Horticdlture, looking backward 

 over the busy twelve months, and weighing the bitter 

 against the sweet, finds the latter far outbalancing the 

 former. Old friends have never wavered, new ones con- 

 tinue to multiply, and "the smoke goes up the chimney 

 just the same." Our appreciation and gratitude go out 

 in full measure to all who have favored us with their 

 kindly good-will. 



"It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be 

 strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved by many 

 friends." — Eiirii'idcs. 



Our good friend and observant lover of 

 Climatic nature, C. S. Harrison, has given us in 

 observations this issue a very clear idea of the cli- 

 matic differences existing between the 

 Atlantic coast and localities in a corresponding latitude 



