824 HOKTICULTURE December 11, 1909 



ww^^nqpT^^T TV 'TPf yUir What think you now of Horticultukb? 



J^^"^ *^ * 1. V^ V<> 1-^ M. V/ M\.M.^ pjyg rpjjjg pi-gsent issue marks the birthday an- 



^OL. X DECEviBbR 11, 1909 w». 24 years old niversary of "the new paper." Time flies 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY and ^6 cau hardly realize that our fifth 



JHOR.TICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. milestone has already been reached and that our "new- 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. ness" is already pretty well brushed oS. HorticuI/- 



WM. J. STEWART . Edi^r and Manag<;r TUEE was started with a definite purpose, a large factor 



CRiPTioN PRICE ^n which was to provide for those engaged in floriculture 



OBeYe«r,inadvance,$i oo; ToForeigoCounirics, $2.00; ToCanada, $1.50 and allied Iwrticultural industries 3. publication on lines 



ADVERTISING RATES somcwhat different from any then in existence. We 



Per Inch, 30 inches to page ■''',,',''' * ' '^ 



Ducountson Contracts for consecutive iDsertion. as fonows: coufess that We have fallen far short of.our ideal, but 



One month (4 times) 5 per cent ; three months 113 times) loperceu^, j 



•!« months (j6 times, 20 per cent ; one yey (52"^"' 3° P"""- BTomise to kcep striviug awBV OH the Same couise and 



Page and half page spaces, special rates on application. r ^ r o ./ 



= , „ w D " >,«; . R . "^iTvuL hope, as we grow in strength, to continue to approach 



«meied as second-class matier December 8. .904, at the Post Office at Boston, M.« 1^ '. 6 , \ ^ . , , , ,, 



under ihe Act of cooEress of March j. is?.). nearer and nearer to the standard aimed at from the 



fjQW'p^l^'j'g Page, beginning. We need make no boast as to the value of 



■COVER DESIGN, by George E. Dow. this paper as an advertising medium for the trade. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM- Better and farther-reaching than anything we might say 



Alfred Rehder «1& , ■ ■ j., •? j. » ?, x i » 



TRANSATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 815 or claim IS the very positive stamp of the trades ap- 



BEGONIA GLOIRE DE LORRAINE-Geo. F. Stewart ,^^^^j ^^.^ j^^ advertising columns bear from week to 



Illustrated °^* 



PROGRESS IN GERANIUMS— R. A. Vincent 818 week — unparalleled in the case of any other paper of its 



DENDROBIUM SANDERAE— Illustrated 819 ^ at the same affe 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 819 ^'^ss, ar tne same age. 



SOILS AND FERTILIZERS FOR ROSE GROWING— The comparatively small number of 



THREE CHRYSANTHEMUMS OF MERiT-m^^ A wonderful varieties commercially grown for 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES— C. Harman Payne 821 development and the Cut flower trade has for many 



CATTLE YA GASKELLIANA— Illustration 822 !*-»«»/.+ u f -j. j. t- -lUi-u 



CATTLEYA WAVRINIANA— M. J. Pope-Illustrated 822 '*s «*f«<=* years been a favorite taunt with the 



THE EAST AND THE WEST— C. S. Harrison 823 "old-fashioned" gardener and the 



PRUNING PEACHES— James Wheeler 823 t ti, c i. c a ■ j 



TREATMENT OF NEWLY IMPORTED ORCHIDS— alleged decadence of the fine art of flower growing under 



Frederick Moore 825 glass has been often bemoaned both in public and in 



FRENCH GARDENING— W. H. Adsett. 825 ^ . ( 



AUTUMN SHOW AT EDINBURGH-Illustrated 826 private. "All you know is Bride, 'Maid and Beauty, 



THE FOLI lES OF 1908-'09— Chas. Henry Fox 827 carnations, and chrysanthemums" is the refrain which 



"^ Albert^Du Planty— Robert Marks-Andrew Irwin— many a florist has often had to listen to. No doubt 



Raymond Moore— John Seligman 829 some foundation for the criticism existed in years gone- 



LAND DEVELOPMENT FOR CIVIC BEAUTY— E. F. u k f +i ■ 1 fl ■ A t- ■ ^ 



A Reinisch 830 by but tiie commercial flower grower was industriously 



WORK OF THE BOSTON LANDSCAPE CLASS— II- and profitably improving the culture of those popular 



ABOUt'^'new' CARNATlbNS-illustrated'. '. '. '.'..'.'.'.'. . . 832 specialties to a standard of quality such as the world had 



SOME HOLIDAY ESSENTIALS— Illustrated 836 never before seen and he had the public with him— 



SOME RESULTS OBTAINED BY GERMAN PLANT i4.j ij 11.1,1 ji,ix i.- 



HYBRIDISTS— F. Moore 842 heart and soul and pocket-book — and so he kept on his 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: way. Indeed, there was a long period when, if one 



American Breeders' Association 844 ",j. «jj j t » t 



American Rose Society— Florists' Club of Washing- wanted to procure odds and ends" of promiscuous 



ton— Sec'y W. C. Hall, portrait— American Carnation flowers, the small obscure shop was the place they were 



Society — Chrysanthemum Society of America— Flor- j.viij.ij! ja l- x 



Ists' Club of Philadelphia— Elberon Horticultural most likely to be found. A reaction was sure to come, 



Society— N. Y. and N. J. Association of Plant Grow- in time. The vastly increased production of the stan- 



ers— Netherlands Society for Bulb Culture 848 . •' " . , ^ , ^, 



SEED TRADE: dard varieties of roses, carnations, violets, chrysanthe- 



Crop Estimates and Shortages— Relations of Supply mums and forced bulb flowers resulted in their becom- 



Men and Canners— Dutch Seed Trade 845 a ;? j i.i ^i , ^ j. 1 • ^ , 3 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: '"g common and then the street fakir got busy and 



Steamer Departures— New Flower Stores— "When the result is well known in most of the large flower-pro- 



the Chowder Club Buys," lUus.— Flowers by Telegraph 851 , . or 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: aucing centres. 



Boston, Chicago, Detroit 859 -n . i.i^ • «alwav« room at the tnn" 



New York, Philadelphia 861 ^^^ '^""® '^ always room at tne top 



THE APPLE GROWING INDUSTRY— Aug. Wolf 868 Tendencies and here history begins once more to 



^DaWi'a^XameVan den Dael and Queen Wilbel- '"' °"*'°°' ^^P^^* itself. Perhaps it was the plant 



mina— Illustration 828 grower who was tlie first to recognize and 



^rXct^oT'i'gaTn^riL^eVli::!^^'^': : : ::::::::::: Ji ^ake advantage of the popular yeammg for "something 



A Model of Formal Gardening — Illustrated 830 different." For some years back the cut flower special- 



Personai''^.'^^"'^'::".'".''.''.^^ 834^ '^^ ^^^ ^""^ ^ ™°»t uncomfortable realization of the 



International Horticultural Exhibition at Brussells. 846 plantsman's activity and the public's approval thereof at 



New^'Sriean" Notes: l ! i : ! i l ; ! l i l ! : '. ! '. '. I ! : : l : : : : : : fss faster and the Christmas holidays especially. But the 



Controlling the San Jose Scale 868 cut flower grower has also heard the call and his prod- 



GrTenboretl^und^frkntemplated:::::::::^^ I'l -t, as seen in the daily stock of the society florist in 



Patents Granted 870 New York City and other centres which practically set 



