January 1, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



A Good Dollar's Worth 



Volume IX of Hoeticultuke, January-June, 1909, 

 comprised 920 pages; volume X, July-December, 952 

 pages — 1873 pages, made up of original, practical in- 

 formation, most of it as useful today or a year from 

 today as when written, timely news of the profession 

 from all parts of the world, and advertisements giving 

 publicity to the latest and most valuable advances made 

 in plant and seed improvement and inventions and ap- 

 pliances for use in every department of horticulture ! Is 

 not this a big dollar's worth which Hokticdltuee has 

 provided for its subscribers for the year 1909 ? The list 

 of contributors includes the names of many men who 

 stand in the front rank of their profession not only as 

 writers but as practical men in their special department 

 of work; the editorials are recognized at home and 

 abroad as without a rival in American horticultural lit- 

 rature. ESort and expense to the full limit of our abil- 

 ity have been invested that Horticulture might grow 

 to be the foremost exponent of the art from which it 

 takes its name. Our policy for the year to come will be 

 the same, and the production which we shall put out 

 from week to week will excel that of the past in propor- 

 tion to the support we shall receive from the profession 

 in whose interests Horticulture is published. If you 

 who read these lines are not already a subscriber we 

 trust we have said enough to convince you that you can- 

 not spend a dollar for a better purpose than a subscrip- 

 tion to Horticulture for 1910. If you are a sub- 

 scriber, we hope you will pass the word along to your 

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 read Horticulture regularly. And if you do not find 

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Happy New Year 



Trans-Atlantic Notes 



EDINBURGH SEEDSMEN'S ASSISTANTS' ANNUAL DINNER 



This event took place at the Carlton Hotel on Friday, 

 December 2. Mr. W. Newton in the chair. After the 

 loyal toasts the chairman gave the toast of the evening, 

 "The Edinburgh Seed Trade Assistants." In the course 

 of his speech he pointed out that more was required than 

 merely manual work and mental work was needed to 

 make themselves thoroughly efficient, and was of the 

 greatest importance. Other toasts followed, and with 

 a host of musical talent a most enjoyable evening was 

 spent. 



TESTIMONIAL TO MR. JAMES GRIEVE OF REDBEAES 

 NUESEET, EDINBURGH 



The numerous friends of Mr. J. Grieve on the occa- 

 sion of the jubilee year of his connection with the Edin- 

 burgh nursery trade presented him with a fitting testi- 

 monial — a gold watch and a purse of fifty sovereigns in 

 the Royal British Hotel, Mr. Wytock in the chair, Mr. 

 D. W. Thomson being called on to make the presenta- 

 tion speech. Mr. Grieve under much emotion made a 



most suitable reply expressing his gratitude to, and his 

 appreciation of his many friends as capping his life 

 long labors. 



nancy 



At Tallandier's Nursery, Nancy, the specialty of the 

 proprietor is begonias, which are raised in enormous 

 numbers. Of the variety Lafayette, the well known, 

 best begonia in France for bedding purposes, Tallan- 

 dier has 1,000,000 plants. His chief customer is the 

 firm of Vilmorin & Cie, in Paris. 



The gladiolus, as is well known, forms one of the 

 special branches of M. Lemoine's establishment at 

 Nancy; and preference is given to the Lemoinei and 

 Nanceanus sections, which in the heavy loamy soil of 

 the nursery succeed in a capital manner. It was in 

 1880 that Lemoine put Gladiolus Lemoinei into com- 

 merce. This race was derived from crosses with species, 

 natives of Asia Minor; and the more typical of these hy- 

 brids are those having dark colored markings in the 

 throat of the fiower; whilst G. Nanceanus, in addition 

 to these markings in the throat, has stripes and blotches. 

 Certain individuals of these two races possess a sugges- 

 tion of G. Gandavensis and its varieties or mongrels; 

 and are likely to have a brighter future, owing to the 

 flowers being more open. A strikingly beautiful repre- 

 sentative of this class is G. America, whose flowers are 

 of an enormously large size, a strong spike, and numer- 

 ous flowers, and has the property of the old Lemoinei 

 race of producing two to three flower spikes from one 

 corm. Of pleasing tints, mention may be made of 

 flowers having deep velvety black-brown coloring; also 

 of one of pure yellow — one of the earliest to flower of 

 the G. Lemoinei varieties. 



Other than the above there scarcely exists any 

 other horticultural establishment of importance; but 

 no one visiting Nancy should omit paying a visit to 

 the town garden, the Par de la Pepiniere which was 

 laid out by the director of Promenades, M. Thirion, 

 and maintained in wonderfully good order. It exhibits 

 numerous artistically planted groups and beds and fur- 

 nishes an abundance of hints and much stimulation to 

 the landscape gardener. 



The market is interesting to the gardener; and as 

 there are but few florists' shops, and these of modest 

 pretensions, almost the whole of the trade in plants 

 and flowers is done on the Place in front- of the Market 

 Hall. There is a great choice of products. Foremost 

 are (in late summer) the hydrangeas, oleanders, ferns, 

 selaginellas, palms, cycas, pelargoniums in astonishing 

 variety, likewise fuchsias, carnations, petunias, celosias 

 and Fieus elastica, and, Nancy being so to say the oldest 

 and classical centre for begonia cultivation one may 

 notice entire collections of these plants from those 

 raised by Crouss, long ago, to the most modern novel- 

 ties. Indeed the choice of plants in pots is extraordi- 

 narily large, but they do not all exhibit first-class culti- 

 vation. The cut flower market is abundantly supplied 

 with herbaceous perennials. 



POLYGONUM MULTIFLOEUM 



This is an ideal plant for covering arbors, dead trees, 

 etc., the long rampant growths, often attaining the 

 length of from 20-30 feet in one season, producing a 

 highly ornamental effect when allowed to ramble at will 

 over such subjects. 



London, Eng. 



