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HORTICULTURE 



April 23, 1910 



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APRIL 23, 1910 



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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in the Palm House, 



Garfield Park, Chicago 



PLANTS FOR EDGINGS— Richard J. Hayden 617 



TRANS-ATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 617 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 619 



MUTATION VS. REVERSION— N. B. White 619 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES; 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Nassau Co. 

 Horticultural Society — Morris Co. Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society — St. Louis Florist Club — Buffalo 

 Florists' Club — American Nurserymen's Association 

 — Yonkers Horticultural Society — St. Lx)uis Ladies' 



Home Circle 620 



Ladies' Society of American Florists 621 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 



STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 621 



NEW AND DESIRABLE HERBACEOUS PLANTS— 



Arthur E. Thatcher 622 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Outlook in California — A Suggestion Concerning 

 the "Free Seed" Fund— Notes 630 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 632 



Flowers by Telegraph 633 



OBITUARY: 



Henry G. McPike — Susan Scott Lustgarten — William 

 Penn Watson 633 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 635 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 637 



DURING RECESS: 



The Chicago Bowlers 643 



FUNGI— B. G. Pratt 644 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



R. Vincent, Jr.— Portrait 624 



The Peace of Spring, Poetry 624 



Chicago Notes 624 



Primula Obconica Carried Over — Illustrated 626 



Early Spring in Ohio 626 



Catalogues Received 629 



Fire Record 629 



News Notes 632-633-637 



Personal 633 



Incorporated 631-642 



Publications Received 642 



Gathering Lady Bugs 644 



The Elm Leaf Beetle 644 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 646 



It is encouraging to learn that the bill 

 Write to your creating the Southern ApiDalachian 

 congressman and Wliite Mountain forest reserve has 

 about this been favorably reported from the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture to the House of 

 Eepresentatives. The horticultural intelligence of the 



country will be unanimously in sympathy with the re- ■ 

 port signed by the majority of the committee, declaring 

 that there is no more important bill before Congress than 

 this, wliich is an initial step in the great and beneficent 

 movement for the conservation of our national resources. 

 The objections as presented by the minority, consisting 

 of Chairman Scott and six other members, are mainly 

 based upon the expenditure involved. We think it 

 would not be a difficult task for the average patriotic and 

 progressive citizen to pick out plenty of items in the 

 appropriation bills which are less urgent and make far 

 less for the country's welfare than the one we are con- 

 sidering. It was a great disappointment to the people 

 (if a large section of the country when this project was 

 defeated before. AVe hope it will have a better fate this 

 time. Just now the congressional ear is closer to the 

 ground than it has been for a long time, for obvious 

 reasons. Write to your representative and tell him you 

 expect him to favor this movement. 



We are pleased to note the outcome of 

 The revised the protest by the nurserymen and the 

 horticultural horticultural importers, in which HoR- 

 inspection bill ticultuke also joined, against the 

 Simmons Bill 15656, providing for 

 Federal inspection of imported nursery stock under con- 

 ditions not only rainous to the importing industry but 

 impossible of enforcement. Now in its stead we have 

 H. R. 23253 which was introduced, also by Mr. Sim- 

 mons, in the House of Representatives on March 21 and 

 was referred to the Committee on Agriculture in whose 

 charge it now is. The new bill appears to be practically 

 on lines endorsed by the Nurserymen's Association, its 

 main difference from the former bill being the provision 

 for examination by official experts at place of destina- 

 tion instead of at dock. It provides also that no nur- 

 sery stock shall be imported into the United States ex- 

 cept under a special permit from the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. The nursery and florist interests are in 

 full accord with the Federal authorities in their efforts 

 to guard against the introduction of injurious insects or 

 plant diseases and we think the new bill will generally 

 meet their approval, while at the same time it fully car- 

 ries out the original intent of the Department of Agri- 

 culture in a feasible manner. 



As we observed two weeks ago. 

 An annually many garden favorites in flowering 

 recurring hazard ti-ees and shrubs seem to have passed 

 through the winter of 1909-10 in 

 excellent condition, better than on the average of recent 

 years in the neighborhood of Boston. Our apprehen- 

 sion, then expressed, of danger in this precocious spring 

 to the early blooming material, from later freezes, seems 

 to have; been justified, according to the press reports from 

 the interior. We, on the coast have fortunately escaped 

 thus far much of the severity experienced by our friends 

 in the West but we got just enough of the frigidity to 

 spoil the magnolias which were in the full height of 

 their beauty. Rarely, if ever, have these showy trees 

 been so profusely flowered, a fact which makes the dis- 

 appointment all the keener. Cornus florida, a native, 



