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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Spraying Operations in Olm- 

 sted Park, Boston. 



PINE BANK, OLMSTED PARK, BOSTON, Illustrated. . .653 



CLEMATIS, New Evergreen Species from Northern 

 China 653 



TRANS-ATLANTIC NOTES— Frederick Moore 653 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— John J. M. Farrell 655- 



FERTILIZERS FOR S T R A W B E R R I E S— Wilfrid 

 Wheeler 655 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Connecticut 

 Horticultural Society — American Carnation Society — 

 Club and Society Notes 656 



CARNATIONS— A. M. Herr 657 



DURING RECESS— Chicago Bowlers 658 



OBITUARY: 

 Joseph Whipple Congdon — Samuel W. Twombly — 

 Luther James Bradford Olcolt 659 



NEW AND DESIRABLE HERBACEOUS PLANTS— 

 Arthur E. Thatcher 660 



ROSES IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON— Wm. S. Sib- 

 son 660 



SEED TRADE: 

 About Onion Sets — Results of the Cold Wave — Hender- 

 son's Improvements — European Crop Conditions — Ef- 

 fects of the Freeze in the Chicago District — Concerning 



Opaque and Transparent Seed Packets 666 



A Disclaimer Critic — Notes 667 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 66S 



Flowers by Telegraph 669 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 671 



Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 673 



APPLE SCAB AND HOW TO CONTROL IT— Everett 

 Wallace 6S0 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



"Counting the Cost" — Poetry 655 



Chicago Notes 658 



Philadelphia Notes— Illustrated 665 



News Notes 668, 669, 6S2 



Personal 669 



Incorporated 673 



In Bankruptcy 673 



Pheasant Farming 679 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 6S2 



Trees in Demand 682 



Patents Granted 682 



We join most sincerely and feelingly in 

 The great the great wave of sympathy which follows 

 freeze the news of the calamity which has be- 

 fallen the vast fruit-growing and garden- 

 ing districts of the central and southern sections of our 



country. The destruction of young growing crops and 

 fruit buds by blizzards and freezing which, for the time 

 of year and condition of vegetation, have no parallel in 

 the history of fruit growing and farming in America, is 

 appalling. This is one of those catastrophes against 

 which no human plans or precautions can avail much. 

 When they occur there are lessons to be learned, how- 

 ever, and one of these is that in estimating or computing 

 profits from these industries the annual risk of the re- 

 currence of such losses should never be lost sight of. 

 Fruit growing and market gardening have been given an 

 unprecedented stimulus within the past few years and 

 such a ruinous set back at this stage of their develop- 

 ment is greatly to be regretted. 



Stockbridge, Mass., is at present the 

 A mischevious storm center over a movement to so 

 proposition modify the Massachusetts law? 

 against the defacement of the natural 

 scenery of the State by advertisements as to sanction the 

 erection, under certain conditions, of signs on the public 

 highways, containing directions to the traveling public 

 and "designating thereon by whom such signs are 

 erected." One does not need a spy-glass to see what the 

 adoption of such a law would lead to. We hope the at- 

 tempt will be defeated. Massachusetts has taken and 

 maintained a foremost position in the campaign against 

 the billboard nuisance and the disfigurement of the land- 

 scape by advertisements. She can't afford to stand be- 

 fore the country as having now taken any backward step. 

 Far better go the other way, if there is to be any 

 change in the statutes and make the rules more prohib- 

 itive than ever. That is the way public sentiment every- 

 where is heading. 



H. E. 23253, the "Simmons Bill," 

 The Nursery providing for inspection of all im- 

 Inspection Bill ported nursery stock under the direc- 

 tion of the Secretary of Agriculture 

 is now under consideration by the House Committee on 

 Agriculture at Washington. We commented on this 

 bill last week as one likely to meet with the approval of 

 the parties most largely interested, referring particular- 

 ly to the clause providing that inspection should be 

 made at the point of destination instead of at port of 

 entry as stipulated in a previous bill. But there are 

 other clauses in this bill to which the Nurserymen's As- 

 sociation and others whose interests are involved take 

 exception and we are inclined to the belief that they are 

 justified in the protest which we understand has been 

 made by representatives of the Association at a hearing 

 before the committee in Washington this week. There 

 is also cause for disquietude as to the apfilication of cer- 

 tain clauses to the seed and florist industries. An awk- 

 ward complication in the situation lies in the existence 

 already of State inspection laws of more or less rigid 

 character. We shall await with interest details of the 

 hearing and earnestly hope that the bill may be so 

 amended that no injustice or avoidable inconvenience 

 may attend its operation. Unless this can be done no 

 effort should be spared to accomplish its defeat. 



