HORTICULTURi: 



July 15, 1905 



HORTICULTURE 



AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL 



DEVOTED TO THE 



FLORIST, PLANTSMAN, LANDSCAPE, 



GARDENER AND KINDRED 



INTERESTS 



PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



II HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON, MASS. 

 WM. J. STEWART. Editor and Mo nager. 



The Editor Has His Say 



The article on the system of awards at horticul- 

 tural exhibitions which we reprint from the Gardener's 

 Chronicle of London, will strike a responsive chord in 

 every one on this side of the Atlantic who has ever 

 had any serious connection with such shows. But 

 where is the universal remedy for the defects which 

 all recognize exi.st in every s>'stem thus far devised? 

 The subject is one that will bear discussion and 

 plenty of it. 



The visit of the American Society of Landscape 

 Architects is a notable event for the visitors and for 

 Boston. If America is to develop a distinctive 

 school of landscape-making, Boston will be credited 

 by posterity with having been its birthplace. The 

 genius of Frederic Law Olmsted becomes more 

 apparent as time passes, and will grow upon our com- 

 prehension as the years bring to perfection the won- 

 derful harmonies of beauty and utility which his 

 great mind conceived and realized before thev had 

 taken material form. The young man planning to 

 devote his life to landscape work must come too 

 Boston if he would see and draw inspiration from 

 the priceless legacy which this noble philanthropist 

 and artist has given to liis countrymen — rich and 

 poor — for all time. And it does Boston good to 

 have these men, seeking to follow in the footsteps 

 of her benefactor, honor her with frequent visits, 

 kindle her appreciation of her incomparable park 

 system, and give their counsel as to where advance- 

 ment may be made, in Iiarmony with the spirit and 

 intent of its founder. 



We have heard considerable surprised comment 

 on the lengthy list of new greenhouse construction 

 reported in our issue of last week by one of our 

 western advertisers. Commercial greenhouse build- 

 ing is going on in the central west at a rate not fully 

 realized in the eastern and older part of the countrv, 

 and flower growing has there already reached a mag- 



nitude understood only by those who have seen it. 

 It is possibly true that the methods of culture as 

 followed by some western growers are rough and 

 hasty, as compared with the attention to fine detail 

 which is characteristic of the most successful eastern 

 culturists, and the product may sometimes lack the 

 exquisite finish of the carefully-nurtured material 

 seen in the New York and Boston markets, but that 

 will all come in good time. Horticulture recognizes 

 no east, west, north, or south, in precedence one over 

 the other. Each and every section can find some- 

 thing in the other worth learning and deserving of 

 imitation. One of the most important points to be 

 noted in the remarkable increase of glass area in the 

 west is the splendid confidence displayed in the 

 future magnitude of American commercial horti- 

 culture. 



We see no good reason why our friends in Wash- 

 ington, who are to be the hosts of the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists at the 

 convention of 1905, have been called upon to give 

 assurances that any one special class of the visitors 

 shall not be neglected. The sentiment that would 

 encourage the drawing of a dividing line between the 

 grower whose salary is paid by a private employer 

 and the one whose salary comes from a commercial 

 employer, or from direct sales of his own products, 

 does not appeal to us as conducive to the benefit of 

 either or the advancement of horticulture's best in- 

 terests, and has certainly never had voice or recogni- 

 tion in the national society, as a perusal of the con- 

 stitution and history of that body will prove. Eligi- 

 bility to membership, as defined in the first pros- 

 pectus issued in 1884 and retained in the constitution 

 ever since, included all without any distinction what- 

 ever, and the records show that no less than fifty 

 members in no way connected with commercial horti- 

 culture have served the society zealously in various 

 official capacities. Why .should a gardener feel "out 

 of place" in a society that belongs to his own fra- 

 ternity? Nobody need absent himself from the con- 

 vention on such grounds. In every city the society 

 has visited, thus far, the welcoming hand has been 

 outstretched and the heartiest hospitality extended 

 to every guest. No guarantees are needed as to 

 Washingt(in. 



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Thanks to Horticulture, we are daily receiving 

 orders and imiuiries from all over the country, as 

 well as from Canada, Porto Rico, and Cuba, which 

 goes far to prove the value of Horticulture as 

 an advertising medium. We are very pleased with 

 the results of our advertising in Horticulture, and 

 wish every success to the paper and editor. 

 Respectfully, 



A. Lf 



Co. 



