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HORTI CULTURE 



November 25, 1905 



invite fire. They never should be logged at all, but no 

 one save the government can afford to hold them in 

 forest for the sake of the water they conserve. 



New Hampshire could not be expected to do 

 it for the benefit of New England, even if she 

 were a wealthy State. New England as a whole cannot 

 do it. The federal government alone can handle the 

 matter economically through its admirable forest serv- 

 ice of the Department of Agriculture. 



The other illustration shows a typical White Moun- 

 tain virgin forest of spruce and hardwood. It was thus 

 that those mountain forests appeared before the lumber- 

 man began. Today this tract on the Randoli>h side of 

 the Ptesidential range, and another small piece on the 

 easterly side of Mt. Washington, are all that remain of 

 those primeval woods. Even at this very minute the 

 axes and saws of the loggers are eating into those Ran- 

 dolph trees. 



The bill calls for a reserve not exceeding one million 

 acres in area. The recent survey of the mountain region 

 by the federal foresters shows that the White Mountain 

 eoimtry comprises only about 800,000 acres. To estab- 

 lish a forest reserve there woiild mean increasing the 

 present federal reserve area of the country by only 

 about one per cent. The reserve at present in existence 

 (exclusive of those in Porto Eico and Alaska) amount 

 to ninety-one million acres, and are all situated in the 

 States and Territories west of the Mississippi. The 

 western country has in addition a large number of vast 

 and superb national parks, pleasure grounds pure and 

 simple. New England asks simply that a paltry million 

 acres of mountain country be taken by the nation for 

 a national park and forest reserve in one, and at a cost 

 not greater than is laid out in a single battleship. 



That the project is not a sentimental one purely is 

 sufficiently proved by the fact that many prominent 

 business men's organizations have already petitioned 

 Congress to take favorable action. Among these are the 

 American Paper and Pulp Association, the National 

 Wliolesale Lumber Dealers' Association, the National 

 Board of Trade, the Connecticut State Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, Rhode Island State Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, New Hampshire Lumbermen's Association, New 

 Haven and Coastwise Lumber Dealers' Association, the 

 Boston Merchants' Association, the Boston Lumber 

 Trade Club, and the Boston Associated Board of Trade. 



No stone must be left unturned in the work for this 

 measure before the incoming Congress. Everyone who 

 has an interest in New England should do his part to- 

 ward securing favorable action. Here is an opportunity 

 for the florists, the nurserymen and the landscape gar- 

 deners, individually and as organizations, to promptly 

 urge the matter upon Congress. 



American Chrysanthemums in 

 Paris 



There are not nowadays many of the American seed- 

 lings left on this side of the Atlantic, but having half an 

 hour to spare one day when at the recent Paris chrys- 

 anthemum show I took note of all those I could see. 

 The following is the list: The Egyptian, Wm. Fal- 

 coner, Wm. Tricker. Niveus, Mrs. H. Robinson. Eda 

 Praes, G. W. Cliilds, Col. W. B. Smith. 



C. H. P. 



The Australian and Other New 

 Chrysanthemums 



To the Editor of Horticultdke : — 



Sir: — Your statement on page 505 that "none of 

 the new varieties approach the old standard as to foli- 

 age," is so thoroughly at variance with fact, and so 

 misleading, that it should not be permitted to stand 

 unchallenged. The long-necked varieties are but a 

 small minority and usually only appear at the shows 

 in classes for single blooms vrith short stems. I note 

 that you admit William Duckham among the select. 

 What is the matter with Mrs. William Duckham ? Ten 

 vases were shown for the Wells medals at Philadelphia 

 and all carried foliage right up to the flower. Then 

 there is Nellie Pockett and its yellow and even more 

 beautiful counterpart, Cheltoni — a pair that came as 

 near perfection as we may ever hope to attain. Mr. 

 Eugene Duilledouze is authority for saying the hand- 

 somest exhibit in the New York Show was a vase of 

 twenty-five Cheltoni and visitors to the Red Bank Show 

 tell me of a wonderful vase of this variety seen there. 

 Just for good measure and to further prove the wild- 

 ness of your assertion I will mention Harrison Dick, 

 Ben Wells, Mrs. F. A. Cobbold, Leila Filkins, Mrs. A. 

 J. Miller, J. H. Doyle, W. R. Church and Donald 

 McLeod. 



These have all been prominently shown in the vase 

 classes and are devoid of marked necks. Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones though handsome in its day is now superseded, or 

 how otherwise do we explain the fact that not a flower 

 of it appeared in the New York and Philadelphia 

 exhibitions. 



Chrysanthemum Mme. Marie 

 Liger 



I well remember at the Chrysanthemum Show held 

 during the great International Exhibition in Paris in 

 1900 the close run that Mme. Marie Liger had for the 

 gold medal offered by the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America for the best new seedling in the show. Its 

 closest opponent was Calvat's Sun, a grand yellow 

 Japanese of immense size, but one that does better in 

 France than in England. At the recent Paris chrys- 

 anthemum show there was a goodly number of blooms 

 on show of Mme. Marie Liger, which, considering It is 

 now five years old, is saying something for its merits as 

 a show bloom. The raiser, M. Liger — Lignear of 

 Orleans, had several other new seedlings on view. 



C. H. P. 



