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H O R T I C U L T U R E 



December 2, 1905 



HORTICULTURE 



AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL 

 DEVOTED TO THE 



FLORIST, PLANTSMAN, LANDSCAPE 



GARDENER AND KINDRED 



INTERESTS 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



II HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 



WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Our pitying sympathy goes forth to those 

 Sympathy two stricken households where the joyous- 



ness of the Thanlcsgiving time has been 

 turned into sorrow and dismay by the terrible railroad 

 disaster of last Sunday at Lincoln, Mass. 



Next week Horticulturk will celebrate 

 A coming jtg first anniversary. It will put on its 

 event best clothes and receive the kind atten- 

 tions of its friends with becoming appre- 

 ciation. Would you like to extend your congratulations 

 in a practical and useful form? Nothing you can do 

 will please or benefit the youngster so much as a con- 

 tract for the next twelve months' advertising or a few 

 subscription renewals. And, in return, Horticulture 

 will work liard in your behalf all the coming year. 



Eeports of flower-show awards as usually 



Room for gent out are disappointingly incomplete. 



improvement The announcement that John Doe received 



first prize for the best specimen orna- 

 mental foliage plant or the best five chrysanthemum 

 introductions of the current year is, of course, pleasing 

 tc- Mr. Doe, but there its usefulness ends. If the secre- 

 tary or other official would furnish, as a part of the 

 report, the name of the winning varieties and, when 

 these are novelties, a brief description of them, he would 

 be doing a welcome service. Here and there we find 

 one who does this, but he is the exception. 



The plant grower who would build up his 



Preparing industry as a great and successful holiday 



the Christmas enterprise will see to it that everything 



plant possible is done to harden off and inure 



his stock so that when it leaves his hands 

 it will be duly prepared to withstand for a reasonable 

 length of time the hard fate from which there is no 

 escape for the Christmas plant. Next in importance 

 to the growing of a good plant must be placed this 

 process. No one thing has retarded the populnrity of 



the greenhouse-grown plant so much as the practice of 

 direct removal from the sweltering atmosphere of a 

 stove-house to the conditions prevailing in the average 

 dwelling house. 



We do not believe that the utterly 

 An unworthy selfish and uncalled-for sentiments ex- 

 sentiment pressed in a recent issue of the Frank- 

 lin Falls Journal represent the feelings 

 of anybody in New Hampshire outside of the office of 

 that paper. The suggestion that residents of other States 

 should send a subscription of one hundred dollars 

 apiece to back up their appeal to the State government 

 on behalf of the Wliite Mountain forests or otherwise 

 keep quiet gives evidence of a spirit far from commend- 

 able. The mountain summer resorts of New Hamp- 

 shire are among the best assets of the State, to which 

 the summer visitors contribute millions of dollars 

 annually. 



The office of town tree warden is' now 

 The tree jjrovided for in many States. This is a 

 warden position of great importance and, if filled 

 by the right man, will soon bring about a 

 condition of arboreal beauty that will add greatly to the 

 attractiveness and health of the town. No man who has 

 not given evidence of a thorough knowledge of selecting, 

 planting, thinning, trimming, and feeding trees should 

 ever be given the office of tree warden ; the opportunities 

 for miscliief in the hands of the mountebank are too 

 great and the results of ignorant treatment too far 

 reaching. In many towns it is practically a labor 

 of love, affection for the trees— not the salary — being 

 the only incentive. The man who can fill such a posi- 

 tion intelligently and does it with this noble purpose is 

 an honor to the community and a benefactor to his 

 fellow men. 



As we go to press, on the eve of Thanks- 

 Thanksgiving giving Day, we glance backward over 

 Day the year that has passed since we took 



up the editorial pen for Horticulture 

 and find much to be grateful for. With a host of good 

 friends already acquired in every section of our great 

 country, with the happy knowledge that its usefulness 

 to the horticultural fraternity is universally recognized 

 and a prosperous future assured, Horticulture finds 

 in its first Thanksgiving Day abundant cause for thank- 

 fulness. In all departments of the horticultural and 

 allied professions with which we have been in touch we 

 believe the year to have been fairly prosperous and that 

 most of those who read these lines can unite with us in 

 jubilant enjoyment of the grand old New England 

 home festival. Apart from that material welfare which 

 stands undoubtedly uppermost with most of us when 

 reviewing the blessings of the year, is the agreeable 

 consciousness that our avocation ranks among the most 

 beneficent of human undertakings and in this we have 

 reason for perennial thankfulness, for 

 "He who blesses most is blest ; 



And God and man shall own his worth, 

 Who toils to leave as his bequest 

 An added beauty to the earth." 



