HORTI CULTURE 



December 16, 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. 



Two matters of far-reacliing impor- 

 write tance to the readers of Horticulture, 



to your which are to come before Congress at 

 Congressman j^g present session, are the Postal 

 Progress bill and the plan for saving 

 the forests of the White Mountain country, or rather 

 the small remnant of those forests now in existence. 

 If anything is to be accomplished in the last-named it 

 must be done at once. Every one who reads these lines 

 is earnestly requested to communicate with his repre- 

 sentative in Congress and urge that he do all possible 

 for the immediate consideration and prompt enactment 

 of tliis most imiiortaut liill. 



Christmas is but two weeks away. 



Advertisements Christmas plants and Christmas 



as a guage llowers with their cheerful colors are 



of progress already here and the dealer who has 



not made definite plans for securing 



a stociv distinctively appropriate may set himself down 



as lacking the instincts and enterprise which this great 



occasion warrants. No better incentive to energy on 



these lines can be found tlian the advertisement columns 



of this paper. They are full of suggestivenoss and tlie 



business man will peruke tliPin with an interest pqiial 



to that felt in (hr n-uhir ivadiii,^ c-nliinins. lor tlicy 



mirror as no dthci' niciliiiin can the hi^lu'st )»iint nf 



dpvoloinniMil l<. (late (if tlic indiistrv tliev rcpresciii. 



What 

 ve give 



calling for very little sacrifice. Stop and consider for a 

 iiionicnt what $1.00 so invested buys for you. A volume 

 iif approximately 1500 pages of which fully one-half is 

 original reading matter including 2.30 pages of contri- 

 butions on practical topics by the leading horticultural 

 lights of our own and foreign countries, complete records 

 of the doings of clubs and societies. 52 pages of editorial 

 matter on sulijects of live interest, weekly quotations on 

 cut flowers from all the wholesale markets, hundreds of 

 half-tone pictures and thousands of news items. Add 

 the equally instructive advertising pages and consider 

 whether all this, delivered free at your house or place 

 of business, is not a big dollar's worth. Our aim is to 

 give you the best that money will buy. Send in your 

 dollar for liMKi and we will do the rest. 



The arrangement of pot plants in 



Arranging decorative groups offers a field for 



decorative plant [\^q exercise of the very highest 



groups artistic taste, yet how rarely is this 



taste displayed ! As soon as mixing 

 of kinds begins incongruity presents itself and, whether 

 in commercial decorative work or in arrangements at 

 public exhibitions, ingenuity is almost invariably the 

 quality most in evidence. All consideration of forms of 

 foliage, habit of growth or relationship of one plant to 

 another seems, in the majority of cases, to have been 

 ignored and the purpose of the workman appears to have 

 been to present as nearly as possible merely a solid sur- 

 face of foliage, so that outlines and character of indi- 

 vidiial components are all concealed. Excessive formal- 

 ity in the outlines of the group itself is a characteristic of 

 the typical exhibition hall group. Occasionally we see 

 evidences of an effort on the part of the arranger to 

 break away from the conventional cone-shaped outline 

 but he doesn't get very far. It is to the exhibitions that 

 \re should look for lessons in this difficult, yet fascinat- 

 ing, art. A breaking away from the stereotyped style is 

 in order. Who will set tlif oxamplo? 



Hoi; 



Our Supplement 



Till' boautiliil colorfcl jilnto -rui out wifli this issue of 

 HoRTicuLTUKi-: will -iM' a l;iio(1 iilca of the wide variety 

 of tints and laruc si/.c ol' bloom ali-radv developed in the 

 liylirid forms of Nicotiana Sanderae. We regard this 

 in1 Induction of Messrs. Sander & Sons as the most use- 

 I'lil garden subject acquired in a numhor of years. If 

 [ilaiitt'd in a slightly shaded locality it will succeed better 

 than in full sunlight and to get the best effect it should 

 ho used in the irregular border with a substantial back- 

 ground of dark foliaged material wdiere its myriads of 

 blossoms can tumble about in picturesque abandon. 

 Pnii't uiass it in isolated formal hods. 



