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HORTICULTURE 



TOL ZXVI 



SEPTEMBER ZZ, ItlT 



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HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



147 Summer Street, Boston, Masm. 



MM. J. STEWABT. Kdllor and Hmnmt" 



Btorvd ■• MCODd-eUH matter December 8, IQM, at tba Poat OSca 

 ■t BoatoD, Maaa.. nndar tba Act of CoDSreaa of Uarcb S, 1879. 



CONTENTS 



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COVKU ILLUSTRATION— Iris pallida dalmatlca 



CLUBS AND SOCM-rriKS— Gardeiier.s' and Florists' 

 Club of Hoslon— Meetings Next Week — Assofiatiuii 

 of American Cemetery Superintendents — Cleveland 

 Flori.sts' Club — American Association of I'ark Super- 

 intendents — Nassau County Horticultural Society — 

 Society of .■\merican Florists 325 



TMK EXHirjlTlONS Great Kxhibition at Lenox— 

 Coming lilxhiliitions — New York State Fair — Cleve- 

 land Flower Show -Floral Kxliiliition at Springfield, 



Mas.s— Notes of the Exhibitions 327-328 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society 342 



THE NATIONAL PlIiLICITY FUND— K. C. Kerr 328 



SP:ED trade— might Affects New Brunswick Potato 

 Crop — Catalogues Received 330 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia. 

 St. Louis 337 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



.New Flower Stores 339 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston, New York, St. Louis 340 



Chicago, Cincinnati 341 



OBITUARY— Mrs. V. Bezdek— Alexander MacDuff— 

 Mrs. Allen James — Julius Niednagel — Irving John- 

 son—Patrick Byrne— F. C. Bartels 342 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A New Hybrid Lily. Illustrated 335 



Business Troubles 337 



Visitors' Register 339 



News Notes 342 



Greenhouses Buildin« or Conteniplated 342 



Pearly in the season when it wa.s officially 

 Lenox announced that the Lenox Tlorticnltural 

 cornea bacl| Society had decided to abandon its ex- 

 hibitions for this year because of un- 

 propitious conditions. Horticulture expressed regjct 

 that such should be the rase, feeling that the example 

 of this eminent Society, far famed for lis enterprise and 

 the high quality of the exhibits staged by the master 

 gardeners of Lenox and environing towns, might be 

 followed elsewhere, and ti) the great detriment of horti- 

 cultural progress. But Ix'Dox apiK>ars to have thought 

 better of it. as see our account of the splendid exhibi- 

 tion of garden food products which has just closed and 

 which fully upheld the traditional skill and prestige 

 of her horticultural fraternity. We extend congratu- 

 lations on this spirited and patriotic exploit. 



"There is some soil of goodness in things 



"Back to the evil, woidd men observing distil it 



la"^" out; for our bad neighbor makes us 



early stirrers, which is both healthful 



and good husbandry." — Henry V. 



It is impossible to gaze on the marvelous displays 

 of the products of "war gardens" and children's gard- 

 ens especially, which are seen in almost every town 



and iuiinlet in the country about this time, wiliiout 

 feeling a liit of sntisfnction that hero at least, i« oni 

 gooil thing whirli owes it stimulus largely to the in 

 feriiai tragedy in wiiicli almost the eiitirf human race 

 is at present involved. Never before have there been 

 sii many early risers, never have our boys and girl- 

 turned tiieir activities to an occupation so useful and 

 healthfid. The enthusiasm, industry and perseveraiU' 

 which have made possible these remarkable displays ol 

 i:arilcii proiiuce speak well for the grit tiiat is embodied 

 ill our .Xiiu-rican youth and presage a bright future foi 

 hortiriiitiire in all its phases. "Hack to the land" i- 

 iiot any longer a mere stock ]ihra.<e, but it exitrcsses an 

 unmistakable predilection wiiich has taken deep root 

 and is destined to grow vigorously. This should bi 

 ( iicoiiragcd in ever}- manner ]X>ssible by every one 

 directly or indirectly connected with the horticultural 

 industries, so "that good difftK-ied may more abundant 

 grow."' 



We find ill the Washington 

 Washington .s'/g;. of recent ilate an interview 



City of future years with the superintendent of pub- 

 lie buildings and grounds, Col. 

 Hants, who is abotit to leave his position to go with a 

 icgiineiit of engineers to France. Col. Hants — who is 

 ai>o secretary of the Fine Arts Commission, tells of 

 the plans proposed by the Commission for the improve- 

 ment of Washington. As with other similarly ambi- 

 tious schemes whicli have been advanced for the re- 

 arrangement of the National Capitiil. all otiier consid- 

 erations are in this conception made subservient to the 

 architectural point of view and the very first proviso 

 is "the removal of the Botanic Garden from its present 

 small area to a tract on the Bladensburg road opposite 

 ^It. Olivet Cemetery.". We are not familiar with the 

 locality thus recommended as a desirable site for the 

 I'lotanic (Jarden, but it is rather significant that it is 

 o|jpositc a cemetery ! Who can say that tiie next move 

 would not be to annex it to the cemetery! We are in 

 no special hurry to .see any scheme of brick and stone, 

 "axial relationships" and "focal points," hovv'ever mag- 

 nificent and impressive, undo and obliterate the work of 

 the illustrious old gardener who devoted liis life to the 

 traiisfonning of a pestilential swamp and adorning it 

 for the recreation and instruction of the i)eople. In 

 Lc^rd Bacon's off-cjuoted essay on gardens we read that 

 among human pleasures gardening "is the greatest re- 

 freshment to the spirits of man. without which boild- 

 ings and palaces are but gross handiworks. .\nd a 

 man shall ever see tiiat when ages grow to civility and 

 elegance, men come to build stately, .sooner than to 

 garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfec- 

 tion." This seems almost prophetic of the present situ- 

 ation in Washington as it appears to us. The Botanic 

 Garden, in the opinion of those for whose opinion v.< 

 have the most regard is .so centrally located and con- 

 veniently accessible to the public that it would be an 

 unjiatriotic and barbarous act to tear it up. Rather 

 widen its sco|)e and make it still more than it ever has 

 been, a place where the public, may resort to enjoy the 

 "greatest refreshment to the spirits of man without 

 vyhich buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." 

 We were given to understand a short time ago that the 

 purchase of an additional tract of land adjoining the 

 present garden had been decided upon and a plan 

 adopted for a substuitial enlargement of the ccpiip- 

 ment of the institution. It is to be hoped tliat tbi- 

 information may yet prove to have been true. 



