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HORTICULTURE 



July 21, 190G 



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. 



It has been advanced on behalf of 



Dayton Dayton, 0., that it should make an 



entertainment ideal convention cit}', being small and 



free from the side attractions which 

 in the larger cities are apt to divert the attention of 

 attendants from the serious work of the convention. 

 The argument is well founded, but there are exceptions 

 to all rules and, judging from the profusion of recep- 

 tions, band concerts, and the like, which our Dayton 

 friends are promising, it begins to look as though the 

 S. A. F. visitors to that thriving town are in for a very 

 merrv time. It would seem that, if any business is to 

 be done, it will have to be "sandwiched in." 



Eosa setigera, the beautiful ^liohigan 

 The comeiiest prairie rose, is just beginning to make 

 of flowers tlie gardens glorious in this latitude. 

 Blooming so late, thi.s rose is a gem 

 that deserves more general planting. We know of no 

 rose, or indeed any other flower, with a purer, richer, 

 tint of pink than this rose displays when it first opens. 

 The single-flowered roses have a charm of their own, 

 whether seen in the garden or in the wild thicket, which 

 the most gorgeous double-flowered varieties cannot ob- 

 scure. Flowers may come and flowers may go, but the 

 rose has no rival; all through the line from the modest 

 little single blossom gemming the roadside to the state- 

 ly American Beauty in the drawing room it touches the 

 heart and enchants the eye of rich and poor alike and 

 one extreme finds just as many admirers as the other. 

 All success to the patient men who are toiling with 

 loving devotion to evolve for us roses tliat we can have 

 with us all summer through. It matters not so much 

 whether they are single or double, red, pink, or white, 

 so that they withstand the rigors of winter and blos- 

 som for us continuously throughout the season. 



Our highh'-esteemed co-work- 

 Horticuiture, gr. The National Nursery- 



gardeners, and man, has something to say 



"literary phonographs" i^ its latest issue concerning 



our recent comments on its 

 attitude towards the landscape art ambitions of the 

 Boston gardeners. We woiild respectfully submit that 

 HoRTiccLTriiE's protest was directed not so much 

 against The Xationnl Nurseryman's higli ideals con- 

 cerning tlie landscape gardener's art as against the im- 

 jilication that tlie artistic side of this fascinating pur- 

 suit is something not only beyond the attainments of 

 the ordinary "gardener," but, furthermore, distinctly 

 out of his province. So frankly cordial and commenda- 

 tory towards Horticulture is our contemporary, how- 

 ever, that we are constrained to forbear from further 

 review of what appears to us an adroit evasion of the 

 real issue. We enjoyed its apt characterization of some 

 of our contemporaries as "literary phonographs" which 

 "repeat and exploit but never originate." Boston glee- 

 fully shakes hands with Rochester on that proposition. 

 But we rather think the National Nurseryman will 

 find it as impossible to restrain the gardener from 

 operating outside of "the small door-yard lawn" as to 

 corral Horticulture within the confines of "floricul- 

 ture," whatever that means. 



"The Brooklyn Eagle in a recent 



issue reproduced a number of the 



'wholesome chestnuts' of our esteemed 



About contemporary, HORTICULTURE, un- 



"Wholesome der the title of 'Floral Tips for the 



Chestnuts" Amateur Gardener.' We compliment 



the Editor of the Eagle on his keen 



discernment, and correct estimate of 



current horticultural information." 



The above is a clipping from our New York con- 

 teniporarv. The editor of that ever-vigilant sheet still 

 maintains a profound interest in what we are doing, 

 for "Envy will merit as its shade pursue." He 

 seems to extract comfort out of little things 

 which others heedlessly pass by; so let it be, for we do 

 like to see everybody happy. Since our critic has seen 

 fit to consign us to the amateur ranks, however, wo may 

 be excused if we, in turn, compliment our esteemed con- 

 temporary upon its "correct estimate" of what its own 

 readers require, as evidenced in such paragraphs as the 

 following, which we find on another page of the same 

 issue in which the above quotation appeared : 



"Summer commences today, so the calendars inform us 

 and they at any rate are infallible." 



"Just where to place a tree of the proper kind demands 

 the skill of the planter." 



We hope our contemporary will kindly overlook our 

 apparent officiousness, if, after reading the above lumi- 

 nous paragraphs, we recall for his consideration anothef 

 "wholesome chestnut" which has often been prescribed 

 for critics, namely : 



"People who live in glass houses should not throw 

 stones." 



