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H ORT ICULT U RE 



August 11, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL 

 DEVOTED TO THE 



FLORIST, PLANTSMAN, LANDSCAPE 



GARDENER AND KINDRED 



INTERESTS 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



II HAMILTON PLACE, BOSTON. MASS. 



Tslephena, Oiford 292 



WM. J. STEWART. Editor and Manager. 



Support the 

 S. A. F. 



We sincerely hope that the foreeast of 

 a record-hreaking S. A. F. meeting at 

 Dayton may prove to have beer, cor- 

 rect. Surface indications certainly 

 favor it, and there appear:^ to be no good reason why 

 the memljership list of the national society should not 

 he largely augiuented on this occasion and a due share 

 of the prosperity existing and to come be accorded to 

 this noble organization whose usefulness to its constitu- 

 ents is limited only by the measure of loyal support 

 given it. Come in, one and all. "In union there is 

 strength." 



Already well into August, with the 

 The flood tide of opening of the Dayton convention 

 prosperity only a few days away and the Sep- 



tember frosts close upon its heels, it 

 is now time for every ambitious business man to "get 

 busy" and plan for the work of the coming months 

 which, if wisely begim, cannot but bring substantial 

 gain. There is no apparent reason why the coming sea- 

 son should not be the greatest business year ever ex- 

 perienced in American horticulture. The staple crops, 

 on which the well-being of our country depends, have 

 broken the records this season, and predictions are free- 

 ly made by those who should know, that we are in it for 

 a period of great ])rosperity. Money will be spent freely 

 for anything to make home attractive and existence a 

 pleasure. Flowers and plants, trees and shriibs, con- 

 servatories and horticultural accessories of all kinds will 

 get a generous share, and it behooves our readers to be 

 on the alert to take full advantage of these halcyon days 

 which we cannot expect to last forever. The man who 

 fails to participate in the great activity now about to 

 open throws away the opportunity of a lifetime. 



The next nundjer of IIorti- 

 Watch out for Horticui- cuLTCKE will be issued in 

 ture-s advertisers honor of the Dayton conven- 

 next week tJon and respectfully inscribed 



to the wide-awake florists of 

 that enterprising city who have handled the preliminary 

 work in so capable a manner, and will doubtless give an 

 equally good account of themselves in the responsi- 

 bilities yet to come, and to the far-seeing tradesmen, 

 manufacturers and plant growers, who contribute to the 

 magnificent trade exhibition which is now assured. All 

 indications are for a large attendance, and, in anticipa- 

 tion of this, HoETici'LTURE has made preparation to 

 send out a very large edition of this convention number 

 and will see to it that a copy is placed in the hands of 

 every one in attendance at the meeting, also mailed to a 

 goodly numlter of the stay-at-homes who are not already 

 on our regular sul)scription list. The leading houses in 

 all important horticultural lines will be well represented 

 in the ad\ertising columns, and we hope all good 

 friends of HoHTicfLXUKE will defer placing their fall 

 orders until they have had an opportunity to see what 

 these lirms have to offer on this occasion, knowing that 

 they will not lie losers thereiiy in anv resjiect. 



The vinlct growers of IMiine- 



The "black rot" among |,^,^.|^ ;i,.e jrrpatly alarmed over 



the violets the prevalence, this year, of 



the dreaded fungous disease 

 known as "Idack rot." The florist trade will view the 

 situation with nuirked concern for a considerable sec- 

 tion of the country has come to depend largely upon 

 Khinebeek for violets, and any serious impairment of 

 the fragrant product for which this Hudson Kiver vil- 

 lage has become justly famed cannot but affect the en- 

 tire florist trade cast of the Mississij)pi. We hope that 

 Rhinebeck is not destined to join the ranks of the "has 

 beens" and fade into the background as a common suf- 

 ferer with some other places once famed for violets, car- 

 nations or roses. Unfortunately a majority of the 

 Rhinebeck violets growers are lacking in general horti- 

 cultural knowledge or experience, having simply fol- 

 lowed their neighbors one after another, into violet 

 growing as a specialty, and shared with them the run of 

 good fortune resultant upon a favorable soil and climate 

 which often comes, under such circumstances, to those 

 utterly without technical knowledge. When trouble ap- 

 pears then is the time for the trained and studious hor- 

 ticulturalist to come to the front and win out. and we 

 are greatly mistaken if the experienced and well-read 

 men amongst the Rhineijeck growers do not eventually 

 prove to be the winners. Xone are so well versed, how- 

 ever, in plant pathology that they can afford to ignore 

 the scientists of the agricultural experiment stations 

 who, if called in, will be found willing to investigate to 

 the linut and to give valuable advice and assistance. If 

 the conditions are as bad as we have been informed 

 every possible means of relief should be ]n'o;ui)tly 

 utilized. 



