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HORTICULTURE 



November 24, 1906 



horticulture: 



VOL. IV 



NOVEMBER 2t, 1906 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE 



Page. 

 FRONTISPIECE — Prize Group at Lenox, Mass. 



PICEA— A. Hans— Illustrated 551 



NEW FRENCH CHRYSANTHEMUMS— C. Harman 



Payne 552 



PLANT TISSUES— R. W. Curtis 553 



NEW PLANTS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW— John 



Thorpe 554 



IN THE MOTH REGION— R. L. Adams 555 



RAMBLING RETURNS FROM RICHMOND 557 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston — Lenox Horticul- 

 tural Society — Dutchess County Horticultural 

 Soci3ty — Lake Geneva Gardeners' and Fore- 

 men's Association — Worcester County Horticul- 

 tural Society 558 



Two Newly-elected Presidents: Stephen M. Weld, 

 Thomas H. Westwood, Portraits — Gardeners' 



Club of Baltimore 559 



American Rose Society — New Bedford Horticul- 

 tural Society — New Jersey Floricultural So- 

 ciety — So. California Horticultural Society^ 

 Society of American Florists — American Carna- 

 tion Society — Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety 560 



The Baltimore Show, G. C. W.— The Columbus 



Exhibition — Club and Society Notes 561 



OBITUARY— Rudolph Ulrich, Portrait— Wm S. Wilson 561 



PARIS AUTUMN SHOW— C. Harman Payne 562 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 563 



Views in Rawson's New Seed Store — Illustrations 563 



A MODEL ESTABLISHMENT AT PARKERSBURG — 



Illustrated 564 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS. 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Indianapolis, 



Louisville, New York, Philadelphia 567 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A Dead One — Poetry 557 



The Chicago Show — John Thorpe 557 



House of Carnation Imperial — Illustration 557 



Chrysanthemums in Pittsburg 564 



Chrysanthemums in Washington 564 



American Chrysanthemums in France — C. H. P.. 564 



San Francisco Notes 567 



Business Changes 567 



News Notes 573 



A Notable House Warming 573 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 574 



List of Patents 574 



Twin City Notes 574 



Our reading eolumns this week teem 

 Something with good material for tlie chrysanthe- 

 worth reading mum lover. We have the pleasure of 

 presenting our readers with the earli- 

 est information in this country rejrarding the sreat 



French exhibitions and the new varieties that have 

 made a record there, from the pen of the best informed 

 chrysanthemum authority in the world, Mr. C. Harman 

 Payne, Foreign Corresponding Secretary of the 

 Xational Chrysanthemum Society of England. 



We have in type many interesting and 

 Good things valuable articles wliich are crowded out 

 held over of tliis issue for lack of space. The 

 writers of such are assured that they will 

 appear in our columns in due time and our readers will 

 find that they are all worth the waiting for. Quality 

 rather than quantity has always been our first aim and 

 any one who will make full and proper use of the in- 

 formation to be found in any single issue of Horticul- 

 ture will have enough to keep him busy until the next 

 number is due. 



The project being inaugurated by the 



Practical Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 



Phiianthropy ton for the education of its young 



gardener members in the theory and 

 practice of landscape work will be watched with much 

 interest as it progresses and the example is likely to be 

 followed by other similar organizations. It is a hope- 

 ful sign that the florists' clubs are coming to realize 

 that they have an obligation to their members and a 

 duty to perform beyond the trivialities that frequently 

 in the past have consumed the time at their meetings 

 and given birth to the oft repeated query, "What are 

 the florists' clubs good for?" The generous action of 

 the honored treasurer of the Boston club in providing 

 means for those of its young members who are unable 

 to assume the cost of the lessons is worthy to be recorded 

 in letters of gold. The Gardeners' ami Florists' Club 

 of Boston is to be congratulated on having a genuine 

 philanthropist on its rolls. 



Now is the time when nuiny 



Wisdom societies and clubs elect their 



in club and society standard bearers for the coming 



management year. No more important duty 



appertains to membership in any 

 association than the election of officers, for upon the 

 fidelity and fitness of the leaders depends in a great 

 measure the prosperity and, not infrequently, the very 

 existence of the organization. Every year we realize 

 more and more how essential these bodies are to the 

 welfare of every one engaged in any horticultural pur- 

 suit. The great exhibitions which bring public atten- 

 tion so directly to our products, the contention for jus- 

 tice at the hands of express companies and railroads, 

 the work for higher education — all would be practically 

 out of the possibilities were it not for our organizations. 

 They can do what the individual could not. As our 

 business grows in strength and extends its beneficent 

 influence over a continually widening field problems 

 will multiply and their solution will require all the con- 

 centrated force and zeal we can command. Let every 

 one actuated by a spirit of loyalty to the common wel- 

 fare, make it his business to take an active part in 

 existing societies or, where none exist, take the initiative 

 in starting one. Then select your officers with wisdom 

 and 'let vour light shine." 



