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HORTICULTURE 



December 1, 1905 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. IV 



DECEMBER 1, 1906 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 FRONTISPIECE — Decorative Dahlia Fireburst. 

 GROUPING OF PLANTS AT EXHIBITIONS— Robert 



Cameron 581 



FRESH TOMATOES FOR CHRISTMAS 581 



THE NEW IMPORTED JAPANESE INSEXJT— A. H. 



Kirliland 583 



SPECIMEN CHRYSANTHEMUM MUTUAL FRIEND 



— Illustration 583 



SYMPLOCOS CRATAEGOIDES— Daniel A. Clarke... 583 

 NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



National Council of Horticulture — Detroit Florist 

 Club — Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club— Elberon Horticultural Society— New Or- 

 leans Horticultural Society — Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America — St. Louis Florists' Club — 



The I adies' Auxiliary 584 



SUPPRESSING DUST ON ROADS AND PLAY- 

 GROUNDS— J. A. Pettigrew 585 



TRADE VS. CIVIC IMPROVEME^NT SOCIETIES— 



G. C. Watson 585 



A MONOLOGUE BY R. T. McGORUM 585 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 586 



FLORISTS' EXHIBITIONS 588 



OBSERVATIONS BY UNCLE .lOHN 588 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS. 



Boston. Buffalo. Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, 



Louisville, Philadelphia 591 



FRENCH NATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY 



C. Harman Payne 597 



THE GLASS QUESTION 598 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Gladiolus Harvard — Illustration 586 



Re-appraisements Filed 586 



Decorative Dahlia Fireburst 586 



Recent Treasury Decisions 589 



Philadelphia Notes 589 



Obituary 591 



News Notes 591 



American Raised Cypripediums — Joseph A. Manda 597 



Catalogues Received 597 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 598 



List of Patents 598 



NEXT "WEEK — Anniversary 

 and Holiday Trade Number, -with 

 Colored Plate. 



The Thanksgiving spirit is full of cheery 



The right contentment and it considers "the other 



spirit and how fellow." This reminds us to remind 



to manifest it you that this is a good opportunity to 



renew your subscription ; also to tell 



every fellow craftsman whom you meet how useful 



Horticulture is to you. Recognizing more and more 

 that educational work is the great necessity of the pres- 

 ent day and realizing the significance of a recent remark 

 liy an after-dinner speaker that "the last century was a 

 period of construction and the present century one of 

 adaptation," our readers are advised that Horticul- 

 ture's activities will continue on these lines and that 

 the dissemination of really useful knowledge will be the 

 chief purpose of the paper in the future as in the past. 

 To this end our subscribers can assist by helping us to 

 double our subscription list for the coming year. 



The present week sees the first im- 



The Thanksgiving portant event in the series of special 



Day trade activities in the florist business for 



the season. Thanksgiving Day has 

 taken on a much greater importance of late years than 

 it liad hitherto borne and it remains only for those most 

 interested in its advancement as a floral holiday to nur- 

 ture and encourage the idea in a liberal spirit avoiding 

 all appearance of a disposition to inflate values or work 

 off inferior stock in the confusion and hustle. Plants 

 and flowers are most approjiriatc accompaniments of 

 the feasting and good cheer that characterize the great 

 home festival and should be looked upon as just as indis- 

 pensable as the time-honored roast turkey and there is 

 plenty of evidence that the public are in the proper 

 frame of mind to have this truth brought homo to them. 

 I«ay plans now while the occasion is fresh in the mind, 

 to double your Thanksgiving Day business next year. 

 It can easily be done. 



John Thorpe's point in regard to the 



The "any other ill-balanced color classifications on the 



color" classes chry.santhemum schedules is well taken, 



looking from the standpoint of the 

 chrysanthemum devotee or considering the variety and 

 effect of an exhibit. It is a fact, however, that the pub- 

 lic are more eager to admire the odd colors on the 

 exhibition table than to buy them in the store. The 

 sale of stock of new varieties for private conservatory 

 culture has not yet reached that magnitude which would 

 warrant introducers in going heavily into anything out- 

 side of the staple colors and forms called for by the 

 commercial trade. It is not the florists' fault that 

 whites, yellows and pinks make up the great bulk of 

 his stock. He carries what the people are most inclined 

 to buy. The schedules of today are a heritage from 

 the period when the large commercial interests were the 

 main factors in many of the chrysanthemum exhibitions 

 and now that the situation has changed the angularity 

 of the prize lists might possibly be modified to advan- 

 tage and the "any other color" class be divided up as 

 suggested by Mr. Thorpe. It is the experience of the 

 store florists that varietal names are of little conse- 

 quence to the buyer; yellow is yellow and white is 

 white and if other qualifications of the flower arc- 

 equally satisfactory it sells, name or no name. 



