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HORTICULTURE 



December 8, 1906 



horticulture: 



VOL, IV 



DECEMBER 8, 1906 



NO. 23 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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COPYRIGHT. 1906, BY HORTICULTURE PUB. CO. 



Eniered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at BostOD, Mass. 

 under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS 



FRONTISPIECE— Begonia glaucophylla scandens 



ORNAMENTAL CONIFERS— A. Hans— Illustrated 613 



BEGONIA GLAUCOPHYLLA SCANDENS— A. J. 



Love less 613 



WHY ARE FLOWERS DOUBLE AND WHAT FOR— 



John Thorpe 614 



FALL WORK— K. Finlavson 615 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES— C. Harman Payne 616 



ATAVISM OR REVERTION— N. B. White— Illustrated 617 



TROPICAL BEDS— G. Bloicken 618 



THE FENCE— Robert Cameron 619 



THE SPORTSMAN SPIRIT IN THE EXHIBITION— 



George Asmus 619 



LAPAGERIAS— Edgar Elvin 620 



ROSE HOUSE WISDOM— R. T. McGorum 620 



THE DIET OF THE CARNATION— L. S. Hasselman.. 621 



OUR COLORED SUPPLEMENT 623 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 



Columbus Florists' Club— Florists' Club of Phila- 

 delphia — American Carnation Society — Lenox Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Gardounrs' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston — Chrysanthemum Society of America — 

 Society of American Florists— Club and Society 



Notes 624 



SUCCULENTS— Illustration 625 



NERINES— Illustration 625 



INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANT AC- 

 CLIMATIZATION— Leonard Barron 625 



DISPOSING OF THE PRODUCT OF THE PLANT 



AND FLOWER GROWERS— Charles Ingram 626 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS— A paper by Albert Knope 630 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 632 



FALL GRASS ON LAWNS— E. O. Orpet 634 



OBITUARY— George Ellwanger— Mrs. Margaret Lynch 



— Bdson M. Grossman 638 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 641 



Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louis- 

 ville, New York. Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Wash- 

 ington 645 



MISCELLANEOUS 



A Christmas Carol- Poetry— Phillips Brooks 623 



Renaming American Carnations 625 



Photographs of Carnation Houses — John Thorpe.. 625 



Anathema McGorum— Geo. C. Watson 627 



California Notes 627 



Rochester Park System 627 



Dahlias at Cannells — C. Harman Payne 627 



Personal 627 



Park Chrysanthemum Shows— Illustrated 630 



Fern House at Prospect Park- Illustration 630 



Some Popular Chrysanthemums in France — 



C. H. P 636 



Business Changes 636 



Joliet Carnation Notes— John Thorpe 636 



Plant Imports ; 638 



During Recess 640 



Incorporated 640 



Philadelphia Notes 640 



News Notes 642 



Florists' Exhibitions 642 



Already well along into December, the 

 Get busy season's business should begin to count for 



something. The nine or ten weeks inter- 

 vening between now and the beginning of Lent will 

 largely settle whether the year scores a success or a 

 failure in the career of many a florist. Close applica- 

 tion, untiring industry and wise management now will 

 make for future easy comfort and a care-free holiday. 

 Get busy. 



This is Horticultcre's Birthday Anniver- 



Our sary number. Two years have elapsed since 



birthday "the Boston paper" stepped into the arena 



and respectfully asked for the friendship 

 and support of the American horticultural profession. 

 The cordiality with which the newcomer was welcomed, 

 the steadfastness with which the good-will then ex- 

 tended has been continued and the influential position 

 attained in so brief a time is something unparalleled in 

 the history of class journalism, existing conditions being 

 considered. HoRTicuLTtriiE's success is now secure and 

 it is but natural that our Thanksgiving Day for 1906 

 should be an occasion of more than ordinary joy and 

 that we approach with confident enthusiasm the pleas- 

 ant responsibilities of our third year. We're so glad you 



Again we call the attention of our 

 Don't readers, with due pride, to the good 



overlook the sliowing made by the wholesale com- 

 advertisers mission cut flower dealers in the adver- 

 tising pages of this issue of Horticul- 

 TuitE. The enterprise displayed should especially com- 

 mend these firms to the growers who will no doubt ap- 

 preciate these well-directed efl;orts so liberally made in 

 the interests of the business in which they are so vitally 

 concerned. The retail trade is to be congratulated on 

 thus having free access to sources of supply so abundant 

 nnd reliable. No finer material has ever been seen than 

 is herein ofi'ered to the discriminating buyer — the 

 product of the most painstaking growers distributed 

 through chaniiels reliable and satisfactory in all re- 

 spects. We bespeak for these and for all other adver- 

 tisers whose liberality and progressive business policy 

 have made this special edition of Horticulture possi- 

 ble, the interested attention of our readers, and can 

 assure them that a perusal of our advertising columns 

 will repay them well. 



We have taken occasion to refer 



Give the before to the new single-flowered 



single-flowered chrysanthemums, their simple 



chrysanthemums a beauty and their decorative value 



P'^^^ Our notes from Mr. C. Harman 



Payne in this issue indicate an 



increasing interest abroad as in our own country and 



give a list of some of the most desirable varieties. We 



(111 not hesitate to advise florists generally to try a few 



