December 8, 190C 



HORTICULTURE: 



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of these easily-grown, siiisle-flowered chrysanthemums 

 and give their customers a chance to see what they are 

 next season. In baskets and other decorative arrange- 

 ments of chrYsantiieniuiiis used in light sprays among 

 the larger and more solid flowers they lend a grace and 

 -charm nothing else can approach. One of the most 

 artistic and altogether pleasing floral pieces at the recent 

 Chicago e.xhibition was a basket of chrysanthemums in 

 which the singles and the little Baby chrysanthemum 

 were interspersed with telling effect among the ordinary 

 type of double flowered blooms, one color — yellow — 

 being used throughout. 



In our notes on the New York cut flower 

 The old market two weeks ago we mentioned that 

 old story the prospects for the violet were good for 

 a few days, "and longer if a reasonable 

 policy is followed by the growers." We did not expect 

 the advice to be taken — that sort of advice is seldom 

 taken. All wise reasoning seems to cease as soon as 

 the temptation to hoard for a special event comes and 

 momentary scarcity provides an excuse for doubling up 

 the price and putting the screws on the buyers. History 

 repeated itself in the violet market on Thanksgiving as 

 we feared. On Monday and Tuesday previous, growers 

 excited by the demand occasioned by the football occa- 

 sions of the previous week, began their hoarding and 

 turned a deaf ear to the calls for violets declaring they 

 had none to send; on Wednesday — the day before 

 Thanksgiving Day — they disgorged, sent to the market 

 the greater part of the picking of four days, so that 

 forced sales were made at about one-third to one-sixth 

 ■of the rates prevailing on the previous days. Will they 

 <lo it again? Yes, indeed. 



Our Colored Supplement 



CARNATION BRITANNIA 



American carnation breeders will be interested to see 

 how our English friends are progressing with carna- 

 tions of the American type. It is but recently that 

 carnations of this class have received any recognition 

 across the Atlantic, but at last their merits have com- 

 pelled attention and, once started, the interest has rap- 

 idly extended until now a society especially devoted to 

 the interests of this type is under way and a number of 

 noted growers are busy cross-breeding the American 

 and English varieties with gratifying results. Our 

 colored plate sent out as a supplement with this issue 

 depicts the result of one of these crosses — a carnation 

 regarded in England as one of the best scarlets yet of- 

 fered. It was raised by A. Smith, a carnation grower 

 of Enfield Highway, and received awards of merit from 

 the Eoyal Horticultural Society and the Royal Botanic 

 Society. 



From an American standpoint it would not be pos- 



sible or wise to try to justly criticise any such ....c.y 

 from the mere inspection of a draw-ing of same. The 

 character of the foliage indicates American blood; the 

 short, stubby, fat bud indicates English origin — a form 

 that almost invariably bursts in this climate. Mr. C. 

 W. Ward has informed us that his experience with 

 English blood has been very much against using it in 

 carnation hybridization, although from the one variety 

 Winter Cheer crossed with an American variety he pro- 

 duced the variety Maceo. He used a number of other 

 English varieties, but never succeeded in getting any- 

 thing valuable from them, nor did he get anything out 

 of Winter Cheer in subsequent crossings, the variety 

 Maceo being the only one of value. However, the 

 ]H'ogeny of Maceo proved valuable, and a number of 

 them, such as Harry Fenn and Octoroon, are still in 

 cultivation and highly esteemed. It may be that after 

 the English growers have hybridized a number of years, 

 crossing and recrossing their English-grown varieties 

 with American stock, they will originate some marked 

 improvements especially suitable for cultivation in 

 their climate. The attempt is certainly worth their 

 while. 



A Christmas Carol 



I 



Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! 

 Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, 

 Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine, 

 Christmas where snow-peaks stand solemn and white, 

 Christmas where corn-fields lie sunny and bright. 

 Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! 



II 



Christmas where children are hopeful and gay, 

 Christmas where old men are patient and gray, 

 Christmas where peace, like a dove in Its flight. 

 Broods o'er brave men in the thick of the fight. 

 Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! 



Ill 



For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all. 

 No palace too great and no cottage too small, 

 The angels who welcome him sing from the height: 

 •In. the City of David, a King in His might." 

 Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! 



IV 



Then let every heart keep its Christmas within, 

 Christ's pity for sorrow, Christ's hatred of sin, 

 Christ's care for the weakest, Christ's courage for right, 

 Christ's dread of the darkness, Christ's love of the light 

 Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! 



So the stars of the midnight which compass us round 

 Shall see a strange glory, and hear a sweet sound. 

 And cry: "Look! the earth is a flame with delight, 

 0, sons of the morning, rejoice at the sight." 

 Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight! 



—Phillips Brooks. 



