718 HORTICULTURE December 29, 1906 



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Page So rapidly has the introduction of 



FRONTISPIECE— Interior of Palm House. The the orchid as a standard class in the 



ORNAMENTAL CONIFERS— A. Hans— Illustrated .. . 717 calanthe has commercial cut-flower trade pro- 



CALANTHES AT WHITINSVILLE, MASS.— Charles a future in the grossed that we already find fairly 



Storer 719 flower market regular and ample supplies of the 



A GREAT MEETING— C. S. Harrison 719 various cattlevas, oncidiums, cypri- 



A REMARKABLE SPORT AND ITS POSSIBLE pediums and several dendrobiums and Islias available 



ORIGIN — John Cook 719 jq,. ^j^q buver in quest of choice material. Commercial 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 720 ^^.^j^j^j growing is, however, only in its infancy with us 



MOVING LARGE TREES AT NEWPORT— lUus- ^^^ ^j^g ,^p^j. ^^^ ^oars will show a much more remark- 



trated 720 .^j-^jg development in this direction than anvthing we 



CHRYSANTHEMUM TOPICS j,jjvg ygt experienced. The notes on calantlies in tliis 



Introducer of the Chrysanthemum, C. H. P.— j^^^^ ^^ Charles Storer are suggestive of the possibili- 



Single Chrysanthemums, John Thorpe— Chrysan- ^j^^ ^j^j^ ^j^j^ ^^^ subject as a Christmas specialty and 



themum Year Book 720 g]^^^^^ have more than a casual reading. Mr Mc- 



SPORTS— Patrick O'Mara 721 ^yj|ij„„^ ],,,g i^epj^ breeding between the early and late- 



SEED TRADE TOPICS 722 flowering calanthcs with the object of having a suc- 



OBITUARY 725 ggggjon in bloom all through the winter and is gradu- 



CHRISTMAS MARKET REPORTS ^^, attaining his object. Dr. Lindley's eloquent trib- 



Boston, Buffalo, Columbus, Indianapolis, New ^^^ ^^ ^j^^ orchid's supremacy as a decorative flower, 



^""■■^ written more than seventv-flve vears ago, seems appro- 

 Newport, Philadelphia 733 ^gt^p j^p^p 



CRAFT AND CRAFTSMA.V— W. H. Wyman 733 ' 



PRFFMHOTISF GI ASS 4\D PRESENT TARIFF "For ^^at purpo-e can the world have been adorned 



GREENHOUSE GLAbb AND t-KK.ht.iM iA«ii-r ^.^^ ^^^^^ orchideous plants? To man or animals they 



RELATION— Benj. Hammond 7d4 ^^^ scarcely ever of any known use. No honey is secrete<i 



MISCELLANEOUS by their flowers; neither poison, medicine, nor food, are 



Carnation Pink Imperial— Illustration 721 collected in the recesses of their stems; and their very 



,^ , ,. , a ^ I i.r r><.o,.„,.i, 79? seeds seem unfit for feeding even the smallest bird. We 



Dahlias from Seed-L. K. Peacock <22 ^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ provided for the purification 



Incorporated 722 ^j ^j^^ unwholesome atmosphere of the forest recesses in 



Carnation Imperial — Illustration 722 which they delight, for their organization is that of plants 



Sterilizing Hot-house Soils— W. S. Stevens 723 whose leaves perform their vital actions to.) slowly to ef- 



„,,,,., 790 feet such a purpose. For what then can they have been 



Catalogues Received I'ii farmed, unless to delight the sense of man, to gratify his 



Philadelphia Notes 724 ^^g ,,y jj,gi^ g^y colors and fantastic forms, and to shew 



Florist Club of Philadelphia 724 the inexhaustible fertility of that creative power which we 



News Notes 725 recognize everywhere in Nature." 



California Notes 733 Our frontispiece in this . iseue 



Los Angeles Notes 733 Educated shows a tasteful arrangement of 



Greenhouses Building and Projected 734 gardeners wanted beautiful, well-grown plants in a 



List of Patents 734 well-adapted conservatory. In 



~ many respects it sots forth the development of our day 

 From all accounts that have reached in g department of horticulture which is growing so 

 Many happy us the 1906 Christmas trade in flor- rapidly in this country that the craft seems to have been 

 returns of the igts' products has far outstri]>|ied any- unable to keep pace with it. The splendid glass struc- 

 day thing recorded heretofore. The holi- tures which are being erected by hundreds every year 

 day plant trade shows a remarkable are conclusive evidence that the plant conservatory is 

 imrcast^ but, we are pleased to learn, not at the ex- rapidly gaining recognition as an indispensable adjunct 

 pcnse of the cut flower trade, which has also demon- of the suburban or country home and illustrate an un- 

 ?t rat oil a h(>althy growth. May it continue to do so. paralleled degree of attainment in structural beauty, 

 With this issue Horticulture's fourth .stability and fitness, in the work of our greenhouse 

 The volume pomes to a close. Advance builders. The question forces itself upon us — where is 

 "ideal paper" payments — best of all tests — from sub- the material to be found for filling all these houses as 

 fcribers for the new year are already they should be filled and whence are to come the gar- 

 such as to give us tlie gratifying assurance that a rap- doners conipctfnt to miiiiagr thorn? Tliat the number 



