136 Annals of Horticulture. 



Free List, continued. 



Orchids, lily of the valley, azaleas, palms and other plants used for forcing 

 under glass, for cut-flowers or decorative purposes 



Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seeds, imported by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture or U. S. Botanic Gardens. 



Saurkraut. 



Seeds as follows, not specially provided for : anise, canary, caraway, carda- 

 mon, coriander, cotton, cummin, fennel, fenugreek, hemp, horehound, 

 mustard, rape, St. John's bread or bene, sugar beet, mangel wurzel, 

 sorghum or sugar cane, all flower and grass seeds. Also bulbs and 

 roots, not edible. 



Tapioca or cassava. 



Tea and tea plants. 



Yams. 



Educational matters. The only important question of edu- 

 tion brought before the horticultural societies of the year was 

 that of a better education for florists, as outlined in the ad- 

 dress of President J. M. Jordan before the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists. The following editorial comment upon this ad- 

 dress by The American Garden^ will sufficiently indicate its 

 scope : 



''The Societ}' of American Florists has a high ideal set be- 

 fore it in the address of the retiring president. The society 

 should be more than a trade organization. Its objects are 

 ' not only to instruct its members in their daily avocations, 

 but to educate the masses in horticulture, b}^ widening and 

 deepening an interest in our profession, by increasing our 

 membership, active and honorary, until we embrace all the 

 leading m.en of the country who are interested in the various 

 callings of horticulture ; all men engaged in scientific re- 

 search tending to advance the profession ; the formation of 

 kindred associations : encouraging exhibitions of plants and 

 flowers, by bri*nging into closer relations the retail dealer with 

 the grower and wholesale dealer.' 



"All this calls for general education and culture, and it de- 

 mands a more wide-spread appreciation of ornamental gar- 

 dening. We have not yet come to that stage in this country 

 when gardening is in general appreciated as a work of art. 

 Ornamental gardening is usually judged solely by its gross 

 form and color. Gardeners must get out of old ruts. They 

 must put spirit and expression into their work. But this, 

 again, means that the fjardener must be educated. 



xi. 617 (Oct, 



