August 29, 18S8.] 



Garden and Forest. 



;i3 



C^ A f? r^ P M A 1\1 r^ PT"^ 1-? P QT sessment for the purpose of creating a fund to detect and 



V_I /A fx LJ Lv 1 N /A 1 N l_y rv_yr\L_/0 1 . expose florists who willfully sell varieties under false names. 



Mr. Halliday's paper upon nomenclature points out the 



PUBLISHED \VEF.KL\ u\ coufusion wWch Bxlsts iu the names of florists" flowers -a 



THE GARDEN AND FOREST PUBLISHING CO. confusion by no means confined to them alone, but per- 

 vading the names of all cultivated plants. The committee 



o-RCK : Tribunr BmLo.NG, nrw Vo.K, appointed l)y the Association to revise the names of 



plants will doubtless inaugurate a much needed reform m 



Conducted i.y Piofessor c. s. Sakcent. ji-^jg matter, at least in the case of those plants most im- 



portant from a commercial point of view, and determine 



ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATT ER AT THH POS T OFK.CE AT NEW VOl^K, N. V. namCS Which thC ASSOCiation, With i tS pOWCrful Orgauiza- 



tion and influence, will be able to impose upon the trade 



NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1888. without very serious difficulty. 



— — The question of obtaining from Congress the enactment 



TABLE OF CONTENTS '^^^ '^^^ permitting trade-marks or copyrights to be taken 



_ _ ' "' out for the protection of the rights of raisers of new flowers 



lAUF. ^y^g j.jQ^ brought before the Convention. The question of 



EltTTORlAi. Ariicles: — Tlie Florists. — The Manufacture of Cvpress Shin- • t ,. n • i ij.^ -..i ,^ ^ ^ i 



gies.-injurv Done by the Hairv Caterpillar of the Tussock Moth.... 3,3 copynghtuig ncw flowcrs IS not altogether a new onc, anil 



House at Hoiimoku in Japan (with illustration) 314 ^as been discusscd in different European countries at 



fore.gnCorrespon^ence:^^^^^^ various times, as well as in the United States. The right 



New or Little Known Plants :-F.rythi-<.niu.n Henderson! (uith illustra- ^ of a man tO enjOy the rCSultS of his labors is aS true when 



''""' ■''■ "'■ s"* the product is a new flo\\'er as when it is a new book or a 



Cim.tubal Departjient:— Cultivation of Native Ferns. I Rolm-t T. Jackson . vi ,,r,-,rl- r^f irt Tho I'nf pli;,rP7T,-p thnno-ht and ctiiHir pv 



The Cultivation of Mushrooms M-'m. i-akomr. -,ii work 01 art. t Hc mteiiigence, uiougnt anu stuay e.\- 



The Vegetable Garden 3,9 penclcd in growiug a iicw racc of garden-plants or new 



Green-house Stasres and Orchid Houses — Lenten Roses 310 ' . ^. r i *" ■ i • • 1 i. 1 



Plant Notes i-Primuia Rusbvi 3=0 Varieties of such a race IS as great as IS required to produce 



The "Sour" or ■' Pie Cheiry."— -Aralia Cashijnerica.— Shepherdiaargen- a book ; but aS loilg aS the raiser of liew plailtS milSt lOSe 



.,, ^ ^^^'T,t ^'"^'^ '^"^' "° all benefits of these creations of his brain as soon as he sells 



iHK Florists Convention 321 ,,,,,.,,., , , j ■, • 11 , 1 • 



Roses from the Grower's Standpoint 32, the hrst individual, and SO puts ]t 111 the ]30wer o!. liis com- 



Th°e"(:umvatioYof piims' "■ ^°"'" '\.'. petitors to reap the benefits which should belong to him. 



Nomenclature ^! !"..'.'.'.'.'..'.'......'!'..'.'..'.'...".'.. 1 '.'. 323 the principal incentive lo the production of new plants does 



notes'^"'"^"""" ^'°"' ?2^ ""* '^''^^*- '^''^'^ '^ '^ subject of such vital importance to the 



ii!n™T»t;s:-Ei-yu;roniumHendersoni.'ns.'so^!!''!;'':''!'^ 3^7 ^"'urc of horticulture, here and everywhere, that we ven- 



Houseat Honmoicu injapan 319 ture to suggest to the Exccutivc Committee of the Asso- 



- ciation that it deserves careful consideration at their hands. 



rp, t:-! • i The horticultural exhibition held in connection with the 



1 he blorists. ,. ■ ,. - ,. , ^ ^ t \ 



meeting was disappointing, and cannot be taken as an 



THE Florists of the United States have every reason to example either (if the actual condition of horticulture in 

 be satisfied with the meeting of their Association this vicinity or as a fair representative of the florists' busi- 

 which was held in this city last week. The attendance ness of the United States. The display of florists' ma- 

 was larger than at any previous meeting of the Association; terials — the tools of the trade, so to speak — was lai^ge and 

 and the attention which it recei\ed from the press and varied, but these are objects in which the trade and not 

 from the public of this city is certainly gratifying in its the horticultural public are interested (Jf the products of 

 indication of the growing interest of the community in all the garden there was nothing certainly to indicate that 

 that relates to the cultivation of plants and flowers. The this exhibition was held in one of the largest and most 

 papers read, and the discussions to which they gave rise, important commercial centres of the world, where the 

 were far above the average of such productions. The}' trade in flowers has reached a development unknown 

 show that the Florists of the United States are an active elsewhere in modern times. Of plants there were practi- 

 and intelligent body of men fully alive to the necessities cally none, with the exception of a well-grown and 

 of their business, and fully determined that if its growth of well-selected collection of Caladiums from i\Ir. ( i. W. 

 the last ten years is not surpassed iu the future, it shall be Childs' garden near Philadelphia. Gladioli were exhihileil 

 by no fault of theirs. Some of the treatises were filled with in considerable numbers and variety, but they were the 

 practical information relating to the gardener's art, and as Gladioli of twenty or twent3'-five)'ears ago, and showed no 

 such, they cannot fail to be real additions to the knov\'ledge trace of the brilliant blood of the new races which our 

 of horticulture as practiced by men who make the gentle hybridizers, following the lead of the French, are now- 

 art furnish them with daily bread, and which fierce com- creating by crossing various species of these fine flowers, 

 petition compels them to practice with strict economy in The large and interesting collection of Orchid flowers sent 

 the true meaning of the word. Such papers the public had from Mr. Kimball's garden lost much of its attractiveness 

 a right to expect, but at similar meetings they have rarely and value, for the public, at least, from the fact that they 

 listened to papers of a tone as elevated and grasp as broad were arranged ■ without taste, and that the different 

 as that of the President, Mr. Hill, of Mr. Halliday, and of varieties were unnamed, .\mong the small collection of 

 Mr. Battles, of Philadelphia, whose sensible remarks re- fruit staged, splendid examples of Barbarosa and [Muscat 

 lating to the artistic aspects of the florists' business, and of Alexandria Grapes, from the garden of Mr. M. k Os- 

 the necessity for greater simplicity of floral arrange- born, of Mamaroneck, must be mentioned. Specimens of 

 ments than now prevails, should be carefully read by Nelumbium, from the pond near Bordentown, in New 

 every man in the United States whose business it is to jersey, where this plant is now fully naturalized, served lo 

 supply the public with flowers. Mr. Hill pointed out the recall Mr. Sturtevant's service tt.i American horticulture, in 

 injustice which many i-aisers of new varieties of plants making the possibilities of Water-lJly cultivation known 

 suffer at the hands of rivals who obtain a new variety and and the beauty of these flowei's appreciated in this coun- 

 then, perhaps, send it out again under a new name of try. Lilies-of-the-Valley and Lilacs are not attractive ob- 

 their own coining ; — an imposition from which the public, je'cts in .August, and, while it may show ingenuity to 

 especially that part of it which buys "new plants," suffers flower such plants in the summer, the practice is not one 

 as well as the florists. to be commended. 



The earnestness of the x\ssociation in its efforts to secure The number of made designs was smaller than inighi 



a better nomenclature of florists' flowers than now exists is have been expected at an exhibition arranged under such 



shown by its action in imposing upon its members an as- auspices, and, on the whole, they were less objectionable 



