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HORTICULTURE 



January 25, 1913 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. XVII 



JANUARY 25, 1913 



RO. 4 



PIBLISHEU WEEKLY BV 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place. Boston. Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWAKT, £ditor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 18ia. 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Conservatories with a 

 Setting. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— As- 

 pidistra— Candytuft and Stocks— Forcing New Lily 

 of the Valley — Gloxinia Bulbs— Jerusalem Cherries 

 — Order Seeds Now — John J. M. Farrell 105 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Oranges 

 in Pots or Tubs— Strawberries in Flower — The Or- 

 chard House — Lettuce — Onions and Leeks— Georgre 

 H. Penson 106 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Care of Cuttings 

 Watering — Blackspot Among Cuttings— Roses Out- 

 side—Liquid Manure — The Pots— Arthur C. Ruziclca 107 



FALLACIES AND AXIOMS— Greenhouse Heating- 

 Land Drainage — Edwin Jenkins 109 



THE RED SPIDER QUESTION— G. H. Penson 109 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— New York 

 State Federation of Floral Clubs — National Associ- 

 ation of Gardeners— Worcester County Horticultural 

 Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society— New Lon- 

 don County Horticultural Society 110 



Advance News of the Great Flower Show — Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island— Ladies' Society 

 of American Florists — Northampton and Holyoke 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club — Lancaster County 

 (Pa.) Florists' Club — Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety m 



Cook County (111.) Florists' Association — Club and 



Soci6tv NotGS • IIZ 



NEW CARNATION THE HERALD— Illustrated 112 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— Gt'0(T/c ('. Watson 113 



CONSERVATORIES WITH A SETTING — Illustrated.. 114 

 SEED TRADE — A Corn Contest— The Seed Dealer and 



Parcel Post, George C. Watson 116 



A Surplus of Peas — Notes 118 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 120 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 121 



McKinley Day or Carnation Day 122 



DURING RECESS— Cook Co. Florists' Bowling 123 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 125 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 127 



OBITUARY — "Garibaldi" Trlcola — Mrs. William 



Aherne 1^2 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Educating a Gardener — Vernon T. Sherwood 114 



An Orchid Exhibit 114 



A Correction 114 



Catalogues Received 118-134 



News Notes 121-127 



Philadelphia Notes— St. Louis Personal Notes 123 



Personal — Chicago Notes 123 



Incorporated 127 



Publications Received 132 



Enforcing the Insecticide Law 133 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 134 



goods ordered for such an occasion; and this advice 

 applies all down the line from the grower to the last 

 seller. That's the old way; the discredited way that 

 has done more perhaps, to impede the natural growth 

 of the flower business than any other one thing. It is 

 time to "cut it out" now. 



"Publicity" is the accepted slogan of the 



With one progressive florist element all over the coun- 



voice try judging by the reports that come to us. 



Xothing has ever taken a firmer hold on the 

 trade in so short a period. In its many avenues and far- 

 reaching possibilities it seems to disclose openings for 

 the practical revivication of the industry on the lines of 

 modern business methods. Let us take care that we do 

 not approach the issues before us in any narrow-minded 

 or provincial spirit. Even the great question of the 

 methods of marketing and distribution of the product 

 of the wholesale flower factories clustered about the big 

 centers of population is but one side of a many-sided 

 problem. Calm, impartial deliberation and, above all 

 an avoidance of controversies, old or new, will tend grad- 

 ually but surely towards well-matured policies, well- 

 directed effort and that measure of concord and unanim- 

 ity without which no great enterprise can ever reach its 

 fullest success. For we are, in truth, in each and every 

 line of horticultural art but parts of one great unit. 

 "Deil tak' the hindmost" is a sentiment wliich is fast 

 losing its reputation in the business world. 



Commenting approvingly upon a 

 The public waiting recent editorial note in Horti- 

 to be shown CDLTURE, a distinguished English 



gentleman and nursery authority 

 states that it is his conviction that the extreme slowness 

 of the dissemination of new and meritorious horticul- 

 tural introductions in America is not to be blamed so 

 much on the public as upon the nurserymen of this coun- 

 try. His criticism is, of course, directed more particu- 

 larly to the dealers in ornamental garden material, not 

 the orchard nurserymen. The American public, he ob- 

 serves, are not lacking in appreciation, but they haven't 

 known and the nurserymen have not risen to the splen- 

 did opportunity open before them to educate and lead 

 the public. The field is unlimited and it only requires 

 that the trade shall wake up and display some of the 

 confidence and enterprise of their European brethren 

 and tlie public response will be prompt and hearty. It 

 is a pleasure to record this felicitous estimate by a com- 

 petent representative of a people who are disposed some- 

 times to measure up the American pulilic somewhat dis- 

 paragingly and we do not doubt that the genera) compli- 

 ment and the specific criticism are well placed. 



Among the various communica- 



McKiniey Day and tions appearing this week in our 



other days department devoted to the special 



interests of the retail flower trade 

 is one regarding McKinley Day. This special observ- 

 ance is only one of a very large number of opportunities 

 always within reach by which the florist may bring him- 

 self and his productions closer to the notice and appre- 

 ciation of the great mass of the people. But, don't 

 begin your campaign by doubling up your prices on 



Fallacies and Axioms 



"Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies." — Pope. 



Greenhouse Heating 



It took the greenhouse builders many years to see the 

 merits of the two-inch wrought-iron pipe, as against the 

 three-and-a-half-inch cast-iron of their own make; but 

 the light having- dawned upon them they are now using 

 the smaller size to a much greater extent than formerly. 

 So, as the writer is not over anxious to engage in the 

 rather tame sport of killing dead men, we will leave the 

 31/2 inch cast-iron pipe as an expiring fallacy and 

 proceed to direct our fire at a living one, viz. — the fallacy 

 of so distributing the heating pipes in a greenhouse that 

 the temperature varies from five to fifteen degrees from 

 end to end. so that we have a condition where, if the 



