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HOKTICULTUEE 



May 3, 1913 



horticulture: 



VWi,. XVII 



MAY 3, 1913 



NO. 18 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Basket of Decorative 

 Foliage Plants. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Carnations — Dieffenbachias — Forcing Lily of the 

 Valley for June — Growing Palms from Seed — 

 Nephrolepis — Sowing Annuals — John J. M. Farrell 665 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Onions- 

 Onion Grub or Maggot — Exhibition Onions — Sowing 

 Peas for Succession — Nitro-Bacteria Cultures for 

 Peas — Cauliflower, Cabbage and Brussels Sprouts — 

 Hardening — Greenfly and Spider — Edvin Jenkins... 666 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Sulphur and Its 

 Uses — Mulching — Manure for the Fall Mulching — 

 Tying — Disbudding — Arthur C. Ruzicka 667 



HISTORY OF GREENHOUSE ESTABLISHMENTS IN 

 MINNEAPOLIS 669 



ADVERTISING TAhKS— Ralph M. Ward 669 



RHODODENDRON PLANTING TABLES— B. W. Cur- 

 tis 670-671 



WANTED— A TARIFF FREE FROM AMBIGUITY— 

 James McHutchison 671 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Nurserymen's Convention Date — American Gladiolus 

 Society — Club and Society Notes 672 



DURING RECESS: 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Baltimore — Notes.. 672 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Decorative Foliage Plants in Basket Arrangement 



—Illustrated 674 



Steamer Departures 680 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 681 



Taking an Interest 682 



SEED TRADE — A Good Man Gone, G. C. Watson — 

 California Seed Crop Alarm — Biennials Here and 

 Abroad — Pea Prospects — Retailers Busy — Duty on 

 Seeds — A Boston Seedsman Honored — Notes 676 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati 685 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, St. 

 Louis 687 



OBITUARY — Frank T. Emerson — William Kalesh— B. 

 Schworm 693 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 674 



Tulips and Narcissi in Grass 678 



News Notes 674-678 



In Bankruptcy 681 



Chicago Notes — Detroit Notes 683 



The Tariff Bill 683 



Catalogues Received 692-693 



Publications Received 694 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 694 



In the rhododendron tabulations which 



A valuable appear in this issue of Horticulture 



contribution Mr. Curtis has rendered a signal service 



to the gardening profession and made a 



useful contrilnition to the advancement of garden art. 



-Many years of observation and recording are required to 

 make such a compilation really valuable and this being 

 taken into account together with the fact that these rec- 

 ords have been gleaned from three of the most extensive 

 and notable hardy rhododendron collections in America 

 gives a value to this report which will be at once recog- 

 nized and cannot be overestimated. We think it pre- 

 sents more definite and reliable information concerning 

 the dependable varieties of this noblest of all garden 

 shrubs than has hitherto been published anywhere. 

 The theme is, however, an almost inexhaustible one and 

 we shall be glad to give space to any of our readers who 

 may have something instructive to impart on this most 

 interesting subject. 



As we jubilate over the gratifying finan- 

 The winning cjal outcome of the recent big flower 

 combination show in New York it should be ever kept 

 in mind that had it not been for the 

 spirit of enterprise shown by the exhibitors in the trade 

 section, the projectors and guarantors of the affair 

 might have had a very different proposition on their 

 hands and we fear we should have had a much less cheer- 

 ing story to tell at the close. The trade exhibitors at 

 the show filled about the same place that the advertisers 

 do in Horticulture — they supply a good share of the 

 wherewithal without which its existence would be 

 mighty precarious, to say the least. We are glad, there- 

 fore, to know that the trade exhibitors succeeded in 

 doing such a thriving trade in New York as most of 

 them report they did. While there may be minor prob- 

 lems yet to be straightened out, still as a general propo- 

 sition the fusion of competitive flower show and trade 

 exhibit as carried into effect at the Boston and New 

 York National Shows appear to have been a winning 

 combination. 



No one will deny that a little sincere 

 Horticulture commendation is welcomed by the aver- 

 commended age mortal. Being constituted like all 



others in this respect we must confess 

 to a touch of pleasant satisfaction over the generous 

 compliments on Horticulture's editorial policy which 

 have been coming to this paper from time to time. One 

 correspondent in the middle west, in the goodness of 

 his heart is kind enough to say — "By your vigorous 

 handling of the live topics of the day you have really 

 established a new standard of horticultural trade jour- 

 nalism. I get all the trade papers but Horticulture 

 I invariably read first." Another gentleman, one of 

 New York's most alert business men, writes, "It has 

 often occurred to us that your editorials make your 

 paper a particularly valuable trade journal. To us it 

 seems almost a reflection on the trade that those trade 

 papers which receive the most from the florists in adver- 

 tisements give so little to them in the way of editorial 

 advice in exchange." Naturally, we are proud to re- 

 ceive such compliments, but the greater gratification 

 comes in the assurance they give that Horticulture 

 has been able to work out a distinctive place for itself 

 in the esteem of the trade it aims to serve. Indeed, if 

 it could do nothing better than merely to imitate exist- 

 ing trade periodicals this paper was no more needed 

 than a "fifth wheel to a coach." We are deeply grateful 

 to our friends for their encouraging words. 



