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HOETICULTUEE 



February 8, 19t:i 



horticulture: 



yUL. tVll FhBKUARY 8, 1913 ^U 6 



1*1 BI.ISIIEI) WEKKLY BY 



HOR.TICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STKWAKT. tilitor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, l'J04. at the Post Otflce 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 18T9. 



CONTENTS PaTe 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Antirrhinum majus grandi- 

 florum. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Chrys- 

 anthemums — Easter Lilies — Palms — Orchids — Seeds 

 to be Sown — Secure Easter Stock Now — John J. M. 

 Farrell 177 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Pot 

 Vines in Flower — Muscat of Alexandria Grape — Thin- 

 ning Strawberries — Vines Bleeding — Tomatoes — 

 George H. Penson 178 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Early Seed 

 Sowing — Saving and Caring for Manure — Edwin Jen- 

 kins 179 



FACTS AND FANCIES— £. 0. Orvet 179 



ANTIRRHINUM— i?ir7ia)(? Rothe 180 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Packing in Winter 

 — Paper vs. Wooden Boxes — Cutting Rope for Paper 

 Boxes — Packing Young Stock for Shipment — Old 

 Plants for Shipment — Arthur C. Ruzicka 181 



THE RED SPIDER QUESTION— If eHira Harris 183 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 183 



GARDENER AND GRADUATE— Vernon T. Sherioood. 183 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Schedule and 

 Perspectus — Lectures, Trade Exhibition and Other 

 Features — American Rose Society 184 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 184a 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New England Dahlia Society— J. K. Alexander, por- 

 trait — American Association of Nurserymen — Elberon 

 Horticultural Society — Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton—Florists' Club of Philadelphia 184b 



Club and Society Notes 184 c 



THE FLORIST AND HIS MARKET— WoHace R. Pier- 

 son — portrait 184d 



DURING RECESS— Bar Harbor Horticultural Society 

 — Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society — 

 Oyster Bay Horticultural Society — Yonkers vs. Glen 



Cove — Cook County Bowling — Notes 185 



Plant Growers Dinner — Illustrated 188 



OBITUARY — Thomas V. Munson — Walter Rasmussen 

 — Bernard F. Diedrich — Hugo Lowe — Gustave T. 

 Cordua — Peter Britz — August Schuermann 186 



SEED TRADE — Inspection of Seeds 190 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS; 



Effective Advertising — Steamer Departures 192 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 193 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 197 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 199 



St. Louis, Washington 204 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Park Conservatory for Boston 183 



John N. May Retires — portraits 183 



To Lengthen Lily Stems 183 



American Enterprise — Mid-Winter Flower Show.... 184a 



Personal 184 c 



Detroit Notes 184d 



Catalogues Received — Publications Received 190 



In Bankruptcy 190 



News Notes 192 



Chicago Notes — Cincinnati Notes 194 



Philadelphia Notes— That Ginger Jar Man— E(?Min 



Jenkins 195 



Incorporated 204 



St. Louis Notes 295 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated — Patents 

 Granted — Fires -06 



Here we are. right into the Lenten sea- 



For a .son. Instead of settling down, apathetical 



Busy Lent and submis.sive to the ancient bugaboo of 



dull business in Lent, why not put every 



faculty to work to contrive ways and means for convinc- 



ing people that flowers are the best alternative for what- 

 ever tliey may have relinquished, for tlie time being, in. 

 the way of social activities ? Properly handled. Lent 

 niiglit be made the florists" opportunity, with Easter as 

 the great culmination instead of making the day a soli- 

 tary floral event. Here is a good opening for the pub- 

 licity campaign. 



Wallace K. I'ierson, in his address at 

 Producticn and Philadelphia, a part of which appears 

 marketing jn this issue, made a number of strong 

 points, as might be expected from 

 that thoughtful, yet energetic, young hustler. When 

 he asserts his belief that the selling end of the flower 

 business has not kept pace with the building and produc- 

 tion end he knows whereof he speaks. Any observant 

 man ought to be able to see that the big energy has gone 

 into the production of the goods, and, that "the product 

 has been left to take care of itself" is not too strong a 

 statement. It is but a glimmer of light that has yet 

 come to the flower industry on the problem of the popu- 

 larization and distribution of its products. Every one 

 interested should read and ponder on what Mr. Pierson 

 lias to say in this most practical and incisive paper. It 

 touches squarely on the most vital problem which the 

 florieultural interests are called upon to face at the 

 present time — that of creating a market. 



As we go to press a hearing is in 

 A proposed progress before the Committee on 

 seed inspection Agriculture of the Massachusetts 

 '3^ Legislature on the proposed seed in- 



spection act, tlie full text of which 

 is given in this issue of Hoeticultuke. The bill em- 

 bodies the views of Dr. George E. Stone of Amherst, 

 who has handled the subject in a broad-minded manner 

 and with due consideration for the seed trade, and if 

 any bill for State in.?pection is to be passed this one has 

 much in it to be commended. It is opposed_, however, 

 by local representatives of the trade on the ground that 

 it is not practicable to get uniform tests and reports by 

 the many State Experiment Stations and that it would 

 be better to have a Federal law on which all State In- 

 spectors and the trade could agree and which would not 

 be at variance with local legislation. It is questioned, 

 also, whether the passage of the law would result in the 

 selling of a better grade of seed than is now offered and 

 Boston seedsmen are positive tliat it would not. 



We are enabled to announce in this issue 

 A year full the distribution of the final schedule and 

 of promise prize list for the big International Ex- 

 hibition which takes place in New York 

 two months hence; also the issuance of the Annual Ee- 

 port of the S. A. F. for the year 1912, The completed 

 list of State Vice-Presidents and other officials as ap- 

 pointed by President Farqubar and the announcement 

 of the date for the Executive Board meeting at Minne- 

 apolis all help to bring national society activities right 

 up to date. And now, "on with the dance." 1913 is 

 destined to be a red-letter year in the annals of Ameri- 

 can horticulture and that the concrete strength and in- 

 fluence of the S. A. F. with its comprehensive scope and 

 broad policies is now, after its many years of preparatory 

 development, to be impressively demonstrated, seems 

 well assured. Without indulging in either boastful 

 retrospect or over-colored anticipations we may truly 

 say that the national organization has "made good" and 

 will continue to do so with increasing efficiency. It is 

 a source of satisfaction to feel that one has been identi- 

 fied with the early struggling days of an organization 

 which stands for so much today as does the S. A. F. 



