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HORTICULTUEB 



April 26, 1913 



HORTICULTURi: 



VM,. XVII 



APRIL 26, 1913 



NO. 1? 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Vase of 200 Killarney 

 Queens. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Alocasias — Begonia Gloire de Lorraine — Gardenias — 

 Gloxinias — Phalaenopsis — Shading — John J. M. F'ar- 

 rell 629 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Making an 

 Asparagus Bed — Parsnips for Exhibition — Succes- 

 sion Crops — Edwin Jenkins 630 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watering Young 

 Plants — The Young Beauty Plants — Spot on Young 

 Beauties — Feeding the Young Plants — Yellow Leaves 

 — The Ice Box — Arthtir C. Ruzicka 631 



THE FAULTS OF THE GROWER— Samuei S. Pen- 

 nock. Portrait 633 



ADVERTISING TALKS— /?u/p7i M. Ward 633 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Adjourned 



Meeting of Directors 635 



National Trial Ground for Roses — Ladies S. A. F. — 

 News from the Convention City — Philadelphia-Min- 

 neapolis 636 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Peter Hen- 

 derson & Co.'s Display — First Prize Hamper of Car- 

 nations — Illustrations 635 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Lancaster County Florists' 

 Club — American Gladiolus Society — Club and Socie- 

 ty Notes 638 



WOMEN'S NATIONAL GARDEN CONFERENCE 640 



SEED TRADE — Rochester Seed Trade 642 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 644 



New Flower Stores 645 



Salesmanship — Rhinebeck Easter Violet Shipments. 646 



DURING RECESS— Bowling— Two Daring Aviators, 

 Illustrated 647 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago 649 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 651 



Rochester, St. Louis 657 



OBITUARY— B. F. Rubel 656 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A New Florists' Club 636 



Plant Quarantine Decision No. 2 642 



Catalogues Received 642-657 



Personal 644 



In Bankruptcy 645 



Chicago Notes 646 



Philadelphia Notes 647 



Flood Relief in Ohio 656 



Publications Received 656 



Summer School of Agriculture 658 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 658 



News Notes 658 



S. S. Pennock'p talk to the Pitts- 

 Views of a burgli florists, which we publish this 

 commission man week, will interest all who have to 

 do witli the production and shippinji 

 of flowers to the wholesale marts of the great cities. Th(; 

 title of the lecture sounds somewhat censorious, but Mr. 



Peunock's remarks present very little that can be con- 

 .strued as captious or reproachful. His talk is a frank 

 and reasonable exposition of the problems that are at all 

 times a j)art of this exacting department of commercial 

 floriculture. Mr. Pennock's views come from experience 

 gained in a widely varied school and are worthy of some- 

 thing more than passing attention. 



The returning to the guarantors of all 



Nothing contributions to the guarantee fund for 



but praise the International Flower Show at New 



York is a very gratifying sequel to the 

 splendid work done and notable success achieved in get- 

 ting together so superb a display of the products of 

 American floral industry. Every successive time that 

 this result is attained it makes the undertaking so much 

 easier for those who are next to follow. Of course, there 

 will always be doubters, skeptical as to the possibilities 

 in this or that location, and probably it is as well that 

 this is so, since over-coniidence is liable to breed indis- 

 creet action and the pessimist has his legitimate place as 

 a brake on his more impetuous fellows. But in this 

 instance he is not needed just at present, any more than 

 is the man who tries to stir up a controversy as to 

 whether the New York Show did or did not beat its 

 predecessor — usually someone who did little or nothing 

 personally for either affair. 



Now that the International Flower 

 The Show is a thing of the past the next 



S. A. F. boom important event of interest to the hor- 

 ticultural world is the S. A. F. Con- 

 vention at Minneapolis. That occasion will be a very 

 important one in many respects and its transactions are 

 likely to have a far-extending effect on the future of the 

 Society and its relations with the various sections of the 

 trade. The S. A. F. is now rapidly sizing up to the 

 position its founders planned it should fill and a little 

 realization of its own possibilities for usefulness. Its 

 membership has been increasing rapidly of late and its 

 friendly affiliation and practical interest in the work of 

 the several special societies has added immeasurably to 

 its prestige. The successful outcome, financially and 

 otherwise, of the third national flower show — and that 

 in the city where this was regarded as next to impossible 

 — now raises the organization to an eminence never be- 

 fore attained in its history. That the effect of this will 

 be a tremendous accession of members and activity with- 

 in the lines of the grand old national organization this 

 year seems assured. 



The development of a bigger mar- 



A suggestion ^^t and more stable values for the 



for the florists' cut flower product is, we 



publicity worl<ers believe, generally recognized as the 



most pressing present need in the 

 floral industry. We would respectfully suggest to those 

 public-spirited gentlemen who are giving their time and 

 thought to this problem that they consider, as one part 

 of the system to be inaugurated, possible ways and means 

 whereby approximate estimates may be made of the pros- 

 pective supply in advance of holidays or other occasions 

 where an augmented demand is expected. The etTect of 

 such a reporting service, giving some accurate informa- 

 tion as to the available crops and where located, in the 

 various large producing centres would be to lessen the 

 liability to sudden and excessive fluctuations in value. 

 It would conduce to a much wider distribution of the 

 product and an assurance of fairness to all concerned — 

 growers, dealers and the public — which would bring 

 much added dignity and stability to the cut flower as a 

 commercial commodity. 



