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HORTICULTURE 



May 10, 1913 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XVII 



MAY 10, 1913 



IfO. 19 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Phlox paniculata Pantheon. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 



of Azaleas — Gladioli— Planting Out Carnations — 



Growing Ferns During the Summer — Lycastes — Win- 



te'r Flowering Marguerites — John J. M. Farrell 701 



HARDY PHLOXES FOR MIDSUMMER AND EARLY 



FALL — Richard Rothe — Illustrated 702 



TARIFF AMENDMENTS ADOPTED — James Mc- 



Hutjhison 702 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Lettuce — 

 Growing in Cold Frames — String and Lima Beans — 

 Carrots for Exhibition — Allsa Craig Onions; Leeks; 

 Globe Artichokes— Mulching Strawberries — Treat- 

 ment of Potatoes to Prevent Scab — The Currant 

 Worm — Melons; Egg Plants; Peppers; Tomatoes — 



Eduin Jenkins 703 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watering— Tying 

 —Shading the Houses— Early Planting— Coarse Bone 



— Arthur C. Ruzicka 705 



AFFILIATION— ^(/olpft FarcnicaU 706 



CARNATION CALIFORNIA GIANT— Illustrated 707 



NEWS FROM THE CONVENTION CITY 708 



Birdseye View Garden tor Outdoor Plant Exhibit — 



Illustration 708 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 710 



PRIMULA MALACOIDES— /fe»rj/ Gibson 710 



SEED TRADE — .\ Tribute to Frank J. Emerson— Cat- 

 alogues Received 714 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 716 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 717 



Memorial Day— Retail Florists' Club 718 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 721 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, St. 



Louis, Washington 723 



OBITUARY — John S. Haynes — Henry Eicke — Herman 



Blumenscheid — Mrs. August Dressel 728 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Arboretuin Notes 707 



To Flower Vandas — M. J. Pope 707 



Personal 708 



Club and Society Notes 708 



Publications Received 714 



Rochester Notes 718 



Philadelphia Notes — Chicago Notes 719 



News Notes 728-730 



Corn Growing in Rhode Island 729 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 730 



As the great floral holiday of the 



Memorial year in many communities ap- 



Day possibilities preaches it becomes necessary to 



look ahead and try to discern the 



outlook and make some approximate estimate of avail- 



able stock. Should the season maintain the pace it is 

 now keeping tip, a great proportion of the outdoor ma- 

 terial ordinarily utilized for the Memorial Day demand 

 will be all gone. If it brings to hand other things to 

 fill the gap, well and good, but if it does not we can 

 already see prices soaring and the dealer in artificial 

 or preserved goods will have the time of his life. 



Xot only those of our readers who 



A tariff free are interested in horticultural im- 



from ambiguities portation but those engaged in any 



home nursery industry as well will 

 hail with much satisfaction the announcement concern- 

 ing accepted tariff amendments which appears in an- 

 other column of this paper. All are now fairly assured 

 of an uniform interpretation of the law by importers 

 and customs authorities alike. Ambiguities that have 

 almost worried the life out of honest importers, left 

 home growers in the dark as to what they had to com- 

 pete with, and opened the way for all kinds of croaked 

 scheming are now done away with, let us hope. The 

 entire nursery and florist trade are under no small obli- 

 gation to the gentlemen who have so persistently worked 

 for this reform, in the face of many obstacles and dis- 

 couraging conditions. Horticulture is pleased to 

 know that it has contributed even in an infinitessimtl 

 degree to the success of the movement. 



At last — here, there and every- 

 Retailers where — the retail flower dealers 



"getting a move on" are getting together locally, or- 

 ganizing and laying plans for 

 mutually helpful co-operation. The wonder, to the out- 

 sider, is not only why they waited so long but why they 

 insist in flocking away by themselves rather than under 

 the wing of the long-existing Florists' Clubs. If the 

 latter had been tried and proved inefiicient to conserve 

 the interests of the retail dealers the reason for this new 

 movement would have been readily apparent, but al- 

 though the constitutions and by-laws of the Florists' 

 Clubs are everything that could be asked for in this 

 respect, yet it has been a matter of common knowledge 

 that, in nearly every ease, the retail store men have held 

 aloof. Well, flocking alone is far and away better than 

 not flocking at all and since that is their preference, we 

 must wish them all success and we hope they will in- 

 dividually and as a class find in it progress and profit 

 of the most substantial sort. 



We have at no time seen the Arnold 



The Arnold Arboretum looking so attractive and in- 



Arboretum teresting for the horticultural eye as it 



is just now. The season is remarkably 

 precocious and the winter has done less injury than 

 usual, all of which counts for much, but in addition to 

 tliese favorable conditions extensive plantings have been 

 going on for the past two or three years of things new 

 or rare and some of this material is now beginning to 

 show or at least suggest its character as a landscape or 



