1*6 HORTICULTURE February l, 1913 



HC^RTTIC^T J¥ ^T¥ J R IT. ^^^^^ ^ master hand is gTiiding all the manoeuvres and if 



" things don't go like well-oiled clock-work next August 



VW,. XVII FEBRUARY 1 1913 iwi~5 ^^ ^^^^ °°* ^® *^^ ^^"'*^ °* *^^*^ tireless, broad-gauge 



i-Hj hustler, 8. A. F. Vice-President Wirth. His abilities 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY <T'e of a high exccutive order as has been well-proven on 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. many former occasions when they were called into 



11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. action. He works himself and makes a most inspiring 



Telephone, Oxford 293. leader. 



WM. J. STEWAKT, Editor and Manager. r\ j- i i • 



■ Uur reading columns begin to give evi- 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office Useful Aenno fliot u-li^r, ^n y^r-r.r>^ia^A ^„- «^„,1„, 



at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. w^c.ui cience tnat Wlien we promised OUr readers 



COTWrinwrg " discussion some spirited handling of some very live 



COVER ILLUSTRATION-The Nepenthes House at^^^^ x , ■ . *°'"'i ^^ ^ ""'"^^ °^ ^^' accession of Mr. 



Royal Gardens, Kew. Jenkins to our staff of regular writers we knew whereof 



Mi^irc^^^lJr^rB^^rsTini'-c''T^^^^^^ III "^^P«^«- Di--sion by observant and experienced men 



OUR COVER ILLUSTRATION 141 ('^ matters of fundamental concern to every grower of 



RED SPIDER VERSUS DAMPING DOWN— EDUCA- plants for any purpose is a kind of literature which 



RO^SE^^R^otv^lSr^^ND^Et^-^GrAt^^-MiicIew-The ''' LT'of inc'abnS '"t ^ ''h '°"° T^ '^^^1 7' 



Young Stock-Potting-The Soil-Benches with ,/ of^'^'^^l'-^l^'jle value to tlie protession and the 



Deep Soil— Roses on Long Island— Fish Scrap Fer- trade, bo we welcome these communications from the 



tilizer— Ar^ftwr C. Ruzicka 143 bright men who have convictions and are not afraid to 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS-Propa- give expression to them. Controversy for the sake of 



lTaL,%T.. V:r^e^tZF:X:::ToZlT^!s eontrovLy we have no room for bul on question: of 



— Ventilation— Globe Artichokes— George H. Penson. 144 methods and pertinent practical philosophy our columns 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Care are open to all those who are equipped with a practical 



of Sweet Peas— Cinerarias- Ficus — Gardenias — Lo- knowledge of what they are talking about 



belia Kathleen Mallard— Pansles—/o?in J. M. Farrell 145 ^ ' 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— G. c. Wo^son 147 The weather is a weather-beaten sub- 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. AfZseii 147 A sum me rv n-r.^f v^^ t j ■ -i. i! x, 



CATTLEYA MOSSIAE ALFRED DIMMOCK-iilus- summery ject. Excuse us for dragging it forth, 



trated I47 January But with dandelion blossoms spandins 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: „^„„ 1 ,, ■ , 



American Association of Nurserymen-Indiana Meet- „ , , . . , ^^^^"^ ^^"^"^ "^ ^^^ anniversary of 



ings— Nebraska Horticultural Society — Newport Hor- Burns trigid and blusterino- l)irthday we may perhaps 



^clnn/ptT' f ^ a"^'^- ,;^i • ■•■ V • • ;;■ WA ^"^ '^'^ pardoned for trespassing this once. ' Mr. Wilson gives 



Society of American Florists- Minneapolis Conven- ,,0 ;», fi,,-^ ,•„„„ j-i, c 4. j i^, -^^i. »» noun gives 



tion Preparations 149 ^^ ^^ ^his issue the first news and the first description 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Horticul- °^ ^^^ ^^^^ bloomer of the year among our hardy shrubs 



tural Society of New York— Club and Society Notes. 152 — blooming now for the first time in cultivation at the 



^^^^„T^^^^f--CheKP.Seed Packets the Other Side, Arnold Arboretum. If the present saluluious temner- 



C. E. fiTendei- American Seed Trade Association— atnrp<: =l-,n„lrl «^„+,-v,„^ ,>, i, 1 -<^iui iiuus leiiii ei 



Notes 154 2ture» sliould continue much longer, there will be other 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORIS'TS: precocious bloomings which will mean serious conse- 



The Gould Wedding Decorations— Steamer Depar- quences to the flower garden and the orchard We have 



pTowers • by ' Telegraph-llst.- " Louis " Reiailers-New ''' LZhtS'l^Sant^rv^onve^r''"" f '"^^ .5"' '''" 



Flower Stores I57 templated a January convention as of yore, this year, 



DURING RECESS— New York and New Jersey Plant "^^^*^ would have been no dandelions or budding shrubs. 



Growers— Cook County Bowling— Notes 159 As a breeder of zero blizzards the Carnation Convention 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: was a howling success every time! 

 Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New 



York 161 Whenever undertaking to comment 



Philadelphia, St. Louis 163 Rmwinn anw -x- ■ , 



OBITUARY-Bunzo Suziki. portraii-Lydia cV Cona^d ^ "P°^ O'' '^"ti"^^ °^e or another of the 



—Mrs. Huss— F. A. Friedley— Christian Soltau— Mrs. gravitating various movements now agitatino- the 



Anna J. Badgley— James McLaughlin 169 fl^ricf ^„^o„,.„ ;i fi, j ° ^ 



MISCELLANEOUS: horist, nursery, seed or other depart- 



A Bedding Plant Query I47 ments of horticultural activity we should all keep it in 



CaTalo^ues ° ReSt"' ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! l ' ! J^I T"" '\ Y 17 '^'"^ '" ^°™'°S ""^'^'^^ -'I --^ 



Chicago Notes— Boston's New Flower Market 158 "^^^ mistake o± basing our estimates of these things in the 



Dracaena Massangeana— Illustrated 158 abstract rather than upon their relationship to the gen- 



News Notes. . 158-159-169 eral process of horticultural development in this country 



fnBl?ru"tcy-\ncorporated-Publications Received ^, e^xSieSs'Sr'^'f "' I^S'"^'^' ^^^^^'^T ''f^' 



Personal 163 expedients, experiments and theories— all are but fac- 



"Jim" Shea in Rhyme 169 *°rS' small or great, contributing to the gradual devel- 



Boston Park and Recreation Appointments 169 opment of American horticulture It is onlv within a 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated-Fires 170 few years that we have come to fully realize our inter- 



7~~~~~7T;~. Tr~, 7- dependence and the great advantages of cohesion and 



Minneapolis It^V^^e "^^^ f^mg that we pause for unity. Back of all our detached, sometimes narrow, 



looms UP t t f"'" "f^.^^^^V^^f ™- <]nd often conflicting or ill-advised efforts, each aimin<^ 



looms up mg the approaching National Flower for some particular^ideal, a vital force is busy and a^ 



r. . uT , ^^"^ *"''•' °<?*''^f °* ^^^^ °*''^^ tliese endeavors gradually merge together we shall event 



more distant but also important S. A. F. event— the ually see our Americin bortfp,,lW Icl \- 



fniX'^l" ^""^^^"fT-- \^*^''1 information regard- highest" o^r trnrthewS^LS^^^^ P^^^th 



ng the advance work being down locally, m addition to meantime let us practice patience and fo Sance and 



the general story which we present in this issue, shows give evervone a chance to be heard ^°"'^«i^«^^e and 



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