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HORTICULTUEE 



March 1, 1913 



hortic ulture: 



VOL. )iVn MARCH 1. 1913 WO 9 



PlBLISiHKD WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 202. 

 WTvI. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 19CM, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



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^CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Alpine Garden. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Aquatics — Care of Young Carnations — Lemon Ver- 

 benas — Cyclamen for Easter— Lily of the Valley in 

 Cold Storage — Shading Palms and Ferns — John J. M. 

 Farrell 285 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Propa- 

 gation of the Fig — Some Pests and Diseases of Mel- 

 ons—Disbudding Trellis Trees— The Tapping Stick 

 — Vegetables — George H. Penson 286 



OUTDOOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES— Brussels 

 Sprouts — Care of Young Seedlings — Spraying the Or- 

 chard — Edwin Jenkins 287 



THE BLEEDING OF GRAPE VINES— W. H. Waite.. 287 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Side Venti- 

 lators — Repotting — Crocking Pots — Charcoal in the 

 Soil — Syringing the Young Plants — More Wood for 

 Propagating — Arthur C. Ruzicka 289 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Lancaster County Florists' Club — St. Louis Florist 

 Club — Cook County Florists' Association — Illinois 

 State Florists' Association — Connecticut Horticul- 

 tural Society — American Rose Society 290 



Club and Society Notes : 291 



DURING RECESS— Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society — Cook County Bowling — Notes 294 



SEED TRADE— Seed Legislation— Notes 296 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 300 



Flowers by Telegraph 301 



Steamer Departures 302 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 305 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 307 



Washington 312 



OBITUARY — A. Moltz, portrait — Mrs. Martha Saunders 

 — Mathew Evert — Edwin E. Bourque — Jeremiah Car- 

 ter — Charles Siebrecht — Charles H. Barrett — Adolph 

 G. Fleck 313 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



An Alpine Garden 289 



To Complete Flower Show Guarantee Fund 289 



Another New Hydrangea — Illustration 292 



New York Notes 292 



Catalogues Received 296 



News Notes 301-303-312 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 303 



Fires 304 



Illinois State Greenhouses — Illustrated 312 



Personal 312 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated — Incorporated 314 



The demand that practical landscape 

 A reasonable gardeners be given a place on all park 

 proposition boards and shade tree commissions, as 

 voiced by the New Jersey Floricultural 

 Society looks to us like a reasonable and very meritorioits 

 proposition. A thoroughly capable gardener would fill 

 a place of great usefulness on such a body and in a man- 

 ner such as no other individual, however clever, could 

 fill it. Clubs and societies everywhere, should all get 

 busy and make themselves heard in this matter. 



From the number of examples of Val- 

 "Pool" entine's Day newspaper advertising 



advertising wliich have been sent to us we get some 

 conception of the rapidity with which 

 the pool advertising idea is taking root among the retail 

 fiower dealers. In some of these the addresses of the 

 firms represented are given — in others they are omitted. 

 We have heard some objection to this sort of advertis- 

 ing by those who have been asked to contribute, on the 



ground that whatever benefit accrues will be shared in 

 to greater or less extent by those who contribute nothing 

 and that they do not relish helping to carry a burden 

 for other people. Fortunately everybody does not take 

 so selfish a view. As the sun shines equally bright for 

 the evil and the good, so also will it be ever impossible 

 to prevent the unworthy from sharing in the results of 

 any human progressive endeavor. All that can be done 

 to distribute the cost among the actual beneficiaries in 

 the present instance should be done but the impossibility 

 of entirely eliminating the parasite shoitld not be al- 

 lowed to imj)eril a cause so worthy. 



Among the men who have gone heart 



Working out and soul into this publicity campaign 

 a plan for the creation of a larger public de- 



mand for the products of the florist, 

 Wallace E. Pierson is one of the most earnest. Mr. 

 Pierson certainly is a "live wire" and, as representing 

 the publicity committee of the New York Florists' Club 

 has gone to work at the problem in a most practical and 

 thorough manner. He has plans already outlined for 

 action through the agency of a central association in 

 which the leading daily newspapers in all parts of the 

 country are substantially interested and if the florists' 

 clubs and other trade organizations will only fall in line 

 and help carry forward Mr. Pierson's well-matured 

 scheme we believe a country-wide and decidedly effective 

 publicity campaign can soon be inaugurated at a min- 

 imum cost and the very moderate expense will be well 

 distributed and levied with reasonable fairness upon 

 those who are to be directly helped. It is not unrea- 

 sonable to expect that through the operation of some 

 such plan the annual plant and flower sales in the co- 

 operating communities can soon be doubled — perhaps 

 trebled. 



We have carefully read the bill now 

 Commission before the New York Legislature to 



liouse legislation regulate and control the sale of farm 

 produce on commission. As to the 

 general conditions attending the production, transporta- 

 tion, sale and accounting for farm produce and the 

 necessity for the passage of this bill we are not suf- 

 ficiently well acquainted to make comment other than 

 that the frantic desire which some periodicals and some 

 people manifest to protect the poor farmer from all kinds 

 of gold-brick scliemes and alleged robbers does not strike 

 us as at all complimentary to the intelligence of the 

 American farmer. From what we have seen of him 

 that gentleman is "over seven" and is in no pressing 

 need of a guardian to take hold of his hand when he 

 crosses the street or a mammy to put him to bed. But 

 in so far as this protective legislation may be applied to 

 the flower commission business its provisions seem all out 

 of proportion to the situation. The insinuation that the 

 men who make their livelihood by selling flowers on 

 commission are any less upright and honorable than 

 those employed in any other field is intolerable. As to 

 the mediums or methods which a man may choose to 

 make use of to market his goods after he has produced 

 them he has his choice and will presumably select that 

 which, in his judgment will bring him the greatest 

 financial advantage. The cut flower commission man 

 has been a great factor in the development of the flower 

 business and the future is open to him as to any other 

 business man if lie progresses with the times and keeps 

 up with the growth and demands of the industry for 

 which he acts as middle man. If he falls short of this 

 the final outcome is self-evident. But there is no call 

 for the placing on his shoulders of euch an oppressive 

 load as this legislation implies. It was not primarily in- 

 tended for him and he should, in all justice, be exempted 

 from its provisions. 



