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HOKTICULTURE 



May 24, 1913 



horticulture: 



VOL. XVII 



MAY 24, 1913 



NO. 21 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone. Oxford 893. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



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Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— In Wistaria Time. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Lilies 

 — Planting Dahlias — Planting Violets — Single- 

 Stemmed Chrysanthemums — Tender Nymphaeas — 

 Stock Plants for Next Winter — John J. M. Farrell.. Ill 

 FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Pack- 

 ing Grapes — Pot-Vines, Finished — Fig Houses — Shad- 

 ing — George H. Penson 778 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Spraying the 

 Orchard— Borers — Long Beets — Keeping the Weeds in 

 Check — Care of Stock Recently Transplanted — 

 Salsify and Scorzonera— Rushing the Season — Edwin 



Jenlcins 778-779 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Spraying the 

 Plants — Syringing— Scraping the Potted Plants — 

 Lime Water— Feeding Potted Plants— Ar?ft«r C. 



Ruzicka 779 



SOME USEFUL ORCHIDS FOR THE BEGINNER— 



M. J. Pope— Illustrated 780 



A DUTCH BULB TRADE EPISODE 781 



ADVERTISING TALKS— 7?a!p/i M. Ward 781 



NOTES ON THE IRIS— C. S. Harrison 783 



ASPARAGUS LUTZI— Illustrated 783 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Morris County Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Society — Society of American Florists — North 

 Shore Horticultural Society — Pennsylvania Forestry 

 Association — International Flov/er Show Premiums. 784 



Club and Society Notes 786 



NURSERYMEN'S CONVENTION 785 



DURING RECESS— Bowling 788 



MAY FLOWERING TULIPS 790 



BOSTON'S MAY EXHIBITION 792 



SEED TRADE — Thorburn's New Number 797 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 796 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 797 



Originality— The Ideal Store 798 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 801 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester 803 



St. Louis, Washington 809 



OBITUARY — Elbridge G. Moore — James Fraser — Wil- 

 liam Ewing, Sr.— G. L, Grant — William C. Strong, 



portrait 808 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Soldier's Grave, poetry 783 



A Visit to Madbury, N. H 783 



The Bivouac of the Dead, poetry 783 



Views in Minneapolis Park — Illustration 785 



Personal 788 



News Notes 788-797 



Cincinnati Personal Notes 796 



Philadelphia Notes 798 



Chicago Notes -. 799 



Public Hearing on the Gypsy Moth and Brown- 

 Tail Moth 803 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 810 



It not infrequently happens that a new plant 

 Be fair or flower, introduced conscientiously and in 



the best of good faith, has to undergo asper- 

 sions and its sponsor has to suffer loss through ill- 

 founded criticism, often emanating from inexperienced 



or unheeding growers. In the case of a novelty so 

 widely exhibited and its requirements so generally made 

 known as the rose Mrs. George Shawyer there seems no 

 excuse for the complaint regarding this rose, to which 

 Mr. Totty makes answer in his advertisement this week. 

 In justice to this beautiful and deserving flower and its 

 prospects as a bright star in the galaxy of valuable forc- 

 mg roses we hope Mr. Totty's admonition may receive 

 due attention and that no one- will allow himself to go 

 on record as summarily condemning this or any other 

 good rose novelty for no worse fault than a preventable 

 attack of mildew. 



Of the myriad modern accessories pro- 

 Credit the vided for use in the florists' art, plant 

 supply dealer and flower baskets take the premier 



place for artistic beauty and practical 

 utility. As compared with the old-fashioned Swiss chip, 

 brown willow plateaus and handle baskets, and white- 

 and-gilt wire constructions which formed the meagre 

 assortment available for the requirements of the florist 

 of the past generation, his brother of today has at his 

 disposal a vast variety, including many hundreds of 

 forms and sizes, almost endless in their variations of 

 material, finish and color effects, assembled from every 

 part of the globe. The florists' stock includes no flower 

 for which a specially adapted receptacle has not been 

 prepared and he can cater for no possible occasion for 

 which the supply dealer has not made provision in the 

 form of floral baskets of appropriate material and of 

 fitting form and color. Many a tirade has been directed 

 against the supply man and his industry because of his 

 activity in the supplying of artificial flowers and the 

 assumed interference of such material with the market 

 for fresh flowers. But if all these objections were valid, 

 which we do not admit, we claim that the florists' supply 

 man has more than made good by what he has con- 

 tributed to the advancement of the florist trade in man- 

 ifold other ways and particularly in the line of plant 

 and flower baskets. 



It is very comforting to learn of the up- 

 Glory enough rising in the City of Brotherly Love on 



behalf of the hitherto neglected fathers, 

 that they may be rescued from an tmdeserved oblivion. 

 As occupying a scat in the fathers' row for "lo, these 

 many years," we feel the tingle of a new joy as we real- 

 ize that we, too, as well as the mothers, are now to be 

 brought into the limelight and are to have, on at least 

 one day in the year, a special recognition and the pleas- 

 ure of seeing the people who don't acknowledge to being 

 fathers wearing a rose (any color permissible) in our 

 lienor. We have heard it said that the fathers have been 

 losing their grip on family discipline of late : that never 

 before was there so little parental control : the boys — 

 and the girls too — come and go as they please via the 

 latch key and the time-honored "taws" hang in the gar- 

 rett, gray with the dust of idle years. Relieved, too, of 

 the responsibiUties of national and civic government, as 

 we expect to be, as soon as "Votes for Women" become 

 a reality, there will be little left for us fathers to worry 

 over, little to make our hair fall out. 



"He rambled, he rambled. 



Up and down, 

 .\round the town. 



He rambled till the butcher cut him down." 



We'll ramble no more under the new dispensation. 

 But we will have, as a compensation, tlic recognition of 

 a Fathers' Day, thanks to dear old Philadelphia, and 

 who says that isn't glory enough ? 



