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HOETICULTUEE 



June 7, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XVII 



JUNE 7, 1913 



NO 23 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleya Harrisonis. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Adiantum — Compost for Bench Crops — Gardenias 

 — Rest Callas — Planting Smilax — Sweet Peas — John 

 J. M. Farrell 853 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Water- 

 ing Melon Beds — Mulching — George H. Penson 854 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Mulching 

 the Small Fruit— The Late Cold Snap— Watering — 

 Edivin Jenkins 855 



ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Bulletin of Popular Infor- 

 mation, No. 43 855 



CATTLEYA HARRISONIAE 855 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Washington — Society of American 

 Florists — Floor Plan, Trade Exhibition, Minneapolis 

 Convention, Illustrated — Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia 857 



American Peony Society — American Rose Society — 

 Club and Society Notes 858 



PEONY AND ROSE SHOW AT PHILADELPHIA 860 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association — 

 Department Prejudiced — Where It Began — "Free 

 Seed" Increased — The Trade Partially Blamable — 

 Crop Prospects— Effect of Inflated Prices 861-862 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 864 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 865 



Telegraphing Flowers 866 



OBITUARY — Frederick W. Thielman— Prof. George W. 

 Letterman— H. T. W. Winfield— W. C. Trimble — Mrs. 

 Anna MuUory 867 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 869 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 871 



NEWS FROM THE CONVENTION CITY— Minneap- 

 olis Park System — Illustration 859 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publication Received 859 



Weed Killing 860 



Chicago Notes 866 



News Notes 866 



Philadelphia Notes 867 



Washington Notes 867 



During Recess 871 



Personal 871 



Notice of Quarantine, No. 7, White Pine Blister Rust 877 



Plant Quarantine Decision. No. 3 877 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 878 



Incorporated 878 



Patents Granted 878 



Information received thi.s week seems 

 On the crest to insure beyond any question the in- 

 of the wave stalling of another flower show in New 



York next spring worthy of the name 

 and worthy of the city. Here i.s one of the direct results 

 due to the recent successful afTair under the auspices of 

 the S. A. F. and affiliating societies. Previous efforts in 

 the Metropolis have often been disheartening in their 

 outcome, but doubt and misgiving are quickly brushed 

 away in the light of this year's master-stroke, and cour- 

 age and self-reliance take their place. This inspiring 

 sequence to the national society's achievement, while it 

 would not have been possible had local enthusiasm been 

 lacking, yet adds distinctly to the lustre of that organiza- 

 tion and places another mark to its credit as a predom- 

 inating influence in horticultural progress. We look to 

 see a widespread revival of exhibition optimism all over 

 the country and this will be good for the business pro- 

 vided plans are well considered, chances carefully 

 weiglied, rash ventures avoided and modern publicity 

 methods employed in all cases. 



"Prices are sky-high on cut flowers." This, 

 Holiday i]i big, bold letters, fonned the head-lines 

 scare-heads for a statement in a daily newspaper re- 

 garding the allegeil flower famine in 

 Boston a couple of days previous to Memorial Day. Who 

 can estimate the loss to the florists of this community, 

 not alone in immediate sales but in a broader and more 

 general aspect from this stupid announcement ? Whether 

 it emanated from some inconsiderate member of the 

 trade or in the reportorial imagination we know not, but 

 that it worked a most regrettable injury to the floral 

 industry nobody can dispute. Consider, you growers who 

 rail against the sale of artificial flowers, how many metal 

 wreaths were purchased as an explicit result of that one 

 line flashed in the face of a hundred thousand readers ! 

 Spend money to build up the flower trade and encourage 

 flower buying on this or that holiday and then allow 

 your best efforts to be nullified as regularly as the days 

 come around by these deplorable scare-heads! It is a 

 question, after all, whether special advertising for holi- 

 days that naturally call for about all the available ma- 

 terial, is the best use of monev. If applied to the up- 

 building of business in the dull times between, might it 

 not prove a wiser investment ? 



We can think of nothing recently pub- 

 Rhododendron Hshed which is more instructive and 

 time valuable for the nurseryman or others 



interested, in ornamental shrubbery, 

 than the Bulletins that are issued from time to time, 

 during the flowering season, by the Arnold Arboretum. 

 No progressive planter can afford to remain uninformed 

 as to what is being done at this great institution and if 

 he does so remain he is no longer progressive. The ex- 

 tract from Bulletin No. 43, which we publish in this 

 issue will interest many and we hope the time is not far 

 distant when the statement that "few nurserymen care 

 to take the trouble to raise such plants from seed" will 

 be no longer true. 



While on this subject we must mildly protest against 

 any disparagement of the beauty of Rhodora canadensis. 

 Bending in patches and irregular masses of sudden color 

 over the trout ponds and streams in the solitude of the 

 Maine wilderness, reflected as a purple cloud in the clear 

 water from which the ice has just departed, this cheery 

 herald of spring is a feast of glory to the eye of the 

 nature lover and we cannot agree that either Emerson, 

 or Th()s. W. Higginson, who also wrote appreciatively of 

 tills wildling, overdrew its charms in the least. 



