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HORTICULTUEE 



March 29, 1913 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XYII 



MARCH 29, 1913 



NO. 13 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



MOR.TICULT17RE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place. Boston. Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 2»2. 



WH. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



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

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



CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Conservatory Attached to 

 Whittle Bros." Flower Store, Albany, N. Y. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Can- 

 terbury Bells — CobsBa scandens— Cyperus alternifoli- 

 us — Dahlias — Rambles for Memorial Day — Pyreth- 

 rums— JoTin J. M. Farrell 457 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Sowing Peas 

 —Hot Bed— The Asparagus Bed— Gladioli— Btiunn 

 Jenkins ^^° 



THYMUS SERPYLLUM — Richard iJoifte— Illustrated . 458 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Building the First 

 House — Lime Water for Young Stock — Cleaning the 

 Young Stock— Repotting— A?tft«)- C. Ruzicka 459 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Second 

 Swelling of Peaches and Nectarines — Pot Vines — 

 Spacing Spurs— Care of Young Pot Vines— Georg-e H. 

 Pensori '*"'•'■ 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Program— Addi- 

 tional Prizes— Corrections in Final Schedule — Hotel 



Accommodations 462 



National Association of Gardeners — Show Notes 463 



ADVERTISING TALKS— Ba!p7i M. Ward 463 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 463 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society— Florists' Club of Washington 

 —Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society- 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Tarrytown 



Horticultural Society 464 



Club and Society Notes 464-466 



SEED TRADE 470 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 472 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 473 



Window Display— A Profitable Show House, Illus- 

 trated 474 



EASTER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 474 



New York, Philadelphia 479 



St. Louis, Washington 484 



OBITUARY— Francis Brill — Alexander D. Broadfoot — 

 Fred W. Ostertag — Otis Chapman 485 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



National Publicity Committee 463 



Lompoe, Cal., Notes 466 



Catalogues Received 470 



Greenhouses for Cornell 470 



In Bankruptcy 473 



News Notes 473 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 475 



Incorporated 475 



Personal 484 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 485 



One week more and all will be hustle 

 "A hot time in a^j bustle in and around the big 

 the old town" Grand Central Palace in New York, 



while from far and near enthusiastic 

 and expectant horticulturists will be speeding to this, the 

 Mecca for the time being, of the gardeners and florists of 

 a continent. Horticulture takes due cognizance of 

 this important event and will issue in its honor a special 

 edition which will be well filled with reading matter care- 

 fully selected with a view to its fitness for this particular 

 occasion, and interesting to all, including those in at- 

 tendance at the show and those who are obliged to forego 

 the pleasure of visiting it. And the alive, up-to-date, 

 dealers in every line of florists' material will be well 

 represented in its advertising columns. Watch out for 

 them and don't fail to see what they have to offer for 

 this promising spring season. 



The whole civilized world stands ap- 

 Flood and fire palled at the awful disaster which has 



brought ruin and death to so many 

 communities in Ohio and Indiana and, a few days 

 earlier, to sections still further West. Information that 

 has reached us thus far does not give details suiScient to 

 indicate what measure of the suffering has fallen to the 

 lot of the florists and those of allied industries, but there 

 are many such in and about the sticken communities and 

 there is no reason to think they have all escaped. Many 

 of our readers have acquaintances and social and business 

 friends in the cities and towns that have been most 

 severely damaged and all will anxiously await more defi- 

 nite news and liope that later information may show 

 that the earlier estimates were overdrawn. Two of the 

 cities most devastated — Omaha and Dayton — have in the 

 past entertained S. A. F. conventions and our first solici- 

 tude is for the kind, hospitable friends we there made 

 when it was our privilege to thus visit them. It has been 

 for them a sorrowful Easter at best and we extend to 

 them our deepest sympathy in their distress. 



The Boston Journal for March 22 is 



Inexcusable now responsible for this: 



"A natural scarcity of violets, due 

 to the early Easter, makes prices higher than they have 



been in years." 



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At the time the foregoing was going the rounds and 

 serving to dissuade people from any notion that they 

 might have a bunch of violets for self or friend, the 

 wholesale houses in Boston were encumbered with violets 

 by the tens of thousands and one dealer remarked what 

 a pity it was that there was no way to get these popular 

 fiowers into the possession of the ladies who thronged 

 every thoroughfare on that beautiful day. The Boston 

 Traveler had a New York news note of similar purport 

 stating that cattleya blooms were selling on P'ifth ave- 

 nue for from $2.00 to $3.00 each and gardenias $1.50 

 each. Carnations from $2.50 to $3.00 a dozen ! It is 

 not to be believed that these statements were born in the 

 reporters' imagination. Beyond a doubt they originated 

 with the man behind the counter. But many of the 

 violet growers and others are so much occupied in de- 

 nouncing the commission man and in other equally un- 

 profitable pastimes that they have no clear conception 

 of the exact situation nor can they, in the majority of 

 cases thus far, be induced to take a practical interest in 

 the movements which, if properly supported, would make 

 impossible the appearance in reputable newspapers of 

 such injurious and misleading items as above qiioted. 



