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H R T I C U L T U K E 



May 31, 1913 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. XVII 



MAY 31, 1913 



NO. 22 



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CONTENTS Page, 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Winter Window Box. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— As- 

 paragus plumosus — Bouvardias— Care of Amaryl- 

 lises—Ericas—Feeding Orchids— Planting Asters— 

 —John J. M. Farrell 817 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Mid- 

 Season Melons— Figs— Pot Vines— Strawberry Lay- 

 ers—Heavy Shoulders on Grapes— Gcorfire H. Penson. 818 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Order— Crimson 

 Clover and Roses— The Boilers— Care of the Wires — 

 The Pots — Arthur C. Rueicka 819 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUIT— Planting 

 Out the Tender Stock— Tomatoes— Egg Plants and 

 Peppers— Melons, Summer Squash, Cucumbers and 

 Pumpkins — Pests — Nitrate of Soda — Edwin Jenkins 821 



NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— 

 President E. T. Fairchild, portrait 822 



LIGHT IN GREENHOUSES— Georj/e E. Stone 823 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Preliminary 

 Programme Minneapolis Convention — Ladies' Socie- 

 ty of American Florists— Minneapolis Park System, 

 Illustrated 824 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, Illustrated 

 — Lancaster County Florists' Club — Club and Society 

 Notes 825 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association — 

 Seed Trade Ethics, George C. Watson— Parcel Post 

 Discrimination — Notes 829 



THE DUTCH BULB BUSINESS— 0. V. Zangen 830 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 832 



Flowers by Telegraph 833 



June Weddings — A Winter Window Box 834 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 837 



Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Roches- 

 ter, St. Louis 839 



OBITUARY— J. R. Trumpy, portrait— Patrick Quigley 

 — S. D. Willard — Charles L. Doran — Mrs. John D. 

 Twombly 846 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Big Peony Exhibition 822 



Hydrangea Dentelle, Illustrated 826 



Under the Red Flag 830 



Incorporated 832 



News Notes 833-845 



Fires 833 



Chicago Notes 834 



New Publications 835 



Personal 835 



Philadelphia Notes 845 



Grape Scalding — Edtcin Jenkins 845 



Memorial Day. poetry 845 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 846 



It is very lilcely that some of our sub- 

 The florists' scribers who have been accustomed to 

 great day receive Horticulture on Saturday may 

 not get the present issue until Monday. 

 This is explained by the coming of Memorial Day on 

 our usual mailing day. Our best wish for all, however, 

 is that they may 'do so much business on this greatest 

 of all floral holidays that they will have neither time 

 nor ambition to read papers until after a day or two of 

 good substantial rest. As a general proposition the 

 outlook for Memorial Day business is uncommonly good,, 

 for the weather is cool, all flower stock is in the best of 

 condition for use and there is a sufficiency so that the 

 Ijuying public can get all they want without any in- 

 crease in price. 



The letter published on the seed trade 



Flaws page of this issue, in reference to 



in parcel post parcel post inconsistencies, is worth 



reading and the facts therein brought 

 to notice are worth knowing. We do not suppose that 

 the authors of the law as it stands intended it should 

 M'ork out in this contradictory manner and probably, in 

 due time, if brought to the attention of the proper par- 

 ties the incon.sistencies complained of will be elimi- 

 nated. The matter will, we presume, be taken up for 

 consideration by the American Seed Trade Association 

 at its annual convention in June as many of the mem- 

 bers of that body feel that the present arrangements of 

 the parcel post system, insofar as they affect the seed 

 trade, are not as practical as they might be. 



The preliminary program for the Minne- 

 Convention apolis Convention of the Society of 

 innovations American Florists next August, which 

 %\e present this week, discloses some 

 noticeable new departures. The reading of papers, here- 

 tofore occupying an important place in the proceedings, 

 is. for the first time in the Society's hostory, omitted. 

 We presume, however, that the programs of the auxil- 

 iary societies, which have been allotted a considerable 

 jiortion of the Convention's time, will contain more or 

 less of this time-honored feature and that those members 

 who have a desire to listen to or participate in debates on 

 cultural or philosophical topics will there find abundant 

 opportunity. The innovation impresses us as an excel- 

 lent one for many reasons and well worth trying out. 

 Another break from old-time customs is the shifting of 

 all "sporting events" to Saturday, thus officially consti- 

 tuting a full five days' Convention. We think this ar- 

 rangement will also meet with general approval. There 

 are some other things in the program regarding which 

 we may have something to say later on. 



Everyone engaged in the raising of crops 

 Light under glass should attentively read the very 



conclusive contribution on the action of light 

 in greenhouses, by Dr. George E. Stone, which appears 

 in this issue of Horticulture. Barely has it been our 

 privilege to present a paper so practical and instructive 

 as this which Dr. Stone has written specially for our 

 readers and which embodies the results and deductions 

 reached after long continued investigation and care- 

 fully conducted series of experiments. To the man com- 

 mercially engaged in the iirorluetiou of flowers or vege- 



