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HORTICULTURE 



June 21, 1913 



horticulture: 



VOL. XVII 



JUNE 21, 1913 



NO 25 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilac Time. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Cyclamen — Chr.vsanthemums — Care ot Polnsettias 

 — Cleaning, Painting and Repairing — Palms — So- 

 lanuais — John J. M. Farrell 917 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Syringing and 

 Damping Down — The Young Plants— Spot on the 

 Plants— Lime — CutUng— Arthur C. Ruzicka 918 



OUTDOOR VEGETABLES AND FRUITS— Sowing for 

 Succession — The Orchard — Bugs — Strawberries — 

 Forcing Asparagus — Edwin Jenkins 918 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Melons 

 for Cold Frames — Preparatory Work tor Layering 

 Strawberries — Grapes in the Early House— Care of 

 the Early Peach House — George H. Penson 919 



THE VIBURNUMS 921 



ROSE PINK PEARL — Illustrated 921 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY SPRING SHOW 

 —W. H. Adsett 922 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— St. Louis Florist Club— Nas- 

 sau County Horticultural Society — American Rose 

 Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — 

 American Peony Society; Bertrand H. Farr, por- 

 trait — Horticultural Society ot Chicago — Society of 



American Florists 923 



Peony Show at Boston — Spring Show, New York, 

 1914 — A Card from Mr. Totty— Club and Society 

 Notes 924 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN— Sec- 

 retary's and Treasurer's Reports — John Hall, por- 

 trait 925 



DURING RECESS— Cook County Bowling Prizes 927 



A CAPE COD GARDEN 928 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Summer Hints — Steamer Departures 930 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 931 



OBITUARY"— William Pine— Patrick T. Qulnn— Henry 



Guillaume 933 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 935 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, St. 

 Louis, Washington 937 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Two Notable Awards 928 



Tariff Amendments 928 



News Notes 924-928 



Chicago Notes — Cincinnati Notes 932 



Rochester News Items 932 



Personal 932 



Alfred Rehder Honored 932 



Philadelphia Notes — In Bankruptcy 933 



Florist Fin3d for Violating Labor Law 933 



Greenhouses Building or ( ontemplated 942 



Patents Granted 942 



We are please* to note that the Florists' 

 Well done and Gardeners" Club of Rliode Island has 



succeeded in having the restriction re- 

 iiii>V(_mJ from the giving of llowers to the school graduates 

 of Providence. This is a signal service to the floral in- 

 dustry and, as such, should place the organization high 

 in tlie regard of the florists of Rhode Island, everyone of 

 whom should, in all justice, have his name enrolled on 

 its list of members. That is what clulis are for. 



As we write, the nurserymen are 

 The nurserymen enjoying their flr.st e.xperience, as an 



organization, in the liands of their 

 lirethren in the, to most of them, tar off Pacific Coast 

 country. W'v can readily imagine they are having a 

 regal time, one that will not be forgotten by those who 

 are privileged to participate. The nuiserymen are a 

 strictly business folk, but at a convention such as this 

 the slogan for the time being is likely to be — "If busi- 

 ness interferes with pleasure, cut out the liusiness!"' 



Horticulture employs no travelling rep- 

 A warning rescntatives and no one is authorized to 



solicit subscriptions or take money on 

 heluilE of lliis paper except our regular local representa- 

 tives, who are all well-known to the trade. This warning 

 is given because word has repeatedly come to us that 

 parties are soliciting subscriptions for Horticulture in 

 various parts of the country without authority, offering 

 premiums and other considerations to gain their point. 

 Horticulture gives no premiums- and will not be re- 

 sponsible for money paid under such inducement. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 Honors well ^ty has acted most commeudably in 

 bestowed awarding its gold medal" to two of Bos- 

 ton's most useful institutions — the 

 Park Department and the Arnold Arboretum. It is 

 fitting that this recognitimi be given to a park system 

 which from its inception has been managed with the 

 sole purpose of providing the people with not only a 

 spacious pleasure ground but one that should exemplify 

 the best principles of landscape art. That this purpose 

 has been well carried out, the world-wide fame of the 

 Boston park system well attests and the graceful act of 

 the Massachuisetts Horticultural Society will be heartily 

 approved everywhere. As to the Arnold Arboretum, the 

 Society has also done the right thing in presenting the 

 highest testimonial in its power to this greatest of all 

 horticultural educational institutions. The people of 

 Massachu-setts and, indeed, of the entire country, are 

 just coming to a realization of the precious possession 

 they have in this uni(|ue establishment which is destined 

 to wield a mighty influence in American horticulture 

 and arboriculture. Most of all, however, we would con- 

 gratulate the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on 

 these and other evidences of well directed activity. Old 

 institutions sometimes get into a rut and "pointing with 

 pride" to their past is aliout all they seem to do. This 

 Society, in wliat it is now doing and what it is planning 

 to do is very mucli alive and making good use of the 

 ample resources which are at its command. 



