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HOETICULTUEE 



March 22, 1913 



horticulture: 



vra.. XVII 



MARCH 22, 1913 



NO. 12 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Spring Flower Show at 



Boston. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Boronias — Dendrobiums — Dipladenias — Outside Sweet 

 Peas — Pricking Out Seedlings — John J. M. Farrell. . . 421 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Planting Grafted 

 Roses — Grafted vs. Own Root Stock — Bonemeal — 

 Liquid Manure — Weeds — Mulching — Packing — Fumi- 

 gation — Arthur C. Ruzicka 422 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Stop- 

 ping and Tying the Grape Vine — Apples and Pears 

 — Apricots — Late Houses — Vine Cracking — George H. 



Penson 423 



OUTDOOR ROSES— £rfui« Jenkins 425 



ADVERTISING TALKS— i?a/p7i M. Ward 425 



SPRING EXHIBITION AT BOSTON— Illustrated 426 



SPRING SHOW AT PHILADELPH.A.— G. C. Watson.. 427 

 INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— American Rose 



Society 428 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— St. Louis Florist Club- 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society 428 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 432 



NEWS FROM THE CONVENTION CITY 430 



SEED TRADE — Counter Trade — The Canning Inter- 

 ests — Decline in Onions and Potatoes 434 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 436 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 437 



Over-crowding 438 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 441 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washmgton 443 



DURING RECESS— Cook County Bowling 448 



OBITUARY — Philip Elnsmann — Mrs. James O'Brien — 



A. Robbie 449 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Restoring a Worn-Out Pasture — Henry Wild 425 



To Keep Brussels Sprouts 425 



Among Buffalo Growers 430 



In Bankruptcy 437 



Providence Notes — Philadelphia Notes 438 



Chicago Notes 439 



Incorporated 443 



Personal — Cincinnati Notes 449 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 450 



Fires — Patents Granted 450 



We take pleasure in announcing to our read- 

 Watch ers and the trade in general that W. P. 

 us grow Edgar, one of the most widely known and 

 successful publicity men in New England 

 will, on March 24, assume a position on Horticulture's 



staff. Mr. Edgar is already well known to many of our 

 readers through his work in connection with the National 

 Flower Show at Boston two years ago as assistant man- 

 ager and press agent for Chester I. Campbell, on which 

 occasion he made many friends among the exliibitors by 

 his efficiency and courtesy. Excepting for such call as 

 may be made upon him in his position as publicity pro- 

 moter for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mr. 

 Edgar will henceforth devote his entire time to the in- 

 terests of HoETicuLTURE. Watch us grow. 



Our leaders who are interested in the 

 The critical out flower industry as growers for the 

 public wholesale markets will do well to read 

 carefully Mr. Euzicka's advice in his rose 

 article this week. It is a good and sensible admonition 

 from a grower to his brother growers as interesting as 

 it is unusual in its recognition of the retailers' particu- 

 lar troubles and dilemmas. Mr. Euzicka's slogan, "The 

 best is none too good," is well supported by facts, for 

 the demand for better and better quality becomes in- 

 creasingly insistent every day. Mark it down as an in- 

 disputable fact that "the market does not care for any- 

 thing like poor stuff." The reason back of this is, of 

 course, the knowledge now possessed by the average 

 flower buyer as to quality and this is, as Mr. Ruzicka 

 says, something that the retail dealer is forced to meet. 

 Even the curbstone fakir must have the right goods to- 

 day, transient buyers turning up their noses at what 

 would, a few years ago, have passed muster in the best 

 stores. Wliether it may seem reasonable or not the fact 

 as above stated remains and there is no escape from it. 

 If the goods are to bring a living price — or, indeed, if 

 they are to sell at all in some markets — the quality must 

 be there. 



Horticulture extends to its readers of 

 The Greeks' Greek birth sincere sympathy and con- 

 great loss dolence in the dastardly assassination of 



their loved monarch, at a time when 

 they were rejoicing in the well-won victories of their 

 countrymen under his leadership, over a desperate foe. 

 The Greek has in recent years c-ome to be a powerful 

 factor in the flower trade in this country and this is par- 

 ticularly true in New York where many hundreds of 

 their race are engaged in one or another branch of the 

 floral industry — not as curbstone dealers always, by any 

 means, but conducting large stores and as leading deal- 

 ers in greens and other supplies for florists' use. The 

 readiness of the Greek florists of New York to sacrifice 

 their business interests and hasten at the call of their 

 king, to the defence of their country, as so many of them 

 did, was a fine exhibition of patriotism and won for them 

 the admiration of many who had hitherto regarded them 

 lightly. It is said that King George's motto was : "My 

 strength lies in the love of my people." He seems to 

 have enjoyed the love of his people in a superlative 

 degree and the sympathy of all right-thinking men will 

 now go out to them in this deplorable calamity which 

 has befallen them. 



