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H R T I C U L T U E E 



July 20, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXVIII 



JULY 20, 1918 



NO. 3 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Iris Athena 



LETTERS FROM AN OLD TO A YOUNG GARDENER 

 —Hybridizing and Crossing the French Iris— WiHiam 

 Rollins • ^^ 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — Planting — Soil — 

 Bonenieal— Depth o£ Soil in Benches— Tying— Arfftar 

 C. Ruzicka ^^ 



PHILADELPHUS 56 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— Program of the 

 St, Louis Convention — The Trade Exhibition — The 

 Publicity Campaign 57-58 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Gladiolus Society 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Westchester 

 and Fairfield Horticultural Society — The American 

 Institute of the Citv of New York — St. Louis Florists' 



Club 59-60 



•OBITUARY — James Dean— Frank N. Meyer — Millie K. 

 Cook — Henry Haag 60 



SEED TRADE— New York Seed Trade — Seed Crop Con- 

 ditions 61 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Let Flowers Dominate — Henry Penn 62 



New Flower Stores 67 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 

 Rochester, St. Louis 65 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS; 



Philadelphia, Rochester, Chicago, Cleveland, Pitts- 

 burgh. Boston, Washington, St. Louis 68-69 



DURING RECESS — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston 70 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Visit to James Dean — Illustrated 58 



The Rose Garden, poetry 60 



"Brier Tater" — Illustration 61 



Bermuda Lily Bulbs Coming 61 



New Corporations 61 



Visitors' Register 65 



"Say It With Flowers" 67 



The Coal Situation 67 



A Warning 67 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 67 



News Notes 69 



The uncertainty of receiving the 

 Bulb catalogues usual supply of flowering bulbs 

 from Holland this fall, together 

 with tlie high co.st of book paper and printing, will 

 deter many seedsmen from preparing the elaborate 

 bulb catalogues they liave heretofore sent out. -Several 

 houses have stated that thev will send out this vear only 



a list of bulb prices in sheet form, and they feel that 

 their patrons will approve this timely conservation 

 policy. 



The high cost of fertilizers during the 

 Value of the past planting season caused their use 

 rubbish pit to lie greatly restricted. Such prices, 



made • necessary by increased cost of 

 raw materials, manufacture and bagging are likely to 

 continue with perhaps slight reaction for several years. 

 An ample rubbish jiit establislied in an out-of-the-way 

 part of the garden, and screened by some tall growth 

 such as sunflowers, cannas, or, if permanently placed, 

 a neat hedge would do as a receptacle for garden rubbish 

 like lawn trimmings (which, by the way, should never 

 be allowed to clog the lawn and smother the finer 

 grasses) leaves, trimmings from the kitchen garden and 

 all other waste vegetable matter, where such material 

 might rot, covered, if oflfeusive by a sprinkling of loam, 

 would in the autumn or following spring afford a valu- 

 able supply of nitrogenous fertilizer. The burning of 

 fallen leaves in the autumn is a very wasteful act, of 

 which no intelligent gardener would be guilty ; he knows 

 too well their value as plant food when rotted to the 

 condition of leaf-mould. 



As a nation we are regrettably delin- 

 Tree planting quent in planting trees. We hear 



much about reforestation, hut com- 

 pared with the continual cutting, the number of trees 

 planted each year forms a negligible offset. 

 The high cost of timber, double or triple the prices of 

 ten years ago and which must inevitably continue to 

 soar, is not the only evil of our. lumber-camp methods. 

 Wastefulness is displayed by ahnost every wood-chop- 

 per in wantonly cutting down young and immature 

 trees which are of little or no use to him, and appar- 

 ently for 110 other reason than tliat he dislikes to see 

 them standing on the ground over which he has cut. 

 Where replanting is not contemplated, tliis is an inexcus- 

 able destruction of valuable material and should be pro- 

 hibited by law, as it is prohibited in most of the coun- 

 tries of Europe, where any one who cuts down trees 

 is required by law to plant two, or in .some cases, three 

 for each tree cut. Such young trees if left to continue 

 their growth with more space and light would in com- 

 paratively few years develop into valuable timber. In 

 these days of government conservation of our national 

 resources why should our forests lie neglected ? We be- 

 lieve they should be under federal control, and that 

 there should be established at once reasonable laws to 

 insure proper use, eliminatiuii of waste, conservation 

 and perpetuation of supply of our forest material. 

 In addition to this the government should do 

 still more to promote scientific and practical knowl- 

 edge of forestry, especially as to better methods of 

 planting and as to the kind of trees to be planted. We 

 have not yet heard of the ginkgo being made use of as 

 a forest tree, yet it is valuable for its timber, of rapid 

 growth and it has enjoyed the reputation of being im- 

 mune from attack of any insect or blight of fungus. 

 Several of the trees collected in Western China by Mr. 

 E. H. Wilson for the Arnold Arboretum are likely to 

 prove valuable for forest purposes as well as for land- 

 .scape use. His new spruces and firs are of jiarticiilar 

 promise in this connection. 



