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HOETICULTUEE 



July 27, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXVIII 



JULY 27, 1918 



NO. 4 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Bamboos 



LETTERS FROM AN OLD TO A YOUNG GARDENER 

 — On Hybridizing and Crossing the French Iris — 

 William Ro/;ins— Illustrated ■ 77-78 



VEGETABLE CULTURE— Joftw Johnson 79 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS- The Publicity 

 Campaign— Pay and You Will Enjoy— The St. Louis 

 Convention — The Trade Exhibition — Chicago to St, 

 Louis 81 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New Yorli Florists' Club- 

 Albany Florists' Club — P, T. D. Meeting — Chicago 

 Florists' Club — Lancaster County Florists' Association 82 



PEONY MULTIPLICATION— Georjre N. Smith 83 



DURING RECESS— St. Louis Florist Club— An Outing 

 at Fordhook 84 



SEED RADE — Beans-and Cabbage Seed — Philadelphia 

 Seed Trade Notes 85 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Survey of the Country Florally — Henry Penn 86 



Retail Florists, Attention! 87 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 



Rochester 89 



St. Louis, Washington 91 



OBITUARY— Benjamin B. Smallev— Willard H, Edwards 91 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, Washington, Rochester, Philadelphia 92 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Peony Exhibit of George N. Smith, Wellesley, Mass. — 



Illustration 83 



Giving the New Employee a Welcome 83 



Trained Men Needed 83 



Publications Received 84 



Potash Supply 85 



Lily-Bulb Prospects in Bermuda 85 



William J. Manda, portrait 92 



Georgia Fruit Tree Bill — Curtis Xye Smith 93 



The Profession of Landscape Architecture 94 



Catalogue Received 94 



We have now "lightless" days, "coal- 

 Retrenchment less"" days, "wheatless" days, "meat- 

 days less" days, and "retrenchment" days 

 ^ can be added to the list. Horticul- 

 TUEE, in common with all other publications, feels the 

 pinch of increased cost of paper, postage, and every 

 detail of printer's, engraver's and binder's work, sup- 

 plemented by decrease of advertising due to cessation 



of greenhouse building, embargo on imported commer- 

 cial plants and bull)s, limitation on fuel, and general 

 business reaction resulting in greatly reduced business 

 in the many horticultural industries with which HoR- 

 TicuLTKE is closely identified. This means unavoid- 

 able reduction in the size of our weekly issues but it is 

 our intention that this shall not affect injuriously the 

 quality of the reading which Horticulture shall pre- 

 sent to its readers. In the issue of last week we gave 

 the first installment of a very practical and instructive 

 paper on the iris which is continued in this issue. Mr. 

 Euzi(5ka resumes the valuable series of chapters on 

 Eose Growing Under Glass and these will appear regu- 

 larly. Mr, Johnson will continue to supply chapters of 

 ]iermanent value on the Growing of Vegetables. War 

 times make many economies for all and Horticulture 

 is no exception, but let it be rememljered always that 

 "'fine goods often come in small packages" and intrinsic 

 value is not necessarily a matter of size. When the 

 wave of prosperity again strikes the enterprising houses 

 wlio have been liberal advertisers in the past, they will 

 no doubt come back again into the limelight of pub- 

 licity. When the aclvertisers emerge from their 

 trenches" Horticulture will promptly follow. 



The late Paul Wliitin of Whit- 

 New Chinese spruces insville, Massachusetts, used 

 and firs to say that in buying novel- 



ties if one or two out of a 

 hundred proved to be real improvements it paid to buy 

 and test the hundred. Mr. Wliitin was an enthusiastic 

 horticulturist who attained the great age of ninety-three 

 or ninety-four years, retaining his interest in horticul- 

 ture to the end of his life and he knew from long prac- 

 tical experience the truth of his statement. The ex- 

 plorations of recent collectors like Mr. E. H. Wilson 

 of the Arnold Arboretum and Mr. Frank N. Meyer, 

 whose death by drowning in the Yangtsze it was our 

 painful duty to chronicle last week, have brought us 

 in the past ten or twelve years more really desirable 

 novelties than had been introduced in many previous 

 decades and probably more than are likely to be intro- 

 duced for several centuries hereafter. Mr. Meyer's work 

 was primarily in the hne of economic plants, although 

 incidentally many valuable ornamental plants owe their 

 introduction to him, wliile Mr. Wilson has been chiefly 

 occupied in the collection of arboricultural material or 

 hard-wooded trees, shrubs and vines, although numer- 

 ous herbaceous and bulbous plants, many of them of 

 highest horticultural value have been introduced by 

 him. Many of these introductions take years to dis- 

 close their real worth, for instance the Chinese spruces 

 and firs, rai.sed from seeds collected by IMr. Wilson while 

 on his first journey for the Arnold Arboretum are just 

 beginning to show their wonderful forms and marvelous 

 foliage. When the landscape gardener becomes ac- 

 (juainted with theni, and stock of them becomes avail- 

 able, he will no longer care to use the short-Uved Nor- 

 way spruce and the American wliite spruce as he now 

 does so extensively. Among the Chinese spruces, 

 Picea asperata and its varieties notabiUs and pon- 

 derosa, Balfouriana, montigena and retroflexa have 

 jiroved to be hardy with us and are great acquisitions. 

 Abies Delavayi and Abies recurvata are robust growing, 

 first with sharp pointed needles of the richest deep 

 green and ijuite rivalling in the richness of their foli- 

 age the yew trees of England. 



