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HORTICULTURE 



August 10, 1918 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXVIII 



AUGUST 10, 1918 



NO. 6 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Fordhook Hybrid Gladioli 



LETTERS FROM AN OLD TO A YOUNG GARDENER 

 — On Hybridizing and Crossing tlie French Iris — 

 Willia^n Rollins 125-126 



EVERGREENS FOR WINTER DECORATION — 

 Arthur E. r;ia?i7ifr— Illustrated 127 



FORDHOOK HYBRID GLADIOLI 127 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— St. Louis Con- 

 vention — The Publicity Campaign — Secretary Young 

 at Multnowah Falls, Illustrated — Department of 

 Plant Registration — Hotel Accommodations — Cleve- 

 land Wants Convention in 1920 129-130 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Ladies' Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists — Massachusetts Horticultural Society.. 130 

 Chicago Florists Club — Cleveland Florists' Club — 

 American Gladiolus Society — Stamford Horticultural 

 Society — National Association of Gardeners — Ameri- 

 can Rose Society 132-133 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 134 



New Flower Stores 135 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, 

 St. Louis 137 



OBITUARY— A. V. D. Snyder— Mrs. Peter Rlsch 139 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Roch- 

 ester 140-141 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Botanical Highway 127 



Di-acaena glomerata and Dracaena Kindtiana — Illus- 

 trated 131 



News Notes 137 



Visitors' Register 139 



New Cori orations 139 



Catalogues Received 139 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 139 



Patents Granted 1.39 



Publications Received 142 



We are often askerl hoAv to make 

 Legible labels oarclen labels that will coutinue to 



be lesrible for more than a season. 

 There are iiumeroiTS methods in vogue, most of them, 

 however, involving so mncli labor that they are rarely 

 put in practice. Probably one of the simplest methods 

 to secure legibility of wooden labels is to have them 

 painted all over witli white lead and thoroughly dried. 



Then before writing paint lightly a second time the sur- 

 face to be written. An hour after the second coat i^ 

 applied the surface may be vrritten with lead pencil 

 not too hard and the label allowed to dry. Labels pre- 

 pared in this manner are extensively used in botanical 

 gardens and last well. 



We see very little of this satellite of the 

 The rtuwer trade at the present time. The "work 

 street or fight'"' mandate has apparently brought 

 fakir evil days upon him and he has "made him- 

 self scarce."' The store florist doing business 

 on the city avenues where the street faldr is wont to 

 operate will now be minus one nightmare but the whole- 

 saler and his purveyor and mainstay — the grower — are 

 not likely to feel so jabilant over the disappearance of 

 tliis "Ja'ek-in-a-pinch," their friend in need. Accord- 

 ingly, opinions will probably vary as to whether the 

 .street merchant is strictly non-essential and whether his 

 avocation is "work." We have seen him, however, at 

 times when we thought he worked pretty hard, when the 

 wholesaler found the pulse of business favoralile and 

 "with liack to the wall"' turned a deaf ear to all liargain 

 offers and entreaties. 



It w-as quite natural that the great 

 The popularity of interest i;i gardening awakened 

 outdoor gardening throughout the countn" among 



amateurs, and which led to the 

 organization of the numerous garden clubs should find 

 expression mostly in the outdoor garden. The call of 

 the garden is loudest in the spring when nature re- 

 clothes the earth with verdure and when ■we look eagerly 

 for the first blossoms in the open air. Naturally we 

 want to be out in the fresh air of the garden at this 

 season and it is here that our interest in the hardy 

 plants, shrubs, vines and trees begins or gains new 

 inspiration. And after all is not the outdoor garden 

 by far the largest, most profitable, the most interesting 

 field of garden work and also the most enduring in the 

 perennial satisfaction which it affords. The snow- 

 drops, crocuses, the many charming forms of the daffo- 

 dils, the hepaticas, the orchid-like irises extending in 

 tbeir varied types to well beyond midsummer and wliile 

 tlie.se are still blooming the early lilies come and their 

 many succeeding later varieties continue their flowering 

 ]>eriod into the late autumn; tbese accompanied in their 

 seasons by the peonies, larkspurs, hollyhocks, phlo.xes, 

 Jaiianese anemones and hundreds of other hardy 

 jierennials constitute a panorama of beauty and interest 

 tliat no greenhouse coUeetion can rival. It is unfor- 

 tunate that many of the new varieties and recent intro- 

 ductions are not moi'e generally seen- in such gardens, as 

 they afford an almost inexhaustible supply of material 

 yet Init little known. This is also true of hardy sbrubs, 

 vines and trees of which the Arnold Arboretum, alone, 

 in the last si.x or seven years has introduced about fif- 

 teen hundred species and varieties new to cultivation. 

 With so vast a supply of material which must sooner or 

 later become known, and find place in our gardens we 

 cannot but feel tliat the outdoor garden is likely to 

 become and cnntinuc 'he major field in horticulture. 



