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HOKTICULTURE 



August 17, 191S 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXVIIl 



AUGUST 17, 1918 



NO. 7 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Missouri Botanical Gardens 

 LETTERS FROM AN OLD TO A YOUNG GARDENER 

 — On Hybridizing and Crossing the French Iris — 



WiWam Rollins — Illustrated 153 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Thirty-Fourth 

 Annual .Meeting— Officers for 1918, portraits — Pro- 

 gram Day by Day— Special Meetings— The Publicity 



Campaign 155-158 



THE GINGER 3 AR-— George C. Watson 158 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society— Chicago Florists' Club — St. Louis Florist 



Club— Horticultural Society of New York 159 



American Gladiolus Society 166 



MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN— Illustrated 160 



DR. W. VAN FLEET— Portrait 162 



SEED TRADE— A Poor Crop o£ Peas— Vegetable Seed 

 Production Survey — Timothy and Clover Seed — Ber- 

 muda Onion Seed Crop 163-164 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago. Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh, Rochester, St. Louis 173 



LOCAL A.ND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston. Pittsburgh, Chicago, Rochester, Philadelphia, 



St. Louis. Cincinnati 176 



OBITUARY— Walter S. Sword— Frank Piliski— Reuben 



C. Hart- William L. Hoerber — Amaziah M. Herr. .177-178 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Forecast, poetry 158 



An Effective War Time Window Display — Illustration 163 



Visitors Register 171 



Profitable Prices tor the Grower — Paul Klingspom . . 175 

 A False Report 176 



Now is tlie season of the year when we 

 Hailstones may look for stidilen l)onibar(liiijj in un- 



exjiecteil places by Nature's artillery. 

 Hajjpy iiiileed is he who is well proteeted and fortified 

 against such sudden disaster, ifiider the .shelter of John 

 G. E.sler's precautionary refuge. The past week has 

 seen some attack.* of more or less severity but. although 

 much destruction of trees and crops, and some general 

 damage to greenhouses, is reported in the newspapers, 

 and tales are told of hailstones of )M'odigious size, we 

 have thus far no knowledge of S])ecific instances of green- 

 house injury. This is consoling but. if past experience 

 counts for anything, to expect that no damage is to be 

 suffered sometime, somewhere least exi)ected, before the 

 end of tlie season, would be fooli.sh and if any greenhouse 



owner who reads these lines is indulging in such jjre- 

 carious security, he'd better drop it and get imder cover, 

 for a loss this year, especially, would be a doulile disas- 

 ter, for reasons too well understood to need enumera- 

 tion here. Hail insurance is not a luxury; it, is a para- 

 mount duty which every owner of glass houses owes to 

 himself and his family. 



HoitTK'ULTURE's friends take advantage 

 Come on! of the present opportunity to tell the 



wideawake florists of the country that 

 they are still in front line of elticiency and are prepared 

 to do business in their respective lines. This is com- 

 mendable from every viewpoint. It is an exhibition of 

 enterprise which should react favorably at the present 

 time when so many concerns appear to have retired 

 into their dugouts leaving the impression that business 

 is defunct. We solicit especially for these outposts of 

 business activity all the trade which our readers may be 

 able to turn their way. Their spirit should be an ex- 

 ample to the timid ones to pluck up courage and show 

 the trade that "the way to resume is to resume." 



"Ye timrous saint, fresh courage take; 



The clouds ye so much dread ■ 

 Are big with mercy and will break 



In blessings on your head." 



Do vour part to start things into activity for the 

 new season soon to open, by some encouraging orders 

 to the advertisers who reach out the hand of good fel- 

 lowship towards you in this issue of Horticulture. 



I'lie growing interest in outdoor 

 Rock gardens gardening has many attractive oppor- 

 tunities througli which to find ex- 

 [jiessioii. Tlie rock garden is one of the most fascinat- 

 ing: easy to develop; inexpensive, yet affording scope 

 foi' the finest exercise of art in its arrangement, and un- 

 limited in the variety of pleasure it affords. In the 

 shade it may be the l)Osky fern bower revealing the del- 

 icacy of the maiden hair or the strength of the royal 

 osmunda, nestling among which may be had the lady's 

 slipper, the wood forget-me-not, the early anemones, 

 numerous bell-flowers, foxgloves, violas and an endless 

 list of other favorites which prefer partial shade. In 

 the sun the availalile rock garden material is practically 

 endless. Some of us -have perhaps regarded the stone- 

 crops, saxifi'agas. house-leeks, alpine pinks, arabi-^, 

 armei ias, dwarf ]ihloxes, etc., as the proper rock plants. 

 Hut why should we omit the columbines, Iceland pop- 

 pies, gypsophila. primulas and, in fact, most of the 

 hardy perennials that are not too coarse in their habit 

 of growth? Many of these ])lauts will thrive and will 

 be likely to survive the winter l)etter growing in the 

 crainiies among the rocks than in the herl)aceous border. 

 The rock garden is really unrestricted, and it is a suit- 

 able place for all kinds of hardy plants whose habit of 

 growth may lend itself to artistic rock garden plant- 

 ing. Early bulbous plants like grape hyacinths, scillas. 

 snowdrops and the smaller foi'ms of narcissi should 

 not be omitted ; and among woody plants the prostrate 

 juniper, hardy azaleas, cotoneaster horizontalis with its 

 tiny pink flowers and persistent red berries covering the 

 mat-like foliage which forms itself about the rocks. 

 Etionymus Kewensis is another neat little plant which 

 has this rock covering habit and it has the advantage 

 of being evergreen. In many localities sites for rock 

 gardens may lie selected where nature has very generous- 

 ly accomplished most of the necessary construction; mi 

 others the necessary material is very frequently at hand 

 and needs only to Kr jiropei'ly assembled. 



