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HORTICULTURE 



July 5, 1913 



HORTICULTURt: 



VOL. XVIII JULY 5, 1913 WO- ' 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Eremuri in Hardy Herbace- 

 ous Exhibit. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Get- 

 ting Ready for Carnations— Greenhouse Building— 

 Mlltonia vexillaria — Pansies for Next Winter— Young 

 Ferns for Dishes — Sowing Late Annuals — John J. M. 

 t'arreW ° 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Layer- 

 ing Strawberries — Rivers' Orange Nectarine — Do It 

 Now — George H. Penson G 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— Mulch for the Outside Roses 

 —Weeds Around the Place — Painting— Putty— The 

 Sun and the Pots— Arthur C. Rueicka ^ 



FUMIGATING AND SPRAYING CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 —.John J. M. Farrell ^ 



DISEASE OF PANSIES— Jo/in J. M. Farrell 7 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Program of the 

 Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting and Exhibition at Min- 

 neapolis — Officers 9 



Ladies' Society of American Florists — General Sports 

 Program 1" 



MINNEAPOLIS PARKS — Illustrations 10 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Nurserymen — American Sweet Pea Society — The 



Newport Show 11 



Exhibition at Amherst 12 



Philadelphia Sweet Pea Show 15 



Club and Society Notes 16 



Summer Meeting of the Minnesota Horticultural 



Society 21 



About Affiliation — Irwin Bertermann 21 



SEED TRADE — Dutch and French Bulb Prospects — 

 Notes 16 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 18 



Flowers by Telegraph 19 



DURING RECESS — New York and New Jersey Associa- 

 tion of Plant Growers — New York Florists' Club — A 



Merry Dozen, Illustration 20 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Rochester 23 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 25 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 30 



OBITUARY — Frank Wiegand — Jacob Freduchson — Mrs. 



E. G. Ulhlein 30 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Cincinnati Notes 19 



Washington Notes 20 



Rose Mme. Cecil Brunner 20 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 31 



Personal 25 



News Notes 25 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 30 



The month of June seems to be rapidly 

 The gaining in importance as an exhibition 



June shows month and in many respects makes a 

 close second to November. Roses, straw- 

 berries, peonies, sweet peas and the great variety of 



showy shrub and herbaceous material available for June 

 showing are a prime incentive to competition and dis- 

 play. While there is no question of the public admira- 

 tion for these lavish products of the early summer yet 

 it is plain, that conditions at this season can never be 

 favorable to the popular success of any exhibition with 

 paid admission and the incurring of any great pecuniary 

 responsibility in installing or conducting such affairs in 

 June is not to be considered, except in the case of insti- 

 tutions financially able to assume the expense regardless 

 of the income from attendance. The free show backed 

 by subscriptions to cover its prize schedule and other 

 expenses will in most cases prove the safest course and 

 insure the greatest good to the greatest number. Educa- 

 tion, not income, is the raison d'etre for the June show. 



With this number Horticulture begins a 



Volume new volume. The volume which closed 



xvm with the issue of June 28 comprised 976 



pages, which with a number of -l-page in- 

 serts brings the dimensions up to approximately 1000 

 pages, the largest volume Horticulture has put out 

 tlius far. The index to same, which accompanies the 

 present issue is an impressive presentment of the vast 

 amount of really valuable matter which we have been 

 enabled to gather together in the space of six months 

 and to deliver to our readers for the trifling sum of half 

 a dollar. There are ]iapers in the field more voluminous 

 than HoiiTicuLTURE but none, we believe, that strive so 

 hard for quality or that give in the aggregate, after the 

 frivolous stuff has been sifted out, a greater amount of 

 reading matter of permanent, practical value. It will 

 be our aim in the volume now starting to enlarge and 

 improve upon the past and the same editorial policy in 

 the selection of the best reading matter obtainable, to- 

 getlier with fresh news matter in condensed form, will 

 be continued. The beginning of a new volume is a 

 good time to start a new subscription. Haven't you a 

 friend who might like to subscribe for the coming year? 

 Send us his iddress and a sample copy will be promptly 

 forwarded to him. 



Wo present in this issue a practically 



The convention cmplete program for the S. A. P. 



draws near convention at Minneapolis, now only 



seven weeks away. A perusal of 

 the program will convince the reader that the national 

 society is rapidly growing into new methods, getting 

 away from the mass meeting stage and systematizing 

 its work in a manner befitting an organization number- 

 ing fifteen hundred and rapidly growing in numbers and 

 influence. The steady gravitation of the various special 

 one-flower societies to the central body is very evident 

 and the resultant .subdivision of the meetings will, no 

 doubt, be cordially welcomed by the convention attend- 

 ants. The only people who will now feel obliged to sit 

 out every session are those hard- worked slaves — the 

 trade paper men, and this is largely their own fault, in 

 the strenuous rivalry and needless struggle to gather 

 in and print "immeiliately if not sooner" every detail 

 of meetings, exhibition and pastimes. The program, as 

 presented, is very comprehensive and any florist who 

 cannot find sometbinir in it of direct interest to himself 

 must be a pretty poor stick. We believe the time will 

 soon come when any florist worthy of the name will he 

 ashamed to acknowledge that he is not a member of 

 the S. A. F. or any one of its affiliated bodies. 



