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HORTICULTUEE 



July 26, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XVIII 



JDLY 26, 1913 



NO. 4 



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CONTENTS Page 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Busy Street in the Con- 

 vention City. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Aspi- 

 distras — Camellias — Care of tlie Dahlias — Sowing 

 Schizan thus — Winter Flowering Stocks — Watering 

 Late Asters— JoftK /. M. Farrell 101 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Roses for Flower- 

 ing Outside — Mulching — Disbudding — Distance for 

 Beauties— Good Management— A Word to Beginners 

 —Arthur C. Ruzicka 102-103 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS — Pot 

 Vines— Watering— Damping — Vacation — Georgie H. 



Penson ^^^ 



OBITUARY — Patrick McGovern — Joseph M. Gleason — 

 Julius Roehrs, portrait 105 



DURING RECESS— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston— Lancaster County Florists' Club — St. Louis 

 Florist Club— Cincinnati Florists' Society 106 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Canadian Horticultural 



Association -IA; jol 



Club and Society Notes iu/-i.^i 



NEWS FROM THE CONVENTION CITY— Minnesota 

 State Horticultural Society HO 



SEED TRADE — Crop Reports— Good Crops in South 

 Dakota— Notes H^ 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 11* 



Flowers by Telegraph 115 



Ice Chest Talk H" 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia IJ^ 



St. Louis 1-1 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Hydrocyanic Gas for Mealy Bug and Black Fly — John 



Ash 105 



Publications Received ^"^ 



News Notes 11^ 



Philadelphia Notes 11° 



Incorporated H" 



Chicago Notes 11|^ 



Catalogues Received H ' 



Minneapolis Park Board Greenhouses, Illustration... 117 



Personal 1^1 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 126 



Our news columns at this season of the 

 Relaxation year reflect the condition of inactivity 

 that for a brief midsummer interim per- 

 vades most of the departments of the industries which 

 this paper aims to serve and tales of picnics and various 

 pastimes and news of lighter vein genethlly are perused 

 by manv who, for the remainder of the year, have neither 



time nor inclination for frivolous matters. No harm 

 is done if even the boys and girls long past maturity 

 break loose and romp, momentarily forgetting that 

 "years steal vigor from the limb" and ignoring the. 

 retribution of sunburned skin and sore muscles that is 

 sure to follow their frolic, for true it is that 



"Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim." 



The death of the widow of William E. 



A reminder Smitli, recorded in our issue of last week, 



and a duty closes the final chapter in the story of a 



life, the most touching side of which was 

 known to but few. Only to those very close to him did the 

 uncomplaining old gardener confide the burden of sor- 

 row he carried, day and night, ever since the time nearly 

 a quarter of a century ago, when his beloved wife had to 

 be sent away, suffering from an incurable mental afflic- 

 tion. The isolation of his domestic life, the natural 

 yearning of his sympathetic soul for companionship and 

 bis constant solicitude regarding the provisions for his 

 wife's comfort should she survive him, make a very 

 pathetic picture as we look back in contemplation. 

 How, in his loneliness, he took the welfare of the 

 Society of American Florists to his heart and for eleven 

 years, in the face of almost insurmountalile obstacles, 

 devoted his time and means, his energy and brilliant 

 al)ility, to secure for that organization the coveted 

 national charter, we all Imow. No man ever more truly 

 merited a memorial which shall record his worth and 

 the gratitude of the profession he so conspicuously 

 honored. We hope that the appeal of the committee en- 

 trusted with the duty of soliciting donations for the 

 erection of a fitting memorial to this grand old man of 

 luu'ticultuj-e at the National capital may meet with a 

 generous and hearty response. Now is the time to 

 zealously ]ni»h the project to completion. 



. We have noticed quite frequently of 

 An aspersion late in some florists' window or in the 

 illustrated contents of some paper, 

 crude exliibJts purporting to represent "the old- 

 fashioned bouquet," "the kind they made in grand- 

 mother's days," etc. Apparently the idea intended 

 to be conveyed by these contraptions is that a lace- 

 |Jii])rr collar with a clumsy mass of short-stemmed 

 iind mutilated flowers crowded in the centre represents 

 the limit of floral taste on the part of the florists of that 

 snmewhat indefinite period called "grandmother's time." 

 Tliose who are old enough to have known something of 

 the conditions as they then existed are well aware that 

 there was plently of inartistic botchery done in those 

 days but probably no more of it proportionately than 

 we may see at tlie present time, for the incompetent we 

 have witli us always. One does not need to go far in 

 any part of the country to get a full realization of the 

 crimes that are daily perpetrated in the name of floral 

 art. But neither the constructions called bouquets by 

 the old-time botchers nor the uncouth contrivances called 

 "designs" by the same class now-a-days can be said to 

 fairly represent the standard of floral decorative skill in 

 cither epoch. Indeed, the old-time florist, if he was 

 worthy of the name, often displayed exquisite dexterity 

 in the making of the old-style formal hand bouquet, the 

 arranging of which is almost a lost art today. We do 

 not wish to be understood as advocating those prim 

 methods of floral work. We simply enter our protest 

 horticulture at the National Capital mhy meet with a 

 of the best taste and skill of the men who laid the 

 foundations of the florists' business. 



