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HOKTICULTUEE 



August 16, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. XVIII 



AUGUST 16, 1913 



ITO. ? 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



WM. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8. 19(M, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act ol Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Old Round Tower at His- 

 toric Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minn. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Bulb 

 Compost— Calceolarias— Carnations— Care of Garden- 

 ias— Dendrobiums— Paper White Narcissi— 7oftn J. 



M. Farrell ^''^ 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Prepar- 

 ing for Mushroom Beds— Over Feeding— Borers- 

 Summer Pruning of Grape Vines— Georj/e H. Penson 206 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Side Ventilation- 

 Ventilation in General — Thunderstorms — Treating 

 Wet Plants— Cost Accounting— The. Convention— 



Arthur C. Ruzicka • ■ " V ^"^ 



IN WONDERLAND: THE UNSEEN ARTISTS— C. S. 



Harrison ^^^ 



SOCIETY OF A.MERICAN FLORISTS— Program of the 

 Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting and Exhibition— Na- 

 tional Guards' Armory, Illustration— Portraits of 



Officers 210-211-212-213-214 



National Association of Gardeners 213 



Floor Plan of Exhibition Hall 214 



Ladies' Society of American Florists 218 



THE CONVENTION CITY— Views in Minneapolis Park 



System 215 



Portraits of Some Busy Men at Minneapolis 216-217 



Minneapolis Florists' Club 218 



Portraits of Some Convention Ladles 218 



Minnesota State Capitol 219 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Park Superintendents— St. Louis Florist Club— New- 

 port Horticultural Society— Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society — Canadian Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation 219 



Club and Society Notes 220 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 220 



EUROPEAN RAMBLINGS— W. R 220 



DURING RECESS — Florist Club of Washington Enter- 

 tained — Oyster Bay Horticultural Society — Buffalo 

 Florists' Club— Arcade Bowling Alleys, Minneapolis, 



Illustration 221 



A MASSACHUSETTS GLADIOLUS FARM— Wm. H. 



Halfield 222 



GLADIOLUS SHOW AT BOSTON 222 



SOME GLADIOLUS QUESTIONS 223 



SEEN AT BAR HARBOR 223 



NEW AND INTERESTING AT CRAIG'S 229 



SEED TRADE 233 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 236 



Flowers by Telegraph 237 



A Young Lady's Summer Outing 238 



OBITUARY— C. Leslie Reynolds 240 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 243 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Provl- 



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MISCELLANEOUS: 



Rutherford, N. .7., Notes 220 



The Cattleya F\y^-Jos. Manda 220 



Publication Received 223 



News Notes 223-237-239 



Three Chicago Plant Growing Establishments, Por- 

 traits 224 



An Unique Exhibit, Illustrated 229 



New York State Fair — Incorporated 233 



Philadelphia Notes 238 



Chicago Notes — Cincinnati Personals 239 



Personal 240 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 252 



Once a year at S. A. F. Convention time. 

 Convention HORTICULTURE puts on a little gala trim- 

 Number ming in honor of this annual event, and 



devoting a large section of its reading 

 pages to convention topics, makes its bid for the ad- 

 vertising patronage of those firms who have something 

 to sell to the florist trade. This issue is the ninth in the 

 series and we hope it will prove as interesting and use- 

 ful as any of its predecessors. The names that appear 

 in the list of advertisers are a source of pride to us for 

 most of them are known far and near as representatives 

 of the highest type of reliable business houses. We 

 should like to see many more on the list, and regret that 

 so many still lack the enterprise to compete for the sup- 

 port of the desirable clientage composing Horticul- 

 ture's family of readers. There are thousands of such 

 readers and we here appeal to them to help Horticul- 

 ture by purchasing, as far as possible, whatever they 

 may need at any and all times, from Horticulture's 

 advertisers exclusively. 



This issue will come to the hands of most 



Minneapolis of the convention visitors just as they 



colors are aliout to start on the journey. Take 



the ]iaper along with you and, through 

 its gallery of portraits start your acquaintance with the 

 active spirits of the convention by getting familiar with 

 their physiognomy. The men who are directing and 

 perfecting local arrangements in Minneapolis are the 

 sort of men you want to know. We arc doubly sure of 

 this, for Secretary John Young who has sojourned with 

 them for the past month says so. Jlr. Young wTites 

 "Everything has been going along most satisfactorily. 

 They are a splendid lot of boys out here, all working in 

 complete harmony, no jealousies, and every one seems to 

 be working with a will to insure the success of the com- 

 ing convention." "True blue" and "white" seem quite 

 applicable in this connection and so IIoifTicrLTi'KE's 

 cover page goes out on this occasion dressed in blue and 

 white — the official "colors" of Minneapolis. 



That a considerable interest, not to say 



Choosing a excitement, will attach to the choice of a 



president president for next year, at Minneapolis, 



seems generally expected. This is desir- 

 able for nothing tends more to animate and infuse life 

 into the membership of an organization than a lively 

 contest over the election of officers provided always that 

 no element of bitterness is injected and that nothing be 

 said or done that will leave a sting after it. Tlie selec- 

 tion of the officers of an association so widely distributed 

 as the S. A. F. and so broad in scope, with a rapidly in- 

 creasing membership and accumulating funds, is a 

 matter of no small importance and each member should 

 consider carefully the comparative fitness of every candi- 

 date whose name is presented, solely from the stand- 

 point of the Society's welfare and needs, before deciding 

 as to whom he will support. Other considerations of 

 personal friendliness, sympathy or fellowship in other 

 organizations should take a secondary ))lace. The fact 

 that a man has been a candidate before and has with- 

 drawn once or a dozen times in favor of another docs 

 not, of itself, invest him with any accrued claim upon the 

 office he seeks. Whether the next president be taken 

 from among those whose names have already been pub- 

 licly mentioned for that honor, or some other, we hope 

 to see the choice fall on one endowed by nature with 

 those qualities which make a man a leader among men, 

 one having also a horticultural training ami experience 

 and who has already done something to win distinction 

 and honor in his rallinc. 



