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HORTICULTURE 



August 23, 1913 



hortic ulture: 



VOL. XVIII AUGUST 23, 1913 «o"8 



rlBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 293. 

 _ WM. J. STEWABT. Editor and Ma nager. 



Entered as si^id-class matter DecemWs, 1904, atThe Poit Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under theAct^of^ong ress of Jjarch3;^87g^_ 



"~" ^ CONTENTS P^se 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Theodore Wirth, President- 

 elect S. A. F. and O. H. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Adi- 

 antums— Care of Chrysanthemums, etc.— Cyclamen 

 for 1914— Show Pelargoniums— Sowing Pansies— 

 Seed Sowing— 7oftn J. M. Farrell 261 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— King 

 George Melons— Late Muscat Grapes— Winter To- 

 matoes—Bush Beans— Turnips for Forcing— Soil for 

 Winter- Georoe H. Penson 262 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Shipping the Cut 

 Blooms— Getting a Name— Wax and Tissue Papers 



Tying the Roses in Boxes— Among the Young 



Plants— J rf/(!(r C. Ruzi'ka 263 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS: 



Opening Session — President's Address 265 



Secretary's Reports 266 



Outdoor Plant E.xhibit- Illustrated 266a 



Treasurer's Report— Report of Washington Repre- 

 sentative — Reports of Committees 266b 



Boston the Next Meeting Place — President's Recep- 

 tion — Wednesday Forenoon Session — Nomination of 

 Officers — Wednesday Afternoon Session — Interna- 

 tional Flower Show 266d 



Report of Judges— Discussion of President's Address 

 Thursday's Sessions— Election of Officers— Trade Ex- 

 hibition — The Trip from Boston 268 



St. Louis Convention Delegates — Ladies S. A. F. 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association— Florists' 

 Hail Association— American Rose Society— American 

 Carnation Society — American Gladiolus Society 270 



SEED TRADE— Cabbage and Turnip Crop Short— Pea 

 Situation — Beans — Corn — Tomatoes — Peas —Cal- 

 ifornia Seed Crop— New Seed Stores 273-274 



WALTER MOTT'S NOTES BY THE WAY 274 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 276 



A Model Flower Store — Illustration 278 



DURING RECESS— Outing Westchester and Fairiield 

 Horticultural Society— Lenox Horticultural Society.. 278 



OBITUARY— Hugh Lee — Francis E. Belcher— Jonathan 

 W. Kerr— Paul Kase 279 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS — Boston, Buffalo, Chi- 

 cago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, St. Louis 281 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Southampton Horticultural Society — Cook County 

 Florists' Association— .Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society — Notes 283 



MISCELLANEOUS— Catalogues Received 270 



Cincinnati Notes 276 



St. Louis Notes — News Notes 277 



Chicago Notes 278 



Philadelphia Notes — Personal 279 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 289 



Patents Granted — Incorporated 289 



It is a far haul from Minneapolis to Boston 

 Doing and we liojje our readers will keep this fact 

 our best in mind as they peruse our story of the 

 proceedings of the big national societj- 

 .still in session as we go to press, and pardon any seem- 

 ing errors or omissions which they may detect. Such 

 news as we are enabled to present in this issue is trans- 

 mitted entirely by telegraph, with many possibilities of 

 mistakes in one or the other respect. Should any inoon- 

 gi-uities appear we crave the kind indulgence of ouv 

 readers and next week we shall be able to do better, 

 undoubtedly. 



Theodore Wirth. selected by the So- 



Theodore Wirth ciety of American Florists as its 



standard bearer for the year 1914, 



comes to this high honor and large responsibility one 



of the best equipped men ever selected for the presi- 

 dency of the national Society. His splendid work in 

 the development of the Minneapolis park system and 

 his previous achievements in a similar capacity at 

 Hartford, Conn., are well-known and fresh in the 

 minds of our readers. As to his earlier career, we 

 might state briefly that Mr. Wirth was born at Win- 

 terthur, Switzerland, in 1863. His first emploj-ment 

 after graduating from school was with a leading iiorist 

 and nursery establishment in Switzerland. From that 

 time until 1888 he filled responsible positions in Zurich, 

 London, St. Albans and Paris, and then came to this 

 countr)', serving successively as a private gardener at 

 Morristown, N. J., rose grower at So. Orange, and in 

 the park department of Xew York City under Samuel 

 Parsons, after which he devoted himself to landscape 

 w^rk until in 1896 he was appointed superintendent of 

 the parks of Hartford, then in the process of construc- 

 tion. In 1906 he took charge of the Minneapolis park 

 system. Theodore Wirth is the embodiment of zeal and 

 energy, tireless and determined in whatever he under- 

 takes and knowing no such word as fail. As an execu- 

 tive officer he lias tlie qualities that command respect 

 and make for success. Personally he is a courteous 

 gentleman, sympathetic in temperament and generous 

 by nature. Boston is to be congratulated on having 

 Theodore Wirtli at t1ie head of affairs for her conven- 

 tion year. 



The introductory word when the Society of 

 The .Vmcriian Florists was formed was an af- 

 S. A. F. lirmalioii of the need for an effective co- 

 alition between the various closely related 

 floricultural interests of the country for the common 

 good and a statement of the advantages that would fol- 

 low such a course. True to first principles, this society 

 has faithfully lived up to its pledge voluntarily made to 

 lift up and carry forward all movements tending to 

 promote the welfare of the craft, and the altruistic spirit 

 of its initial policies has been plainly dominant all 

 through its career. Based on the broad principle of 

 elevating the profession and advancing the standard of 

 American horticulture, distinctly philanthropic in its 

 aims and purposes and democratic in its activities, this 

 organization, although never accepted at its proper value 

 by the great mass of the people whom it sought to ben- 

 efit, has succeeded with able leadership and the loyalty 

 of a goodly proportion of the more advanced and enter- 

 prising men of the craft in making an enviable record 

 of useful accomplishment from the first up to the pres- 

 ent time. The bettered social and commercial con- 

 ditions of the art and the craft to whose interests it 

 stands pledged, as compared with those prevailing at the 

 time the society was launched, are generally recognized, 

 we think, as due in a great measure to its good work and 

 influence, supplemented by the zeal and energy of the 

 local and special organizations whicli have come into 

 being all over the country as a direct result of its en- 

 couragement and example and there can be no question 

 that the mighty progress of horticulture on this conti- 

 nent during flie last twenty-five years owes much of its 

 stimulation to the good seed so industriously sown by 

 the S. A. F. and the numerous offspring who have 

 drawn their vitality and inspiration from the parent 

 body. To the S. A. F. the florist already owes much ; 

 to the S. A. F. he must still look for sii]iport and defence 

 wlien adverse legislation or other oppression menaces his 

 ])rosperity. This he should as an individual, take seri- 

 ously to heart "now, and if he has not already done so, 

 see that his name is added to the membership roll of an 

 association who.«e business it is to befriend him in time 

 of trouble, — a safeguard which is practically indis- 

 pensable under twentieth century business conditions. 



