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HORTICULTURE 



September 6. 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. XVIU SEPTEMBER 6, 1913 NO. 10 



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" CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— New Winter-Flowering An- 

 tirrhinums. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK; 



Amaryllis for Christmas— Dracaena indivisa— Lilium 

 candidum — Planting Antirrhinums— Rambler Roses 



— Potting Evergreens — John J. M. Farrell 333 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS: 



The Fig House — Melons Cracking— Winter Cucum- 

 bers — Spawning Mushroom Beds— George H. Penson. 334 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Cutting Roses— Ice 

 —The Supply of Bone Meal— Tobacco Stems — Sod for 



Next Season's Potted Plants— .Irfhiir C. Kuzicka 335 



WINTER FLOWERING SNAPDRAGONS 335 



ABOUT THE HARDY FLOWER GARDEN— Gerftard 



Blciclccn ' 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Gladiolus Society 

 — Chrysanthemum Society of America — Convention 



Games ^^^ 



Gladiolus Society of Ohio— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — New London Horticultural Society— New York 

 State Federation of Floral Clubs— Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Chicago Exhibition— Club and Society Notes. 346 

 SEED TRADE — Estimates— Beans, Corn and Cabbage 



— European Root Crops— In the West 342 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 344 



Flowers by Telegraph 345 



WALTER MOTT'S NOTES BY THE WAY 34 1 



OBITUARY — William Henry Maule — Charles Akehurst 



— Frank Zetter- John George Strodtbeck 347 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 349 



New York, St. Louis 351 



DURING RECESS — Chicago Florists' Club 351 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 Visitors at H. F. Mlchell Co.'s Gardens, Illustration. 335 



Importations of Trees and Tree Seeds 337 



Kentias in Houses Without Benches, Illustration 338 



Care of Lily of the Valley 338 



Catalogues Received 339 



Cincinnati Notes 345 



News Notes 345 



Chicago Notes 347 



Personal 351 



A Baltimore Deal 351 



Forestry Topics 356 



Plant Quarantine Decision No. 4 357 



Publication Received 357 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 358 



Patents Granted 358 



The conTrilnitiiin liv ^Ir. P.leicken in this 

 The artist i,.;sue on cohir anil form harmony in her- 

 gardener Ijaccous plnntinjj brings to the front a 

 timely topic in a somewhat original vein. 

 Anyone -who has taken parlinilar notice of the herba- 

 ceous be(]s so prevalent in ]ircsent day gardening, espe- 



cially where anything like formal arrangement of beds, 

 Ijorders and walks has been undertaken, must acknowl- 

 edge that in very many instances Mr. Bleicken's implied 

 criticism is well-founded. One does not have to look 

 very far to find some awful conglomerations of incon- 

 gruous form and clashing color — very often composed 

 of splendid material in itself but violating in its arrange- 

 ment the principles of artistic taste and good judgment. 

 Here is presented a boundless field for study and ex- 

 periment and no young gardener who masters the art 

 and puts it into practice need worry about his future. 

 The subject is one well worthy of thoughtful discussion 

 and our columns are open to any of our readers who may 

 wish to follow Mr. Bleicken either in support or dissent. 



Should the Society of American Florists 

 Re^i and Ornamental Horticulturists adopt 



expansion some plan whereby local clubs and socie- 

 ties may l)e merged into direct member- 

 ship, as now seems quite probable, it will have taken one 

 of the most radical and far-reaching steps in its history. 

 To i)ut the pro])osition in practical working shape will 

 recpiire careful .study from .several standpoints for there 

 arc some hard nuts to be cracked, but the scheme as so 

 earnestly advocated by its sponsors is not an impossible 

 one and the most hopeful augury for its success is the 

 generally favorable attitude of the S. A. F. members, 

 most of whom are also on the roll of one or more iiorists' 

 clubs or local horticultural societies. So we look to see 

 whatever stumbling-blocks there may appear, easily re- 

 moved, for '"'where there's a will there's a way." Closer 

 affiliation between the S. A. F. and the various national 

 organizations devoted to special flowers or plants is a 

 different proposition, requiring different treatment but 

 we hazard the jirediction that this, too, will before long 

 become an accomplished fact. 



Visitors to the ilinneapolis convention 



A promising „ill all agree that the one' most dis- 



vista tinguishing and imi)ressive feature 



there was the superb display of outside 

 planting. We can well remember when the desirability 

 of such an annex to the annual convention was broached 

 a good many years ago by W. A. Manda. The first at- 

 tempt at its realization was at Dayton, 0., where a 

 modest beginning was made possible by the location of 

 the convention hall in the fair grounds and the co-opera- 

 tion and assistance of the National Cash Eegister people 

 through the gardener in charge of the planting about 

 their buildings. Seeing how valuable a feature this can 

 be made it is unfortunate' that facilities such as were 

 enjoyed at Minneapolis or even at Dayton must be very 

 rare in the history of conventions. It is particularly 

 gratifying, therefore, to learn that the prospects are ex- 

 cellent for the installment at Boston next year of an out- 

 door display on an extensive scale and, no doubt, the 

 Minneapolis success will lead many nurserymen and 

 plantsmen who did not exhibit there to see its trade 

 value and to put in an appearance at Boston. We would 

 not be surprised if this department should attain aston- 

 ishing proportions on this particular occasion. 



