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HORTICULTURE 



September 13. 1913 



horticulture: 



TOL. XVIII 



SEPIEMBER 13, 1913 



NO. II 



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CONTENTS 



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NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Get 

 Your Compost Supply— Lifting Shrubs tor Forcing — 

 Making Outside Lily Beds — Nephrolepis — Trans- 

 planting Large Palms— Starting Fires— John J. M. 

 Farrell 365 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Shading 

 — Tomatoes— Lettuce — Bush Beans— Gathering Late 

 Apples — George H. Pennon 366 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Weeds Around the 

 Houses— The Coal Bin— Tarring Roots of Worksheds 

 ^The Night Temperatures — Arthur C. Ruzicka 367 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— TV. H. Adsett 367 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Report of School Garden Committee, S. A. F 369 



New York Florists' Club— Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Club 

 and Society Notes 370 



OBITUARY— William Henry Maule, portrait — John B. 

 Nugent, Sr., portrait — W. H. Sawvel 372 



SEED TRADE 374 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 376 



Flowers by Telegraph 377 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 381 



New York, St. Louis 383 



Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington ; 389 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Black Spot on Carnation Foliage — Patten rf Co 367 



Fruit and Nut Growers to Meet 367 



Connecticut State Fair 369 



H. F. Michell Trial Grounds at Andalusia, Pa. — Illus- 

 tration 369 



In Bankruptcy 372 



Catalogues Received 374 



News Notes 377 



Personal — John Young, portrait 378 



Washington Notes 378 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 379 



Publications Received — Incorporated 388 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 390 



Patents Granted 390 



We have received a communication from 

 Scentless 'Mrs. Francis King calling attention to a 

 musk? letter she had received from a lady in Eng- 

 land — Miss Jekyll — asking whether the 

 "musk plant," Minulus moschatus had been known to 

 lose its scent under cultivation in this country. Miss 

 Jekyll states that "during the last two or three years it 

 has entirely lost its very sweet scent in English gardens." 

 We notice that this question has already been pretty well 



threshed out in one of the English horticultural jour- 

 nals, in which the correspondents do not all agree that 

 any change has come over the musk plant. In this coun- 

 try, of which it is a native, we do not think musk is 

 generally regarded as a "very sweet scent." It is grown 

 more or less, all around, and so far as we have noted, has 

 lost none of its characteristic odor. If any of our read- 

 ers can give any information on the subject we shall be 

 glad to publii?h it. 



Our Philadelphia correspondent, in his 

 '■Show me" notes in this issue on the recent dahlia 



show at Wanamaker's, tells us that made- 

 up designs and baskets showing many different effective 

 ways of using the dahlia were a feature. Our horticul- 

 tural bodies giving public flower shows can take a use- 

 ful hint liere. John Wanamaker is recognized as one of 

 the most clever and successful advertisers in the busi- 

 ness world. One of his objects in giving this dahlia 

 sliow was undoubtedly to increase the sale of dahlias 

 and so with that end in view he goes further than to 

 merely display the various varieties in monotonous rows 

 of bottles or vases, and proceeds to whet the public in- 

 terest by showing them the many uses to which these 

 flowers may be put and how to produce the best decora- 

 tive effect by their use. Of course, where a horticul- 

 tural club or society has for its sole purpose the demon- 

 stration of skill in the production of fine material these 

 suggestions have no application. But if a part of its 

 aim in life is to increase the public interest and help 

 make the use of flowers more general about tlie home 

 and elsewhere, then its opportunity and its duty are 

 plain enough. The people are ready to be shown how. 



The question as to what has become of the 

 Publicity '-publicity" boom has been repeatedly asked 



of late. We have noticed, however, that 

 those who propound this question are not alwajs of 

 those who have ever shown any excess of zeal to con- 

 tribute of their time or their means towards any such 

 organized movement for the general good. Any one in 

 close touch with club and society activities soon has the 

 conviction forced upon him that a very large proportion 

 of his fellow florists are not averse to letting the other 

 fellow do the work. The whole aim of "publicity" is to 

 increase the sale of flowers and plants, not necessarily 

 on holidays and special occasions that already consume 

 about all that is offered at a normal price, but on every 

 day throughout the year. What is first needed to bring 

 this about is that the rank and file of the trade sliall be 

 in sympathy and ready to extend support and co-opera- 

 tion as far as lies in their power, and that then the best 

 talent in the profession be enlisted to formulate and 

 put into operation some broad-gauge systematic plan of 

 action. This is more easily said than done. Construc- 

 tive force and executive ability of the highest order will 

 be indispensable in the initiatory period especially. We 

 have no doubt that the daily consumption of florists' 

 flowers in every part of this country could be quickly 

 doubled and trebled and then doubled again by tlie ex- 

 penditure of the right kind of energy in the riglit way, 

 with a well-equipped and efhciont S. A. F. department 

 as a basi.i. Very little permanent benefit can be expected 

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