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HORTICULTUEE 



September 20, 1913 



horticulture: 



VOL. XVIII 



SEPTEMBER 20. 1913 



NO. 12 



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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Buddleia Davidli. Page 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK: 

 Cattleyas, Illustrated — Care of Eucharis — Cyclamen — 

 Hydrangeas — Solanums — Winter Acacias and Genistas 



—John J. M. Farrell 397-398 



BUDDLEIA DAVIDII— ^. H. Wilson 398 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Black Spot— Tim- 

 ing the Crops— Tying— Tying and Red Spider- 

 Liquid Manure — Arthur C. RuzUka 399 



THE RELATION OF LIGHT TO GREENHOUSE CUL- 

 TURE — Dr. Georqe E. Htone 401 



ODONTIODA CHARLESWORTHII— Illustrated 401 



THE MUSK PLANT ODOR 401 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York State Federation 

 of Floral Clubs — New Jersey Floricultural Society — 



St. Louis Florist Club 402 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— American 

 Rose Society — Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society— Nassau County Horticultural Society 

 — A Conference at Lake Minnetonka, Illustration.... 403 

 A Word of Thanks and Appreciation— Medford Horti- 

 cultural Society — Connecticut Horticultural Society.. 404 

 Dahlia and Fruit Exhibition at Boston— Dahlia and 

 Hardy Perennial Show at Philadelphia— Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 405 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association — 



Notes 406 



WALTER MOTT'S NOTES BY THE WAY 406 



DURING RECESS— Joseph Breck & Son's Employees. . 406 

 OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 408 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 409 



OBITUARY— James Bishop— William Paul Bender — 



M. E. Pierce — John Chambers— Constant Ponnet 411 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chica.^o. Cincinnati 413 



New York, Philadelphia, St, Louis, Washington 415 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Golden Rod, Poetry 401 



"Crown Gall" on Marguerites — Vernon T. Shericood.. 401 



Catalogues Received 406 



News Notes 406 



Incorporated 409 



Chicago Notes — St. Louis Notes 410 



View in Rose Garden of Mrs. A. W. Tedcastle, Milton, 



Mass., Illustrated 410 



Publications Received 411 



Cincinnati Notes 411 



Philadelphia Notes — Personal 415 



Greenhouses Buildin,g or Contemplated 422 



Thai litilc icinaik in Mv. li'iizirl..-i"> vn~v 



A good note? this week, "We never trv to dietate 



mottc tn the pliints" has a very suggestive ring. 



"Jnst simply give tlicm ideal conditions and 



tlieu let them do the rest" tells the route to success in 



a very few words. It is iirohahle that more rose crops 



have been ruined and more hopes bla.sted hy reckless 



"dictation" than by all other causes combined. Some 

 varieties, like some men, will stand a deal more of it 

 without hitting back, but they all have their limit of en- 

 durance and the successful grower is the one who always 

 keeps a long distance this side of the limit. 



It is gratifying to note in the columns 



Missionaries of the daily papers the rapidly increas- 



for the trade ing number of local flower shows being 



held here, there and everywhere at 

 this season of the year. It all denotes a growing inter- 

 est in flower gardening which cannot but result in larger 

 demands on the gardener, florist, seedsman and nursery- 

 man. We do not think the trade at large fully realize 

 how much this means to them or to what extent they 

 might severally develop their business by extending every 

 possible encouragement to these affairs even though they 

 may be very insignificant and even primitive from the 

 standpoint of the professional. Such organizations as 

 the Medford Horticultural Society whose recent exhi- 

 bition is described in this paper, the Houghton Horticul- 

 tural Society, the Andover (Mass.) Horticultural So- 

 ciety, the Home and School Garden Association of 

 Methuen, Mass., the Flower Civic Association of Ridley 

 Park, Pa., the Greystone (R. I.) Horticultural Society, 

 scores of Village Improvement Societies and similar en- 

 terprises to interest school children and encourage rival- 

 ry in home gardening — all these are really doing splen- 

 did missionary work for the florist and it is the part of 

 wisdom to propagate and nurture them in every way pos- 

 sible. 



xh«. ^«„v,.„»i„„v The ^finneaiiolis Tribune for 



The convention s . t i ^ n 



,„„ ,.,, .Xugu.st 28, contained the follow- 



aftermath .p . , 



editorial : 



"Hundreds of people have visited the e.xhibition flower 

 garden near the national guard armory, planted by Theo- 

 dore Wirth. superintendent of parks, with the assistance 

 of the Society of American Florists. The garden repre- 

 sents the cream of the product of florists' gardens all over 

 America, and forms, at the present height of its beauty, a 

 notable demonstration school to amateur gardeners. Among 

 visitors to the garden have been many men and women 

 who in the last few years have become so interested in 

 floriculture as to make many portions of Minneapolis 

 beauty spots of bloom where once there were bare lawns 

 or even desert tracts that offended the eye. These visitors, 

 for the most part experimenters and novices in floricul- 

 ture, have gained more flower knowledge from their visit 

 to this beautiful garden than ever could have been ab- 

 sorbed from books or seed catalogues. They have gone to 

 the florists' garden not once but half a dozen times. 



"So The Tribune offers the suggestion to the Minneapolis 

 park board that it make this remarkable school of floricul- 

 ture an established feature of its work for beautifying the 

 city. The expense of maintaining such a garden, with at- 

 tendant instruction in planting, cultivating and care by an 

 experienced florist, would be a small item when the great 

 benefits are considered. The garden spot itself is admir- 

 ably located for the convenience of the whole city. The 

 start has been made, and The Tribune suggests that at its 

 meeting, Wednesday, Sept. 3, the park board give this 

 school of floriculture a place in its program for next year 

 and the years tc come." 



This is certainly a high tribute to the S. A. F., an 

 endorsement of its work and influence as appreciative as 

 it is rare. When the Society shall have reached that 

 stage when it will be in order to ask Congress to extend 

 its privileges under the national charter, testimonials 

 such as the foregoing will mean something. It must be 

 a matter of great pride to every loyal earnest member of 

 the S. .\. F. to feel that his Society has left in Minneapo- 

 lis so sweet and lasting a remembrance of its visit and so 

 I'otent an influence for the advancement of horticulture 

 in the IN'orthwest. 



