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HOETICULTURE 



September 27, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



YOL. XVIII 



SEPTEMBER 27. I»13 



NO. 13 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Newport Autumn 



Exhibition. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Carnations — Forcing Spanish Iris — Hardy Stock 

 for Spring Sales — Poinsettias in Pans — Timely Prop- 

 agating — Oxalis — John J. M. Farrell 429 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Tying the Teas— 

 The Rainy Weather of the Past Week— The Cold 

 Nights — Sulphur on the Steam Pipes — Fumigation — 



Arthur C. Ruzicka 431 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 431 



POLYPODIUM MANDAIANUM— Illustrated 432 



PURIFYING THE LISTS 433 



ANTHERICUM MANDAIANUM— Illustration 433 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Newport Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Illustrated — Lancaster County Florists' Club. . 434 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Unclaimed 

 Prizes at Minneapolis — Cook County Florists' Asso- 

 ciation — Club and Society Notes 435 



SEED TRADE — Peas — Beans — Corn — Small Seeds- 

 Notes 438 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— New Flower 



Stores — Steamer Departures 440 



Flowers by Telegraph 441 



AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION 442 



ORCHID GROUP AT "HOLLAND HOUSE" SHOW, 



LONDON— Illustration 443 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 445 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis '. . . 447 



OBITUARY— A. D. Perry— Louis Stieffel— Joseph Em- 

 ory Arnold — John Spencer Williams^George Mc- 



William 454 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Flowering Foxgloves in March 433 



Cincinnati Notes 440 



St. Louis Notes 441 



News Notes 441-452 



E. S. Miller Retires from the Bulb Business 442 



Chicago Notes 443 



In Bankruptcy 447 



Personal 447 



Dahlia Show at Michell's 452 



Incorporated 452 



Quarantine Upon Potatoes 452 



Patents Granted 452 



Fireplace Days, poetry 452 



Walter Mott's Notes by the Way 453 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 454 



Wc, in this country, can hardly appreciate 

 Pollen n,e extent to which the science of orehicJ hy- 

 stealing bri(5ization has been and is now being car- 

 ried on in Great Britain nor realize the 

 intense interest and infatuation which attaches to this 

 pursuit among those who have taken it up either as a 



hobby or as a commercial enterprise. Under existing 

 conditions the few grains of pollen in the bloom of a 

 pedigreed hybrid possess a subjective value which almost 

 makes the historic tulip craze in Holland 'look like 

 thirty cents." To remove the precious grains from the 

 open flower is the work of but a second if one imder- 

 stands how, and we are told that petty thieving of this 

 sort has become so prevalent at the exhibitions that the 

 owners of valuable specimens fear to let them out of 

 their sight. The offense seems to us a most contempti- 

 ble one and merits punishment just as severe as would 

 the theft of money or other property. 



The announcement by the Secretary of 

 House cleaning the American Carnation Society which 



appears in our correspondence this 

 week, to the eSect that an effort is being made to purge 

 the excessively voluminous lists of carnation varieties 

 comes as welcome news. We hope, however, that the 

 work outlined in Mr. Baur's notice is to be only a 

 beginning, for many times the number represented in 

 the list given might well be eliminated, so far as any 

 practical value is concerned. It is quite probable that 

 many of the recorded introducers would be more than 

 pleased if their connection with the exploiting of more 

 or less worthless failures could be buried in oblivion, and 

 surely nobody else would shed any tears either now or 

 hereafter if this were done. Not only the carnation 

 but the rose, the sweet pea, the chrysanthemum and — 

 just now the dahlia and the gladiolus especially, are all 

 carrying a useless burden of names which serve no pur- 

 pose other than to encumber and confuse. Let's get rid 

 of them. 



No more valuable asset, as it appears to 

 The golden uj;^ fan a grower and introducer of nov- 

 road elties possess, than the reputation of 



scrupulous care and thorough testing out 

 of every candidate for favor in the horticultural world 

 before he will attach to it his name and endorsement. 

 Had this course been the rule during the past five and 

 twenty years, for instance, and "the rogue's march" been 

 played to a few of the humbugs, what a different aspect 

 would our chrysanthemum, rose and carnation lists pre- 

 sent today and what a multitude of disappointments 

 would have been prevented! Perhaps it is safe to say, 

 however, that no man can ever be quite an infallible 

 judge of his own productions, no matter how impartial 

 he may try to be. When we see the dissemination of a 

 novelty such as Polypodium Mandaianum, for example, 

 proclaimed with unqualified laudation, naturally our 

 faith in it all is greatly strengthened by the fact that the 

 encomiums are not alone those of its fond and devoted 

 sponsor but that they also reflect the conclusions of dis- 

 interested and capable judges repeated with unvarying 

 unanimity at home and abroad through a period of 

 years. Looking from this viewpoint alone the great 

 possible utility of the special societies, directly or in- 

 directly, to everyone engaged in horticulture looms uji 

 most convincingly and the price of the maintenance of 

 these organizations is nothing as compared with the 

 service they are capable of rendering. 



