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HORTICULTURE 



October 4, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. XVIII OCTOBER 4. 1913 WO. 14 



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~ CONTENTS T^ 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Plant Laboratory at the 

 College of Pharmacy. University of Minnesota, St. 

 Paul, Minn. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK: 



Irises — Lilium Formosum— Otaheite Orange — Orchids 

 —Peonies— Stock Plants of Chrysanthemums— /oftn 



J. M. Farrell ^^'^ 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS: 



Care of Late Vinery— Prune Pot-Trees— The First 

 Frost— Crowding Plants in the Fruit Houses— Winter 



Cucumbers— Parsley — George H. Penson 462 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS: 



Cutting— Packing— Mulching the Early Houses— The 

 Proper Height to Cut Beauties— The Yellow Leaves — 

 Feeding the Plants with Manure Rich In Nitrogen — 



Repairing the Broken G\ass— Arthur C. Ruzicka 463 



OUTDOOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES: 



Preparing for Next Season's Work— Potash Manuring 

 —Lime— Basic Slag (Phosphatic Manure)— Trans- 

 planting and Pruning — Globe Artichokes — Edwin 



'I&tilcins 4tSD 



PLANT LABORATORY AT THE COLLEGE OF PHAR- 

 MACY, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, ST. PAUL, 



MINN., Illustrated *65 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New Jersey Floricultural Society— Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston, Illustrated— Rhode Island 



Horticultural Society 466 



Club and Society Notes '*67 



A POT PLANT FARM 470 



WALTER MOTT'S NOTES BY THE WAY 470 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 472 



Flowers by Telegraph 473 



Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association — Henry Penn 474 



A GLIMPSE OF WAVERLEY, MASS 474 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York 477 



Philadelphia, Providence, St. Louis, Washington 479 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Henry Trochsler— William Elias— 

 Justus Geist— Mrs. Otto Goerisch— The Late George 



McWilliam. Portrait— William Lorman, Sr 484 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 468-473 



In Bankruptcy 468 



Onions for Winter Forcing — Kdwin Jenkins 470 



(Chicago Notes — Washington Notes 475 



Philadelphia Notes 475 



Incorporated 484 



Catalogues Received 485 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 486 



Patents Granted — News Notes 486 



According to the Minneapolis Journal, fruit 



An growers of that State are permitting thous- 



uncracked ands of bushels of the finest apples to rot on 



nut the ground because prices offered do not 



warrant the orchardists in gathering and 



marketing them. Apples in Newark Centre Market are 



quoted at from twenty-five to forty cents a half-peck, or 



from $2 to $3.20 a bushel. The farmer can't afford to mar- 

 ket his apples because of low prices and the public can't 

 afford to buy them because of high prices. Seems to be 

 something wrong here somewhere. — Newark Evening News. 



If the foregoing is true — and we have no reason to 

 doubt it — there certainly is "something wrong some- 

 where." And when we read in one of our contempo- 

 raries that -Freneh-Eoman hyacinths are unobtainable 

 and in another contemporary of same date that there is 

 a surplus of these bulbs in French hands, "there is some- 

 thino' wrong somewhere." And, again, when we see 

 flowers pileci up in wholesale markets or lugged away by 

 street speculators at bargain counter prices while, ac- 

 cording to reports, other places are suffering from a 

 llower famine, isn't it reasonable to infer that "there is 

 -iimething wrong somewhere?" Eespectfully passed 

 ;ilnug without further comment to the "Publicity Com- 

 mittee." 



Referring to the practice of renaming or 

 Vicious misbranding varieties of plants, concerning 

 tactics which we wrote in condemnation in a recent 



issue, we should suppose that all fair-minded 

 and honorable men would agree as to the grievous injury 

 inflicted on the business by the indulgence in such tac- 

 tics. We are, therefore, greatly surprised to have one 

 correspondent assert as a sort of jiistification, that this 

 renaming business "is constantly done by all growers" of 

 a certain specialty. How many tliere may be who believe 

 likewise we know not but it is much to be deplored that 

 even one of the horticultural fraternity should harbor 

 such a wretched opinion of his fellow-workers. Besides, 

 the charge is not true. There are exceptional cases 

 where the renaming is done and the parties who are 

 guilty are the sufferers in the long run because they soon 

 become marked men in the trade. Statements in their 

 catalogues are accepted at a discount and their special- 

 tie.s, if bought at all, are bought with mistrust. Instead 

 of condoning, it is the duty of ever}'one to raise his voice 

 in condemnation and to do his best by influence and ex- 

 ample to put a stop to this evil which has so often in 

 tbe past brought confusion and discredit to our business. 



We are pleased to note tliat the Joint cnm- 

 "United mittt^' of the New York State Federation 

 we stand" ..f Florists' Clubs. State Vegetable Grow- 

 ers' Association, State Fruit Growers' 

 Association and Western New York Ilorticultural 

 Society are promptly getting busy under their indom- 

 itable chairman, W. F. Kasting, on their assigned duty 

 to endeavor to secure a new horticultural building at the 

 state fair grounds in Syracuse. Tlie liorticulturists of 

 the Empire State should have a creditable exhibition 

 building. The acquiring of such will serve as an exam- 

 ple and incentive to other states and we wish the com- 

 mittee and tlie organizations which they represent all the 

 success they deserve, but perhaps the most hopeful and 

 promising feature of this movement is the alliance of all 

 these related but hitherto segregated interests for united 

 elTort in a common cause. It is indeed strange that the 

 diversified horticultural interests of the country have not 

 recognized the value of associated work and the advan- 

 tage to be gained by the strength of numbers. If the 

 co-operative spirit now manifested sliould continue and 

 grow we can see how horticultural industry will quickly 

 come into its own as a potent force in state and nation. 



