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HOKTICULTUEE 



October 11, 1913 



horticulture: 



TOL. XVIII OCTOBER 1 1, 1913 WO- 15 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

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Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879^ 



CONTENTS P^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Tuberous-rooted Begonia 

 Florence Nightingale. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Clirysanthemums — Campanulas — Lilies for Christ- 

 nias— Planting Phlox— Tlie Perennial Border — Pre- 

 paring for Cold Weather— Jo An J. M. Farrell 493 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Care of 

 Strawberries— Ripen Up Pot Vines— Figs— The Soil- 

 Falling Leaves — Planting Melons — George H. Penson 494 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — The Outside Roses 

 — The Sod Lot— Old Greenhouse Soil — Tobacco Stems 

 in the Walks— Using Up the Old Boards, Etc.— Am- 

 moniacal-Copper-Carbonate Mixture— Care of Plants 

 to be Used for Propagating Wood— Arthur C. Ruzicka 495 



BEGONIA FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 495 



OUTDOOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES — Cauliflower— 

 Celery— Lifting the Various Root Crops— Lifting the 

 Exhibition Roots— Exhibition Onions — Edwin Jen- 

 ji'ifis 497 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 497 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Horticultural Society of 

 New York — Connecticut Horticultural Society — Gar- 

 deners' National Convention — Albany Florist Club — 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America — New London 



Horticultural Society 498 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia — American Rose So- 



cisty 4yy 



Elberon Horticultural Society— Club and Society 

 Notes 500 



DAHLIA EXHIBITION AT DREER'S NURSERIES, 

 RIVERVIBW, N. J.— Illustrated 499 



OBITUARY— George R. Oliver 500 



SEED TRADE 504 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 508 



Flowers by Telegraph 509 



Opening of Galvin's New York Store — Wedding Notes 



— A Penn Advertisement 510 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 513 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 515 



WALTER MOTT'S NOTES BY THE WAY 522 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Care of Dahlia Roots 500 



Catalogues Received 504 



News Notes 504, 511 



A Denver Legal Controversy 509 



Chicago Notes 510 



Rochester Flower Show Abandoned 511 



Cleveland's Exhibition Hall— Illustrated 511 



Incorporated — St. Louis Notes 515 



Million Dollar Garden Pier, Atlantic City, N. J., Illus- 

 trated 520 



Gardenia Buds Dropping 520 



Climbing Cut Worms 520 



Washington Notes 520 



Personal 521 



During Recess — Bowling 521 



Publications Received 522 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 522 



It is to be hoped that where they 



Single-flovi^ered .^yp not already provided for, the 



chrysanthemums pjiigle-fldwered chrysanthenuims will 



be made a special feature at all the 



forthcoming shows. They have a grace and beauty all 



their own and the public are beginning to recognize it. 



There are those who declare that the single-flowered 



chrysanthcnnims are the coming fa.shionable autumn 



flower and quite likely they are right. Let the floral 



artists get busy with them and demonstrate their adapt- 



ability for table adornment and vase use generally. Prop- 

 erly displayed they give variety and tone to a chrysan- 

 themum show wMch is not otherwise attainable. 



We confess to a twinge of disappointment 

 The on learning that the Rochester Florists' 



Rochester Association will probably decide to aban- 

 way don for a year the project of a big fall 



flower show, plans for which were already 

 well matured. The Rochester shows, thus far, have been 

 worked out on advanced lines and have furnished exam- 

 ple and incentive much needed in many quarters, in the 

 art of planning and arrangement for general effect. But 

 "the better part of valor is discretion," and since there 

 was some doubt of financial success, the cautious course 

 is certainly the wisest. It is quite a novel idea that the 

 withdrawal of the retail florist support should cause 

 cancellation of an exhibition scheme. We have seen 

 many shows where there was no retail support to with- 

 draw. We wish Rochester all kinds of success next year 

 and would suggest that the S. A. F. convention in Bos- 

 ton will be a good place to do a little campaigning to 

 that end. 



Experience is credited with being a great 



Profitless teacher — the best, in fact. But it does 

 work fluci what appears to be a tedious and al- 

 most hopeless job with some of the grow- 

 ers of flowers for market. One needs only to saunter 

 through the wholesale marts of any of our large cities 

 and take note of the trashy mixture of dahlia flowers, 

 for instance, on which growers have paid good money 

 for transportation but which presents not one single 

 quality to recommend it and makes no apjieal to the 

 buyer for any practical use. This is equally true as ap- 

 plying to the gladiolus in its season and in a modified 

 degree to a number of other flowers. We are not now 

 referring to qualities of care or culture but simply to 

 selection of varieties as to color, form, etc. The same 

 old discredited sorts are grown over and over again year 

 after year, apparently for no other reason than that the 

 growers have them in stock, and oblivious to the fact that 

 there are scores of varieties easily and cheaply obtain- 

 able, the flowers of which have a distinct and regiUar 

 market value. We do not need to say that it takes just 

 as much room, attention and care to grow the unsalable 

 sorts as it does to grow those that the market will take 

 and for which it will pay a good price. 



Prizes offered for forced bulb material at 

 Get a tho various spring exhibitions are fairly 



move on liberal, considering tlie little care and cul- 

 tural skill required to bring them in. Yet, 

 although the list of available varieties of tulips, narcissi 

 and hyacinths is constantly being added to and presum- 

 ably improved by European introducers, we see little, if 

 an}', advancement in these tilings as exhibited in this 

 country from year to year, during the past quarter- 

 century. It is not the fault of the seedsmen that so 

 many planters and exhibitors cling to old deteriorated 

 varieties, for the more progressive seed houses have been 

 continually eliminating the worn-out sorts and cata- 

 loguing better things each season as soon as the price 

 placed them within reach. Hyacinths such as Charles 

 Dickens and Norma, once invincible, have today no 

 chance on the exhibition board, against Enchantress, 

 Lady Derby or Morina. Horsfieldi in narcissi is now 

 hardly worth growing and the same is true of many 

 once victorious tulips. ,, Exhibitors abroad are far in 

 advance of us in this respect as accounts in the foreign 

 gardening papers .show. We should like to see a little 

 more enterprise and enthusiasm displayed on this side. 

 There is still time to work up something creditable for 

 next spring's shows. 



