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HOHTICULTUEE 



October 18, 1913 



horticulture: 



TOL. XVIII OCTOBER 18, 1913 NO. 16 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— First Prize Table Decora- 

 tion. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Ar- 

 dlsia crenulata — Care of .Mignonette — Care of Vio- 

 lets — Cannas — Lorraine Begonias — Out Door Roses 

 John J. M. FarreU 529 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Repot- 

 ting Fruit Trees — George H. Penson 530 



OUTDOOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES— Miscella- 

 neous — Trenching — Edwin Jenkins 530 531 



NEPHROLEPIS TUBEROSA PLUMOSA— Illustrated 531 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— Liming the Benches— The 

 Temperature at Night— Sulphur on the Pipes — The 

 Sod Heaps— The Partly Cloudy and Partly Sunny 

 Days — Arthur C. Ruzieka 533 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Exhibits at October Meet- 

 ing of the Florists' Club of Washington, Illustrated 533 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— American 



Carnation Society — American Gladiolus Society 534 



Nassau County Horticultural Society 537 



Florists' Club of Washington — New York Florists' 



Club — Society of American Florists 543 



Club and Society Notes 552 



SEED TRADE — The Maule Business — New Enterprises 

 —Crop Notes — Tariff Changes 538 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures. . 540 



A Philadelphia Opening 542 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 545 



New York, Philadelphia. Providence, St. Louis, Wash- 

 ington ^^^ 



OBITUARY: 



The Late .Tulius Roehrs 543 



A Schustermann — Christian Binning 554 



MISCELLANEOUS: . 



The Vincent Dahlia Show 537 



Catalogues Received 537 



News Notes 540-541-542 



Personal 542 



Chicago Notes 542 



A Patent Decision 552 



Greenhouses BuiUling or Contemplated 554 



Five thousand ciollars' worth of exhi- 

 Time to hustle finn ?pace soW, fifteen hundred dol- 

 lars' worth of advertising for the 

 souvenir progran) and over seven thousand dollars 

 pledged on the guarantee list, is a pretty good starter 



for New York's big flower show for next spring. Some- 

 bod}- has been doing some hustling, evidently, but not 

 much of the hustling appears on the surface and it does 

 seem about time, as was remarked at the last Florists' 

 Club meeting, that more noise should be made regarding 

 this most ambitious project. With unceasing publicity 

 from now on this affair should rival the successful "In- 

 ternational" last spring. Enthusiasm all along the line, 

 if it can be aroused, will accom]jlish much. Over-confi- 

 dence and depending on a few to do it all is a dangerous 

 habit we are all prone to fall into. Hundreds are vitally 

 interested in this enterprise and every individual can 

 and should do something to help keep the pot boiling 

 for the next few months. 



The great "show" season of the year is 

 What shows again with us and IIorticulture's 

 are for news columns will bulge with lists of 



awards, etc., as of yore, no doul)t. While 

 these records of winners and winnings are, naturally, of 

 much interest to the craft, yet it should he borne in 

 mind that the competing for prizes is but a means to an 

 end and that tlie primary and chief purpose of a public 

 floral exhibition is tlie promotion of an interest in flow- 

 ers among the people, to awaken the public apjireciation 

 of gardens and to encourage beautifying of the homes of 

 rich and poor alike with the products of horticulture. 

 A show which does not .do this is largely a failure. See 

 to it that not all of your efforts as exhibitors are 

 prompted solely by the ambition to excel in prize win- 

 ning. Devote a share of your material to showing visi- 

 tors its use and adaptation. Tlie layman, "his sisters 

 and liis cousins and his aunts." refuse to be enthused 

 over tlic little fine points of difference between dozens 

 or half-dozens of specimen blooms which appeal so 

 strongly to the skilled grower, so see to it that a good 

 amount of the jircmium resources is devoted to demon- 

 stration of tlie art of using flowers and plants as well 

 as to demonstration of skill in producing them. 



We wish to put on record a word of 

 A profession (omnicndation for the sentiment and 

 with a great (one of the excellent paper on the gar- 

 future (Icner and his field which Mr. Ebel read 

 before the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston, last Tuesday evening. The gardener, as dis- 

 tinguished from tlie commercial florist or seedsman, is 

 a very strong element numerically in the Boston club, 

 more so, we think, than in any other similar organiza- 

 tion in this country, and it was to be regretted that a 

 most inclement night kept so many of the young gar- 

 deners from healing Mr. Ebel's remarks as well as those 

 made by ^Ir. Kariiuhar and others. Fidelity and fore- 

 bearance are cardinal virtues in a gardener's attitude 

 towards his employer and these traits are equally to be 

 cultivated by those who are employed in any department 

 of our art. Whether commercial or "private," the same 

 qualities make for success in either. The immediate fu- 

 ture of gardening as a profession in this country is preg- 

 nant with opportunity, and the young man who will 

 take heed and work faithfully to perfett himself in a 

 broad theoretical and practical knowledge of gardening 

 in all its aspects and hearings, need have nothing to 

 fear as to the outcome, for both honor and adequate 

 emolument await such. 



