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HOKTICULTUEE 



November 1, 1913 



HORTIC ULTURE 



TOL. XVIII NOVEMBER 1, 1913 NO. 18 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HOR.TICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



TelephoDC, Oxford 298. 

 WM. i. STEWART. Editor and Manaser. 



■ntered as second-class matter December 8,' 1901, at tbe Post Office 

 at BostoD, Mass., nnder the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Sorbaria arborea. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Dutch 

 Bulbs for Outside — Ericas — Primulas — Orchids — Win- 

 ter-Flowering Geraniums — Wintering Fuchias — John 



J. M. Farrell 593 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Pruning 

 Vines — The Heating Pipes in Cold Houses — George 



H. Penson 594 



SORBARIA ARBOREA 594 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Propogating 

 House and Sand — The Flower Shows — Covering the 

 Soil for Use in Winter — Notes in General — Arthur 



C. Ruzicka 595 



THE LILAC QUESTION— K. 0. Orpet 597 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lancaster County and City 

 Florists' Club — Rose Test Gardens— Mrs. C. E. 

 Critchell, portrait — Connecticut Horticultural Society 

 — Gardeners' Convention — Chrysanthemum Society of 



America 598 



Club and Society Notes — Chrysanthemum Society of 



America Cup, Illustration 599 



Chrysanthemum Oconto — Illustrated 600 



FALL PLANTING — John Kirkeoaard 601 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 601 



THE GARDENERS' PLACE— O. Miller 604 



SEED TRADE — Fixing Values — Seed Beans — Some 



Surpluses — Onions and Potatoes — Notes 606 



OF INTEREST TO RP^TAIL FLORISTS— New Flower 



Stores — Steamer Departures 608 



Flowers by Telegraph 609 



Home Merchants Should Never Have Dull Times. . . . 610 

 FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago. Cincinnati 613 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 615 



OBITUARY— Mrs. F. L. Krekeler 620 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Philadelphia Show 599 



Boston Flower Exchange 599 



Panama California Exposition Freight Rates on 



Exhibits 599 



The Chicago Exhibition 599 



New Hampshire Toils and Pastimes 600 



The Water Requirement of Plants 600 



Wintering Bay Trees 600 



Propagating Roses Grown Outside 600 



Two Fine Hydrangeas — Illustrated 597 



Cleveland Flower Show Preparations— Illustrated. . 601 



Walter Mott's Notes by the Way 602 



Apple Tree Authracnose Should be Treated Now 604 



Registration at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege 604 



New Corporations 606 



News Notes 609-611 



St. Louis Notes — Washington Notes 610 



Chicago Notes — Personal 611 



Boston Co-operative Flower Market 615 



Cincinnati Notes 615 



New Publications 620 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 620 



We rend in ^fr. TTi-n'- intprc^^iiiiu' 

 Making notes on tlie doinK.s of the Lancaster 



common cause Flnrists' Club that Lancaster County. 

 Pa., is "lucky in having very few had 

 .spots of stork this season. Last year there were more but 

 club information and visitations are going to help keep 

 these had spots from spreading." We believe this state- 

 ment to be true and Mr. TTerr's point well taken. .\Urn- 

 ism does not appeal to nil natures, however, and it is 

 quite po.ssible, even in tliese days of "all for one and one 



for all," to find people who would strenuously object on 

 purely selfish grounds to participate in any policy tend- 

 ing to show their neighbor how he may become more 

 proficient and improve the quality of his product. We 

 have had, from time to time, accounts of these little 

 neighborhood tours of the Lancaster florists and they 

 liave always inspired the wish that many other com- 

 munities might do likewise, for, while it is very nice 

 and complacent to feel that one is turning out better 

 goods than all the rest, yet it should, also, be a matter 

 of pride for any business man to know that he has been 

 a co-partner in helping to bring to a high average stand- 

 ard the entire product of the section in which he is 

 located. 



The florists of Northampton, Mass., and 

 Pernicious other towns contiguous to Smith College 

 reformers l,ave had a rather disagreeable situation 

 forced upon them, according to the N, Y, 

 Evening Post, by a reform movement inaugurated by the 

 Students' Council against the sending or wearing of 

 flowers among the girls attending the college. It is 

 stated that the custom of sending each other flowers on 

 every possible occasion had become such a burden of 

 extravagance that it became necessary to call a halt and 

 take measures to create public opinion "against this 

 lavish sending of flowers." If tiiis be true, it is a pity. 

 Of all the expenditures, outside of those for the very 

 necessaries of life, flower buying should be among the 

 last to be molested. It has been repeatedly asserted 

 by those wlio have liad opportunity to see and know, that 

 the use of flowers in this country is insignificant as com- 

 pared with what prevails in all European countries, and 

 yet every little while some agitator who can't rest with- 

 out "reforming" something has to take a wallop at the 

 using of flowers for one purpose or the other. From 

 what we know of the Northampton florists, we don't 

 believe any of them are yet rolling in wealth as a result 

 of the lavish extravagance of the girls in flower buying. 



We frequently receive inquiries at this office 

 Helpful for information as to the best books avail- 

 reading able for the florist or gardener, on general 

 topics or on special subjects. For the man 

 who wishes to become well informed on botanical or 

 other scientific lines there are plenty of good books, but 

 as to really up-to-date matter that will be practically 

 useful to one who must earn his living by growing plants 

 and flowers, very little can be suggested. In these pro- 

 gressive times it does not take long for a book of that 

 sort to get thoroughly out of date. Bailey's Encyclo- 

 pedia, tiie best book published thus far for American 

 conditions, is already well along on a new edition, made 

 a necessity by the rapid advancement in floriculture 

 within the few years since it was first published. The 

 })lain truth is that no book can keep pace with a periodi- 

 cal such as Horticulture is, in value as an exponent of 

 tlie latest facts and practice in the culture of plants and 

 flowers and kindreS topics and as a safe guide to the 

 man who is ambitious to keep in the front rank in his 

 profession. Yet hardly a day passes that someone doe.? 

 not exclaim, "Oh, I never open a trade paper, I sub- 

 scribe for them all, of cour.se, hut that's as far as I go," 

 If all sucli could only be reached and induced to just 

 look carefully tlirough the columns of this or any other 

 issue of TToRTicrLTURE, he will be forcibly impressed 

 witli tbe variety and quality, the wide range of subjects 

 of immediate importance which are covered — not in a 

 superficial or merely theoretical manner, but by writers 

 who are "making good" themselves and are able and 

 willing to tell truthfully wliat thev have learned by 

 experience for the lienefit of their fellow horticulturists. 



