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HOETICULTURE 



November 15, 1913 



HORTIC ULTURi: 



TOL. XVIIl NOVEMBER 15, 1913 flO 20 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford Mi. 

 WM. J. STEWART. Editor and Manager. 



■ntered as second-class matter December 8, 1804, at tbe Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., onder tbe Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Pa^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Gold iledal Exhibit of 

 Single Chrysanthemums at Madison, N. J., by Chas. 

 H. Totty. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Be- 

 gonias Gloire de Lorraine — Allamandas — Freesias — 

 Rhododendrons — Paper Whites and Roman Hyacinths 

 — Protecting the Hardy Border — John J. M. Farrell. . 661 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Pruning 

 Peach Trees — Protect Strawberries — Late Grapes 

 Hanging — Vine Eyes for Propagating — Setting To- 

 matoes — George U. Benson 662 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Grading for New 

 Houses — Jlildew — Keeping the Plants Resistant — 

 Watering in Cold Wet Weather — Lime and Sulphur 

 — Lining the Boxes — The Winter's Coal — Arthw 

 C. Ruzicka 663 



UP TO THE MINUTE PUBLICITY 664 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Chicago — Stamford 665 



Tarrytown — American Institute — Glen Cove, Illus- 

 trations 666 



Rochester 667 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society- 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — New York 

 Florists' Club — Worcester County, Mass., Horticul- 

 tural Society ' 667 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Banquet 

 of National Association of Gardeners, Illustration — 

 Lancaster County Florists' Club — Connecticut Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Minneapolis Florist Club 668 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 670 



Society of American Florists — Notes 672 



OBITUARY— Adam Rothar— John Brodrib — Albert Dir- 

 wanger 672 



SEED TRADE] — The Potato Prospect — Seed Beans — 

 — Canners' Convention — "Future" Peas — Notes 674 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 676 



Flowers by Telegraph 677 



New Flower Stores 679 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 681 



New York, Washington, St. Louis 683 



DURING RECESS— Oyster Roast at Washington, D. 

 C — A Detroit Outing 688 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Corporations 672 



News Notes 672-677 



Catalogues Received 674 



Washington Notes 678 



Chicago Notes — Business Troubles 679 



A Model Rose Establishment 679 



City and Town Planning Conference 683 



Personal 683 



Patents Granted 688 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 690 



Our new.s notes from Minneapolis inform 



Looking our reader.? that Theodore Wirth, assiduous 



ahead and enerjretio a? ever, has already under way 



a plan for getting together a goodly repre- 

 sentation from Minnesota to attend the S. A. F. Con- 

 vention at Boston next August. Mr. Wirth's scheme 

 whereby the necessary funds may be accumulated for 

 each individual without being burdensome, will perhaps 

 be found worthy of imitation by the flori.sts of other 

 places so remote from Boston a,? to make the expense 

 of the convention trip a formidable obstacle. All will 

 he pleased to learn that the strenuous president-elect of 

 the national society has recovered from his painful acci- 

 dent and is in the harness again, lively as ever. 



We fear that the weather man has 



The Cleveland administered a cruel blow to the 



blizzard Cleveland Flower Show, for which so 



extensive preparation and generous 

 provision had been made. It is ditHcult to believe, as 

 Boston saunters along under a cloudless sky, that the 

 telegraphic reports of wild gales' and drifting snow, and 

 suffering and death to the west and south of us can 

 possibly be true. Boston will undoubtedly get her share" 

 before the winter has gone, but should be thankful that 

 she has at least escaped this record-breaker for Novem- 

 ber. That it should hit our Cleveland friends just as 

 flower show arrangements are being completed is a 

 grievous misfortune at best. We sincerely hope it will 

 turn out less so than seems likely at this time. 



Ever since the issuance of its first 

 Horticulture's number, now nearly nine years since, 

 way Horticulture has made an annual 



gain in circulation, but it remained for 

 the present year to reach the high record for new sub- 

 .-icribers. This has been uniformly noticeable ever since the 

 beginning of the year and frequently a new subscription 

 is accompanied by an appreciative word for the quality 

 of the reading matter presented from week to week. The 

 character of Horticultube's reading contents rather 

 than its quantity, has been our first concern always. 

 Old-time readers of this paper need no reminder of the 

 ]>rinciples on which it has based and will continue to 

 base its appeal for support and the respect and confi- 

 dence of the horticultural profession. But we hope the 

 new readers who may peruse this note will take time 

 to look further into the pages that precede and follow 

 and consider what it means to the worker, striving to 

 advance, to have at his disposal every week such a com- 

 pendium of practical knowledge and helpful informa- 

 tion as he will find there. Horticulture has never 

 entered the fight for merely big circulation at any sacri- 

 fice, but we shall be glad to sec a continuance of the 

 sort of growth which the past year has given us and 

 would express the hope that those who like the kind of 

 service Horticulture is rendering will do whatever 

 they can to add to the number of our readers with the 

 coming of the new year. We offer no premiums or other 

 inducement except full value for the money in useful 

 reading matter and the advertisements of the most 

 trustworthy "live-wire" houses in all departments of 

 the trade. 



Up-to-the-Minute Publicity 



The introduction of a new flower or exploiting of any 

 special line of plants as now conducted is no small un- 

 dertaking. For instance we find scarcely a show this 

 fall, from New England on the east to Chicago on the 

 west, where the name of C. H. Totty does not appear as 

 an exhibitor of new types of semi-double and single 

 chrysanthemums. The expense of packing, transporta- 

 tion, .staging, special prizes, etc., not to mention the 

 largo quantity of material required to put up a notice- 

 able exhibit in each ca.se, all count up. Add the cost of 

 newspaper advertising, cataloguing, etc., and it is not 

 (lifficult to sec why so few raisers of new things nowa- 

 days undertake to introduce their own productions as 

 formerly. Mr. Totty is not the only one who is thus 

 enterprising, but these present remarks are prompted bv 

 the display staged by Mr. Totty in his home town which 

 we have given (ho iwsition on our front cover this week 

 in compliment to the prowess and zeal so well displayed 

 in his country-wide campaign. 



