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HORTICULTURE 



November 22, 1913 



horticulture: 



VOL. XVIII NOVEMBER 22, 1913 NO 21 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Chry-santhenium Display at 

 Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, 111. 



NOTES OX CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Adiantums — Cyclamen — Lily of the Valley — Orchids 

 — Pot Roses for Easter — ^t'reparations for Another 

 Season— JoftH J. il. Fanell 697 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Clean- 

 ing the Early Peach House — Starting Pol Vines — 

 Forcing Rhubarb and Asparagus — Prepare for Pot- 

 Trees — Protect the Outside Walls— Geo/f/e H. Pensoti 698 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Holiday Time- 

 Holding the Plants Back— Wood for Propagation— 

 The Fire in the Propagator — Arlhitr C. liuzUka. . . . 699 



GARDENERS AND LOCKJAW— £<?ui/i Jenkins 699 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Rochester Notes 701 



Holyoke 715 



DRACAENA ROTHIAXA— Illustrated 701 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 



Club of Boston "04 



Society of American Florists — St. Louis Florist Club 705 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society — Lecture at New- 

 port — Club and Society Notes 720 



SEED TRADE — W'alter Motts Notes by the Way — 

 New Corporations — Notes 706 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 708 



Flowers by Telegraph 709 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, St. 



Louis '^13 



Washington 715 



OBITUARY— C. L. Hoag— William Galloway 722 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Hardy Salvia 705 



Publications Received — Fires 706 



News Notes 709-715 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 710 



BusineFS Troubles 710 



Personal 711 



Washington Notes 715 



Cover Illustration 715 



To Destroy Caterpillar Rings 720 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 722 



A World Wide Business— Patents Granted 722 



Rumor lui? il llial Mes.si 



The big Waite and Duff are to discontinue the 



show plants growing of the prodigious specimen 



chrysanthemum phints for whicli they 

 liave long been renowned and whicli have been such great 

 attrac'ti(.ns at the fall exliihitions in New York and 

 thereabouts. If this be true it will be a great loss to the 

 spectacular fcide of these exhibitions. We hope to see 

 solid inducements given to encourage them to continue 

 the exercise of their man'ellous ability in the growing of 

 such truly wonderful plants, the equal of which have 



jiruljaijly jievcr been seen elsewhere, here or abroad. 

 There was a time when the Boston shows excelled in 

 tliis particular line but the old spirit of rivalry between 

 .-killful gardeners aided and abetted by equal ardour on 

 tlic part of their employers, has aijparently died out 

 completely and it is now several years since anything 

 exceptional in plant growing and training has been seen 

 at the Bo.ston exhibitions. Of course, it goes without 

 saying that the premiums offered for such productions 

 have no relation to the cost of growing them, and in 

 many cases the first prize will hardly pay cost of trans- 

 ])oi'talion. 



In a recent letter, J. I. Donlan, recog- 

 Two kinds of nized as a man of intelligence and 

 "shows" taste in floral exhibition matters, 



writes, "Your remarks anent attrac- 

 tions at shows in your last issue were to the point. If 

 we jiiust have these lamentable ways of staging things 

 let them be confined to one day to be known as Growers" 

 1 )ay, then liave the materials given over to experts to ar- 

 range in the most attractive manner." We are not pre- 

 pared to say that Mr. Donlan's suggestion is entirely 

 practical but in principle it is in accord with what we 

 liave been preaching these many years. Our communi- 

 cation from Rochester relative to the great popular suc- 

 cess of tlie show in that city, which appears in this issue, 

 would seem to indicate tliat the enterprising florists and 

 gardeners of that section have succeeded in solving the 

 question of public support for floral exhibitions on ex- 

 actly the plan we have been advocating. Pictures we 

 liave seen of the exhibition in Chicago, held at the same 

 time, show the opposite extereme — a growers' show on 

 time-honored lines simply. Being in a large degree a 

 trade affair on account of the participation of the C. S. 

 A., jjcriiaps no other course was entirely feasible at 

 Chicago on this occasion but we are not at all surprised 

 to hear that the attendance of the public was very slim. 



Our seed trade readers will be interested 

 "Free seeds" to know that in the estimates recently 



submitted to Congress it has been rec- 

 ommended that the distribution of ordinary vegetable 

 and flower seeds be discontinued and that the part of the 

 $300,000 heretofore devoted to this use be applied to 

 some better purpose. If Congress sees fit to accept the 

 recommendation, we are informed that it is tlic inten- 

 tion of the Department of Agriculture to give particular 

 attention to the securing and distribution of new and val- 

 uable seeds and plants, including forage crop seeds, 

 whose character and. quality will he thoroughly known 

 and tested : and pains will be taken in every instance to 

 see that a sutiicieut supply is sent to make it worth while 

 for the individual farmer to make an experiment. 

 Apart from the very natural disapproval by the seed 

 trade of the seed distribution as carried on in recent 

 years, there is no question that from the most favoring 

 standpoint it has been a superfluity and an unnecessary 

 drain on the government purse. This collecting and 

 giving away of seeds often of a grade far inferior to the 

 stock sent out by reputable seedsmen has put the De- 

 ]iartment in a ridiculous light before the public and it- 

 discontinuance would be hailed with satisfaction by 

 many other than the seed trade people. While on the 

 subject we would say that the work of collecting and 

 disseminating seeds and plants or experimental pur- 

 poses, as conducted by the Ofiice of Foreign Seed and 

 Plant Introduction, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 appears to have been wisely conceived and well carried 

 out. 



