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HORTICULTUEE 



November 29, 1913 



hortic ulture: 



T»L. XVIII NOVEMBER 29. 1913 NO 22 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Fuiikia lanceolata albo- 



marginata. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Carnations — Poinsettlas — Gardenias — Schizan- 

 thus — Veranda Boxes for Winter — Verbenas — John J. 



M. Farrell 729 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Start 

 Early Vinery — Early Peach House — Strawberries — 



Sow More Melons — George H. Pensen 730 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Sod Heaps- 

 Picking Up the Dead Leaves — The Christmas Crop — 

 Heavy Wrapping Paper — Liquid Manure — Arthur C. 



Ruzicka 731 



FUNKIAS OR PLANTAIN LILIES— i?Jcftar(J Rothe, 



Illustrated 733 



ORIGINAL GARDENERS— G^rffC F. Stewart 734 



LOCK.IAW— R. r. McGorum 734 



CHRYSANTHEMUM WILLIAM TURNER, Illustrated 734 

 THE EXmniTIONS— The Cleveland Show— The Port- 

 land Show, illustrated 735 



Chrysanthcnuini Show at Minneapolis Park Green- 

 houses, Illustration — The Poughkeppsie Show 736 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE- II'. //. Adsett 736 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society — 

 American Sweet Pea Society — Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety of America — Club and Society Notes 737 



A TULIP BED. Illustrated 738 



ANGIOPTERIS EVECTA— H'. .1. Manda 738 



SEED TRADE- German Notes— Notes 742 



THE GARDENER'S PLACE— V'jrton 7'. Sherwood 742 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Now Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 745 



Flowers liy Telegraph 746 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago 749 



Cincinnati, New York. Philadelphia 751 



St. Louis. Washington 756 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Avery— Charles W. Blatchley — 



John do Wolf — Harley James 758 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The First Snow Fall, Poetry 736 



Number, Jlease? Geo. C. Watson 736 



New Corporations 738 



Philadelphia Nates 738 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 738 



Two Caterpillars That Have Troubled Florists 739 



Fireblight 739 



Catalogue Received 739 



Personal 740 



News Notes 738-746 



Fires 742 



Chicago Notes 747 



Publications Received 756 



On the subject of hardy primulas, one 



A valuable of our contemporaries mentions four 



primrose species as of especial value, but without 



inclutJing the one -which has proved 



itself to be the best for this climate, viz., Primula pul- 



verulenta. This species produces flower spikes fully 

 three feet tall and bearing seven to eleven whorls of 

 large dark red flowers. The peculiar powdery deposit 

 on the stems and foliage, whence its specific name, is an 

 additional attraction. It is one of E. H. Wilson's ear- 

 liest finds on a Veitch expedition to the Chino-Thibetan 

 border-land. It is very floriferous, remaining in flower 

 from six to eight weeks. A portrait of this primula 

 was published in Horticulture two years ago. 



It is a pleasure and an inspiration to 



Public spirit; see how the city florists in Cleveland 



a big asset got together with one common impulse 



to help make their flower show a suc- 

 cess. This fact, together with good leadership and a 

 wise and liberal publicity policy, appears to have been 

 the key to the pronounced success which was achieved 

 in the face of what looked to be almost insurmountable 

 difficulties. The spirit of loyalty to one's home town 

 should be more generally cultivated. There are places 

 where it is a very weak and sickly cutting. Prejudices 

 must be ignored, old grouches forgotten and the imme- 

 diate selfish interest of the individual must be pushed 

 aside in the shoulder to shoulder alliance and organized 

 effort for the common welfare, if we are to do our full 

 duly to the community in which our lot is cast and 

 eventually to ourselves. "Every man for himself" is a 

 slogan that will ever conduce to civic dry-rot and de- 

 cadence, and the man who makes this ungenerous senti- 

 ment the guide of his business policy w^ill surely have 

 to bear his share of the retrogression which is the in- 

 variable penalty for a community which is not a com- 

 munity but only an aggregation of individuals. 



A fact beyond question is that we in this 

 Get busy country are on the verge of the greatest 

 gardening revival America has ever seen. 

 The unprecedented demand for hardy herbaceous ma- 

 terial, ornamental shrubbery and evergreens, also gar- 

 den bulbs, etc., as for instance the Darwin tulips and 

 narcissi, is a sufficient index to the horticultural ten- 

 dency of the times. Foreign houses are more quick to 

 see it than the majority of our home establishments and 

 are zealously preparing to get as much as possible of 

 the lion's share of the business that is coming. If 

 loyalty to the business enterprises of one's home town or 

 section is a commendable -virtue so also is loyalty to the 

 business interests of one's cotmtry in a broader sense. 

 As good Americans we do not like to see money going 

 steadily out of this country for goods that are being pro- 

 duced in equal quality on our own soil but when, as is 

 often the case, our nurserymen are unable to supply the 

 goods, then the fault lies at their own door. Horticul- 

 ture frequently has requests for information as to 

 where this or that new and desirable plant may be ob- 

 tained and we are often regretfully compelled to direct 

 the inquirer to foreign sources of supply. There is 

 every inducement in the situation and out-look for our 

 nurserymen to take a more advanced position. It 

 ought not to be ever true that material of this sort, on 

 which propagation is simple, cannot bo procured from 

 American sources. 



