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horticulture: 



TM.. XVIII DECEMBER 27, 1913 NO 26 



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CONTENTS page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Phalaenopsis Aphrodite. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Sweet Peas — Easter Lilies — Mignonette — Orchids 

 — Propagation — Starting Bulbous Stock — John J. M. 

 Farrell 897 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— The 

 Pot-Tree House — Peach Buds Dropping — Knots — 

 Fig Houses — King George Melons — Winter Packing — 

 Happy New Year — George H. Penson 898 



CARNATION TROUBLES— Carnation and Antirrhi- 

 num Disease — John J. M. FarreU—Vfeak Stems — 

 Carnation Rust — Gustave Thommen 899 



PHALAENOPSIS APHRODITE— M. J. Pope 900 



SPORTS AND REVERSION— B. 0. Orpet 900 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Propagating 

 Bench — Sand — Shading the Houses — Bottom Heat — 

 Firming the Sand — Arthur C. Ruzicka 901 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW AT THE UNIVERSITY 

 OF MICHIGAN— Jfr.s. Francis A'ing- Illustrated 903 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 903 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lancaster County Florists' 

 Club — American Gladiolus Society — Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists— American Sweet Pea Society— National 

 Association of Gardeners 904 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES 905 



OBITUARY — Timothy O'Connor— Harry Francis — Rich- 

 ard Frohberg— J. C. Williams 905 



SEED TRADE — New Zealand Garden Peas 910 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Steamer Departures 913 



Flowers by Telegraph 914 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 917 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 919 



WEED EXTERMINATION— Dr. G. E. Stone 924 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Warning ^"^ 



Regulations for Staging Orchids »"» 



Catalogues Received 906 



The "Knocker" 90b 



Business Troubles 91d 



New Corporations 91d 



News Notes 91J 



Personal 



Chicago Notes— Philadelphia Notes 915 



A Silver Wedding 919 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 9-b 



Representative John E. Beck of Chelsea 

 Sunday has filed a petition and bill in the Massa- 

 gardening chusetts Legislature that it shall be law- 

 ful for any man who maintains a garden 

 appurtenant to his house for the purpose of raising flow- 



ers, fruit, or vegetables for the use of his houEehold and 

 not for sale, to work in the same on Sunday. That is 

 good so far as it goes. So long as a man does nothing 

 in his gardening operations to disturb the Sunday quiet 

 and annoy the neighborhood we see no reason why he 

 may not be permitted legally to care for the welfare of 

 his plants to the same extent that he is free to attend to 

 the wants of his domestic animals, and this liberty should 

 not be limited to the man who does not sell his product. 

 The crops of the latter require the same attention and 

 care as those of his amateur neighbor and the proposed 

 distinction strikes us as most unjust. 



With this issue Horticdltdeb closes its- 

 Happy eighteenth volume and its last word for 

 New Year 1913 {§ here and now said. Before our 

 next number appears one more New Year's 

 Day will have passed and friends everywhere will have 

 exchanged the compliments of the season in kindly 

 reciprocal wishes for health, happijiess and prosperity 

 during the year to come. So it is fitting that we, too, 

 should at this time join in the general felicitation and 

 extend to one and all our sincere good wishes that suc- 

 cess may crown their labors, that peace and plenty and 

 all the comforts of mind and body may be theirs in 

 over-running measure. 



"Into each life some rain must fall, 

 Some days must be dark and dreary." 



But remembrance and reflection must convince us all 

 that the year entei'ed upon twelve months ago, while it 

 may not have brought to us all we hoped for and has 

 contributed its share of discouragements and reverses, 

 has not been unkind. Nothing has been that might not 

 have been worse and so it will be all through life if we 

 only choose to see it in that light. We should never 

 forget that he is most truly happy who attains his great- 

 est happiness through making others happy and this 

 principle may well be made the corner stone of all our 

 New Year resolutions for 1914. 



One of the best known gladiolus special- 



A gladiolus jsts in this country has told us that his 



problem fu-jn had now decided to discontinue the 



growing of standard varieties in large 

 quantities, because of the serious slashing of prices by 

 the Hollanders. He asserts that "there is more money 

 in raising potatoes now than such gladiolus varieties as 

 America, Mrs. Francis King, etc." So far as our 

 observation goes the stocks sent out by the Hollanders 

 are much inferior to the American bulbs. Of course, 

 the people who ai-e importing them will find this out 

 by experience and after a time we may hope to see those 

 things adjust themselves, but in the meantime it looks 

 as if a great many American growers may have to quit 

 the business. We believe some effort was made by the 

 American gladiolus growers to induce the tariff fanners 

 to give them some protection but they did not ac- 

 complish anything. As to the imported bulbs the losses 

 during transit amount to considerable, some varieties 

 being worse than others in this respect. Then there are 

 some that appear all right when received but afterwards 

 either give up the ghost entirely or fail to flower. If 

 the bulbs have sweated any in transit they are prac- 

 tically spoiled. So, we would advise that if you must 

 buy Holland stock it will be wise to insist on a guarantee 

 of arrival in first-class condition. But the best course 

 by far is to stick to the home-grown product. 



