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HORTICULTURE 



November 12, 1910 



horticulture: 



VOL. XII 



NOVEMBER 12, 1910 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Aster Novae-Anglia; Lil 

 Fardel. .„, 



HARDY FALL ASTERS— RicJwrd Rothc <>hl 



GOOD PLANTS FOR APARTMENTS— f. Moore 661 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON FORCING VEGETABLES 

 AND FRUIT— Cucumbers— Vines in Pots — Straw- 

 berries— Tomatoes— Tlie Vine Border— (7. H. Pcnson- 661 



OSMANTHUS AQUIFOLIUM— .-). £. Thatcher 662 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Cinerarias (Illus.)— Genistas— Japan Lilies 

 — Pansies— Spira?a .Japonica— Tulips and Von Sion— 



John J. M. Farrcll ;,-/-r-:-i til 



CYPRIPEDIUM KING GEORGE V— Illustrated 665 



THE EXHIBITIONS; 



Rochester, N. Y.— Lenox, Mass 664 



Tarrytown Horticultural 665 



Connecticut Horticultural— Philadelphia— Buffalo ... 666 

 Indianapolis— Huntington— Washington— Department^ 

 of Agriculture 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Worcester 

 County Horticultural Society, E. W. Breed, portrait 

 —Detroit Florist Club— Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America — New Orchids Certificated 666b 



THREE NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Illustrated 666c 



DURING RECESS: 



New York. Cincinnati and Chicago Bowlers 666c 



FLORISTS' TELEGRAPH DELIVERY—/. A. J'alen- 



tinc 66M 



CATTLEYA BUDS ROTTING— £. 0. Orpet 66 1 



SEED TRADE— About Peas— Bean Prices— Contract 



Growing Prices on Peas— Notes 672 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 674 



New Flower Stores— Flowers by Telegraph 675 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago. Cincinnati 677 



New Orleans, New Y'ork, Philadelphia 679 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Lotus peliorhynchus 666a 



New Chrysanthemums, Buffalo Notes— Incorporated. 666c 



Government Positions Open 666d 



Bulb Auction Sales— Notes— JU. H. Adsctt 666d 



Appreciation, poetry 666d 



Practical Information for Florists — Personal 667 



News Notes 667-668-675 



Catalogues Received 668 



Chicago Notes 669 



Cincinnati Notes — Philadelphia Notes 675 



In Bankruptcy 679 



Fire Record — Patents Granted 686 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 686 



l'l:c I'acilic Garden sitggests tliat 



The sentimental in the nnr?ervmen"s catalogues would 



catalogue making ^-^iji jn value by the insertion of 



a few poems relative to the plants 

 or flowers offered and expresses the hope that we may 

 yet have catalogues containing something more than the 

 prices of plants. Well, there are some catalogues which 

 do give very mnch more than the price and bare descrip- 

 tions of the goods offered but these are not so numerous 

 as they might be and it is possible that the Pacific Gar- 



den is making a good point in its plea for more of them. 

 The people who care most for beauty in plants and flow- 

 ers are those who will also appreciate any appeal to the 

 finer sentiments whether through poetry, prose or pic- 

 tures, and the more a catalogue incites perusal the near- 

 er it comes to catching a customer. 



Speaking of sentiment, however, we 

 Sentiment in think it is sometimes very much over- 

 the back yard done as in the title of an address re- 

 cently delivered in Lynn, Mass., by a 

 Boston lady on the subject of Glorified Back Yards ! 

 There are hundreds of back yards — and front yards, too 

 — in every large community which are no credit to the 

 neighborhood and any concerted movement in the in- 

 terest of order and cleanliness in such places and tend- 

 ing to awaken the "civic aesthetic consciousness" de- 

 serves our hearty support. But the back yard has its 

 uses as a back yard. There is a limit to its aesthetic 

 treatment and glorification if it is to serve its purpose 

 in a practical way. Is there not just a bit of danger of 

 "flying too high" in such matters and turning a whole- 

 some philanthropic movement into a hysterical fad ? 



We often wonder why so many florists 

 Neglected ignore and neglect utterly to take ad- 

 opportunities vantage of the excellent opportunities 

 for business advancement afforded by 

 the flower shows in their midst. Not long ago we had 

 occasion to visit an important exhibition in a certain 

 city and, being in doubt as to the location of the hall, 

 stepped into a prominent florist store to inquire. The 

 inmates informed us that they didn't even know there 

 vyas a flower show- in progress and indicated by their 

 manner that they didn't care. This is not an excep- 

 tional case, either, as many of our readers well know. 

 We cannot conceive of snch indifference to their own 

 interests on the part of the I'epresentative dealers in any 

 other commodity under similar circumstances. Thei-e 

 are many ways, surely, in which the flower dealer and 

 decorator can obtain valuable publicity by taking an 

 active part in thepe enterprises and one would suppose 

 thev would fairlv jump at tlie opportunitv. But thev 

 don't. 



Osmanthus aquiFolium 



Altliougli this interesting broad-leaved evergreen has 

 been known for many years to science it is far from 

 common and at the present time one can find it in few 

 gardens even where shrubs are a specialty. This may 

 be owing to the fact that there is some doubt about its 

 absolute hardiness, but I believe if the right position is 

 selected it will succeed and prove a desirable addition 

 to our list of evergreens. The foliage of this shrub 

 closely resembles that of the common European holly, 

 Ilex ax_|uifolium, except that the leaves are not so lus- 

 trous on the upper surface, but they are of about the 

 same size and very spiny. The white flowers also re- 

 mind one of the holly and are sweetly scented. There 

 is, however, no affinity, Ilex belonging to Aquifoliaceae 

 and Osmanthus to Oleaceae. 



It seems probable that this ornamental shrub will 

 prove hardy in Massachusetts gardens, as it has been 

 safely wintered in the Arboretum without any protec- 

 tion, and I recently saw a good specimen in a garden 

 at Magnolia which had stood out for five or six years 

 with only the protection of surrounding bushes. A 

 loam'y soil and a position shaded from the hottest sun 

 should meet this shrub's requirements. 



Arnold Arboretum. 



