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HORTICULTURE 



VOL. IXVII JUNE I, l»18 NO. 22 



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HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLrSTUATloN Orooiloxa rcpla. 



VKOETABI^: crLTIKK I'lunting Out— Later Sow- 

 inKS — WItloof Chicory Brus.scls Sprouts and Celery 

 The June iiustle — i/i</ni Johnson 529 



THE I...\TE MAURICK LEVAQUE DE VILMORIN— 

 C. S. Sannnl 531 



OniTl'ARY— .Maurice l>. de Vllmorin, portrait— Mau- 

 rice HendberK- Charles W. Collins 531 



BKPECTS OF THE SEVERE \MNTER AT THE AR- 

 NOLD ARHORETIM 532 



THE GARDENERS PLACE— Po/ncA: Fan 533 



CLVBS AND SOCIETIES— Toronto Horticultural So- 

 ciety— MeethiKs .Next Week— American Dahlia So- 

 ciety — American Gladiolus Society 533 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN riX)RISTS— The Publicity 

 Cam i)aiKn 534 



PUHLICirv VIA RED CROSS— KImcr J. Weaver 535 



SEED TRADE— Wholesale Seedmen's League— Canary 

 Island Onion Seed Crop Outlook — Prickly Seeded 

 Spinach — Seed to Farmers at Cost 536 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Pound of Energy with an Ounce of Talent — Henry 

 Penn 538 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, Wash- 

 ington 541 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Philadelphia, Boston, Rochester, New York, Chicago, 

 Washinfiton 544-545 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



.American Lilacs 534 



Early Peonies — C. .s'. Harrison 534 



C. S. Harrison I^ses His Sight 534 



The Things that .Make a Soldier Great, poetry 535 



Business Troubles 539 



How Liberty Loan Missed $40,000,000 543 



Visitors' Register 543 



Rotterdam Statistics 545 



William Plumb, portrait 546 



Catalogues Received— Patents Granted 546 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 546 



News Notes— The Flag, poetry 546 



\Vu must again warn the trade against 



Beware of |ia\irig money to allegeil traveling 



the swindler representatives for subscription or 



other purpose connected with Horti- 

 cfLTCRE. ,'\ com]ilaint similar to those heretofore 

 mentioned has been received from a florist in .\lexan- 

 andria, Va.. that he had paid for subscription to a man 

 giving the name of George Harris who also jiromised 

 him a "Book of Floral Designs" as a premium, but 

 neither i>aper nor boolc had been received. Hortictjl- 

 TFRE employs no traveling solicitors and does not offer 

 premiums of any kind, .^ny one representing other- 

 wise and attempting to collect money for any purpose 

 on Hortici-lture's a<count is a fraud and should be 

 turned 6\er to the pohce. 



We have seen a number of newspaper 

 Super-wheat notes extolling an alleged new and won- 

 derful accomplishment of Luther Bur- 

 bank — the production of a "Super-wheat" so called, 

 which being perfected just at this time when the world 

 is hungering for wheat, is enthusiastically assumed to 

 place that much advertised gentleman's name in a still 

 loftier niche than ever before among the benefactors of 

 the world, ^^liat we do not know about wheat would 



till a very large i»ook but wc gather from the aforciufii- 

 lioneil comments that tlie "Wizard" claims tu have pro- 

 duced a wheat wliicii is suitable for the climate of Cal 

 ifornia, also tiiat it can l)e grown successfully anywhere 

 from jtolc to pole. But cxiterionce of course is the onl\ 

 thing that will determine that. From inquiries anion;.' 

 ac(jiniintances that know somctliing ai)out farm seed- 

 v.c learn that tliere is a wheat which has been going the 

 rouiuls for a number of years and wliicii is a very heavy 

 yielder, but that it has been discarded because it cannot 

 be milled. Evidently Mr. liurbank has corrected that 

 fault. As to the boasted yield, would say that a whea' 

 grower in New Jersey several years ago ])roduied 4-' 

 bushels to the acre. We beliive that in France and 

 Belgium, and also England and Ireland, 40 to .lo 

 l)usl)cls of wheal per acre are jiroduced annually. One 

 grower from the West has stated that he saw wheat 

 produced in Idaho at the rate of 100 bushels per acre. 

 There was a sln;af of it exhibited in Madison .S<|uare 

 Garden, Xew York, which after tiic show was over, was 

 exhibited in the window of Peter Henderson & Co. for 

 a couple of years, so that this reported yield of 40 

 bushels to the acre for Burbank's production could hard- 

 ly class his variety as a "Super-wheat." Where only 1.") 

 bushels to the acre are pro<luced (which the Burl)ank 

 item mentions as an average yield), it can be reasonably 

 assumed it is because of unsuitable soil — not enough 

 fertilizer in it. 



We have had the pleasure of reading 

 Practical a most interesting letter recei\ed by 

 philanthropy 'S\y, Frederic R. Xewbold, treasurer 

 of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York, from Jlrs. Mortimer Forest who is now in 

 France representing that society and several other 

 Societies and Garden Clubs in the work of endeavoring 

 to rehabilitate agriculturally by the distribution and 

 planting of fruit trees in tlie orchards and vineyanls of 

 the devastated battle-scarred districts of Fiance, a labor 

 on which, however, little can i)e done ]>rofitably, now 

 that much of the ground to be restored is being fought 

 over again. Attention is called to American superior- 

 ity in many departments of agriculture and an agri- 

 cultural school to teach American methods will i)rob- 

 ably be established as soon as the war is over. Mr. 

 Newbold is also an indefatiguable worker in the sup- 

 port of the .\nierican Fund for French Wounded. This 

 great charity is imdertaking to supply 4200 hos|)itals 

 in France. The Red Cross has turned over to this 

 agency the looking-up of United States soldiers who 

 are scattered among the Frencli hospitals, tmdcr the 

 direction of Mrs. B. G. Lathrop, a co-worker with Mrs. 

 Forest. The experiences of these women as related 

 in the letter received, detailing the privations of the 

 jieople who have been driven destitute from their homes 

 are most pathetic and heart-touching and it is not 

 surprising that, on hearing the recital of these details 

 of the agony that is being suffered there hour after 

 hour and day after day, with no end in sight, the New 

 York Florists' Club promptly followed the example of 

 the New York Horticultural Society and appropriated 

 from its funds the cost of an automobile to carry nurses 

 from one hospital to another in that stricken countrv'. 

 Other instances of resultful practical generosity on the 

 part of the floricultural people are given in the news 

 notes in this issue from Lancaster, Pa., and Boston. 

 These are typical: of the entire country. The Red 

 Cross workers liave no better friends in any class than 

 among the florists. Let us hope this will not be for- 

 gotten when the florist needs some one to stand up for 

 him. 



