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HOKTICULTUHE 



February 18, 1911 



horticulture: 



TOL. XIII 



FEBRUARY 18, 1911 



NO. r 



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CONTENTS P*g* 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— New Rose, Silver Moon. 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Late 

 Houses — Tomatoes — Mushrooms — Parsley — Peppers 

 — G. H. Penson 205 



NEW ROSE SILVER MOON 205 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Carnations — Care of Ardisias — Ficus elas- 

 tica — Gladiolus — Hybrid Perpetual Roses — Lily of 

 the Vraiey for Easter— /o/oi /. M. FarrcU 207 



CARNATION POCAHONTAS— Illustrated 213 



CARNATION BONFIRE— Illustrated 213 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Horticultural Society of New York — Nassau County 

 Horticultural Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Baltimore — Ornamental Growers' Association — 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society — Joint Meeting of 



Illinois Societies 208 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Pittsburgh 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club, John W. Jones, por- 

 trait — New York Florists' Club — Springfield Florists' 



Club 209 



St. Louis Florist Club — Tuxedo Horticultural Society 

 — Florists' Club of Washington — Detroit Florist Club 

 — American Rose Society — Society of American 

 Florists — Club and Society Notes 210 



OBITUARY— Timothy McCarthy, portrait— Benj. Hoyt. 211 



DURING RECESS: 



Prospectus for New York Florists' Club Dinner — 

 Yonkers Horticultural Society — A Hot Time at St. 

 Louis — New York Bowlers — Chicago Bowlers — Phila- 

 delphia Bowlers — Buffalo vs. Rochester 214 



SEED TRADE: 



Canners' Convention — Canners' Peas Sold up to the 

 Limit — Rochester's Prospects — The Machinery and 

 Supplies Exhibits — Unreliable Seed Trade Informa- 

 tion — Personal — Notes — Incorporated ' 220 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 222 



Flowers by Telegraph 222 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit 225 



New York, Philadelphia 227 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



National Farm School, Doylestown, Pa 211 



Iowa's Proposed Nursery Law 211 



A Municipal Nursery 211 



Chicago Notes 212 



A Detroit Gentleman, E. A. Scribner, portrait 212 



Doctors of Plant Diseases 212 



The Freak Season is Open 212 



To Grow Chadwick Successfully 213 



Rose George Arends— F. M 213 



Continental Notes— F. M 213 



Catalogues Received 214 



Killarney Improved 217 



There's Money in this Rose 217 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 217 



A German Heating Expert 217 



Incorporated 219 



News Notes 222-223-227 



Personal 223 



European Novelties 233 



For Greenhouses at Cornell 234 



We are glad to learn from the annual 



"Something address of President C. L. Washburn of 



doing" the Illinois State Florists' Association, at 



Urbana, the other day, that this body had 

 joined in a successful protest to the Illinois Board of 

 Railway and Warehouse Commissioners against the ex- 

 orbitant rates charged by the express companies. This 

 is practical work witli a tangible, direct advantage to the 

 horticulturists of the State and any man who, participat- 

 ing in the benefits thus gained, still withhokls his moral 

 and financial support from such an Association can 

 havdly expect to retain the respect of his fellows. 



Costly 

 inaction 



A pernicious 

 bill 



A correspondent writes to us strongly con- 

 demning the apathy of the flower trade as 

 a whole as compared with the concerted ac- 

 tivity in other lines of commercial industry 

 in holding up their products in their most attractive 

 form before the public eye. He is everlastingly right 

 when he suggests that much of the money now spent for 

 valentines and birthday gifts of one kind or another 

 might, by the use of modern publicity methods, be di- 

 verted to the florist's pocket. It is said that the furni- 

 ture men's appropriation for such purposes is no less 

 than a quarter of a million dollars annually. Our efforts 

 are confined to a few flower shows and in these, in the 

 majority of cases, suggestion and education in the use 

 of flowers is the last thing thought of. We hope the 

 day is not far off when the flower and plant trade will 

 wake up to their deplorable remissness and, putting aside 

 individual interests for the time being, get together to 

 make a noise on behalf of their business as other people 

 do. 



The proposition to raise the postage 

 rates on magazines and certain classes 

 of periodicals, which include the trade 

 papers, is one wliich naturally causes 

 much uneasiness in the publication offices. Its full 

 import is, however, not generally realized by the people- 

 among whom these papers circulate and thus the tremen- 

 dous restraining influence which might be brought to 

 bear upon members of Congress is lost to those who are 

 fighting this battle on behalf of their subscribers as well 

 as for themselves. For, be it known, that if this law 

 should be enacted the extra cost must eventually be met 

 by an increase in subscription rates all along the line. 

 No man who expects to succeed in his business can now 

 think of getting along without his trade paper. To it 

 he looks for that technical instruction and guidance, that 

 broad-gauge knowledge which is indispensable under the- 

 business conditions wliich prevail today. Its advertis- 

 ing pages are fully as useful to Mm in this respect as its 

 reading columns. In its every department the trade 

 journal is the foremost medium in the dissemination of 

 practical knowledge and every attempt to hamper and 

 embarrass it should be promptly combatted by the tliou- 

 sands who are its beneficiaries, whose willing servant it 

 is, and who should now in its hour of persecution rally to- 

 its support by appealing to their representatives and sen- 

 ators to oppose this uncalled-for discrimination against 

 one of our most efficient agencies for tlie spread of useful 

 knowledge. 



