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HORTICULTURE 



March 18, 1911 



HORTICULTURE. 



TOL. XIII 



MARCH 18, 1911 



NO. 11 



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CONTENTS P»B« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Tea Rose Harry Kirk. 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Inarch- 

 ing and Grafting — Thinning Grapes — Strawberries — 

 Melons — Peas and Dwarf Bush Beans — G. H. Pen- 



SOfl ••••••••••••• •••• oDo"oD4 



THE CULTIVATION OP GARDENIAS FOR WINTER 

 BLOOMING — Arthur Griffin 354 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Achinienes — Cannas — Chrysanthemums- 

 Double Pyrethrum — The Perennial Border — The 

 Propagation of Dalilias — Joliii I. i\f- Farrcll 355 



THE outlook; COUNTRYWARD— L;77c;-/V H. Bailey. 357 



NATIONAIj flower show— Convention Program 

 of Society of American Florists and Affiliated Or- 

 ganizations 358 



Our British Visitors 359 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Buffalo Florists' Club— St. Louis Retail Florists' As- 

 sociation 359 



New York Florists' Club — Tuxedo Horticultural So- 

 ciety — American Peony Society — Yonkers Horticul- 

 tural Society — Huntington Horticultural and Agricul- 

 tural Society — Tarrytown Horticultural Society 360 



.American Rose Society — .American Carnation So- 

 ciety 361 



OBITUARY— William Webster— B. F. Washington 361 



DURING RECESS — Greater New York Florists' Asso- 

 ciation — New York Bowlers — Buffalo vs. Rochester.. 362 



SEED TRADE- Dodder in Chilean Red Clover Seed — 

 A Peculiar Possibility — About Tulip Bulb Prices- 

 Notes 368 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 370 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 371 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 373 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 375 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



Visiting Florists at Dreer's — Illustration 359 



Philadelphia Notes 362 



News Notes 362-371 



Chicago Notes 364 



Incorporated 365 



St. Louis Notes 370 



Personal 371 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 382 



Patents Granted 382 



This is our last word with our readers pre- 



Come to vions to the opening of the great National 



Boston Flower Show. Horticulture is a Boston 



publication, consequently it becomes our 



especial duty and pleasure to say COME. Boston will 



extend a cordial welcome to all. Wliether engaged in 



floriculture as a commercial or private grower, dealer or 



artist, in landscape or garden work, in seed growing or 



seed selling, in any or all of the nursery industries or in 

 any of the allied avocations, you will find pleasure and 

 profit, education and inspiring stimulus in this most 

 notable event in American horticulture. It will be a 

 week well-spent, yielding results material and intellec- 

 tual which will repay a thousand fold for the effort. The 

 Hub florists and gardeners are fully alive to the great 

 honor which their city enjoys in being the Mecca of hor- 

 ticulture on this auspicious occasion and will leave noth- 

 ing undone on their part as hosts to the visitors. 



Our seed trade notes make reference 



An opportunity to the anomalous situation which will 



neglected exist should the Canadian reciprocity 



agreement become a law. The priv- 

 ilege of shipping seeds to Canada free of duty loses 

 much of its value to the seed trade if an almost pro- 

 hibitive duty is exacted on seed catalogues. It is to 

 be regretted that this possible complication was not 

 detected sooner and effort made to have a more reason- 

 able provision inserted. An opportunity, equally de- 

 sirable, was neglected by the cut flower trade of New 

 York and New England in not making some endeavor 

 to have flowers included in the free list. Lower Canada 

 has always been a good customer for American flowers 

 and still will be, because of her short mid-winter days 

 and low temperature. She would use many more of 

 our flowers if it were not for that 25 per cent, duty 

 and the risks and losses due to custom house delays 

 and interferences. 



Prof. Bailey, in his masterly address 



"The bottom of before the Massachusetts Horticul- 



the ocean" tural Society, spoke of the cities as 



"half-way stations between the pot- 

 ash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen of the farms and the 

 bottom of the ocean." Passing through a certain flower 

 trade district a day or two later, in the morning hours, 

 we were forcibly reminded of Prof. Bailey's remark on 

 seeing the accumulation of withered flowers heaped in 

 the garbage boxes awaiting transportation to the "bot- 

 tom of the ocean." Musing on the capability of these 

 products of the florists' labor to disseminate sunshine 

 and gladness and, not lacking in inborn love for 

 flowers ourselves, we confess to having experienced a 

 twinge of regret for the wasted life of these most 

 beautiful and inspiring of Nature's gifts. And then 

 we pondered on the costly miscarriage of the fruits of 

 the flower growers' labor which was here made mani- 

 fest. An ignominious ending surely for flowers such 

 as tlie highest exponent of the art could not produce a 

 decade ago ! Dr. Bailey's country produce in its prodi- 

 gal course to the liottom of the sea had contributed 

 something to the comfort of humanity as it passed 

 alon.o-. But these flowers — "better they had never been 

 born." We are to have a big gathering — unprecedented 

 in numbers and in attainments — at Boston next week. 

 The experts will have much to tell one another and 

 to proclaim to the world concerning the production of 

 flowers such as never grew before. Would it not be 

 well that they should devote a goodly share of their 

 time and thought to that waste barrel and its mouldy 

 contents — to the labor in vain and broken hopes that 

 go with its cargo to "the bottom of the sea?" Here is 

 an economic question the vital importance of which 

 will keep on growing from year to year and eventually 

 force itself on us with a pertinacity from which there 

 can be no escape. 



