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HORTICULTURE 



April 8, 1911 



horticulture: 



▼OL. ZlII 



APRIL 8, 1911 



RO. 14 



PUBLISHED WEKKLT BT 



MOR.TICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephoaep Oxford ttt. 

 WM. J. 8TEWABT, KdltOT and Mmnscer. 



■ntered as second-clan matter December 8, 1901, at tbe Poit Offlce at 

 Boston, Uass., onder the Act of Concreas of Uarcb 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Paie 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Sweet Peas at National 

 Flower Show. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLOR- 

 ISTS' STOCK— Carnations — Orchids — Cyclamen— 

 ■Gladiolus — Peonies — Tuberous-rooted Begonias, — 

 John J. M. FarrcU 525 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Pot 

 Vines — Watering Pot Fruit Trees — Cucumbers — To- 

 matoes — Early Vegetables — George H. Penson 527 



THANKS FROM BRITISH VISITORS 527 



JJATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Closing Days of Ex- 

 hibition — Additional Awards — Trade Awards 528 



Views in National Flower Show 529 



American Gladiolus Society— Society of American 

 Florists — Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association.. 530 

 The Dutch Garden — Illustration 531 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — Detroit Florist Club — A New Pennsylvania 

 Societv— Ladies' S. A. F.— Club and Society Notes. . . 531 



DURING RECESS: 



Florists' Club of Washington— Chicago Bowlers 532 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— H'. H. Adsctt 534 



SEED TRADE — The Next Convention — Unseasonable 

 Onion Seeds — Potato Outlook— Baltimore Changes 

 — Hobbling the Canners 542 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— Steamer De- 

 partures — New Flower Stores 544 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit .547 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis .549 



OBITUARY— Wm. A. Blaedel— Miss Fannie M. Ander- 

 son — Wm. Schlatter — Harry Yager 555 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



Incorporated 532 



Chicago Notes 533 



Moisture for Mushrooms — /. M. IV. Kitchen 536 



The Boskoop Exhibition — Fire Record 536 



Philadelphia Notes 538 



News Notes 539, 547, 549, 556 



Personal 545 



Kroeschell Exhibit — Illustrated 555 



E. H. Wilson Arrives in Boston — Portrait 555 



The Curtis Bill 556 



Vacancies in Bureau of Plant Industry 556 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 558 



The lateness of the present season wall greatly 

 A late curtail sirring planting operations. Both 

 season seedsmen and nurserymen have lost already, 

 throtigh inclemency of the weather, at least 

 two weeks of the usual time available to them for Spring 

 business. It is safe to say that the volume of business 

 in both lines will be greatly diminished; in fact, some 

 dealers estimate the loss already sustained at something 

 like one-fifth of the season's output. The trade gen- 

 erally is resigned to the conviction that there will not be 

 time now in which to make up the loss already 

 sustained. 



The National Flower Show of 1911 has 

 With flying now passed into history. In all prob- 

 colors iibility years will elapse before the dis- 



tinction of being "the greatest horti- 

 cultural (whibition ever undertaken in the western hem- 

 isphere, if not in the world," is wrested from it, — to 

 quote from our editorial columns of March 11. In that 

 foreword we made bold to state that the success of the 

 great show was already assured— a three-fold success 



with a prospective attendance far surpassing that of any 

 previous Flower Show. Events have shown that our 

 estimate was well founded. While figures are not yet 

 available, it is generally understood that financially, as 

 otherwise, success has crowned the efforts of the earnest 

 workers for this great enterprise. It has done an in- 

 calculable amount of good for Boston and the horticul- 

 tural region of which Boston is the centre of activity, 

 and not only Boston but the entire country has ex- 

 perienced a great uplift in the example and the lessons 

 of this epoch-marking event in American horticulture. 



More than once during show week we 



The showman's heard the remark, "What would we 

 place have done here without Campbell?" 



It was certainly a master-stroke when 

 the Board of Control decided to put this quiet, shrewd 

 mail at the helm. Eepeatedly since Horticulture 

 came into existence these editorial columns have urged 

 upon those interested in flower exhibitions to call to 

 their aid men naturally adapted and trained in dealing 

 with the public, experienced in the art of exciting public 

 interest and inducing the people to loosen their purse 

 strings. In the present instance Mr. Campbell was un- 

 questionably the ideal man for the great responsibility. 

 Every community wherever a flower show may be con- 

 templated has its Campbell, and had he been put to 

 work when needed many a show would have been saved 

 from disaster and its promoters from discouragement 

 and humiliation. We have always maintained that one 

 of the most potent causes for the financial failure which 

 is proverbially attendant upon flower shows is the un- 

 fitness of the average florist and gardener for box office 

 management. His business it is to produce the goods 

 and display them properly. Here he is supreme. But 

 his qualifications there reach their limit and for the 

 rest of the work he will do well to call in the showman 

 everytime. 



Another point conclusively demonstrated 

 A prime at the National Flower Show was the eager 



attraction interest taken by the public in the dis- 

 plays of floral arrangements staged on 

 Tuesday and Friday, and here again we are tempted to 

 say, "We told you so." True, there was nothing ex- 

 traordinary in evidence, and, with perhaps one excep- 

 tion, nothing showing any departure from the floral 

 work seen daily in any good flower shop, but, neverthe- 

 less, this feature was a most potent drawing card, and, 

 if we were disposed to criticise, we should say that much 

 more room might have been advantageously given here 

 for the sight-seers to pass and repass about these ex- 

 hibits. The interest manifested in this section proves 

 beyond a doubt that the minor position given to these 

 exemplifications of the uses of flowers in our public 

 show scliedulcs is a great mistake. Four years ago we 

 expressed our views on this subject thus: 



"Almost without exception our exhibitions are conducted 

 from the standpoint of the culturist. To the expert they 

 are profoundly intertsting and instructive, but if the pub- 

 lic purse is to be allured to the ticket office, something 

 must be done to whet the interest and curiosity of the 

 great majority to whom scales of points offer no induce- 

 ments." 



We most empliatically reassert the foregoing. It is 

 further in evidence that those plant groupings into 

 which had been injected some expression, such as Farqu- 

 har's Dutch garden and Koland's rose garden, and some 

 others, were among the features coming in for the larg- 

 est amount of public interest. Mark it down as proven 

 that no flower show can reach its full possibilities unless 

 this feature of the application and use of flowers and 

 plants is given prominence. 



