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HORTICULTURE 



April 22, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



▼OL. xin 



APRIL 22, 1911 



no. 16 



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CONTENTS P^e 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— First Prize Group at 

 Haarlem. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS* 

 STOCK — Care of Evergreens in Pots or Tubs — Glox- 

 inias — Lilies for Decoration Day — Odontoglossums, 

 IlUi?trated— /,i/(;; /. }f. Farrcll 597 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS: 

 AVatering Borders — Figs — Apples and Pears — Or- 

 chard House Trees — (7. H. Pcnson 599 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York— New Jersey Floricultur- 

 al Society — Nassau County Horticultural Society — 



American Association of Nurserymen 600 



American Rose Society Exhibition Notes — National 



Sweet Pea Society 6D1 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston 619 



IBERIS SEMPERVIRENS LITTLE GEM— Illustrated. 601 



NIEREMBERGIA RIVULARIS— Illustrated 601 



OBITUARY — John F. Sharkey — Emile Michel — Dr. Ed- 

 ward Palmer — Mrs. George Stollery — Wm. R. Star- 

 rett — Edward A. Moseley, portrait 603 



SEED TRADE — Seeds and Bulbous Roots tor Canada 

 —Notes 606 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 608 



Flowers Bv Telegraph 60'.t 



EASTER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 611 



Cincinnati, Detroit, New York 613 



Philadelphia, St. Louis, Syracuse 619 



DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers— Cincinnati 

 Bowlers 619 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chicago Notes 60- 



Great Hail Storm in St. Louis 605 



Publication Received 606 



Personal — Fire Record 609 



New Notes 609 



Patents Granted 620 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 622 



Our cover illustration shows the 



Arrangement first prize group of hyacinths and 



and adaptability tulips at the Jubilee Horticultural 



Exhibition in Haarlem last year. 

 Two gold medals, two silver medals and one special of 

 honor for the manner of staging the exhibit, were won 

 by this display. One of our reasons for presenting the 

 picture now is the fact that the question of arrange- 

 ment and adaptability of certain things for use to- 

 gether is fast coming tn the front in connection with 

 our flower shows in this country and if there is anything 

 to be learned from our older and presumably more ex- 

 perienced friends across the sea we should not hesitate 

 to avail ourselves of any favorable opportunity for so 

 learning. Now, we are told that the manner of staging 

 the exhibit in question won for it especial honor in 



Haarlem, but we must say that we fail to see why. If 



this picture shows the best our European artists can 

 do we fear there is little that we can learn from them. 

 Are kentias for a background and small ferns for fore- 

 gi-ound and filling appropriate or artistic accessories to 

 a hyacinth and tulip display? Are high tables, such as 

 are shown in the picture, to be commended for the 

 purpose ? We should like to have the views of some of 

 our readers on the foregoing points. 



The Boston Journal of the 16th inst. 

 Hyacinths states that City Forester D. Henry Sulli- 

 barred! van has barred the sweet-blooming hya- 

 cinths from his Public Garden decora- 

 tions this year because they contain a poison injurious 

 to the face and hands. While it is a well-known fact that 

 the dry outer scnles of hyacinth bulbs are irritating to 

 some individuals in handling them, we have never heard 

 of any instance of poisoning or irritation arising from 

 contact with the growing plant or flower. The growers 

 in Holland are careful to remove decayed hyacinth foli- 

 age from their fields, but this we understand is to pre- 

 vent the lo(.lgement of bacteria in the ground, which 

 might attack a future crop of hyacinths rather than 

 from any danger of poisoning the ground against any 

 other crop, which Mr. Sullivan suggests may happen. 

 The exquisite colors and delicious fragrance of hya- 

 cinths are not equalled in any other Spring flowers. 

 The displays of them in the Boston Public Garden have 

 been noted for their excellence, and it seems a great pity 

 that they should be discontinued, unless there is convinc- 

 ing evicience that there is danger in their use, which 

 our personal experience does not confirm. 



Results show that our forecast of 

 Holiday famines conditions in the lily market last 

 no more week was well-founded and that, in 



denouncing the newspaper "famine" 

 dtories as bugaboos, we spoke the truth. We were glad 

 to see that there were, here and there, sensible repre- 

 sentatives of the florists' trade who did what they could 

 to counteract the mischevious stuff emanating from ill- 

 advised trade sources and to assure the public that there 

 would be flowers in abundance for all and at reasonable 

 prices. President George B. Hart of the Kochester 

 Florists' Association, for instance, came out with a state- 

 ment in the "Post Express" to the effect that Easter 

 lilies and other flowers would be more abundant, more 

 beautiful and less costly than they had ever been before 

 in Rochester and there can be no question but that the 

 Rochester florists enjoyed a larger and more cheerful 

 public patronage because of this frank assurance. 

 Thousands of lilies left imsold and unsalable, even at 

 half-price, in certain markets told the story of the effect 

 of the stupid policy of trying to bully the public. Let it 

 be marked down, once for all, that never again will 

 there be a holiday flower famine in this country or any 

 valid excuse for attempting to advance prices on such 

 days. The "good old times," — if such they were — have 

 gone forever. 



Boston, ever at the front in matters hor- 

 A municipal ticultural, is now discussing the question 

 greenhouse of a municipal greenhouse. Not the 

 ordinary plant-producing and storage 

 greenhouse, for the city has had for many years a well- 

 equipped range of such houses for the propagation of 

 bedding plants and winter care of many thousands of 

 palms and other decorative plants that in summer so 

 elaborately decorated her public gardens and grounds. 

 The present movement, as outlined by Mayor Fitzgerald, 

 is for a very large conservatory which would form an 

 attractive winter resort in the heart of the city. 



