HORTICULTURE 



April 29, 1911 



hortic ulture: 



yOL. XIII APRIL 29. 1911 HO. 1? 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Laelia Gouldiana. 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS — Dis- 

 budding Peaclies and Nectarines — Pot Vines — Succes- 

 sion Houses — Cropping Peach Trees — • Madresfield 

 Court Grapes — Cucumbers — Outside Melons and 

 Sweet Corn— c;. H. Penson 629-630 



LAELIA GOULDIANA— Hrf. Roehrs 630 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Campanulas for Next Easter — Pompon 

 Chrysanthemums — Azaleas — Compost — Hydrangeas 

 — Ferns — Poinsettias — Smilax — John J. M. Farrf//. 630-631 



A POINTER FOR LOCAL FLORISTS- Grarg*? C. 

 Watson 631 



LEGISLATIVE INSANITY— Grarge C. Watson 633 



THE HYACINTH SCARE— i?ic/iord /. Hoyden 633 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Bar Harbor 

 Horticultural Society — New Orleans Horticultural 

 Society — Yonkers Horticultural Society — Club and 

 Society Notes 634 



MENDEL'S LAW AS RELATED TO HEREDITY AND 

 BREEDING— Pr. Herrmann Decker 635 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— ;F. H. Adsett 635 



A PACIFIC COAST EXHIBITION— Illustrated 636 



DURING RECESS: 



New York vs. Tuxedo — Chicago Bowlers 637 



SEED TRADE: 



The Weather and Its Effects — Pea and Bean Sur- 

 pluses — Rochester's Convention Prospects — Germina- 

 tion of Seed Corn — Ohio Seed Bill Criticised — 

 "Transparent" Seed Packets — The New York State 

 Pure Seed Bill— Notes 644 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 646 



Flowers by Telegraph 647 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 649 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 651 



St. Louis 657 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Spring Lecture Course at New York Botanical 



Garden 636 



Publications Received 636 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 636 



News Notes 636 



A Memorial Day Display 637 



Personal 637 



The Bluebird, poetry 637 



The St. Louis Hail Storm 638 



Fire Record 638 



One on Trelease 638 



Philadelphia Notes 640 



Catalogues Received 640 



Chicago Notes 647 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 658 



Now is the season of activity in all horti- 



Wants eultural work. The call for efficient and 



reliable men is heard from every department 



and no one need now be long out of work if he seeks 



it in sincerity. Watch the Help and Situations Wanted 

 columns of Horticultcue, all ye who are in quest of 

 a position or who need help. An advertisement does 

 not stay there long; a week or two. at this season of 

 the year, especially, suffices to accomplish its object. 

 There are many good men filling good positions today 

 who got there through Horticulture's Want Column. 



In another column of this issue will be 

 Mendel's found the introductory chapter of a series 

 law on "Mendel's Law," by Dr. Herrmann 

 Decker, published in Germany and now 

 translated into English for Horticultuke by G. Thom- 

 men. Within the last decade much has been said and 

 much written about Mendel's law, but as to imparting 

 any clear conception in the average horticulturist's mind 

 of what it all means, most of it might as well have been 

 left unsaid and unwritten. These articles by Dr. Decker 

 differ from most of the literature on this subject in 

 their freedom from scientific unintelligibility and the 

 simple, easily understood terms in which the author 

 expresses himself. We believe that very many of our 

 readers will peruse these plain talks on this all im- 

 portant subject with pleasure and benefit. 



jVnyone reading the flower market 

 Phases reports in Horticulture regularly can- 

 of the flower not fail to note the frequent coinci- 

 demand dences in widely separated localities as 

 to the popular demand for certain 

 things. A satisfactory cause for the phenomenon is 

 often beyond the reasoning of the most observant 

 operators. During the past few weeks, for instance, 

 we find that sweet peas and lily of the valley have ex- 

 perienced a most remarkable popularity, not in one 

 locality, merely, but "here, there and everywhere," 

 whilst other staples which have repeatedly outclassed 

 and outsold these items are spurned. Wait a while 

 and the tables will turn, with equally wide-spread ac- 

 cord. Eather curious, is it not? 



As stated in our news columns. Governor 



Looking poss has seen fit to veto a special appro- 



for trouble? priation for additional buildings and 



equipment for the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College at Amherst. The grounds upon which 

 his disapproval is based are that he believes the College 

 should be self-supporting. Massachusetts, he asserts, 

 is too liberal with free scholarships and should require 

 l)ayment from students coming, not only from outside 

 but from within the Slate. He further recommends 

 that all demon-stration work in the various departments 

 be put upon a commercial basis and adds that "if such 

 demonstrations are to help the farmers to make money 

 they ought to demonstrate money making power." The 

 eminent gentleman has perhaps taken his stand with- 

 out due consideration of the indirect effect the adop- 

 tion of his policy might have on the attitude of the 

 rural people towards this useful institution. We have 

 a vivid recollection of the rumpus which was started 

 a few years ago over some trifling sales by the College 

 of certain of its horticultural products. The protest 

 which was voiced against this alleged harmful competi- 

 tion against the citizens of the State made lively music 

 around the State House for a while. It's a dangerous 

 proposition and "the more thou stir it. the worse it 

 will be." 



