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HORTICULTURE 



May 27, 1911 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION—A .Modern Florist's Estab- 

 lishment. 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Young 

 Vines — Shade for Vines — Finished Peach Houses — 

 Mealy Bug on Vines — Shanking of Grapes — G. H. 

 Penson 777 



SOMETHING MORE ABOUT HIPPEASTRUMiS— 

 George F. Stewart 777 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Allamandas — Geraninms — Growing Carna- 

 tions Indoors — Planting Out Gardenias — Single-Stem 

 Chr.vsanthemums — Summer Care of Pi-imula — John I. 

 M. Farrcll 779 



MENDEL'S LAW AS RELATED TO HEREDITY AND 

 BREEDING— Pr. Hermann Decker 7S0 



LILACS AT ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Illustrated 780a 



OBITUARY: 



Ransom B. Jones — C. O. Hunt— S. A. de Graaff— 

 George L. Chadbom — Arthur W. Lemke — Seth C. 

 Wood — John G. Forbes — Eggert Nagel — Fred R. 

 Mathison, portrait 780c 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Massachusetts Horticultral Society Spring Show.... 780c 

 American Association of Nurserymen — American Po- 

 mological Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Baltimore 780d 



American Peony Society — American Seed Trade As- 

 sociation — Yonkers Horticultural Society 781 



St. Louis Florist Club — Club and Society Notes 782 



DURING RECESS: 



Baseball at St. Louis — New York Bowlers — -Chicago 

 Bowlers — New York Florists' Club Outing 799 



SEED TRADE: 



The Pennsylvania Seed Bill, G. C. Watson— tie^ 



York's "Pure Seed" Bill, Marshall H. Diiryea 78.5 



Unfavorable Reports from Europe — The Home Out- 

 look — A New Seed House — Notes 786 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 788 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 789 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago 791 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 793 



St. Louis 799 



MISCELLANEOUS : 



British Bumptiousness — G. C. IVatson 780 



Tacoma Rose Show 780 



Buffalo Parks 780a 



Reciprocity 782 



A Sim Specialty 780a 



Personal 780b 



Stringent Rules in National Cemetery 780b 



Harry A, Barnard's Jubilee, Portrait 780b 



Cicadas Threaten Washington 780b 



Decoration Day, Poetry 780a 



A House Wanning 782 



Philadelphia Notes — Detroit Notes — Incorporated. . . . 784 



Catalogues Received 786 



Chicago Notes 789 



Publications Received 799 



United States Department of Agriculture 1910 Year 



Book — Patents Granted SCO 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 801 



News Notes 800-801 



Fire Record 801 



IMemorial Day, or Decoration Day, as ■we 



Memorial jfill like to call it, is with us once more, 



Day with its hallowed jsatriotic associations 



and its sweet commemoration of the 

 pathetic incidents of a conflict the memories of the 

 liitterness of which have all been wiped away. In the 

 recognition of the day the florist has always been an 

 indispensable factor and in some sections its importance 

 surpasses even those great floral holidays — Christmas 

 and Easter. Vicissitudes of the weather have much to 

 do with the profitableness of the work the florist is 

 called upon to do and the satisfaction he is able to 

 give to his customer at this rapidly-moving season 

 of the year. We hope the present season will afford 

 him all the facilities for doing satisfactory and credit- 

 able work, worthy of the occasion and worthy of his art. 



It is stated tliat experiments made bv Wil- 

 Themoth Ham Keiff of the Bussey Institution of 

 nuisance Harvard, under the direction of .State For- 

 ester F. W. Kane, have yielded remarkable 

 results in the extermination of the gypsy moth through 

 the artificial spread of the "wild disease" or "Flacherie," 

 a disease contagious among caterpillars, which acts upon 

 them as cholera in human beings. We ardently hope 

 this will prove true. It must be apparent to all who 

 have the misfortune to live within moth infested dis- 

 tricts that the repressive measures hitherto practiced are 

 utterly inadequate to cope with this fearful pest. Ac- 

 cording to statements made in the Evening Telegram of 

 recent date both gypsy and brown-tail motlis have been 

 found on Long Island and the Xew York Department 

 of Agriculture experts are busy in Jamaica and vicinity 

 where the caterpillars have obtained a foothold. We 

 think it is most likely that the unwelcome visitors in 

 Long Island are the brown-tails and not the gypsies, 

 thus far, but it is probably only a question of time be- 

 fore both these nuisances are disseminated over the en- 

 tire country. 



The Holland Association of Bulb Exporters 

 The Bulb to America is, if rumor, occasional admis- 

 Trust sions of its representatives and trade indi- 

 cations mean any thing, one of the mo.st 

 dominant of trusts. It is a trust quite beyond the reach 

 of our government, being domiciled in a foreign 

 country — yet exercising altsolute control over the sale 

 of its entire line of products in this. Its hundred or 

 more agents, a few of them even having made their 

 homes here, are itovertheless closely banded together 

 with tlie others, who are annual peripatetics, to main- 

 taiji the policy and prices of the Holland organization, 

 and. whether they live here or not, tlieir sympathies 

 ai'e wholly pro-Holland. So com])lete is their control 

 that they arbitrarily estaljlish prices for this country, 

 often much higher than their prices for the same goods 

 in other countries. A striking example is given in the 

 advance this season of about four dollars per thousand 

 in the prices of the various grades of bedding hyacinths. 

 Earlier in the season it was ex])ected that tulips gen- 

 erally would be much lower than last year. This was 

 expected in consequence of large lots of many of the 

 finer sorts coming from new sources in the North of 

 Holland, grown b}' farmers who were not exporters. It 

 has been the policy of the exporters to discourage these 

 farmer bulb-growers, to drive them out of the bulb busi- 

 ness and to obtain their stocks at minimum prices for 

 planting on their own increased bulb acreage. Evi- 

 dently the Bulb Trust has accomplished its aim in 

 getting control of the tulip situation, and they have 

 practically maintained here the high prices of last year. 



