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HORTICULTURE 



June 3, 1911 



horticulture: 



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JUNE 3. 1»11 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilium myriophyllum. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Violets — Crotons — Marguerites — Masdeval- 

 lias — Raising Perennials — Sweet Peas — John J. M. 

 Farrcll 809 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Mulch- 

 ing — Orchard House — Keeping Peaches and Nec- 

 tarines — Melons — Ccorgc H. Pcnsoii 811 



LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUM 811 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Florists — American Peony 

 Society — Horticultural Society of New York — 



National Gladiolus Society of England 812 



Club and Society .Notes 813 



St. Louis Florist Club — Club and Society Notes 813 



DURING RECESS— Chicago Bowlers 813 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— If. H. Adsctt 814 



ASPLENIUM FILIX-FOEMINA VICTORIA — Illus- 

 trated 814 



PHILOSOPHY AND BREEDING— Gforgc F. Stczvart--- 814 



OBITUARY; 



Mrs. Margaret M. Le Moult — John Wolf — Prof. 

 Robert O. Graham — Lacy Young — Cyrus G. Pringle 

 — Charles Armitage— Lloyd G. Blick— Lemuel Ball.. 816 



SEED TRADE: 

 Effect of Drought — European Outlook — Seedsmen's 

 Convention — Canners' Convention for Rochester — 

 Notes 818 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 820 



Flowers by Telegraph 821 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 823 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 825 



St. Louis 830 



FORCING LILACS AROUND PARIS— Translated by 

 G. Bleickm ■ 830 



THE BLISTER RUST OF WHITE PINE 832 



THE FLOWER SHOW AT BOSKOOP 832 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 817-820-832-834 



Cornell Bulletin on Sweet Peas 814 



Azalea Path. Arnold Arboretum— illustrated 816 



Philadelphia Notes 816 



The Things I Prize, poetry 816 



Incorporated 817 



Publications Received 81" 



St. Louis Florist Club 820 



Personal 821 



Greenhouse Building or Contemplated 830 



Chicago Notes 831 



The Bulb Trade 832 



Our exhibition notes from England 

 Skill in tell of cla.sst'S in the carnation show 



flower packing schedules |)roviding for the exhibi- 

 tion of methods of packing the 

 blooms for shipment. This, it seems to us, would be a 

 srood feature to add to our cni-tiation and rose exhibi- 



tions in this country. It wouhl |ir(iviilo a test of great 



value in any commercial show and would be an educa- 



N((. 22 tion very generally needed if one may judge by the 

 == looks of the nuijority of shipments as received at the 

 wholesale houses and flower markets in the distribut- 

 ing centres or by the number of complaints made by 

 buyers to whom reshipments have been made. Rose 

 packing is better done, as a rule, than carnation pack- 

 ing Init there is still plenty of room for improvement 

 iind in the case of other flowers such as daffodils and 

 asters, in their season, one can see in any wholesale 

 commission house some terrible examples of how badly 

 it can be done. The loss to the grower through this 

 one cause is no small amount often far exceeding the 

 selling commission which he is disposed to regard as a 

 grievous burden. A well-skilled packer is one of the 

 indisj)ensable adjuncts of a flower or plant growing 

 establishment. 



We liave been accustomed to regard 

 What plant the plant registration department of 

 registration is the Society of American Florists as 

 intended solely for the purpose of 

 securing to the originator or discoverer of a new species 

 or variety of plant the right to such name as he may 

 select for it, provided such name has not already been 

 given to a plant in the same class, and for placing on 

 record permanently such detailed description of the 

 specific characteristics of the plant registered as may be 

 reciuired for its identification. Such adjectives as 

 "handsome," "lovely," "free-blooming," "robust-grow- 

 ing," "non-bursting," "magnificent," etc., and other 

 words an(J phrases couched in the prevailing grandilo- 

 quent catalogue style and which might serve the dis- 

 .■-^eminator in advertising his novelty, have, in our hum- 

 ble opinion, no place in a purely technical record such 

 as the S. A. F. registration should be. It rests with the 

 Society officials in charge to restrict within proper 

 bounds this tendency to laud a new production. If one 

 applicant is permitted to do it, no one can blame the 

 others for following suit. It is clearly up to the socie- 

 ties to put an end to this panegyrical bombast. 



Among the "Impressions of the Ameri- 



The line i^-^^ Tour" as given in the British jour- 



of progress nals by the horticultural visitors on their 



return to England, that by Mr. L. M. 

 (Jraves in the Horticultural Trade .Toiirnal of recent 

 date is, to our mind especially interesting and enter- 

 taining. The gentleman disclaims either journalistic 

 ability or talent as an impressionist, bitt we should say 

 lie was fairly well endowed with both. There is mucli 

 that he observes in regard to our American customs and 

 American floriculture, both in criticism and in praise, 

 which must be recognized as just and fair. In the mat- 

 ter of florists' products here, as being in the main, roses, 

 carnations and hardwooded imported plants, he presents 

 an issue which sooner or later will force itself upon the 

 g American florist. As regards a greater diversity in cut 

 flowers we have already made a gratifying start as the 

 .stock in any first-class florists' refrigerators will show. 

 In the line of plants, it is a fact that a large part of the 

 goods offei'ed in the florist shops, and particularly at 

 Easter, are imported stock for which a consideralde 

 amount of money has been sent abroad. It might be to 

 the advantage of the American trade to more closely 

 watch and study the European flower markets, recog- 

 nizing the fact that they are much longer established 

 than ours and that we can undoubtedly learn from them 

 much (if Mihie as to the probable course our own demand 

 will lake in the vears to come. 



