HOBTICULTURE 



July 4, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XX 



JULY 4, 1914 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLrSTRATION— A Natural Rock Garden 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Crotons 

 — Hydrangeas— Getting Carnations Planted— Mignon- 

 ette for Winter Flowering— Calantlies — Keeping Weeds 

 Down — Joh n J. M. FarreXl 5 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Sweet Pea Society 



— Secretary Bunyard's Report — Prize Awards 7 



American Association of Nurserymen — Henry B. 

 Chase. President-elect, Portrait- Medford Horticultu- 

 ral Society— St. Louis Florists' Club 8 



Nassau County Horticultural Society— American Car- 

 nation Society — New York Florists' Club — The New- 

 port Show— Massachusetts Horticultural Society— Club 



and Society Notes 9 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 10 



A NATURAL ROCK GARDEN . . .•.■ 10 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association— Con- 

 cluding Notes on Annual Convention 12 



Lester L. Morse, President-elect, American Seed Trade 

 Association and American Sweet Pea Society, Portrait 13 

 California Notes — Notes 14 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Steamer Departures 16 



Flowers by Telegraph 17 



DURING RECESS— A Souvenir of Waretown, Illustra- 



tion— N. Y, and N. J. Association of Plant Growers. . . 19 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago. Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia 21 



St. Louis, Washington 23 



BOSTON CONVENTION NOTES 23 



OBITUARY— Charles Frueh— John S. Parks— Isaac Ken- 



nedy^Joseph Wolniewicz — Robert Rust 28 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 17 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 18 



Washington Notes ' 18 



Reception to Dr. Galloway 18 



Knoxville, Tenn., Notes 19 



"Some" Marathon 19 



Visitors' Register 19 



Carnation Alice 23 



Personal — Cincinnati Notes 23 



Fires — New Corporations 28 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 28 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 30 



Community Orders 30 



It becomes our pleasant privilege 



Entertainment quite frequently to report the visit 



and education of the members of one or another club 



or other association, on invitation, to 



inspect and enjoy the beauties of some private 



estate or the workings an(3 product of some pros- 

 perous commercial establishment. On such occa- 

 sions the hospitality extended is free-hearted and 

 unstinted and these red-letter days in the life 

 of the florist or gardener, made memorable by 

 the courtesies and social pleasures enjoyed, the new 

 friendships made and older ones more firmly cemented. 

 The poet might well have said — "Angels (and florists) 

 from friendship gather half their joys." In the horti- 

 cultural avocations it is ever true that "souls by in- 

 stinct to each other turn, demand alliance and in friend- 

 ship biirn." But these occasions have a value far beyond 

 the entertainment and the comradeship. They are an 

 education in themselves, teaching by example, which is 

 the great school of mankind, and we cannot have too 

 many of them. 



Eeferring to our recent editorial note, 

 Bulb troubles commenting on the reported advance in 



prices on bulbs for export by the Holland 

 dealers, a subscriber in the middle west writes : "Per- 

 haps the thrifty Dutchmen are trying to make up the 

 money they lose in making good for the bulbs that 

 failed last year. Florists here refused to order more 

 unless they made compensation for the loss." From all 

 evidence at hand we tire satisfied that there was an 

 unprecedented proportion of defective tulips shipped 

 to this country last season, both for forcing purposes 

 and for outdoor planting. Representatives of Holland 

 dealers with whom we have talked are not disposed to 

 deny this but attribute the trouble to the unfavorable 

 growing and harvesting weather of the previous season 

 and to the overheating of the bulbs in certain steamers 

 in transit. We do know, however, of some stocks of such 

 satisfactory quality that no complaint could reasonably 

 be made. These were from growers of established repu- 

 tation as a rule. American growers would do well to 

 avoid buying from speculative concerns who own no bulb 

 fields and whose only visible asset is their catalogue. 

 Better still, place the orders with responsible American 

 importing houses that are familiar with conditions 

 abroad and know who are the reliable Holland firms. 



Men who were active in the plant trade 

 "Standard" or in the Society of American Florists 

 flower pots twenty-five years ago will recall the agi- 

 tation for uniformity of shape and sizes 

 in flower pots and the difficulties and controversies that 

 were encountered before the desired standard was devised 

 and adopted. Previous to that time every manufacturer 

 had his own standard of dimensions but when the S. A. 

 F. finally adopted and recommended its standard for 

 universal use its advantages appealed so strongly to the 

 growers that there was an immediate stampede of pot 

 manufacturers to get in and comply to the letter with 

 the requirements. As is well known, absolute uniform- 

 ity was not attained although an immense advance was 

 accomplished, and tlie situation since has been further 

 confused by the fact that the official 'scales and draw- 

 ings of the committee never came into the possession of 

 the Society, were never recorded in its printed reports, 

 and when requests have been made on the secretary's 

 office for standard scales none could be supplied and those 

 manufacturers having machinery adjusted to the origi- 

 nal official standard have not been disposed to give out 

 their measurements for the benefit of competitors. We 

 hope to see the Society take up this matter in earnest at 

 the Boston Convention and re-establish and perfect its 

 standard scale so that same may be officially recorded 

 and published broadcast for the "benefit of the trade. 



