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HORTICULTURE 



November 14, 1914 



hortic ulture: 



VOL. XX NOVEMBER 14, 1914 NO. 20 



PLBLIMIKU WKEKLV BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telepbone, Oxford £92. 

 WM. J. 8TEWABT. Editor uid Manaeer. 



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 at Boston, Mass., under tbe Act of Congress of March 3, 1S78. 



~ CONTENTS P«« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Begonia Mrs. Heal 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Young Cinerarias — Freesias for Christmas — Dra- 

 caena indivisa — Potting Geraniums — Schizanthus for 

 Easter — Procure Your Supply of Palms — John J. M. 

 FarrcU 681 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Last Chance for 

 Repairs — Ventilation — Night Temperature — Syringing 

 Arthur C. Ruzicka 683 



THE EXHIBITIONS — The Boston Show— Chicago 



Show— New Bedford 684 



Westchester and Fairfield — Tarrytown Horticultural 

 Society— P. R. Pierson Exhibit at New York. Illus. . 685 

 Nassau Horticultural Society — Tuxedo Horticultural 



Society 680 



Indianapolis — Asbury Park, N. J. — Chrysanthemums 



at Cornell University, Illustrated 687 



Providence, R. I. — Dobbs Ferry 688 



PARK INSTITUTE OP NEW ENGLAND 688 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton — Lenox Horticultural Society — Pittsburgh Flor- 

 ists' and Gardeners' Club — Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Albany Florists' Club — Society of 



American Florists 689 



New York Florists' Club — St. Louis Society Notes — 

 Club and Society Notes 690 



BEGONIA MRS. HEAL 691 



DURING RECESS— Boston Co-operative Flower Mar- 

 ket Banquet — New York Florists' Bowling Club.... 629 



SEED TRADE— Bulb Trade in California— Notes 694 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett—C. Har- 

 man Pfu/nr 694 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Retailers' Business Calendar 696 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 697 



Decorated .\utomobilc. Illustrated 698 



Japanese Window Display, Illustrated 699 



NEWS ITE.MS FRO.M EVERYWHERE: 



Boston — Washington — Chicago 698-699 



San Francisco 707 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 701 



Knoxville, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, 

 St. Louis, Washington 703 



OBITUARY— John L. Parker— Christian .\ckcrman— 

 F. C. Kirchhoff— John Gilmartin— Henrv Cannell... 708 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Visitors' Register 688 



Business Troubles 694 



News Notes 699-710 



Illness of Charles H. Totty 703 



.Massachusetts Agricultural College 70S 



Greenhouses Building or Conte mplated 709 



.Vuyoiic wlio ha.- paid jiarlicular at- 



Chrysanthemums tcutioii to the varietie.s of so-called 



from seed --iiigle early chrysanthemums so 



profusely exhibited at the shows 

 ttiis \cai', iiiu.st liave noticed that in every respect — size, 

 form and diversity and purity of color — the groups of 

 mixed seedlings are oftentimes fully the equals of the 

 collections of named varieties. At a banquet which 

 took place recently a large vase of mixed seedling single 

 earlies had been sent in to adorn the table and one gen- 

 tleman, superintendent of a large estate where the best 

 of everything i.s always pureha'sed, was heard to remark- 

 that he had bought the novelty set for this year of 

 named varieties .sent out by one of the leading chrysan- 

 theniiun introducers in this country and tliat the best 

 of tliese was hardly the equal nf the poorest in the vase 



of seedlings before him. Foreign raisers of these as 

 well as of roses are too prone to give names to things 

 which are no improvement over varieties already dis- 

 seminated. Catalogues are encumbered with long lists 

 uf sorts of commonplace quality and buyers are per- 

 plexed and disheartened by the indifferent results from 

 over-praised introductions. It would appear that any- 

 one who will take the trouble to raise his own seed from 

 carefully selected stock can be independent in the case 

 of single clirj'santhemums at least. 



Our editorial note of last week in regard to 

 Hard the decorative value of the smaller blooming 

 to move varieties of chrysanthemums and the moss- 

 grown methods still pursued in staging these 

 as well as many other flowers at the exhibitions, has 

 elicited quite a few comments from readers. One writer, 

 in expressing his disappointment at the incorrigible per- 

 tinacity with which exhibitors stick to old ways and 

 ignore all progTcssive suggestions, says that it makes 

 him think of a Dickens story. The driver of the stage 

 coach has always kept a seat on the box for Charles D., 

 and they had become quite familiar. Noting that he 

 never had kno\^^l the driver to take a holiday, Dickens 

 arranged with the owners of the line for a day's vacation, 

 and a sovereign was given for spending money. Wliat 

 did the driver do? ' Why he hired a coach and four, and 

 drove over the road he had driven on for twenty years ! 

 However, it is very evident that Horticulture's fre- 

 (pient comments on the deplorable stand-still policies 

 which so often hedge around schedule makers and ex- 

 hibitors alike, are beginning to bear some fruit and there 

 are cheering signs of a breakaway. We shall continue 

 to hammer at it for we know we are in the right. No 

 progressive florist would think of displaying his goods 

 and no person of taste would adorn his home in the 

 crude, monotonous manner in which flowers are so fre- 

 quently put up for public inspection in. our exhibitions. 

 The Department of Agriculture 

 Welcome has begim the issuance of a series 



work by the of bulletins of popular informa- 



Dept. of Agriculture tion On the care of the flower 

 garden and allied topics. These 

 bulletins are sent to the newspapers throughout the coun- 

 try and to olher mediums through whicli the educa- 

 tional infonnation they contain may have the widest pos- 

 silile dissemination. We notice what appears certainly 

 to 1)0 a mistake in a recently issued bulletin, otherwise 

 correct and instructive, on the uses and the treatment of 

 tulips and other bulbs. It is stated that "Holland bulbs, 

 such as the narcissus, tulip and hyacinth, are practically 

 the only plants that will flower satisfactorily in the 

 house with ordinary care. About the only plant giving 

 similar satisfaction is the begonia." Thousands of 

 home windows gay with geraniums, abutilons, gloxinias, 

 (■alias, primroses and a .score of equally adaptable sub- 

 jects all winter through, make this statement so absurd 

 that the credibility of the rest of the bulletin must suf- 

 fer seriously in the estimation of the innumerable house- 

 wives who know better. But, as aforesaid, these publica- 

 tions are in the main correct and instructive; they are 

 well written in easily understood terms and will tm- 

 dnubtedly do much to disseminate needed knowledge as 

 to horticultural operations in and around the home. 

 We are glad to see the Department thus broadening its 

 field of activities and giving this long-deferred but well- 

 merited recognition to the purely ornamental end of 

 horticulture. The bulletins issued thus far include : "To 

 protect your flowers from Jack Frost;" "Tulip bulbs 

 should be planted in the late fall ;" "Bulbs may be 

 raised indoors ;" "Fall fertilizers for lawns ;" "The in- 

 door window box;" "Potted plants for the living room." 



