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HOETICULTUEE 



July 11, 191-t 



horticulture: 



VOL. XX 



JULY 11, 1914 



NO. 2 



riBI-ll^HED WFKKLY BY 



HORTICUTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. .J. STEWART. Editor and Manager. 



Entered as secood-class matter December 8, 1904. at the Post OfEce 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act ol Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Public Garden, 

 Boston 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Callas 

 — Care of Gardenias — Geraniums — Rambler Roses — 

 Planning for Next Winter — Solanums — John J. M. 

 Farrel} 37 



DENDROBIUM F.A.LCONERI — M. J. Pope — Illustrated 39 



HARDY HERBACEOUS EUPHORBIAS— RicAaif/ Tlotne 

 — Illustrated 39 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Nurserymen — Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 — American Gladiolus Society — Florists' Club of Phil- 

 adelphia — Club and Societv Notes 40 



CO^"^'ENTION CITY NOTES 41 



OUT OR THE GINGER JAR— George <7. Watson 44 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— IT-. H. Adsett 45 



SEED TRADE— The Pea Outlook— New York in 1915— 

 Agricultural Department's Seed Imports — Notes 46 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 48 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 49 



DURING RECESS— New York Florists' Club— Greek- 

 American Pjcnic — Cook County Florists — St. Louis 

 Growers 51 



FLOWER M.A.RKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phila- 

 delphia : 53 



St. Louis, Washington 55 



OBITUARY— W. H. Hum feld— Joseph Bradbury 55 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Panama-Pacific Horticultural Exhibits 41 



A Geranium Test 41 



Geranium Helen Mlchell — Illustrated 41 



Syracuse Rose Show 41 



A Correction 41 



The Reason for Cheap Gardeners 42 



"The Happy Gardener" — Poetry 42 



Hardy Magnolias 42 



"War on Caterpillars" 43 



Mushroom Covering 43 



Noteworthy Carnations 43 



Catalogues Received 44 



Fires 45 



Philadelphia Notes — Washington Notes 50 



St. Louis Notes — Chicago Notes 50 



New Corporations 50 



Personal — Visitors' Register 51 



R. M. Ward and a Group of Naturalists — Illustration 51 



News Notes 55-62 



Texas to Have an Arboretum 55 



Business Pointers 55 



Publications Received 55 



The Value of Trade Journals 60 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 62 



Patents Granted 62 



We regi-ft to learn that the Ohio 

 Greenhouse florists have lost their long struggle 

 plants taxable against the taxation of their growing 

 crops, in their final appeal. Plants in 

 greenhouses, removable for transplanting or for sale 

 and delivery, whether in pots or benches^ are declared 

 to be personal property and taxable. The seven-years'" 

 fight in the courts under the lead of the Springfield 

 Florists' Club has been conducted at no small expense 

 to the florists and nurser\Tnen of Ohio but, had they 

 won, the result would have been of great pecuniary value 

 to the florists of the entire eountr}^ As it is, we may 

 expect to see other States where florists' stock has hith- 

 erto escaped, soon fall in line, with Ohio's decision as a 



precedent. To the average intelligence the justice of 

 exempting the famierV crops in the field w^hile taxing 

 the florists' crops under glass is far from plain. Should 

 there be a further appeal and the case come before the 

 Supreme Court would it not be well for the S. A. F., as 

 representing growers in all the States, to extend such 

 assistance and support as is in its power 'i 



An annual clean-up day has come to be 



"Clean-up" quite the fashion in many towns of late. 



day From the standpoint of the local florist, 



seedsman or nurserjTnan, this innovation 

 should be industriously advocated and incited and can 

 be made a lever to induce every man, woman and child 

 in the town to strive to do something for the tidying-up 

 and beautifying of their surroundings, which is equiva- 

 lent to doing something for horticulture, ilany willing 

 hands make light work and one great point in favor of 

 the movement is that when once the spirit of cleanliness 

 and order is awakened and the appreciation is aroused 

 for attractive surroundings, everj" day will, in a measure, 

 be a clean-up day. We read of one New England vUlage 

 where "they had such a grand clean-up day that the rub- 

 bish filled up a big hollow near PostofRce Square, and 

 they are going to grade it and plant rosebushes." Who 

 can estimate the cumulative effect of such a compaign 

 industriously followed up? If there is a florist, seeds- 

 man or nurserpuan in that town and he doesn't see in 

 this a sure opening for a "bigger, better, busier" busi- 

 ness for him.self then he deserves to be left to trail be- 

 hind his more discerning and enterprising rivals. As 

 an institution of permanent value and constantly in- 

 creasing profit to every one engaged in floral industry, 

 ■''Clean-U|i day" holds a potentiality far beyond any 

 "mothers' day," "fathers' day" or other similar propo- 

 sition. 



Our news notes mention the tear- 

 Angles jng down of a large range of green- 

 of view and houses for the alleged reason that 

 angles of method the policies of the present admin- 

 istration at Washington have made 

 the business unprofitaldc. But in other columns we re- 

 cord, as in eVery issue since HoRTiccLTrnE came into ex- 

 istence, a list of many new structures, rebuilding, en- 

 larging, and similar activities present or projected, 

 among the greenhouse people. As in most of the affairs 

 of life, one's convictions on this subject are no doubt 

 largely influenced by the view point "angle." There 

 never was a time when some person didn't feel sure that 

 the country was going "to the demnition bow-wows." 

 So far as the future growth and prosperity of commer- 

 cial horticulture is concerned HoEXicuLTcnE takes no 

 stock in these grouches and forebodings which are heard 

 from time to time. Greenhouse propertj' is a prime in- 

 vestment and will so continue, provided, however, that 

 the business is conducted intelligently on up-to-date 

 laethods. But, conducted on the lines of twenty-five 

 years ago "it can't be done" — which is still another 

 "angle." 



"New times demand new measures and new men; 



The world advances and in time outgrows 



The laws that in our fathers' day were best; 



And, doubtless, after us some purer scheme 



Will be shaped out by wiser men than we. 



Made wiser by the steady growth of truth. 



The time is ripe, and rotten ripe, for change; 



Then let it come: I have no dread of what 



Is called for by the instinct of mankind. 



Nor think I that Gods world would fall apart 



Because we tear a parchment more or less. 



Truth is eternal, but her effluence. 



With endless change, is fitted to the hour; 



Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect 



The promise of the future, not the past." 



— James Hussell Lowell. 



