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HOKTICULTURB 



July 18, 1914 



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JULY 18, 1914 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Convention City; View 



in Franlvlin Park, Boston 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Chrysanthemums — Care of Nephrolepis — Cypripedi- 

 ums — Planting Cold Storage Lilies — Sweet Peas — Re- 

 pairing Boilers and Piping — John J. M. Farrell 69 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Boilers— Notes 

 on Planting — Tying — Ventilation — Damping Down — 



Arthur C. Riizicka 71 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society — New Bedford Horticultural So- 

 ciety — American Rose Society — St. Louis Florist 

 Club — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — The Sea 

 Trip from Baltimore to Boston — Newport Summer 



Show 72 



Club and Society Notes 73 



HARDY DECIDUOUS RHODODENDRONS 74 



OBITUARY— Benjamin Durtee 76 



SEED TRADE— Those Foreign Seed Purchases— Forc- 

 ing Bulbs in Fiber 78 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 80 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 81 



DURING RECESS— Knoxville (Tenn.) Florists' Society, 

 Illustrated — St. Louis Florists — Florists' Club of 



AVashington 82 



Outing Cincinnati Florists — Cook County (111.) Flor- 

 ists' Association — Motored from New York to Washing- 

 ton — Newark Florists 83 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



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

 adelphia 85 



St. Louis, Washington 87 



NEW YORK FLOWER SHOW 1915 87 



FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS— i^. W. Muncie 92 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 A Hedge Screen of Mesambryanthemum — Illustrated 73 



Cheap Gardeners and Why 75 



The Gardener and Competition, Poetry 75 



C. S. Harrison's Peony Manuel 75 



Philadelphia Notes 76 



Publication Received 77 



St. Louis Notes 81 



Chicago Notes 83 



Visitors' Register ' 83 



Personal 87 



News Notes 87 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 94 



The big event of the yccar in horti- 

 The big event cultural interest— the thirtieth an- 

 nual convention of the Society of 

 American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists— is 

 now near at hand, only four weeks distant. Notwith- 

 standing the full rates which mxist now be paid for rail- 



road transportation as compared with the former roimd- 

 trip concessions, it is e-^Lpected by those best qualified to 

 judge that this Boston meeting will be one of the most 

 largely attended, if not the largest, in the society's his- 

 tory. The rapid increase in the membership roll within 

 recent years, the tmmistakable widening out of the field 

 of the Society's activities and the comparatively dense 

 population devoted to various departments of horticul- 

 tural work within convenient distance of the convention 

 city gives assurance that even from inside a 300-mile 

 radius a record-breaking number may reasonably be 

 counted upon, while the well-known attractions of Bos- 

 ton and contiguous coast resorts may be expected to draw 

 a normal attendance from remote territory. 



Tliero is no ambition on the part of 



What Boston jhe Boston fraternity to outdo or to 



offers overdo in the matter of entertainment, 



but no pains will be spared in the 

 (effort to make every convention visitor feel at home and, 

 \vhon they go away, to feel that their visit to Boston has 

 been not only enjoyable but educational and profitable in 

 a business way. Opportunity will be afforded for visits 

 to gardens of great renown and commercial establish- 

 ments which have set the pace for the entire country in 

 one or another specialty. The trade exhibition, which 

 in late years has come to be the great source of informa- 

 tion for the trade as to the practical advancement made 

 in all departments during the year, will be right up to 

 standard in extent and quality, for Secretary Young 

 states tliat most of the available exhibition space in the 

 spacious Mechanics' Building has already been disposed 

 of. The Convention Garden will be an unique expo- 

 sition of outdoor floral art and garden novelties, such as 

 but few convention cities will have the facilities for du- 

 plicating. With all these attractions already provided 

 and with many matters of vital importance to be con- 

 sidered by the Society in the three days allotted. in part 

 to business, the local managers have realized the wisdom 

 of moderation in all plans for entertainment simply. 

 Wo hope to be able to present in next week's issue the 

 complete program for the convention, together with full 

 details of local entertainment preparations. 



^, . Our columns bear testimony from time 



The poets' . ■ , 



license '""'' ^° ^"^ poetical talents of some of 



our contributors. Tennyson says, 



"Vex not tlie poets' mind; 

 For thou canst not fathom it." 



No, not for the world would we presume to tamper with 

 these "well-chosen words in well-ordered lines" and so 

 the savage "l^lue pencir' is securely chained whenever our 

 horticultural bards are moved to break out in rhyme. 

 Nobody knows the quantity of midniglit oil burned as 

 their fervid lines are fitted and built into rippling 

 stanzas. When a man is building poetry we assure you 

 he has no time for mischief. We tried it ourself once 

 and ever since have .sympathized with the verse artist. 

 So, walk right up to the desk with your poems, gentle- 

 men, and I'ear noi. 



