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HORTICULTURE 



November 21, 1914 



horticulture: 



VOL. XX 



NOVEMBER 21. 1914 



NO. 21 



PIBLISHEU WeKKLV BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Trippbone, Oxford t9i. 

 WM. i. STEWART, Editor and Manarw. 



■ntered aa set-und-claaa matter DececQber !j, 1!)U4. at tbe Poat Office 

 at Boaton. Mass., under tbe Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS P'^se 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleya Dowiana Memoria 

 Julius Roehrs 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Cin- 

 erarias for Christmas — Irises for Forcing — Lilium 

 speciosum — Resting Bougainvilleas — Paper White 

 Narcissi — Spiraes — John J. M. Farrell 717 



CHINESE "WOOL FhOWER"— John Letvis Childs— 

 Illustrated 717 



ILEX OPACA— Hubert M. Canning 718 



CATTLEYA DOWIANA MEMORIA JULIUS ROEHRS 

 —Illustrated 718 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Damping Down- 

 Fumigation — Cutting — Disbudding — Sand — Old Beau- 

 ty Plants— .lr(/!ur C. Ruzicka 719 



LYCHNIS — Richard Ro^fte— Illustrated 721 



FALL TREATMENT OF VINES— J. W. Smith 721 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Lancaster County Flower Show 

 — Chrysanthemum Show at University of Illinois — 



Minnesota State Florists' Association 722 



American Institute of New York 723 



BURPEE'S FORDHOOK HYBRID GLADIOLI— Illus- 

 trated 723 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Program National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners' Convention — Westchester and 

 Fairfield Horticultural Society- Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists Club of Boston— University of Illinois Flori- 

 cultural Club Gives Reception— Connecticut Horticul- 

 tural Society— An Appreciative Reply, 724 



Meeting of the National Flower Show Committee — 

 St. Louis Club Meeting— Notes 725 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA— Presi- 

 dent's Address 726 



THE GARDENER AND HIS PROFESSION— W. .V. ^ 

 Craig '^26 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 727 



OBITUARY — E. E. Peiser, Portrait — J. Lowe Parker — 

 Cyrus A. Balkan 728 



SEED TRADE— Holland Seed Supply— Notes 730 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Retailer's Business Calendar 732 



Flowers bv Telegraph 733 



Two Views in New Flower Store of George H. Cooke ^ 

 — New Flower Stores ''33 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston— San Francisco— Springfield, 111 734 



Knoxville — Cincinnati '735 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Knoxville, New 



York Ill 



Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 739 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal [^27 



A Versatile Gardener '27 



Chicago Notes — Incorporated 728 



Visitors' Register '^28 



News Notes 729-733-744-746 



Gladiolus Registration— Catalogues Received i30 



Pines Attacked by New Insect 744 



Geranium Leaf Spot— /f. A. Vincent 744 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 746 



Silkworms and Tools 746 



Patents Granted ''^^ 



Felicitations to Lancaster, Pa., on their 



On the .success in carrying through a flower 



right track show in modern, progressive lines, as 



told in our news columns. Every city 



in the country can do equally as well, if the local trade 



and profession will only follow Lanca'^ter's good exam- 



ple and, forgetting immediate self-interest, for the time 

 being, all get together entliusiastically for the general 

 good. The lively impulse given by these local affairs 

 when properly conducted and the resultant increased 

 interest in and demand for the products of the florist 

 cannot be overstated. In the lesser communities they 

 are undoubtedly far more potent in this respect tlian 

 are the more pretentious displays presented to the 

 amusement-seeking public of the metropolitan centres. 

 We congratulate our friends in Lancaster for their 

 good sense and public spirit and we hope to see their 

 progressive example emulated in a score of places next 

 season. 



We believe that the horticultural inter- 

 Philadelphia egts generally will be much gratified 

 for 1916 in reading the minutes of the meeting 



of the National Flower Show Com- 

 mittee iield in Philadelphia last week. We present the 

 report in full detail, for, showing as it does, the repre- 

 sentative character and standing of the Philadelnliia 

 firms who have pledged enthusiastic co-operation in this 

 big undertaking, it eliminates all anxiety as to what 

 support may be expected from the local trade and pro- 

 fession, whose loyalty and zeal are so indispensable to 

 the full success of such an enterprise. That Philadel- 

 phia mean3 business and will rise to the occasion with 

 her old-time spirit and unanimity there can be no ques- 

 tion. The prime movers have done well to start in thus 

 early. A year and four months is not too far ahead, 

 and we hope the work of schedule making and other 

 preparatory measures will be promptly proceeded with. 

 The situation seems to hold every element for success 

 and a glowing promise that the National Flower Show 

 of 1916 will eclipse in many respects all those that have 

 gone before. 



The seed houses and other horticultural 

 Unfair dcaleiv generally in the United States 

 competition have good and sufficient cause for pro- 

 test over the increasing number of for- 

 eigners who, maintaining no established office here, and 

 paying no taxes of any kind, local, state or income, 

 travel all over this country soliciting business in com- 

 petition with established American concerns. We have 

 in mind parties whose advertisements and correspond- 

 ence give as tlieir address, offices where their name even 

 does not appear on the door ; no information as to their 

 whereabouts can be elicited, and their only apparent 

 connection therewith is that their mail is there received 

 and held for them. From the prominent location of the 

 addresses thus advertised, trade buyers are led to place 

 a confidence in these migratory prowlers which they 

 would not do if they knew the facts. American dealers 

 and those foreign houses that maintain legitimate offices 

 in this country are called upon to pay income and other 

 business taxes, and some way should lie found to hold 

 these shirkers up to a proper responsibility, and compel 

 them to do likewise. A vigorous rounding-up by the 

 business men of New York and other seaboard centres 

 and a presentation of the facts to the proper author- 

 ities. State and Federal, is manifestly the remedy for 

 this notorious imjxisition on the trade. 



