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HOKTICULTUEE 



August 1, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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AUGUST 1, 1914 



NO. 5 



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capable gardeners are occupying places much below their 



ability because of lack of courage to assert themselves, 

 nobody knows, but without a doubt there are many who 

 are in the one or the other category. The world has 

 always been amply supplied with self-confident individ- 

 uals who "went and took" and also with those whose 

 lack of courage at the psychological moment has rele- 

 gated them to a fate far below their real worth. These 

 thoughts are brought out by the recent interesting dis- 

 cussions in our columns on the "cheap gardener" ques- 

 tion. "God helps them that help themselves" is a 

 proverb as true today as it was when Ben Franklin put 

 it into Poor Kichard's Almanac. 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Convention City— View 

 in Public Garden, Boston 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Camel- 

 lias — Care of Asters — Amaryllis — Mulching Compost 

 — Primulas for Spring Flowering — Labeling Plants 

 John J. M. FarreU 137 



FORCING TOMATOES AND CUCUMBERS— /oftw J. M. 

 FarreU 138 



DIRCA PA'LVSTRIS— Hubert M. Canning 138 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Painting— Wiring 

 the Benches — Scratching Over the Benches — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka 139 



THE CONVENTION CITY— Illustrated— The Arnold 

 Arboretum, Wm. //. Judd—The Convention Garden 141 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Park Superintendents — American Gladiolus Society.. 142 

 Gladiolus Society of Ohio— William R. Smith Me- 

 morial 143 



SEED TRADE— Seed Trade Criticisms— (?eo. C. Watson 

 — Pea Crop Conditions 144 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Publicity Not Always Advertising — Steamer Depar- 

 tures 148 



Flowers by Telegraph— New Flower Stores 149 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

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

 delphia, St. Louis 153 



Washington 155 



DURING RECESS— Minnesota State Florists— Chicago 

 Florists' Club— Buffalo Florists' Club Outing— St. 

 Louis Florists' Picnic— Bobbink & Atkins' Lawn 

 Party 16o 



OBITUARY— Alexander McKerichar 162 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



E. J. Shaylor, portrait 143 



Business Troubles 14g 



Knoxville Notes— Cincinnati Notes 150 



Washington Notes 150 



Personal — New Corporations 155 



Chicago Notes 155 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 162 



Visitors' Register Ig2 



Patent Granted — News Notes 162 



Where 



self-reliance 

 counts 



"W'en 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre 



And sang of things on land and sea; 



W'atever suited 'is desire 



'E went and took, the same as me." 



— Kipling. 



How many indifferent gardeners there 

 are filling positions of high rank because they had the 

 "nerve" to walk up and appropriate them, or how many 



We wish to impress as strongly as possi- 

 Secure iilf. upon those of our readers who are 



your rooms ((uitemplating a convention trip to Bos- 

 ton, the fact that, so far as hotel accom- 

 modations are concerned, they are quite likely to find 

 that the mid-summer situation in Boston is quite the 

 reverse of what it is in some other cities they have vis- 

 ited. Instead of being a dull time with the hotels 

 August is here a busy season because of the many tour- 

 ists and summer sojourners. Those, therefore, who 

 wish accommodations during the Convention are warned 

 against waiting until they get here, assuming that there 

 will be plenty of room. Especially those who will be 

 accompanied by ladies and children should secure rooms 

 in advance and thus save themselves possible disappoint- 

 ment and annoyance. Any one of the houses advertising 

 in this paper can be relied upon. They are all close to 

 the convention hall and all first class. And those who 

 prefer to go elsewhere can be placed by the hotel com- 

 mittee of which P. Welch is cliairman, and who will be 

 pleased to advise and assist in every way he can. But, 

 in any case, attend to it now. 



As the attractiveness of the Boston 



About Convention Garden grows and ma- 



pubiic grounds (,„.,.s, the idea of maintaining it as a 



permanent floral beauty-spot devel- 

 ops and gathers strength in the public mind and with 

 the press, and has evoked favorable expression from the 

 city authorities. We earnestly hope that such disposi- 

 tion may be made of the tract but in no sense should it 

 be regarded — as suggested by some correspondents of 

 the daily press— as a possible substitute for the Public 

 Garden. We should be very sorry to see the people of 

 Boston or of any other of our populous centres ever 

 consent to an abandonment of any grounds once ac- 

 quired for public use, no matter how many additional 

 garden reservations may be constituted. It is an al- 

 most universal fault in city development that public 

 breathing spots which will be centrally located as the 

 city expands are so seldom reserved. Too often their 

 desirability is only realized when it is too late and the 

 value of land has reached a prohibitive mark. As time 

 goes on and population becomes denser Boston will have 

 occasion to thank the men who were far-sighted enough 

 to establish and maintain these open spaces with their 

 health-giving verdure and sunlight. And this applies 

 not to Boston alone but to every community. Let us 

 have the Fenway Garden, by all means, but not at the 

 sacrifice of any other breathing spot and coming genera- 

 tions will bless our memory. 



