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HOBTICULTUEB 



August 8, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XX 



AUGUST 8, 1914 



NO. 6 



riBLISIIED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICUTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



TelephoDe, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Fost Office 

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTR.^TION— The New F. R. Pierson 

 Building at Tarrytown, N. Y 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Aspi- 

 distra — Care of Chrysanthemums — Dahlias — Holly- 

 hocks — Orchids — Sowing Myosotis and Daisies — Poin- 

 settias and Begonias — John J. M. FarrcU 160 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Heating Repairs 

 — Ventilation — The Bottom Leaves on Beauties — 

 Lime — Manure for Mulching — Arthur C. Ruzirka.... 171 



THE CONVENTION CITY— The Convention Garden- 

 August Flower Show in Boston — Boston Day — Flor- 

 ists' Telegraph Delivery — American Carnation Soci- 

 ety — Chrysathemum Society of America — Accom- 

 modations — Boston Public Library and New Old 



South Church, Illustration 172 



The Shrine of a Gifted Authoress — Illustrated 173 



A LETTER FROM GERMANY— fl", Huebner 173 



A MAGNIFICENT FLORAL BUILDING— Illustrated. . 174 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Bar Harbor Sweet Pea 



Show — Worcester County Horticultural Society 175 



North Shore (111.) Exhibition 177 



Club and Society Notes 176 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia— Southampton (N. Y.) 

 Horticultural Society — New York Florists'Club — Flor- 

 ists' Club of Washington — Society of American Flor- 

 ists 178 



DURING RECESS— Tarrytown Horticultural Society- 

 Picnic of Minnesota Florists, Illustrated 176 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Martin Finaghty— Mrs. Ruby B. Les- 

 lie — Mrs. John H. Newman — Estella Kaiser — Henry 

 Kahrs— Theodore Bock— Thomas Mansfield— E. W. 

 Habermehl 180 



SEED TRADE 182 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Model Retailer— New Flower Stores 184 



Flowers by Telegraph 185 



FLOWER MARKET REPORT: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 189 



New York, St. Louis, Washington 191 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Americans Within the War Zone 173 



To Lovers of Dahlias 173 



Catalogues Received 182 



Raising Hardy Perennials from Seed— P. Fordham... 182 

 Lilium Myriophyllum from Seed; Forcing Bulbs Sec- 

 ond Time 182 



Business Troubles 182 



News Notes 185 



St. Louis Notes 186 



Visitors' Register— Pensonal 191 



Chicago Notes, Cincinnati Notes 191 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 198 



Fires— Patent Granted 198 



New Corporations lyS 



Wliile fortunately free from the terrors of 



The army attacking battalions of armed men, we in 



worm this country have our own trials in a less 



distressing but by no means insignificant 

 form. From all directions come startling accounts of 

 the invasion of vast armies of worms which lay waste 

 fields and gardens and destroy all the crops in their 

 path. Xo section of the eastern half of the United 

 States seems to have escaped more or less serious dam- 

 age from the ravages of the dreaded army worm. Many 

 suppressive remedies have been recommended, some of 

 which we have published in previous issues and whicli 



Cruel 

 war 



need not be repeated here. We just wish to call atten- 

 tion to the statement now made by the Secretary of the 

 Massachustts Board of Agriculture that robins, blue- 

 birds, blackbirds, grackles and English sparrows, as- 

 sisted by a small detachment of toads, have succeeded in 

 checking the destructive march of the army worms 

 throtigh southeastern Massachusetts. We hope that the 

 distribution of poisoned bran mash in gardens as hereto- 

 fore recommended will not be generally adopted for it 

 would kill many of these feathered allies which nature 

 has given us for a useful purpose. Indeed, they are all 

 too few now. 



In common with every civilized community 

 and every individual pos.sessing a spark of 

 human sympathy and pity for those who suf- 

 fer, we are deeply saddened by the terrible 

 infliction which has fallen with such appalling sudden- 

 ness upon Europe, and, indeed, upon the whole world. 

 Millions of human lives, untold millions of value in 

 property, the garnered harvest of centuries of industry, 

 the commercial prosperity of a continent, institutions of 

 philanthropy, justice, refinement and art — the best that 

 the human mind has ever devised or achieved — all this 

 and more is made a ghastly sacrifice to the inflamed 

 passions of war. The most frightful pages in human 

 history are about to be written and the. burden of woe 

 and life-long misery Avill fall with crushing weight upon 

 millions and millions of our fellow-creatures who are 

 blameless of any part in bringing about the ruthless 

 devastation and slaughter. None of us. however remote 

 from the theatre of this titanic death-grapple, can hope 

 to entirely esca])e the effect of its withering blast.- Let 

 us hope that it will be quiekly over and tliat it may be 

 the last, as it is unquestionaldy the greatest conflict this 

 world has ever seen 



In the light of these most momentous 

 Perplexities aspects of the situation it seems trivial 



to refer to the immediate interruption 

 and stagnation of commerce and the overthrow of cus- 

 toms and conditions with which we have grown up and 

 of which we feel to be a part. In our horticultural rela- 

 tions with the warring countries upon which we have 

 been so dependent for a large part of our supplies we 

 must, for the time being, relinquish much that we have 

 taken for granted and counted upon as assured. For- 

 tunately a large proportion of the French bulbs are 

 already on tliis side and others are on the way with a 

 fair prospect of safe arrival. The outlook for German 

 imports is much more dubious. Lily of the valley is 

 hardly within the line of possibility. Erfurt which is 

 the centre to which we look for many flower and veg- 

 etable seeds is directly in the probable path of invading 

 armies. In Belgium every man is called to the field 

 of combat and our chances for getting azaleas look very 

 slim. As we write, Holland is yet classed as "neutral" 

 and if it so continues our Dutch bulbs may meet no 

 trouble otlier than some delay, but who can say that 

 Holland may not yet be overwhelmed by the wave of 

 wrath and destruction which surges all around her bor- 

 ders, before the ink is dry on these pages? Horticul- 

 tural importing houses in this country are hard hit 

 and if present forebodings come true most of their busi- 

 ness for this year is ruined. In the present uncertainty 

 and chaos our only course is to wait and Jtope for the 

 best. The one redeeming feature of the situation is 

 the possibility of the use of more home material. In 

 the contingency that here may begin an era of special 

 development of hitherto untried home resources we may 

 yet perhaps discern the "silver lining" to the dark 

 clouds tliat now appear so ominous. 



