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HORTICULTURE 



August 29. 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XX 



AUGUST 29, 1914 



NO. 9 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone. Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manaser. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 19(M, at the Post Office 

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Executive Board of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Carnations — Feeding Ctirysantheraums — Planting 

 French Bulbs — Schizanthus Wisetonensis — Violets — 

 Ventilating Orchids— John J. M. Farfell 317 



ARCTOSTAPHYLLOS VVA-VRSl— Hubert M. Canning 318 



SWEET PEA MARGARET ATLEE— Illustrated 318 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Mulching— Use of 

 Bone Meal — Ventilation After Mulching — Watering — 

 Dark Corners — Arthur C. Ruzicka 319 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— TV. H. Adsett 321 



THE BOSTON CONVENTION— Closing Session — Vari- 

 ous Reports 322 



The Convention Garden — Illustrations 323 



A Day of Entertainment and Games 323 



Cover Illustration — Get your Prize — Notes 325 



STANDARDIZE THE JARDINIERES—./. G. Whilldin 326 



•CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— National Association of 



Gardeners 328 



The Lancaster County Florists' Club — American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen — American Gladiolus So- 

 ciety — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Nassau County Horticultural Society 334 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Newport Flow- 

 er Show — Gladiolus Society of Ohio — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 335 



SEED TRADE— G. C. Watson 330 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 332 



Flowers by Telegraph 333 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 337 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 339 



ROSE TEST GARDEN— Key Plan of Garden at Arling- 

 ton Farm, Va 344 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A New Haven Rose Garden — Illustrated 321 



Home from the War Country — Personal 321 



Ginger Snaps— G. C. W 325 



Buddleia and Bougainvillea 327 



Water Hyacinth as a Fiber Producer 330 



Looks Like a Rascal — A Fraud 330 



Cincinnati Notes 333 



Chicago Notes — St. Louis Notes 339 



Visitors' Register 339 



"Red Devil" Circular Glass Cutters — Illustrated 346 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 346 



In Mr. Farquhar's remarks at 



Convention gardens \nntasket last Friday afternoon 



and their value that gentleman alluded to the 



Convention Garden at Boston as 

 the third in the series of outdoor exploits by the S. A. F. 

 Mr. Farquhar was right, although this year's affair ap- 

 pears to have been understood by some to be the second 

 •only. The first convention garden was in the year 1906 

 at Dayton. Ohio. The sessions of the Society were held 

 in a spacious pavilion with the sides all open, in the 

 centre of the Fair Grounds. The secretary's account of 

 the event contained the following paragraph : 



"On all sides skirting the green lawns were to be seen 

 the brilliant flower beds of the out door display, contribut- 

 ing a charming effect and causing much regretful comment 

 on the costly mistake the ornamental nurserymen had 

 Tuade in failing to take advantage of this unprecedented op- 

 portunity for showing their goods." 



The judges' report on this, the first convention gar- 

 den, was signed by Peter Bisset, Edwin Lonsdale and 

 William Miller. It will be noticed that the dealers in 

 hardy decorative trees and shrubbery held aloof from 

 participating in this just as they have stayed away from 

 the Boston affair, leaving the field mainly to the dealers 

 in cannas, gladioli and other soft-wooded material, with 

 a disregard of opportunity and a lack of enterprise 

 which seems almost incredible. President Kasting, in 

 his splendid address at the opening of the Dayton Con- 

 vention said : 



"How can we best reach the people who are interested 

 in garden matters, and increase their love for vernal sur- 

 roundings, as well as to plant desire where no desire ex- 

 ists, are questions of vital importance and worthy of our 

 most earnest consideration. Exhibitions as a factor in edu- 

 cation are of the greatest value. It is by the eye more than 

 the ear that people are interested." 



Mr. Kasting, in these words, sounded a key note for 

 commercial horticultural progress. 



In the printed S. A. F. records of 



The S. A. F. and the great debate on the proposition 



hail insurance for the establishment of a system 



of insurance against losses by hail- 

 storms, at the Philadelphia Convention in 1886, we 

 learn that John G. Esler submitted a plan for the 

 organization of a mutual hail insurance company to be 

 known as the Florists' National Hail Insurance Com- 

 pany, together with draft of proposed government, by- 

 laws, etc., in which no mention was made of any connec- 

 tion with the S. A. F. other than that the annual meet- 

 ings of the organization were to be held at the time of 

 the S. A. F. annual convention. This scheme with 

 some amendments jiresented by J. N. May concerning 

 method of fees and assessments, was finally approved 

 by unanimous vote and on motion of Mr. Esler, "a com- 

 mittee of five appointed to organize a company, with 

 the understanding that the Society of American Flor- 

 ists will not be liable, financially, because of such or- 

 ganization." This committee as appointed by the pres- 

 ident consisted of J. M. Jordan, H. A. Siebrecht, E. G. 

 Hill, J. G. Esler and J. C. Vaughan. In the report pre- 

 sented by the committee the following year at Chicago, 

 announcement was made that the Hail Association had 

 been organized in July under the laws of the State of 

 New Jersey and was already doing business, with John 

 G. Esler as Secretary. Chairman Jordan supplemented 

 the report with a few remarks from which we (|Hote the 

 following : 



"I presume that most of you know that this organiza- 

 tion of the Hail .-Association is the child of this Society. 

 We want you to father It in such a way that we will know, 

 by your assistance and your appreciation of the work, that 

 you are in hearty sympathy with our efforts. I think the 

 child is now ready to be set to work upon its own responsi- 

 bility." 



The success of the working of the Hail Association 

 was again proclaimed by Secretary Esler at the Conven- 

 tion in New York City the following year. In the 

 light of the facts as above stated we fail to see any justi- 

 fication for the remark by the esteemed secretary of 

 the Hail Association during the discussion on "Affilia- 

 tion" at the meeting in Boston last week, that the Hail 

 Association had been "thrown out" by the S. A. F. at 

 the time of its inception. This is not the first time the 

 S. A. F. has been reprimanded in this fashion. If its 

 repetition is allowed to go unchallenged year after year 

 the accusation will in time assume the appearance of 

 truth and it seems proper that those familiar with 

 the facts should now take opportunity to refute it. 



