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HORTICULTURE 



September 12, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XX 



SEPTEMBER 12, 1914 



NO. 11 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



they have managed to get their stock all right. It is due 

 to these enterprising houses that the trade should stand 

 by them in these troublous times and turn a deaf ear to 

 the blandishments of strangers who will never come 

 aaain after this year. 



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

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Floral Show Room 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Chry- 

 santhemums — Planting Peonies — Prepare for Frost 

 — Planting a Perennial Border — Orchids — Genistas 

 —John J. M. Fan-ell 38-5 



THE SILVERY LAVENDER PHLOX— WiUard X. 

 C7tt«e— Illustrated 386 



ELEAGNUS LONGIPES— Hubert M. Canning 386 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Worms and Ants 

 in Compost — Packing — Cutting — Keeping the Plants 

 Clean — The Walks in the Houses — Arthur C. Uuzicka 387 



THE BOSTON CONVENTION PROM A PHILADEL- 

 PHIAN'S POINT OP VIEW— Fred Hahman 389 



WHAT SHOULD THE S. A. F. DO FOR THE PRI- 

 VATE GARDENER— A rtftwr E. Thatcher 389 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Pittsburgh Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club — Horticultural Society of New York 

 —Club and Society Notes 392 



SEED TRADE— New Interstate Seed Bill— Notes 394 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A New Departure — Floral Show Room — New Flower 



Stores 39(! 



Flowers by Telegraph 397 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York. 



Philadelphia 401 



St. Louis, Washington 403 



DURING RECESS— Florists' Club of Washington- 

 Kansas City Florists 399 



OBITUARY— Henry Escher 399 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Annual Report 

 of Entomologist 408 



CHILDREN'S GARDENS EXHIBIT AT BOSTON... 408 



COMMERCIAL SURGERY FOR SICK TREES 410 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Sub Tropical Bed— Illustrated 38G 



Dasylirion glaucophyllum — Illustrated 389 



Trained Pear Tree — Illustrated 389 



German Potash Supply .■ 394 



Patents Granted 394 



Catalogues Received — Publication Received 394 



New Corporations 394 



Business Troubles 397 



Personal 403 



Visitors' Register — Washington Notes 403 



Wreath of Asters and Roses — Illustration 398 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 398 



News Notes 398 



Knoxville Notes 399 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 410 



It may not be out of place here and now 



The wisest to warn our readers against any stray 



course European bulb stock that may be, 



dumped on the American market through 

 one intermedium or another, on account of the hysteri- 

 cal conditions now existing abroad. Our advice is to let 

 such stufE alone and stick by regular sources of supply 

 wherever possible. American importing houses have 

 done all that could be done to secure their usual quan- 

 tity and customary quality of goods with which to supply 

 the trade upon whom they depend and who, in turn, have 

 been aeeustonipd to dffieurl upon them and. !i< a rule. 



Mr. Hahman's comments on the 



Convention Boston Convention Garden in his 



garden possibilities remarks before the Florists' Club 



of Philadelphia, of which we give 

 an abstract in this issue, are interesting especially in his 

 suggestion of the j)0ssibilities in the general arrangement 

 of such an undertaking. It is easy to see that the plan- 

 ning and planting of a garden such as Mr. Hahman ad- 

 vocates, with each exhibit placed so as to fit in as part 

 of a general scheme and contributing to a well balanced 

 whole as a garden picture would lie quite a formidable 

 imdertaking, calling for methods and management quite 

 distinct from anything heretofore attempted. It is far 

 from being an impracticability, however, and we hope it 

 will be seriously considered and discussed. If such a 

 work is to bo undertaken as a regular convention feature 

 for each year, it may become necessary for the S. A. F. 

 to decide upon its meeting place two years in advance. 

 This will not be too much time in which to lay out 

 grounds and get tlie required tree and shrub plantations 

 in and estal)lish(>d. We understand that at least two 

 jilaces are already in the running for tlie Convention of 

 1916. Assuming that either one of these cities were 

 now .settled upon for that year many preliminaries on 

 the part of the Society and tlie local people could be 

 taken up at once and next spring would see the greater 

 l)art of the heavier planting completed. Until some 

 such system is put in operation tlie Convention Garden 

 must invariably fall far short of its possibilities. 



C()n'('S|)onde)iee and circulars re- 



To develop (rived at tiiis office disclose symp- 



home industries iiinis of an encouraging awakening 



on the part of wholesale growers and 

 dealers in this country to the opportunity now presented 

 for establishing the culture here of many things we have 

 been accustomed to import from aliroad. There is really 

 no sound rea.«on why the greater part, if not all. of the 

 ]ihmt and bull) material we have been luiying in Europe 

 cannot be profita!)ly grown somewhere in this broad land, 

 with its great diversity of clinuitc and soil. We have 

 been eminently successful with the tuberose and the 

 gladiolus, not to mention certain seeds which have come 

 to be a very large item in our horticultural exporting. 

 Our ruling passion for working on the lines of least re- 

 sistance seems to be the only apparent reason for our 

 failure to take the lead in many otiier specialties. Re- 

 ferring to our enormous annual importation of young 

 seedling trees and shrubs from abroad, the National 

 Nurseryman in an editorial in its September issue can 

 only see ultimate good to the nursery business in this 

 country in the effects of the war, if the opportunity is 

 taken advantage of. and offers as a slogan, ''Propagate! 

 Propagate!" Even florists' azaleas and lily of the valley 

 pil).s are easily witliin the possibilities in this country. 

 Conceded that the price of labor is much higher here 

 than it is in Europe, that factor is offset largely by the 

 resourcefulness and higher intelligence of our laboring 

 classes and the many contingent costs and uncertainties 

 with which im|)orti'rs are well familiar. It is a hopeful 

 augury that the situation and the outlook in all its bear- 

 ings on our home industries is receiving already so much 

 attention. Such an opportunity for an auspicous start 

 is not likely ever to come again. 



