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HOETICULTURE 



October 3, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOt. XX OCTOBER 3, 1914 NO. 14 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — An Excellent Layout of 



Residence, Greenhouse and Garden 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Adiantums— Cyclamen for the Holidays— Care of 

 Poinsettias — Carnations — Shrubs for Forcing — Fancy 



Leaved Caladiums — John J. M. Farrrll 481 



HARDY GARDEN PINKS— Richard 7?o(fte— Illustrated 483 



ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Bulletin No. 62 484 



HOLLYHOCKS— £d win Lonsdale 48.5 



THE NEW COMMERCIAL ROSES— Gcorj^e C. Watson 485 

 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Horticultural Society of 

 New York — California Association of Nurserymen — 



Connecticut Horticultural Society 486 



New Bedford Horticultural Society— Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston— Chrysanthemum Society of 



America 487 



American Dahlia Society— St. Louis Club and Asso- 

 ciation Meetings— Club and Society Notes 488 



Chrysanthemum Show at Chicago 485 



Boston Fruit and Vegetable Exhibition 490 



SEED TRADE— New Onion Industry in Bahamas... 490 

 THE TRUE SITUATION IN HOLLAND— /cc« Smits.. 490 

 OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 492 



Flowers by Telegraph 493 



THE MISSION OF BEAUTY— C. S. Harrison 495 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, Knoxville, New 



York 497 



Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 499 



ADAPTATION OF PLANTS TO SOIL— Dr. George E. 

 Stone 504 



OBITUARY— George Rauchert— Marshall F. Ewell— 



John Burr— Wilfred A. Brotherton 506 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Berkshire Hills Garden— Illustrated 485 



Greenhouse Grapes 485 



Illinois State Fair 485 



Cover Illustration 485 



Catalogues Received 490 



News Notes 492-493 



Philadelphia Notes 494 



Washington Notes— Chicago Notes 494 



Tennessee Getting Busy 494 



Visitors' Register— Personal 499 



Publication Received 504 



Patents Granted 504 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 506 



New Corporations 506 



It i.- geuerally kuown that the gov- 



Pines as a frnment has forbulden the importation 



home product jnto this country of the white pine 



P. strobus and the Japanese P. parvi- 



flora oil account of the disease known as white blister to 



which these species are susceptible. To the excluded 

 ])ines are now likely to be added the Scotch P. sylvestris, 

 the Au.strian P. au?triaca. the Swiss Stone, P. Cembra, 

 and the Swiss P. Miighus because of a newly discovered 

 insect ^\'hich attacks them. The larva is translucent 

 brown with black head and thorax. This grub, Evetria 

 bu.sliana is found eating the buds in late summer and 

 causing distorted growth. We have not yet lieard of any 

 proven remedy but it looks as if the raising of young 

 stock of all the aforementioned species might become a 

 (juite remunerative industry in this countrj- under the 

 impetus of the foreign exclusion. Most of them are 

 easily raised and the white pine especially is a veiy rapid 

 grower, while there is absolutely no possibility of its 

 being overdone. The Austrian, Scotch and Mughus are 

 splendid for bleak seaside planting. 



The secretary of the Horticultural So- 

 Getting out eiety of New York, in his description of 

 of the rut i]^q more interesting features of the 



recent exhibition of dahlias in New York 

 City, refers approvingly to the innovation by one ex- 

 hibitor wliu was not content to display the blooms in the 

 customary formal manner but sought to make an artistic 

 arrangement, blending the flowers and autumn foliage 

 in effective harmonious groupings. This is in line with 

 what HoRTicrLTURE ha.s been ]ireaching year after year 

 and indicates clearly the lines which in our opinion must 

 be followed in the further advancement and popularizing 

 of all flower exhibitions. We fully agree with our cor- 

 respondent that "it is surprising that the dahlia is not 

 more frequently thus displayed." Not only the dahlia 

 but the chrysanthemum, the carnation, the sweet pea, 

 the rose and, in fact, the whole list of exhibition favorites 

 might be enumerated as suffering for lack of just such 

 attention. A very similar note will be found in the ac- 

 count of the New Bedford exhibition in tliis paper. The 

 subject here brought forward is a vital one and the sug- 

 gestions made by these writers are emphatically worthy 

 of careful reading and thoughtful consideration by all 

 who desire to see floriculture flourish through the, dis- 

 semination of a better knowledge of the use of flowers 

 and their arrangement. 



If a man's trade has fallen off from 

 Don't lose your uDniial volume or compares unfavor- 

 courage now .^\,\y jn any way with that of the cor- 

 responding period last year he is not 

 necessarily a pessimist if he sliould so declare. Should 

 lie, liowever, allow this fact to dishearten him and 

 influence him to the conclusion that l)ecause of this 

 the future is so dubious that he must relax his business 

 activities and cut down his advertising "expenses," then 

 he becomes a pessimist with suicidal tendencies. To 

 recover lost ground in a time of "diminished business 

 there is no means so effectual as courageous, well- 

 directed advertising. Whatever may be tbe cost of this 

 it is an investment rather than an expense and, although 

 the curtailment of expense accounts is a most excellent 



