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HOKTICULTTJRE 



December 26, 1914 



horticulture: 



VOL. XX 



DECEMBER 26. 1914 



NO. 26 



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CONTENTS P»e« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Papaver orientale Princess 

 Victoria Luise. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— iMig- 

 nonette — Easter Hydrangeas — Fern Spores — Start 

 Propagating — Sweet Peas — Wallflowers — John J. M. 

 Farrell 905 



CATTLEYA HARDYANA VAR. RUTHERFORD— Il- 

 lustrated 906 



PAPAVER ORIENTALS— Kicftorf/ Rothe 906 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Syringing— Selec- 

 tion of Wood for Cuttings — .Making Cuttings — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka 907 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 909 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society — Pacifie Coast Horticultural 

 Society — Connecticut Horticultural Society — Society 

 of American Florists — Lancaster County Florists' 



Association 910 



St. Louis Florist Club 911 



American Rose Society — Club and Society Notes... 912 

 Massachusetts Asparagus Growers' Association 913 



DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers 912 



SEED TRADE 911 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Florists' Telegraph Delivery — New Flower Stores... 916 



Flowers by Telegraph 917 



The Rptailers' Husiiitss Calendar 919 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Washington, Knox-, illc, San Francisco. St. 

 Louis 918 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, lUiffalo. Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 921 

 San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 923 



U. S. DEl'T. OF AGRICULTURE— Report of Entomolo- 

 gist — Ornamental Plants from Belgium 928 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Plant Houses of Anton Schultheis — Illustrated 909 



Growing Roses From Seed — Alex. Montgomery 909 



Belgium's Plight 909 



Personal 909 



New Corporations 912 



Catalogues Received — Publications Received 914 



News Notes 917-923 



Business Troubles 919 



Visitors' Register 923 



Patents Granted 928 



To Compute Amount of Piping 930 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 930 



This is Clirir^lma.s week. It hapijuns. 

 Christmas however, that i)redictions are u.seless and 



material fact.< im])os?ible as to the success 

 or othei-wise of the flori.'^ts' bis; har\-est day, for this 

 p?])or must be in type before th(^ Chri.'itmas trade lias 

 develo]>cd its volume and it will not reach our ])atrons 



until it is all over. So there is nothing for us to say 

 about Christmas until next week. 



A reader of Horticulture calls our at- 



"In the tenti on to a paragraph in the Pittsburgh 



wrong pew" notes in a recent issue of one of our 



esteemed contemporaries in which it is 

 stated that "at the request of William Falconer" a mem- 

 ber who does a large business in selling artificial flowers 

 to undertakers and others had jiromised to make a dis- 

 play of artificial flower work at- the next meeting of the 

 Pittsburgh Florists' Club. Alas, poor W. F. ! "Im- 

 perious Cffisar, dead and tumed to clay, might stop a 

 hole to keej) the wind away.'"' But this — this is the 

 limit and, like our correspondent who also knew the W. 

 F. of bygone days, we stand dumbfounded and can only 

 gasp, "Can this be trne?" 



Horticulture's friends are full of 



To popularize suggestions these days. Here comes 



the flower shows one who writes, "How goes your 



campaign now for more decorative 

 features in our fiowcr shows? You keep at it every year 

 and I sec it is beginning to bear fruit." In reply we 

 would say that we are greatly jileased to see that this 

 subject, so vital to the advancement of the jw'ptilar 

 knowledge and appreciation of floral art, is finding a 

 ])lace in the reflections of our thinking men. We have 

 on so m;iny occasions expressed our own views in a gen- 

 eral way on this subject that we hesitate to do more 

 now than urge that flower show committees apply to 

 tlii-; particular feature of their work their keenest wis- 

 dom. It is one of the livest of live topics and will not 

 be put down. There is plenty of time for a thoughtful 

 discussion before the schedules for next year are made 

 out. We know it would be very interesting to a large 

 circle of our readers to hear dilTcrent ojiinions as to how 

 we may proceed to make our exhibits of greater interest 

 to the general ])ublic and still be within the scoi)C of the 

 average exhibitor. "Don't all speak at once." 



.V valued coirespondciit of lloRTI- 

 Seediings vs ciLTUiiK questions the soundness of 

 named varieties ,,ur opinion, expressed in these col- 

 limn- a few weeks ago, as to the 

 likelihoiid of any grower getting as good chrysanthe- 

 mum flowers of the single early type from seed as could 

 be |ir(xluced from expensive named varieties. He is of 

 the opinion that either the growers about Boston mu.st 

 have better success with their seedlings than do those in 

 other parts of the country or else that the Boston men 

 do not buy the best varieties. Our views were not ba.sed 

 alone on our owti judgment but also reflected the views of 

 .some well-known gardeners of whom the last thing that 

 could be said of them is that they do not \my the highest 

 priced named varieties. The liigliest priced varieties 

 would have no tei'rors for such men but that the expen- 

 sive varieties are the "best" seems open to considerable 

 doubt. It would be very interesting to hear from some 

 of the i^uccessful exhibitors at the recent Boston show 

 and learn whether, in their unbiased ophiion, the seed- 

 lings they staged there surj)assed or even (Hpialled such 

 varieties as ,Toan Edwards, R. B. Burge, Golden Mensa. 

 Svlvia Slade. ^Iar\' Pichardson and numerous others 

 that have been classed as leaders in their special colors. 

 The subject is one that should interest many of our 

 readers and we hojie that some of them will come for- 

 ward with an expression of their conclusions. Our col- 

 umns are open to them and our mind is also o]x>n to 

 enlightenment. 



