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HOETICULTUEE 



April 21, 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXV APRIL 21, 1917 Na 16 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Simple and Tasteful 



Floral Vase 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Asters 

 — Camellias — Place Stock in Frames — Summer Clim- 

 bers — Swainsonas — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell.. 513 



THE STORY OF THE DAVIDIA— S. H. Wilson— 

 Illustrated 515 



OLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Dinner of "International" 

 Flower Show Committee — Meetings Next Week — 

 Prof. E. A. White, portrait — Society of American 

 Florists — Nassau County Horticultural Society — 

 American Association of Nurserymen — Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston— Chicago Florists' Club 

 — Coming Exhibitions — Diagram S. A. F. Convention 

 Garden — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural 

 Society — Rhode Island Horticultural Society — Club 

 and Society Notes 517-519 



THE LATE W. C. LANGBRIDGE 523 



OBITUARY— D. Mclntyre— Mrs. Frank H. Wilson— 

 A. L. Glaser 523 



SEED TRADE— New Bills Before Congress 524 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Cover Illustration 526 



Flowers by Telegraph 526 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Washington, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, 

 Pittsburgh 528 



HOW TO SAVE YOUR SECURITY ON PROMISSORY 

 NOTE— EJ(oji J. Bucklei/ 529 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS- 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 

 Pittsburgh 531 



St. Louis, Washington 533 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Two AVilson Lilies 516 



Insect and Animal Pests of the Gladiolus 519 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated - 520 



Unrivalled Specimen Chrysanthemums— Illustrated. . 520 



Gladiolus Diseases 522 



Missouri Colle,ge of Agriculture Students to Work on 



Farms 523 



Proper Depth to Plant Bulbs 523 



Publications Received 521 



Control of Mushroom Pests 524 



Visitors' Register 533 



New Corporation 533 



News Notes 533 



Horticulture 



coming into 



Its own 



Prof. A. S. Thurston's account of 

 what they are doing in the Iowa 

 State College to teach practical hor- 

 ticulture, which appeared in last 

 week's edition of this paper, sliows 

 that they arc working on right lines and are "getting 

 there" and the course being pursued will go far to 

 t^treugthen the tie that binds commercial floriculture 

 and the more progressive and wide awake of the state 

 agricultural institutions. The methods of training 

 now prevalent in such places as Ame.s, Cornell and Am- ■ 

 herst gives promjse of a particularly high class of in- \ 

 telligence and ability in the coming generation of flor- 

 ists. This somewhat tardy recogiiition has been 

 worthily won by the men engaged in floric^ulture. 

 They had to go it alone for many, many years. 



The ignorant and "irresponsible" 

 Misrepresentation newspaper reporter is certain to 



l>reak out somewhere when Easter 

 or any other floral day comes around and his state- 

 ments are made with a reckless disregard of their au- 

 thenticity or of the injury their publication may in- 

 flict upon the florist business. This time he seems to 

 liave got loose in Pittsburgh for the Easter season for 

 after telling the readers of one of tlie leading dailies of 

 that city that "nine out of every ten persons on the 

 streets had some kind of a plant or bloom in their arms 

 or on their clotlting" he goes on to state that violets 

 were $3.0(> a bunch in the high-priced shops and 25 

 cents on the street corners" and that "sweet peas that 

 lu'ought •tS-.'JO a bunch in the larger shops could be 

 purcliased for 15 cents in the market district" ! A 

 ]iretty strong indictment, surely of the methods of the 

 Pittsburgh markets and of the "larger shops." 



By jjennission of the publishers we have the 

 A tree pleasure of presenting to the readers of 

 hunt IIoiiTicuLTunE ■ some very interesting ex- 

 tracts from one chapter in the new book by 

 E. H. Wilson entitled "Aristocrats of the Garden." 

 riic engrossing story of how Mr. Wilson found Davidia 

 involucrata in the wilderness of China fills twenty 

 pages in tlie liook, and our available space would only 

 admit a small part of it. Enough is given, however, 

 to deeply interest any tree lover and show them how 

 our gardens came into possession of one of the most 

 lieautiful and remarkable of all trees. Without any 

 of the overdrawn features which orchid collectors and 

 others have sometimes indulged in and told in Mr. 

 Wilson's sim]ile narration of the difficulties which con- 

 fronted him .should awaken a better appreciation of 

 the men and the means whereby our gardens become 

 enriched witli the multitudinous gems from distant 

 lands; of tlic time and money spent in the quest and 

 of the toll paid in human energy and life. It has been 

 truly said that "if the denizens of our gardens could 

 give s]>cech tiicir story would be more engrossing and 

 I'omantie than tluit told or conceived by authors of the 

 "best sellers." 



