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HOBTICULTURE 



June 9, 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL. XJCV 



JUNE 9, 1»7 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Boston Outdoor 

 June Show 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Eu- 

 charis Amazonica — Gardenias — Lilies — Resting Callas 

 — Sweet Peas — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 729 



BOSTON'S OUTDOOR JUNE FLOWER SHOW— Illus- 

 trated 731-732 



AN OLD TIME RHODODENDRON SHOW— Illustrated 732 



A PEONY LETTER FROM M. LEMOINE 733 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY— Rosarians Visit Ar- 

 lington--Roses Commended — Investigation in Rose 

 Diseases — Preliminary Report of the Pathologist in 

 Charge of Investigation of Rose Diseases 734-735 



SWEET PEA IRREGULARITIES—Winmm Gray 736 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 738 



Flowers by Telegraph 739 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Rochester. N. Y.; 

 Washington, D. C; St. Louis; New York 740 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Meetings Next Week— Notes 741 



THE EDUCATIONAL IN LANDSCAPE PLANTING— 

 .4. H. and N. M. Lake 741 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 



Rochester 743 



St. Louis, Washington 745 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Destruction by Tornado and Hall 738 



Visitors' Register 745 



A City Man's Dream, poetry 745 



"Business as Usual" 745 



Catalogues Received 750 



News Notes 750 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 750 



Tlie people of the State of New Hamp- 

 Protection shire do not intend that the fruits of 



their labors shall be lost this year by 

 lawless and indiscriminate thieving and depreda- 

 tion and have passed a law providin<j severe penal- 

 ties for any stealing or injury inflicted upon food 

 crops growing in fields or gardens. In every place 

 wherever man has planted and nurtured a crop of any 

 kind, large or small, be it either fruit, vegetables, grass 

 or flowers, there should be ample protection for his 

 rights. In the last issue of the Arnold Arboretum 

 Bulletin, Professor Sargent has found it necessary to 

 protest vigorously against the breaking of the lilac 



bushes in the Arboretum, which, without special police 

 protection would be exterminated in a day. We have 

 often wondered at the ijeculiar moral obliquity of peo- 

 ple who would not think of otherwise tampering with 

 what belonged to another Ijut who seem to sec no wroug 

 ill entering upon private grounds and stealing lilac 

 flowers. IVom the children of the streets up to the 

 lady in the limousine, all seem to regard the lilac as 

 a sort of common property ! 



Potato and bean patches have been monop- 

 Lagging olizing so much of the public interest and 

 behind go thoroughly has the propaganda for veg- 

 etable growing been pushed as an offset 

 to the h. c. 1. this season that it would seem that the 

 fruit tree as a food producer has apparently been al- 

 most lost sight of. Yet it is true beyond all question 

 that much of the rough land which has been plowed 

 up in this New England section for vegetable garden 

 use is far better fitted for the permanent planting of 

 apple trees, and the yield of vegetables from such will 

 in many instances not pay for the cost of breaking up 

 the ground. From our view point it looks as though 

 the nurserymen had been negligent in not taking ad- 

 vantage of the receptive condition of the public this 

 spring to exploit the claims of the apple, pear, plum, 

 c|uince, peach, cheriy, currant, blackberry, grape, goose- 

 berry and other fruits, large and small, as rivals of the 

 annual field crops, in these days of "liack to the land" 

 sentiment. There is a vast amount of idle land and 

 there is much that the nurseryman might say to the 

 people regarding its use, which would be not only wise 

 and remunerative as a business move but patriotic and 

 lielpful as a factor in the solution of the food problem 

 for the future. 



It is a wonderful exhibition of bigb- 

 The degree floricultural products that has 



Boston June lieen assembled in Boston's great out- 

 show door show wliich is now in progress. 

 We wish that every gardener and 

 florist in the land could be privileged to see this exhi- 

 bition for in many respects it outclasses anything of the 

 kind that has ever been done in this country and it is 

 very doubtful if its equal will be attained or even at- 

 tempted for a good many years to come. In the stand- 

 ard which it sets and as a triumph of horticulture it is 

 a signal success and this, rather than the financial out- 

 come, has been the chief aim and purpose of its pro- 

 moters. The large scale and spaciousness throughout 

 make the show extremely impressive for any visitor 

 sufficiently well informed to realize what it means to 

 develop those enonnous specimen plants and to trans- 

 port and properly place them to produce an effect so 

 spectacular. With the exception of the great Waterer 

 group of rhododendrons and the superb orchid exhibits 

 from Julius Eoehrs Company and A. N. Cooley and 

 the contribution from Mount Desert Nurseries, the en- 

 tire show is locally contributed. The unanimity and 

 spirit of loyal co-operation between the different 

 classes of membership, which President Saltonstall so 

 earnestly strives to encourage, is one of the best assets 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural SocietA^ can boast of 

 today. In bringing to such a creditable finish the 

 present undertaking, gardeners and their employers and 

 commercial florists have stood shoulder to shoulder and 

 we hope that during the coming week the only other 

 factor required for complete success — public attend- 

 ance — may measure up proportionately to the occasion. 



