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HOKTICULTURE 



June 16, 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXV 



JUNE 16, 1917 



NO. 24 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BT 



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Ilntered as second-cIasB matter December 8, 1004, at tbe Peat Office 

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



CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Field of Fairy Isle Lily. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Violets — Clirysaiithemums — ^Cinerarias for Christ- 

 mas — Bouvardias — Outdoor Roses — Reminders — John 

 J. M. Farrell 757 



ROSES AND PEONIES AT DREER'S— G. C. Watxon.. 759 



BOSTON OUTDOOR JUNE FLOWER SHOW— View 

 in Rose Garden by Thomas Roland, Illustrated — 

 Orchids at the Show— Walter Oott 761 



OBITUARY— Samuel Appleby— John Young— S. T. 

 Minon — Rodman M. Eisenhart 761 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Chicago Florists' Club — Florists' 

 Hail Association of America — Meetings Next Week — 

 New York Federation — New York Florists' Club — 

 Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — 

 Holyoke and Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club 762-763 



SEED TRADE— How Seedsmen Will Help the Parmer 764 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 New Flower Stores — Detroit Florists' Billboard, 



Illustrated 766 



Flowers by Telegraph 767 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Rochester, Pittsburgh, 

 St. Louis 768 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. New York 771 



Pittsburgh, Rochester, N. Y., St. Louis, Washington 773 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 i'eonies, Charlemagne and Ornement Des Massifs — 



William Rollins 759 



Rock Garden Plants— ifieftard Hothe 759 



Peony Show at Philadelphia 759 



New Haven, Conn., Exhibitions 761 



Visitors' Register 761 



Dutch Cargo Ships Leave for America 764 



Golden Wedding of Abram L. Pennock, Illustrated 769 



Personal 769 



New Corporation 773 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 778 



News Notes 764-778 



Patent Granted 778 



A florist of Philadelphia reports that some 

 A time ago he paid for a subscription to 



swindler HORTICULTURE to a man posing as a lep- 

 resentative of the pa]ier and giving the 

 name of F. Hill, but never received the paper. The man 

 was an imposter. We give publicity to the fact here 

 so that the trade may be forewarned in case any such 

 party should show up. We again give notice to our 

 readers that Horticulture has no authorized travel- 

 ing suliscriptiou solicitors. 



Whatever fault one may be disposed to 

 Sweet fiiij ^vitli the operations and vagaries of 



pea weather the weather thus far cannot fairly in- 

 clude anv criticism of its effect on the 



sweet peas, for conditions have been most favorable thus 

 far for peas of any kind and should it continue on the 

 same order there is indeed a treat ahead for the sweet 

 jiea lovers in the approaching July exhibition of the 

 American Sweet Pea Society in Boston. This event in 

 the past two year.s, at Newport and Bar Harbor re- 

 spectively, was a keen disajipointment to many growers 

 who had made zealous preparation, and all on account 

 of the transgressions of the weather. We hope that 

 fortime will not rela.x in her amiable attitude this time 

 and that the conditions now so promising may continue, 

 in which case Boston and the sweet pea growers will 

 have a spectacle to present which will richly repay a 

 visit, even though the distance be long. 



The radical action in the matter of en- 



A tertainment at the S. A. F. Convention 



noteworthy next August, taken by the New York 



decision Florists' Club at its meeting on hist 



Monday night, cannot fail to have a far- 

 reaching effect on the future activities of the national 

 society. It brings to a head in a very natural way, liy 

 reason of present economic conditions, that which has 

 heen in the heart of many well-wishers of the S. A. F. 

 IVir a number of years, and for the lirst time in the his- 

 tory of that organization leaves the waiV open for any 

 city that may follow New York as host of the S. A. F. 

 to invite the Society without feeling obligated to emu- 

 late its predecessor and assume a heavy expenditure for 

 elaborate entertainment. This step can be taken and 

 deep-rooted traditions disregarded with a better grace 

 l)y New York, i>crhaps, than l)y any other city in the 

 country, for her ability and willingness to "go the limit" 

 on entertainment are beyond ([uestion and no suspicion 

 of grudging economy can attach to her action as might 

 he the case with places of more limited resources. The 

 S. A. F. will undoubtedly take the action of the New 

 York Florists' Club in good part. It cannot he expected 

 that all will be pleased but we believe the majority of 

 visitors will heartily approve the stand and the motives 

 which actuated the Club, while the greater freedom of 

 movement thus made possible will be much appreciated 

 by both visitors and the local trade. 



As for ourselves we are particularly 

 Prudence pleased to note the disposition to restore 



to its pristine simplicity and unpreten- 

 tious character the pleasant social feature of the S. A. F. 

 conventions known as the president's reception. It is to 

 be hoped that the spirit and the letter of the sentiments 

 which seemed to actuate the decision of the New York 

 Florists' Club may be observeil and the visitors made to 

 understand that they may leave their swallow-tails and 

 other burdensome toggery at home this August and 

 enjoy the pleasure of a hand-shake with their president 

 and his staff in unconventional comfort. If this and 

 other moderations which many of the S. A. F. memliers 

 consider becoming in this exceptional year should be 

 literally carried out and a serious business-like and 

 business-helping convention should ensue, the effect 

 u}X)n tlie public opinion of tlie florist and his business 

 cannot fail to be reassuring and salutary. What may 

 happen any time now in this wax-torn world of ours, 

 no one can predict, and in observing "the eternal fitness 

 of tilings" the Society of American Florists and the 

 New York Florists' Club will, we believe, have done 

 much toward winning for themselves and the floricul- 

 tural interests they represent, that j^opular good will 

 and respect which will soon be sadly needed if the 

 "ruthless" cani]Kiign against so-called "luxuries" should 

 continue. 



