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H OHT I CULTURE 



January 8, 1916 



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VOL XXIII JANUARY H. 19l(. hO. 2 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTKATIO.N" MiiKMolla salicifolia 



NOTES ON CILTUUK OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Asparagus — Fucli.sias - Gardenias — Geraniums — 

 Primulas for the Next Holidays — John J. if. FarreU 39 



J.A.CKSON T. D.WVSON— HIS WORK AND HIS 

 WORKSHOP— K. //. lli/son- Illustrated 40 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GRASS — Fumigation — 

 Tobacco Stems in the Walks — Syringing Young 

 Plants— Watch Out for Worms In the Pots — Water- 

 ing — Arthur C. Ruzicke 41 



CYCNOCHES— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 43 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— .\merican Carnation Society 

 — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Meetings 

 Next Week — St. Louis Meetings — National .'Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners — Booming the National Flower 

 Show — Club and Society Notes 44-45 



PACHYSANDRA TERMI.VALIS AS A GROUND 

 COVER— Jf. P. Hac?id(er— Illustrated 46 



SEED TRADE 47 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Watch Your Stamps — New Flower Stores 48 



Flowers by Telegraph 49 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington, 

 Boston 50-51 



OBITUARY — Norton Huggins — George Dobbs— Wil- 

 liam W. Foster — William H. Bowker 51 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Hiiflalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York.... 53 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco.. 55 



Washington 60 



REFLECTING ON ONES EMPLOYEE WITHOUT 

 PROOF— EJ<on ./. Buckley 60 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Winter Protection of Strawberries 43 



Fighting Moths With Parasites 43 



Publication Received 45 



News Notes 45, 48, 62 



New Corporations 46 



The Prairie Style of Landscape Gardening 46 



Catalogues Received 47 



Visitors' Register 60 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 62 



Here rdiiir liuj annual ealalo;i"iie>. Tlif 

 The spring long fall labors of the .seedsman have 

 catalogues <ome to fruition and here are his chil- 

 dren, arriving by every post delivery. 

 Each one — even the most unpretentious — represents ef- 

 fort to surpass in one direction or another, and in the 

 voluminous total we don't believe there is one page 

 deliberately inserted to deceive. If the public were 

 only half as intelligent and attentive in their use of 



tin ,-. ..; li/.in's wares as the seedsman is anxious to 

 excel in the quality provided we shouldn't hear so much 

 about unsatisfaetorj' results. The best remedy ever ap- 

 ]ilied for "poor socds" is hurtiiuitiiral education. 



A gentleman of country-wide repute 

 Pleasure who was in attendance at the recent 

 that is mutual iructing of gardeners in Boston writes 

 M> follows: "Wc iuul a licautiful time 

 in Boston. Wish it could have lasted a week. Tiiere 

 is more sociability about Bosl^jn tiian in any iialf dozen 

 centers onywhere else." We like this .sort of a compli- 

 ment for our city and the men of iiorticulture who make 

 Boston their home. Who wouldn't be pleased with such 

 encomiums? Boston has never liecn in tiie habit of 

 boasting about the brand of iios])itality meted out to 

 the visitor but tiie old town seems to "get there, just 

 the same," when the opportunity presents itself and 

 the worthy stranger gets within her boundaries. Our 

 friends should not forget, however, that the pleasure 

 of being host is fuller and keener than that of being 

 guest so the obligation is one that admits of division. 

 Wliat a barren existence this would be if nobody came 

 to visit us ! 



.\nyone who thought that Philadelphia 



A giant miglit be found lacking in modem push 



turned loose and energy when assuming the responsi- 



biliticff of a great national flower show 

 must by this time have been pretty well convinced that 

 Philadelphia is fully equal to the ta.sk. As the time 

 draws near we see cumulative evidence that the big city 

 on the Delaware is well prepared to show the world that 

 she has lost none of the spirit of the horticultural pres- 

 tige which for so many years she has commande<l and, 

 further, that in tlie way of publicity for this stupendous 

 undertaking she is in a way to "put one over" on all her 

 predecessors in the national flower show series, in ef- 

 fective advertising. The fact that the services of the 

 Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia have been enlisted 

 to that end as announced in another column of this 

 paper, gives absolute assurance that the science of flow- 

 er show publicity is about to have another very sub- 

 stantial push forward. And every true lover of horti- 

 cultural progress will applaud. 



The communication in this issue on 



A man \]^q work of Jackson Dawison by E. H. 



much beloved Wilson is a sincere tribute to a most 



remarkable man by one who perhaps 

 is best qualified to place a right estimate on Mr. Daw- 

 son's services to American horticulture. The full sig- 

 nificance of the work which the Arnold Arboretum has 

 done and is doing will no doubt be better understood 

 and recognized in the years to come when the present 

 generation has passed away. It is when surveying the 

 useful career and noble personality of such a man as 

 Jackson Dawson that one is impelled to demur against 

 N"ature's limitations on human life and activity. We 

 hope that physically and intellectually this grand old 

 man of horticulture may be spared for many, many 

 years to continue his work and to enjoy the sweet con- 

 templation of its results. The picture accompanying 

 Mr. Wilson's article is from a snapshot taken by E. 

 P. Coe of the Elm City Xurseries of New Haven, Conn, 

 on a recent visit. Wliile unpretentious as a photograph 

 it is the best likeness of Mr. Dawson that we have seen 

 in late years and as such will be appreciated by thou- 

 sands of Houticultohf/s readers. 



