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irORTI CULTURE 



January 22, 1916 



HORTirULTURi: 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTK.VT ION— Greenhouses at St. Louis 

 Botanical Garden 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 .Vcacias . — Uimorphotheca aurantiaca — Ferns — Gre- 

 villea robiista — Maurandias and Thunljergias — Fever- 

 few tor .Memorial Day — John ./. .1/. I'arrell 101 



HOSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Zero Weather 

 — Watering — Repotting the Young Stock — Arthur C. 



Ruzicka 103 



THE NATION.A.L FLOWER SHOW— Illustrated 104 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society— 



C. L. Baum, portrait 104 



Society of American Florists 105 



Houston Convention Garden Plan, Illustrated 106 



.Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Lenox Horti- 

 cultural Society — American Carnation Society 108 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Horti- 

 cultural Society of Western Pennsylvania — South- 

 ampton Horticultural Society — Nassau County Horti- 

 cultural Society — Holyoke and Northampton Florists' 



and Gardeners' Club — St. Louis Florist Club 124 



Club and Society Notes 125 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling League 108 



SEED TRADE 110 



One Week's Imports 108 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 112 



Flowers by Telegraph 113 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati.. 114 

 OBITUARY — John J. Ehrhardt — Edith Moulton — 



Melissa Budlong— W. B. Du Rie— Albert McCullough 115 

 FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 117 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 119 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chrysanthemum Emma, Illustrated 108 



A Stately Greenhouse 108 



Business Troubles 108 



News Notes 112 



New Corporations — Visitors' Register 115 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 126 



We are pained to learn that the .iourual 

 An old of Horticulture of London, England, has 

 friend gone been obliged to cease publication. For 

 many years we have read it with interest 

 and profit. The Journal of Horticulture was established 

 in 1848 with George W. Johnson, author of The Gar- 

 deners' Almanac and Modem Gardeners' Dictionary as 

 editor, under the title of "The Cottage Gardener."' In 

 1855 Robert Hogg became joint editor. In 1861 the 

 title was changed to "Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener and Country Gentleman" and in 1881 Dr. 

 Hogg became sole editor. The present editor is Horace 



• I. Wright. The career of the Journal has been one of 

 u.scfulnoHs from Blurt to iinish and it is greatly to be 

 regretted that tlic cause of horticulture must lose bo 

 faithful a clmnij)ion. The suspension, we are told, is 

 "for tlie duration of the war." \Vc hope this may prove 

 true and that in due time we may have tlio plea-suro of 

 greeting our contemporary once more. 



riie annual banquets are now ripe. Ni' 

 A iifTairs they always are and, whether witii 



wholesome fciiiinini} accom]ianiiiient or on tiie stag 

 Influence (irder, they fill a very useful jiluce in the 

 life of the llorist, tlie gnrdeiier aiul tlieir 

 friends. Old friendships are there rejuvenated and new 

 ones ereatotl. The l)etler, kindlier side of one's disposi- 

 tion is brought out at tiiese gatherings as nowhere else, 

 the little weeds of personal prejudice and antagmiisin 

 whieh hav(! sprouted and begun lo take root in the gar- 

 den (if fraternal good will are ail easily plucked out and 

 eradicatei] in the benignant atmosphere of the banquet 

 liail. In these brief intermissions of refreshment \f 

 tween the long and wearisome periods of labor one in- 

 hibes hopeful inspiration for the work of the coming 

 days, and a fresh zeal for the problems that continually 

 l)eset the life of the business man is engendered when 

 we sit shoulder to shoulder and face to face around the 

 flower laden tables and listen to words of wit, wisdom 

 and experience from our fellow workers. So don't miss 

 the banquet. It has a glory all its own. 



'i'he announcement by the secretary of 



An im- the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 



portant event ety, which appears on another page of 



for May tilis paper .should prove interesting 



reading and excite enthusiasm among 

 Miubitious plant and flower growers. It will be recalled 

 that, in deference to the plans being made for a great 

 .Vational Spring Flower Sliow in Philadelphia at the 

 end of March, this year, the trustees of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society decided to somewhat mini 

 mize the inportance of their customary Boston Spring 

 Exhibition in March and to concentrate effort and at- 

 tention on a May display. A perusal of the list of 

 special premiums offered for tiiis event by eminent local 

 patrons of horticulture will give some idea of its unique 

 importance and the progressive lines on which it will 

 he carried out. The innovation will attract unusual at- 

 tention on account of the date and other distinctive 

 aspects of this show. Not least among the commendable 

 features of the undertaking is the liberal spirit shown 

 in arranging the Society's spring activities so that they 

 would conflict as little as possible with the coming Na- 

 tional Flower Show. 



The murder of an estimable young lady. 

 ^oUy daughter of a prominent flower grower, 



unrestrained by a young man, jealousy-crazed, as re- 

 lated in our news notes this week, is an 

 event full of pathos and awful realism. No family, 

 under present social conditions is immune from the pos- 

 sibility of such a tragedy as there recorded. In many 

 sections of this country, laws, sometimes well-intended 

 but often oppressive in their enforcement, make it il- 

 legal if not impossible for one to obtain, except with an 

 original physician's prescription, a few ounces of brandy 

 or a few drops of paregoric to relieve a suffering member 

 of his household. Yet, in most communities, there is 

 practically no restriction against the sale of fire arms 

 and ammunition and nothing to prevent a frenzied, ir- 

 responsible, half-fledged boy from buying deadly weapons 



