138 II <• i; 1' 1 r U LT U H E .liimmry I'i.. 1916 



horticulture: ,,, , ^ • -•: ■■:;••' "°*"'t' "^""V' 



— After ,,, piogrcss oul III ^^t. Ix)Ui8 — llic i|iiiirler 



VOL XXIll JANUARY :i9. 19I(> NO. 5 twenty five (oiitciiniiil iiiui'ting of tlio Ameritan Car- 



yeari nutiuii Soficty. The tweiily-fivc vunrs 



I'I III i-iii i> \\i;i:ki.y ii\ j j . 



HOR.TICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. """ ''"'•' elapsed since tlic nu'iiioraliU' 



147 Summer Street, Boston, Mam«. initial meeting at Philadelpliia seems, no doulit, a long 



rri<-i>ii<>nr. Dit.ir.i iut. iii'riod to tiu" vminger followers of the fortiinoB of the 



WM. 1. 8TKMAHT. Killlor >ncl M*na(er. . i- ii •'• i i . , i i , • , 



•'(livinc (lower but to those who were present or iiiter- 



srilKt nil TIO.N KATES: i 1 .li , i ..i i- i I i ii 



Our \.-,ir. Ill n.ixKiirr. »i.iHi: r.> lorrixn ( .niniri.-.. »MHi: To estcu IH that cveiit, tlic tuiie seeiiis Hot long aixl the 



< iiiukIh, »i.ftO. , .1 i i i I I -it I r il 



: _ -- _ changes that have taken place m the personnel of the 



AIIVERTI8ING RATKS : ,, .. ..-, • ,■ n , i- 



Per iBrh. 90 inrhc to p.^r »i.oo ' '"•'"'< '"D ^-'C'lety s attive adherents seem dispropor- 



"'"^"L"';.;:Mh7i'7;;i;:.r;^7"r"rn\\V%hr":',n;:niir ."I'l'";'.:;.,, lo tionately great, or the signers of the original call, over 



per .rni.; .!« in..iiiii. ( .•« (Iiium,!, iu prr rrni.; our ynir ..v- iii.ir,,. scventv-fivc Iter Cent, liave either passed into the great 



JO l»rr rnnl. -i I l I- ■ e ■ 



l-HKK un<l hiilr iiuKe ii|iai'f. npcrial rates on uppllcullon. hcVOIlli Or lulVC lapsed into oIlllVlOU, SO fur aS CariiatlOIl 



Entered as secondol.i.s mu.tcr Docemher 8. 1914. nt the Po8t Office "t'tivit)' is COIieemed. The .\merican Carnation So- 



at Boston, Muss., under \hv .\it of ConirruMs of Miirch 3, isTO. ciety s liistory IS a record of Usefulness and we hope to 



^■^ have the pleasure of seeing it still prosper for another 



CONTENTS Page quarter ccnturj-. 

 COVEat ILLUSTRATION — Carnation Cottage Maid 



NOTES ON CULTfKK OF FLORISTS" STOCK— President Joe Hill's addr.s.K at the St. 



Carnation Cuttings — Chrysantliemums — Odontoglos- . ^ .■ ,. i- o • . 



sums — Stock Left Over— Solanum Cuttings 135 '^ l'""is meeting of the tarnation Society 



ROSE GROWING VENDER GLASS— Keeping Well— progressive ig an admirable document and should be 



Feeding - Mulching -Lime-Bonemeal-Sorae Rose document carefully read and its sentiments and 



Troubles — Arthur C. Ituziclca 136 ■' 



BUDDLEIA— C. £. 11 (Won 137 advice taken to heart by every one en- 



JACKSON DAWSON'S EXPLOITS — E. 0. Orpet 137 gaged in the carnation industry. Especially will it be 



HORTICULTURAL SI>ORTS— Wanen H. Manning.... 139 ^-gH to thoughtfuliv consider the intimation that a re- 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 139 vival of serious piirpose, unsellish devotion and some 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— Annual Meeting coprifiep of nersonal interests is in order if the nresent 



and Exhibition— Presidents Address— J. F. Ammann, sacrmce 01 personal luierestfi, is in oraei ii tnc present 



portrait — Seiretary's Rejiori 140 generation are to creditably emulate the zeal and 



Offi^ere'"'""' ^''"'"'" ~ P°"';a*ts - Nomination ^ot^^^^ achievements of the Society's pioneer workers. There 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Massachusetts Fruit Grow- is an undercurrent of suggestion in Mr. Hill's earnest 



ers- Association-Medford Horticultural Society^. . 142 j ^j ,^ ^, c^,.„ation specialist must bestir himself 



Park Institute of New England— Florists and Card- r '.■ j. -^ a ■ x l i i ^ \ ,■ 



eners- Club of Rhode Island— .Meetings Next Week— if his favorite flower is to hold its relative pcsition in 



Coming E^chibitions- Lancaster County Florists' Club 143 the commercial flower markets under the increasing 



New Jersey Floricultural Society— New Haven County competition of alert rival interests, and direct practical 



Horticultural Society-North Shore Horticultural advice on how best to proceed is not lacking. President 



Society — Connecticut Horticultural Society 144 i ii i i- • ^i ii i fi i. j t 



Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society— Hill evidently believes in the old proverb that standing 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society — Newport Horti- still is dangerously near to retrogression. 



cultural Society 161 



SEED TRADE>— One Week's Imports 146 rn, vgniarks of F J McNeil at the 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: ,^ , ine lemaiK,- 01 1 . .). MC.Neil at Hit 



New Flower Stores 148 To break meeting of the Massachusetts Fruit 



NEWriTEilsTR^mFEVERYWHE^^ '*' "''''' '■— '" Boston, last week on the 



Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Providence, "3°" iniquity of the sending out of nurs- 



^' ^' ■■;;"■;,■;• ■,'^ ; ^.'^' -.'V ^°^ erv stock not true to name, struck a 



OBITUARY— Alfred Barnes— James M. Frye— John " , 



Shield— Maxine L. Pelletier— Mrs. Louis Witter- responsive chord among his audience and there is no 

 staetter-Mrs. Thomas A. Cox-Edward Welch— ^ ^.^ ^hat the plan of publicity for otremlers as pro- 

 Henry J. Huesman—Gurnett L. Holbrook 151 -, , , ■ ,-, , ,• , 



FLOWER M.\RKET REPORTS: posed by him would prove a salutary remedial measure. 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York . . . . 153 Florists, too, have suffered from the same trouble as the 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis, , , j „, „ 



Washington 155 nurserymen complain of but jierliaps to a less degree 



DURING RECESS^Nassau County Horticultural So- ' for manv cla.sses of florists' stocl< are more easily dis- 



cietv— Peter Henderson & Co. Employees' Dinner— ■ ^'^^ , • i i i ... ,* .. „..,i +i.,. f;„,„ 



Bowling at Roslindale, Mass.-Boston Florists' Bowl- tinguishable a.= to varietal chaiaeter and the time 



ing League 160 wasted before tiie discovery of a substitution is not, as 



^'S^of Ui^Ne^w Rose Pink Carnation-Illustration 144 =' rule, so long as in the case of fruit varieties. Pre- 



Catalogues Received 146 vious to the organization of the Society of American 



^^li:^Us'^grl:u;tural-Coiiege Noies! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 146 Florists it was charged that fraudulent substitution was 



New Corporations 146 very often practiced by florist plant dealers, but the agi- 



c:;^/:^"ottageMaid:: ! ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 1 1 160 tation and denunciation which the S. A. F kept up for 



Personal 160 years brought about an unanimity ot sentiment and a 



Substantial Additions to the Nursery — Illustrated.. 160 degree of vigilance coupled with uncomfortable pub- 

 Visitors' Register > 162 |j^,jj.^. j-„^ offenders, which has had a very wholesome ef- 



Greenhouses BuiW;"g or Contemplated 162 • j,^^ ^^^^^_.,^j ^^^^^ material improvement the S. 



National Flower Show ; ii"; . t^ i i ., • 



Business Troubles 162 A. F. has been the primary niolive power. 



