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HORTICULTURE 



May C. 191C 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIII MAY 6. 1916 NO. IH 



ft III.ISIIKI) WKKKLT BT 



HORTICULTURE PUBCISHINC. CO. 

 147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



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ADVEKTISINU RATKH: 



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DUrounlM on Contrnrta for ron«rrutlT» Inarrtlon*. »M followa: 



Onr nuinOi (4 (liiira). ft prr rrnt.; tlirr« months <13 tlmr«), !• 

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■■u>rr<1 ■• Koondrlaii mnttrr Derfistirr S, \9li, at tlir I'oat Offlc* 

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CONTENTS Pase 



COVER ILLrSTK.VTliiN IJastcr KIhwlt Sloro View. 



NOTES OX CILTIUH OV FLGKISTS' STOCK— 

 .\ster8 — Aiitliuriunis — Clirysaiilhenninm for Large 

 Specimens — Stephanotis — Seedling Amaryllis — Plant- 

 ini: Seed Outside — John J. M. Farrcll 627 



THK FANCY I.KAVEU CALADIUM— C. IC. Wildon... 628 



LITHOSPKHMl'.M I'UOSTKATUM— //cri<«rt SI. Can- 

 ning 628 



PUiWER SHOW ARRANGEMENT— Gforj/p E. ilorrison 628 



ROSE GROWING INUER GLASS— Keep After Fly- 

 Cutting Roses — Tying— Ulackspot—.lrt/iui- C. Riizivka 629 



OBITUARY- Louis Colraan— Ira G. Marvin— Thomas 

 Burke — John B. Sargent 631 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Society of American Flor- 

 ists — Meetings and Exhibitions — Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York — St. Louis Meetings — Massachu- 

 setts Hortiiult'iral Society — Gardeners" Essay Con- 

 test— norists' Club of Philadelphia 632-633 



DC RING RECESS— Lancaster County Florists' Asso- 

 ciation 633 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— Notes 634 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 636 



Flowers by Telegraph 637 



A Store Opening— Illustrated 63;9 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



(Chicago. Boston. I'hiladelpliia, Cincinnati 638 



Pittsburgli 639 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia 641 



Pittsburgh. St. Louis 643 



FERTILIZERS FOR ROSES— Prof. F. W. Muncic 649 



.MISCELLANIX)US: 

 Educational Exhibit at West Park, Pittsburgh. Pa. — 



Illustration 631 



Not a "Useless Expense" 631 



.\ntirrhinum "Weld Pink" — Illustration 633 



Moth Quarantine 633 



Catalogues Received — Publications Received 634 



University of Illinois 634 



New Corporations 636 



News Notes '. 636 



Personal 639 



Visitors' Register 643 



Groonhoiisfis Buililins or rontoniplatrfl 6.5*1 



We learn with pleasure that Hiiln-rt M. 

 A passport ('mining lia,s been asked l>y Scribner'.-* 

 to preferment Sons Co., to write a voluine on ad- 

 vanced hovticultiiral subjects solely oil 

 the strength of the articles which he has been writiiif: 

 for IIoRTirri.TURi;. during the past year. This is not 

 till- only instance of preferment extended to writers 

 whose «|tiiiIifieations were first demonstrated through 

 thi'ir contributions to this paper. Horticulture has 

 from the fir.st been particular as to the quality of the 

 matter admitted to its columns and at times has even 

 had to .stand some criticism because of this attitude. It 

 is also true that we often fall short of our standard, but 

 it is still our aim to adhere to the principle established. 

 That a man is on Horticulture's staflf of writers reg- 



ularly htiA proved to he n passport to recognition and ad- 

 ' iih cMieiit of no small value — a fact to which HoBTICUl.- 



M i:i "jiiiiiils with pride." 



Many new roses liave been added to the 

 Queena list of poinmercinl ent flower varieties 



of quality during the pnsi few years but, with nil 

 due ri'gard for the eveellent <pinlitic8 

 I'liiiight to tiie front by each successful laiididale, there 

 iip|ienr to be twd new roses thai slaiul out ilistinctly be- 

 ymid liny of the others judging by the record of the cut 

 llower market this seai^on. We refer to lladley and 

 Ophelia. These two have made as revolutionary an im 

 pre.ssion on the rose market as followed the iiitrodue 

 lion of the Hride, Hridosnuiid anil .Xnu'riean Beauty in 

 the early days of the modern foniiig rose business or 

 the Lawson eiirnation in the eariiiition (ield. It is com 

 |ihiined that nol evei-y one can grow lladley sueeessfiiljv 

 Probably it is better for the lladley that this is so. Had 

 the .American Henuty been responsive to ever^'body who 

 tried to grow it. the position of supremacy which it has 

 maintained unshaken for so many years would have un- 

 doubtedly been lost long since. We believe it will be a 

 long time before Hadlcy nnd Opbelia are forced into » 

 bjick scat. 



Xot for many years has the Mayflower 

 Cold ("Trailing .\rbutus") been so beautiful in 



storage foliage and bloom as it is this spring in all 

 sections of New England. The rea.son is not 

 difficult to find. Tlie heavy snows of February and 

 ^Farch which only disappeareil with the latter part of 

 .\|>ril, after holding the woodland denizens under a sub- 

 stantial blanket during the most boreal season experi- 

 enced in this .section for many years, did the business 

 and preserved this daintiest of all American flowers in 

 its full attributes of color, fragrance and foliage. In 

 our gardens we see similar evidence of the kindly pro- 

 tecting snow in the rhododendrons, azaleas, evergreen 

 berberises, etc., in all of which the snow line of last 

 Jfarch is ]ilainly marked as between unblemished foli- 

 age and abundant blossoms below and brown leaves and 

 blasted flower buds above the line. Perhaps we may yet 

 come to practice cold storage in the care of .some of our 

 most cherished garden plants by actually burying them 

 under deep snow during the inclement months of late 

 winter and early spring. Nature is a safe teacher to 

 follow. 



Mr. Morrison's connnunication in this is- 

 Show .siK. on the question of flower show ar- 



arrangement rangement is a timely contribution on 

 again a topic of vital importance and on which 



there is room for much further discus- 

 sion. We agree with the writer, of course, in his views a- 

 to w^hat the jiublic demands in such affairs. The jiroposi- 

 fion to supply this essential thmiigli a rearrangement of 

 iiiiiterial after having a preliminary competition for cul- 

 iiiral qualities impresses us, however, as impracticable in 

 a .show of any extent o^ importance. The idea has already 

 been carried out, we believe, with some measure of success 

 in some of the minor shows but exhibitors of fine things 

 are, nafurally, not always di.sposed to have their ma8t<jr- 

 [lieces "lost in the shuffle"' and, moreover, in a large ex- 

 hibition such as that recently held in Philadelphia the 

 labor and confusion of any general rearrangement would 

 be a herculean job. Much more frequent opportunity 

 should, however, be provided and encouragement extend- 

 ed by the various horticultural and floral bodies for 

 small competitive exhibits on cultural points than has 

 thus far been customary, outside of the more ambitious 

 pay shows. At the latter, exce])t in the realm of ac- 

 tual novelties, this feature is of decidedly minor im- 

 portance. 



