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HOBTICULTl li i: 



June 24, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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Eolprcd a« urcood-clau matter December 8, IIKM, at the Poit Ofllce 

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CONTENTS Pw 



COVER ILLUSTKATKiN A K„. k Ciirdeii Kxlilhit. 



XOTKS OX CILTIKK OK KU)1«ISTS STOCK— 

 Adiiiiitiinis — C'are of Violets — t'liiorarlas— Pelargo- 

 iidiins— OrohltlB — Gurdtiiias — John J. M. t'arrcU . . . . 851 



KOSE GIUnVlNG INDKK GLASS— Planting— Plaiit- 

 ing Sliawyer— Watrh Out for Spot on the Young 

 Plants- Irfftur C. Uiahka 853 



THE TOPIARIAN CLUB TROPHY AT HARVARD— 

 J. S. Pray 854 



THE LATE WILLIAM F. KASTING— H. B. Beatty— 

 A. J . lluttmnn 854 



GETTING READY FOR HAK HARBOR— Illustrated . . 855 



CLl'BS AND SOCIETIKS— Society of American Flor- 

 Isls- J. J. Hess, portrait— Meetings and Exiiibitions 

 —Lancaster County Florists' Club— Lenox Horti- 

 cuhural Society— Nassau County Hortii ultural So- 

 ciety — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society — American Peony Society 



— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 856-857 



Peony Show of Massachusetts Horticultural Society 858 



A Good Investment 872 



Club and Society Notes 857-872 



HOW TO GET THE BETTER OF ROSE DISEASES 

 — iS. .S. Pennock 858 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 860 



Flowers by Telegraph 861 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh 862 



Washington. Illustrated, Boston 863 



St. Albans, England 873 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 865 



St. Louis, Washington 867 



OBITUARY — Charles B. Wetherby — E. Neubert— 

 Charles E. Shackley— David H. Laney— Philip Ed- 

 ward Moon — Nicholas P. Kruchton 873 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Funeral of William F. Kasting 854 



A Cape Cod Nursery 855 



Antliors Attend Peony Exhibit 858 



One Week's Imports 858 



New Corporations 860 



News Notes 860 



Personal — Visitors' Register 867 



Catalogues Received 867 



A Rock Garden Exhibit 872 



Stem Rot of the Peony 872 



Business Troubles 872 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 873 



Pot Makers Form Credit .Association 874 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 874 



I"or his services to Botany aiul 

 E. H, Wilson. M. A. Horticulture, ITanartl College 

 \\n< conferred tlie honorary de- 

 gree of Master of Arts on Eniest Henry Wilson of tlte 

 Arnold Arljoretum. All who know Mr. Wilson — aud 

 their nuinher has grown apace during the few years 

 he lias lived and worked in this country — will he 

 pleased to learn of his exceptional honor of which he i< 

 the recipient. It has been worthily won and is a recog- 

 nition worthily bestowed. E. H, Wilson has been a fre- 

 quent contributor to the columns of IIonTicr i.tcuk and 

 Hoi!Tici-i.TrRE is proud to be among the first to pub- 

 liclv extend congratulations. 



la tlio jmnsing away of William I-. 

 ^^•^ Kii-itiiig tile Society of American Flor- 



® ^- *■ i>l-' is liiMcft of u most elliciciit and 



treaauryghip zealous oflicinl. Tlie position of trm- 

 urcr for .xuch an organixntion, entail- 

 ing a considerable amount of labor and reciuiring much 

 .*ngacity and sound (inaiicial judgment in the investment 

 of its funds (o giHid advantage, is no sinwure and men 

 who i-an handle it willi so much ability and lovalty a^ 

 .Mr. Kasting did arc not found at every turn. 'Ilicre is 

 little tliiit Jloitrii riri'iiK can add to its ap]ireeiiition of 

 .Mr. Ka.-ting and hi- worth as ex])iesscd in the oiiituaiy 

 notes pidjlished in our issue of last week, but we are 

 lilea.sed to record the selection by President MacHorie 

 of so good a man as .T. .7. Hess to take u]) tlie work 

 which Jfr. Kasting has laid down and assume its re- 

 sponsibilities until the Society shall come together 

 and register it.« choice of a succes.sor. Mr. He.ss is a 

 life member of the Society since the year lOOil. He i^^ 

 one of the strong ici>rcsentative men linaiieially and 

 socially of the great middle west and we believe his 

 selection will l)e received witli much favor by tlie rank 

 and file of the S. A. F. 



The consumption of ])eony blooms for 

 What the coinniercial florists" use has increased 

 Peony is uj);u c ill recent years and. in the aggre- 

 entitied to gate, amounts to a considerable figure in 

 tile .sea.son's flower out]>ut. The ]K'oiiy 

 conies in at a time of the year when the call for large 

 decorative work is very general and it is exceeded by no 

 other flower in ada]itability and usefulness for produc- 

 ing iiiijiosing etfects on a large stule. It seems, there- 

 fore, unfortunate that so little attention is paid by those 

 who conduct our |ieony exhibitions to this very import- 

 ant phase of the peony's place in the floral world. Even 

 the American Peony Society at its annual show held 

 in Xew York City had nothing more artistic to present 

 than the antiijuated groups and rows of stove-pipe jars 

 of blooms, a method of dis]ilaying sudi material which 

 serves the purpo.se of supplying names and identities of 

 varieties for those who may be interested but does jirac- 

 tically nothing towards extending the sphere of practical 

 service and utility of the peony as a cut flower through 

 the imparting of ])opular knowledge concerning the 

 si)]cndid decorative f|ualities of this noble flower winch 

 neither the chrysanthemuni nor the dahlia can outshine. 

 It does seem as though we ouglit to do something better 

 in our exhibition niiangement than is done by the strei^t 

 hawker, for instance, who is a familiar figure on the 

 streets of Xew York City with liis push-cart load of jars 

 filled with peonies in manner exactly similar to what 

 was set forth at the Peony Society's show. The .\meri- 

 can Peony Society has done .some excellent work during 

 its existence, but here is one direction in which there is 

 room for a great awakening. There is no reason why 

 they should neglect it and we shall bojie to sec a good 

 start made at Philadelphia next year. 



The announcement by the Executive Com- 

 A live mittee of the American Rose Society of 

 society their proposal to inaugurate a systematic 

 campaign of inquiry into rose diseases and 

 the Itest methods of combatting the.se troubles is very 

 encouraging and should be a source of much -gratifica- 

 tion to all rose growers. A better place for this im- 

 portant work than the place selected — Cornell Univer- 

 sity — it would be difficult to sugge-st and Professor 

 Wlietzers interest aud services will be invaluable. One 

 evident reason why the State colleges aud similar in- 

 stitutions have done so little for floriculture is simply 

 that they have not lieen a.«ked to do so and followed up 

 by the floricultura! p'cople. which is greatly to be re- 



