H H T I C U L T U H E 



January 1!, r.Mfi 



horticulturf: 



VOL. XXI 



JANUARY 2. 1915 



NO. 1 



l-l III.IMIKI) WKKKI.Y IIY 



HORT1CUCTUB.E PUBLISHING CO. 

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CONTENTS P»K« 



COVER ILLUSTR.VTIO.N— Ilolleborus niger 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Carfe 

 of Antirrhinums — Ferns — Rambler Roses — Keep 

 Propagatinsr — Tuberous Rooted Begonias — Propagate 



Lobelia Kathleen .Mallard — John J. M. Fnrrrll 5 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watering— Sand- 

 Packing the Sand — Care of Cuttings in Sand-^.li7ft«c 



C. litizicka 6 



HELLEBORUS— ffi(7i(7r(J Rothe 7 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 7 



SEEDLI.\G CHRYSANTHE.MU.MS VS. NAMED VARI- 

 ETIES— .yfim<'.s .S/m(i;/ 7 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— President's New 

 Year's Greeting — List of Appointments — Portraits — 

 Plant Registration 9-13 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club of Rhode Island 13 



.American Sweet Pea Society — Oyster Bay Horticul- 

 tural Society 14 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Retailer's Business Calendar 16 



New Flower Stores 17 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERYWHERE: 



Boston — Providence — Chicago — Washington — San 

 Francisco 18 



OBITUARY— William Kind— H. S. Chandler— Matthew 

 J. Leach — Frank D. Hunter — John Muir — John 

 Munson 19 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York 21 



Philadelphia 23 



San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 28 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Seed Trade Notes — Catalogues" Received 14 



Visitors' Register 28 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 30 



Fires — News Notes 30 



irnder this caption we called the at- 

 Another brick tention of our florist readers in a re- 

 thrown cent issue of Hohticultuee to the fre- 

 quent a.'isaults that are being made 

 from various sources upon the florists' business, citing 

 as the then most recent instance that had come to our 

 knowleilge, the edict issued by the management of the 

 Metropolitan Opera House in New York forbidding the 

 time-lionored practice of passing floral gifts to the ])er- 

 formers on the stage, a custom which had brought coii- 



sidernble busiiu>s8 lo tlie florists of the metrojwlis. 

 Now couu's to llic front the Common Council of the 

 city of I'rovidence, l{. I., with a vote re<|ueslinp the 

 friemls of the mcinliers wlio have been in the liabit of 

 scniling floral greetings to them on the occlusion of the 

 inaugural cerenionie-s to discontinue the practice and, 

 instead, to turn over to charital)ie purpo.ses the money 

 which the flowers would iuive cost. Oiu; member, in 

 the (•i)urse of liis s|ieech, i-iUKlemned tlie use of liowers 

 for any occasion other than three — niuncly, wcihlings, 

 fiinenils and the "coming-out" of young society maidens 

 and derisively ridiculed their em|)loyment in connection 

 with any of the affairs of business men as an incongru- 

 ous and frivoiou-; intrusion. 



We consider tlicse oft-recurring attacks upon a repu- 

 table indtistry. of which the case we refer to is Imt one 

 of a b>ng series, to be sulTicicntly serious to justify the 

 protest to which we devote our entire editorial column 

 this week. An inquiry sent from this oflice has elicited 

 a reply from a Providence florist stating tiiat. following 

 the aforesaid action of the city council he ha<l been 

 instructed by customers to cancel several orders for 

 flowers whicli had been previously b(X)ked for delivery 

 at the inauguration, a loss to him of business amounting 

 to some hundreds of dollars, and this in a season al- 

 ready marked by unusual Imsiness depression and many 

 reverses. 



What ha.s happened in Providence is verv' likely to 

 also occur with dire results to the florists in scores of 

 other cities throughout the cotintry, wherever there 

 are to be found insensate and calloused individuals who 

 look upon flowers a.s a nuisance and regard those who 

 arc touched by floral Ijeauty as effeminate and foolish. 

 Even clergymen have l)een among the worst offenders 

 in this respect. 



The llower industry in this country is now big enough 

 and strong enough to defend itself against these inso- 

 lent assaults and. tlirough political or other means, to 

 bring retribution on those who would seek to injure it. 

 It should l)e brouglit forcibly to the attention of the 

 public that in giving heed to these unjustifiable proscrip- 

 tions they are aiding and abetting the impairment of a 

 clean and honorable l)usiness; that the men engaged in 

 tlie |)roduction and selling of flowers are taxpayers with 

 families to support from the proceeds of their indus- 

 tn-. Why should they be interfered with in the exer- 

 cise of their rights as citizens, their means of livelihood 

 cri])pled, their families impoverished and their em- 

 ployees lie made to suffer by the wanton cutting off of 

 the market for tlieir pr(jducts? 



Furthermore, we think that the average citizen is 

 fully competent to judge as to the purposes for which 

 lie shall spend his money. We do not believe that his 

 contiil)utions to "charity," whether large or small, will 

 be increased a nickel's worth by the placing of dic- 

 tatorial restrictions on his purcha.sing of flowers. '"The 

 ]X)or' will gain noiliing through such a course hut the 

 prosperity of a refimxl and beautiful industiT will be 

 obstructed and undermined and the poor employee in 

 the greenhouse and tlie poor clerk in the flower store 

 will be the final sufferers. 



This is the time for New Year felicitations and in 

 extending to our readers the compliments of the season 

 Ave know of no better wsh for the florist trade than that 

 during the coining year the "get-together" spirit which 

 has Viegun to assert itself of late may grow and develop, 

 to the end that with the force and influence which 

 comes only through union and co-o]ieration, the 

 "throwing of bricks" such as we have instanced may be 

 made so dangerous and unprofitable for the throwers 

 that it will be stop])ed for all time. 



