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II R T I C U L T U R E 



January 23. 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXI 



January le. isis 



NO. 



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HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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CO N TENTS P^e 



COVKR lI.LrSTK.\TIO.\— Oenothera niissouriensis 

 NOTKS 0.\ CILTIRK OF FLOIUSTS' STOCK— Bod- 

 dliiK Begonias — Calceolarias — Care of Violets — 

 Fuihsias— Gardenias— Red Spider — JohnJ.M.Farrcll 101 



FLRCR.XKA \VATS0NI.4NA— Illustrated 102 



Oenothera — liichard llathc 102 



ROSE GROWING UNDKU GLASS— Preventing Wash- 

 ing of Soils — The Dull Weather — Leaky Houses — 



Tying— -Ir^/iur C. lluzUka 103 



TO.MATOKS U.N'UER GLASS— 7. W. Smith 105 



CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS— Illustrated 105 



THE ARRANGEMENT OF FLOWER SHOWS— Louisa 



A'iiir; 105 



GR.\FT1.\G ORANGE TREES— Jacfcson Dawson 105 



CLLBS A.ND SOCIETIES— American Carnation Soci- 

 ety — Lenox Horticultural Society — Holyoke and 

 Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' Club, Thomas 

 Foulds, Portrait — Society of American Florists — 

 Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club— American 



Sweet Pea Society 106 



St. Louis Florists' Club— Western New York Horti- 

 cultural Society — Connecticut Horticultural Society, 

 President .Mason, Portrait— Club and Society Notes. 107 



Coming Events 108 



DURING RECESS— Bowling in Chicago — The Tarry- 

 town Dinner— Peter Henderson & Co. Employees' 



Jubilation— Portland Festivities — Notes 108 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 109 



POSSIBILITIES OF THE FENWAY— ■/. H. DiUon . . . 110 

 OBITUARY— Michael Sweeney, Portrait— R. W. Allen 



— Wm. H. Nye 113 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 116 



Flowers by Telegraph 117 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



San Francisco HI 



New York 113 



Philadelphia 114 



Chicago, Boston, Rochester, N. Y 118-119 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York. 



Philadelphia 121 



San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 123 



MlSCELLAN?:OUS: 



I'ropagating Chrysanthemums 105 



Plant for Name 105 



Personal — Publication Received 108 



Visitors' Register 108 



Frosted Plants 109 



Catalogues Received H* 



News Notes 116-123 



New Corporations H'' 



Washington Notes 123 



Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moths Decreasing 128 



.Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 128 



About Sheep Manure 128 



Quassiin A Cheap Inse'jticide 128 



Do You Know That 128 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 130 



Business Tronblps 130 



If our information is authentic it ap- 

 Conflicting ]ieaT.s that the annual exhihition of the 

 show dates Ameriofin Rose Society in Boston anr! the 

 International Flower Show in New York 

 Citv will overlap one anotlier rather awkwarflly, the 

 "Intemational" dates being March 17-23 and the Bos- 

 ton event being on March 18-21. We are not advised 

 of the rea-son for placing the Eose Societv^s meeting 

 one week earlier than first announced but presume 



ion was unavoidable. It certainly seems un- 

 iiniiinale tlint i».. iilTnirs of such importance should 

 111- set for practually the satne dates. 



TIORTK ii.tijre's office address on and after 

 Moving I'i'hrnary 1 will be 117 Summer street, Bos- 

 ton, 'i'hp march of building improvement 

 lias struck It Hamilton Place and Hohticultube is 

 "dispossessed" from its cliildJiood home. The new hab- 

 itation will be littler in many respects for present day 

 needs. Since lIoiiTK'ULTURE was started ten years ago 

 the centre of the wholesale flower trade has moved away 

 from the vicinity of Hamilton Place. The Summer 

 street location will be eon\enient t<j the prt>sent centre 

 of activity and any of our friends, from far or near, 

 arriving at Sontli Station which is near by, will find 

 the ollicc of TTiMM Mil TIKI' n liiimlv li:ilf-wav stopping 

 place. 



Uiie iiiori- iiussilo liiki bcrn .-;liicd at the 

 Bricks loTi£r-sufl'ering iiower trade. The brick- 



still coming l,nt rnmes this time from Harvard Col- 

 lege, where it has been ordered by the 

 managing committee that no flowers shall be sent by 

 the Harvard men In their feminine friends on the oc- 

 casion of the junior [iromenade. This is the most im- 

 portant event on the university's social calendar and 

 the loss to the florists by this decision will be consider- 

 able. The submissive, "gentle, com]iliant and bland" 

 spirit displayed by the flower producing and flower mer- 

 chandising peo]de under these impositions and repeated 

 forays on their l>usin(>ss, of which the above-mentioned 

 is but one of a series, is most remarkable. We doubt 

 if any other established line of commercial industry 

 Would stand it without some vigorous protest. 



A correspondent of the "Horticultural Ad- 

 Rainbow vortiser" (London) states that several firms 

 chasing ;,t Aalsmeer, Holland, liave taken the initi- 

 ative of making trials of sending roses and 

 forced lilac blooms to the United States, believing it 

 (|nito possible to deliver cut flowers from Aalsmeer to 

 the American markets. He further says "the Holland- 

 America Line has evidently sanguine expectations re- 

 specting tlie export of cut flowers to America, as this 

 company olferwl the representative of these firms a free 

 first-class voyage." Evidently these European gentle- 

 men have not read IIouTicuLTUitE or else, in their des- 

 peration over their loss x)f European trade because of 

 war, they have determined to take no heed of the in- 

 formation published from week to week which shows 

 that the production of roses, forced lilac and many other 

 things is more than keeping pace with the demand for 

 these jiroducts in the L^nited States. The proposition, 

 impracticable as it is, will not tend to any increased 

 .Vniprican regard for the Holland growers who would 

 s!)ip plants to growers in this country and then seek to 

 cut into their market for the cut flower product there- 

 from. Another grievance would be the fact that when 

 nursery stock or other raw materials are imported from 

 Holland it provides employment for American labor, 

 but cut flowers are a finished product and pay nothing 

 to Amo'ican labor. The fact that the distance is too 

 great to allow of the delivery of such goods in accept- 

 able condition to compete with locally grown fresh ma- 

 terial will hardly lessen the resentment that the attempt 

 will arouse. Chasing a rainbow for the pot of gold at 

 the end of it is as old as the human race and this fruit- 

 less quest of our Holland friends will undoubtedly have 

 the inevitable endin<.' wln'rh comes to all siicli visionary 

 schemes. 



