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HORTICULTUUB 



May 15, 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL XXI 



MAY 15. 1915 



NO. 20 



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HOR.TICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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Entprci] OS Bi-rond-rlaM mnttrr December 8, IIKH, at tbe Po«t Office 

 «t Ho«ton, Mass., under tbe Act of Congress of Marcb 3, 197V. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Brookline. .Mass.. Garden 



NOTES ON CILTIRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Asters 



— YouiiK Primulas— Hardy Stock for Late Si)ring Sales 



— Orchids — Ramblers for Memorial Da.v — Watering — 



John J. .\t. Fnrrill 649 



THEORIES UPSET— 7'. D. Hatticld 651 



WINTER KILLING — C. .S. Harrison 651 



SO.ME ROSE PARENTAGES— rftos. .V. Cook 651 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club 

 — Pacific Coast Horticutural Society — Gardeners and 

 Florists' Club of Boston — Rochester Florists' Associ- 

 ation 652 



Texas State Florists' Association — Chicago Florists' 

 Club — American Dahlia Society, R. Vincent, Jr., 

 portrait — New Jersey Floricultural Society — Club and 



Society Notes 653 



Coming Events 655 



THE GOLDEN RULE AS A PRACTICAL BUSINESS 



PROPOSITION— H'. H. Myman 656 



SEED TRADE 658 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS 660 



Flowers bv Telegraph — New Flower Stores 661 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERTWHERE: 



Boston, Chicago 662 



Pacific Coast, Pittsburgh 663 



Rochester, N. Y.— Fishkill, N. Y 672 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia . . . 665 



San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 667 



OBITUARY— William Houser— Charles E. Wadsworth 



—.Mrs. F. W. .Martin 673 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Possible New Hedge Plant 651 



A Brookline Garden 651 



View in Spring Flower Show — Illustration 651 



Viburnum Carlesii 656 



Catalogue Received 656 



Buffalo Botanical Garden 658 



Visitors' Register 658 



New Corporations 658 



Personal 660 



News Notes 667-673 



Business Troubles 673 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 674 



spring advice? from various places 

 A discredited once more expose the utter unworth- 

 hedge plant ijjgsis of the so-ealle(il California privet 

 as a herlgeplant in those sections of this 

 country wliere gar(]en hedges are most needed and 

 sought. About Boston, people generally have learned to 

 be cautious about placing any dependence upon this 

 treacherous ligustrum and more and more we see 

 Berberis Thunbergii given the preference where a per- 

 manently reliable, ornamental hedge is desired. The 

 cheapness of the privet, due to its simple and rapid 



propiigiitinii, has no doubt influenced many in the nur- 

 •■icry trade U> .«lill propngiito it and ]>u8h its sales with 

 the public but, in the long run, nothing is gained by 

 tiiis or by any other course which, when followed, is 

 pretty sure to efTectually squelch horticultural zeal on 

 (he part of iho lionie-makor as well as U> weaken and 

 destrov coiilidcnc-e in the men who advise or condone 

 the use of such material in latitudes and exposures where 

 sonnor 111- later it is doomed to sucinmb. 



The New York florist.-; — and also those 

 A of Boston in a lesser degree — feel keenly 



situation to ti,e Jogs of the steamer flower trade Ihis 

 be faced -;piu;on. This trade had in recent years 

 reached a volume in money value wliich 

 >\.<- K'.i. generally realized. The flowers used were of 

 the higiiest quality as a rule and the prices realized were 

 usually top-notch. The loss of this trade will affect 

 more or less directly every de|iartment of commercial 

 floriculture. How long the situation will continue thus, 

 no man can predict but it will probably be years — 

 perhaps many years — -liefore old conditions in this 

 respect are fully restored. In the meantime, however, 

 it will not do for those who suffer from this unfortu- 

 nate situation to just sit down and lament. What can 

 be advised or what course laid out which vriW foster 

 and bring about a wider use of flowers right here? 

 People will stay <m American soil this year as they 

 never have done before. What practical use can we 

 make of this fact? Pastimes they must and will have 

 and anything that the flower growers, flower dealers and 

 kindretl industries can devise to promote the use of fresh 

 flowers at all occasions of any social importance, will 

 be effort well expended. It is an unprecedented emerg- 

 ency which now confronts the florist. Don't forget that 

 "God helps those who help themselves." 



It is a source of much satisfaction to 

 Backyard learn through Patrick O'Mara of the Peter 

 gardening Henderson seed house that, notwithstand- 

 ing the many set-backs which the seed 

 trade in common with most other lines of industr}' has 

 to face this season, the demand for vegetable seeds for 

 planting in the home garden shows a very remarkable 

 growth. This we are told is most pronounced in 

 the call for the smaller and lower-priced collec- 

 tions than in the higher priced sets and specialties, 

 I'liis form of back}'ard gardening has been growing 

 quite steadily within the last few j'ears in every section 

 of the countr}', as most seedsmen will, we believe, 

 be ready to testify, but our people have a long way to 

 go yet before they can at all compare with the people 

 of most European countries in this production of good 

 food for the home table. When they have come to a 

 fuller realization of the profitable use to which the now 

 vacant land can thus be put, then they will have made 

 a most substantial progress toward the solution of that 

 disturbing problem, "the high cost of living." Small 

 fruits as well as vegetables should have a much more 

 general planting than is j'et the case. We have no 

 doubt that if the nurserymen and seedsmen of any live 

 towTi or village would undertake a personally conducted 

 campaign of direct appeal and advice to every family 

 on the advantages and delight.? which appertain to the 

 growing, harvesting and eating of fruits and vegetables 

 in the development of which each member of the family 

 has had a part, the normal sale of seeds and bushes 

 would soon be many times multiplied. And that is just 

 what we need. 



