HORTICULTUEE 



July 3, 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXII JULY 3, 1915 NO. 1 



PUBLISHED WEBIKLY BT 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 1^7 Summer Street, Boston, Maiss. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Uanaeer. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— J. M. Lupton, President- 

 elect, American Seed Trade Association 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Asters 

 — Callas — Chrysanthemums — Adiantums — Pansies — 

 Solanums — John J. M. Farrell 5 



AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY— Illustrated 7 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN 8 



ROCHESTER PLANS BIG FLOWER SHOW 9 



SEED TRADE— American Seed Trade Association... 10 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 12 



Flowers by Telegraph 13 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia 14 



Washington, San Francisco, Pittsburgh 15 



St. Louis 16 



FLOWER MARKET REPORT: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Y'ork. Phil- 

 adelphia 17 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington... 19 



OBITUARY — Louis Dreher — Fritz Demond — Mrs. 

 Percy D. Witney — Edward M. ilurray — William Bute 

 — Mrs. Wm. Schray — William Bickerton — Albert E. 



Oliphant — Thomas Foulds 24 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



St. Louis Meeting for July 13 



Texas State Florists' Association 19 



New Bedford Horticultural Society — American Dah- 

 lia Society — Connecticut Horticultural Society — 



New York Florists' Club 25 



Society of American Florists — Club and Society 



Notes 26 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Botanical Garden at Frederick, Md 9 



Honor for a Rose Lover 9 



Catalogues Received 10 



News Notes — Business Troubles 12 



Cleveland Flower Show 13 



Personal 13 



New Corporations — Publications Received 15 



Visitors' Register 19 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 26 



Hail Storm in New England 26 



Our readers will kindly take notice of the 



The index to the coiilents of Vol. XXI, which 



record of accompanies this number of Hokticul- 



six months ruRK. One would .scarcely realize from a 



])erusal of the issues as they appear from 



week to week the vast amount of useful horticultural 



literature that has been thus asseinhled during the short 



space of si.\ months, and all delivered at your address 



every week for the sum of fiftv cents. Surely no valid 



comjilaiiit can be made that the lidiiicultural press does 



not give the sub.scrilier his full money's worth. We are 



aware, of course, that there arc joiu-nals which give 



greater bulk than HoETicuLTViit: hut in -the words of 



one of our friends, "they are not Horticulture and 



cannot take its place." Hoktkti.ture's contents have 



a distinctive ])('rmanent cjuality and it is not without 



a certain grateftil pride that we send forth this tabulated 



summary of cmr work for the first half of the year 1915. 



Secretary Saunders' recommendation to the 

 The American Peony Society that it discounte- 



test of nance the placing on the market of any new 



fitness variety of peony tmtil it has proven its supe- 

 riority to varieties already disseminated will 

 meet with universal approval. The only possible dis- 

 senter to the carrying out of this principle might be the 

 man with a pet production which to his magnified 

 vision will loom up with an effulgence invisible to anj'- 

 oue else. For peonies, sweet peas, carnations, roses, 

 clnysanthemums, dahlias or any other genus of flowers 

 which is being developed by the hybridist, the fond 

 worker who can see only the virtues and none of the 

 defects in his "creations" will continue to be the big 

 stumbling block but the time has come when each and 

 all must submit to the cold-blooded scrutiny of the 

 special society judges and without the sanction of such 

 one's pets are not likely to travel very far from their 

 liirthplace. 



A strong niite in the Xurserjinen's Conven- 



Ft"" tion at Detroit last week, as indicated by 



greater the reports which have reached us, was the 



efficiency need of "a better national association." It 

 is a more hopeful sign in the ease of an 

 individual or an organization that dereliction or other 

 imperfection be acknowledged from within rather than 

 charged from without. We make no indictment against 

 the nurserymen's organization when we say that this 

 point was well taken. There is no association with 

 which we have to do that could not materially raise its 

 standard of efficiency and be made far more useful than 

 at present. It only requires that this fact be felt and 

 confessed and that the upbuilding and improvement be 

 seriously taken in hand forthwith. If we were disposed 

 to pick a flaw in the body above mentioned we might say 

 that a little less conservatism and a more enterprising 

 attitude towards the new and improved garden material 

 continually being brought to light by hybridists and 

 collectors would undoubtedlj'^ be welcomed by the 

 garden loving ]niblic of this country. 



The coming fall promises to be one of 

 Lively the liveliest, if not the very liveliest, thus 



times ahead far in tile matter of iiower shows. Apart 

 from the u.sual multitude of annual fall 

 exhil)itions by local societies we now find four very am- 

 bitious projects in the field for this year, all aiming 

 to lie more or less national in scope, namely, in Cleve- 

 land, Eochester, Chicago and San Francisco. All these 

 are scheduled for October and early November except 

 Rochester, which is a September proposition. All hope to 

 attract trade exhibitors from far and near and it cer- 

 tainly will keep any exhibitor of trade stock hustling 

 to cover all the ground that it will be to his direct in- 

 terest to reach. To the S. A. F. is due the credit for 

 having innitiated those trade enterprises and proved 

 their value commercially to both those who want to sell 

 and those who wish to buy, and ])articularly for having 

 made the discovery of the value of the trade annex 

 in a ptiblic flower show as a revenue producer and 

 assistant annihilator of that dread bugbear loiown as 

 a deficit. But our country is growing very rapidly 

 liorticulturally as well as otherwise and any trade dealer 

 who seeks to maintain a position of national promi- 

 nence will have to dig down, deeper and deeper into his 

 pockets and draw more heavily on his resources of en- 

 ergy and enterprise as tJte years pass. To trade paper 

 advertising and the trade exhibitions must he resort 

 and that liberally if lie expects to hold his main line 

 of iretiches. 



