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HORTICULTUEE 



July 31, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXII 



JULY 31, 1915 



NO. 5 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Miltonia vexillaria 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Antir- 

 rhinums — Aspidistras — Chrysanthemums — Lorraine 

 Begonias — Sweet Peas — Manure for Winter — John J. 

 M. Farrell 129 



TWO LITTLE KNOWN PERENNIALS OP STERLING 

 MERIT— Hubert M. Canning 130 



MILTONIA VEXILLARIA— i¥. J. Pope 130 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Care of Old Plants 

 — Lime — Liquid Manure — Mulching — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 131 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Sweet Pea Soci- 

 ety — American Rose Society 133 



American Association of Park Superintendents — 

 American Carnation Society — American Dahlia So- 

 ciety Show — Southampton, N. Y., E.xhibition — New 

 York State Pair — Vanguard o£ the S. A. P. at San 



Francisco — Illustrated 134 



Coming Events 152 



DURING RECESS— Picnic of Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Cleveland Florists'Club Picnic, Illus- 



trated- Florists' Club of Washington 135 



St. Louis Florists' Club Picnic — Twin City Florists' 

 Club — Cincinnati Florists' Society — Chicago Florists' 

 Club Picnic 136 



OBITUARY— Oliver Crissman 137 



SEED TRADE— Prospects for Belgian Shipments— 

 Not6S 1 "^S 



HYDRANGEAS AT ARNOLD ARBORETUIVL .!/.!!! ! 131 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



How to Treat Your Competitors — H. 0. Hanna 140 



New Flower Stores 141 



Flowers by Telegraph 143 



Liberty Bell Float Decoration — Illustrated 143 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati 142 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 14.") 



Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis 147 



THE NURSERY BUSINESS AS A BUSINESS PROPO- 

 SITION— ll'. H. Wiiman 153 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 Zvolanek's Winter Flowering Sweet Peas — Illustrated 13G 

 The Lure of Maine and the Maratime Provinces.... 137 



Personal 137 



Express Rates Increased 138 



Publications Received 138 



News Notes 141 



Visitors' Register — Business Troubles 147 



Calosoma Beetle Foe to Gipsy .Moth 152 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 154 



W'v are iKiw riiihi in the middle (if the 

 Play time \acati(in and I'ecreation joeriod. The cus- 

 tom which lias heeonie so general among 

 the various local florists" organizations of providing 

 simple games and athletic contests as features of a special 

 day of outdoor enjoyment once a year is a most com- 

 mendable one and by bringing together families which 

 ha\'e so much in common many life-long friendships 

 are created between those who might otherwise never 

 have met one another. We are disposed to devote a 

 considerable space just now to the details of these out- 



ings and we feel confident that our readers will find no 

 fault with the brief digression from the serious things 

 of life. "All work and no play" is not to be recom- 

 mended as a steady diet. 



We occasionally find in the public print 

 Protecting ;,,, iiem that gives especial gratification 

 the trees l)ecause it marks some progressive step in 



one or another direction. Such a note is 

 that from Bridge water, Mass., wherein the tree warden 

 of that town, in support of claims for the loss of 

 trees Ijy escaping ilhiminating gas, makes the assertion 

 that the destruction of good healthy shade trees on 

 projierty decreases its valuation at least twenty per cent. 

 That is good doctrine and we hope it will he atfirmed 

 in the court should court action be found necessarj- to 

 collect compensation in this instance. Gas and electric 

 companies will not l:)e so careless regarding injury to 

 trees, pulilic or jn'ivate, when the public come to a full 

 realization of their rights and a proper estimate of the 

 intrinsic value of growing trees as property and as 

 material assets iji computing the worth of a town from 

 a practical as well as an esthetic .standpoint. Massachu- 

 setts has good tree warden laws and as a rule her towns 

 have been lilessed with good earnest officials who have 

 performed tiie duties of their position in a most able, 

 conscientious and public spirited manner. 



Among those gentlemen who have been en- 

 Thwarted deavoi'ing to round-up delegations to attend 

 plans t]]e ga,^ Francisco S. A. F. Convention 



from tlie leading eastern sections it seems 

 to be now a foregone eonclusion that the number in 

 attendance will be very meagre as compared with the 

 hope.s, predictions and promises so freely expressed a 

 few months ago. The real reason for this condition is 

 easily thought out and will be obvious to anybody with 

 some knowledge of the course of business in most flori- 

 cultural lines during the year since the meeting in 

 Boston which so jauntily accepted the invitation to the 

 Golden Gate and |iainted for us such rosy pictures of 

 car loads of happy convention pilgrims westward bound 

 in August, 19]."). It would be a mistake to charge this 

 miscarriage of ]ilans entirely to indifference on the part 

 of the S. A. F. members regarding the Society, the Con- 

 vention, the Panama-Pacific E.xposition or the brethren 

 of San Francisco who with characteristic hospitality 

 have been Inisy devising ways and means for extending 

 entertainment and a big welcome to their visitors. 

 We have no doid)! of the sincerity of the majority of 

 those who originally voiced their intention of going to 

 San Francisco but have now "backed doATQ." This is 

 emphatically a year burdened with unforeseen compli- 

 cations, and which demands close application and at- 

 tention to one's business. Not that the future looks so 

 very unpromising as that its aspects are so ill-defi.ned 

 and uncertain that they cannot safely be neglected. It 

 is for us to be thankful, however, that the situation is 

 not much w^orse, for whatever temporary perplexities 

 we are called upon to face in this momentous time they 

 cannot for a moment be weighed against the conditions 

 which prevail across the sea. The heart of the great 

 horticultural host all over the country will be with the 

 S. A. F. during its gala week in San Francisco to a 

 degree equalled by no jirevious similar event. There will 

 be intense interest in the story of the proceedings and, 

 fully realizing this. lionTlCTiLTURE has made arrange- 

 ments for a very full telegrapliic story of the convention 

 doings in its convention week issue. The;/ vUJ all read 

 it a7id they trill read it all. 



