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HORTICULTURE 



August 28, 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXII 



AUGUST 28, 1915 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Clematis paniculata 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Car- 

 nations — Chrysantliemums — Decorative Stock — Mar- 

 guerites — Bulb Stocl; for Winter — Stevin— John J. 

 M. Fnrrell 277 



CLEMATIS PANICULATA 277 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Lime— Blackspot— 

 Fumigation — The Boilers — Arthur C. Riizicka 279 



CONVENTION REPORT CONCLUDED— Horticultural 

 College Education — Friday's Session — Final Resolu- 

 tions — Report of Committee on President's Address — 

 Resolutions on death of J. F. Cowell — Society of 

 American Florists in front of Civic Auditorium, San 

 Francisco, Illustrated — Ladies' S. A. F 280-283 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Railroad Gardening Asso- 

 ciation — American Gladiolus Society 282 



Gladiolus Society of Ohio, Illustrated — St. Louis Flor- 

 ist Club — American Association of Park Superinten- 

 dents 284 



SEED TRADE — Beans Deteriorating — Tomatoes — Crop 

 Report on Dutch Vegetable Seeds — Spades versus 

 Shovels — Notes 286 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 288 



Flowers by Telegraph 289 



Geo. E. Stumpp's Summer Establishment, Illustrated 290 



DURING RECESS— Lancaster County Florists' Cluli— 

 Rochester Florists' Association — Holyoke and North- 

 ampton Club 290 



Connecticut Nurserymen's Annual Outing 291 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 293 



New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, 

 Washington 295 



THE GREAT STORM IN HOUSTON TEXAS, Illus- 

 trated 300 



OBITUARY— George E. Luftman— Thomas A. Ivey— 

 Lawrence W. Kervan — The Late John MacdlU Clark 301 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



To Promote Soil Fertility Knowledge 286 



Catalogues Received 286 



San Francisco Notes — Washington Notes 288 



New Corporations 289 



Preparing for the National Flower Show, Illustrated 291 



Visitors' Register — Personal 291 



An Ideal Gladiolus 291 



Philadelphia Notes 295 



Rochester Takes The Stage 295 



Boston Spring Show 300 



News Notes 301-302 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 302 



After looking upon the pictures of the 



Houston wrecked greenhouses at Hoitston, Texas, 



g""'* whic'li ;ip|U'ar in this issue we believe every 



one of our readers will heartily second our 



feeling of deep sympathy for all who suffered in this 



grevious disaster. It requires some courage in the face 

 of such a visitation as has befallen Mr. Kerr to take 

 so philosophical a view of his loss as is expressed in 

 his letter. The vice-president elect of the S. A. F. has 

 a goodly portion of "gritty sand" in his 



evidently 

 niake-uii. 



The 

 gladiolus 



One lesson 

 of the Convention 



Of the several flowers now in the public eye, 

 which have responded readily to the art of 

 of the hybridist, none have made more 

 i-apid and sensational improvement than 

 the gladiolus. The exhibitions of this flower at various 

 places during the present season have brought out mater- 

 ial which is nothing short of marvelous and one of the 

 most interesting facts in this connection is that the 

 varieties showing the greatest advancement over the old 

 types are the productions of American specialists. Un- 

 foi-tunately for these earnest workers the emoluments 

 from their triumphs have been and are likely to be very 

 very small .?o long as conditions are siich that foreign 

 growers can swamp our markets with stock of our own 

 best production at prices with which home competition 

 is next to impossible. 



Horticulture feels a bit proud 

 of the fact that, although much 

 farther removed from San Fran- 

 cisco than any of its competitors, 

 it was able to give to its readers the most complete 

 account and latest news of the Convention proceedings 

 of any published last week. The record of the Conven- 

 tion, summed up, would appear to fully justify the judg- 

 ment of those members at the Boston Convention who 

 were responsible for the acceptance of the invitation to 

 take the Society to the far-away Pacific Coast. We 

 might say, however, that as it appears to us, the un- 

 questioned success of the San Francisco Convention lies 

 not so mucii in the amount of direct practical work 

 accomplished as in the evidence presented of the firm 

 grasp which the national organization now holds upon 

 the progressive horticultural interests of the country and 

 in the demonstration of the rapid growth and spread 

 of this sentiment of loyalty which is now in progress. 



^^'ith the big Exposition beckoning and 

 every spare nu)ment crowded with enter- 

 tainment of some kind, it was not to be 

 expected that any great measure of seri- 

 ous work could be accomplished at San Francisco and 

 it is no suqirise that the principal business done by a 

 Convention primarily bent on sight-seeing seems to have 

 been the good-natured approval and passing on to the 

 Executive Board of the various projects so earnestly 

 thought out and formulated for mouths previously and 

 recommended by the President for the organic and 

 structural strengthening of the Association and the sys- 

 tematic development of its channels for usefulness. Ob- 

 viously it is too mucli to expect from a gathering made 

 up as S. A. F. Conventions are. that calm deliberation 

 and far-seeing judgment which should underlie every 

 important enactment by such an institution. Conse- 

 quently the inclination to avoid the hazards of hasty 

 action, by first sulmiitting momentous matters to re- 

 sponsible officials for leisurely, thoughtful consideration,, 

 is the part of wisdom. In our humble opinion, an appli- 

 cation of a goodly portion of the same conservative 

 reasoning will be in order when the time comes to decide 

 whetlier the selection of two directors each year shall 

 be cast into the impetuous politics of a convention elec- 

 tion or entrusted, as hitherto, to the president-elect to 

 appoint after he has had several months' opportunity to 

 study the immedialo needs of the Society. 



The part 

 of wisdom 



