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HORTICTJLTUKE 



September 4, 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL XXII 



SEPTEMBER 4, 1915 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS Pag« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Special Convention Display 

 By Art Floral Co., San Francisco 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Cat- 

 tleyas — Cinerarias for Easter — Freesias — Tulips — 

 Winter Flowering Geraniums — Watch Out For Frost 

 — John J. M. Farrell 309 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Starting the Fires 

 — Ventilation — Sulphur — Repairs — Wires — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 310 



INDIGOFERA VECORA— Hubert M. Cawmiwj?— Illus- 

 trated 311 



A PEST OF THE RHODODENDRONS— T. D. Hatfield 311 



OBITUARY — Edwin Lonsdale, Portrait — John Mac- 

 kenzie 313 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Report of the 

 Entomologists — Report of the School Garden Com- 

 mittee 314 



From the Convention City of 1916 — The Problems 

 Attending the Establishment of Permanent Conven- 

 tion Gardens — Theodore Wirth 316 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Philadelphia 317 



San Francisco, New York 320 



Washington, Kansas City 327 



SEED TRADE 318 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 318 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 321 



A San Francisco Flower Store, Illustrated 323 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society- 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — American 

 Sweet Pea Society — Connecticut Horticultural Soci- 

 ety — Mrs. John Vallance, President-elect Ladies' 

 S. A. F., Portrait — St. Louis Meetings for Septem- 

 ber — A New Association — Club and Society Notes... 322 

 Coming Events 323 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia 325 



San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 327 



THE NECESSITY OF NATIONAL PUBLICITY— 

 A. Pochelon 332 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Landscape Gardeners Scarce in Missouri 311 



A Deformed Branch — Hubert M. Canninu. Illus- 

 trated 313 



Personal 313 



Publication Received 313 



Business Troubles 313 



During Recess 318 



Forcing Cucumbers 318 



Catalogues Received 318 



Visitors' Register 321 



Red Spider Remedies 333 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 334 



Xature not infrequently seems possessed 



A of a desire to overturn and discredit 



theory upset qu,. cherished theories and show us how 



far we are yet from understanding the 



arules of Iter game. .Tnst as .^ome of otir inqnii-ing seient- 



After the 

 deluge 



ists had about reached the conclusion that a vigorous 

 bombarding of the atmosphere might be productive of 

 local conditions conducive to the precipitation of rain, 

 here we are in the most peaceful section of the globe 

 — where in these "safe and sane" times the exploding 

 of anything bigger than a .squib, even on the glorious 

 Fourth, is liable to put us in durance vile — treated to 

 the most remarkable series of downpours ever recorded 

 here, while over in war-torn Europe where bombarding 

 has been a daily pastime for over a year nothing out 

 of the ordinary in this respect has Ijeen reported. 



Wo hear of rotting potato crops, mildewed 

 hay fields and widespread injury to many 

 other products of the husbandman's indus- 

 try as a result of the unprecedented soaking 

 to whicli the land has been subjected during this un- 

 u.sual summer. Our attention was recently called by a 

 Philadelphia friend to the shoots of ailantus sprouting 

 up through the pavement on one of that city's principal 

 thoroughfares. No old time-frayed reflection on Phil- 

 adelphia is here intended; we only record it as one in- 

 teresting consequence of the summer's deluge. It is, 

 perhaps, pertinent to say here that the growths above 

 mentioned are not found in front of any one of the 

 finns that advertise in Hokticulture ! However this 

 great wet-down may affect us individually, it neverthe- 

 less behooves us to be thankful for the good that is to 

 be found in everything, no matter how unpromising it 

 may appear. So let us feast our eyes on the rare green 

 fields and lawns which greet us on all sides, which even 

 tlie verdant Emerald Isle at its best cannot excel; the 

 luxuriant vigor of trees, shrubs and every other growing 

 thing which goes to make our gardens and landscape 

 presumable reproductions of the first Paradise. It may 

 be that another half century may pass before such a 

 visitation .'^hall come our way again. 



Some little apprehension has been expressed 

 by members of the Society of American 

 Florists that the action of the Society in 

 holding the successive conventions in terri- 

 tory remote from its centres of activity and main body 

 of its supporters hitherto, is liable to result in a serious 

 shrinkage in membership eastward and that the accre- 

 tions from the west will not be sufficient to counterbal- 

 ance this loss. We hope and believe that these fears 

 will prove to have been groundless, and it is our opinion 

 that the majority of the thoughtful, far-sighted mem- 

 liers of the oi'ganization share this view. The S. A. F. 

 is becoming too influential, too strong financially, to 

 suffer any serious defection in its membership roll due 

 to convention location. The activities of the organiza- 

 tion are no longer confined to the proceedings of the 

 annual gathering but spread over the entire year and 

 all indications point to bigger doings in the near future. 

 In consequence of this sulistantial advancement, member- 

 ship in the S. A. F. is coming to be regarded as some- 

 thing to be proud of, whether one does or does not 

 appear in person at every convention. Many agencies 

 are working to that end and the prospects are favorable 

 for a much larger numerical representation of the pro- 

 fession in its ranks rather than otlierwise and this is 

 MS il should hv. 



The 

 S. A. F. 



