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HORTICULTUEE 



September 11, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXII 



SEPTEMBER 11, 1915 



NO. 11 



PUBLISHED WEKKX,T BT 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 1^7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telepbon«, Oxford 292. 

 VTM. J. STEWABT, Editer and Muwser. 



SUBSCRIPTION BATES: 



One Teiu, In advance, fl.OO; To Foreicn ConntrlM, f2.M; T« 



Canada, $lUiO. 



Entered as lecond-claaa matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Offlce 

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



CONTENTS Paee 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Fern Garden 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Car- 

 nations — Geranium Cuttings — Lifting Hydrangeas — 

 Midseason Sweet Peas — Preparing Soil — Firing — 

 John J. M. Farrell 341 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Mulching— Bone- 

 meal — Watering — Liquid Manure — Electricity in 

 Rose Growing — Some Practical Inquiries — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 342-343 



THE FERN GARDEN— Illustrated 343 



EDWIN LONSDALE 345 



OBITUARY— George F. Thomas— Thomas Alfred Hew- 

 itt Rivers 346 



THE ROCHESTER FLOWER SHOW 346 



TEXAS STATE FLOWER SHOW 346 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— IV. H. Adsett 347 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Park Superintendents' Convention — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston — New Haven County Horti- 

 cultural Society— Florists' Club of Philadelphia 348 



St. Louis County Growers' Association — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 349 



Coming Events 359 



SEED TRADE — The Bean Crop— Notes 350 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores — .\ F. T. 

 D. Window 353 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



San Francisco, Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati, 



Cleveland 354 



New York, Philadelphia 355 



AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY 355 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York.... 357 

 San Francisco, St, Louis, Washington 359 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 Edwin Jenkins and His Sweet Peas — Chris. Schwab, 



Jr.. Illustrated 347 



Personal 349 



News Notes 349 



New Corporations 350 



Visitors' Register 359 



Business Troubles 359 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated.. 364 



Freakish Facts and Fact less Freaks 364 



Thomas J. Benwell, Portrait 365 



Tlie fertilizer question is recognized as 



Resources q]h. of jiarMinount importance as it now 



undeveloped stands, its sei'iousness due not only to the 



fact tliat inii)ortations from Europe are 



(not possible but also to our unpreparedness to supply 



ourselves from our own roouix-es. Quite at variance 



with our rei)u(aiion aliroad as a nation of shrewd 



eonnnercial hustlers, in the matter of as'ricultural 



fertilizers as also in that of certain bulbs and plant 

 stock we have been contenting ourselves hitherto with 

 working on the lines of least resistance and now we 

 find ourselves "up again.st it," whereas our natural re- 

 sources and commercial possibilities are abundant and 

 ample in both instances. "Where there's a will there's 

 a way," is a proverb which we feel applies with perti- 

 nence to the fertilizer problem as it confronts this 

 country. American enterprise seems to lag wofully in 

 the handling of this all-important subject. 



In advertising their big flower show as 



Cleveland's "the next horticultural exhibit of national 



w3y scope" the Cleveland people have hit 



upon a slogan which should insure an 

 interested reading of their pros})ectus by all in the 

 horticultural industry who take a more than merely 

 local interest in trade matters. The Ohio Horticultural 

 Society and the Cleveland Garden Club, under whose 

 direction jointly with the Cleveland Florists' Club the 

 show will be given, include among their 200 members 

 practically every wealthy owner of a large private estate 

 within a T.5-mile circuit of Cleveland. Dealers and 

 mantifacturers who are looking for business from such 

 estates will no doubt be quick to recognize the opportun- 

 ity thus presented and take advantage of it. The adoption 

 of the trade exhibition feature should have an inspiring 

 effect and the exijeriment, if successful, will have the 

 result of opening up some new angles of vision for the 

 horticultural jobbing trade. 



]\Iovements for great reforms as a rule 



Progress .,,-,, gp^ ^q advance but slowly. The 



slow but sure canqiaigu to suppress the roadside 



billboard certainly means a great re- 

 form for it strikes at a great nuisance well-entrenched 

 and difficult to reach. But it is making progress never- 

 theless, and it is possible that the high tide of this in- 

 fliction has now passed. We read that a certain lady 

 has adopted a method for getting rid of these disfigure- 

 ments of the scenic beauty of Lenox, Mass., where she 

 is a su]nmer resident, by making long contracts for the 

 lease of the land on which billboards have been located. 

 This is of course an expensive proposition, but it has 

 been successful to the extent that the approaches to 

 Lenox station have been freed from the gaudy and ob- 

 trusive advertisements which stood there, and there can 

 be no question that the improved appearance thus ac- 

 (]uired will make a fa\orite impression with the people 

 and do much to develop and crystalize that public senti- 

 ment without which no great general movement can 

 make much headway. On Sept. 1st a statute went into 

 force in the state of Ehode Island forl)idding liillboards 

 or advertising signs of any description on "trees, poles, 

 fences, stones or stumps'" on the public highways. Here 

 again, while the use of private pi'operty for advertising 

 purposes is not interfered with, yet the good example 

 set by the state will go far to influence private interests 

 to join in the reform which is so much to be desired. 



