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HORTICULTURE 



September IS. 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXII 



SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 



NO. 12 



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CONTENTS P««« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Foxgloves and Sweet Wll- 

 lams at the Glenside. Pa., Hardv Flower Garden... 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Can- 

 terbury Bells — Chrysanthemums — Gardenias — Lor- 

 raine Begonias — Violets — John J. M. Farrell 373 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Manure for Mulch- 

 ing — Packing Cut Roses for Shipment — Icing the 

 Boxes — Water in the Vases — Watering the Bench 

 Fronts— .4 rthur C. JRuzii ka 375 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 376 



BIENNIALS AT GLENSIDE, PA.— Richard Rothe 376 



DURING RECESS— Florists' Club of Washington— The 

 Michell Outing — Park Men and Pigeons at San Diego, 

 Illustrated — Connecticut Nurserymen's Association, 

 Illustration 377 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Pittsburgh Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club — Pacific Coast Horticultural Society 

 —St. Louis Florist Club — Medford (Jlass.) Horticul- 

 tural Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society — 

 Greystone ( R. I. ) Horticultural Society — Cleveland 



Florists' Club 378 



Chicago Florists' Club — Massachusetts Horticultural 



Society 379 



Club and Society Notes 381 



SEED TRADE — Clover Seed Average and Condition — 

 American Seed and Nursery Stock for China — Notes. 382 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Battle of Flowers at Worcester 384 



New Flower Stores 385 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Providence, Philadelphia 386 



Cleveland, Washington. St. Louis. Buffalo 387 



New York. Bayside. N. Y., San Francisco 391 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia, San Francisco 389 



St. Louis. Washington 391 



OBITUARY — Joseph H. Bechamps — George Walther — 

 James Allen— Edward H. White — Fritz Starke — Louis 

 Forget — Charles Jameson — Patrick Norton, portrait. . 396 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Catalogues Received 382 



News Notes 385-398 



New Corporations 391 



Visitors' Register 396 



Basis for European Importation Permits — Chas. A. 



Dartls 397 



Personal 397 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 398 



"It seems to me there is abundant 



Flower show room for some artistic person with bold 



crudeness and original ideas to devise some really 



pleasing method of staging gladioli. The 



formality of long rows of vases filled with noble spikes of 



these gorgeous flowers is a drawback to the effectiveness of 



a large collection. Cannot Mr. Felton or some gifted artist 



show us something new in arrangement?" 



The foregoing, clipped from the Horticultural Trade 

 Advertiser of London, indicates that the flower industry 

 in England, like that of our own country, is permitting 

 its best opportunities for publicity and advancement to 

 be lost thiough indifference or inability to show their 

 products to the public in an attractive and impressive 

 manner. The day of "long rows of vases" has gone by, 



and exhibitions depending upon that worn-out and 

 monotonous method of displaying flower exhibits are 

 making a costly mLstake. 



We have noticed in our exchanges re- 



About eently some complaining about the 



"overplantlng" overjjlanting of Hydrangea panicu- 



lata grandiflora as a garden orna- 

 ment. We are inclined to take issue on this question. 

 The hardy hydrangea is pre-eminently a "people's" 

 shrub. It requires no coddling, is perfectly hardy, not 

 particular as to location, soil or food, and practically 

 free from troublesome insects. It blooms profusely and 

 the flowers last a long time at the season when flowering 

 shrubs are few. AVliy should not the people plant it 

 abundantly? The critics fail to suggest anything that 

 miglit be acceptably substituted for it. It is very true 

 that not enough shrubs are planted and many of the 

 most cammendable ones for the home grounds are rarely 

 seen in the gardens or exploited by the nurserymen. But 

 that is another story, and is no ground for condemning 

 the Hydrangea. For every garden in which this shrub 

 flaunts its glorious white and pink tinted trusses there 

 are scores where none are seen and in our humble opin- 

 ion thousands more might be planted in every town be- 

 fore its abundance would be any blemish on the land- 

 scape. The real trouble is that in many instances they 

 are set in the wrong place and wrongly grouped and in 

 tliis respect we agree that criticism is in order and edu- 

 cation in artistic arrangement and planting judgment 

 is sorely needed. If every retail nurseryman were to 

 maintain an exhibition plot where intelligent sugges- 

 tions as to the proper placing and grouping of garden 

 material might be seen it would result in the greatest 

 revival the ornamental nursery business ever received. 



Tlie paint and drug trade people 



Futility naturally take a direct practical in- 



of spasmodic ferest in the "Paint Up and Clean Up" 



effort campaigns which have been started 



with more or less success in many 

 places. They, however, express the conviction that the 

 various plans for a clean-up day which have been ad- 

 vocated have little merit in them or permanent value to 

 the trade. They are simply incidental and it is urged 

 that to be effective and fully carry out their mission 

 these efforts at civic improvement should be continuous, 

 hammering away at the good work every day the year 

 through. Limitations of activity to a single day or 

 single week should be removed and a steady drive put 

 in operation to impress on the public that there was 

 something to interest them all the year around. We 

 read with interest these views as expressed by the lead- 

 ing paint manufacturers and dealers, for they are in line 

 exactly with what Horticulture has been harping upon 

 for years in regard to the flower trade. To the flower 

 producer it is but a small matter that the florists whose 

 business it is to turn his products into money should 

 merely boost the sales for any one special day or occasion. 

 What he needs is that the public shall be induced to 

 use his goods every day and in increasing quantity. Like 

 the paint and oil men, what concerns him is that a 

 steady demand shall be built up for his products. In 

 one respect, indeed, he is directly and permanently in- 

 jured by the spasmodic exploiting by the retailer of any 

 one special day or exclusive flower for any occasion which 

 is sure to cause sharp fluctuations in market values and 

 bring public criticism and disfavor upon the flower in- 

 dustn' which in the long run overbalances by far any 

 transient financial advantage that may have been reaped. 



