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HOKTICULTURE 



September 25, 1)>1» 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXII SEPTEMBER 25, 1915 NO. 13 



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HOR.TICULTUR.E: PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



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CONTENTS P^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Dipladenia splendens pro- 

 fusa 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Alla- 

 mandas — Care of Palms — Ferns — Orchids — Poinset- 

 tias — Necessary Repairing — John J. M. Farrell 405 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Cutting Roses- 

 Sand — The Propagating House — Watch for Spider — 

 Ventilation in Cloudv Weather — Arthur C. Ruzicka 4<iT 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— N. Y. State Federation of 

 Horticultural Societies and Floral Clubs, Wm. F. 

 Kasting, Portrait — Lancaster County Florists' Club — 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, Illustrated 408 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America — Society of 

 American Florists — St. Louis Florist Club — Ladies' 



S. A. F 409 



New Haven County Horticultural Society — Rhode Is- 

 land Horticultural Societv — Clul) and Society Notes 410 



EUONYMUS VEGETUS— Illustrated ." 410 



DIPLADENIA SPLENDENS PROFUSA— Georj/p F. 

 Stewart 411 



CHICAGO GRAND FLORAL FESTIVAL 412 



CLEVELAND SHOW TO SHARE PROFITS 412 



FOURTH NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 412 



THAT RHODODENDRON PEST— P. Ouiverkerk 412 



SEED TRADE — Seed Corn — Beans — Peas — Garden 

 Beets — Notes 414 



IMPORTATION OF BELGIUM PRODUCTS— Oftas. A. 

 Dards 414 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Flowers by Telegraph 416-417 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Chicago, Boston, Washington, Illustrated, Provi- 

 dence, New York 418 



Philadelphia, San Francisco 419 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia 421 



San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 42o 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Harry Krider— Mrs. Johanna Barth 

 — Charles F. Hoffmeister — Alvin Burrows — F. W. 

 Harvey 423 



.MISCELLANEOUS: 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 413 



Catalogues Received 414 



News Notes 414-416-429 



New Corporations 416 



Personal — Visitors' Register 419 



Publications Received 428 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 429 



Patents Granted 429 



At till' I'/uiiuiiii I'Mcilic l'!\|i<i,<iti(in the 

 Massachusetts' Stale of .Miis.-acliiiselts liiis once ni()re 

 P'^"^^ (leiuoiistrated to tlie wcirlil her 1111- 



I'ivalled industrial :inii educational 

 resources and lier ability to maintain liei- position o! 

 -upremaey among her sister states. We learn from the 

 report of the chairman of the Board of Managers that 

 more first-class awards have been made at ihe Expcsition 

 to Massachusett.s otfieial exhibits and to the exhibits of 

 Massachusetts industrial concerns than to any other 

 state in the country — a fact which is all the more im- 

 pressive when it is reinemliei-ed that, with the e.\ee|)tion 

 of two of her neis^hboring .New I'jiu'land states, Massa- 

 iliusetts is the most remote from the Exposition at the 

 <lolden (late. Horticiiltiirally as well as otherwise 

 Massachusetts fares well. The first-class awards in that 

 .-ection are "iven as follows: 



Medal of honor to State of .Massachusetts, collective horti- 



cultural exhil)it of trees and shrubs and flowers, arranged 

 In landscaping design. 



Medal of honor to Massachusetts exhibit of horticultural 

 tools and demonstration. 



Medal of honor to Bay State Nurseries, North Abington. 



Gold medal to State Forester's Department. 



Gold medal to State Highway Commission. 



Gold medal to Harvard University, Cambridge, landscape 

 architecture. 



Gold medal to Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am- 

 herst. 



Gold medal to R. &. J. Farquhar & Co., Boston. 



Gold medal to Edward G. Gillette, Southwick. 



Gold medal to New England Nurseries, Bedford. 



Gold medal to Thomas Roland, Nahant. 



Gold medal to Frederick J. Rea. Norwood. 

 Incidentally, we might be pardoned for mentioning 

 tiie fact that TTokticulture hails from Massachusetts. 



.Vny periodical looking for adrertising 



Horticulture's support in any special field is liable to 



place he called tipou from time to time to 



furnish evidence as to its value as a 

 publicity medium and business producer for the advertis- 

 ing trade. Numerical circailation, that greatly overworked, 

 weapon of the advertising agencies, while it itiay have 

 a considerable Iiearing upon the value of a publication 

 catering to the general public is in a journal with cir- 

 culation restricted to jx'ople engaged in a distinct in- 

 dustry, by no means an infallible basis of estimate as 

 to productive publicity value, but, in fact, is in many 

 instances a secondary consideration as compared with 

 quality and appeal to a desirable purchasing class of 

 readers. It has been the aim of Horticulture since 

 its inception to maintain a high plane of excellence and 

 ro count first among its readers the most reliable, in- 

 t(?lligent and worthy classes in the industries to which 

 it caters. That we have met with a good measure of 

 success in this respect will not be openly denied. Horti- 

 culture has rca.son to feel proud also of the wide ter- 

 tory over which its influence extends. For the informa- 

 tion of those who may not fully realize what this means 

 we will state that in the morning mail of the day on 

 which these lines were written subscription remittances 

 were received at the office of Horticulture from 

 twenty-one states, viz : Michigan, Georgia, Virginia, 

 Maine, Missouri. South Carolina, New Jersey, Wiscon- 

 sin, Illinois, ^Massachusetts, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ohio, 

 Pennsylvania, ^iaryland, New York, Indiana, Connecti- 

 cut, Rliode Island. South Dakota and Florida, and 

 Canada. f)f the various enclosures referred to one was 

 for five years in advance and three were for two years 

 (•ach. HoRTii Ti.TriiE offers the advertising trade in 

 horticultural, floral and allied industries a zealous and 

 trustworthy advertising service and the evidence for any 

 and all of the foregoing claims will be iheerfully opened 

 to any intruding advertiser desiring same. 



In connection witli the question of 



"Abnormal" propriety and taste in the use of cer- 



colors In the fj^jjj trees and shrubs for garden and 



landscape landscape adornment which was the 



subject of one of our editorial notes 

 last week we arc reminded by a friend about the clamor 

 against the use of material bearing foliage other than 

 straight green, which ha.s been taken u]) as a sort of fash- 

 ionable fad by some {>eople. The blue spruce, ])urple beech 

 and red or golden or variegated foliaged subjects have all 

 come under wholesale interdiction by these critics as un- 

 natural and abnormal and consequently objectionable to 

 their artistic sensibilities. But is the glaucus foliage of 

 the blue spruce really unnatural or its frosted effect 

 among other trees a landscape disfigurement? Watch 

 the pur]>le beech burstitig into a cloud of soft coppery 

 color in springtiiTU'. then gradually maturing to broniT 



