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HORTICULTURE 



October 2, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXII 



OCTOBER 2, 1915 



NO. 14 



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CONTENTS Pa«« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in a Rook Garden at 



Thomas Roland's, Nahant, Mass 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Chry- 

 santhemums — Christmas Cyclamens — Carnations — 

 Christmas Lilies— Planting Trees and Shrubs — 



■Wasted Bench Space — John J. M. FarreU 437 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Night Tem- 

 perature — Keeping Even Temperature — Tying — Pick- 

 ing Dead Leaves— The Sod Heaps— .Iri/iu/- C. Ruzicka 439 

 AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY— The Exhibition and 



Awards — Illustrated 440 



DAHLIA SHO-VV AT SAN FRANCISCO 441 



CLEVELAND FLOWER SHOW 441 



CHICAGO GRAND FLORAL FESTIVAL 442 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW NEWS 442 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 445 



SEED TRADE— Shipments of Belgian Goods 446 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Rough Usage of Funeral Tributes— C. .1. Danls 44S 



New Flower Stores 448 



Flowers by Telegraph 449 



Prize Winning Float. Illustrated 451 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington. Philadelphia 450 



New York 451 



Houston, San Francisco 460 



Pittsburgh 461 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago. Cincinnati. New York 453 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis. 

 Washington 455 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Connecticut Horticultural 

 Society — American Rose Society — St, Louis Clubs and 

 Societies — Maplewood Dahlia Society — Lenox Horti- 

 cultural Society — Oyster Bay Horticultural Society.. 460 



OBITUARY— Martin H. Hess— Albert H. Smith— Wil- 

 liam Murphy 462 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



"Bringing Up Father"— G. C. \V 442 



Mass. Agricultural College Notes 445 



Publications Received 446 



Pertinent Advice on the Aster Question 446 



Visitors' Register 449 



Personal 455 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 462 



New Corporation — Business Troubles 462 



Tlic e.xteu.sive ]n'eparatioiis beiug 



Revolutionizing inadi- for tile big joint exhibition in 



show methods ClcvebiiKl next month aud the really 



stupendous operation!? in connection 



with tlie National Flower Show at Philadelphia next 



spring cannot fail to impress the observer with the fact 



that the public exhibiting of flowers and other horti- 

 cultural products has taken a tremendous jiunp far and 

 away beyond former methods and scope as an institu- 

 tion, Indeed, modern promotion methods have practi- 

 cally remodelled and revolutionized the whole business 

 of creating and managing a metropolitan horticultural 

 exhibition. The splendid enthusiasm developed among 

 the best people of the city of Cleveland, the harmony 

 with which the commercial and amateur elements are 

 working together and the able manner in which plans 

 have been perfected command admiration and furni.sh a 

 most ho])efnl augury for a successful outcome. 



The American Dahlia Society made 

 The quite a spectacular start in New York 



Dahlia Show jagt week, as recorded in our news 

 columns. The Dahlia is as well entitled 

 to a special .society as most of the flowers so honored 

 and evidently needs the attention of the nomenclature 

 surgeon even more than some of them and we hope that 

 this new "drive/" so auspiciously launched in the in- 

 terest of the popular garden flower may meet with a 

 full measure of success. President Vincent's recom- 

 mendation of a series of consecutive shows in different 

 cities in tlie same year certainly has the merit of am- 

 l)itious originality and while it surely would entail 

 a lot of executive work to carry it out yet it is well 

 worth considering. It should not take long under 

 such high pressure tactics to place the Dahlia Society 

 numerically at the head of all special floral organiza- 

 tions in this country. Good team work is the main 

 requirement now and this seems to be well assured. 



One of the New York daily newspapers. 



The Dahlia in commenting on the Dahlia Show at 

 the Museum of National History last 

 week, made a deprecatory criticism on the name which 

 the flower bears and expressed regret that some more 

 pleasing name could not have been given to it than that 

 of Dahlia. To our mind there are plenty of plants that 

 have to go through life with much homelier and less 

 appropriate generic names than the Dahlia. Tlie name 

 was given in honor of Andrew Dahl, a Swedist botonist 

 and pupil of Ldnnajus, we are told, but it may not be 

 generally known that this genus was first known among 

 continental botanists as Georgina, a name which possi- 

 bly might better suit the taste of the- New York critic. 

 In fact, the flowers were shown as Georginas at some of 

 the earlier exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. We might mention here, also, that the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society gave its first "Gi'and Dahlia 

 Show" on September 23-26, 1840, on which occasion it is 

 recorded that over 3,000 blooms were staged. So great 

 was the interest manifested on that occasion that another 

 prize show was given on October 10th of the same year, 

 the premium list being financed from the entry receipts 

 and it recorded that there were ten entries in each class. 

 Our Chicago representative writes that 



"Handicaps" the section at Marshall Field's big de- 

 partment store, formerly devoted to 

 fresh flowers, is now filled up entirely with artificial 

 flow-ers and that all the accessories which are usually 

 found in a florist shop may be obt,ained at this store 

 as well as at several others of similar character. The 

 question arises as to what extent, if any, and in what 

 nuumer this will affect the florist trade. Some retail store 

 florists will rejoice, no doubt, at any sign of the abandon- 

 ment by the department stores of the fresh flower field. 

 Growers of flowers for market, however, will not be so 

 keen in their approval. The sale of artificial flowers 

 and, more especially, of artificial foliage plants, un- 



