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HOET I CULTURE 



October 16, 1915 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XXII 



OCTOBER 16, 1915 



NO. 16 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Field of Gladiolus America 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Bou- 



vardias — To Follow Chrysanthemums — Tulips for 



Outdoors — Forcing Gladioli — Preparing Sweet Pea 



Ground — Shamrock for St. Patrick's Day — John J. 



M. Farrell 501 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Treatment for 



Blackspot — Watering — Arthur C. Ruzicka 503 



THREE POPULAR GLADIOLI— Illustrations 503 



THE FLORISTS' OPPORTUNITIES ON THE WEST- 

 ERN COAST— .¥. B. Hancock 504 



CLEVELAND FLOWER SHOW 505 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 505 



CHICAGO GRAND FLORAL FESTIVAL 505 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club- 

 Pacific Coast Horticultural Society — American Car- 

 nation Society — Texas Nurserymen's Convention.... 506 

 Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — West- 

 chester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — C. L. 

 Brock, Portrait — Oyster Bay Horticultural Society — 

 Albany Florists' Club — Nassau County Horticultural 



Society 507 



North Shore Horticultural Society — Coming Events. . 508 

 OBITUARY— John E. Walters— Oglesby Paul— George 



G. Goldbach 508 



SEED TRADE— The Bean Crop— Peas— Onion Sets and 

 Seed — Other Seed Crops — Wholesale Seedmen's Lea- 

 gue — How to Select Seed Beans 510 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 513 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Albany, N. Y., Schenectady, N. Y 512 



Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, Providence, R. I. 514 

 Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, 



Boston 515 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia. . . . 517 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis. Washington... 519 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling League 519 



EFFECT OF THE WAR ON AMERICAN INDUSTRIES 524 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 508 



New Corporations 519 



Visitors' Register 525 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 525 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks 526 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 526 



Ralph C. Benedict, in Brooklyn Botanic 



About Garden leaflet No. 8, makes some state- 



the Boston nients regarding the "discovery" of the 



^ern Boston fern ■which seem to us to be based 



on some misinformation. It is true that 



the now well-laiown arching form of Nephrolepis exaltata 



called Bostoniensis had its general distribution over the 



country through the late F. C. Becker, of Cambridge, 

 but that it was "first discovered" by Mr. Becker as 

 stated in the leaflet is not correct. The truth is that 

 this variety was well known to many Boston gardeners 

 years previous to the time of its exploitation by Mr. 

 Becker and was also recognized by certain New York 

 jilantsmen as a Boston form much to be preferred to 

 the one which was being grown in and around New 

 York. The matter is, of course, immaterial now so 

 far as the trade is concerned but anything emanating 

 from a scientific institution should be very exact and no 

 doubt Mr. Benedict will be pleased to learn the facts 

 in this case. 



The office of Information of the U. S. 



Two Department of Agriculture has sent 



bean diseases out an instructive bulletin on the two 



prevalent bean diseases — anthracnose 

 and bacterial blight — with directions as to the best 

 methods of eradicating these trottbles. In our seed 

 trade notes this week will be found a summary of the 

 instructions given out in the bulletin referred to. It 

 will be noticed that home selection of seed is insisted 

 upon and that no reference is made to the efforts being 

 put forth by the growers for the seed trade to produce 

 clean and disease resistant seed. We believe that the 

 Department might derive great benefit and much val- 

 uable assistance in this and similar work by closer affil- 

 iation and intercourse with the practical men who are 

 engaged commercially in seed growing than from our 

 view point seems to be the case. No one can possibly 

 have more forcible and cogent reason to maintain purity 

 of product and freedom from taint of any kind than 

 he whose business repute and prosperity is at stake. 



Not in any season within the memory 



Bulbs of of •'the oldest inhabitant" have the 



high degree tulips, hyacinths and other Dutch bitlbs 



been so handsome to the eye as they 

 are this year in the stocks shown in the seed stores. 

 Should their dormant and unseen good qualities hold 

 up to the standard indicated by their external appear- 

 ance we may expect to see some superb blooms in the 

 displays at the spring shows of 1916. Exhibition qual- 

 ity needs only to be supplemented by exhibition skill 

 and exhibition opportunity to effect a winning combina- 

 tion such as rarely comes. Whether the high quality 

 of the material so lavishly spread out on the seed store 

 counters and shelves at present is due to the diversion 

 to the United States of goods which the European con- 

 sumer formerly monopolized or is the result of an un- 

 usually favorable season for the Holland bulb growers, 

 matters little so long as we have the goods at our 

 command and it is to be hoped that full advantage will 

 be taken of this unprecedented opportunity to iinpress 

 upon the public the beauties of these spring garden 

 flowers, by means of the flower shows, and that thus the 

 demand for the bulbs may be greatly increased. We 

 can think of no better means for developing and en- 

 larging this department of the seedsmen's business. 



