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HOETICULTUKB 



October 23, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXII 



OCTOBER 23, 1915 



NO. 17 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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 14'7 Stimmer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



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Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1914, at the Post Office 

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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lasiandra macranthum 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Adl- 

 antum — Azalea mollis — Begonias — Lily of the Valley 

 — Spiraeas (Astilbe) — Outside Work — John J. M. 

 Farrell 533 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Syringing— Manure 

 —Visit the Market — The Retail Trade— ArfTiar C. 

 Ruzicka 534 



LASIANDRA (PLEROMA) MACRANTHUM— ^fewnea 

 Finlavson 534 



■CYPRIPEDIUM ROTHSCHILDIANUM — M. ' J. ' Pope 

 — Illustrated 535 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 535 



SOLANUMS— C. E. Wildon 535 



SCHOOL GARDENS— ilfr«. Albert M. Herr. . 537 



■CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners- and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — American Rose Society — Florists' 



Club of Philadelphia— St. Louis Florist Club 538 



Club and Society Notes 539-556 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Cleveland Flower Show— Chicago 



Grand Floral Festival — Market Flower Show 540 



Coming Events 54I 



SEED TRADE— Canary Onions and Onion Seed— The 

 Crop Situation — Notes 542 



■OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Penn the Florist Branches Out. Portraits 544 



Elowers by Telegraph 545 



New Flower Stores - 547 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, San Francisco. Buffalo. Washington, Boston 54fi 

 Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence 547 



ELOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 549 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington.. 551 



'OBITUARY— William H. Maher— Mrs. Martha Ann 

 Perry 557 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Cemetery Greenhouse — Illustrated 537 



A Word to the Wise — G. C. Watson 541 



Belgium Plants Arriving 542 



Catalogues Received 542 



Help Wanted 542 



News Notes 542-556 



Visitors' Register 551 



During Recess 551 



Business Troubles 551 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks 556 



New Corporations 556 



Publications Received 557 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 558 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 558 



Getting 



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\\'i' rise to e.xpress cordial approval of the 

 i'\|ieriment formulated by the essay com- 

 iiutteo of the Florist*' Club of Philadel- 

 piiia to promote the interest and instruc- 

 tive value of the meetings of that body 

 ■during the coming season. It is greatly to be regretted 

 that in so many club and society meetings the time is 

 frittered away m cursory talk or controversy on mere 

 routine details and the decadence of interest and fall- 

 ing off in attendance from which clubs often suffer 



An ex- 

 cellent sugges- 

 tion 



may generally be traced to just this cause. We expect 

 lh;it when the proposed meetings have taken place in 

 J'hiladelphia we shall have the pleasure of making a 

 report thereon which will indicate so great a success 

 as to arouse the officers and members of similar organ- 

 izations elsewhere to new activities on bold progressive 

 lines. Eead the Philadelphia prospectus on another 

 page of this paper and see what you think of it. 



Mr. Euzicka's advice in this issue to 

 the rose growers to visit the market 

 from time to time and see how their 

 stock arrives is good. The grower of 

 any kind of flowers for the wholesale 

 market owes it, not only to himself but to his dealer 

 to make frequent visits to the latter's place of business 

 — not for any purpose of espionage but to acquire a 

 better knowledge of the conditions which affect and 

 control the disposition of his product, to observe and 

 compare his own goods alongside of those of his com- 

 [jetitor, to get wise as to lacks and leaks and, in general, 

 to take counsel with his selling agent so that he may 

 co-operate intelligently with him to the end that his 

 ])rodnct may reach the market in such quality and con- 

 dition as will assure its sale at the best possible price. 

 Every wholesaler welcomes such opportunities to en- 

 lighten his growers as to the conditions which he as 

 their selling representative has to contend with. Every 

 wliolesaler will tell you that he can "get along" better 

 always with growers who thus take a sincere personel 

 interest in becoming familiar with what is going on in 

 the exacting and often erratic business of wholesale 

 flower marketing than with the man who stays away 

 and consequently is apt to form hasty and often un- 

 warranted conclusions as to the ability or integrity of 

 his agent. 



An editorial note in one of our esteemed 

 contemporaries particularly identified with 

 the nursery interests, states that investiga- 

 tions carried on by the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture "have resulted in the con- 

 clusion that the wind is chiefly responsible for the 

 spread of the gypsy moth. "We do not remember having 

 seen the statement by the Department of Agriculture 

 to which the foregoing quotation refers but we do know 

 a little about the pest in question and we do think that 

 somebody is "away off" and disseminating misleading 

 ideas. We cannot imagine a wind that could blow 

 ,iiypsy caterpillars very far and as the female moth is 

 incapable of flying and lays her eggs within a few 

 inches at most of the crevice where she emerged from 

 her cocoon it is not easy to conceive of her being blown 

 away by anything less than a bomb. Our contemporary, 

 referring to the fact that the gypsy moth has not be- 

 come established to any extent outside of the quaran- 

 tined district, naively remarks that either the nursery 

 stock sent out from that area was clean or the gypsy 

 moth will not thrive far from its present quarters. Our 

 advice to you, brother, is not to take any chances on its 

 thriving, but just settle down fairly and squarely on 

 the proposition that the nursery stock was clean. The 

 moth visitation has been a blessing in disguise to the 

 nurserymen of New England as Horticulture has al- 

 ready remarked several times. Cleanliness has, per- 

 force, become a cardinal virtue with them during 

 these trying years and as a result the stock they send 

 out is the cleanest of the clean. If the gypsy moth gets 

 a foothold outside of its present limits we do not think 

 it will be either by means of the wind or by infested 

 Xew England nursei'y stock. 



About 



the gypsy 



moth 



