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HORTICULTURE 



October 30, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXll 



OCTOBER 30, 1915 



NO. 18 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 14'7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Teleplione, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



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

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Display of Aquatic Plants 

 at the San Francisco Exposition 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Car- 

 nations — Cocos — Ixias — Pot Roses tor Easter — 

 Shrubs for Spring Forcing — Planting Violas, Daisies, 

 Aubrietias, Myosotis, Etc — John J. M. Farrell .565 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GRASS— Ventilation— The 

 Houses at Night — Arthur C. Ruzicka ". 587 



THE NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 568 



THE FALL FLOWER SHOWS— Chicago Grand Floral 

 Festival, Illustrated — Cleveland Flowor Show — 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society — San Francisco 

 Fall Flower Show — The Horticultural Society of 

 New York — Country Fair Fruit and Flower Show — 

 Coming Events 569-570 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— R. C. Kerr, Resigns as Di- 

 rector — A. Correction 568 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America — Next Week's Meetings — 

 New York and New Jersey Association of Plant 



Growers — Lancaster County Florists' Club 572 



Club and Society Notes 573 



SEED TRADE 574 



A GREAT ILLINOIS NURSERY— Illustrated 574 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 576 



Flowers by Telegraph 577 



View in the New Branch Store of the Zieger Co., 

 Pittsburgh, Pa.— Illustration 579 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, New York, Philadelphia, St. 



Louis 578 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco J>79 



BOSTON FLOWER EXCHANGE 571 



THE RHODODENDRON Lace Bug- C. E. Wildon 571 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 581 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington.. 583 



DURING RECESS — The Farquhar Social— Boston 

 Bowlers 583 



OBITUARY — Mrs. Victor Dorval- George H. Chase- 

 John White— Henrv Baldinger— Joseiih F. Smith.. 588 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 571 



News Notes 57:{ 



Publications Received — Catalogues Received 574 



New Corporations 576 



Visitors' Register 577 



Business Troubles 579 



Personal 588 



Solving the Potash Problem 589 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks 5S9 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 590 



Damages .Awarded for Inliiry by Gas 590 



A most promising angury for the 

 Stand by future was betokened in the iilose 



the organizations attention and cordial interest mani- 

 fested at the Flower Exchange din- 

 ner in Huston last Saturday evening when Presi- 

 dent Farquhar of the Massacluisetts Horticultural 

 Society made his frank and timely appeal for a 

 closer sympathy and co-operation between the com- 

 mercial florists and that time-honored organization. 

 The remarks by President Bartsch of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club plainly voiced the growing feeling of 

 filial oldigation also among the members of the club to 

 the grand old mother society which for over three-quar- 

 ters of a century has so staunchly championed the 



cause of horticulture in America. Horticulture's at- 

 titude towards Club and Society organization is well 

 known to its readers. From its first issue, when it es- 

 tablished the first regular department of Club and So- 

 riety news in the history of florists' trade papers, up 

 to the present time, the news of these organizations in 

 all sections of the country has been accorded priority 

 each week, because we believed in them as valuable up- 

 builders of the art and welcomed the opportunity which 

 was ours to foster and encourage them. That our zeal 

 was not misplaced the columns of every issue of every 

 trade journal now furnish abundant proof. 



It was Huxley who -said "The gi'eat end of 



Go in life is not knowledge but action." The 



and win gardening and floral fraternity has always 



been rich in men of knowledge but these 

 have not always been disposed to give their time 

 and active support to those institutions without whose 

 concrete force efficient action for the general wel- 

 fare is practically impossible. Well-wishers of the craft 

 will hail with hopeful gladness the "get together" spirit 

 which is now so unmistakably extending throughout 

 the horticultural community at large. The time seems 

 not far distant when the gardener or florist unaffiliated 

 with any organization of his fellow workers will be the 

 exception. Not only among individuals is felt this im- 

 l)ulse to link together for the common weal, but societies 

 and institutions that hitherto have preferred to "flock 

 by themselves" are also reaching out to one another in 

 neighborly colleagueship. It is not to be expected that 

 tlie horticultural millenium will at once dawn but that 

 things are shaping themselves in the right direction for 

 the prestige and influence of our profession cannot be 

 ipiestioned. And organization has been and must con- 

 tinue to be the best motive power. 



Exhibition time is now on and the papers 

 Reporting wliich undertake to report the shows have 

 the show their hands full. A word to the judges 

 who make the awards and to the secretaries 

 who report them may not be amiss here and now. 

 Presumably the judges would like to have their ver- 

 dicts recorded in such shape as to be read with in- 

 terest and benefit and, also, no doubt, the secretaries 

 who work so hard in copjdng and sending out these re- 

 ports feel likewise. All should realize that a bare rec- 

 ord of the names of winners in the various classes is of 

 very limited interest to the majority of the readers of 

 a paper such as Horticulture. What they are anxious 

 to know and will read with avidity is the names and 

 qualities of the winning exhibits. It is not so much 

 who grew and won 1st for an exhibit of white chrysan- 

 themums or anything else as it is what variety he won 

 with and against what variety or varieties and if this is 

 all made clear in the judges' report it will in no way im- 

 pair the advertising value of the triumph, but will ac- 

 centuate it ratlier, for the note will be perused and mem- 

 orized by many readers who would not otherwise take 

 the trouiile to scan it. Most secretaries instrusted with 

 the duty of giving ]iublicity to show awards do it ac- 

 cording to the best light they have, at a most arduous 

 and trying time. It is the duty first of the judges to 

 give them the material, especially in the leading classes, 

 on which they can draw to make their account of the 

 competition and its results such as will be worth print- 

 ing and disseminating and secretaries should not forget 

 that it is a strenuous time in the office of a news jour- 

 nal when show reports are crowding in and putting the 

 editor to his wits' end in the effort to give to all the at- 

 tention they merit. So please help all you can by send- 

 ing a clean, careful and instructive story about your 

 show — one to which you can sign your name for pub- 

 lication and feel proud of it. 



