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HOETICULTUEE 



November 20, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXII 



NOVEMBER 20. 1915 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— General View of the Chicago 

 Grand Floral Festival 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Cattleyas — Violets — Evergreens in Pots for Winter 

 Use — Primulas — Lily of the Valley for Christmas — 

 Storing Cannas, Dahlias, etc. — John J. M. Farrell.. 661 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Blind Wood on 

 Shawyers — The Thanksgiving Crop — Last Chance to 

 Clean Vp— Arthur C. Ruzicka 663 



THE CLEVELAND FLOWER SHOW— Illustrated— 

 The Prize Awards — List of Trade Exhibitors — The 

 Banquet — Comments by a Down-Easter 664-666 



THE FALL FLOWER SHOWS: 



Chicago, Tuxedo, N. Y., Stamford, Conn., Newark, 



N. J 668-670 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 672 



The Street Fakir in Philadelphia— Rofterf Kift 673 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Cleveland, Rochester, N. Y.. San Francisco, Wash- 

 ington, New York 674 



DURING RECESS— The Bowling Tournament at 

 Cleveland — Boston Florists' Bowling Club — ^New 

 York Florists' Bowling Club 675 



OBITUARY— John Kapp— William C. Young 675 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York. 



Philadelphia 677 



St. Louis, San Francisco, Washington 679 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society 666 



Chrysanthemum Society of America — Meetings Next 



Week 684 



National Association of Gardeners — Westchester and 

 Fairfield Horticultural Society — Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston — Ohio Gladiolus Society 685 



Club and Society Notes 675 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Seed Trade Notes 670 



News Notes 672-686 



Personal 674 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 674 



Business Troubles 675 



Visitors' Register 679 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 686 



Our tadv with the fall exhibitions 



Horticulture. for 1915 is now almost finished. We 



in the ascendant ]iave done our best to give publicity 



and due credit to all, in the limited 

 space at our disposal from week to week. Of necessity, 

 considerable detail matter has been cut out from the 

 voluminous mass reaching us from so many sources, 

 but it lias been our earnest endeavor to retain 

 as much as possible of whatever has had educational 

 value or interest for the greatest number of our readers. 

 Eacli exhibition described has its individual features of 

 superiority or distinction. There is something to be 

 learned from all. It does not detract from our esti- 

 mate of the achievements of other cities that we have 

 given .<o much more space to the show in Cleveland. 



We could discei'n in this affair phases and potential 

 possibilities different from andof wider significance than 

 in the case of any other of the 1915 exhibitions and 

 we feel that results as recorded are certain to have a 

 distinct effect on future efforts of a similar character. 

 One direct outcome of the Cleveland success is the move- 

 ment already started to vivify and establish as an active 

 working force the hitherto somewhat nebular organiza- 

 tion known as the Ohio Horticultural Society. The 

 right spirit seems to have been thoroughly aroused in 

 the right place and in the right way and that is always 

 good news. 



That was an almost invincible motto 

 Factors which the Cleveland flower show pro- 

 that make moters adopted as their shiboleth in 

 for success their big undertaking. All such affairs 

 mean hard work — harder than is ever ad- 

 equately understood or appreciated by those not directly 

 involved — 1)ut it is all to little purpose unless there is 

 complete harmony and hearty cooperation within and ' 

 without. The Cleveland workers not only adojjted this 

 but lived up to it from start to finish; and that had 

 much to do with the great success which they achieved. 

 It was a shining example of efficient team work, despite 

 the fact that it was a new experience to many and that 

 the facilities and accessories available in halls accus- 

 tomed to be used for flower shows had to be extem- 

 porized, and the result presents an object lesson for us 

 all. The day of deficits in public floral exhibitions is 

 gone forever if all interests. private and commercial, will 

 unite and work on some lines of "get together" and 

 "pull together," coupled with intelligent initiative and 

 aggressive modern publicity promotion methods. That 

 the interest in flowers in the time to come will be vastly 

 increased in the community where such successful dem- 

 onstrations of the florists' art are given, no one can 

 question, and thus the ultimate purpose of the Cleve- 

 land enterprise was worthily accomplished. 



The annual conventions of the So- 

 The status of the ciety of American Florists and, re- 

 trade exhibition cently, the National flower shows 



conducted by that body, have been 

 highly esteemed for the unique advantages they have 

 provided for the craft from places widely separated to 

 meet together for m.utual social intercourse and for 

 trade purposes. The events of the past week, however, 

 prove that this latter distinction does not necessarily be- 

 long exclusively to the national conventions but that it 

 is possible for a locally managed affair to consummate 

 a very potent attraction on similar lines. The fact of 

 the remoteness of the national society's meeting place 

 this year undoubtedly had some influence in making 

 ])ossible the unprecedented trade gathering under local 

 auspices wliich was witnessed at Cleveland last week. 

 The magnitude of the trade exhibition thus brought 

 together and space paid for, the attendance of our six 

 hundred trade and professional visitors from far and 

 near and the expressed satisfaction with the amount 

 of business transacted by the trade exhibitors — all this 

 in the absence of any discussions, elections or other or- 

 ganization proceedings, affords food for thought. This 

 event, so successfully carried out should, and doubtless 

 will, be regarded as sufficiently important for consid- 

 eration by the executive body of the S. A. F. as to the 

 particular part played by the trade exhibit as an influ- 

 ential factor in the popularity of the annual conventions 

 and the attendance thereat. Cleveland's exjiloit cer- 

 tainly has opened up a new and far-reaching vista of 

 j)ossibilities. 



