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HOETICULTUEE 



December 4, 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXII DECEMBER 4, 1915 NO. 23 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Deudrobium Falconer! 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Cbristmas Greens — Azaleas for Christmas — Getting 

 Ready for Christmas — Lorraine Begonias — Soil for 

 Small Seed— John J. M. Farrell 725 



DENDROBIUM FALCONERI— ff. A. Barnard 725 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Disbudding— 

 Weeds Under the Benches — Whitewashing the Bench 

 Sides— The Supply of Pots — The Novelties— A ;-f?iM?- 

 C. Ruzieka 727 



W. ATLEE BURPEE— Portrait 728-729 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Houston Flower Show, Illus- 

 trated — National Flower Show — New York Interna- 

 tional Flower Show 730-731 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Florists — Florists' Club of Phil- ■ 

 adelphia — Meetings Next Week — The Gardeners' Con- 

 vention — Two Important Forestry Meetings — St. 

 Louis Society Meetings— Club and Society Notes. .732-733 

 Minnesota State Horticultural Society — Florists and 

 Gardeners of Rhode Island 734 



SEED TRADE— Resolutions on the Death of W. Atlee 

 Burpee — Lily of the Valley Pips Coming — Notes 734 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — The Spiritual Bouquet 736 



Flowers by Telegraph 737 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Pittsljurgh, Washington, San Francisco, 



New York 738 



Cincinnati 739 



OBITUARY'— Mrs Emma Critchell, Portrait— Otto 

 Stumpp 739 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 741 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis 743 



Washington , 749 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 748 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Some Nephrolepis History . . . .' 727 



Chinese Cotoneasters 727 



Mildew on Outdoor Roses — Rohert Huey 731 



Excluding Flowers at Funerals 739 



Visitors' Register •■.■•.■• "39 



New Corporations 748 



Personal 748 



The Cedar of Lebanon 749 



Preventing Death of Clematis Plants 749 



Exchange Professorships in Landscape Gardening... 750 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 750 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 750 



AVlipii the time arrives for our next issue 

 Welcome {q go to press the National Association of 

 guests Gardeners will be in session in Boston. The 

 gardeners liave always held a preferred po- 

 sition in the esteem o[ tlie (vaile and the public of Bos- 



ton and we take thisf opportunity to tell them that they 

 will find nothing lacking in -the fervency of this regard 

 when they gatlier here. The greater their numbers the 

 better the Boston fraternity, commercial or otherwise, 

 will be pleased. It is not the time of the year when 

 gardening art, outside of glass houses, has much to pre- 

 sent, but hearts do not change with the seasons and 

 whatever the weather may be, we are safe in promising 

 that it will in no wise afEect the warmth of Boston's 

 welcome. 



We are now at the threshold of the busi- 

 Opportunlty ggt .season of the year for a large pro- 

 knocks again portion of those who read and support 



lIoRTicuLTUBE. It has been a long, and 

 often discouraging period for many since opportunity 

 stopped knocking at the door and the outlook became 

 misty and ominous. But now we are glad to note that 

 a spirit of optimism seems to have been awakened and 

 a. «-illingnt-ss to look upon the bright side only, and we 

 all know that this factor of confidence more than half 

 wins the battle. So we start upon the winter campaign 

 with hopeful anticipations and this fact is, in itself, its 

 own best justification. For the man who will now comt 

 out into the open and, by liberal yet judicious advertis- 

 ing, let the world know who he is and what he has to 

 offer, there never has been a more promising chance for 

 rapid progress in business than the present situation 

 brings. As a starter let everyone take hold in serious 

 earnest to make the coming Christmas a record breaker 

 in amount and quality of business and a fitting "curtain 

 raiser" for the unprecedented season of prosperity which 

 we sincerely hojje is to follow. 



W. Atlee Burpee has gone and a chill 

 In Memoriam i,as fallen upon the heart of horticul- 

 ture — not alone in America but far 

 abroad wlierever horticulture is known and loved. The 

 news of the passing away of this truly great man wiU 

 bring deep sorrow and a ])rofouiid sense of irreparable 

 loss to hundreds — yes, thousands — who, like the writer, 

 will feel grievously the taking away, in the prime of 

 life, of a friend dearly loved and whom the world 

 could so illy spare. With all his magnificent genius, 

 his phenomenal success as a business man, his widely 

 diversified interests, his fine mentality and everything 

 tliat made him a captain of captains in industrial life, 

 yet that which we shall remember longest and dwell 

 upon with most afl:eetionate memory will be his con- 

 siderate, generous spirit, his kindly impulses and 

 philanthropy which knew no limits of time, place or con- 

 dition. His greatest happiness seemed to come from 

 doing something to make others happy. Wherever Burpee 

 went there was sunsliine. In contemplating a personal- 

 ity so rare, a life so full of nobility, the lines of Robert 

 Louis Stevenson seem aptly impressive. 



"He is not dead — this friend — not dead. 

 But in the paths we mortals tread. 

 Got some few trifling steps ahead. 



And nearer to the end, 

 So that you, too, once past the bend 

 Shall meet again as face to face this friend 



You fancy dead. 



* * * * "The while 

 You travel forward mile and mile 

 He loiters with a backward smile 



Till you can overtake. 

 And strains his eyes to search this wake. 

 Or, whistling as he sees you thro' the brake. 



Waits on a stile." 



