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HORTICULTURE 



December 11, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



YOU XMl DECEMBER 11, 1915 WO. 24 



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CONTENTS P^e 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Flower Store 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Car- 

 nations — Care of Palms — Pelargoniums — Propagation 

 of Carnations — Sweet Peas — Double Sweet Alyssum 

 —John J. M. Farrell 761 



GREVILLEA ROBUSTA— C. E. Wildon 763 



A Christmas Story with a Moral— G. C. Watson 763 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Lining the Boxes 

 -Soil for the Season's Potting— The Xmas Rush- 

 Damage by Thrips — Arthur C. Rueicka 764 



SOME SHRUBS VALUABLE IN THE AUTUMN 

 GARDEN 765 



CATTLEYAS FOR CUT FLOWERS 766 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 767 



NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 767 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— National Association of 

 Gardeners — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 

 American Sweet Pea Society — Meetings Next Week 

 — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia— American Rose Society — New 

 Jersey Floricultural Society— Club and Society 

 Notes 768-769 



FLORISTS AS ADVERTISERS AND BOOKKEEPERS 

 —A. F. Koehle 771 



■WHEN A DEBTOR OFFERS LESS THAN 100 PER 

 CENT.— Elton J. Buckley 772 



OBITUARY — Edward F. Skahan— James Hynes — Mrs. 

 Gertrude Brinton 772 



SEED TRADE — Imports This Week — A Simple Device 

 for Counting Seeds, Illustrated— Round Spinach 

 Seed, Restrictions on Shipments Modified— Notes 775-776 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Condemning Flowers at Funer- 

 als — Flowers by Telegraph 778-779 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Washington — Cincinnati — San Francisco — New York 

 —Chicago— Philadelphia 780-781-782 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling Club 787 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 788 



New York, Philadelphia 790 



San Francisco 793 



St. Louis, Washington 795 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Herbaceous Spireas — Illustration 765 



Priedley^ Lilies — Illustration 767 



Exhibition Booth of Storrs & Harrison— Illustration 769 



Exhibit of J. F. Wilcox & Sons— Illustration 769 



Flowers vs. War 771 



Philippine Orchids at San Francisco 771 



Keep Going — Poetry 774 



New Corporations — Business Troubles 771 



W. Atlee Burpee — Poetry 772 



Publication Received 773 



$700,000 in Estate of W. Atlee Burpee 776 



News Notes 782 



Business Troubles 778 



Some New Roses— G. C. W 786 



Visitors' Register 787 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks 801 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 802 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 802 



According to custom, Horticulture herewith 



Good presents its eleventh Annual Greeting to the 



Wishes tra(3e in whose interest it works, with cordial 



good wishes for a successful and joyous 

 Christmas, and increased prosperity for the New Year 

 which is soon to open. Considering the world-wide dis- 

 turbed condition of hori;icultural trade, the year that 

 lias passed since we last wished our readers a merry 

 Christmas has not been an altogether bad one, and the 

 commercial enterprises with which we are in touch have, 

 as a rule, weathered the storms in a manner creditable 

 to the stability of the horticultural industries and full 

 of promise for a brilliant future. The signs are cer- 

 tainly auspicious for a greatly improved business this 

 season, as anyone whose work brings him close to the 

 active and farseeing men who set the pace for the dif- 

 ferent departments of commercial horticulture must al- 

 ready have convincingly learned. We hope the realiza- 

 tion will not fall short but far exceed the promise which 

 now appears so bright in contrast with the somewhat 

 gloomy outlook of one year ago. 



Commendable activity is observed in the 

 One office of the Secretary of the S. A. F. in 



province ^]^(. preparatory work for the Fourth 

 of the flower National Flower Show at Philadelphia 

 show as indicated in the prospectus of spe- 



cial prizes appearing in this issue. We 

 are particularly pleased to note the special effort made 

 by the American Carnation Society to bring out exhibits 

 which shall demonstrate the popular uses to which the 

 divine flower may be put. This is one very essential 

 province of the flower show, that it may accomphsh its 

 object as an educator of the people of the crowded town 

 in the knowledge of and appreciation for Nature's prod- 

 ucts, to proclaim the gospel of beauty and to arrouse a 

 universal desire to brighten life by the possession of 

 these gems of the florists' art. In the years to come 

 the flower show is destined to fill a very prominent part 

 in the gi'eat uplift work in which the gardener and flor- 

 ist and Nature work hand in hand and no means should 

 be neglected which may encourage the use of flowers in 

 the home, for personal adornment, as tributes of af- 

 fection between friends and as an approved accom- 

 paniment for all occasions, public or private, which draw 

 people together. Horticulture has from the first con- 

 sidered this one of its chief duties to the art and to the 

 craft, to make our flower shows recognized exponents 

 not only of advanced cultural skill but of good taste and 

 appropriateness in the arrangement and use of the ma- 

 terial we exhibit. 



Anybody who had been thinking that the 

 sti" limit of development in certain classes of 

 Improving florists' flowers, such as the roses, carna- 

 tions and chrysanthemums, had been 

 reached, and who took opportunity to attend a few of 

 the fall flower shows, must have found there sufficient 

 evidence to the contrary to modify his previous con- 



