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HOETICULTUEE 



December 18, 1915 



HORTTCUI^TURK 



VOL. XXII DECEMBER 18. 1915 NO. 25 



Pl'BI.ISHEI) WEEKLY BY 



HOKTICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 14'7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone. Oxford 292. 

 WHI. J. STEVVAKT, Editor and Manager. 



Entered is secniid-cliiss miitter December 8. 1314. at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under tbe Act of Congress of March 3, 187S. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Vanda Sanderiana 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Asparagus plumosus — Calanthes — Decorative Ferns — 

 Manure for Crops — Propagation — Secure Plenty of 

 Flats— John J. M. Farrell 809 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Feeding During 

 December — Syringing — Tying — Blackspot — Arthur G. 

 Ruzlcka 811 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 812 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— St. Louis Florist Club 812 



New York Florists' Club, Henry Weston, Portrait — • 

 Meetings Next Week — Nassau Co. Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — 

 Western Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Cleve- 

 land Florists' Club— Club and Society Notes 813-814 



OBITUARY— Frank H. Timmerhof— Lorenze Krodel, Sr. 815 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling Club, 



Illustrated— N. Y. Florists' Bowling Club 816 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association — 

 Notes 818 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 820 



Flowers by Telegraph 821 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington 822-823 



Pittsburgh, California 815 



New York 816 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New 



York 825 



Philadelphia 827 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington... 832 



THE POTASH SUPPLY 833 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Phipps Conservatories, Schenley P^irk, Pittsburgh — 



Illustrated 814 



Angraecum eburneum — Illustrated 815 



Restrictions on Funeral Flowers 815 



Vanda Sanderiana 815 



Visitors' Register 816 



Catalogues Received — New Corporations 818 



Report of Secretary of Agriculture 818 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 818 



News Notes 832-834 



Patents Granted 834 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 834 



The award of the George Eobert White 

 A medal of honor for 1915 to E. H. Wilson 



well-judged of the Arnold Arboretum is a well-judged 

 tribute recognition of the achievements and the 

 devotion of a man who.se services for horti- 

 culture, great as they appear to us now, will, after the 

 lapse of a few years, appear vastly greater than is yet 

 apparent. Horticulture congratulates Mr. Wilson on 

 the honor so worthily won and also the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society on having been the medium en- 

 trusted with the bestowal of such a tribute. 



The New York Florists' Club sets a 

 All interests good example of impartiality in the se- 

 covered lection of its officers for the coming- 

 year. The president is a grower, the 

 vice-president a retail florist, secretary a wholesale flow- 

 er dealer, treasurer a seedsman, trustees for two years 

 one wholesaler, one retailer and one growing retailer. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston at its elec- 

 tion last month was equally unbiased in choosing its 

 officers. Wliile, of course, aloility to fill the position as- 

 signed to him should be the foremost consideration in 

 selecting a man for any office, yet a fair recognition of 

 all the interests represented in the membership is al- 

 ways a wise course in the bestowal of honors as well as 

 in the general policies and activities of any organization. 



While on the topic of the New York Florists' 



Calling dui;) -j^e desire to throw one more bouquet in 



a halt approval of its very prais worthy action, as 



recorded in our reading columns, of refusing 

 official recognition to a rose under a name other than 

 that under which it had heretofore been known and 

 sold. The New York Club is all the more worthy of 

 special commendation because the course of action adopt- 

 ed affected most directly, for the moment, one of its own 

 highly esteemed members, of whom it must be said that 

 he explained that he had brought the rose in question 

 to the meeting not for the purpose of being scored but 

 for exhibit only, to give the members an opportunity 

 of seeing it. The culpability appears to lie with the gi-ow- 

 er in California who re-named the variety. We are glad 

 to see this Club take so exemplary a stand on a growing 

 abuse that has been too long condoned. 



The meeting of gardeners in Boston last 

 The week brought together some of the leading 



gardeners and progressive spirits and was character- 

 awakening ized by a confident and optimistic tone 



which promises well for the future ad- 

 vancement of their profession in the character and at- 

 tainments of those who follow it as their life work and 

 in the position accorded to it by the public among thq 

 honorable callings in which men are employed. Whether 

 it be an individual, an association or an avocation, be- 

 fore a high position in the respect of the people can be 

 attained, self-respect and a steadfast effort to develop 

 a worthiness of the coveted recognition is an essential 

 requirement. That commendable progress is being made 

 in this direction ample evidence was given in the Boston 

 meeting and the new incentive there created will spread 

 its influence far and wide. The young gardener of today 

 in love with his work and fired with honest purpose and 

 noble aim should find abundant encouragement in the 

 sentiment and spirit of this meeting at Boston and the 

 quality of the men who participated. 



One prerequisite for improvement in anything 

 Work or anybody is a clear realization of the exist- 

 ahead iiigg defects or short comings which make im- 

 provement desirable. As all plants have their 

 insect and fungous enemies so also are there maladies 

 ready at all times to prey upon and hinder the growth 

 of any occupation in which well-meaning men may be 

 engaged. If it should appear that any practices have 

 been taking root which affect the relations between gar- 

 dener and employer or between gardeners and the trade 

 and which might react unfavorably upon the profession 

 as a whole and retard its progress toward the pinnacle 

 of world-wide honor in the great field of industry, this 

 Association now has the opportunity and the where- 

 witiial to search out and eradicate it, however deep-root- 

 ed they may find it to be. The names of the gentlemen 

 who liave been selected as standard bearers for the As- 

 sociation for the coming year are an assuring guarantee 

 that the activities of the organization will be conducted 

 upon lines which make for the true welfare and advance- 

 ment of the gardening fraternity. Much is expected of 

 such men and \\c feel sure that much will be forth- 

 coming. 



