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HORTICULTURE 



July 8, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV JULY 8, 1916 NO. 2 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 li^? Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Sntered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilium Willmottae. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Aerides — Bulb Compost — Chrysanthemums — Eucharis 

 amazonica — Smilax — Time to Think of Christmas — 

 John J. M. Farrell 39 



LILIUM WILLMOTTAE 39 



THE ANDROSACES— WHfterf M. Canning 41 



AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY 42 



iEXHIBITIONS— Boston Sweet Pea Exhibition— Rose 



and Strawtserry Show at Boston 42 



Newport Summer Show — June Flower Show at 

 Hartford 43 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lenox Horticultural Society 

 — Illinois State Florists' Association — John Watson, 

 portrait— The Convention City — Going to the Con- 

 vention 44 



Society of American Florists 45 



Minnesota Horticultural Society 4G 



OBITUARY— Waller P. Stokes, portrait— E. J. Harmon 

 — Thomas Wilson — Sara Mills — Mrs. Wm. H. Hall — 

 James Kidd, portrait 45 



SEED TRADE— Kirby B. Wliite, portrait— One Weeli's 

 Imports 4G 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — New Corporations 48 



Flowers by Telegraph 49 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington 50 



Pittsburgh, New York, Boston 51 



Philadelphia, Cincinnati 55 



PL0WE:R MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 53 



■Washington 55 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



During Recess 44 



Business Troubles 48 



News Notes 48 



New Haven Park Notes , , _\ 46 



Rose Garden Inspection 46 



A Well Grown Gloxinia, Illustrated 51 



Personal — Visitors' Register .\ 55 



Disposition of Unclaimed Nursery Stock Importations 60 



Publications Received 60 



A Boon for Carnation Growers, Illustrated 61 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 61 



Patents Granted 61 



.\s (■\('r\ liocly wlin i-|.:i(l> the iicw^iiaprr.- 



* knows, J[rs. Hetty Green "the w(jrlcr.< 



reminiscence richest woman," lias pa.ssed away. Mrs. 



Green's reputation for closeness in 

 money matters is well known. Her son Col. E. H. Tf. 

 Green, who now inherits most of her fortune does not 

 seem to have inherited this particular trait of character, 

 however. After he had emharked in the florist busi- 

 ness on a large scale in Dallas. Toxa.s. Col. Green be- 

 came interested in the S. A. F. and took out life mem- 

 bership. Attending the convention in Dayton. 0.. in 

 1906 he again paid for life membership. On being ap- 

 prized by Secretary Stewart of the over payment, in- 

 stead of accepting the refund of thirty 'dollars he 

 promptly instructed that it be applied to "life member- 

 ship for his foreman. This is a bit of unwritten history. 



The most interesting horticultural event 



"On tiptoe scheduled for the present month is the 



for a fhght" „ipetii,ir and exhibition of the American 



Sweet Pea Society to be held at Bar 



Harbor, Me,, on July 13 and 16. The weather thus 

 fai- has been propitious for the growth to perfection of 

 the somewhat exacting flower which is to be thus honored 

 and unless some untoward conditions should interpose 

 the display is exjiected to be a most extraordinary one. 

 It is not often that the triple attraction of a sensational 

 exhibition, a coastwise ocean trip and a visit to a most 

 picturesque fashionable summer resort in the height of 

 the season is preseijted. This opportunity coming in a 

 year when there happens to be no other convention ex- 

 cursion within the means of many of the craft in the 

 eastern part of the country will, no doubt, be very gen- 

 erally welcomed and a record attendance on tliis occasion 

 will not be surprising. All those who do go will be well 

 i-eiiaid. 



^The custom of early closing of offices 

 A and .stores during the dull midsummer 



commendable season has come into favor very .slow- 

 custom \y among the florist |)eople, wholesale 

 and retail The necessity for prompt 

 handling and dis]iosal of the goods he carries has so pos- 

 sessed the mind of the florist that it has become n sort 

 of second nature to him to feel he must be at "beck 

 and call" for .service at any and all unseasonable hours, 

 early and late, Sundays and holidays included. But 

 gradually he is coming to realize that one jirincipal ef- 

 fect of his self-sacrifice is to encourage in his customers 

 the bad habit of buying "from hand to uuinth" and ex- 

 pecting to always find whatever they iiiny cull for kept 

 in stock to accommodate them at a moment's notice. 

 .•\t best, all departments of the flower producing and 

 flower selling industries are onerous in their demands 

 u|ion the toilers, from the boss down to the errand boy, 

 and it is only fair that the long aiul irregular hours, and 

 tlie ab.sohite forfeiture of all the holidays which others 

 are privileged to enjoy should be compensated for, in 

 |iart at least, by a liberal shortening of the hours of duty 

 iluring the season when this can be done without griev- 

 ous loss or embarrassment to anybody. The occasion- 

 al inconvenience to an improvident customer who can 

 get his orders in earlier when he finds he must, should 

 not count. 



The newly born peony society of the 

 As Xorthwest ha.s our best wishes for a long 



between so- career of usefulness. Horticulture 

 cleties cniinot. however, contemplate with un- 



i|uaiificd approval any action or the ad- 

 vancing of any policy the purpose or ultimate effect of 

 which is the disiiitegr:ition or weakening of any worthy 

 existing national or other Imdy. It does believe, how- 

 ever, in the formation of local organizations for special 

 work in any ami all ]iiacos where sufficient enthusiasm 

 can be kindled to carry them along successfully. A na- 

 tional association backed by a well-distributed number 

 of such organization is the ideal for the performing of 

 certain functions which can best be handled by such a 

 central organizatiini. This prompts us to ask why this 

 proposed .sectional society should not organize undei- 

 the wing of the existing American Peony Society. Such 

 an affiliation need not unfavorably affect the usefulness 

 of the new organization but, rather, add strength to 

 both bodies and thus tend to facilitate the progress of 

 the peony towards a larger ]>lacc in American gardens 

 and in conDucrcial floi-iculture, which, we assume, is t'le 

 l)iir])ose of both. .Nobody will deny that the America'i 

 I'eony Society has done much valuable -vork in past 

 years, particularly in the clarifying of nomenclature 

 and a certain gratitude and loyalty is accordingly ilue. 

 If the national society is not now rising to the full ineas- 

 ure of its responsibilities as such, the good old remedv 

 of reform from within, in prpferenci> to an assault lioiii 

 without, is still available. 



