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HOETICULTUEE 



July 15, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV 



JULY 15, 1916 



NO. 3 



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CONTENTS Pa«« 



COVER ILLUSTR.\TIOX— Saxifraga cordifolia 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Aclilmenes — Asparagus Sprengeri — Housing Carna- 

 tions — Lorraine Begonias — Mignonette for Winter — 

 Reminders — John J. M. FarreU 71 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Drying off Old 

 Plants— Care After Planting— Staking Grafted Plants 

 — Arthur C. Riizicka 73 



SAXIFRAGA lU— Richard Rothe 73 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Sweet Pea Show — New Bedford (Mass.) Rose 

 Show — Cleveland Industrial Fair — Sweet Pea Show at 

 San Francisco. Illustration 74 



NEWS FROM THE CONVENTION CITY— Houston Con- 

 vention Entertainment — Texas Welcome for Secretary 

 Young — Chicago to Houston — Dreer's Aquatic Pool, 

 Illustration 75 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — American Association of Nurserymen — Lake- 

 wood Garden Club — That New Peony Society, A. H. 

 Feivkes — Club and Societv Notes 76 



CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWERS— Morris M. RatKbun 

 — Illustrated .' 77 



DURING RECESS— Florists' Club of Washington- 

 Pittsburg Florists' and Gardeners' Club 78 



Greek American Florists' Association 80-81 



SEED TRADE — One Week's Imports— Chicago 78 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh. Boston, Washing- 

 ton 80-81 



Chicago 87 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 82 



Flowers by Telegraph 83 



FLOWER J[ ARRET REPORTS: 



Boston Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, 

 Washington 85 



THE PEONY— B. F. Farr ......'.' ."92 



OBITUARY— George E. Morris— A. E. Simonds— Wil- 

 liam Tricker 93 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Great Lily 77 



Mt. Desert National Park 77 



Catalogues Received 78 



Early Closing is Possible 85 



Personal — New Corporations 87 



Visitors' Register 93 



Cutting Gladiolus Spikes [ 93 



A Useful Book 93 



Business Troubles 94 



News Notes 94 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 94 



Destructive Storms ... 94 



It i.s Well for evei'v "rouo-r to watch- 

 Preparedness fully consider the" ultimate effect of 



thi.s miiistially wet and cold season on 

 his plants. Field or garden crops of anv kind must 

 necessarily be affected to a greater or Itss extent and. 



as a general rule, unusual susceptibility to fungous at- 

 tacks is to be expected from these prevalent conditions 

 which not only favor the prepagatiou and spread of all 

 fungous forms but also make the plant tissues soft and 

 an easy pre)' to these insidious attacks. One cannot be 

 too vigilant in watching for the first traces of the many 

 mildews, blights, molds, and rots to which plants are 

 variously suljject nor too earlv in the field with the 

 sprays and other applications which, as the experienced 

 cultivator knows, are vastly more efficient when ajiplied 

 early and then followed up persistently than when 

 brought into use only after trouble has got a start. 

 Delavs are dangerous. 



Rose 

 gardens coming 



We have heard from a number of 

 places where municipal rose gar- 

 dens are being established this 

 year or are being planned. It is 

 only a question of time — and that not very long — until 

 a ro,se garden will be regarded as an indispensable 

 feature of every pul^lic ]iark, and private estates gener- 

 ally will follow suit. Until the advent of the hardy 

 hybrid teas and everblooming polyanthas there was lit- 

 tle inducement for the making of rose gardens in the 

 northern and ea.stem United States. Now, there is 

 abundant recompense for all the labor and attention 

 incident to the pro]>er planting and care of the Queen 

 of Flowers and with prospects as they now appear the 

 garden rose industry is only in its infancy in this 

 countn-. In the effort to improve and add to the num- 

 ber of forcing roses American rosarians have been in 

 the past concentrating all their thought on a single 

 ideal and, no doubt, hundreds of seedlings have been 

 tllrow^l away because they failed to measure up to the 

 forcing rose standard, which, had they been given an 

 opportunity to (jualify would have proved invaluable as 

 garden varieties. With the rapidly developing demand 

 for the latter comes a new incentive to rose hybridizing 

 in this country and we shall be .surprised and disap- 

 ])ointed if American grown varieties do not in the 

 very near future outstrip and outclass for garden use 

 the foreign productions upon which we have hitherto 

 Iieen so largely dependent. 



At their recent meeting in Milwaukee the 

 American Xurserymen passed the follow- 

 ing resolution, introduced by W. H. 

 Wyman : 



Resolved: That the incoming president be directed to 

 appoint a Committee on Publicity, to consist of seven 

 members, selected from seven sections of the United 

 States, to which shall be committed the various proposi- 

 tions and discussions presented at this conventon relating 

 to obtaining better and larger markets for our products; 

 and that the executive committee be requested to provide 

 such funds as are practicable for the support of this work; 

 this Publicity Committee to report to our next convention 

 a practicable plan for co-operative publicity. 



Gradually, by slow stages but none the less surely, 

 the ))orticultiiral intoi-ests in this coinitry are falling 

 into the line of progress in keeping with the policy of 

 representative commercial institutions generally in re- 

 cent years. ludividual advertising is, of course, an in- 

 dispensable adjunct of modem trading, Ijut apart from 

 this and quite as essential for tl)e direct development 

 and expansion of any special industry as well as the 

 ultimate individual ))rosperity of everyone engaged in 

 such business is the broader educational publicity cam- 

 paign which only an organized representative agency 

 can effectually carry out. Our societies and associations 

 will in time require a lot of money for this use. for 

 there is a limit to the measure of volunteer service by 

 men capable for such work. 



Publicity 



