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HOKTICULTURE 



July 22, 1916 



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VOL. XXIV 



JULY 22, 1916 



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CONTENTS Pae« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Cantor Avocado. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— An- 

 tirrhinums — Beds of Adiantums — Chrysanthemums 

 — Orchids — Rambler Roses — Reminders — Jolin J. M. 

 Farrell 101 



SOCIETY OF AJIERICAX FLORISTS— Program of 

 Thirty-Second Annual Convention — New York to 

 Houston — Chicago to Houston — The Call of the 

 South— 0»o Lano 103-104 



AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY— Annual Meeting 

 and Exhibition — List of Awards — The Banquet — 

 Some of the Visitors 105-106 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW, NEW YORK 106 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Carnation So- 

 ciety Jubilee Medal, Illustrated — Florists' Telegraph 



Delivery 104 



Vegetable Growers' Convention, Chicago Committees 108 

 American Dahlia Society — Park Superintendents' 

 Annual Convention — Coming Exhibitions — Westches- 

 ter and Fairfield Horticultural Society — St. Louis 

 Florist Club meeting — Nassau County Horticultural 



Society » 124 



New Haven County Horticultural Society — Holyoke 

 and Northampton Gardeners' and Florists' Club — 

 New York Florists' Club — Club and Society Notes.. 12.5 



OBITUARY— John W. Poehlmann, portrait— John G. 

 Fleming — Harry Hammock — Edward M. Bogie — L. A. 

 King — Albert Fregosi lOS 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 109 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago. Philadelphia 109 



Washington, Pittsbur£;h, Boston, New York Ill 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 114 



Flowers by Telegraph 114 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



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

 adelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 117 



DURING RECESS— Buffalo Florist Club— Albany Flor- 

 ists' Club 119 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Gantor Avocado 104 



Flowering Plant Group — Illustration 106 



Flower Show at Southampton, N. Y 106 



Catalogue Received Ill 



Kasting Company Burnt Out 119 



A Phenomenal Sweet Pea— Illustrated 119 



Visitors' Register 119 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 126 



New Corporations — Patent Granted 126 



Perhaps it will never be possible 

 Prize schedule to .=0 word a prize schedule that 

 misunderstandings the donor of a premium, the in- 

 tending exhibitor, the manager, 

 and the judges, shall all interpret its requirements and 

 its restrictions in exactly the same way. Yet it is very 



desirable tliat we should always aim to make the word- 

 ing of these documents so explicit that nothing is left 

 to conjecture and no trace of vagueness or ambiguity 

 can be found from beginning to end. We have often 

 called attention to this subject because we cannot re- 

 member ever having seen a prize schedule of any con- 

 siderable size in which flaws did not crop out some- 

 where and the schedule for the sweet pea show at Bar 

 Harbor last week was no exception. Judges have no 

 option, but must ri,gidly adhere to the )irescribed con- 

 ditions — as they understand them, not as tliey are under- 

 stood by others — and when it happens that the exhibitor 

 has read them differently the judges have no alternative 

 but disqualification, and this means great dissapoint- 

 ment always and resentment sometimes. 



The American Sweet Pea So- 

 The danger in eiety has acted wisely in adop- 

 changing show dates ting the rule that the date for 

 its annual exhibition after hav- 

 ing been once decided upon and arranged for shall stand, 

 regardless of the condition o'f the crop due to weather 

 or other conditions in any particular section of the 

 country. As a national organization looking for ex- 

 hibits from localities widely separated and diverse as to 

 climatic conditions they cannot afford to juggle with 

 exhibition dates when same have been generally an- 

 nounced, to accommodate the gi-owers in any particu- 

 lar locality a.s in doing so there is always the liability of 

 appearing to descriminate agai^^t exhibitors from some 

 other section, or even some individual exhibitors in the 

 same locality, where everything is in readiness at the 

 date originally specified and postponement would be an 

 injustice. With affairs of only local scope the shifting 

 of show dates to meet the requirements of exhibitors 

 may be excusable but with a national organization 

 drawing its support from exhibitors widely scattered 

 and working under varying climatic conditions there is 

 always the danger of unfairness to someone when a 

 show date is cliangcd at the last moment, and the re- 

 sultant disappointment and the unfriendliness thus 

 engendered may not be easily overcome. 



Edwin .Jenkins in his remarks at the 



Forearmed for ]^ar Harbor banquet last Saturday 



emergencies niglit touched upon a subject which. 



possibly more than any other one 

 factor affects the future of special sweet pea exhibitions. 

 He intimated in a most positive and unequivocal man- 

 ner that in his opinion the limitations and contin- 

 gencies which have so often been charged by growers as 

 responsible for tlieir crop failures are really avoidable 

 and that the weatlier pranks and vicissitudes which 

 have at times wrecked the expectations of intending ex- 

 hibitors are not so formidable that they can not 

 usually be overcome. Mr. Jenkins has so often walked 

 up smiling and successful with the goods, when other 

 growers have fallen by the wayside, that a good measure 

 of plausiijility must be conceded to what he has so 

 publicly claimed. If, as he declares, and seems to have 

 demonstrated, a certain amount of judicious protection 

 and attentive care on critical occasions is all that is 

 necessary for the saving of a crop of exhibition sweet 

 peas, then the disappointed gi-ower's claim on our 

 sympathy becomes vei^y weak and the less he has to say 

 about his failure the better for him. The gist of Mr. 

 Jenkins' theory as applied to sweet pea exhibiting is 

 that "where there's a will there's a way." Who will dis- 

 pute him? Horticulture's columns are open always 

 for the discussion of a topic so important. 



