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HORTICULTUEE 



July 29, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV 



JULY 29, 1916 



NO. 5 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



1^7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEW.4RT, Editor and Maoager. 



Entered as second-class matter Decemher 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

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



CONTENTS Pw 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Burpee Sweet Pea Ex- 

 hibit at Bar Harbor. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Oallas 

 — Care of Gardenias — Cineraries — Freucli Bulbs — 

 Harisii Lilies — Palms — Rhododendrons — Reminders — 

 John J. M. Fan-ell 135 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Bonemeal— Care of 

 the Boilers — Disbudding — Drainage in Late Planted 

 Benrlies — Manure for Fall Mulching — Number of 

 Shoots to a Plant — Arthur C. Ruzlcka 137 



SEED TRADE— The Pea Pack— Reduced Yield of Seed 

 Peas — Beans — Onion Crop Prospects in Canary Is- 

 lands — One Week's Imports — Notes 142 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 144 



Flowers bv Telegraph 145 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety, George W. Kerr, portrait — Gladiolus Society 

 of Ohio — American Gladiolus Society — Coming Ex- 

 hibitions — R. R. Rates to Houston — Maryland State 



Horticultural Society 138 



Fancy Bedding in Convention Garden, Illustration.. 140 

 Club and Society Notes 147 



REPORT OF THE SWEET PEA TRIAL GROUNDS— 

 Prof. A. C. Seal 139 



THE NEW PEONY SOCIETY— C. S. Harrison— Chas. 

 W. Ward 140 



BOSTON FERN SPORELINGS— B. C. Benedict 141 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Wash- 

 ington. Cincinnati 146-147 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh 149 



St. Louis. Washington 151 



OBITUARY— Robert W. Hutchinson 151 



DURING RECESS— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston— Essex County Florists' Club — Florists' Club 

 of Washington — St. Louis Florist Club — Lancaster 

 County Florists' Association — Waretown Rod and 

 Gun Club 156-157 



MISCELLANEOUS: , 



Bougainvillea- La France Roses 141 



Catalogues Received 142 



News Notes 144 



Visitors' Register — Business Troubles 151 



Grubs in Lawn 155 



To Eradicate WiM Onion. . 157 



Floriculture in Ohio State University 158 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 158 



Patents Granted— New Corporations 158 



We have lieen continually inipressed 

 The key when visiting well kept and |)n:wperous 

 to prosperity growing establishment,'; with the atten- 

 tion given to minor cnltnral detailR 

 which many others are ajit to regard as non-essentials 



and consequently are apt to neglect. This holds true, 

 whether one is considering roses, carnations, sweet peas, 

 plants or other crops, outside or under glass — invaria- 

 bly this ever-watchful care and solicitude that the most 

 trivial minutiae may not be overlooked and neglected 

 marks the grower who wins the coveted distinction, 

 whether this be a trophy at a sweet pea show or a rose 

 exhibition or the commercial remuneration of estab- 

 lished demand and to|) price for any product with which 

 his name may be directly associated. 



Wv |ii-int this week pertinent conimun- 

 Friends ications on the peony society contro- 

 of the peony versy from two men well knowii in 

 ]ieony circles — T?ev. C. S. Harrison 

 and C. W. Ward. Both of these gentlemen argue in 

 defense of the action of the northwestern peony grow- 

 ers in forming a new society in that section entirely 

 independent of the existing national organization, yet 

 after reading tliese two letters it does not look like an 

 impossiltlo feat, if the riglit parties will go about it in 

 tlie right way, to harmonize tlie affairs of the old and 

 new organizations ami adjust their mutual relation.ships 

 to the end that eacli will be a help to the other and the 

 peony itself reap a substantial benefit. Horticulture 

 believes in a multiplicity of organizations but it also 

 believes in order and methodical cooperation voluntarily 

 subject to centralized responsiliiiity. Now is the time 

 to cultivate forbeai-iiiice and, under good generalshi]i, 

 tlie exercise of wise diplomacy will work wonders. And 

 if the result of the episode should be to inject a little 

 more "snap" into the councils of the parent society all 

 will probably agree tliat no harm will ensue. 



In "iiii'ds in Their Kclation to Man," 

 O""" a revised editiim of wliich, just ]iuli- 



bird friends |j^i,p,] jjy t|,e Lippim.ott Company, in- 

 cludes the results of government inves- 

 tigation of all supposedly harnifnl species of birds, tlie 

 authors tell us that of forty or fifty birds, exclusive of 

 hawks and owls, thus far investigated, the English 

 sparrow is the only one which has been condemned. Of 

 seventy-five species of hawks ami owls found in America, 

 only six were found to be injurious. And state bounties 

 upon dozens of species have been withdrawn in conse- 

 quence, state protection being substituted. Only the 

 English sparrow is without the iiale, and six states otfer 

 a liouiity for its extermination. We find, liowever, tliat 

 tbe ]irejudice against even the English sjjarrow is far 

 less pronounced of late than formerly, and it would not 

 sur|)rise us to yet see this sturdy little emigrant placed 

 on the friendly list as lias been' done with so many of 

 the once hated hawks. The English sparrow's voracious 

 appetite for canker worms and young gypsv moth cater- 

 pillars is coming to lie gratefully recognized Ijy many 

 wliose gardens and orchards have sutfered from the dep- 

 redations of these pests. Give him time and he will 

 make good Ins citi/:cii-bi]i. 



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