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HOETICULTUEE 



August 12, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV 



AUGUST 12, 1916 



NO. 7 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



hob-ticultvrj: publishing co. 



147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 W.M. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Entered 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— Jackson Thornton Dawson, 

 portrait. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Poinsettias— Primulas— Mignonette for Midwinter 

 —Paper White Narcissi— Preparing Soil — Remind- 

 ers— JoTin J. M. FarrcU 199 



JACKSON DAWSON: IN MEMORIAM— C. S. Sargent 

 —E. H. Wilson^W. A. Manda—T. A. Havemeyer— 

 Patrick O'Mara—E. T. MUche 201-202 



PYRETHRUM ULIGINOSUM — Richard Rothe — Illus- 

 trated ^^^ 



OBITUARY — Jackson Thornton Dawson — John Charl- 

 ton— Mrs. George C. Shaffer— Richard Brett— Eu- 

 gene S. Hinckley 203-204 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Coming Exhibitions — 

 Garden Club of Allegheny County— Horticultural 

 Society of New York— American Rose Society — 

 Holyoke and Northampton Gardeners' and Florists' 



Club ■•■;•■ 204 



Wisconsin State Horticultural Society — Gladiolus 

 Exhibition in Boston— Gladiolus Society of Ohio — 

 Society of American Florists— Houston Convention 

 Rates— Famous San Jacinto Battlefield, Illustration 

 —Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Club and Society 

 Notes 205 



COLOR STANDARDIZATION— D. F. Kerr 206 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports — British Prohibit 

 Bulbs by Parcel Post— Those Seductive Catalogues — 

 Miss Gertrude E. Skinner 210 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 212 



Flowers by Telegraph 213 



Brides Bouquet of Sweet Peas— Illustra,tion 215 



Cleveland Florists Plan Co-operative Display 215 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Washington, New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Boston, 

 Notes 214 



DURING RECESS— Buffalo Florist Club— St. Louis 

 Countv Picnic 215 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



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

 adelphia 217 



Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 219 



THE GREENHOUSE SALESMAN PAST AND PRES- 

 ENT 224 



WHEN ' EMPLOYES, COLLECTORS OR AGENTS 

 HOLD OUT MQNKY— Elton J. Buckley 225 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Mold in Mushroom House — Oeorge C. Watson 204 



Go Down Among the Flowers 204 



Along About Now — Poetry 204 



The Pawpaw 209 



Lilium canadense — Illustrated 209 



Catalogues Received 210 



Business Troubles 212 



News Notes 212 



Visitors' Register 219 



Personal — New Corporation 219 



A National Flower — C. S. Harrison 219 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 224 



In El Paso, Texas 225 



An editorial note in The National Nur- 

 Opportunity seryman calls attention to the great need 

 knocks for more skilled help in the nursery busi- 

 ness in this country and intimates that 

 the matter might have been properly brought before the 

 Convention at 'Milwaukpe. which it was not. We com- 



mented not long ago on the recent change in policy of 

 the American Association of NurserjTnen whereby it 

 now becomes a trade institution wholly to the exclusion, 

 practically, of altruistic or educational purpose. This 

 ideal was carried out in the Convention, which from the 

 standard of a trade organ appears to have been a very 

 successful affair and, as The Xafional Nurseryman 

 states, "It is very doubtful if a nursery employee is 

 eligible to membership in the National Association 

 under the present policy; at least there is no effort to 

 encourage him to become one." We might here assure 

 the young man wishing to profit by membership in an 

 association working on helpful lines that tlie Society of 

 American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists is 

 such an organization and there are no trade or class 

 barriers to active membership or official preferment 

 therein. Mere membership in any organization, however, 

 cannot make intelligent skilled workmen nor can any 

 a.'isociation or institution of horticultural learning take 

 the place of practical training in the field and the pot- 

 ting shed, but if "more loyal, earnest, real plant growers" 

 are to be provided, the societies can do much to help 

 and encourage the ambitions young man, bringing 

 him into personal contact with the men who have made 

 a success of their business, and under influences which 

 tend to develop int-elligence, self-re,spect and emulation 

 to excel. 



The news of the death of Jackson T. 

 A Dawson occasions profound sorrow. 



master spirit .Tackson Dawson was a rare genius. He 

 gone left to mankind a priceless legacy. 



Forests that had tlioir birth under his 

 vigilant care will flourish and the gardens, not only of 

 this country hut of the whole world, will for ages bear 

 his imperishable impress. The Arnold Arboretum could 

 never have become what it is without Dawson. He grew 

 up with it and it grew up with him. Close, verj' close 

 wa-s this man to Nature's heart for he was a child of 

 Xature and she to him was a goddess. Whether trudg- 

 ing through the wilderness in never-wearing quest, 

 sowing with unerring intuition the strange seeds that 

 came to him from the ends of the earth, or deftly per- 

 forming delicate ojjerations in plant propagation. Na- 

 ture's secrets were for him always an open book and he 

 understood. 



It was natural that a man of such potijnt mentality 

 should irresistibly draw his fellow men about him. His 

 |)ictiiresque physique and rugged ]iersonality made him 

 conspicuous wherever he went. He has been aptly call- 

 ed "the Walt Whitman of horticulture." But, in the 

 (jualities that made him a man among men and made 

 his life a benediction, above all was his overflowing kind- 

 ness of heart. This character was beautifully exempli- 

 fied in his affectionate pride in his children. No words 

 were too strong to express his faith in them, no personal 

 sacrifice too great for him to make in their behalf. To 

 others he gave tmstintingly from the well-spring of a 

 heart overflowing with generous impulse and he wa.s ever 

 ready to impart freely of the knowledge he had stored 

 up during his busy life. 



Is it any wonder that Jackson Dawson was loved and 

 venerated, that men wept and turned away shaking with 

 grief as they looked for the last time upon the features 

 of one who was to them "the porcelain clay of human 

 kind?" "Guide, philosopher and friend" he was to 

 many of us. We shall mi.ss him so much, and the world 

 will be so lamentably poorer without him, hut there is 

 comfort in the thought of ha\-ing lived in his time, of 

 having known him intimately and enjoyed his com- 

 panionship and loved him as but few men ever love 

 another. 



