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HOBTICULTURE 



September 2, 191& 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXIV 



SEPTEMBER 2, 1916 



NO. 10 



Pl'ULI.sHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

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CONTENTS Pago 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Miscanthus sinensis (Eiilalia 

 japonica.) 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Ardisia crenulata — Pansies for Winter Flowering — 

 Pompon Dahlias for Christmas — Schizanthus Wise- 

 tonensis — Swainsona — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 309 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — Fumigation — 

 Those .-Annoying Spiders — Grasshoppers and Cater- 

 pillars — Arthur C. Ruzicka 311 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Flor- 

 ists — A Correction — Meetings Next Week — Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society — Notes 312 



Cleveland's Big Show, Portraits — Coming Exhibi- 

 tions — Some Notable Convention Garden Exhibits.. 313 



DURING RECESS— St. Louis County Growers 313 



SOME IMPORTANT NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN 

 TREES AND SHRUBS— 7oftre Dunbar 314 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— To a Congress- 

 man. Poetry — Notes — Catalogues Received 318 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery — New Flower Stores.. 320 

 Flowers by Telegraph 321 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York. Buffalo, Boston, 



Newport, R. I., Philadelphia 322 



St. Louis 327 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 

 Philadelphia . 32.5 



INSECT PROBLEMS OF THE FLORIST AS SEEN 

 BY AN ENTOMOLOGIST— TAomas J. Headlee 332 



OBITUARY— Henry A. Salter— Mrs. D. Carmichael— 

 Charles E. Grunewald 333 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publications Received 316 



Miscanthus sinensis 317 



Picturesque La Salle County— Illustrated ...... 323 



Visitors' Register 323 



To the Growers of Roses 327 



New Corporation 327 



News Notes 333 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 334 



Here comes September, the advance 

 September courier of the new season, pregnant with 

 cheer the cheering promi.se of awakening busi- 

 ness activity, inspiring high hopes and 

 stirring all to enthusiasm and laudable ambition. In 

 common with the patrons whose interests we live to 

 serve and whose welfare is so knit into our own. Hor- 

 ticulture, too, looks forward to the season now about 

 to open, with eager confidence and earnest purpose to 

 improve and advance in everything which goes to ma]<e 

 up a trade journal of the first class. To this end we 

 respectfully solicit the willing help and support of the 

 trade, for we cannot do it all alone. With such co- 



operation assured the resultant prosperity will be 

 mutual. There is plenty of good business ahead for 

 everybody who will go after it in the right way — and 

 "the right way" includes, as an essential, a well-planned 

 publicity campaign through the medium of Horticul- 

 ture. 



Superintendent Brock in speak- 

 Convention Jng of his experience in perfect- 



garden shortcomings ing the Convention Garden, 

 said that to make it a success 

 more time should be given to the preparation of the 

 Garden, two seasons being necessary to properly develop 

 it and produce shrabbery of sufficient size and growth 

 so that finished results could be shown at the date of 

 the convention. This fact was also plainly in evidence 

 in the Boston convention when the difficulties met were 

 really insurmountable owing to the additional hindrance 

 of a cold wet spring. Tliis was the occasion of the orig- 

 inal suggestion by Horticulture which has now been 

 adopted by the S. A. F. that the location of the conven- 

 tion should be selected two years in advance if the Con- 

 vention Garden is ever to be a creditable piece of work, 

 ilr. Brock, however, says that the installation of the 

 Convention Garden in Houston caused many people to 

 visit the park who had never before visited it and thus 

 a healthy interest in park improvement and home beau- 

 tifying has been created, the trade has already felt the 

 impulse in the call for more and better plants, and so 

 the Garden, notwithstanding all the drawbacks, did in 

 a measure accomplish its purpose. 



September is the big month for "fairs." 



The month Unfortunately and, we believe, unwise- 



of fairs ly for the trade as well as for the fairs. 



the horticultural department of these 

 jjopular institutions is seldom more than a joke and it 

 would be a relief to the mind of the self-respecting hor- 

 ticulturist visiting such if the flower section as usually 

 seen were abolished entirely. And yet there is no good 

 reason why these affairs might not be turned to as good 

 profit ])roportionatcly for the florist, plantsman and 

 seedsman as for the numerous other industries that do 

 find them beneficial. It is gratifying, therefore, to see 

 that efforts arc being made in various places by the 

 local horticultural people to develop in a progressive and 

 dignified manner the horticultural end of these annual 

 enterprises. The Rochester, N. Y., Industrial Expo- 

 sition, a "fair" under another name, which opens next 

 Monday is one instance; the New York State Fair 

 scheduled to open at Syracuse on tlie following Monday, 

 September 11, is another. Especially would we com- 

 mend the Industrial Exj)osition and Fair at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, running for one week from Saturday, September 

 2, in which a supreme eft'ort is being made to induce 

 the flower growers, gardeners and floral artists to take 

 a leading part. Liberal prizes are offered and we hope 

 and believe tliat tliis attempt will be a success. There 

 are a score or more county and sectional fairs of con- 

 siderable importance throughout New York State and 

 New England especially where similar activity would 

 be a wise move. One or a few exhibitors, however well 

 they may do, cannot possibly bring up any department 

 to a proper level. There must be a general interest 

 and a general co-operation and as soon as this is under 

 way the rest will always be eaisy. If the premiums of- 

 fered are considered inadequate the sure remedy lies 

 in making the department such a popular success and 

 drawing feature that its importance will command rec- 

 ognition. When this stage has been reached the man- 

 agement will not he backward in coming forward with 

 "the dough." 



