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HOBTIOULTUBE 



September 16, 1916 



HORTICULT URE. 



" .111. I. mi"i I - 

 VOL. XXIV SEPTEMBER 16, 1916 NO. 12 



pubi.ish:ed weekly by 



horticulture: publishing co. 



147 Sommer Street. Boston. Macs. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. .1. STEWART. Editor and Man ager. 



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

 at Boston, Mass.. under the Act of C ongress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS ^^e 



COVER ILLUSTRATIOX— A Hemlock Hedge. 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Cover Crops— The 

 Fires — Manure for Mulching — Painting — Arthur C. 



Ruzicka 373 



THE RAISING OF WINTER FLOWERING BE- 

 GONIAS 375 



ADVANCING PRICES— WHY NOT?— P. M. Read 373 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— National Association of 

 Gardeners — Meetings Next Week — Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York — Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society — Holyoke and Northampton Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club — Chicago Florists' Clulj — Pittsburgh 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Clul:) — Florists' Club of 

 Washington — Coming Exhibitions — New York Flor- 

 ists' Club — New York Dahlia Show — Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston — Proposed North Shore 

 Horticultural Building, Illustrated— Club and Society 



Notes 376-378 



OBITUARY— James Fitzgerald— William T. Bell- 

 John W. Graham — William J. Newton — Henry A. 



Salzer— Mrs. James T. Aldous — John Bovle 378-379 



HONEST ADVERTISING; DISCONTENTED PART- 

 NERS— £Hon J. Buckley 379 



SEED TRADE— Pedigree Pea Prices— Seed Bean Pros- 

 pects—Garden Beets, Carrots, Etc.— Rice Seed Co. 

 Entertains— One Week's Imports — Seed Importation 



Act Amended 339 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORIS'TS : 



New Flower Stores 384 



Flowers by Telegraph ' 335 



The Influence of Department Store Flower Selling— 



AUie Zech 3g7 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, 



Washington 38g 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



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

 adelphia 3g9 



Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington ............]." 391 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Euphorbia triangularis — Illustrated 375 



Growing Rhubarb— A Hemlock Hedge 375 



A Walk Through the Woods — Poetry 375 



New Corporation 3g0 



Business Troubles 382 



Visitors' Register 384 



Prof. James G. Sanders, Portrait— News Notes!.!!!!'! 391 



Belgian Shipments Improbable 396 



Catalogues Received 396 



The Paper Famine, Poetry !!!!!!!!!! 396 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks !.!!!! 397 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 397 



Patents Granted . . . 397 



Two contrilration.? in this paper. 

 Looks like one from Illinois and the other from 

 faulty methods Pennsylvania, comment on the re- 

 grettable condition in the flower 

 trade immediatel}- following a day on which flowers are 

 largely called for, when market values drop to a disas- 

 trous level. The florists all know these facts bitt what 

 have they ever done by way of remedy? Dealers m 

 other commodities, when slack times occur, turn to ad- 

 vertising and special sales for relief but the average 

 florists' tactics are just the reverse. ^Yho ever knew of 

 any systematized attempt to work ofl' the lagging prod- 

 uct of the florist, say week after Easter? But— before 

 Easter, before Mothers' Day, before Christmas —when 

 he is assured of all the business that can be handled at 

 reasonable price,*, he jumps into advertising for more! 

 See the point ? 



The dahlia is well to the front in the 

 Mutations exhibition halls just at present and, 

 of the Dahlia should Jack Frost delay his coming, it 

 will so continue for a time but no one 

 can say within forty-eight hours when the gorgeous 

 flower of late summer may be ruthlessy levelled and 

 therein lies one of the dahlia's weak points as a garden 

 ornament and as a cut flower. At most of the shows 

 this season the peony-flowered section, athough of but 

 recent recognition, seems to be taking the precedence 

 in the novelties presented, the number of exhibits and 

 in public interest and admiration, supplanting to a 

 considerable extent the cactus varieties, lately so popular, 

 as well as the older show, fancy, pompon and single 

 sorts. How long the big, dashing peony-like blooms 

 will retain their prestige is a question depending much 

 upon the good sense of the introducers and the conserva- ■ 

 tive attitude of the societies under whose auspices 

 awards are made. The dahlia, in common with the 

 peony, chrysanthemum, gladiolus and many other 

 things which have been the subjects of much special 

 breeding, has suffered and is suffering from the imrea- 

 sonable multiplication of named varieties. There have 

 been thousands of dahlias named where even hundreds 

 would have been an overdose. Here is where the latest 

 idol — the colossal peony-flowered type, will need and 

 should be given protection, for, with the present tend- 

 ency away from exact specifications of form and other 

 determinable qualities and the absence of arbitrary 

 standards, anything monstrous or fantastic can now get 

 into the running and such can naturallly be produced 

 ad infinitum. A resolute weeding out of the old time 

 lists and unsparing sifting of new candidates would 

 seem to be the American Dahlia Society's foremost duty. 

 A short time .since, Horticulture de- 

 It can't olincd to accept an advertisement from 

 be done California, of a "hybrid Oak-Walnut". 

 Later, we were somewhat surprised to 

 see the same advertisement appear in our Xew York 

 contemporary and we are now still further surprised 

 to find an editorial note in the columns of our 

 contemporary which appears to be an attempt to con- 

 firm the absurd claims made by the aforesaid adver- 

 tiser. Our editorial friend mentions as proof that he had 

 "seen a Walnut and Chestnut hybrid in the renowned 

 arboretum of the Vilmorins, some twenty miles or so 

 out of Paris." "This," he says, "does not take a eom- 

 ]3ound name combining the two genera, as might be ex- 

 pected but was simply called Juglans Vilmoriana." 

 Juglans Vibnoriniana, as is well known, is a hvbrid 

 between Juglans nigra, the Black Walnut, and J. 

 regia, the English Walnut. The first mention of it 

 which we have knowledge of was by Carriere in the 

 Revue Horticole for 1863, p.31. Monsieur Maurice 

 Vilmorin gave an account of it in Garden and 

 Forest, Vo. IV., p. 51, with illustrations of the fruit 

 and of the tree growing at Verriers ; the tree is now 

 about ninety years old. The general name for the J. 

 nigra x regia hybrids, of which there are several, is 

 Juglans intermedia. In the neighborhood of Boston, 

 Mass. there are growing several large trees of a hybrid 

 between J. cinerea, the "Butternut," and J. regia. It 

 seems superfluous to say to our readers or to remind 

 our esteemed contemporary that no instance of hy- 

 bridization between members of two natural orders has 

 ever been known. The supposed Oak-Walnut hybrid 

 of the California advertiser is simply an abnormal 

 seminal form of Juglans Hindsii which has been 

 named var. quercina, and is so described in Bailey's 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, Vol. III., p. 1722. 



