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HOKTIOULTUBE 



September 23, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV 



SEPTEMBER 23, 1916 



NO. 13 



PCBLISHED WEEKLY BT 



HORTICUI.TUICE PUBLISHING CO. 

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lillum Sargentiae. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Canterbury Bells — Dutch Bulbs — Summer Flowering 

 Bulbs — Lifting Shrubs for Forcing — Lily Bed — Re- 

 minders — John J. M. FarreU 405 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Liquid Manure- 

 Flowers for Retail Work — Careful Packing — Arthur 



C. Riizicka 407 



LILIUM SARGENTIAE— Art/iwr E. Thatcher 407 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York State Federa- 

 tion of Horticultural Societies — St. Louis Florist 

 Club — Meetings Next Week — Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston — Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society — Nassau County Horticultural Society — 

 Sewickley Horticultural Society — Rhode Island 

 Horticultural Society — Vegetable Growers' Associa- 

 tion of .America, Illustrated — New Haven County 

 Horticultural Society — Dahlia Show at Attleboro. 

 Mass. — Coming Exhibitions — Cleveland Industrial 



Exposition — Club and Society Notes 408-410 



DURING RECESS— The Farquhar Outing, Illustrated 



— Newport Horticultural Societj- — Rhinebeck Growers 412 

 SEED TRADE— Clover for Seed— One Week's Imports 

 — Largest Bulb Shipment — French Bulbs, Etc. — Notes 414 



RE BELGIAN SHIPMENTS 414 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 416 



Flowers by Telegraph ^417 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERTWHERE: 

 Chicago, Washington, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New 



York, Boston •. 418 



OBITUARY— James Broadfoot — John Patterson — Wil- 

 liam J. Snow — Mrs. John H. Johnson-^William 

 Langstaff— .Mrs. Charles A. Taylor — Charles E. Chen- 



ery — Arthur J. Learv 419 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 421 



St. Louis, Washington 423 



HARDY CHRYSANTHE.MUMS— JBicAord Vincent. Jr. 428 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Grovelling Accuracy — George C. Watson 411 



The Old, Old Subscriber, poetry 411 



Fifteen Years Ago Today— George C. Watson 412 



Advancing Prices— Why Not? — P. M. Read 413 



Forcing Spring Flowering Shrubs 413 



Catalogues Received 413 



Westerly Florist Missing 416 



New Corporations 416 



The Late Jackson Dawson — F. Gomer Waterer 419 



Visitors' Register — Personal 423 



News Notes 423 



A Home Garden— Illustration 428 



Greenkeeping Notes 429 



Flowers, Animals and Men 430 



Business Troubles— Patents Granted 430 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 430 



The frequent discu.ssions of late in re- 



"Good out gard to cut price sales, department store 



of evil" competition, "dumping", auction sales, 



etc., call to mind a recent article in the 

 Xatioiial Xurseryman toueliing on the agitation and 

 railing in the nursery trade against these methods of dis- 

 posing of surplus stock. Tlie writer of the notes here 

 referred to very pertinentlv savs "Perliaps these evil 

 things will eventually work good" and adds "Every 

 nurserjTuan knows that localities that have planted most 

 are easier to sell to than those where little or no planting 



, has been done. This shows the most essential thing to 

 develop a market is to get people interested in growing 

 things" and argues that "the opportunity to purchase gar- 

 den material at an unexpectedly low price tends to make 

 new permanent customers who might not otherwise have 

 ever been interested and that these by their example will 

 stimulate and encourage emulation on the part of others 

 also. This strikes us as pretty logical reasoning and we 

 have seeu it demonstrated rejieatedly. Take a given 

 neighborhood where the homes are all uuadorned and 

 let'the owner of just one of these proceed to beautify it 

 with trees, lawn, flowers and vines and note the result. 

 It will not be very long before the whole neighborhood is 

 transformed. The most effectual missionary work isn't 

 all preaching. 



In common with many others, we are not 

 The in fiill accord with the sentiments expressed 

 English by Mr. Forbush in regard to the standing 

 sparrow of the so-ealled "English" sparrow, in his lec- 

 ture before the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston, last Tuesday evening. We recognize the fact 

 that as a life-long devoted student of bird habits, and 

 as State Ornithologist of Ma.=sachusetts, 'Sir. Forbush 

 possesses an exceptional kno'vvledge of his subject and his 

 opinion should carry great weight. But we have re- 

 jieatedly seen such evidence of this bird's useful services 

 in insect destruction that we are always moved to register 

 our protest whenever we hear him denounced, as it seems 

 to us, too harshly. We think, too, that it is a mistake 

 to hold the Engli.sh sparrow so largely responsible for 

 tlie reduction in numbers of our native birds as do Mr. 

 Forbush and others. The full effect of the eneroach- 

 nients of civilization on Xature's domain is a subject 

 too complex to be disposed of offhand aud even at his 

 worst the sparrow can be but an insignificant factor. The 

 woods, fields and meadows are the natural habitat of the 

 native birds and there the English sparrow does not 

 care to go, preferring to keep close to the habitations of 

 man. Xot all his traits are lovable but he has enough 

 good points to entitle him to a "square deal." 



In addition to continuing the successful 

 A series of Landscape Gardening cla.sses 



good move ^hich have been conducted for .a number 

 of years under its auspices, the Gardenei-s' 

 and Florists' Club of Boston now proposes to inaugurate 

 also a course in Floral Art provided a sufficient number 

 of members signify a desire to take advantage of tlie 

 offer. The only untoward feature of the landscape 

 enterjirise lias been the occa.sional difficulty of securing 

 enough students to make it self supporting. In a club 

 numbering over four hundred members a goodly propor- 

 tion of whom are young gardeners presumably desirous 

 of advancing in the Imowledge of their art and in the 

 cinoluments which appertain to it, this lack of interest is 

 regrettable. To what extent support will be given to the 

 new proposition remains to be seen. "Floral Art" is a 

 topic of very broad application, closely touching upon 

 the major part of a gardeners' as well as a professional 

 florists' function and we do not yet know just wliat line 

 of instruction is contemplated. But it is safe to say 

 that in no particular is the average florist or gardener 

 more deficient than in a knowledge of tlie fundamental 

 principles underlying correct harmony and contrast in 

 form and color arrangement. Whether it be in garden 

 planting, exhibition grouping or decorative cut flower 

 work, equal crudeness is generally seen. The workers 

 evidently have much to learn and the field is limitless. 

 We hope to see a ready response in this new and vorv 

 commendable club enterprise. 



