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October 7, 1916 



HORTICUI^TURE. 



VOL XXIV OCTOBER 7, 1916 NO. 15 



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CONTENTS P«« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Astilbe Davidi. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Acacias — Cypripediums — Lomarias — Marguerites — 

 Preparing Land for Next Year — Reminders — Jfohn 

 J. M. Farrell 469 



ASTILBES AND HERBACEOUS SPIREAS— Bicftord 

 BoiAe— Illustrated '*'7^ 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Vegetable Growers' Asso- 

 ciation, portalt— Meetings Next Week — Lancaster 

 County Florists' Association — Cleveland Florists' 



Club 472 



American Association of Nurserymen — Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia— Coming Exhibitions — Ameri- 

 can Rose Society — New Jersey Floricultural Society 

 — American Association of Park Superintendents... 474 

 Pot Makers' Credit Association 494 



SEED TRADE)— Crop Report from Holland— One 

 Week's Imports — Notes 476 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 478 



Flowers by Telegraph 479 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, Boston 482 



Philadelphia, Cleveland 483 



OBITUARY— Reinhardt Cook— Henry Kirke White- 

 Edward Mawley — Charles M. Griffing 483 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia.. 485 

 Washington 487 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



"Tear Down" Week — Personal 475 



Belgian Azaleas Coming 475 



Floriculture at Ohio State College 476 



News Notes 478-487 



Settlement of Claims for Damaged Mall 483 



Trials of Dahlias in Minnesota 492 



Peony Flowered Dahlia, Mrs. Frederick Grinnell 



—Illustrated 492 



Landscape Architecture Exhibit 492 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 492 



A Friend of the Dahlia 492 



Assistant Gardeners' Essay Contest 493 



Publications Received — Catalogues Received 493 



Patents Granted — New Corporations 494 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 494 



Our cover illustration this week shows one 



Plants of the most distinctive species of the garden 



of merit astilhes of recent introduction. This plant, 



which was fully described in Horticulture 



by E. H. Wilson in his interesting series of notes on the 



new Chinese plant introductions in the spring of 1910 



is one of the principal parents of the Arendsi hybrids 



described and illustrated in Mr. Rothe's notes on 



another page. Horticulture takes pride in the fact 



that quite a number of these sterling novelties had their 



first introduction to the American trade through its 



columns. In the excellent talk by Wm. Saville before 



the Florists' Club of Philadelphia this week on the 



Gems of the Perennial Garden, which we hope to pul)- 



lish in full in a future issue, there were mentioned 

 Aconitum Wilsoni, Anemone hupehensis, Artemesia 

 lactiflora and the Buddleias, all of which were in the list 

 of new things described by Mr. Wilson in his initial 

 contributions to Horticulture in which attention was 

 for the first time called to their prospective value to the 

 American planter. 



We commend to the attention of the 

 The F. T. D. florist trade of the country the forcible 

 announcement of the Florists' Tele- 

 graph Delivery Association which appears in this issue 

 of Horticulture. This energetic organization, start- 

 ing not very many years ago with a few optimistic indi- 

 viduals inspired with ideals which to many seemed 

 somewhat visionary and impracticable, has by steadfast 

 purpose and sheer perseverance hammered out a most 

 remarkable success which in its way is without a 

 parallel in the horticultural activities of the world. The 

 organization is not only exceptional and really unique in 

 what it has built up for its members and for the florists' 

 business interests generally but for what it has been 

 able to do in recruiting and solidifying the best elements 

 in the retail florist trade of the continent into active 

 adherence to the Society of American Florists — a much 

 desired but seemingly impossible achievement up to the 

 time the P. T. D. tackled the problem. In making 

 membership in the S. A. F. a prerequisite to F. T. D. 

 membership the latter has set up a new standard which 

 has certainly conduced very much to the prestige of 

 both organizations. 



It is pleasing to note a marked increase in 



For the the quantity, also the quality, of floricul- 



Roses tural literature sent out from time to time 



by the TJ. S. Depaiiment of Agriculture 

 through the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington. 

 Farmers Bulletin, Xo. 750, which is just received is a 

 very well considered and instructive document of 36 

 pages, on Roses for the Home, by F. L. Mulford and is 

 worthy of a cordial reception by everybody interested in 

 having more and better roses grown in American 

 gardens. Simultaneous with its appearance, there comes 

 a series of nine articles in type-written form, each 

 article of reasonable length for convenient publication, 

 bearing upon and summarizing the contents of the 

 aforesaid bulletin. These have been distributed to the 

 editors of all horticultural and agricultural papers and so 

 lucid are they in phraseology and so well do they answer 

 the many questions which perplex not only the novice but 

 the more advanced worker in the rose field as well, that 

 their widespread dissemination should in due time have 

 a marked influence on the popular demand for garden 

 roses of all types. Although primarily intended for the 

 edification and instruction of those who wish to grow 

 roses for pleasure and for the adornment of their home 

 grounds these bullftin.s should be hailed with satisfac- 

 tion by the inir.seryman and florist, for assuredly they 

 are most potent propagandists in his behalf. Tliere can 

 be no doubt that one direct result of Professor ilulford's 

 treatise will he an augmented demand for roses in many 

 places and. of these, presumably a goodly number will 

 come from beginners in rose culture who have hitherto 

 given little or no thought to the subject or have lacked 

 confidence in their ability to produce anything credit- 

 able, because of tlieir ignorance of the requirement; for 

 success. Would it not show good business judgment and 

 prove profitable in the long i-un for any retail dealer 

 wishing to increase his rose sales, to secure some of these 

 bulletins and pass them around among his customers who 

 have garden space at their disposal ? 



