HOETICULTUKE 



October 14, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV OCTO BER 14, 1916 NO. 16 



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CONTENTS Pa«e 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Montbretias, Germania and 

 Sunset, in Bar Harbor, Me. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Azaleas— Care ot Summer Flowering Cattleyas— 

 Lilies for the Holidays— Otabeite Oranges- Violets 

 — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 501 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS~-\Yashing Pots- 

 Grading for New Houses— The Sod Heaps — Arthur 

 0. Ruzicka 502 



MONTBRETIA SYN. TRITONIA— iJicftariJ Rothc 503 



HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL GARDENS AT MASS- 

 ACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— C. E. 

 Wi/f/oji— Illustrated 503 



OCTOBER GLORIES IN THE HARDY GARDEN— 

 William Saville 505 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Joint Meeting ot Indiana 

 and Kentucky Florists — Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton — Meetings Next Week — Society of American 

 Florists- New York Florists' Club — Nassau County 

 Horticultural Society— Coming Exhibitions— Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society 508-509 



Holyoke and Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club— Notes 526 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 510 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 512 



Flowers Dy Telegraph 513 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Washington, New York, 

 Cleveland 514 



OBITUARY— Andrew Bather 514 



SOMETHING ABOUT ACCEPTING DEBTORS' NOTES 

 IN SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS— BZ/on J. Buckley 515 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia 517 



Pittsburgh, Washington 519 



DURING RECESS— Washington Bowlers 526 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publications Received — Catalogue Received 510 



Personal 514 



Visitors' Register 519 



Indemnity for Damaged Parcel Post Packages 524 



Sour Soils, Their Causes and Treatment 525 



Business Troubles 525 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 526 



The spoliation of woo(31ands, meadows and 

 Robbing liedgerows by parties who make a business 

 Nature of the sale of collected native plants has been 

 carried to such an extent in Britain that eei- 

 taiu of the horticultui'al Journals have refused to accept 

 any longer the advertisements of these people, offering 

 their loot for sale. It will be a good thing for this coun- 

 try also, when similar reproach may be visited on the 

 pothunters who make a business of ransa(ilving the coun- 



tryside and wihlwoods for the floral gems which Nature 

 lias so bountifully bestowed. The extent to which this 

 collecting business is carried is not generally realized. 

 Some of our most beautiful native plants have been 

 practically exterminated from districts where they once 

 abounded. 



We have been interested in reading 



To revivify the series of resolutions adopted by 



the promoiogists the American Pomological Society 



at its meeting in Berkeley, Cal., in 

 September 1915, printed report of which has just now 

 l)oen received. We note particularly the official invita- 

 tion extended to the various national horticultural 

 organizations, including the Society of American Flor- 

 ists and Ornamental Horticulturists, to hold their meet- 

 ings for 1917 at some common time and place and that 

 there lie at least one union meeting to consider topics 

 and questions common to all branches of horticultural 

 endeavor. This sounds good but the proposition to form 

 a "Federation" of all horticultural organizations — state, 

 district and national — under the wing of the American 

 Pomological Society strikes us as in some respects an 

 instance of the tail undertaking to wag the dog, pomo- 

 logy being only one of several divisions of horticulture 

 an(i so far as our observation goes not exactly one of the 

 most strikingly progressive at the present time. The 

 venerable Pomological Society has been doing some use- 

 ful work 3'ight along, as we all know ; but the art for 

 which it stands as the chief exponent can hardly be ex- 

 ])ected to make much progress while the fact remains as 

 stated by G. C. Eocding of California, that "you cannot 

 get the interest of fruit growers unless you can show 

 them forcibly that it will put money into their pockets. 

 That is the only way to do it." May we respectfully sug- 

 gest that tliis was not the spirit that animated the 

 Hoveys, Wilders, Downings and other pomological 

 giants of bygone days, neither is it the dominating in- 

 fluence in the activities of the Society of American 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists or otlier organi- 

 zations which in recent years seem to have outdistanced 

 the Pomological Society in tangilile evidence of life and 

 l)rogress. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has 

 been during its entire history a consistent and steadfast 

 ally of the American Pomological Society and a liberal 

 ])atron of the fruit growing interests. Yet at its annual 

 fruit and veg(»table show held l»st week the only fruit 

 <'xhibit which the judges found worthy of special award 

 wa.'i a dish of apples of a variety introduced from Eng- 

 land a generation or more ago, to which they gave 

 "honorable mention." And of the fourteen varieties of 

 apples and fifteen pears listed in the prize classes, all 

 were varieties common from forty to eighty years ago! 

 \ circular letter addressed "To All Lovers of Horticul- 

 ture" sent out by President W. H. Hutt of the .Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society calls for a meeting in Wash- 

 ington. D. C. November 16-18, for the"unification and 

 co-ordination" of the various pomological interests. We 

 ardently hope that these activities foreshadow a big re- 

 \ival in every branch of fruit culture and believe that 

 rtiniiation with other horticultural bodies should help 

 materially to that end. The Society of American Flor- 

 ists and Ornamental Horticulturists, which is the near- 

 est approach to a National Horticultural Society in this 

 country' has in operation a practical system of affiliation 

 which we venture to commend to the consideration of 

 the AVashington meeting, for with its numerical and 

 financial stregth and particularly its uni(iue National 

 Charter that organization would seem to be in a position 

 to meet the fruit growing interest.s half-way. 



