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HOETICULTUEE 



October 28, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL XXIV 



OCTOBER 28, 1916 



NO. 18 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HOR.T1CULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 1^7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Trlepbone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. ST£\VABT, Editor and Manager. 



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

 at BoBton, Maag., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Taxus cuspidata. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Be- 

 gonia Gloria de Lorraine — Callas — Lily of tlie Valley 

 — Paper Whites and Roman Hyacinths — Sweet Peas 

 — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 565 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — Liming the Benches 

 — Tying — Arthur C. Ruzicka 567 



TAXUS CUSPIDATA 567 



THE COLLECTION OF NEPHROLEPIS VARIETIES 

 AT THE BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDENS— 

 R. C. Benedict 568-569 



SELECTING ORCHID SEEDLINGS 569 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— California Association of 

 Nurserymen — Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society — Meetings Next Week — American 

 Peony Society — Lancaster County Florists' Associa- 

 tion — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Sewick- 

 ley Horticultural Society — American Rose Society 

 — Florists' Club of Hartford — Club and Society 

 Notes 570-571 



OBITUARY— John S. Brown— John K. Vosburgh— 

 George L. Huscroft— E. E. Rexford 511 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Boston Autumn Flower Show- 

 Iowa Autumn Flower Show — Coming Events — Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York — Second Annual Cleve- 

 land Flower Show — Chicago to Bloomington 572 



St. Louis Spring Flower Show — Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America 575 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling— At St. 

 Louis 575 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 576 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association — New Flow- 

 er Stores 578 



Flowers by Telegraph 579 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Pittsburgh, Chicago. Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, 

 New York. Washington 580-581 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 583 



Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 585 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Notes from Cornell University, Illustrated 574 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 574 



Greatness Achieved 57G 



Publications Received— Catalogues Received 576 



New Corporations— Business Troubles 576 



News Notes 57G 



Where Orchids and Gardenias Flourish 581 



Visitors' Register 585 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 590 



Patents Granted 590 



We hear much that is pleasing and 

 The encouraging concerning the Conven- 



convention tion Garden for 1917. The site 

 garden horizon selected in Bronx Park, New York, 

 is an ideal one for the purpose, beau- 

 lil'ul ill its setting and being so conveniently reached, 

 will unquestionably prove a gi'eat attraction to the con- 

 vention visitors and to the public, which in New York 

 includes innumerable summer tourists from afar. As a 

 large attendance from remote sections of the country is 



always assured at a New York convention, here will be 

 an unexcelled opportunity for displaying not only the 

 best garden material of today but also to present object 

 lessons in effective grouping and artistic arrangement. 

 But, be it remembered, that much of tlie planting can 

 be advantageously done now — in fact, must be done 

 this fall if it is to do full justice to the occasion. It is 

 hoped that a large proportion of the plantings shall be 

 made with the view that they may remain permanently 

 and thus carry fonvard uninterruptedly the good work 

 and influence of the S. A. F. during the coming years. 

 This is especially applicable to the rock gardens and 

 aquatic exhibits, fine examples of which are understood 

 to be forthcoming. Secretary John Young is particu- 

 larly optimistic as regards this feature of the big event. 



The trend of interest in the Experi- 



We're ment Stations and State and National 



••getting there" horticultural institutions generally is 



undoubtedly working towards a 

 larger recognition of and fuller cooperation with the 

 tloricultural or ornamental departments of horticulture. 

 Amherst, Ithaca, IJrbana and other educational centres 

 bave been wheeling into line and each year sees advance- 

 ment in the desire and in the ability to serve the flori- 

 cnltural interests in a ])racticable and acceptable manner . 

 Our readers will find evidence and encouragement in our 

 notes from .Xnics, Iowa, in the assurance there given of 

 the laudable desire of the agricultural college of that 

 .state to work for tlio development of the tloricultural in- 

 terests f)f the community and of the sincere disposition 

 of the florists of Iowa to cooperate with the College in 

 whatever jdans and efforts it may undertake to this end. 

 It liiis liecn said that "whatever is of permanent value 

 is usually of slow growtli." We havelong watched this 

 •"little cloud like a man's hand." Its growth has been 

 exasperatingly slow but it is big now with the promise 

 of the recognition to be accorded to ornamental horticul- 

 ture as second to none among the many excellent and 

 reputable commercial activities to which a young man 

 may wisely turn in choosing his life work. 



The flower show period is now close upon 

 Further us. We hope and believe that these events 

 progress for which thousands of the country's most 



enterprising and public-spirited horticul- 

 turists have been zealously preparing will all be success- 

 ful financially, educationally, artistically, socially and 

 in all other respects that can contribute to complete suc- 

 cess. As HoiiTicuLTURE has frequently taken occasion 

 to point out, there are certain essentials in which many 

 of the flower shows of the past have been lamentably 

 lacking. There are also many cheering indications that 

 these deficiencies are now quite generally recognized and 

 that sincere efforts are being made for improvement on 

 the line of popular education towards a greater and 

 better use of our products, through the medium of the 

 flower shows as object lessons. Ehibits intended pri- 

 marily to astonish with a display of cultural skill are of 

 course desirable — we might say indispensalde — features 

 of a well-regidated flower show but in these modern 

 days "gaping crowds" gape no more at flower shows if 

 they have to pay for the privilege. The notes in refer- 

 ence to the proposed exhibition at the JIassachusette 

 Agricultural College, which appear on another page of 

 this paper, are suggestive as showing one phase of the 

 tendency away from the stereotyped flower show with 

 which our readers are all familiar. Here and there all 

 over the country the leaven is working and wherever it 

 does work it means Progress. 



