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HORTICULTURE 



December 2, 191G 



HORTIC ULTURi: 



VOL. XXIV DECEMBER 2, 1916 NO. 23 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Oattleya TrianaB. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Holi- 

 day Suggestions — Lilies for Christmas — Lilium spec- 

 iosum — Lorraine Begonias — Rhododendrons for Forc- 

 ing — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 725 



EUPATORIUM— ;jicftnr(Z 7?o<fte— Illustrated 726 



VIOLET LEAF-SPOTS— C^ E. Wildon 726 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watch for Crown 

 Gall — Mulching Beauties — Cleaning Up — Sulphur on 

 the Pipes — Arthur C. Ruzicka 727 



INVESTIGATION OF ROSE DISEASES— J3r. L. M. 

 Massey 729 



STRAWBERRIES UNDER GLASS— Illustrated 729 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — American Rose Society- 

 Meetings Ne.xt Week — Society of American Florists — ■ 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America 730 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Texas State Flower Show 731 



OBITUARY— William L. Kroeschell, portrait— S. J. 



Renter, portrait 732 



Joseph H. Cushing — Bayard Thayer 735 



GREENHOUSE FUMIGATION 734 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 736 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 738 



Flowers by Telegraph 739 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, Washington, Newport, 

 R. I., Pittsburgh, New York 740-741 



DURING RECESS— Chicago Bowlers— Boston Florists' 

 Bowling League 741 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 743 



Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 750 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Out of the Ginger Jar — Geo. C. Watson 736 



Publications Received — New Corporations 736 



News Notes 738 



Visitors' Register 741 



Three Distinguished Philadelphlans— Illustrations. . . 735 

 Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 750 



We are- informoil that it is proposed by 



A great the Govcniment of the City of Paris to 



trial of new establish in the Department of the Seine 



roses a "rose concourse" to continue for three 



years — 1917-1919. They request that 



rose raisers everywlicrc send for test ]nirposes five plants 



of each new variety and a veiy extensive and valuable 

 trial of novelties is confidently expected from this in- 

 gathering. We hope that our American hyljridizers will 

 be well represented in this euterpri.se, so praiseworthy 

 on the part of the French horticulturists at a time of 

 awful struggle and privation. From wdiat we hear 

 about the new "creations" now receiving their finishing 

 touches by certain American rosarians the candidates 

 entered from this part of the world are not likely to 

 suffer by comparison with those raised anywhere on the 

 other side of the Atlantic. It is quite safe to say that 

 there arc some genuine surprises in store. 



-Although the exhibition season has 



Disproportionat3 but just closed, it is already full 



premiums time for the i)lanuing of details and 



the compilation of prize schedules 

 for the next season, and the eai'lier it is undertaken tbe 

 better. The custom of soliciting special prizes from the 

 numerous florist, nurseiy and seed houses, as well as 

 from private patrons of horticulture and from local 

 business houses, appears to be rapidly growing — in fact, 

 some of the pi-ize schedules of the season just ended 

 have consisted very largely of these special donations. 

 One serious fault with such is the great disproportion 

 in the amounts offered and their widely variant appro- 

 priateness relatively to the respective classes in which 

 tiiey are offered. We expect eventually to see the trade 

 establishments, who are being drawn into this prize 

 levy moi'e and more each year, generally adopt tbe plan 

 of series of medals, the honor of winning which, rather 

 than their cash value, will be the incentive to compe- 

 tition, but in the case of other classes of donors, the 

 amount of whose gifts is largely dependent upon gen- 

 erosity rather than upon their adequacy for the purpose 

 specified, the schedule committees should urge and 

 should be given all jjossible latitude in the division and 

 ap|>lication of the amounts subscribed, so that the ab- 

 sui-<l dis])arity so noticeable in many instances may be 

 avoided in the future. 



Tlie best thing that has hap- 

 pened to the chrysanthemum 

 in recent years is the single 

 chrysanthemum. Just at the 

 time when the I'egulation l)ig double varieties were be- 

 ginning to get "the cold shoulder" fr(im the jaded 

 public the singles and anemones and pompons stepped 

 out from their humble position in the back gi'ound and 

 saved the day by their a|)peal to the jjeople of dainty 

 artistic temperament and thus an extension and re- 

 newal of po])ularity came to the queen of autumn in 

 whatever character she appeared. In fact, the massive 

 Japanese doubles are not outclassed by this turn in 

 clirysantbemiim affairs but rather is their stability re- 

 stored. This revival of interest has proved a stimulus 

 on new lines to the cbi'ysanthemiim raisers who are now 

 encouraged to .strive for new coloi's and habits and 

 forms that will appeal to the artistic eye and lend them- 

 selves to graceful decorative efTect either alone oi- in 

 association with the big blooms. The experience of the 

 exhibitions this year shows that tlie popular heart has 

 been touched. The public voice has s])oken in undoul)ted 

 ap])roval and the people stand ready to be .shown how 

 tbe chrysanthemum can and should be made use of to 

 beautify and adorn the somber surroundings of autumn. 

 Rear this fact in mind when making up the prize lists 

 for next fall and you'll have no rea.son to com])lain of 

 tbf pul)li<- interest if you act accordingly. 



Mutations of 

 the chrysanthemum 



