HORTICULTURE 



July 6, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



TOL. XVI 



JULY 6, 1»12 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



•COVER ILLUSTRATION — Oncidium ornithorhyncum. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Aspar- 

 agus plumosus — Care of Asters — Housing Carnations 

 — Mignonette for Winter — Nepenthes — Stocks for 

 Winter Flowering — John J. M. Farrell 5 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Layer- 

 ing Strawberries — Propping Apples and Pears — Order 

 New Trees — George H. Penson 6 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Syringing Young 

 Plants — Two-Year-Old Plants — Wire for Beauties — 

 Manure for Fall Mulching — A Concrete Floor for Ma- 

 nure Shed — Lime — Protecting Iron Posts — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka T 



ONCIDIUM ORNITHORHYNCUM— Jlf. J. Pope— Illus- 

 trated 9 



ARISTOCRAT— (Jeorflie C. Watson 9 



SOME AMERICAN SEEDLING PEONIES — .A. H. 

 Fewkes 9 



OBITUARY — John A. Pettigrew, Portrait — Mrs. Wllhel- 

 mina Rosmarin — Peter R. DeMuth — John L. Froad- 

 ing — Daniel Springer 10 



-CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



National Sweet Pea Society 10 



American Peony Society — Illustrated 11 



S. A. P. Convention Sports 12 



Club and Society Notes 29 



•SEED TRADE: 



American Seed Trade Association — Proceedings at 



Chicago Convention 14 



Resolutions on Death of Jerome B. Rice 15 



Wholesale Grass Seed Dealers' Association — Notes... 16 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 18 



Flowers by Telegraph 19 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 2 



Philadelphia, St. Louis, Detroit, Washington 2 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chicago's Balmy Climate 12 



Chicago Notes 12 



Washington Notes 12 



Personal 12 



News Notes 19-30 



New York Notes 23 



Philadelphia Notes 28 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 29 



Incorporated 29 



St. Louis Notes 29 



Fire Record 30 



Among the most pleasing features 



The Rambler of the big international show in 



In the ascendant London was the prominence of the 



American hybri(i Eamblers in the 

 rose exhibits. It is very evident that they outshone all 

 others in impressive effect. This section of which the 

 foreign raised Crimson Rambler was the first notable ex- 

 ample, has been so enriched by the skill of American 

 hybridists that a rose exhibition or rose garden now in 

 which these graceful subjects are not a conspicuous com- 

 ponent, is a "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable" matter. 

 We look forward to the time when the patient skill of 

 our rose producers shall give us a race of hardy perpet- 

 ual flowering ramblers, accomplishing for the pillar class 

 what has already been so well done for the bush class in 

 the H. T. varieties. 



The appeal of President Farr of the 

 Friends American Peony Society for the elimi- 

 of the Peony nation of inferior varieties from the 

 catalogues of nurserymen and that the 

 Society should discourage the further introduction of 

 new sorts which are below the standard will, no doubt. 

 receive the unanimous approval of the trade and the 

 amateur as well. Excellent work has been done under 

 the Peony Society's auspices in identifying varieties and 

 classifying synonyms. Probably no other species of gar- 

 den plants has ever been so mixed up as to nomenclature 

 and so burdened with spurious varieties and fraudulent 

 varietal names as Pseonia albi,flora and the task which 

 the society undertook in straightening out this disorder 

 was a big one. We hope it will be equally successful in 

 future in its avowed purpose to advance the interests 

 of its favorite flower by encouraging the raising of still 

 finer varieties than we now have and opposing the ex- 

 ploitation of those that are inferior, whether new or old. 



Many well-wishers of our Society of 

 A vigorous American Florists have been disturbed 

 offspring from time to time by the formation of 

 new societies devoted to the interests of 

 special flowers — sometimes regarded as of minor impor- 

 tance — fearing a weakening effect on the "parent" insti- 

 tution. One of the youngest of these special organiza- 

 tions is the Sweet Pea Society, which has already given 

 good justification for its existence and that without any 

 suggestion of any cross-purposes with any other body. 

 This Society, we predict, will provide astonishment in 

 plenty for the horticultural world, at its annual meeting 

 and exhibition to be held in Boston the latter part of 

 next week, and those who visit it will have good reason 

 to congratulate themselves, no matter how great a dis- 

 tance they may have to travel. The S. A. F. is not 

 weakened but strengthened rather by these enthusiastic 

 endeavors. It all depends on the motives and springs 

 of action of the men who provide the inspiration and 

 mould the sentiment in such movements, and in the 

 present instance the loyalty of the workers in the young 

 offshoot, to the big national organization, is unques- 

 tioned. 



