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HORTICULTUEE 



July 13, 1912 



HORTICULTURIL 



TOL. SVI JULY 13, !912 NO. 2 



PIBLISIIED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 392. 

 WM. J. STEWAKT, Editor and Manager. 



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

 BostOD, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Three Prize Winning Sweet 

 Pea Novelties. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Aspar- 

 agus Sprengeri — Care of Cypripediums — Hollyhocks — 

 Hydrangeas — Lilies for the Fall — Repairing and Out- 

 side Painting — John J. M. Farrell 37 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Crowded 

 Bunches — Syringing — Peaches and Nectarines on the 

 Spur System — Vegetable Houses — George H. Pensoii.. 38 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watering— Red 

 Spider — Roses Outside — Cleaning Up — Hose — Arthur 

 C. Rusicka 39 



AN ADEPT IN FRUIT GROWING— CMS. H. Totty 39 



WILLIAM R. SMITH— Portrait and Obituary Notes 41 



THE LATE J. A. PETTIGREW— C. TV. Hoitt 42 



NATIONAL SWEET PEA SOCIETY OF AMERICA— 

 Annual Exhibition and Convention — Schedule of 

 Prizes — Portraits of Officers — Program of Meeting . . 



43-44-44a 



THE ASBURY PARK SHOW— G. C. Watson- Illus. . .44a 



BOSTON'S NEW PARK SUPERINTENDENT— James 

 B. Shea, Portrait 44b 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 44b 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Newport Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Connecticut Horticultural Society — Society 

 of American Florists — Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety 44c 



New York Horticultural Society — North Shore Horti- 

 cultural Society — American Rose Society — St. Louis 

 Florist Club — Pittsburg Florists' and Gardeners' Club 



— Nassau County Horticultural Society 44d 



Club and Society Notes 45 



DURING RECESS— Florists' Club of Washington- 

 New York Florists' Club Outing — Chicago Carnation 

 Co. Entertainment 45 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Fannie R. Holland— Frank W. Foster 

 — George M. Roak — Mrs. S. Muir — John B. McManus. 46 



SEED TRADE— Convention Crop Reports— Garden 

 Peas — Garden Beans — Charles N. Page, Portrait — 



Notes 47 



The Bourne Bill — A Message from Lonsdale, Illus... 50 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 52 



Flowers by Telegraph 53 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 57 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 59 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



At Marion, Mass 44b 



A Valiant Prize Winner — Illustrated 44b 



Catalogues Received 50 



Personal 53 



Chicago Notes — New York Notes 54 



Philadelphia Notes — Washington Notes 55 



Polypodium Mandaianum — Illustrated 55 



Looking After Detail, poetry 55 



A Good Exhibition Flower Holder 55 



In Bankruptcy — Incorporated 59 



News Notes 59 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 64 



Boston is rapidly "getting the habit" 

 A noteworthy of welcoming distinguished \'isitors. 

 This week we have the Sweet Pea 

 Society and early in August the Park 

 Superintendents will be with us. The terrible weather 

 of the past week has been a bitter disappointment to 

 those who have been planning to make this sweet pea 

 affair the most notable of its kind in history. "Worse 

 conditions could hardly be possible and the exaspera- 

 tion is all the more acute because the entire season up till 

 within a few days had been unusually favorable for 

 sweet pea development. Nevertheless, there will be an 



occasron 



astonishing turn-out and to those of our readers who 

 have not started and who see these notes in time to reach 

 Boston either Saturday or Sunday, we have no hesitancy 

 in saying that the occasion will repay the time and effort. 

 In fact, it will be an eye-opener. 



Again our obituary columns are called 

 Two lives upon to record the passing away of one 

 well spent universally looked up to as a conspicuous 

 leader in his profession. John A. Petti- 

 grew, whose death was recorded last week and William 

 R. Smith, in their respective relationships to and influ- 

 ence on the profession and the public, must be counted 

 as among the greatest men who have ever adorned Amer- 

 ican horticulture. The work of these two men is by no 

 means closed with their departure from earthly scenes. 

 Such souls, 



"Whose sudden visitations daze the world, 

 Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind 

 A voice that in the distance far away 

 Wakens the slumbering ages." 



Each, a master in his sphere, has planted, stimulated 

 and brought into healthy vigor that which will through 

 years to come exercise an inestimable influence for the 

 cause of himianity. They have done their part in lay- 

 ing the foundation of our future horticultural develop- 

 ment. The good of their' fellow-men was their prime 

 incentive and it is fitting that we should revere their 

 memory in life-long gratitude for the benediction of 

 their lives. 



In our issue of March 9, 1912, we 

 A reprehensible took occasion to call attention to 

 predilection gome instances of "narrow-minded- 



ness" on the part of certain corre- 

 spondents of foreign horticultural journals who had 

 scoffed at "American" rose growers on account of their 

 alleged proneness to chaxige rose names. Within the 

 past month several similar flings have been given space 

 in a leading English horticultural weekly. In this con- 

 nection we recall an admonition in Holy Writ regard- 

 ing people who were prone to be so concerned about the 

 mote in their brother's eye that they overlooked the beam 

 in their own. The immediate cause of the present out- 

 break seems to be the use of the name Mrs. Taft for a 

 rose already known by two names — Antoine Rivoire 

 and Prince de Bulgarie. Renaming of plants cannot be 

 too strongly condemned, and we are heart and soul with 

 any movement which seeks to put a stop to the practice. 

 But these pedantic critics "across the pond" should bear 

 in mind that charlatans are not an exclusive product of 

 any country or race. One of the objects of the extensive 

 trials by the Royal Horticultural Society in former 

 years was to straigliten out the confusion caused by re- 

 naming in Great Britain and the reports of that society 

 are so full of synonyms that comparatively few standard 

 varieties are without one or more. As to roses, all one 

 has to do is to consult the eatalogite of any big rose 

 dealer to realize how much of this "faking" has been 

 done, while it is common knowledge that with peonies, 

 sweet peas and other things which might be mentioned, 

 the mischief that lias been perpetrated is simply monu- 

 mental. These things being so, the continued deriding 

 of "American cousins" for their failings in this respect 

 cannot be accepted here as "a friendly protest" for it 

 bears the stamp of something very different. If these 

 gentlemen will come out openly over their own names in- 

 stead of aliases and will help to inaugurate a broad-spir- 

 ited, unbiased movement to wipe out at home and abroad 

 the crying evils of renaming and substitution from which 

 the whole horticultural world has been suffering so long 

 they will find the American growers and dealers, the 

 Amercian societies and the American horticultural jour- 

 nals as ready to extend cordial sympathy and practical 

 co-operation as any on the face of the earth. 



