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HOETICULTUEE 



July 27, 1912 



horticulture: 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Group of Stove and Green- 

 house Plants at International Horticultural Exhi- 

 bition. 



LILIUM MYRIOPHYLLUIVI— B. H. WiZson— Illustrated 109 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Requi- 

 site Damping — Timing — Mulching — Pigs — George H. 

 Penson 110 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Adian- 

 tums — Callas — Care of Chrysanthemums — Coreopsis 

 for Easter — Double Daisies — Freesia Bulbs — John J. 

 M. Farrell Ill 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Pots— The 

 New Roses — Greenfly — Fumigation — Old Beauty 

 Plants — Klllarney — Arthur C. Ruzicka 113 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Program of the 



Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting and Convention 114 



New York to Chicago — St. Louis to Chicago — Chicago 

 Hotel Rates 116 



ASBURY PARK SHOW— Prize Winning Exhibits— Il- 

 lustrations 115 



DURING RECESS: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — St. Louis 

 Florist Club Picnic — Cincinnati Outing — Buffalo 

 Florists' Club Outing, Illustrated 116a 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 American Carnation Society — Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club of Rhode Island 116b 



Club and Society Notes 116b-127 



INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF HORTICUL- 

 TURE, 1913 116b 



A BERKSHIRE GREENHOUSE— Illustrated 116c 



THE RENAMING EVIL — Kenneth Finlayson 116c 



OBITUARY — Carl Michler — Magdalena R. Saling- 

 William Mcintosh — Thomas White — Oscar Kramer — 

 August Dresel — Adolph LeMoult 116d 



DINNER TO J. K. M. L. FARQUHAR 118 



A PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO W. R. SMITH— W. F. 

 Gude 118 



SEED TRADE — Crop Reports from Holland— The 

 Burnham Bill— Notes 119 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 122 



Flowers by Telegraph 123 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buflalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit 125 



New York, Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis 127 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 116 



Chicago Notes 116 



Attendance at Asbury Park Show— i/. E. Denegar. . .116c 



News Notes 116c-120 



Philadelphia Notes 116d 



Washington Notes 116d 



Providence Notes 116d 



Patents Granted 119 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 120 



New Y'ork Notes 127 



Cincinnati Notes 131 



The full program for the approaching 



Schemes g. A. F. Convention at Chicago appears 



and schemes in this issue. Many of the Society's 



staunch friends and well-wishers will 

 view with misgiving the several proposed amendments 

 to the Constitution and By-Laws. We can see nothing 

 in the circumstances of the Society demanding any one 

 of these proposed changes which all together are almost 

 revolutionary in effect. Uncalled-for tinkering with 

 the Constitution is the worst kind of folly in a society 

 of this kind. Unfortunately, in every organization are 

 to he found those who are never content to "let well 

 enough alone"" — actuated liy a chionic mental unrest and 

 an insatiable propensity to pull things to pieces and 

 start some sort of a fuss: 



The movement for the erection 



Proposed memorial qj' h ••cairn"' or memorial of some 



to W. R. Smith description as has been previously 



suggested by a number of friends 

 of the late W. R. Smitli and advocated by W. F. Gude 

 on another page of this paper, to be dedicated to the 

 memory of that grand old man, is one which, we believe, 

 will receive a .spontaneous and hearty response from every 

 part of our country. It seems eminently fitting that 

 some appropriate memorial should mark the spot where 

 for sixty years he made his home, and record his virtues 

 and the gratitude of the gardening craft for his sublime 

 endeavors in behalf of their art and for the welfare of 

 his fellow workers. We hope that the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists will take 

 up tlie matter promptly at its convention in Chicago 

 next month and constitute a special committee for that 

 purpose. As it appears probable that the territory so 

 long occupied by the Garden and Mr. Smith's cottage 

 will soon be turned to other uses early action should be 

 taken to secure approval by Congress of the reservation 

 of a suitable spot on which to erect the memorial, 

 preferabh' as near the site of his cottage as possible. 



Now that the Sweet Pea Society visit 

 The park hag passed into history the next hor- 



superintendents ticultural event to directly interest 

 Boston is the meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Park Superintendents to take place 

 on August 12, 1.3 and 14th. This is the fourteenth an- 

 nual meeting of this organization which had its birth in 

 Boston mainly through the initiative of the late John 

 A. Pettigrew. Mr. Pettigrew was at all times very 

 active in the Association's w-ork and was regarded with 

 deep affection by all the members and it will be some- 

 what in the nature of a sad and lonesome reunion wlien 

 tliey meet in Boston this year. There is no doubt, how- 

 ever, that they will be well looked after by Mr. Petti- 

 grew's successor as Sujierintendent of Boston Parks, Mr. 

 ■T. B. Shea, and the Commissioners both City and Met- 

 ropolitan, so that a pleasant and profitable time is thus 

 assured to all who come and there will be private hos- 

 pitality in abundance as well. No body of men can be 

 more welcome than they in any community where horti- 

 culture in its relation to the public welfare, physical and 

 moral, has its due recognition. The sphere of the park 

 superintendent is a wide and beneficent one and as a rule, 

 although a comparatively young avocation in this coim- 

 Iry, their work i« l>eing done most creditablv. 



