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HORTICULTUEE 



August 17, 1912 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER DESIGN— Michigan Avenue, Chicago — Insert, 

 Port Dearborn Massacre Monument. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Palms — Chrysanthemums — Crotons — Preparing 

 Compost lor Winter— Primulas— Paper White Nar- 

 cissi — John J. M. Fan-ell 205 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Fruit 

 Rooms — Peas for Christmas — A Review — George H. 

 Ppiison 206 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — Mulching— Char- 

 coal and Leaf Mold — Those Dark Corners — Soil for 

 Next Season's Young Stock — Ventilation — The Side 

 Ventilation — An Inquiry — Arthur C. Ruzicka 207 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS- Program of 

 Chicago Convention — Portraits of Officers — List of 



Sporting Events 209-212 



Chicago: The Convention City — Views of City and 

 Portraits of Florists' Club Officials 213-215 



SEED TRADE— The Dull Season— The European Sit- 

 uation — California Seeds — Corn, Beans and Peas — 

 Seed Legislation — Notes 220 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 224 



Flowers by Telegraph — French Restriction on Cut 



Flower Shipments 225 



A Modern Flower Store, Illustrated 226 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PARK SUPERIN- 

 TENDENTS — Proceedings at Boston Convention — 

 James B. Shea, portrait 227 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Ladies' Society 

 of American Florists — Club and Society Notes 230 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis 233 

 New York 235 



SPEAKING OP PHILADELPHIA 237-238 



SWEET PEAS IN 1912— Georj^e W. AVer- Illustrated. 240 



OBITUARY— Fred W. Hoppe— Prank E. Roberts— 

 Chas. Schlobohm— G. W. Wright— Prank L. Ingles- 

 Mrs. Mary A. Small — Prof. John Craig 249 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Catalogues Received 222 



Personal 225 



St. Louis Personals 226 



Proposed Publicity Campaign for Flowers 235 



Providence Notes — Cincinnati Notes 235 



Philadelphia Notes — Fire Record 243 



Proposed W. R. Smith Memorial 248 



Chicago Notes 248 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 250 



TJie park superintendents are in Bos- 

 Friends f,ii^ j^]-|jg week. They come from across 

 of the people tlie continent and from all parts of 

 this country and Canada, — from 

 places in the remote regions which we hardly realized 

 had reached that composure which woaild favor serious 

 consideration of such a subject as public park reserva- 

 tions. Evoltition works rapidly in these hustling days 

 and the pioneer in primitive civilization is close pressed 



bv the pioneer in refinement and art. None are doing 

 a more beneficent work than the park people and none 

 have a more elevating influence upon the people who are 

 inost in need of just such education. They are the bea- 

 con lights of horticulture. 



A contemporary tells of an ambu- 

 Production lance load of fine asters being do- 



and distribution nated by the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change to the hospitals last week — 

 not entirely from benevolent motives, but because of 

 insufficient outlet through business channels. While 

 this is a most commendable action from one stand- 

 point yet the situation can hardly be regarded with ex- 

 treme pleasure by those who must earn their living by 

 the growing and sale of these flowers. It would seem 

 that the science of distrilnition is still almost a closed 

 book so far as the flower grower is concerned. As we 

 have said repeatedly, this is a subject that the grower 

 must finally take up seriously. We are glad to learn that 

 it will be given a hearing at Chicago. 



Our cover illustration this week is 

 A transformation designed to portray the marvellous 



progTess of western civilization 

 within the bounds of a human lifetime — as exemplified 

 in the history of our Convention City of 1912. From the 

 lone garrison and the wild Indian's tomahawk to the 

 nuijestie buildings that line the thoroughfares and 

 the surging multitudes that throng the streets of this 

 great hive of industry — all in the space of 75 years — is 

 an almost inconceivable transformation. When the S. 

 A. F. visitors enter the gates of the great city, they will 

 find the right hand of fellowship extended by the repre- 

 sentatives of a fraternity of florists whose growth and 

 progress has been, in its way, almost as marvellous aa 

 the evolution of their city. No Indian will be there to 

 dispute their coming although, perhaps, there may still 

 be a few tomahawks secreted in convenient corners. 

 Horticulture extends congratulations to Chicago and 

 her guests and would express the hope that the conven- 

 tion of 1913 may be the biggest and best on record. 



Visitors from abroad frequently com- 



Brlghten ment on the bare and uninviting aspect 



the streets of our Amei'ican city streets due to the 



general absence of living green. As a 

 rule our busy thoroughfares are utterly destitute of 

 trees, grass or plants of any sort either in the street or on 

 the buildings. This is not as it should be and any dis- 

 position, public or private, to remedy it, should be en- 

 thusiastically encouraged by everyone engaged in any 

 horticultural pursuit. There are signs of improvement 

 here and there and in no circumstances is the influence 

 of a good example more potent, for to see is to be con- 

 vinced. Boston's newest hotel, the Copley-Plaza, has 

 fitted all the windows of the first story with especially 

 designed plant boxes, of concrete, filled with buxus 

 and vines and we hope to see many imitators. Minne- 

 apolis, we understand has been successfully experiment- 

 ing with flower boxes or "hanging gardens'" on orna- 

 mental posts at street intersections and even Berkeley, 

 California, which has a garden climate all the year 

 round, proposes to install "aerial gardens" on the trol- 

 ley poles at a height of twelve to fifteen feet above the 

 ground. We noticed a similar attempt on Market 

 street, Philadelphia, this summer, the plant receptacles 

 being about liall-way up on the iron posts supporting 

 electric wires but these were plainly sufl'ering from in- 

 sufficient watering and some automatic device for sup- 

 plying water would seem to be an essential to full suc- 

 cess in such plantings. 



