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HORTICULTURE 



August 31, 1912 



HORTICULTURE. 



TOL. Tori 



AUGUST 31, 1912 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER rLLUSTRATION— Rhododendrons at Holm 

 Lea, Brookline, Mass. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 ot Summer Bulbous Plants — Feeding Chrysanthe- 

 mums — Housing Decorative Plants — Lifting Berried 

 Solanums — Perennial Border — Stevia — John J. M. 

 Farrell 301 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Christ- 

 mas Melons — Position ot Pipes in a Vinery, Illus- 

 trated — George H. Penson 302 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Red Spider— Old 

 Plants — Leaky Houses — Soil for Winter's Use — Fumi- 

 gating with Tobacco Stems — Arthur C. Ruzicka 303 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Convention 

 Report Completed — Judges' Report — The Bowling — 



The Day at Ravinia Park 305 



F. R. Pierson Co.'s Fern Exhibit, Illustration — Presen- 

 tations to President and Secretary — Report of Com- 

 mittee on Final Resolutions — Ladies' S. A. F. — Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of .America — American Rose So- 

 ciety — American Sweet Pea Society 306 



American Gladiolus Society — American Carnation So- 

 ciety — Convention Notes 307 



Theodore Wirth, portrait — Report of the Entomolo- 

 gist — Report of A. L. Miller 308 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Vegetable Growers' Association — Connecticut Horti- 

 cultural Society — Newport Horticultural Society — 

 Club and Society Notes 309 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 310 



THE VICK CONSOLIDATION, Illustrated 312 



SEED TRADE 318 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 320 



Flowers by Telegraph 321 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia 323 



New York, St. Louis, Washington, Providence 325 



OBITUARY— Melville A. Scovell— John M. Didermann 

 Harry Dampier — Peter Erickson — Mrs. George 

 Cruickshanks 325 



PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF SWEET PEA DISEASES 

 AND THEIR CONTROL— Pro/ J. J. Taubenhaus 331 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Washington Notes — Cincinnati Personals 309 



Specimen Hydrangeas, Illustrated 309 



.Japanese Garden Architecture, Illustrated 310 



Insects in Relation to the Dying ot the Chestnut 310 



Exhibition ot Roses at Boskoop, 1913 314 



Personal 316 



Pteris Parkerii, Illustrated 316 



Philadelphia Notes — Providence Notes 317 



Catalogues Received — Incorporated 318 



Children's Exhibition at Boston 318 



Identity of Rose Mrs. Taft— Dr. RoVt Huey 325 



Publications Received— St. Louis Notes ~ 330 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 332 



Patents Granted — News Notes 332 



For the first time in its career the S. A. F, 

 For 1913 ffiuiid itself without an urgent invitation 



in the matter of its next place of meeting. 

 "*i'et when the Society of its own choice had selected 

 -Alinneapolis it transpired that an invitation to that 

 city had actually been contemplated, thus giving a wel- 

 come assurance against possible embarrassment on the 

 jiart of the city selected. We look for a splendid con- 

 vention in the twin cities for 1913. 



One of the most momentous questions 



The publicity before the S. A. F. and kindred or- 



campalgn ganizations at the present time is that 



of publicity — the campaign of educa- 

 tion to awaken tlie public to a greater appreciation of 

 floral prodiicts and to encourage a more general use of 

 these things. It is a big and rapidly growing industry 

 which this movement will affect and it is most im- 

 portant that it shall be started right. No narrow- 

 minded restricted proposition, no petty policy can suf- 

 fice. A broad-visioned, comprehensive plan must be 

 formulated and put in operation and this will call for 

 the exercise of sound Judgment and executive ability of 

 the highest type. Our biggest and most experienced 

 business men must l^e enlisted in this work if anything 

 of value is to be accomplished. 



Sebastopol, Cal., has been giving an 

 The worst yet apple show. Criticism has often been 



made, and not without reason, of the 

 absurd monstrosities florists are sometimes called upon 

 to "make up" in flowers, but the exploits of the Califor- 

 nia apple growers in this direction, as described in the 

 San Francisco Chronicle certainly equal the worst 

 atrocity ever perpetrated in the name of floral designing 

 "The Titanic wreck done in apples" is one which the 

 Chronicle has deemed worthy of a half-tone engraving. 

 Regarding this gruesome exhibit it says : 



"In the sinking of the Titanic, the splendid exhibit of 

 W. S. Liddle, a huge iceberg is shown made of dried apples, 

 and the vessel plunging to its doom bow first is done in 

 vari-colored green fruit. Miniature electric lights shine 

 from the vessel, and give it a decidedly realistic appear- 

 ance." 



Can anyone suggest a punishment to fit the crime? 



No more conspicuous instance of 



The office "the ofBce Seeking the man" has ever 



sought the man occurred in the history of the 



national Society than in the nomi- 

 nation and election of J. K. M. L. Farquhar as president 

 and in the events leading up thereto. Mr. Farquhar's 

 consent to allow his name to be presented one year ago- 

 at Baltimore for this position of honor was obtained only 

 upon the urgent request of his admirers in Boston and 

 elsewhere who knew his fitness and capability. He 

 neither did nor said anything in advocacv or furtherance 

 of his own candidacy. This year his attitude was decid- 

 edly negative and it was only two days previous to the 

 election that the persistent appeals of his friends finally 

 met with success and he became a candidate. The pres- 

 ident-elect will go into office untrammelled by overtures 

 or obligations of any sort except the pledge to serve to 

 the utmost of his ability the organization which, with 

 such invincible enthusiasm, has called him to this 

 position of honor and large responsibility. 



