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HORTICULTUEE 



September 21, 1912 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Dioon spinulosiim. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK — Care 

 of Poinsettias — Compost for Next Season's Supply — 

 Cuttings of Vincas — Eucharis amazonica for Christ- 

 mas — Making a Lily Bed — Mignonette — John J. M. 



Farrell 405 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— American Beauties 

 Tying — Cuttings — Shavings and Cow Manure — A 



Point on Packing Beauties — Arthur C. Ruzicka 407 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New York Federation of Florists' Clubs — Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island — American 

 Gladiolus Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Boston — Gardeners' Convention 408 



St. Louis Florist Club — Club and Society Notes 409 



DURING RECESS— Cook County Florists' Association 



— Chicago Florists' Bowling League 409 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Dahlia and Fruit Exhibition- 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 410 



Charter Oak Fair — Newport Horticultural Society. . . 411 

 THE QUARANTINE LAW AND ITS ENFORCE- 

 MENT 413 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 416 



Flowers by Telegraph 417 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 418 



OBITUARY— William Thomann 419 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. 



Louis 421 



New York 423 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Vanda Sanderiana — Illustrated 412 



Catalogues Received 414 



A New Germicide 414 



Stuart Low, portrait 418 



The Souvenir Album 418 



Dioon spinulosum 418 



Chicago Notes 419 



Tornado at Syracuse 419 



News Notes 419 



Philadelphia Notes — New York Notes 423 



Personal — St. Louis Notes 423 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 428 



Exhibition time is already with us 



To make and from now on for the next six or 



the show pay eight weeks. the tide of show events will 



continue to rise. We hope to be able 



to record nnvarying financial as well as cultural .success 



in all those enterprises as they transpire from week to 



week and liave no doubt of the outcome in any instance 



where modern methods of management prevail. There 



is mateiial in abundance and plenty of talent within 

 reach to make every show a thing of beauty and a horti- 

 cultural triumph. If it is not brought into action, then 

 there is a screw loose somewhere. The financial propo- 

 sition, however, is a problem in itself and this regardless 

 to a great extent of the horticultural or artistic merits 

 of the affair. Very few men in horticttlture understand 

 how to operate the button whicli turns on the current of 

 public stimulation. Fortunate indeed is the society 

 which can command the services of such an expert for he 

 is an indispensable factor in these days of high-pressure 

 publicity methods and is in a class by himself. 



In the course of his lecture before 

 Sifting the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



the "novelties" Boston, last Tuesday evening, Mr. 

 Farquhar remarked on the very small 

 number of new plants that were shown at the "Inter- 

 national" in London, outside of the extensive group of 

 Chinese plants collected by Wilson. We think this re- 

 mark applies in a comparative degree to most recent ex- 

 hibitions in our own country of late. So far as new 

 varieties of florists' plants are concerned, the explana- 

 tion is undoubtedly found in the process of testing and 

 criticism which a novelty must now go through before it 

 can expect much recognition by the trade. Doubtless 

 there are as many, if not more than formerly, new forms 

 produced but the producers know the sifting process and 

 lime-liglit scrutiny which is sure to ensue as soon as any 

 attempt at dissemination is made. The buyers, too, fight 

 shy of anything in the line of roses, carnations, gladioli, 

 dahlias, sweet peas, etc., which lack the credentials of the 

 societies devoted to their respective interests. This 

 process of elimination at the outset is healthy and greatly 

 advantageous to all concerned. It helps to beget confi- 

 dence where confidence was lacking a few years ago and 

 we have the special societies to thank for it, perhaps more 

 than anything else. 



It is a reasonable proposition that 



Inaction every person engaged in the florist, 



and the penalty nursery or seed business, either as 



principal or employee, should enroll 

 himself as a member of some club or society devoted to 

 tlie interests in which he is concerned. Could this con- 

 summation be attained we should then have ideal con- 

 ditions for conserving and advancing the welfare of each 

 and all. Then, could all these bodies be brought into 

 affiliation on practical lines we should have at our dis- 

 posal an almost irresistible concentrated force that would 

 compel a heeding when unfair legislation or other en- 

 croachments threaten. Had such a solidarity been in 

 existence, the various state and federal enactments which 

 bear so heavily on the seed, nursery and florist industry, 

 and concerning which there is so much justifiable com- 

 plaint, would never have been passed in their present 

 form. It is now too late so far as those laws are con- 

 cerned and the horticultural interests must suffer the 

 penalty of their self-neglect. But what of the future? 

 Let no one console himself with the notion that the 

 predatory instincts are now finally appeased. There is 

 plenty of work ahead, undoubtedly, and we are glad to 

 note the signs of activity in the "Empire State" as 

 shown in the proceedings of the newly organized New 

 York state association as recorded on another page of 

 this issue. Mr. Kelsey's letter to the Department of 

 Agriculture will also be found interesting reading. AVe 

 hope the leniency asked for may be granted. 



