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HORTICULTUEE 



October 19, 1912 



HORTIC ULTURt: 



VOL. XVI OCTOBER 19, 1912 NO 16 



PIBLISIIEO WEEKLY BY 



HOR-TI CULTURE PUBLISHING CO- 

 11 Hamilton Place. Boston, Mass. 



Telephene, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manaeer. 



■ntered as secoud-class matter UeL-ember 8, 1'JM, at the Post ufflce at 

 Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 187a. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— LiPlio-cattleya Bedouin. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Azaleas— Callas — Ericas — Lilies for the Holidays— 

 Pandanus Veitcliii— Shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day 

 — John J. M. Farrcll 533 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Stor- 

 ing in Fruit Houses— Pot Vines — Figs — Pot Fruit 

 Trees — Care of Cucumbers — Bush Beans — George H. 

 Penson 534 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Rose Cellar- 

 Red Spider — Watering Plants After a Crop — Yellow 

 Leaves — Arthur C. Ruzicka 535 



LAELIO-CATTLEYA BEDOUIN 536 



GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL 537 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — New York 

 Florists' Club— St. Louis Florist Club— American 

 Sweet Pea Society — Society of American Florists — 

 Club and Society Notes 538 



DURING RECESS: 

 Cook County Florists' Association 539 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Notes 540 



SEED TRADE; 



Some Valuable Grasses, Illustrated 540 



Later Pea Crop Reports — The Cumbersome Bourne 

 Bill— Notes 542 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 544 



Flowers by Telegraph 545 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 549 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 551 



OBITUARY: 



Charles Meckelburg — James Caldwell— C. C. Arnold 



— Henry J. Home — George Schoenfleld 556 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Rose Houses of Miller Floral Co — Illustrated 537 



The Effects of Soil Liming 537 



Catalogues Received 542 



News Notes 542-545 



Personal 645 



Incorporated 545 



Chicago Notes 546 



Philadelphia Notes 546 



Washington Notes 546 



Practical Pointers from Poehlmann's 547 



St. Louis Notes 547 



Cincinnati Notes 547 



New York Notes 551 



Publications Received 556 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 55S 



Foreign Notes — C. Barman Payne 558 



Patents Granted 558 



A few weeks ago, under the head- 



An unfair and ing of "Frenzied Quarantine,"'" wo 



futile proposition took occasion to comment upon the 



hysterical hue and cry for govern- 

 ment inspection and quarantine against material liable 

 to carry i)lant diseases and insect infestation which has 

 now eomt to be almost a daily incident from one direc- 

 tion or another. Among the latest are the issuance of a 

 California state edict against all vegetables, nursery 

 stock, etc., from the whole tier of Southern States: a 

 campaign to secure expert examination of all mail matter 



entering California under the parcels post law : and, 

 now, a hearing before the Horticultural Board at Wash- 

 ington on October 30 to decide whether the nursery 

 stock and other horticultural products of New England 

 shall be shut oil from shipment into other states on 

 account of the possibility of carrying the gypsy and 

 browntail moths lo new localities. Admitted the neces- 

 sity of protecting crops from the depi'edations of insect 

 and fungous pests and agreeing that all practicable 

 means must be taken to prevent the spread of these 

 scourges to other sections, the question arises as to 

 wliether a quarantine such as is now proposed would 

 have any effect of sufficient weight to justify tlie de- 

 liberate crippling of a long established, reputable and 

 useful industry such as the nursery trade of the New- 

 England States. As to the brown-tail moth, a watch 

 for their web-nests on tree shipments would accomplish 

 all that it is possible to accomplish by inspection. The 

 prohibition of sliipments from infested territory would 

 bear hard on the nursery trade but would not exclude the 

 Ijrown-tail, for the method of distribution of this moth 

 is by flight in midsummer and thus a law against wind 

 and water would be jtist as sensible and just as effectual 

 as a quai-antine against the brown-tail, as everyone 

 familiar with the life history and habits of the insect 

 well understands. So far as the gypsy moth is concerned 

 inspection of nursery stock shipments will accomplish 

 practically nothing, but a permit based upon an intelli- 

 gent summer inspection of the nurseries would mean 

 something and should be insisted upon without qualifica- 

 tion. Unlike the brown-tail, the feiuale gypsy moth 

 cannot fly, and consequently is itself incapable of extend- 

 ing its field of depredation except by very slow and 

 very evident stages. The meditims by which the gypsy 

 is carried from one place to another are, in the catter- 

 pilhtr stage, largely carriages, autos and railroad cars; 

 also in the egg period, by railroad ties or other timber, 

 rails, granite or similarly exposed material. A freight 

 car left on a siding in an infested region for a few days 

 in the egg-laying season in July can transport the pest 

 across the continent, witli detection practically irapos- I 

 ■ilile. Nurserv -grown ]jroducts are, indeed, infinitessimal 

 in their liability to disseminate the pests for, in self- 

 protection, nursery stock is necessarily kept clean, and 

 it is as wasteful and ill-advised as it is fruitless, wrong 

 in principle and ethics as it appears to be in motive, to 

 oppress, as is contemplated, an industry and a section 

 aheadv hard pressed and overburdened with the expendi- 

 ture of many millions of dollars in the cause, because 

 of ignorance of the situation or to gratify the rapacity 

 of interests tliat might, through this proposed restric- 

 tion, reap a selfish commercial advantage. 



Laelio-cattleya Bedouin 



The beautiful orchid that is tlie subject of our cover 

 illustration was one of the gems of the collection of Sir 

 George Holford, shown at the Eoyal Horticultural Exhi- 

 bition in London. H. G. Alexander, the grower in 

 charge, is known the world over as one of the leading 

 (in-hid a-rowers of Enaland. 



