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H R T I C U L T U E E 



October 26, 1912 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XWI 



OCTOBER 26, 1912 



NO. 17 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Dendrobium Schiizel. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Acacias — Begonias — Cannas — Care of Summer Flow- 

 ering Cattleyas — Peonies for Forcing — Wallflowers — 

 John J. M. Farrell 565 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Late 

 Vineries — Strawberries — Early Vinery — Christmas 

 Melons — Tomatoes — Georpe H. Penson 566 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Houses at Night- 

 Temperature at Night — Coal Gas in Houses — High 

 vs. Low Smol^estacks — Lightning Rods — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 567 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



The St. Paul Flower Show — Portraits 570 



National Chrysanthemum Society — C. Harman Payne 571 

 Coming Exhibitions 572 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 572 



SEED TRADE — The Aster Seed Cio^— Schuyler Arnold 

 — Notes 574 



OBITUARY— William A. Yelland— James C. Murray- 

 George J. Edwards — H. M. Wilson 574 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 576 



Flowers by Telegraph 577 



Two Notable Memorial Designs, Illustrations — Flow- 

 ers for Hallowe'en 578 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



The Northern Indiana Florists' Association — Notes. 579 



DURING RECESS: 

 National Association of Gardeners — Bowling 579 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit 581 



New York. Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis 583 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Farmers' National Congress 569 



Root Crops in Great Britain 569 



Two Valuable Trophies— Illustrated 569 



Seeding Flower Gardens to Rye — Arthur C. Ruzicka. 569 



St. Louis Notes — Philadelphia Notes 569 



A Big Chrysanthemum — C. Harman Payne 572 



Plant Quarantine Rules 572 



News Notes 572 



Catalogues Received 574 



A Valuable French Publication 574 



Must Inspect Free Plants 574 



Personal ' 577 



Chicago Notes — Washington Notes — New York Notes 578 



Incorporated 583 



Publications Received 588 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 590 



Tlie foreign horticultural journals, like 



Reporting o^iT own, are overcrowded at this season 



the show of the year with accounts of exhibitions, 



lists of prize awards, etc., a considerable 



portion of which is of little or no interest except to the 



persons whose names are mentioned as prize winners and 



a few of their associates. Our club and society secre- 

 taries, in reporting shows might make their accounts 

 more interesting and much more instructive by giving 

 special attention to the more notable exhibits, novelties, 

 (Mc, and less space to dry lists of first, second and third 

 winners. To learn that A, B or C won in a certain 

 class matters much less to the general reader than to 

 know what he won it with; also, if a novelty, what its 

 characteristics are, and, if an arrangement, what its 

 ix)ints of superiority were. Education being the pri- 

 mary object of an exhibition why should it not also figure 

 as a factor in the record of the exhibition ? Keep this in 

 mind, Mr. Secretary, when you prepare your accounts 

 for tJic papers. 



The hearing before the Federal Horticul- 



The moth tural Board at Washington regarding the 



• problem gypsy and brown-tail moth pests takes 



place next Wednesday, October 30. Of 

 course it is very desirable to have a hearing. Vigorous 

 demands and equally vigorous protests will no doubt be 

 made by the various interests afEected and the Board will 

 gather in some valuable information. But, as pointed 

 out in our issue of last week, if the "hearing" is merely 

 a preliminary to a quarantine on the products of the 

 infested sections of New England then as far as this 

 applies to the nursery industry it will accomplish noth- 

 ing of practical value. Its only effect will be to make 

 jobs for an army of clerks, paralyze the nursery trade of 

 six states and beget a sense of false security elsewhere. 

 WHiat is needed is that the federal government should 

 take a more comprehensive grasp of the whole subject 

 and get to work to help crush out the pests. The prob- 

 lem is conceded to be beyond the ability of the local 

 people to handle alone. So long as brown-tail moths 

 are permitted to breed, an impenetrable wall as high as 

 the Washington monument will not prevent their spread, 

 and the sooner the people learn this and the authorities 

 acknowledge it tlie better. 



The old fuss over the prohibition 



The use of flowers oF flowers at funerals in certain 



at funerals clutrches has come to the surface 



again, newspapers in all sections 

 of tlie ODUiitvy devoting considerable space to the views, 

 pro and con, of clergymen and others on this much-agi- 

 tated question. It looks quite as though some of these 

 reverend critics were actuated by a sentiment akin to 

 self-interest' in their hue-and-cry against the spending of 

 money for funeral flowers which is "oftentimes needed 

 for the necessaries of life" for we have yet to hear any 

 such argument against what goes into the contribution 

 box, however destitute the giver or his family may hap- 

 pen to be I Naturally, the florist resents these attacks 

 upon a custom which always has been so important a 

 factor in the business to which he looks for support. It 

 may be true, as one clergyman contends, that "the flower 

 custom is but a relic of the pagan age," and also, as some 

 assert, that many more flowers would be sold and used 

 today could they only be disassociated from funeral af- 

 fairs, but back of the custom is a tender sentiment which 

 in time of affliction transcends all precepts and all pliil- 

 osophy and so long as human nature is what it is, the 

 calls upon the florist for flowers as tributes of sympathy 

 and condolence in bereavement will undoubtedly con- 

 tinue. 



