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IIOETICULTUEE 



November 16, 1912 



horticulture: 



VOL. ZVI 



NOVEMBER 16, 1912 



NO. 20 



PUBL,I8HED WKKKUT BT 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telcphane, Oxford tK. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Mwiacor. 



■atcred as second-class matter December S, 1901, at tb« Pest Offlc* at 

 BoBton, Mass., under tbe Act of Concresi of Uareb 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Delaware Park Greenhouses, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Aspar- 

 agus plumosus — Carnations — Begonia Gloire de Lor- 

 raine — EA^ergreens in Pots for Winter Use — Freesias 

 for Christmas — Paper White Narcissi — Stevias — 

 John J. M. Farrell 665 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Work in 

 the Early Peach Houses — Pot Vines — Soil Heaps — 

 Protect Celery and Cabbage — Rhubarb — George H. 

 Pensoii 666 



SPECIALIZE ON SOMETHING FRESH— C. Houthagro 666 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watering— Yellow 

 Leaves — The New Roses — Arthur G. Ruzicka 667 



THREE NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS, Illustrated 669 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— Geoiv/e C. Watson 669 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Tarrytown Horticultural Society 

 — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — 



The St. Paul Show 670 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Illustrated — 



Buffalo Florists' Club 671 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society — Tuxedo Horti- 

 cultural Society — Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' 

 Club — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Notes. . . . 672 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 



Club of Boston, Illustrated 673 



National Association of Gardeners — Florists' Club of 

 Washington — Connecticut Horticultural Society — 

 New York Florists' Club — Chrysanthemum Society of 



America — Maryland Week 674 



Club and Society Notes 675 



Society of American Florists, Report of Entomologist, 

 Concluded 680 



PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF SWEET PEA DISEASES 

 AND THEIR CONTROL— .7. J. Taubenhaus 676 



OBITUARY— Henry Greschens- Robert Turton— Lin- 

 den Bree — John Watson — James Kerr — Joshua I. 

 Maxwell — Casper Titenberg 678 



NEW ROSE MRS, GEORGE SHAWYER, Illustration. . 678 



THE SWEET PEA IN AMERICA— Frank G. Cuthbert- 

 son 678 



SEED TRADE— Effects of Weather Vagaries in Trade— 

 The Potato Question — Onions Keeping Poorly — Cab- 

 bage and Bean Crops — The Celery Stringency — Notes 

 — Catalogue Received 682 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Funeral Flower Contention — Steamer Departures 684 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 685 



The Retailing of Cut Flowers — Irioin Bertermann. . . 68& 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 689 



Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 691 



DURING RECESS— Cook Co. Florists 691 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



An Admirable Set of Greenhouses 669 



Personal 669-685 



News Notes 672-682 



Carnation "Princess Dagmar," Illustrated 675 



Chicago Notes — Publications Received 677 



Flowers Destroyed by Sewer Gas 678 



Washington Notes — New York Notes 686 



Philadelphia Notes — St. Louis Notes 687 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 696 



Incorporated — Patents Granted 696 



Among the various innovations and for- 

 Well done, ward steps adopted at the several flower 

 St. Paul shows this season to increase interest and 

 efficiency, none will meet with more gen- 

 eral commendation than the constituting, at the St. Paul 



Show, of a committee for purposes of information. It 

 was the duty of the gentlemen who were appointed on 

 this committee, all supposed to be fully informed re- 

 garding variety, care, cultivation, etc., to be present and 

 prepared to answer questions asked by visitors and to 

 give, at every opportunity, such instructive information 

 as would promote practical horticultural interest among 

 the people. The usefulness of every exhibition as a 

 fountainhead of horticultural education would be greatly 

 enhanced and extended if such a plan should be univer- 

 sally put in operation. Much of the good which a floral 

 exhibition might accomplish in a commercial way is 

 entirely lost and much of the hard work made profitless 

 through neglect of making this self-evident provision for 

 supplying that knowledge of the goods, where they may 

 be procured and how they must be treated, which almost 

 every visitor to such a place is curious and eager to find 

 out. 



It was something quite out of the ordinary 

 Art in to find eight decorated dinner tables at the 

 staging Boston Fall Show, as well as a goodly num- 

 ber of entries in other classes for floral ar- 

 rangement, indicating that the retail trade are beginning 

 to take some interest in the exhibitions. This will, in 

 addition to its direct suggestion to the visitor, tend to 

 liave a still ftirther influence upon the exhibitors in other 

 classes and possibly incite them to a greater care in 

 ])lacing the flowers or plants that constitute their own 

 display. One fault of flower shows, generally, has been 

 a lack in this respect. There is yet much to be learned 

 by the average exhibitor in the art of staging. We are 

 apt to give too much attention to the individual flower 

 and too little to the happy grouping of the whole. In 

 the new forms of single and semi-double chrysanthe- 

 mums, an unprecedented opening is afforded for the 

 exercise of artistic sense in the blending and contrasting 

 of color tints and shades and the production of pleasing 

 effects tiirough nattiral airy and graceful placing of the 

 flowers, all of whicli will go to i-nnlribiile a eiiarni hitlier- 

 to lacking in the majority of chrysanthemum exhi- 

 liitions. 



The report just issued by the 



New England Federal Horticultural Board on 



nurseries Insect-free the proposed quarantine upon 



jSTew" England commodities ex- 

 posed to possible infestation from the moth pests, must 

 be very gratifying to the nursery trade of those states as 

 it indicates plainly that the Federal authorities do not 

 propose to interfere with efficient state and individual 

 inspection work and that, in whatever restrictions they 

 consider necessary, the nursery trade is exempted. The 

 hearing before the Board at Washington two weeks ago 

 fully demonstrated that so far as the nursery interests 

 are concerned no menace to anybody exists in the ship- 

 ment of New England nursery-grown stock to any sec- 

 tion but, on the contrary, the extraordinary precautions 

 which the growers in this section have felt compelled 

 to take for years, even for their own protection, have 

 brought about conditions of cleanliness in all respects 

 which probably arc not equalled in tlie nurseries of any 

 other part of the country. This light on the situation in 

 New England ought to operate greatly to the advantage 

 of New England nurserymen and will undoubtedly help 

 to restore the interstate shipping trade which has been 

 suffering more or less on account of the unfounded 

 alarm. When Dr. Howard made the statement that 

 he considered the stock of the Massachusetts nurserymen 

 just as safe as that from Geneva N. Y., for instance, a 

 better endorsement of the care exercised by the New 

 England nurserymen can hardly be imagined. 



