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HOETICULTUEE 



November 23, 1912 



horticulture: 



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CONTENTS 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— Prize Winning Group at 

 Boston Exhibition. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Cyp- 

 ripedium insigne — Clirysanthemiim Stocli — Cocus 

 Weddelliana— Filling Boxes and Vases for Winter 

 Effects — Herbaceous Border, etc. — Lily of the Val- 

 ley — John J. M. Farrell 705 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Water- 

 ing Late Grapes — Making a Vine Border — The Melon 

 House — Spinach — Mushrooms — George H. Penson... 706 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Cutting— Tying— 

 Syringing — Green Ply — Black Spot — Tobacco Stems 

 — Arthur G. Kuzicka •. . . 707 



INDIVIDUALITY A FACTOR IN THE ADVANCE OP 

 HORTICULTURE— J?ic7iar(Z Rothe 709 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Rhode Island Gar- 

 deners Form Association — Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society — Yonkers Horticultural Socie- 

 ty — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — National 



Association of Gardeners 710 



St. Louis Florists' Club — Chrysanthemum Society of 



America 718 



Club and Society Notes 711-718 



NEW ROSE MILADY— Illustrated 711 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



National Chrysanthemum Society, England — St. Paul 



Show, Illustration 712 



Ohio Horticultural Society — A Glen Cove Winner, 

 Illustration 713 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 714 



SEED TRADE: 



Shortage of Crops — Notes 718 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 720 



Old Fashioned Philadelphia Bouquet, Illustrated — 

 Flowers by Telegraph 721 



OBITUARY: 



Arthur Harbison — J. P. C. Ludemann — George F. 

 Ditzenberger— Harry C. Phillips— Walter S. Nichol.. 722 



DURING RECESS— Bowling 723 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 725 



Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 727 



ADVERTISING, SOME WRONGS TO MAKE RIGHT— 

 L. W. C. Tuthill 732 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 718 



Incorporated 718 



Patents Granted 718 



Fire Record 720 



Washington Notes 722 



Philadelphia Notes 722 



Chicago Notes 723 



Cincinnati Notes 723 



News Notes 723 



Personal 727 



During the past week the French 



A privilege Chrysanthemum Society's exhibition 



we should have has been in progress at Nantes. At 



the conference, which was part of the 

 afEair, many papers and discussions were on the progi-am 

 and the list of entertainments provided for visitors fully 

 matched up to the most ambitious of our own S. A. 

 F. convention festivities, for these Frenchmen do know 

 how to make their guests enjoy themselves. We would 

 call attention to one feature in which they get the better 

 of us — that of cheap transportation, for all members of 

 the Society can travel from any part of France to the 

 show by any class at a half-rate fare. In this country, 

 instead of advancing we have been going backwards in 

 that respect, until now no inducements whatever are 

 offered to such gatherings and the attendance at meet- 

 ings, exhibitions and conventions has sustained a severe 

 set-back. 



It is very evident from the tone 

 No Christmas green of consternation in the daily 

 famine press and in the market com- 



ments one hears, since the an- 

 nouncement of the embargo to be placed on Christmas 

 greens shipped from the section where gypsy and brown- 

 tail moths have been found, that the situation is not 

 well understood and that wrong inferences are being 

 drawn. Let it be borne in mind that the quarantined 

 territory is a comparatively small section of New Eng- 

 land and does not include the territory from which the 

 greater part of. the trees and almost all the laurel are 

 cut. Further tliere is no restriction upon the shipment 

 lo and fro between points in the quarantined territory 

 nor upon shipments into this section from outside points. 

 So that any attempt to boost prices of these holiday 

 goods on a pretext of scarcity is liable to meet with a 

 chilly fate. And there are not a few people who would 

 view with satisfaction and delight any enactment tliat 

 would have for its object the prohibition of all cutting 

 or selling of mountain laurel within New England ter- 

 ritory for the next twenty years. It is our most beauti- 

 ful native shrub and one cannot but deplore the wanton 

 destruction that has been going on with increasing 

 rapidity each year. 



We learn from our exchanges that the 

 An ominous California State Commissioner of Horti- 

 outlook culture has issued a quarantine order, un- 

 der the approval of Acting Governor A. 

 J. Wallace, against all vegetables, nursery stock, scions, 

 grafts, buds, cuttings, orange seeds, trees, vines, plants 

 and shrubs of all kinds from the states of North Carolina, 

 South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, 

 Louisiana and Texas and other sections known to be 

 affected with Aloyrodes citi (citrus white fly) or Aloy- 

 rodes Nubifera (another species of white fly.) The 

 same authorities have also declared strict quarantine 

 against shipments into California of alfalfa, alfalfa seed 

 and colonies of bees from every county in the states of 

 Utah, Wyoming and Idaho in an effort to prevent the 

 advent into California of the pest known as Phytono- 

 mous pesticus (alfalfa weevil). While fully sympathiz- 

 ing with any community in its efforts to exclude pests 

 dangerous to its agi'icultural and horticultural interests, 

 we think we can see, in these constantly recurring inter- 

 state embargos, a gathering cloud for trouble in the 

 near future. This habit of shutting out the products of 

 sister states is liable to grow and the sentiment of retalia- 

 tory measures is a not impossible result. Who can say 

 to what extent this new exercise of state rights will 

 develop as a mischief maker? Surely there is need for 

 great deliberation and wise counsel in the exercising of 

 such far-reaching prerogatives. 



