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HORTICULTURE 



November 30, 1912 



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VOL. XVI NOVEMBER 30, 1912 NO 22 



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CONTENTS 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Attalea MagdalenaB. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Camellias — Care ot Fuchsias — Daffodils for Early 

 Forcing — Forcing ot Ixias — Hybrid Perpetual Roses 

 for Easter — Sowing Candytuft — John J. M. Farrell. . 741 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Melons 

 — Pot Peaches and Nectarines — First Early Vinery — 

 Storing Vines — Winter Packing — Fig Houses — Pro- 

 tection for Vegetables — George H. Penson 742 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Packing— Roses 

 Outside — Ramblers in Pots — Clean Houses — Old 

 Plants in Six-Iach Pots — Arthur C. Ruztcka 743 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



Portland, Ore., Show, Illustrated — Maryland Horti- 

 cultural Show — Ohio Horticultural Society 745 



SEED TRADE: 



Keeping Onions Over Winter — C. 8. Harrison — Notes 7,50 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 753 



Steamer Departures 754 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. 



Louis, Washington 757 



New York 759 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Connecticut Horticultural Society— American Carna- 

 tion Society — Banquet National Association of Gar- 

 deners, Illustration — Club and Society Notes 764 



OBITUARY: 

 Orville J. Upham— Charles C. Munsell 766 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 746 



Personal 747 



News Notes 752-753-766 



Washington Notes 754 



In Bankruptcy — Incorporated 759 



Soston Notes — New York Notes 759 



During Recess 764 



Construction of Cold Frame — Fred J. Elder 766 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 766 



Fire Record 766 



Under date of December 14, 1912, the 

 Your Eighth Anniversary Number of Horti- 



opportunity CULTURE will be issued. To the thou- 

 sands of intelligent readers who now have 

 come to recognize in Horticulture the highest standard 

 of American horticultural Journalism no loud-sounding 

 proclamation of this fact or of the great publicity value 



of this special issue, is called for. All we need to say is 

 that we have in prospect some very fine reading mat- 

 ter, and extra advertising of seasonable material by the 

 leading horticultural houses, and we feel sure that our 

 friends will do their part to show these advertising firms 

 that in using Horticulture as a publicity medium they 

 have met with the .ipproval of the best purchasing trade 

 in the country. 



The Jlassachusctts Horticultirral Society 

 An honor jigg acted wisely and with commendable ap- 

 well won preciation of services rendered in its unani- 

 mous election of J. K. M. L. Farquhar to 

 the highest official position it has to bestow. It is a 

 high honor to be selected to serve as president of this 

 gTcat and worthy society; a distinction rightly coveted 

 by many and one that has never been thoughtlessly hand- 

 ed out. Among the distinguished men whose names 

 appear in the long list of presidents of the organization 

 .since its foundation none have come to the office with a 

 better record of loyal, self-sacrificing service than the 

 gentleman wlio for the coming year will preside over its 

 destinies. We do not hesitate to say, further, that none 

 have brought to the position greater zeal, or left a better 

 record than will have been written into the Society's 

 liistory when the time comes for President Farquhar to 

 pass the responsibilities on to others' keeping. We look 

 forward to a year of marked activity and of far-reaching 

 influence under the new administration. 



Once in so often we take it to 

 Are you be our duty to our advertisers 



Horticulture's friend? and to our readers, as well as to 

 ourselves, to briefly call atten- 

 tion in this editorial department to the advertising sec- 

 tion of this journal. There are those people who seem 

 to consider it to be the proper thing to disparage the 

 advertising — even to deprecate it as a department of a 

 horticultural publication but, on the other hand, there 

 are many who confess to imbibing as much genuine 

 knowledge concerning progress and up-to-date conditions 

 as regards horticultural achievement, from the advertis- 

 ing as from any other section of the paper. Try it for 

 a while, you who have been accustomed to contemptuous- 

 ly ignore all advertising contents as beneath your notice, 

 interested only in sopie disputatious controversy or the 

 insignificant neighborhood gossip or small-talk of the 

 market — read between the lines and open your eyes to 

 the fact that back of these advertisements and the com- 

 mercial enterprises they represent are the active brains 

 and brawn of our profession. Intelligence, enthusiasm, 

 ambition, foresight and diligence — all these are there 

 apparent and their results exemplified. Were it not for 

 what these advertising firms liave done and are doing, 

 where would our boasted horticultural development be? 

 If it were not for the patronage of these advertisers 

 where would Horticulture be? Reader, if you like 

 this paper and would be pleased to help towards its pros- 

 perity, take practical notice of its advertisers and dem- 

 onstrate to them by the support you give them that you, 

 too, are Horticulture's friend. 



