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HORTICULTUKE 



December 7, 1912 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. rvi 



DECEMBER 7, 1912 



WO. 23 



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"^ CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Well Arranged Orchid 

 Exhibit. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Christmas Foliage Plants — Fancy Pelargoniums — 

 Decorative Ferns — Tea and Hybrid Tea Roses — 

 Manetti Stock — Rhododendrons for Forcing — John J. 

 M. Farrell 773 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Straw- 

 berries — Peach Buds Dropping — Pruning Vines — 

 Cauliflowers — Peas — George H. Penson 775 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— George C. Watson 778 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Lancaster County Florists' Club — Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia — American Association of Nurserymen 



— Society of American Florists 776 



Chrysanthemum Society of America — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 777 



National Flower Show, New York 777 



Horticultural Club's Visit to Thomas Roland 778 



SEED TRADI5 — Bean Prices — Miscellaneous Staples — 

 Garden Pea Percentages — The Seed Importation Act 

 —Notes 782 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 784 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 785 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, St. 

 Louis, Washington 789 



OBI'TUARY — Benjamin Ingin — William D. Baxter — 

 George A. Sweet— William L. Burgess — John Nichols 

 • — Isaac Husbands — Prof. Eben Jenks Loomis — Leo- 

 pold Landreth — Joseph McMurray — Charles Dingee. . 796 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Yellow Mrs. Jerome Jones, Illustrated 777 



Three Notable Chrysanthemums — C. Harman Payne. Ill 



A Notable Decoration 778 



St. Louis Notes 784 



Chicago Notes — Incorporated 786 



Washington Notes — Philadelphia Notes 791 



Personal — Cincinnati Notes 791 



News Notes 796-798 



Catalogues Received — Publications Received 797 



Hugo de Vries Opposes Darwin Theory 798 



Utilizing the City Parks 798 



About Gardening Periodicals 798 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 798 



I.ep? than i'uur montlis now lies between us 

 Get and the Third International Flower Show of 

 in line the Society of American Florists to be held 

 in New York City next April. The holiday 

 activities will hold everybody down for a few days now 

 but as soon as that is over the big exhibition should 

 claim a good share of attention from all, whether intend- 

 ing exhibitors or prospective visitors. Let nothing that 

 can possibly be avoided stand between you and this — the 

 most important horticultural event since the great Bos- 

 ton demonstration in 1910. That it will exceed the 

 Boston event in many particulars is to be expected. No 

 one who aims to keep in the van of progress can attain 



that end and yet stay away from this exemplification of 

 the progress and the highest ideals of all branches of 

 horticultural art. 



The fall shows — "their name is 



Modernized Legion"— are, at last, all over for 



show management this season and it is pleasing to 



note that as a rule they appear to 

 have been financially successful. In fact, we recall no 

 year when the reports in this respect have been so uni- 

 formly cheerful. This inspiring outcome is coincident 

 with the very evident activity, all along the line, in the 

 way of publicity and the adoption of the methods and 

 management in use generally among "show" people and, 

 no doubt, this turn is largely to be thanked for the im- 

 provement. A correspondent of the Journal of Horti- 

 culture (London) in commenting recently on the enor- 

 mous attendance of people at the Shrewsbury Show,' year 

 after year, suggested that 



"One reason is because Messrs. Adnitt, Naunton & Co. 

 are master-hands in the art of advertising. When prepara- 

 tions were being made for the 'International' at Chelsea, 

 there were hundreds of people in the provinces who never 

 heard a word about it. This is not the case with Shrews- 

 bury, and it is no use pretending that you have not heard 

 of the event, for it stares you in the face wherever you go — 

 a colored bill or a flaming poster on every boarding in 

 town, village, or country place. Some people ask why Black- 

 pool is the most popular seaside resort in England. It is 

 simply because Blackpool advertises, and the same remark 

 applies to Shrewsbury." 



The institution, as well as the business man. that ex- 

 pects to live and secure prosperity through public inter- 

 est and support, today, must advertise and "proclaim 

 its story from the house-tops." We are glad to see that 

 our horticultural exhibition managers are awakening to 

 the necessity of following a course similar to that which 

 has lieen so efficacious elsewhere. 



The editor has been indulging in a brief 

 Bermuda, vacation trip to the Bermudas. This, in 

 a contrast itself is an item of small consequence and, 

 as to one's experiences on the voyage to 

 and from that land of perpetual summer, the quaint 

 sights of its ancient streets, its coral rock houses and 

 semi-tropical scenery — all these have been often and fully 

 described by other pens. But there is one impression 

 which we have brought home that may Interest some of 

 our readers. It is that, notwithstanding the never-fad- 

 ing beauty of tropical gardens as compared with the 

 devastated and cheerless landscape of our northland 

 Novembers, there is yet a charm in our own changing 

 seasons that nothing can surpass. True, it is by no 

 means a pleasant sensation after one has sauntered 

 through palm and banana groves and hedges of blooming 

 oleanders and hibiscus, under resplendent canopies of 

 bougainvilleas, and seen the dooryards glowing with 

 poinsettias and crotons, the oranges and papaws ripen- 

 ing, the roses festooning the old walls and gate posts, 

 the strawberries blossoming, and after revelling in all 

 this exuberance of verdure to return to the bleakness and 

 blustering rigors of a New England winter. But the 

 dweller in the land of everlasting verdure knows nothing 

 of the inspiration and ambition of returning spring time, 

 when the tree and the man respond to its quickening in- 

 fluences; the glory of apple blossoming and lilac time, 

 enhanced and intensified by contrast with the desolation 

 of yesterday. 



"A charm from the s!.ies seems 

 to hallow us there. 



Which sought through the world is 

 not met with elsewhere." 



But Bermuda is enchanted land, sure enough, and he 



wlio visits it will experience a pleasure never to be for- 

 Efotten. 



