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HOETICULTURE 



December 14, 1912 



horticulture: 



VOL. XVI DECEMBER 14, 1912 NO 24 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Christ- 

 mas Azaleas — Poinsettias — "Made-Up" Plants — Flow- 

 ering Plants for Christmas — Keeping Christmas 

 Greens — Freesias for Easter — John J. M. Farrell . . . . 809 



PERENNIAL SCABIOSAS— 7?ieft(jrri Rotfee— Illus 810 



FERTILIZERS FOR FLOWERS— G. Barton 810 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Christmas 

 Crop — The New Roses — Propagating — Syringing in 



Winter — The Cold Snaps — Arthur C. Ruzicka 811 



CONSTRUCTION OP A MODERN VINERY BORDER 



— Edwin Jenkins — Illustrated 812 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Build- 

 ing Up a Vine — Pruning Peach Trees — Order Seeds — 



A Correction — George H. Penson 813 



AN ORCHID SPORT— Coim B. Ofirs<o«— Illustrated. . . 81.5 

 FLORISTS' CLUBS, THEIR FIELD AND THEIR 



DUTY—/. Otto Thiloiv 816 



ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE AND A. F. GLORIOSA— 



James Robertson — Illustrated 817 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— CftoJies H. Totty 818 

 LAELIO-CATTLEYA LUSTRE "LAVENGRO"— Illus. . 819 



A' VISIT TO WELLS'— (7. Harman Payjie 820 



OBITUARY— Dr. William A. Buckhout 820 



Peter Lauch — Lee H. Bradley — Walter Hart — Charles 

 B. J. Noelke — Peter Kunst — Francis Fillmore — Mrs. 



Anna Marie Schultz 842 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES; 



New York Florists' Clul) — Elberon Horticultural 

 Society — Newport Horticultural Society — Pittsburg 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Florists' Club of 



Washington 821 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 822 



Club and Society Notes 822-824 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 833 



Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Wash- 

 ington, St. Louis 835 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 836 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 837 



SEED TRADE: 



Baltimore Analyzed, (J. C. Watson — The Third Gen- 

 eration of Hendersons — Some Very Seedy Verses.... 843 



S01L,S— Alfred Burton 852 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



M. H. Walsh Honored 817 



To Keep Cut Poinsettias — Chrysanthemum Novelties 817 



A Giant Chrysanthemum — Illustrated 820 



Gardeners' Reunion 824 



Today, poetry 824 



The Humors of the Publicity Campaign— G. C. W.. 826 



Personal 826 



Washington Notes 836 



Chicago Notes — Cincinnati Notes 838 



A Visit to Craigs' — George C. Watson 839 



Four Generations of Bayersdorfers — Illustrated 839 



A Visit to Manheim, Pa 840 



Philadelphia Notes — Catalogues Received 840 



Auto Delivery — Illustrated 842 



News Notes 843 



Asparagus Rust 844 



Sea Shore Lawn Making — G. C. Watson 844 



Dept. of Agriculture Soil Surveys 844 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 850 



Patents Granted — Incorporated 853 



In presenting our readers with our 



After eight eighth anniversary number we look back 



years over the years that have passed since 



HoKTicuLTur.i: \v;i.-; Imhii, with i'eelings of 

 the most pleasurable character as we call to mind the 

 fears and uncertainties that obtruded upon our hopes 

 in those infancy days as we tried to peer into the un- 

 known and trace out what might happen to us. Eight 

 years is a much longer time when one looks forward to 

 it than it appears in retrospect. Looking back now the 

 difficulties that are inseparable from every enterprise 

 am! (if which we had uur fair share, have lest their ter- 

 rors. We recall nothing that invites regrets but much 

 that inspires gi-atitude, particularly to the thousands of 

 new and old friends who have stood by Horticulture, 

 overlooking its short-comings, extending substantial en- 

 couragement and according it an exalted position among 

 liorticultural periodicals. To these tried friends and to 

 the many more who will Join the ever-increasing family 

 we hold out our promise of untiring effort on our part 

 during the coming year to make Horticulture increa'^- 

 ingly helpful and acceptable to all those whose avocation 

 is the "art which doth mend Nature." 



The award of the George Robert White 

 A recognition medal of honor to M. H. Walsh which 

 and a moral jg announced in our news columns this 

 week makes very pleasant reading. 

 We have known Mr. Walsh personally for "nigh on to 

 forty years." Quiet and unobtrusive, with no preten- 

 sions lieynnd the sphere of a working gardener, Mi\ 

 Walsh has toiled along through all these years and done 

 I is great work patiently without presumption or osten- 

 tation. And yet the man who gave Lady Gay, Hiawatlia 

 and Wedding Bells to the world has a good right to feel 

 proud of what he has accomplished and has well won the 

 distinguished honor now conferred upon him — an honor 

 that neither wealth nor social position nor self-exalta- 

 tion or flourish of trumpets, but merit alone can win. 

 Contrast it all with the self-laudation, vain conceit and 

 arrogant claims made l)y those who seek to fill t c a;)ei.- 

 with manufactured plaudits and their pockets with tlie 

 proceeds therefrom. This action by the White medal 

 trustees places a new stamp of nobility on the real gar- 

 dener and will be interpreted the world over as a whole- 

 some rebuke to the mountebank. 



The publicity campaign for dovelo])- 

 "All for each, jng greater public appreciation of 

 and each for all" quj- floral products which lias been 

 inaugurated in a practical manner 

 by the New York Florists' Club can only accomplish its 

 purpose by the hearty co-operation of the trade and the 

 trade organizations throughout the entire country. To 

 be successful it must be one grand push, all together. 

 Ambitious phrases about advancing horticulture and up- 

 lifting things generally are apt to roll oS our tongues 

 or our pens in a generalizing sort of way that does not 

 always indicate any very deep reflection as to their mean- 

 ing, the deciding upon any altruistic course of action, or 

 the formulating of any practical ideas as to what means 

 we can or will use to give life to these otherwise empty 



