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H E T I C U L T U E ]•: 



December 28, 1912 



tlORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XVI 



DECEMBER 28, 1912 



NO. 26 



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CONTENTS PaTe 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Conservatory Over Flower 

 Store. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Car- 

 nations for Propagation — Rambler Roses — Dracaena 

 indivisa — Forcing Lilacs — Hydrangeas — Verbenas — 

 John J. M. Farrell 893 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Late 

 Grapes — Cleaning — Vegetable Houses — Looking Back- 

 ward and Forward — George H. Penson 894 



CHYSIS BRACTESCENS— M. J. Pope— Illustrated 894 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Early Propagation 

 — Selection of Wood— The SoW—ArtUur C. Ruzicka.. 895 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Society of American Florists — American Rose So- 

 ciety — Connecticut Horticultural Society 897 



AN UNIQUE HONOR FOR GEORGE DICKSON— Por- 

 trait 898 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 898 



SEED TRADE — Seed House Gives Insurance — Notes — 

 Catalogues Received 902 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 904 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 905 



Thomas F. Galvin, Portrait 906 



Chrysanthemum Dinner Table Decoration — Illustra- 

 tion 907 



Christmas Jottings from Chicago 907 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Baltimore, Boston, Chicago 909 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 911 



THE MISSION OP THE NURSERYMEN— C. S. Har- 

 rison 916 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— G. C. Watson 918 



OBITUARY — Mrs. F. E. Blair — P. F. Williams 918 



DURING RECESS— Cook County Bowling 918 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Incorporated — Personal 906 



Philadelphia Notes 911 



Horticultural Lectures 915 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 918 



Catalogues Received 918 



"Time is a sort ot river of passing events, 



"Happy and strong is its current; no sooner is a 



New Year" thing brought to sight than it is swept by 



and another takes its place, and this, too, 

 will be swept away." 



With this issue closes another volume of Houticul- 

 TUKE. In a few days more a new year comes in for us 

 all and old 1912 will have passed away for evermore, 

 its history indt'libly written. "The past is gone, the 

 future yet unseen." As is our custom, we here extend 

 to all our readers, and to those who are not, as well, 

 sincerest wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year 

 and express the fervent hope that horticulture with its 

 many closely allied industries may in the coming year 

 flourish and expand as never before. As for 1918, its 

 record is, we believe, fully up to the standard, as years 

 go ; a little better, a little bigger and a little busier than 

 any of its predecessors ; landing us at the doorstep of the 

 new year in a condition of prosperity and prom- 

 ise such as we were hardly Justified in expecting 



in a national election year and in its many demon- 

 strations of advancement giving us abundant proof that 

 in horticulture at least "still the new transcends the 

 old." 



One topic which bids fair to occupy 



Trade publicity; much of the attention of the florist 



its scope and trade during the coming year is that 



purpose with which we have already become 



somewhat familiar under the gen- 

 eral designation of "publicity." Widely varying, 

 often vague and sometimes pettifogging, are many 

 of the sentiments and deductions expressed regard- 

 ing this movement, its scope and its utility, since 

 its inception. Our views on the subject are not 

 unfamiliar to the readers of these columns. We 

 have no pet hobby or predilections in the mat- 

 ter and we believe that the whole proposition covers 

 a project much too broad and complex to be hastily set- 

 tled or treated from any limited standpoint or exposed 

 to the chance of cavil or setback because of alleged 

 inutility of any localized or desultory efi:ort that may be 

 undertaken. It is too early as yet to advocate any 

 special course of action in detail. It is easy to see how 

 money may be expended to little purpose in hastily 

 planned local campaigns. What we do want is a vastly 

 bigger demand and better balanced distribution of hor- 

 ticultural products and greatly increased eiSciency in all 

 departments of marketing. "Publicity" means begin- 

 ning at the right end. It means intelligently using any 

 and all legitimate organized, systematic means to 

 develop a public demand far greater than our goods now 

 enjoy. To tliis laudable ambition we can all subscribe. 

 If the thinking and brainy men of the business — and 

 there are plenty of them — will get busy on the problem 

 we do not doubt that a practical plan of action will be 

 forthcoming. 



In C. S. Harrison's paper on "The Mis- 

 A field sion of the Nurseryman" which appears in 

 all ready this issue of HORTICULTURE, the observant 

 and prescient reader, be he nurseryman or 

 florist, will, we believe find himself fully in accord with 

 many of the sentiments expressed therein. Any one 

 who has ever undertaken to interest the nurseryman, as 

 a class, in new plant introductions, knows how indif- 

 ferent his reception has usually been. If the home- 

 maker is to be educated up to "give his front yard as 

 good a show as he does his back yard" the nurseryman 

 has it in his power to do much towards bringing this 

 about by "preaching the gospel of beauty" and setting a 

 good examiile. As Mr. Harrison says, the average man 

 knows little about floriculture and horticulture or of the 

 beautiful things that are to be had to embellish his 

 home. But he is far from obstinate on the subject ; he 

 is willing and really anxious to be shown, and this is 

 truer today than ever before in this country. This 

 showing and educating is a part of the dealer's mission, 

 which in the case of the florist and nurseryman, ham- 

 pered by excess of conservatism, has hitherto not been 

 given the attention it deserves. In our humble opinion 

 the seedsmen have done better; indeed, we think it is 

 safe to say that the interest of our people in garden 

 beauty so far as it has been developed is due more to 

 the enterprising and persistent missionary work and 

 aggres.sive policy of the American seedsman than to any 

 other single agency. If Mr. Harrison's address only 

 helps to inspire more of this same progressive spirit 

 where it has been so unfortunately lacking it will have 

 served its purpose well. The fielcl is ready to be tilled : 

 it is practically exhaustless and ample returns are as- 

 sured to all who "get a move on." 



