HOETICULTURE 



January 3, 1914 



horticulture: 



VOL. XIX 



JANUARY 3, 1914 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Aquilegias, Long Spurred 

 Hybrids. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— As- 

 paragus plumosus and Sprengeri — Care of Geraniums 

 — Sowing Gloxinias — Seed Sowing — Tuberous Bego- 

 nias — Start Making Flats — John J. M. Farrell 5 



, A GRAND ONION— Edtvin /enfcins— Illustrated 6 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— 1914— Cold Weath- 

 er and Shipping — The Ice Box — Benches for Young 

 Stock — Watering During Cold Weather — Bending 

 Beauties When Tying — Feeding the Plants — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka 7 



THE GLADIOLUS SITUATION—/, S. Hendrickson. . 8 



A REMARKABLE NEW BOOK— E. H. Wilson, portrait 9 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— President's 



Message — Portraits 10 



List of Appointments 11 



J. J. Hess — J. A. Peterson 18 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 19 



W. J. Kennedy— Portrait 19 



January Meetings in St. Louis — Club and Society 

 Notes 30 



SEED TRADED — Provision to Admit Foreign Potatoes 

 From Disease Free District — Another "Simple Si- 

 mon" — Notes 13 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 16 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 17 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo 21 



Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 23 



St. Louis, Washington, Montreal 28 



OBITUARY— A. G. Hanna— Martin J. Sutton 30 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 9 



W. F. Kasting, P. M.— Portrait 9 



Cover Illustration 9 



Catalogues Received 14 



Publications Received 19 



A Gladiolus Worker 19 



Washington Notes '. 30 



Business Troubles — New Corporations 30 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 30 



Repeated mention has been made by our 

 ■Undesirable correspondents in describing Christmas 



conditions, of tlie insatiable demand for 

 dried and dyed and imitation flowers which has been 

 developed this year. We are sorry that it is so. It is 

 nothing to the credit of the public that they are dis- 

 posed to accept this stuff as a substitute for fresh flow- 

 ers and growing plants nor to the retail flower trade 

 that they should encourage it. The hopeful side of it is 

 the probability that the craze will be short-lived. Some 

 thirty years ago there was a similar outbreak, when 

 bleached, dyed and painted grasses were sold in enor- 



mous quantities. But there was more justification for 

 it in those days of fluctuating supply and frequent fam- 

 ine in the cut flower market than there is now. 



Our columns this week contain notes of 

 Bon voyage {[iq remarkable contribution to our 

 botanical, arboreal and floral knowledge 

 of the richest temperate flora in the world, from the pen 

 of E. H. Wilson, and next week we shall tell of 

 the notable farewell dinner given to that gentle- 

 man by the Horticultural Club of Boston on the 

 '■ve of bis departure for Japan where he is to 

 carry on some important research work in behalf of 

 the Arnold Arboretum. Entirely apart from the emi- 

 nent position which Mr. Wilson has won for himself in 

 the horticultural and scientific world by his work on the 

 Chine.se flora, he has, in his sojourn in Boston, notably 

 endeared himself to the fraternity here by his kindly 

 companionable traits and cheery good-fellowship. The 

 attachments thus cemented will hold secure during his 

 aljsence, with hearty good wishes for the success of 

 bis expedition and his safe return to our midst. 



It is encouraging to know that the retail 



Local florists all over the country are actually 



publicity waking up to a realization of the necessity 



of local newspaper advertising. Other 

 lines of business catering to the public direct have been 

 doing it right along for years and the florists have been 

 almost the only exception of late. If there is any one 

 thing wliich should have the retailers' careful attention 

 today it is the development of community interest. It is 

 essential under present conditions that he should fol- 

 low the approved methods of getting in close, neighborly 

 touch with his home public, acquainting them with the 

 goods he carries, the facilities he offers and his willing- 

 ness to meet their every requirement and to co-operate 

 with them in all movements for the betterment of the 

 community. In this laudable ambition he can find no 

 lietter co-worker than the local newspaper. And as to 

 advertising, we should all remember that it is not what 

 we advertise but what the people find behind the adver- 

 tising that counts. 



The Gladiolus Situation 



Editor Horticulture: 



Dear Sir : — I note with interest your editorial on 

 "The Gladiolus Problem" and 1 note with pleasure your 

 remarks concerning American grown bulbs, and nat- 

 urally my hope is that American buyers and planters 

 will come to the same conclusion, for it does seem a pity 

 that the one bulb that can be grown so successfully in 

 America and has really come to be a distinctly American 

 industry should now be threatened with an unfair com- 

 petition. I say unfair because I do not think that we 

 are receiving a fair treatment from the Government 

 when it places only 50c. a thousand duty on a bulb that 

 can be grown so successfully in America and places 

 higher duties on bulbs that cannot be increased with any 

 degree of success in America. 



I would like to see some concerted effort made by the 

 American growers, backed by the trade papers to secure 

 a just adjustment of the tariff on these bulbs. 



Flowerfield, N. Y. 



la editorial note on "A Gladiolus Problem." "tariff framera" 

 w.is incorrectly printed "tariff farmers," in last week's issue. 



