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HORTICULTUKE 



January 17, 1914 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XIX 



JANUARY 17, 1914 



NO. 3 



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CONTENTS P*s« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Buddleia asiatica 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Bou- 

 gainvilleas— Candytuft for Memorial Day— Easter 

 Hydrangeas — Gladioli — Propagating — Salvias — John 



J. M. Farrell 69 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Making Beauty 

 Cuttings— Two or Three-Eye Cuttings — Separating 

 the Cuttings — Propagating Various Tea Roses — 

 Dipping Cuttings — Keeping Foliage Off the Sand — 



Arthur C. Ruzicka 70 



BOLTONIAS R'ichard Roifte— Illustrated 71 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club — 

 American Seed Trade Association — National Asso- 

 ciation of Gardeners 74 



New Bedford Horticultural Society, David F. Roy, 

 Portrait — Westchester and Fairfield Horticliltural 

 Society — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston — American Car- 

 nation Society, R. T. Brown, Portrait — Society of 



American Florists ■ . . 75 



Worcester County Horticultural Society 76 



Club and Society Notes 76- 91 



SEED TRADE — Business Expansion — Unfavorable 

 Legislation — Seeds Discriminated Against — Are Pea 



Prices too High 82 



Beans and Sweet Corn — Notes 96 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS; 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 84 



Flowers by Telegraph 85 



DURING RECESS— Banquet at Tarrytown, N. Y — 



Notes 87 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia.. 89 



New York— St. Louis 91 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Chas. Armitage — B. D. Kaulback... 98 

 MISCELLANEOUS: 



Orchid Names 71 



Celery Not Keeping — Edwin. Jenkins 73 



Sweet Pea Buds Dropping — Wni. Sim 73 



Ants Arthur I. Bourne 73 



Diseased Carnation Foliage 73 



Birds Do Police Duty 73 



Farmers' Week at Penn. State College 73 



A Florishing British Society — W. H. Adsett 73 



Bulb Growing in U. S 85 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 86 



Washington Notes 86 



Hints to Compilers of Schedules 87 



Personal °'' 



Catalogues Received 96 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 98 



Fires — New Corporations 98 



Horticulture's ^^ lias been the established policy of 



advertising this paper from the start, to (ievote its 



value reading columns more to the practical 



and serious side than to the merely 



local and frivolous. On this ground it has made its 



appeal for tJie support of the profession in whose behalf 



it has zealously labored and its circulation has been 

 built up solely on this basis. The chances assumed in 

 thus breaking away from established popular standards 

 of florist trade journalism were fully realized but we 

 had faith that the horticultural profession was now big 

 enough and earnest enough to extend encouragement 

 and adequate support to a journal devoted primarily to 

 matters of more than cursory local value. The best evi- 

 dence of the soundness of our proposition lies, first, in 

 the number of Hoeticultuee's subscribers, which we 

 believe to be, at present, little if any less than that at- 

 tained by any other American trade journal in a cor- 

 responding number of years, and. second, the character 

 and purchasing power of our readers, which we believe 

 to fully equal in the aggi'egate that of which any one of 

 our contemporaries can boast. 



A bill to establish State Forests has 



State forests been prepared for presentation in the 



for Massachusetts Legislature by the 



Massachusetts Commission on the Taxatipn of Wild 



or Forest Lands, with the co-opera- 

 tion of the Massachusetts Forestry Association. It pro- 

 vides for a commission with power to acquire woodlands, 

 or land suitable for timber growth, to be known as State 

 forests and to be developed by the State forester. A 

 circular sent broadcast by the Forestry Association gives 

 convincing reasons for the proposed action. It shows 

 that one-fifth of Massachusetts, or about 1,000,000 acres, 

 is unproductive waste land which, if only half of it were 

 cared for under a system as in the city forest of Zurich, 

 Switzerland, would eventually give regular employment 

 to 15,000 men and occasional employment to many 

 tliousauds more. The bill has been drawn with care; 

 it shows intelligent consideration of a very vital subject, 

 and marks the beginning of a determined effort to do 

 what should have been done long ago by Massachusetts 

 whose policy in this respect, hitherto, has been in no 

 wise comparable to that of many of her sister states. 



Insofar as we can judge by inter- 

 Fresh flowers views with the retail store florists 

 that keep fresh tlicv are not particularly proud of 

 their part in the dissemination of 

 dried, dyed, or artificial material for Chr'istmas or any 

 Cither time, but they make the point that the public are 

 insistent to have these things and that cut flower pro- 

 ducers are contributory to this state of affairs in that 

 they demand for their product prices that appall and 

 discourage would-be buyers of fresh goods. The supply 

 dealers, while pushing the dried material business, are 

 nevertheless placing it in the power of the florist to 

 supply the iniblic with fresh cut flowers in most attrac- 

 tive and satisfactory form, in the pretty and serviceable 

 baskets they provide, lined with tin receptacles for water 

 in which flowers will retain their freshness for a long 

 time. Penu the Florist, of Boston, is making a per- 

 sistent effort to introduce these things to the buying 

 public and we hope he will succeed as well as he has in 

 some other innovations which he has introduced. Each 

 day his window shows a fine assortment of these dainty 

 arrangements, in which all the market staples from 

 cattleyas down to stevia are given a chance. The lati- 

 tude for artistic combinations of colors and form is un- 

 limited and a florist who has the requisite taste can do 

 much in this way to awaken his customers to the absurd- 

 ity of artificial things when so much natural beauty is 

 at hand. 



