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HORTICULTURE 



January 31, 1914 



horticulture: 



VOL. XIX 



JANUARY 31, 1914 



NO. 5 



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CONTENTS P*8« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— S. J. Goddard— President- 

 elect American Carnation Society 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Violets — Christmas Solanums — Crotons — Garde- 

 nias — Orchids — Starting Lobelias — Foliage Plants — 

 John J. M. Farrell 141 



DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ARTIST?— C. S. Harrison 142 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Pale Green Foliage 

 in Beauties — Potting Cuttings — Placing the Pots — 

 Watering — Care of Newly Potted Cuttings — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka 143 



GRAPES UNDER GLASS— Wm. Morrow 145 



A TRIO OF TOTTY NOVELTIES— Illustration 145 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY: 

 Annual Meeting and Exhibition — The Opening Ses- 

 sion — President's Address — R. T. Brown, Portrait... 146 

 Secretary's Report — A. F. J. Baur, Portrait — Treas- 

 urer's Report — Next Meeting Place — Nomination of 



Officers 147 



Productiveness of the Standard Varieties of Car- 

 nations and the Cost of Producing Blooms — Joseph 

 }I. Hill — F, E. Dorner, Portrait — Thursday's Session 148 

 Election of Officers — The Exhibition — List of Awards 150 

 Perennials and What They Mean for the American 

 Garden — Richard Rothe 154 



DURING RECESS— Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society 156 



SEED TRADE— Chicago Seed Notes 158 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures — New 



Members Florists' Telegraph Delivery 160 



Flowers by Telegraph 161 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Newport Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Connecticut Horticultural Society — Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York — Essex County Florists' 

 Club — American Rose Society — Club and Society 

 Notes 162 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 165 



St. Louis, Washington 167 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Wilson— C. D. Thayer— Isaac E. Co- 

 burn 174 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Unpacking Frozen Shipments — .1. N. Pierson 156 



Catalogues Received — Publications Received 158 



Business Troubles 161 



Chicago Notes — Washington Notes 163 



Cincinnati Notes 163 



Buddleia Asiatica 163 



News Notes 167-172 



Patents Granted 167 



Philadelphia Notes — Personal 167 



Walter Mott's Notes by the Way 172 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 174 



New Corporations — Fires 174 



A Dastardly Crime 174 



We are privileged to present in this issue 

 The' another inspiring prose poem from the 

 poetic side pen of our gifted and venerable cor- 

 respondent, Eev. C. S. Harrison. Where 

 can we find in the whole realm of commercial horti- 

 culture such an artist in word painting — such a master 

 of heart- thrilling expression and beautiful imagery? 

 It ■will do us all good to read it over and over again, 

 turn aside for a little time from the worthless small 

 talk and shop gossip which is assumed by many to be 

 the ideal reading matter for the average florist and see 

 if we can't imbibe some of the fervent enthusiasm and 

 devotion to the beautiful things of our business which 

 so animates and inspires this "grand old man" of 

 Nebraska horticulture. 



Commenting upon the protest of the 



Selling florists of Memphis, Tenn., against the 



park flowers alleged action of the park commission 



of that city in selling flowers to the 

 citizens, the Memphis News-Scimitar well says that the 

 surplus flowers and plants might better be used in 

 adorning the grounds of the various eleemosynary insti- 

 tutions, both municipal, denominational and private, 

 and that in beautifying the hospitals and public schools 

 the park department would be taking a humane and 

 public-spirited course. On general principles, the florists 

 of Memphis or any other city are justified in objecting 

 to business competition by any public institution or de- 

 partment, but we are happy to say that occasion for 

 complaint on this score is very rare indeed. 



In these days when the American people are 

 A grave Just awakening to a realization of the reck- 

 mlstake less destruction of their forests and the 

 frightful rapidity with which their beautiful 

 native shrubbery and wild flowers are being exterminated 

 by mercenary despoilers, it is deplorable to read in a 

 New Hampshire paper a lengthy article descanting up- 

 on the money to be made from tearing up mayfiowers 

 and cheekerberry stems and cutting off the mountain 

 laurels for the dollars that might be realized from their 

 sale. Then comes a Worcester, Mass., paper in approval 

 of the rapacious sentiment and calls attention to the 

 fact that all these things abound still in Worcester Coun- 

 ty, advising the organization of the unemployed for the 

 purpose of collecting them for commercial purposes — 

 practically urging the devastation of their country and 

 the sale of their birthright "for a mess of pottage." On 

 the other hand, we have the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society awarding a medal to the town of Ashby in 

 recognition of its preservation of its mountain laurel, 

 New England's loveliest shrub. Worcester County 

 boasts a horticultural society of long standing and there 

 is one in New Hampshire, too. There would seem to 

 be a good opening for both of these organizations to do 

 some very much-needed educational work in their re- 

 spective fields and it might, under the circumstances, 

 be expedient and opportune for them to start in first 

 on the daily papers which advocate a course so repre- 

 hensible. 



