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HORTICULTURE 



February 7, 1914 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Partial View in Exhibition 



of American Carnation Society at Cleveland 

 NOTES ON CULTIVATION OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Abutilons — Calceolarias — Care of Mignonette — Pelar- 

 goniums — Sowing Asters — Seeds to Sow — John J. M. 



Farrell • 181 



MID-WINTER SHOW AT BOSTON— WaJ/er Mott 183 



NEW RED ROSE HOOSIER BEAUTY— Illustrated. . . 183 

 AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— Additional Pro- 

 ceedings — Report of Committee on the President's 

 Address — Additional Prize Winners — Good Team 

 Work — Carnations in Second Year — The Table Ex- 

 hibits — The Banquet 184 



Notes of Interest — .1. M. Gasser Co., Table Decora- 

 tion, Illustration 185 



Some Cleveland Growers 186 



PERENNIALS AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR THE 



AMERICAN GARDEN— Ric/iard Rothc 186 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Flor- 

 ists — American Rose Society — Florists' Club of Phila- 

 delphia — New Bedford Horticultural Society 187 



Elberon Horticultural Society — Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club of Boston— Club and Society Notes 188 



NEW ROSE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY— Illustration 188 



THE SWEET PKA— Edwin Jenkins 189 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 196 



SEED trade: — Canners Convention Exhibits — Chicago 



Seed Notes 19S 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures — Florists' 



Telegraph Delivery 200 



Flowers by Telegraph 201 



FLOWER MARKET REPORT: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 205 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 207 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Azaleas 183 



Obituary 183 



Incorporated 196 



News Notes 196-201-212 



Philadelphia Notes 198 



Business Troubles 201 



Chicago Notes 202 



Albany Notes 202 



Personal 203 



Walter Mott's Notes by-the-Way 203 



Poastmaster Kasting 207 



New Flower Market in Boston 207 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 212 



Fires 212 



Two Chums at the Cleveland Meeting, Ulus 186 



The scheme for the participation of the 



Retailers retail florists in a flower show as suceess- 



in line fully carried out at Cleveland opens up a 



very promising vista of possibilities. The 

 difficulties which have been found almost unsurmount- 

 able in an exliibition planned on competitive lines are 

 entirely removed and we look to soon see quite a change 

 in the aspect of our flower shows as a result of this well- 

 arranged innovation. Of course, the scheme can be 

 carried out fully as well with standard varieties as 

 with novelties, and with other flowers as well as car- 

 nations. We would suggest, as an improvement, that 

 exhibitors be allowed to use one other small flower 

 in combination with carnations, for grace and color 

 eifect, such as sweet peas or lily of the valley. 



Last year at New York, the 

 Old and American Carnation Society 



new problems of faced a rather serious problem 

 the A. C. S. when it came to selecting place 



and policy for its 1914 meeting. 

 The outcome would seem to indicate that the dilemma 

 was wisely met. Cleveland was selected primarily for 

 its availability as a location where a revival of enthusi- 

 asm and popularity on old-time lines together with an 

 influx of new members might reasonably be looked for. 

 This object was presumably attained, although it might 

 be a question whether the success of this meeting would 

 be repeated under other circumstances and diversions 

 such as an important national event in contiguous ter- 

 ritory and only a few weeks removed. The presence of 

 so many old-time seasoned convention faces from points 

 more or less remote must have been very gratifying to 

 those who carry on their shoulders the responsibilities 

 of the society's management, while no well-wisher of 

 the organization could fail to feel pleased with the 

 2>reponderauce at the sessions of youthful and closely 

 interested attendants. Just what proportion of these 

 latter availed themselves of the opportunity to take up 

 membership we know not, nor have we any idea to what 

 extent the accessions to membership were affected by 

 the discontinuance of the custom of free admission to 

 the banquet as a members' perquisite, but of the inter- 

 est displayed by the younger element in the meetings 

 and in the banquet there can be but one opinion. The 

 selection of a nearby city for next year's meeting, in 

 view of the foregoing, appears to have been judicious 

 and to offer a reasonable assurance of the continued 

 support of the new blood enlisted on this occasion. 

 Complications are not impossible, however, should the 

 American Eose Society also select Buffalo as its meet- 

 ing place next year as now appears probable, thus intro- 

 ducing once again the problem of a compromise date 

 for a Joint convention with the alternative of a split 

 attendance of long-distance members and more or less 

 dissatisfaction in either case. The decision of the 

 National Flower Show Committee to hold the Fourth 

 National Flower Show in Philadelphia in the spring 

 of 1916 will again bring to the front the same predica- 

 ment between the iusistent advocates of a mid-winter 

 meeting for business reasons and those to whom this 

 is not particularly essential. 



