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HOKTICULTURE 



February 21, 1914 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XIX 



FEBRUARY 21, 1914 



NO. 8 



PIBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 293. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER II.LUSTRATION— Cattleya Perclvalliana 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Azaleas — Dracaenas — Euphorbia fulgens — Orchids — 

 Tuberous Begonias — Starting Lemon Verbena — John. . . . 



J. M. Farrell 257 



ST ATICE— RicfMrd Rof?je— Illustrated 258 



CATTLEYA PERCIVALLIANA— ilf. J. Pope 258 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Grading Cut Roses 

 — The Coal Bin — Snow — Potting Soil — Arthur C. 



Ruzicka 259 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — American Association of 

 Nurserymen — New England Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural So- 

 ciety — American Rose Society — Illinois and Indiana 



State Florists 262 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — St. Louis 

 Florist Club — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — 

 American Carnation Society — Club and Society Notes 263 

 GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING— 



F. J. Elder 265 



SEED TRADE— Weeding Out the Offenders 270 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



St. Valentine's Day in Chicago Stores — Steamer De- 

 partures 272 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 273 



OBITUARY — Jefferson Doremus — Henry Copas — David 

 Wirth — George D. Cooley— Mrs. H. B. Beatty — 

 Helen Frances Amrhyn 275 



DURING RECESS— The Greek Florists' Ball— Bar 

 Harbor Horticultural Society 275 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia. . . 277 



St. Louis, Washington 279 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Holland at the Panama-Pacific Exposition 259 



Notes from Britain 259 



Flower Exhibit at Cornell University 261 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 261 



Views in Washington Greenhouses — Illustrated 261 



News Notes 264-270-275 



Walter Mott's Notes by the Way 270 



New Corporations 270 



Washington Notes — Philadelphia Notes 274 



Chicago Notes — St. Louis Notes 274 



Greenhouses Crushed by Snow 275 



New York Flower Show 275 



Personal — Visitors' Register 279 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 286 



In our editorial notes of last week 

 The wrecked we made comment upon the great 

 greenhouses advantages enjoyed by flower gi'owers 



equipped with modern type green- 

 houses. As compared with the little structures of 

 former days with their clumsy woodwork and often 

 primitive heating apparatus these great steel-ribbed glass 

 palaces, "a little ligliter tliat out-of-doors," have brought 

 to rose and carnation growing a perfection of system 

 and exactness of detail which has practically revolu- 

 tionized these cultures. But the happenings of the past 

 week, the storm disasters which have befallen at least 

 two of the most extensive modern ?reenhouse structures 



in this country — furnish a lesson and a warning. Ta 

 so plan and adjust these vast expanses of glass for suc- 

 cessful resistance against wind and snowfall wUl de- 

 mand the exercise of scientific knowledge and mechani- 

 cal skill of the highest order. Whatever of structural 

 defects or weakness these regrettable misfortunes may 

 have exposed will undoubtedly be guarded agaiast as 

 far as possible in future construction and thus one les- 

 son of the winter of 1913-14 will not have been 

 profitless. 



Two very important bills are before 



Legislation the Committee on Agriculture at 

 worth watching the State House, Boston, this week. 

 One of these, House Bill No. 1741, is 

 a petition by E. Allan Peirce and others relating to the 

 assessment on private lands of the costs of destroying 

 the eggs, caterpillars, pupae and nests of moths. The 

 amendment asked for would make the assessment, to 

 the tax-payer, on the land value alone instead of the 

 present which is one-half of one per cent on the valu- 

 ation of the land including all buildings. Concerning 

 this bill and its objects Mr. Peirce says: 



"This has been a very unjust tax in the past; for in- 

 stance, on a lot of land that I own, the assessed valuation 

 of which was $500 in 1912, the city tax was $8.50 and the 

 gypsy moth tax $29. On another piece of property, valued 

 at $8,600. the city tax was $136.74. and the same year the 

 gypsy moth tax was $149.60. This more than doubles our 

 tax on the land valuation because we are owners of green- 

 houses and other buildings on adjoining land." 



Horticulture recognizes the justice of this proposed 

 legislation and would like to see the bill enacted. The 

 other bill in question should be opposed vigorously and 

 defeated. It is House Bill No. 1255. It provides for 

 the extension of the scope of those in charge of the sup- 

 pression of the gj'psy moth to the suppression of the 

 tent-caterpillar, elm-beetle, leopard moth and other 

 insect pests. If this bill should become a law there is 

 no end to the amount that could be taxed a land-owner 

 there being no re.striction as to how far a city forester 

 or superintendent in charge, might go. 



Every lover of the wild flowers should 

 Saving the feel grateful to the Society for the 

 wild flowers Protection of Native Plants and other 

 organizations with a kindred purpose 

 for their work and influence on behalf of our native 

 flora. The Society for the Protection of Native Plants, 

 which is located in Boston, works in co-operation with 

 and has the endorsement of the New England Botanical 

 Club, Wild Flower Preservation Society of America, 

 Seal Harbor Improvement Society and sister organiza- 

 tions in various parts of the United States. Leaflets 

 are issued from time to time, many of them for the 

 particular use of children and intended to foster a 

 sentiment of conservation rather than destruction and 

 to educate all, old and young, as to the imminent danger 

 of extermination of many interesting and beautiful wild 

 flowers through thoughtless and indiscriminate picking. 

 Warning is given as well about the alarming extent to 

 whicli the cutting of laurel and other native material is 

 being carried on for commercial use and in this Horti- 

 culture is also in accord. Those of our readers who 

 wish to lend their aid to this work can co-operate by 

 addressing the secretary Miss M. E. Carter, Boston 

 Society of Natural History. The Wild Flower Preser- 

 vation Society is located in New York, with charters 

 in Philadelphia and Chicago. This Society is also 

 doing some good missionary work. Correspondence 

 should be addrep,«ed to Mrs. N. L. Britton, New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



