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HORTICULTURE 



March 21, 19l4 



horticulture: 



▼OL XIX 



MARCH 21, 1914 



NO. 12 



PtTBLISHES WEEKLY BT 



fIOR.TICVI,TUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford iBZ. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manacer. 



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

 at Boston. Mass., nnder tbe Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. 



CONTENTS 



COVER DESIGN Page 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Aza- 

 leas — Cannas — Care of Carnations — Smilax — Orchids 

 — Pansies — Stevia — John J. M. Farrell 405 



ANEMONES OR WINDFLOWERS— iJicAard Rothe— 

 Illustrated 406 



YELLOW MARGUERITES— George F. Stewart 407 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Lime— Mulching- 

 Tying— Blind Wood on Beauties — Cutting — Cracked 

 Ice — Arthur C. Ruzicka 409 



SPRING SHOW IN BOSTON— Illustrated 410-411 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — S. A. F. Executive Board in Boston 

 — Lancaster County Florists' Club — Texas State Hor- 

 ticultural Society 413 



State Florists of Illinois and Indiana — Westchester 

 and Fairfield Horticultural Society — St. Louis Flor- 

 ist Club — A New Society Projected — Club and So- 

 ciety Notes 414 



CARNATIONS UNDER TWO-YEAR CULTURE— A. L. 

 Dorward 416 



ABOUT HYBRID TEA ROSES— Georgie H. Peterson.. 417 



OBITUARY — Goodwin Braslan — John Brenner — Mrs. 

 Wallace G. Payne — Edward Meehan — Ernst Mack — 

 Mrs. George T. Elliott 418 



PROGRESS OF FLORICULTURE AT URBANA— H. B. 

 Dorner 418 



SEED TRADE— Mail Order and Country Trade— San 

 Francisco's Outlook for Canners' Convention — Sur- 

 plus Peas — Free Seeds Again — Notes 428 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 436 



Flowers by Telegraph— Fined for Sunday Work 437 



Trade Getting — LilUe Johnson 438 



Presentation to Chas. Kahlert — George C. Watson 439 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati , 443 



New York, Philadelphia 445 



St. Louis, Washington 452 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Three Busy Men at New York Show — Portraits 412 



British Exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition — 



W. H. Adsett 412 



Gardeners' Reunion 412 



Publication Received 412 



Storehouse for Azaleas and Ivies — Illustrated 415 



Florists and Unions — George F. Steioart 415 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 415 



Partial View of A. N. Pierson's Establishment, Crom- 

 well, Conn. — Illustration 417 



The College Point Mecca 418 



Business Troubles 418 



Visitors' Register 420 



A Review of the Craig Easter Show — G. C. W 422 



News Notes 422 



Personal 428 



Fires 437 



Washington Notes 438 



Philadelphia Notes 439 



Chicago Notes 440 



New Corporations 452 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 454 



Our friends of Emerald Isle lineage 

 The wearing have always been credited with a eonsid- 

 of the green erable inherent love for nature. We 



sometimes wonder what some of their 



romantic poets of other days would think if thev could 



come back to life again and see the grotesque adornments 

 known as "green carnations" which in these enlightened 

 times seem to gratify in the fullest degree the patriotic 

 yearning to indulge in the "wearing of the green." The 

 dyeing of carnations is a barbarous practice for which no 

 justification exists. Wliy a florist with any pretensions 

 to refinement and good taste should expose the vulgar 

 things as central features of his show windows is beyond 

 comprehension. "Wliat fools we mortals be." 



In this issue Horticulture's adver- 

 Practical tisers fire the first gun in the active 



"co-operation" campaign for spring trade. After a 

 long and, in some respects, disheart- 

 ening winter, we greet the opening spring and see in 

 the outlook much to awaken new hope and confidence. 

 At the time, years ago, when the resumption of specie 

 payments by the government was a proposition ap- 

 proached with some doubt and timidity, it was said 

 "the way to resume is to resume." In like manner it 

 may be said that the way to make good business this 

 spring is to go ahead and make it. That is the spirit 

 which inspires the advertisers whose offers appear in 

 these pages and if you want to help toward the resump- 

 tion of activity all around you cannot do better than 

 back up these advertisers with a prompt and generous 

 response. This is the sort of co-operation that co- 

 operates. 



March has done very well as to flower 

 Spring shows. Last week the florists of Indiana 



exhibitions and Illinois had quite lively innings at 

 Danville, the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society has Just closed a four days' exhibition at 

 Boston of exceptional quality and beauty, and now 

 comes the big show at New York, to wind up the month, 

 not to mention the several minor local affairs in various 

 places. The Spring Exhibition is a time-honored insti- 

 tution in Boston and few are alive now who can remem- 

 ber when the Boston spring shows were not. New York, 

 with its myriad diversions, has not until recently taken 

 very seriously to flower shows, but, should the am- 

 bitious enterprise now opening prove the popular suc- 

 cess which we all hope for, then we may look for a 

 regular annual recurrence of flower week in the great 

 metropolis and thence will radiate a mighty influence 

 for the advancement of horticulture. 



The Executive Board of the Society of 

 An event American Florists and Ornamental Horti- 

 in Boston culturists has been in session most of this 

 week in Boston. Horticulture takes 

 much satisfaction in the knowledge that its home town 

 is honored by the presence of a body of men so distin- 

 guished in their calling and so thoroughly representative 

 of the most progressive elements in horticultural indus- 

 try. That every member of the Board was present, 

 which rarely happens, shows a realization of the impor- 

 tance of this year's affairs and is of itself a direct com- 

 pliment to Boston. It is not our province to make any 

 comment at the present time on the work of the Board 

 while in Boston. The secretary will in due time give 

 publicity to all details which are of general interest. We 

 are privileged to say, however, that the Board found on 

 arrival in Boston that all necessary preliminary steps to 

 assure a grand outdoor garden exhibition in connection 

 with the Convention next August had been happily con- 

 summated by the local officials of the Society and that, 

 with the enthusiastic co-operation of the City Govern- 

 ment and the Park Department, the absolute success of 

 this magnificent project is now beyond any possibility of 

 doubt. 



