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HOKTICULTUEE 



April 4, 1914 



HORTICULTURE. 



irOL. XIX 



APRIL 4, 1914 



NO. 14 



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CONTENTS 



COVER DESIGN Page 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Sweet Peas — Dracaena Indivisa — Overhauling 

 Poinsettias— Sowing Palm Seeds— Transplanting Pri- 

 mulas-Preparing Beds and Borders— Joftw /. M. 

 Farrell gj^Y 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Selection of Sod 

 for Next Pall— Turning Over the Sod Heap— Syring- 

 ing— Liquid Manure— .4r<ftMr C Ruzicka 518 



CYMBIDIUM INSIGNBJ— Jl/. /. Pope— Illustrated 519 



HOW WE MIGHT IMPROVE— Moa; SchUng 519 



PANAMA-PACIFIC NOTES— Illustrated 521 



CLUBS AND SOCIBITES— Oyster Bay Horticultural 

 Society — A Greenhouse Gathering— Boston Ladies 

 Meet— Society of American Florists- A Visit to 

 Waverly, Mass. — Club and Society Notes 522 



BOSTON S. A. P. CONVENTION CHAIRMEN— Por- 

 traits 523 



NEW YORK FLOWER SHOW— Closing Days and 



Final Awards — Illustrations 524 



The Banquet, Illustrated— Gardeners' Reunion 525 



FOREST PRODUCTS EXPOSITION 528 



OBITUARY— William Dawkins, portrait— J. H. Jones- 

 Charles Christensen — Mrs. Wallace Payne 528 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 528 



SEED TRADE— The Next Canners' Convention— A 

 New Seed Postal Bill— Chicago Seed Trade — New 

 Seed Testing Law in New York 534 



OP IN'^EREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 536 



Flowers by Telegraph 534 



Max Schling's Booth — Illustration 538 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York. Philadelphia, 



St. Louis ' 545 



Washington 547 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Panama-Pacific Exposition 525 



Boston Notes 526 



Thomas P. Galvin Boston's New Park Commissioner, 



portrait 526 



News Notes 526-537 



Catalogues Received 527-532 



A Prosperous Plant Growing Establishment 530 



Visitors' Register 530 



Nurseries of the National Farm School — Illustrated . . 530 



Statistics of Ornamental Plants Requested 530 



Publications Received 532 



New Corporations 536 



Chicago Notes — Washington Notes 541 



Philadelphia Notes 552 



A Fertilizer Query 552 



Fires — Patents Granted 552 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 554 



This is our annual Easter number. 



Boost Less pretentious than some of its pre- 



Horticulture's decessors, but circumstances this year 



Advertisers seemed to favor the spreading out over 



several issues of the customary adver- 

 tising support which made a large Easter number a 

 possibility and, as our readers are aware, the present is 

 .our third "special" number in three weeks. The Easter 

 season comes at the time when bustle and activities pre- 

 vail in every department of the avocations in which 

 HoRTictJLTURE's readers are engaged or directly inter- 

 ested. We all look for the activity and bustle to con- 

 tinue and grow lustily after the Easter awakening. The 

 advertisers in this and the two preceding numbers are 

 particularly interested in the immediate seasonable 

 trade. They evidently believe that advertising in 

 Horticulture is the most direct route to a prompt and 

 substantial revival. We ask our readers to do their part 

 to demonstrate to these enterprising representatives of 

 the profession, that their faith in Horticulture was 

 well placed. Send them your spring order and make it 

 a good one. 



We would call attention to the notes 

 Our which appear in our news columns 



friends in relative to the work which the TJ. S. 

 Washington Department of Agriculture is under- 

 taking, in securing information on the 

 beliavior of ornamental plants in all parts of the United 

 States. This is a new phase in the regular work of the 

 Department and the attempt should have the hearty 

 cooperation of every one engaged in plant cultivation 

 for ornamental purposes. This end of liorticulture has 

 thus far been given but meagre attention and the dis- 

 position now manifested is very gratifying, coming, as it 

 does, just as the Agricultural Colleges and State Experi- 

 ment Stations are also showing an interest in the ad- 

 vancement of floriculture and the development of orna- 

 mental gardening generally. The Department of Agri- 

 culture has done and is now doing much that is great 

 and good for the health and sustenance of our people. 

 But "man sliaJl nut live by bread alone." As our dear old 

 W. R. Smith was wont to say, we must also "feed the 

 esthetic soul of mankind" and the present broadening 

 out of the Department's activities in this direction 

 should receive all encouragement possible. 



It is in order now to congratulate our 

 What New York friends on the complete 



"pull-together" success of their spring flower show. 

 will do This happy consummation may be at- 



tributed to various causes but the 

 main reason back of all other reasons was the liearty 

 joint participation of trade and amateur interests which 

 was brought about through the well-directed alliance 

 between the Horticultural Society of New York and the 

 New York Florists' Club. Lacking the enthusiastic 

 support of either of these organizations the result would 

 probably have been very different. Plans for an annual 

 repetition are a natural sequence to this success and 

 there appears now no good reason why a spring flower 

 show in the metropolis may not be counted upon as a 

 regular attraction each year. The solving of the great 

 problem of years, so long regarded as insurmountable, 

 is not only a great thing for the well-being of horticul- 

 ture in and about New York but for other cities as 

 well, furnishing incentive and stimulus and a whole- 

 some lesson which will inspire confidence and courage 

 to go in and win. Thus New York's victory will be far- 

 reaching and we shall all, either directly or indirectly, 

 share in tlie resultant benefit. 



