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HOETICULTUKE 



April 11, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XIX 



APRIL 11, 1914 



NO. 15 



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CONTENTS P^se 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Entrance to Headquarters 

 of Horticultural Society of New York at New York 



Show 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Seedlings — Chrysanthemums — Alocaslas — Orchids 

 — Time to Provide — Young Marguerites — John J. M. 



Farrell •■ 561 



A BURPEE SENSATION— Illustrated 560 



THE GARDENERS' PROBLEM— George C. Watson... 560 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Disbudding— Cut- 

 ting — Mulching — Lime — Fumigating — Paint — Build- 

 ing — Arthur C. Ruzicka 563 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Flor- 

 ists — Florists' Club of Philadelphia — American Rose 



Society 566 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 567 



Tuxedo Horticultural Society— Club and Society Notes 567 

 NEW YORK SHOW — Partial View of Carnation Sec- 

 tion and Bobbink & Atkins' Group of Conifers 568 



SEED TRADE — Parcel Post Popular — Dull Business — 

 Panama-Pacific Opening — Mild Winter in Northwest 

 — Next Canners' Convention — Forging to the Front 570 

 Free Seeds According to the Waterbury Idea— Free 

 Seeds; Another View— Imported Red Clover Seed — 



Chicago Seed Notes 572 



PLAN OF THE BOSTON CONVENTION GARDEN— 



Illustrated 574-575 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 576 



Flowers by Telegraph — Flowers on Ocean Liner 577 



OBITUARY— F. Walker— James H. McManus 579 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 581 



St. Louis, Washington 583 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Promising Seedling Carnation — Illustrated 565 



Mushrooms in Cellar 565 



A Flower Show Question— Verno-re T. Sherwood 565 



Oh, Ever' thing's A-Goin' — Poetry 565 



Acacia pubescens Meets Its Master — Illustrated 565 



Hardy Dwarf-Growing Evergreens — John Kirke- 



gaard 565 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes — Washington 



Notes 578 



New Corporations 578 



News Notes 588 



Business Troubles 579 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 588 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 590 



Visitors' Register 583 



New Boston Wholesale House 583 



Reactionary— Out of the Ordinary 579 



Personal — Fires 579 



On the eve of the great floral feast (Jay- 

 Easter the happy culmination of the florists' long 

 winter toil, Houttcut.tuke extends to one 

 and all kindly gi-eetings and sincere good wishes for 



The Convention 

 and the Garden 



a successful and happy Easter and a bountiful measure 

 of the blessings which this Joyous season symbolizes. 



All honor to the Brooklyn lady who has 



Money bequeathed the sum of $10,500 to keep the 



well used church pulpit supplied with flowers. The 



world is made up of all kinds of people 



and they have varying convictions as to how money — 



their own or their neia;hbor's — should be disposed of. 



For our part we have nothing but commendation for any 



act which lirings plants, trees and flowers to the people 



in increasing (pantity, and only the opposite sentiments 



for any attempt to limit or curtail the use of these 



things, which arc nature's most potent humanizing 



agencies. 



"To me the meanest flower that blows can give 

 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." 



To cpiote a certain popular official of the S. A. F., 

 one eminent in debate — "I'll rest my case there." 



The Convention Garden plans whicli 

 we present in this issue will, no 

 doubt, be perused with much inter- 

 est, as evidence that this feature 

 so auspiciously inaugurated in Minneapolis last year 

 will again fonu a prime attraction of the summer con- 

 vention of the Society of American Florists. As an 

 educational exponent of the most advanced liorticultural 

 art this Convention Garden will certainly take high rank 

 and its influence, locally as well as over the larger field, 

 cannot be overestimated. Its direct service to the con- 

 vention visitors will largely be condensed into the space 

 of a few days but Boston and her thousands of sum- 

 mer visitors will enjoy it in all its glory for many weeks 

 and who can measure the extent of its salutary influence 

 or the material gain which will come to commercial hor- 

 ticulture in a broad way and as a direct consequence. 

 The visit of the S. A. F. brought to Minneapolis much 

 of lasting value. It will do the same for Boston. No 

 matter how lavishly Boston may prepare for the recep- 

 tion and entertainment of the two thousand or more 

 visitors who are expected next August the balance of 

 indebtedness for benefits gained will be on the side of 

 the city. That much we are sure of. 



The condensed report of Secretary 

 A Young on the work of the S. A. F. E.x- 



questionable ecutive Board at its meeting in Boston, 

 policy which we are privileged to present in this 

 issue, will be found interesting as a 

 concise summary of the deliberations of the Board. It 

 shows that the responsibilities of these officers of the 

 Society are becoming more and more numerous, demand- 

 ing increasingly serious consideration and involving the 

 adjudication of many knotty problems. We are disap- 

 pointed, however, that these diligent gentlemen, so wise 

 in all other respects, should have deemed it advisable to 

 permit any one hotel — however palatial and sumptuous 

 — to use the special title of "headquarters," in a city so 

 well supplied with good hotels and for a Convention so 

 large in numbers that probably not one-fifth of those in 

 attendance can be accommodated at "Tieadquarters." 

 For a period of some eighteen years the S. A. F. invari- 

 ably announced its official headquarters as at its conven- 

 tion hall and to the general satisfaction of the members, 

 the Executive Committee always deeming it inexpedi- 

 ent to accord special privilege to any one hotel and 

 discreetly steering clear of this mischief-breeding 

 practice which may be all right for a society of one or 

 two hundred members but in an organization as large 

 as the S. A. F. is prolific in discontent for those who 

 fail to secure accommodations in the privileged house 

 and more or less discomfort for those who do manage 

 to set in. 



