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HORTICULTURE 



April 25, 1914 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XIX 



APRIL 25, 1914 



PIBLISIIED WKEKLV BY 



HOR.TICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place. Boston, Mass. 



Trlrphone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART. Editor and Manacer. 



Easter flower buying, if wisely coached — in its issue a 

 few days before Easter. 



" 'Order your Bister flowers early — or you won't get 

 any at all,' is the 'wo.d that florists are passing out to cus- 

 tomers. Yesterday marked the beginning of the Easter 

 floral rush. The dearth of flowers is attributed to the long 

 run of dark weather during the spring." 



NO. 17 



SL'BSCRIPTION RATES: 



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ADVERTISINQ RATES; 



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DlsconntH on Contractn for cons^ratlTe Inaertlonii, as followe; 



One month (4 tlmei), S per cent.: three month* (IS timeo). Id 

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pHire and half page space, special rates on appllcatioB. 



■ntered ss serond-claas matter December 8, 1904. at the Post Ofllce 

 at Boston, Maai., ander tbe Act of CooKress of Uarcb 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— AngriBcum sesquipedale 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Asters 

 —Begonia incarnata— Cyclamen— Gloxinias— Orchids 

 —Winter Geraniums-Vo/iK ./. M. Farrell 629 



ON THE BORDER OF VAST POSSIBILITIES— C S. 

 Harrison ggg 



ANGRAECUM SESQUIPEDALE— Jif. /. Pope 630 



WAKE UP! THE HORTICULTURE WORLD IS 

 AROUSED — Harry A. Bunyard 630 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Planting Time- 

 Idle Ground— Among the Plants — Liquid Manure for 

 the Young Plants— Ventilation— .4r</iur C. Ruzicka 631 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— William R. Nicholson, Portrait— So- 

 ciety of American Florists — Lancaster County Flor- 

 ists' Club 633 



Nassau County Horticultural Society — American Car- 

 nation Society — Cook County Florists' Association.. 634 



SEED TRADE— Lack of Funds Retards Inspection- 

 Warning Regarding Maine Seed Potatoes 638 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 640 



Flowers by Telegraph 641 



OBITUARY— Ira P. Kersey 643 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 645 



St. Louis, Washington 647 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Antirrhinums at Their Best — Illustrated 634 



Cornell University 636 



Leaf-Tyers and Leaf-Miners 636 



Catalogues Received 638 



News Notes 641-643 



Washington Notes — Philadelphia Notes — Chicago 



Notes 642 



New York Spring Show Trophies — Illustration 643 



Business Troubles 643 



A Daffodil Specialist-;- W. H. Adsett 643 



Personal — Visitors' Register 647 



Proposed Rhode Island State Reservation 647 



New Corporations — Patents Granted 654 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 654 



For many years the receptive newspaper 

 Dissuading reporter has been the "easy mark" for the 

 the buyer vain and stupid brand of florist, a char- 

 acter not so plentiful now as formerly but 

 still to be found here and there, ever ready to unload 

 panicky nonsense on anyone ready to swallow it. Listen 

 to an Ohio newspaper for example — a publication un- 

 doubtedly ready and willing to help along the custom nf 



Many dollars are cut out of the aggregate income of 

 the florist business by such injudicious and usually un- 

 true stuff, which is read by thousands upon thousands 

 of readers whose trade the florist needs and would have 

 if they were coaxed rather than discouraged. 



The many reports of excess Easter 



The previous plants and flowers left over after the 



question big event to clog and burden the week 



following, emphasize the fact that it is 

 often harder to sell stock than it is to grow it. The de- 

 pression which has trod so provokingly on the heels of a 

 good Easter is greatly to be regretted and is difficult to 

 explain other than that the surplus left over was given 

 the right of way in such small business as came to the 

 retail dealers and the normal outlet for the fresh product 

 was thus cut off. The Easter surplus, which in some 

 districts embraced both plants and flowers and in others 

 was chiefly composed of one or the other, was, of course 

 due, in a broad sense, either to an excessive production 

 or restricted distribution. We are not ready to believe 

 that the production of plants and flowers has yet reached 

 the limit of legitimate consumption in this country — faj- 

 from it. So our distribution methods must bear the re- 

 sponsibility for these relapses which bring dismay to the 

 grower and put the dealer into a perplexing dilemma. 

 The solution of the distribution problem is still far off, 

 apparently. 



The selection of location for the 1915 

 California's convention of the Society of American 

 credentials Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists 

 assumes unusual importance this year 

 because the Society is asked to cross the continent — 

 from Boston on the Atlantic to San Francisco on the 

 Pacific — in that year. There are many members who 

 profess to believe that such a project cannot possibly be 

 carried through in an extreme eastern city where the 

 attendance will be overwhelmingly eastern and that a 

 strong invitation from a city more centrally located 

 would carry the day against the California metropolis 

 even with the great inducement of the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition thrown in. Considering the dozen other 

 reasons that are advanced against the tremendous jour- 

 ney to the Golden Gate in August which the majority 

 of the regular S. A. F. attendants would have to face, 

 it is evident that the Panama-Pacific advocates have an 

 up-hill struggle before them. But there are some ele- 

 ments of fairness that should not be lost sight of. Al- 

 though so remote from, the scenes of the S. A. F. activi- 

 ties that participation in convention work or conven- 

 tion pleasures was practically out of the question, Cali- 

 fornia has usually been creditably represented on the 

 S. A. F. membership list as compared with states more 

 fortunately situated. At the present time California 

 has more members in that organization than Maryland ; 

 twice as many as Connecticut and District of Columbia 

 together; more than all New England, outside of Massa- 

 chusetts. Other comparisons might be made, showing a 

 slowness of growth and apparent lukewarmness of S. A. 

 F. support in sections floriculturally strong and favor- 

 ably located to take an active part in the affairs of the 

 national society as compared with places far remote, 

 hut the above will suffice. 



