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HOETICULTUKE 



J.ay 16, 1914 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. XOC 



MAY 16, 1914 



NO. 20 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— New hybrid Miltonia St. 

 Andre 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Am- 

 aryllis — Growing Aquatics — Planting Gardenias — 

 Sowing Perennials — Stocks for Winter Flowering — 

 Stock Plants — John J. M. Farrell 729 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— Early Planting— Selection of 

 Plants — The First Watering — Cleaning Before Pill- 

 ing the Benches — Whitewashing — Preparing the Soil 

 — Arthur C. Ruzicka 731 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Floor Plan, 

 Mechanics' Building, Boston, Mass., Illustrated — 

 Convention Arrangements — The Convention Garden 732 

 List of Boston Convention Committees — Department 

 of Plant Registration 733 



OBITUARY— Brian P. Critchell— Frank G. Yingling— 

 J. P. Slimon 733 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club— 

 Florists' Club of Washington — American Rose So- 

 ciety — Club and Society Notes 734 



NEMATODES AND PAEONIES— B. J. Shaylor 737 



SEED TRADE — Influence of the Weather on the Pea 

 Crop — General Crop Comments — Canners Will Not 

 go to San Francisco — Seed Legislation Sidetracked 

 —Notes 738 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stones — Steamer Departures 740 



Flowers by Telegraph 741 



The White House Wedding— Illustrated 743 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 745 



New York, Philadelphia, Washington, St. Louis 747 



A DAY WITH BURPEE— Gforfire C. WatS07i 7.52 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 740 



New Corporations 741 



Philadelphia Notes — Washington Notes 742 



Visitors' Register 752 



Chicago Notes 752 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 754 



One of the best booms that has come to the 

 Very Boston florists for many a day presented 

 welcome itself on May 2nd and the days immedi- 

 ately [(receding and following, on the occa- 

 sion of the big demonstrations of the suffragists and 

 their rivals — the "antis." Yellow and red roses were the 

 badges, respectively, of the adherents of the opposing 

 forces and such a clean-up on roses has rarely been ex- 

 perienced. Much to be preferred as implements of war- 

 fare than bombs or stones. Happily the crop was on in 

 full tilt and the rose men got a thrill as pleasing as it was 

 unexpected. This was a genuine case of the business 

 seeking the florist and fortunately he was right there 

 with the goods. Gome again, ladies. 



We are pleased to be able to present 



Convention i^ tjiis issue of HORTICULTURE a Com- 



plans maturing plete diagram of the trade exhibition 

 space at Mechanics' Building as laid 

 out by Secretary Young for the Boston S. A. F. Con- 

 vention; also a list of all the committees selected for 

 local work on convention matters and a quantity of other 

 data that will prove acceptable and useful in connection 

 with that important event. Those gentlemen (m whose 

 shoulders rest the responsibilities of preparatory work 

 have been assiduously busy for months on the prelimi- 

 naries, the uncertainties of the situation due to the 

 change in administration of the city's affairs making the 

 work somewhat difficult and often delicate to handle but 

 "all's well that ends well," and when the S. A. F. visitors 

 arrive in Boston they will find the State and City 

 officials, the park department, the horticultural interests 

 of the City and the public generally all in enthusiastic 

 accord to welcome and entertain. 



By the way, reverting to the recent 

 Wisdom "Jlothers' Day" and the burning ques- 



made to order tions involved in its fitting obeerrance. 

 as between Miss Jarria with her white 

 carnation and the florists' advocacy of "any flower," one 

 of the Boston newspapers had its profound eay as fol- 

 lows : 



"The white carnation is the emblem of mother love. 

 France could not use the rose, for that is an Englisk em- 

 blem, and the Germans could not use the fleur-de-lys, 

 because it is the French national flower. All nations, how- 

 ever, can unite on the white carnation as the international 

 memory flower of home and country." 



Facts count for but little sometimes when they ob- 

 struct the reasoning out of a pet theory. We horticul- 

 tural people have had it in our heads that France stood 

 in the front rank as a rose-loving and rose producing 

 country and it is "news" to us that they cannot wear 

 roses in honor of mother in that country, while we all 

 know that the German iris and its numerous hybrids 

 are recognized the world over as the most gorgeous and 

 beautiful section of the great iris family. But — "wots 

 the vuse?" 



