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HORTICULTURE 



June 27, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XIX 



JUNE 27, 1914 



NO. 26 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Viburnum Sargentii 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Violets — Cibotium Schiedei — Ferns for Ferneries 

 ^Primulas — Seasonable Repairs — Propagating Scent- 

 ed Geraniums — A Query — John J. M. FarreU 925 



THE GLADIOLUS— 7)Yi H. Landis 927 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Peony Society- 

 American Association of Nurserymen — Oyster Bay 



Horticultural Society ". 928 



American Rose Society — View in Rose Garden, Hart- 

 ford, Conn. — Illustrated — Lancaster County Florists' 



Club 929 



Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — 

 New Bedford Horticultural Society — Massachusetts 



Horticultural Society 930 



Society of American Florists- — Convention Notes — 



Sweet Pea Show Philadelphia 931 



Club and Society Notes 932 



VIBURNUM SARGENTII— Jackson Dawson, Portrait 933 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association- 

 Opening Proceedings at Washington — Secretary- 

 Treasurer's Report — Lester L. Morse, Portrait — 

 Notes 934 



OBITUARY— George C. Wiggin— Charles H. Sieck 934 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures "936 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 937 



DURING RECESS— Commodore Westcott's Annual 

 Outing — New York Florists' Club Outing — Annual 



Picnic Florists' Club of Philadelphia 938 



Pitting on the Cap, Arthur A. Xiessen — King Arthur 



to Flora, Poetry 939 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia, St. Louis 941 



Washington 943 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Gladiolus Snow King — Illustrated 927 



Amherst Notes 927 



June, Poetry 927 



Personal 932 



Visitors' Register 932 



Washington Notes ■ 933 



Catalogue Received 934 



Philadelphia Notes 936 



Chicago Notes — New York Notes 943 



News Notes 948-950 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 950 



New Corporations 950 



Patents Granted 950 



Bulb prices 

 advanced 



We are informed that the Holland Bulb 

 Growers' Association have decided to 

 mark up bulb prices for export ten per 

 cent all along the line. There does not 

 appear to be any plausible reason for this as there is 

 an abundant crop and the Dutchmen should not be 



surprised if their action is interpreted by the trade as 

 due simply to avariciousness and as furnishing a fresh 

 evidence of the truth of the century-old saying that 



"The characteristic fault of the Dutch 

 Is giving too little and asking too much." 



The enormously increased demand here for Darwin 

 tulips has had a stimulating effect on the price of that 

 specialty but on the other lines of bulbs no such excuse 

 is apparent and a natural consequence will be that the 

 trade will resent the advance and reduce the amount of 

 their purchases accordingly. 



An 



unwelcome 



revival 



According to Deutsche Gartner Zietung 

 dried and dyed iiowers and grasses are 

 being revived as a fashion in Gei'many. 

 We recall the time some thirty-five years 

 ago when this sort of material had a very 

 large sale in this country in loose state or arranged in 

 baskets of various styles. That fashion we imported 

 from Germany and much of the goods came from Ger- 

 man sources. We can also recall still further back, and 

 to some extent ever since, the custom of decorating the 

 mantels and walls of the "best room" of the New Eng- 

 land country cottage with vases and wreaths of dried 

 flowers. The latter were bright amaranths, helichry- 

 sums, honesty, and a few of the native grasses of most 

 the flowers cultivated by the housewife in the home 

 garden each year. We can see a pretty sentiment in 

 thus preserving through the long dreary winter these 

 fadeless souvenirs of the summer time and they make 

 a pretty and appropriate adornment of the rural home, 

 but the revival of the use of the gaudy commercial stuff 

 referred to in our German contemporary, as floral deco- 

 ration in places where fresh flowers and plants are ap- 

 propriate and available in abundance for every purpose, 

 we should regard as a misfortune and a reaction much 

 to be regretted and discouraged. 



The spring planting season is now 



The florist can pretty well over. An entire cleanup 



set the pace of the stock in the houses and frames 



is out of the question. There are 

 always some remnants left over. We have always felt 

 sorry to see these little batches of pot geraniums, cannas, 

 heliotropes, etc., standing or lying topsy-turvey, neg- 

 lected and baked in the hot sun, to be later thrown away, 

 when, in many instances, there was vacant roorn in 

 abundance outside where they might be tastefully 

 planted out and made to add materially to thel external 

 appearance of the florists' place. It pays to make the 

 surroundings of any home — and particularly the home 

 or business establishment of a florist — beautiful and at- 

 tractive by a profuse setting of flowers and verdure and 

 to keep it scrupulously neat as an impressive object les- 

 son which cannot fail to exercise a tremendous influ- 

 ence upon the local demand for such goods. Whole 

 towns are made beautiful or otherwise and their at- 

 tractiveness or repulsiveness as places of residence de- 

 pends very much upon the care or neglect shown in the 

 matter of home environment. The good example of a 

 few will quickly inspire emulation and imitation aid the 

 man who can most effectively set the pace is the local 

 florist. 



