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HORTICULTURE 



July 15, 1911 



horticulture: 



TOL. XIV JULY 15, 1911 MO. 3 



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CONTETS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Rhododendron Show. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Chrysanthemums — Housing Carnations — 

 Hollyhocks — Lorraine Begonias — Oncidiums — Peren- 

 nial Lupines and Larkspurs — Asparagus Sprengeri — 

 Lilies for Fall— John ./. 1/. Finn 11 65 



SUMMER FLOWERING ORCHIDS— U. 1/. Shaw— Illus- 

 trated 66 



FORCING STRAWBERRIES— II'. 1/ 66 



THE BURPEE EXHIBIT AT THE SWEET PEA 

 SHOW— Illustrated 67 



OBITUARY— William A. Woodward — Charles J. Marc 

 — J. A. McPheron — Paul de Longpre 69 



THE LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE AUCTION 

 BUSINESS— 7>\ W. MacNiff 69 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES'. 



Chicago Florists' Club — Florists' Club of Washing- 

 ton — Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Wm. Sim, por- 

 trait — A Madison Symposium — Cincinnati Florists' 



Society 70 



American Rose Society — Club and Society Notes.... 71 



A RHODODENDRON SHOW 71 



DURING RECESS— Michell-Dreer Baseball Game— Chi- 

 cago Florists' Picnic — Chicago Baseball — New York 

 Bowlers — Notes 71 



A FEW OBSERVATIONS ANENT SWEET PEAS— 

 Edwin Lonsdale 71 



RAILROAD GARDENING AS A PAYING INVEST- 

 MENT— Paul Huelmrr— Illustrated 72 



SEED TRADE — The Seedsmen's Convention — Crop 

 News — Some Pea Advice — Government Crop Re- 

 port — The European Situation — Potatoes Fail — Im- 

 portant — Personal — Notes 76 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 78 



Flowers by Telegraph 79 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 81 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 83 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Care of Washington Trees 67 



News Notes 69-74 



Horticultural Quarantine 73 



St. Louis Notes 74 



Chicago Notes 79 



Personal 79-83 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 88 



Incorporated 88 



Patents Granted 90 



In our advertising departmenl will be 



a notable found the first offer in America of Lil- 



introduction j urn myriophyllum. that beautiful hardy 



lily which if? collector — E. II. Wilson 



—does i i < > t hesitate in call the best of all the lilies. If 



all that is claimed fur this introduction should he sub- 



stantiated i of which we have do doubt) this new-comer 

 ; - destined to fill a large plaice, nut only in garden work 

 hut as a florists' forcing bulb. It furnishes a welcome 

 variation from the ever-presenl longiflorurri and with- 

 ou1 the overpowering odor which is so serious a draw- 

 back i" ihe use of many otherwise eleganl lilies for in- 

 door decorations. Myriophyllum is now in full bloom 

 outdoors and seems to fake most kindly to New Eng- 

 land (lunatic conditions. The offer of this lily and its 



i panion leueanthemum, is, we believe, the lii-i ex 



ploita en commercially in America of the Wilson Chi- 

 nese intn duel ions. 



We have been much interested in the ae- 

 A hibiscus llU1 -t given in the Pacific Commercial 

 show Advertiser of Honolulu of whai was prac- 

 tically the first flower show in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, held on June '28 last. One would have to do 

 sumo guessing before arriving at the facts as to the 

 flower to which the show was devoted, which was none 

 other than the hibiscus, of which we are told that over 

 two hundred distinct varieties were staged. Among 

 them were a score of imported varieties and a very 

 small part of the balance were indigenous to Oahu, the 

 great majority being the lesult of the careful labors in 

 hybridizing and crossing on the part of the local hibis- 

 cus enthusiasts who. it would seem are as zealous in 

 i hi- particular line as, for instance, our own sweet pea 

 devotees are in theirs. Over two thousand people vis- 

 ited the show between 11 A. M. and 4 P. M. Now 

 that it is called to our attention, why not give this 

 gorgeous flower a chance in our exhibitions here? Few 

 subjects present better possibilities. 



We hope that the interests of the 



"What are florists and ornamental horticultur- 



you going to do ,.)< j n f] u , proposed national inspec- 



about it?" tions laws and interstate quarantine 



will not fail of careful consideration 

 at the coming S. A. F. convention in Baltimore. The 

 Nurserymen's Association has been following up this 

 matter with commendable persistency, through its hus- 

 tling legislative committee of which Wm. Pitkin is 

 chairman. We regret that the space at our disposal will 

 not permit of our publishing the interesting report 

 made by Mr. Pitkin at the recent convention of nur- 

 serymen at St. Louis. There is much in it that should 

 have deep consideration by that section of the trade 

 which Horticulture particularly reaches and some plan 

 of action in co-operation with the Nurserymen's Associa- 

 tion should he entered into by the S. A. P. The bill 

 introduced by Representative Simmons of Niagara Falls 

 and now in possession of the committee on Agriculture, 

 to regulate the importation and interstate transporta- 

 tion of nursery stock and to enable the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine dis- 

 tricts for pi. in! diseases and insect pests, is only one of 

 the many propositions, local and otherwise, in which 

 the v, [fare of the horticultural interests is vitally 

 affected. Field grown florist-' -tuck, seeds of fruil and 

 trees and shrub-', plants, cuttings, grafts. 

 . i . an all included in the provisions of these bills 

 and, in the matter of interstate quarantine the florists 

 have surely as much at stake as the nurserymen and 

 their apathy under the circumstances seems incompre- 

 i ,i- Me. Gi i hit-v before it is to i late. 



