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HORTICULTURE 



July 29, 1911 



horticulture: 



TOL. XIV 



JULY 29, 1911 



HO. 5 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilium Farquhari. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Calanthes— Care of Violets— Bougainvillea 

 — Double Daisies — G-ardenias — Schizanthus — John I. 

 M. Farrell 129 



LILIUM FARQUHARI 131 



DISEASES OF TOMATOES— Dr. George E. Stone 131 



SPRAYING FAILS TO KILL DANDELIONS— F H 

 Hall 131 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 



Baltimore's Convention Program — Baltimore's Wel- 

 come — R. Vincent, Jr.. portrait — Convention Notes.. 132 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



American Gladiolus Society — Northern Indiana Flor- 

 ists' Association— Florists' Club of Washington 133 



DURING RECESS: 



St. Louis Florists' Picnic — Gardeners' and Florists' 



Club of Boston 133 



The Cincinnati Florists' Outing — A Detroit Outing— 

 A Chicago Outing — New York Bowlers — Chicago 

 Bowlers 134 



MINNEAPOLIS CIVIC CELEBRATION, Illustrated... 135 



THE EVOLUTION AND POLLINATION OF SWEET 

 PEAS— Dr. A. C. Real 135 



THE NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS OF 1911— Chas H 

 Tottv 137 



SEED TRADE 140 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 142 



A Detroit Banquet Decoration. Illustrated — New 

 Flower Stores — Flowers bv Telegraph 143 



OBITUARY: 

 David Kalisher— Philip Koch 144 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit 145 



New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 147 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Proposed International Exhibition 132 



Personal 133 



Chicago Notes 134 



Catalogues Received 140 



Publications Received 147 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 152 



University of Wisconsin Short Course 152 



News Notes 153 



Patents Granted 153 



Incorporated ] ° ] 154 



Reciprocity with Canada is now an as- 

 Reciprocity? sured factj at leagt gQ fap ag tMs gide 



of "the line" is concerned. We cannot 

 see just where any practical result can be reached by a 

 discussion of the question of "Reciprocity with Canada 

 on Floral Products'' as is provided for in the program 

 of the Baltimore Convention. Last year at Rochester 

 would have been the time to have got busy with this 

 proposition and, with a little assiduity on the part of 



the producing interests in the northeastern section of 

 the United States a clause including flowers in the free 

 commodities might have been squeezed into the bill. 

 However, we look for a very interesting debate when 

 those two sharpshooters E. I. Mepsted of Canada and 

 P. Welch of America get at it. We don't know where 

 Mr. Mepsted stands on the question, as Upper Canada 

 would probably oppose and Lower Canada favor the free 

 entry of flowers from the United States, although on 

 the matter of free entry to the United States, Upper 

 Canada might be "werry willin'," but if P. Welch can- 

 not manoevre E. I. Mepsted into a defensive position it 

 will be because the latter is much more artful than the 

 most of us. Get to Convention Hall early on Wednes- 

 day morning if you want some fun. 



Senate bill 3, introduced by Senator 



An educational Carroll S. Page, now in the hands of 



project ti ie Committee on Agriculture and 



Forestry provides for Government 

 aid to the States in promoting a better system of edu- 

 cation along agricultural and industrial lines and in 

 home economics. The problem of wise and efficient 

 training of young men and young women, always a 

 paramount ones, becomes now more serious than ever 

 under the restrictions on a broad-gauge mechanical 

 knowledge imposed by existing factory methods in the 

 division of labor and by labor union proscription. As 

 Mr. Page forcibly points out, Germany is now outrun- 

 ning us in the race for commercial supremacy due in 

 a large measure to the fact that when the German boy 

 reaches the age of 12, 13 or 14, his characteristics, his 

 physical equipment, the bent of his mind, are carefully 

 ascertained and he is given a training which equips 

 him for the life work which he decides to follow. "Not 

 so with the American youth of the great middle class, " 

 especially in our villages and cities. He is turned 

 adrift and the question presented to his mind is, not 

 what will my future life work be? but rather, Where 

 can I get a job that will furnish me the wherewith to 

 buy my clothes and pay my entrance with my best girl 

 to the moving picture show? In the majority of cases 

 if he can find a position as boot-black, newspaper vender 

 or messenger boy, he is content. In any event he fol- 

 lows the lines of least resistance and takes the work 

 nearest at hand with little or no thought as to growing 

 up into a well-rounded manhood. If he be a farm boy, 

 he works along without specific training and becomes 

 another of that great number who secure from the soil 

 only half the profits they should." The high school, the 

 academy and the college are taking excellent care of 

 those boys who are financially able to avail themselves 

 of their advantages, but for him who cannot, little re- 

 mains but the prospect of a cheap manhood. If the 

 entry of the National Government into a comprehensive 

 and liberal co-operation with the States for instruction 

 in agriculture and the trades will modify and improve 

 these defects in our industrial system then, by all 

 means, let us have it even if it becomes necessary to- 

 economize by cutting out a battleship or two ! 



