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HORTICULTURE 



September 9, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XIV 



SEPTEMBER 9, 1911 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Polypodium Mandaianum. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Care of Carnations — Crotons — Decorative 

 Foliage Plants — Making a Perennial Border — Phalae- 

 nopsis — Primulas — John J. M. Farrell 361 



PAEONIA VEITCHII— Illustrated 363 



TIMBER FOR PROFIT— C. 8. Harrison 363 



POLYPODIUM MANDAIANUM 363 



WORK AT ILLINOIS EXPERIMENTAL GREEN- 

 HOUSES— H. B. Dorner 364 



GLADIOLUS NOTES FROM MASSACHUSETTS— 

 Charles F. Newell 365 



GLADIOLUS MRS. FRANK PENDLETON, JR.— Illus- 

 trated 365 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Washington — Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia — Horticultural Club of Boston — Club 



and Society Notes 366 



Chicago Bowlers 366 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston in Gladiolus 



Fields of B. Hammond Tracy, Illustrated 366 



Red Bank, N. J. Exhibition — ./. Ivera Donlan 367 



Shrewsbury Show 367 



CARNATIONS OF TODAY— W. H. Taplin 368 



OBITUARY: 



George M. Haeker — T. J. Gorman — Philip Fisher — 

 Robert Linney — Jacob Ellettson— W. F. Heikes— Col. 

 Thomas B. Kessler — Francis O. Canning — William 

 Peck 370 



SEED TRADE: 

 The Non-Warranty Clause — Foreign Grass Seed 

 Crops 372 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



In New York — Steamer Departures 374 



New Flower Stores — Flowers bv Telegraph : . . 375 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 377 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis 379 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Royal International Horticultural Exhibition 365 



A New Growers' Combination, E. Allan Peirce, por- 

 trait 367 



Incorporated 367 



Philadelphia Notes 368 



Detroit Notes 370 



Washington Notes 370 



Recent Plant Immigrants 371 



Personal 371-375 



News Notes 375-386 



Baltimore Notes 375 



Chicago Notes 375 



St. Louis Notes 379 



Publication Received 384 



Fire Record 384 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplates 386 



There are many situations where an 



A discredited "Italian" or other formal garden 



fad scheme will lit appropriately into its 



environment but, in the "creations" of 

 this character which we have been privileged to see in 

 this country, very few have thus appealed to us. It 

 is a |iit\ in break up a picturesque landscarje into geo- 

 metrical spaces. Utility, not taste, is the motive for 

 laying out cities in squares and triangles, but even then 

 the custom is not essentia] as cities laid out otherwise 

 arc equally prosperous and infinitely more attractive. 

 The mure naturally disposed the more pleasing a garden 

 or park will be, the changing character of the scenery as 

 the season progresses giving a beauty that is ever new, 

 The modern landscape architect is, we think, disposed 

 to give too much attention to ''vistas''" and too little to 

 outlooks and we cannot but sympathize and agree with 

 the gardeners when they deprecate the tendency which 

 seems to have grown of late, to lavish money on mechan- 

 ical "gardens," the plan and effect of which is, oftener 

 than otherwise, entirely out of harmony with the Amer- 

 ican landscape and jarring to the eye of the appreciative 

 Lover of nature. Architecture should never be used to 

 debase nature; it should be treated as an auxiliary rather 

 than the main theme. 



With the coming in of September, florists' 

 Practical ,.\ u \, meetings and local society activities 

 affiliation w j]i now De resumed. The wish has often 



In i ii expressed that a closer affiliation could 

 be established between these numerous scattered organ- 

 izations and the "parent society," as the Society of 

 American Florists is sometimes termed, and various 

 plans for bringing this about have been presented from 

 time to time but without developing much that was 

 really practical. The local bodies are, of course, occa- 

 sionally in evidence in S. A. F. matters, as when they 

 rally around a favored member who may be a candi- 

 date I'm- office in the S. A. F., when they send a bowl- 

 ing team to a convention, or when they undertake to or- 

 ganize ami entertain special convention parties hut oth- 

 erwise useful co-operation between the national and local 

 associations is conspicuously absent. The time has 

 now arrived, we should think, for some well-directed 

 anil broadly useful co-ordination to be planned out so 

 that subjects of immediate general concern might be 

 taken up simultaneously. A special committee of the 

 S. A. P., or. if preferred, the executive board could be 

 entrusted with the choosing of topics for each month 

 ami advising as to the lines on which a joint campaign - 

 for concerted action should be waged. Such matters as 

 parcels post, reciprocity in horticultural material, plant 

 quarantine and inspection, express abuses, method- of 

 marketing and scores of other topics come at once to 

 mind as suggestions for consideration respectively at 

 the same time in all sections of the country. The salu- 

 tary influence and effect of such concrete action on such 

 questions must he apparent to everyone. 



Xothing is more easy, nothing more nat- 



Avoid ural, than for the man who makes no es- 



the ruts pecial achievement in life, to look at his 



neighbor, who is succeeding, and to say, "As 



he due-. 1 will do. If he succeeds in this course. I will 



succeed." Such reasoning is characteristic of the man 



who lacks the initiative and keen perception of business 



