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HORTICULTURE 



September 16, 1911 



horticulture: 



V9L. XIV SEPTEMBER 16, 1911 MO. 12 







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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Deutzia discolor major. 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Chry santhem ums — Dutch Bulbs — Getting 

 Ready for Frost — Planting and Choosing of Peren- 

 nials — Propagation — Stevias — John J. M. Farrell... 393 



LILIES IN A CHINESE GARDEN— Illustrated 395 



DEUTZIA DISCOLOR MAJOR 395 



GARDEN NOTES FROM TIDE-WATER VIRGINIA— 

 Clarence Fowler — Illustrated 396 



TWO LONG ISLAND BULB FARMS 397 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — 



New York Florists' Club 398 



New Jersey Floricultural Society — Westchester and 

 Fairfield Horticultural Society — -The Bernardsville 

 Show — Cincinnati Florists' Society — Club and Socie- 

 ty Notes 399 



DURING RECESS: 

 Chicago Bowlers — New York Bowlers — St. Louis 

 Bowlers — Bar Harbor Outing 399 



DECORATIVE STOCK AT DREER'S— G. C. Watson.. 400 



OBITUARY: 



Lewis Chase — Francis O. Canning — Linnaeus Cox — 

 E. R. Meserve — Patrick Maier 402 



ROOT -GRAFTING STRAWBERRIES — Dr. J. H. 

 Thomas 402 



SEED TRADE 404 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 406 



Flowers by Telegraph 407 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— G. C. Watson 407 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 409 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 411 



St. Louis. Washington t 418 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



At Waban Conservatories 397 



St. Louis Notes 399 



News Notes 400-404 



Personal 402 



Philadelphia Notes 403 



Catalogues Received 404 



Incorporated 404 



Chicago Notes 407 



Washington Notes 407 



Detroit Notes 416 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 418 



Mention is made in our bulb trade note9 

 This year's this week of the fact that many tulip 

 tulip bulbs bulbs are tender-skinned this year and 



advising care in handling them. The 

 weather is probably responsible largely for the condi- 

 tions complained of but the question of soil has, as we 

 understand it, much to do also with the matter. Tulips 

 from the north of Holland where cabbages are grown 

 and the soil is sandy do not show much of the defect 

 mentioned, the skins being good and firm. Bulbs grown 

 in the peat soil of southern Holland are the more likely 

 to have cracked skins for they ripen later and a rainy 

 spell at the ripening season, as was the case this year, 

 finding them with a frail and tender skin, is liable to 

 cause the trouble, which, however, is not at all serious 

 if they are carefully handled. Certain varieties are 

 known to all bulb experts to be thin-skinned, one of the 

 worst being Pottebaker White which, no matter where 

 it is grown, will crack its skin. We have heard it as- 

 serted that tulips from sand or clay soil make the best 

 for forcing, but that for garden planting there is no 

 advantage either way. 



Our news items from several sources 



"Killing this week seem to emphasize the truth 



with kindness" that there is yet plenty to be learned 



and that our most cherished cultural 

 methods and beliefs are often far from being sound. 

 In the notes on the recent exhibition in Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston, special mention is made of the fact that 

 some of the finest fruit shown came from the far ex- 

 tremity of Cape Cod. Who ever imagined that this 

 sandy strip of old Massachusetts had any exceptional 

 qualifications as a peach growing country? Yet, there 

 was the evidence, indisputable. Again, take Adiantum 

 Farleyense, that pampered denizen of the sweltering 

 stove house. One gardener lias had the temerity to 

 give it cool treatment and is consequently able to ex- 

 pose it in the most draughty spot in a cold hall for three 

 days without showing any ill effects. "Killed with 

 kindness" is the epitaph which might with exact truth 

 be inscribed over the grave of many a misjudged acqui- 

 sition. It i? common knowledge that some of our most 

 reliable garden plants were for a long period treated as 

 greenhouse subjects. No doubt there are many things 

 that would succeed better with less coddling than we 

 have been giving them. 



The exhibition season is now in full 



Neglected swing and our columns for the next two 



details months will, as in past seasons, teem with 



accounts of the triumphs, big and little, 

 of ambitious rivals and accomplished experts in the art 

 of growing and showing their productions. One great 

 and almost universal fault in the reporting and record- 

 ing of these affairs is the failure to state the principal 

 points of merit and in many cases, to even give the 

 name of a winning variety. To make merely the bar- 

 ren statement that Mr. A. took first prize in the red 



