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HORT1CULTURL 



September 23, 1911 



hort iculture: 



?«L. XIV SEPTEMBER 23, 1911 BO. 13 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilium Sargentiae. 



MRS. SARGENT'S LILY— E. H. Wilson 425 



SUMMER BLOOMING LILACS— C. 8. Harrison 425 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Care of Roses — Growing Tulips — Hardy 

 Phlox — Mignonette — Orchids — Smilax — John J. M. 

 Farrell , 427 



VEGETABLE GROWERS' ASSOCIATION OF AMER- 

 ICA— Illustrated 428 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; Dahlia and 



Perennial Show — New England Dahlia Society 429 



Newport Horticultural Society — Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New York — Rochester Flower Show — The 

 Vincent Flower Show — Exhibition Schedules 430 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — American 

 Rose Society — St. Louis Florist Club— Morris County 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Society — Nassau County Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Club and Society Notes 430a 



GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING — 

 TV. R. Cobb 430c 



A FARMERS' DINNER— G. C. Watson 432 



SEED TRADE: 



Pea Estimates and Deliveries — The Sweet Corn Out- 

 look 437 



Potato Prices — Beans — New Seed Houses — Quota- 

 tions — Final Outcome of Natural Grass Seed Crops. . 438 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures — A Useful 



Decorative Plant 440 



Flowers by Telegraph 441 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, 



Washington 443 



New York, Philadelphia, Providence 445 



OBITUARY: 

 Louis Nadig — John E. Haines — Clement Denaiffe — 

 Adam Fischer — John Leavy — Chas. A. Robinson — 

 Joseph Labeno — John R. Burfelnd — Nicholas P. 

 Reddy 451 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Carnation Growers' Friend 430a 



The Drought in Europe 430b 



Providence Notes — Personal 430b 



Lilium Henryi, Illustrated 430b 



Unique Whitewash Used in Uraguay 431 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 431 



Detroit School Flower Festivals 431 



Stevensonia grandifolia, Illustrated 431 



News Notes 432-434-436-453 



Philadelphia Notes — Cincinnati Notes 434 



Catalogues Received 436 



A Friend's Tribute 436 



How Many Bulbs to the Acre 436 



Chicago Notes — Washington Notes — St. Louis Notes. 441 



Publication Received 450 



Patents Granted 451 



Liliu ; mtiae is the name now given 



A new lily to one of the new lilies introduced from 



Western China by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 



lily, the subject of our covei illu-tration, as set 



forth in Mr. Wilson's statement appearing mi tlie oppo- 

 site page, has been known hitherto as L. leucanthum or 

 leueanthemum. Under this name it has been exhibited. 

 has received meritorious awards, and has been sold both 

 in England and this country. Only recently it has 

 been found to be a new species quite distinct from and 

 much superior to L. leucanthum. We heartily com- 

 mend Mr. Wilson in his choice of a name in honor of 

 Mrs. C. S. Sargent, for this superb lily. 



Much interest is manifested in the 



A New England second Bi-Annual New England 



fruit show Fruit Show which is to be held in 



Horticultural Hall, October 23-28, 

 as an annex to the Industrial and Educational Exposi- 

 tion of the Boston Chamber of Commerce at Mechanics 

 Building. Symptoms of a general awakening of com- 

 mercial vitality throughout the New England section 

 are unmistakable. The people are apparently in the 

 right frame of mind to take up and enthusiastically 

 support any movement which appears to promise a 

 substantial advance in product and trade and in no 

 respect more so than in the development of New Eng- 

 land as a fruit growing country. The superior quality 

 of New England-grown fruit is universally acknowl- 

 edged, but better methods of production and market- 

 ing are indispensable and brains and capital are just 

 as essential as in manufacturing development. The 

 schedule of rules, premiums, etc., which has now been 

 issued gives evidence that the plans for the big show 

 have been laid with a due sense of the magnitude of its 

 possibilities and an intelligent purpose to utilize and 

 develop them in the most practical direction and to the 

 fullest extent. As being interested in the advancement 

 of each and every branch of horticultural industry we 

 are pleased with the outlook and take opportunity here 

 to extend most cordial good wishes for the success of 

 this laudable enterprise. That it is under the direction 

 of Chester I. Campbell whose efficient management 

 helped so materially towards the success of the National 

 Flower Show last spring is not the least among the 

 good omens for this undertaking. 



The florist will soon have one more hard- 

 A dilemma ship added to his load if recent doings 



in Chicago count for anything. It ap- 

 pears that they have a Gardeners' and Florists' organiza- 

 tion in the Federation of Labor in that city, and the 

 president of the flower unionists made a protest recently 

 against the admission of flower pieces lacking the union 

 label to funerals of union men in that jurisdiction. The 

 result was the adoption of a motion to the effect that 

 funerals of deceased union men must be conducted on a 

 strictly union basis or no death benefits will be paid and 

 the eight "unionized" flower shops in Chicago are duly 

 elated. It is evident that for the union man "a rose 

 by any other name" does not "smell as sweet" and ac- 

 cording to the views of a young lady of the Bindery 

 Girls' Union, the discrimination against non-union 

 flowers should not be confined to the pillow and the 

 gates-ajar, but to the posies for the wedding as well, 

 which, she added was "a much more important affair 

 than the funeral. " We can see lots of trouble ahead 

 if the fuss thus started is carried to its logical conclu- 

 sion. If "it's enough to make a union man turn over 

 in his coffin to have non-union flowers laid on it" as the 

 spokesman for the measure asserted, the sensations of 

 a live union young lady going to her wedding holding a 

 non-union bouquet would be perhaps better imagined 

 than described. "Ain't it awful, Mabel." 



