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HORTICULTURE 



October 7, 1911 



f-f#") WTf^TJf TTJ R F Tlie seai:on for annual meetings is 



_ Th e elections now approaching and in all organiza- 



TM» XIV OCTOBER r. 1911 m. 15 ,,,„„ „.| 1( . 1V there is "something doing" 



piblisiied weekly by ;l "'' -'""' active red blood circulating, contests for 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. official honors are a foregone conclusion. Mark that 



11 Hamilton Place. Boston, Mass. .,,. ,.],,], . ls deficient in rigor and thread-bare in 



I ' I T.P^i' 2. x ,;? rd **!• ». outlook where placid tranquility is the long suit and 



int. J. 8TKWART, Editor and Manager. L ' 



subscription pbice riobod] takes the trouble to Btir up a little healthy 



O.. Year. In Advance »M£j£ g»«I«« Conntr.... «t.00> T. ^^ ^ nguia ^fcfa an( j leaderp _ A y Mc per j 0( lj_ 



advertising bates. cal agitation in the way of partisan enthusiasm is as 



p«r inch, so inrhe» to page ;•:;••"■ • I0 ° wholesome a stimulation in the life of an association as 



Bliriinnii. on Contract, for consecutive Insertion*, a. follow.: . 



One month (4 tlmeB). 6 per cent.; three month. (IS time.). 10 IS *U Occasional indulgence m outdoor -poll- for the 



per cent.; lb months (2(5 times), 20 per cent.; one year (64 time.), , |1;UI l \ l , l ] down l0 business drudgery and even a little 



*Pate"and half page space. Bpecial rates on application. turbulence is IlUlch to be preferred 0VC1' apathetic in- 



M , „ ^ ,. Q ,„-, » .... „ .. nm „ difference whether it be in an organization or in a 



■otered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Offlea ° 



atBoston. Mass., under the Act of CongrMs of March 3, 1879. num. 30 long as personalities and abuse are omitted. 



CONTENTS ^ r are a " more or l ess liable to 



Page The "good loser" f a rj ;,,,,, n„, err0T ,,f assuming that 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Decorative Dahlia Golden ... ... „ ,, , 



West. an institution will go to the bow- 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' wows" it' our favorite candidate is not elected or the 



STOCK— Antirrhinums— Bulb Planting for Outside— policies that we support are defeated. Human nature 



Care of Vandas — Violets — Nyinpheas — Rooting Cut- i i ■ mi 



tings of Hardy Shrubs— John J. M. Farrell 493 has no more common delusion. The worst course a 



DECORATIVE DAHLIA GOLDEN WEST 493 'defeated candidate or his friends can possibly adopt is 



SOME AUTUMN FLOWERING SHRUBS— Arthur E. to display resentment and temper by "quitting the 



Thatcher 494 „ L , , . • . , , 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS-Late g ame - ^f have known of instances where member- 

 Vines— Pot Trees— Storing Apples and Pears— Spin- ships have been withdrawn for this cause. As a rule a 

 ach — Winter Cucumbers — Parsley — George H.Penson 495 man hurts himself more than he does anyone else by 



EDUCATION IN FLORICULTURE— George F. Stew- such procedure. The world means to he- fair, take it all 



art 497 j u jjji^ ari( ] there is nothing it admires more than it does 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 497 a good loger An ,„, :.,,,,,. (ll . f( , at } a BOme times the 



TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY FLORISTS' CLUB t victory. You may feel that the man who has 



OF PHILADELPHIA-Portraits-Geor^e C. Watson 498 ^ ^ ^ ^ |n ^ ^^ ^ perhaps ^ prQve 



CL Niwport N s D Ne?v C G E aTden' Association-Florists' Club otherwise. Give him a chance yes, do more than that: 



of Washington— Elberon Horticultural Society— get in and help him and even if he doesn t finally nieas- 



Horticultural Club of Boston — New York Florists' ure up as the prodigv which his friends predicted, bear 



Club— Club and Society Notes 499 m mjnd thoie trnt hM lines by Pope : 



Society of American Florists 500 



THE VINCENT DAHLIA SHOW— Illustrated 500 "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 



OBITUARY-Miles Stowe— Henry J. Schmidt-Or- Thinks what ne ' er was - nor is > nor e ' er sha11 De " 

 lando F. Casteen— George W. Caldwell— William 



Kiss— Robert Laird 501 That's quite an interesting new 



DURING RECESS — Cincinnati Bowling Club — Chicago A commendable project which has been launched 



Bowling League 502 Newport cult among the society ladies of New- 



SEED TRADE: . ° , ., , . , 

 A New Enterprise, portrait R. J. Irwin 502 port as described in our news col- 

 Crop Report from Copenhagen— Against Free Seeds im , ns t i,; s wee v,_ j t soun d s worthy and looks good as 



OP~interest'to retail FLORISTS:" a general proposition although there may be some dif- 



Steamer Departures 506 ferences of opinion as to the desirability of certain of 



tr ?^S^sS^^Tt" 5SST: 507 the objects as outlined. Any movement tending to a 



FLOWER market REPORTS: v intelligent understanding of real garden art and a 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 509 deeper popular appreciation of floral and sylvan beauty 



Philadelphia, Providence, St. Louis. Washington 511 deserves to succeed, for, as has been intimated, the 



MISCELLANEOUS: American people are far. very far behind the European 



r^ u S^ s ;r. Middle . west : ::::::::::: S. j» a* -*«*• Let as hope that the movement DO w so 



Rubus innominatus 497 jauntily inaugurated may turn out to have been some- 



A Gardener Honored 500 tiling more than a i 1 in ieni plaything, to be soon cast 



Chicago Notes 501 aM(1(1 amon „ ot ], ( . r f a d s that have had their little day. 



SdefphL No^v.v::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Si * ™**g * ■*««» > «; ^ gardening in America, 



Personal 502 however, while there is much to be learned through a 



Providence Notes 502 study of European standards and achievement, it will 



Construction and Cost of Chimney 502 (|( , uecessar y t0 wa tch out and see that mere imitation 



Corpora!"™ 5 Gr ° WerS ; \ \ \ \ '. '. \ \ '. \ '. \ '. ". ". '. \ '. \ '. '. '. '. '. 504 i« not mistaken for education. As to the avowed pur- 



News Notes 507 pose to i -lablish direct relations with foreign sources of 



Cincinnati Notes 507 . ,.,.,] supply, the American seedsman is likely to have 



Providence Flower Market 511 vj( , w _ (l| - h j g own and W( , , nav Pa f elv ] eave j t \ Q ]^ m t 



G^enC^Bu^ m lethal thes continues to «go up the chimney, just 



Catalogues Received 517 the same, as John Westcott would say. 



