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HORTICULTURE 



October 21, 1911 



hort iculture: 



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T«L. XIV OCTOBER 21. 1911 10. IT 



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I'l BLI8HKD WEKKLf BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford Xii. 



\VM .1. STEWART, Edlto.- and Msnugrr 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVEB [ILLUSTRATION CypriperUum x Mabeliae. 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Madree- 

 field Court as a Late Grape — Pot Fruits, Illustrated 

 — Storing Onions — Endive — Rhubarb — Geonjc H. 



557 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORIS 

 STOCK— Ericas— Lilies for the Holidays— Poinset- 

 tias Sweet Peas— Wintering Cannas and Dahlias — 

 John ■/. If. Farrell 558 



CYPRIPEDIUM MABELIAE— I f. J. Pope 558 



FOlt CLOSER RELATIONS BETWEEN COMMER- 

 CIAL HORTICULTURE AND SCIENTIFIC DE- 

 STITUTIONS Prof. C. 8. 559 



OBITUARY— J A McKee — Bert Anderson — Mrs. Le- 

 titia Peel— Mrs Mary Therese Russell— Patrick Kel- 

 ly— Thorwald Jensen— Nanette Huebner — Robt. Mac- 

 Mill, -n. portrait— Charles A. Fox 561 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



N .1 Floricultural Society — Worcester County Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Cincinnati Florists' Society — 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— St. Louis 



Florist Club 562 



Nassau County Horticultural Society— American 

 Rose Society — Detroit Preparations — Society of 

 American Florists — National Association of Garden- 

 ers — Horticultural Society of New York 563 



National Chrysanthemum Society— Westchester and 

 Fairfield Horticultural Society— National Flower 

 Show Committee — Newport Horticultural Society — 

 French Chrysanthemum Society — Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Club and Society Notes 564 



DURING RECESS: 



New York Bowlers— Chicago Bowlers — Cincinnati 

 Bowlers 567 



SEED TRADE: 



Howard M. Earl, portrait 568 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 570 



New Flower Stores— Flowers by Telegraph 571 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit 573 



New York. Providence. Washington, St. Louis 575 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Two Good Roses — Illustrated 561 



Monument to Earnest Calvat 564 



Washington Notes — Philadelphia Notes 566 



Charles Lenker and House of Robinson Chrysanthe- 

 mums, Illustration 566 



A Dahlia Grower 567 



Personal — Cincinnati Notes 567 



Publication Received 568 



Chi' s— St. Louis Notes 571 



Providence Notes ~'~ : ' 



News Notes 575-581 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 581 



is the 'late pen- 



New England g N •■■•'■ England Fruit 



aroused - Oc- 



B ral Ball, 



- who 

 W }11 -nation of 



the ; '- I - ; - and soil ready 



tiller. We have heard hire years on this 



from sanguin rs and lecturers, but now. 



with the inspiring, vivifying energy of the hustling 



Boston Chamber of Commerce enlisted, something 

 broadhj practical is Bure to come oul of the present 

 agitation. The Industrial and Educational Exposition 

 at Mechanics' Building, of which this fruil display at 



cultural Hall i- only one deparl at, is the 



largest affair of it- kind ever held in Nevi England, 

 [f n results, as hoped, in diverting to Local develop- 

 ment some of the capita] and brains which New Eng- 

 land men have ever beer ready to lavish on re te 



enterprises, this stupendous undertaking will have well- 

 repaid the work of it- promoters. 



Comparatively fevi persons, even amongst 

 Plant bulbs horticulturists, realize that it is lin- 

 early Datura! for bulbous and tuberous- 

 i -l plants i" be out of i be 

 all. Under natural conditions, hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, 

 crocus, scillas, snowdrops and other such plants, 

 to make new roots and upward growth very early in the 

 autumn. Even the Latest flowering tulips, the Darwins, 

 which may ha oained in the ground sinci 

 spring will be found to have made roots several inches 

 long and -hoots from the top of the bulbs an inch or 

 more in length. Such bulbs will bloom earlier and 

 produce stronger flowers than freshly imported bulbs 

 of the same varieties planted now. It is better thai all 

 Holland bulbs be planted as soon as possible after ar- 

 rival in this country. When planted early they im- 

 mediately begin to semi out roots, and if an abundance 

 of these are developed before cold weather the bulbs 

 arc in better condition to survive the winter and will 



ice stronger bl us in proportion to the greater 



root gro'n th. Crocus eorms are more af- 

 fected by being kept out of the ground than ari 



' bulbs. They deteriorate very rapidlj « ken 

 kept in a dry state. Not only will the purchaser oi 

 bulbs be benefited by early planting, but the dealer will 

 gain materially by getting this stock off his hands at 

 the proper season. 



In out- editorial i ions last week we 



Wise took occasion to call our readers 5 attention 

 counsel (,, ||,,. situation of Large opportunity SO ad- 

 mirably presented by Mr. Farquhar in his 

 address at New York on the Horticultural Outlook. It 

 ■ privilege to place in the hands of the thoughtful 

 horticulturists of the country, in this issue, another 

 notable contribution to the fund of wise counsel to 

 which, at the present juncture, we believe the commer- 

 cial horticulturist should give heed — this time from the 



ssor ( Iharh - S. Sargi at. "To see ou 

 as others sei us" is always helpful and when Pro'f. Sar- 

 gent calls attention to the "enterprise, intelligence and 

 fore-thought" i oreign nurserymen and places in 

 arison th • erto of the American trade 



and their apparent indifferei rofit and honor 



within their reach it behooves us to give more 

 than passing thought to the admonition. It is conceded. 

 ■ that ge] tditions in this country are 



va-tl prevailing i and that 



lie thus fa i ii such as 



ticultural i But es now see 



and the men who desire to 

 :. do ii tter entering st 

 ■ " American horticulture 

 than with what the Arnold 



2 and a good knowledge of the 

 form- of plant life constantly being bro light 



- and coll 

 by tin -. • ition. We certainly I 



isor Sargent's plea may have the effect of awak- 

 ening a dei : es it Lags among I te eom- 

 i;il horticulturists of our countrv. 



