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HORTICULTURE 



October 28, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



V«L. XIV 



OCTOBER 28, 1911 



NO. 18 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BT 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 mi. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



■ntered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congrees of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cattleva X Edwardi. 

 SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLOR- 

 ISTS' STOCK Care of Roses— Callas— Ferns for 

 the Table — Freesias for Christinas — Lifting Shrubs 

 for Forcing — Primulas for the Holidays — John J. M. 



Farrell 589 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Root 

 Pruning— Outside Vine Borders— Work in the Garden 



.Mushrooms — Geo. H. Penson 590 



AUTUMN FLOWERING SHRUBS-^rflnir E. Thatcher 591 



THE CONQUEST OF NEW ENGLAND 592 



FOUR GLADIOLI— Illustrated 593 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Northern Indiana Florists' 

 Association — American Institute Chrysanthemum 

 Show — Florists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode 

 Island — Rhole Island Horticultural Society — Society 

 of American Florists — Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society— Detroit Florist Club— Chicago Florists' Club 594 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America — Cincinnati 

 Florists' Society — The Hitchings Cup, Illustrated — 

 Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society- 

 Club and Society Notes 595 



DX'RING RECESS— N. Y. Bowlers— Chicago Bowlers 595 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS— Elmer D. Smith 596 



OBITUARY— W. D. Oviatt— John Fraser— Mrs. Lillian 



J. Lesure— Albert N. Cole 598 



SEED TRADE— Too Much Rain— A New High Record 



for Prices 599 



An Unusual Request — Wholesale Seedmen's League 

 — The? Onion Crop — Wholesale Grass Seed Dealers' 



Association 600 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— Steamer De- 

 partures 602 



New Flower Stores 603 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS— Boston, Buffalo. Chi- 

 cago. Cincinnati 605 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia. Washington, St. 



Louis 607 



MISCELLANEOUS: . 



Personal- \ Wedding Anniversary 593 



leya x Edwardi 593 



Chrysanthemum White Gloria — Illustrated 597 



New England Fruit Show Awards 597 



Philadelphia Notes 597 



( 'hicago Notes — Incorporated 598 



Cincinnati Notes — In Bankruptcy 603 



News Notes 607 



Washington Notes 612 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 613 



Wants something 

 cheap 



"An American Gentleman," who 



affixes "Esq." to his signature, ad- 



\ertises in a London horticultural 



odieal for a gardener of high 



attainments, all esired qualifications are 



fully specified i full charge of grounds, etc.) and the 



E8 per month, with cottage, 

 etc.! We gentleman .will get his mom 



worth in a gardener (?). We also hope that no 



n ad turned by the munificent 

 liich is below common lab 

 pay in thi :i must be remembered the 



of living is very much higher than ii is in I 

 Britain. 



We eon fco our chrysanthemum en- 



thusiasts th paper in this issue by Elmer 



Smith. It is remarkable how excel- 



I'ui Lcational a contribution he 



Qualified 

 to teach 



has given us on a subject which, as he truly asserts 

 .-it i he outset, lias already been treated from all 

 sides and worn threadbare by repetition. But 

 thi re i- always something new and useful to be said by 

 a devoted student and life-long specialist like Mr. 



S u. We particularly recommend to the attention of 



the grower of chrysanthemums or of anything else the 

 m i\ sensible closing paragraph of Mr. Smith's paper. 

 Prompt and intelligent attention to small details is the 

 great secret of the success of every grower of high re- 

 pute whose career we have ever had occasion to watch. 



That fuss in New Haven over the 

 Yale's inauguration of a "Flower Agency" 

 business venture A \ Yale College, under student man- 

 agement, seems s ething in the 



nature of a "tempest in a teapot." While we cannot 

 blame the New Haven florists for resenting this at- 

 tempt at interference with their business, yet anyone 

 acquainted with the exactions of the retail flower trade 

 a- conducted in these days of keen rivalry and the 

 peculiar conditions that appertain to dealings with the 

 student element will readily understand that the ele- 

 ment of danger to the established trade in the scheme 

 in quest inn is nothing very serious. We are pleased to 

 notice that the newspaper comments on the situation 

 are invariably in sympathy with the florists' interests, 

 as they should be. 



The "Conquest of New England" 



Dear Mr. Stewart : — I am very much interested in 

 the conquest of the surface of the earth. This conquest 

 is to be accomplished largely by the engineer and the 

 farmer. Heretofore we have considered the conquest 

 to lie very largely in the new regions; but now that we 

 have circumferenced the earth, we begin to realize that 

 we must effectively conquer the regions that have been 

 run over in times past. You are now coming to the 

 real conquest of New England. New England is a 

 newer country than most of us recognize. The influ- 

 ence of New England on the nation has not ceased. I 

 am expecting that it will contribute a very important 

 part to the re-direction of rural civilization. Therefore, 

 I am interested very much in your Fruit Show and in 

 every other enterprise that contributes to the awaken- 

 ing of a self-sustaining country life in the old states. 

 Yours very truly. 



( 'ornt II I nwersity, 

 Ithaca. X. Y. 



The foregoing characteristic and inspiring communi- 

 cation from the honored Director of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture is received with much 

 gratification. 



Two and three generations ago the eyes of the world 

 were on \> n England for all that was worth seeing and 

 knowing in advanced fruit culture. Of late year- this 

 industry in New England has lagged and in the mean- 

 time the hustler from the far wast lias been doing things. 

 But V u England's blood is up now, as the unparalleled 

 apple display in Boston this week well attests. The big. 

 Far-seeing men in horticulture, like Dr. Bailey, realize 

 what this mean- and ran discern in the present awaken- 

 ing the promise of neglected fields and orchards once 

 made productive and yielding luxuriant and 

 profitable crops of fruit of matchless quality. 



