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HORTICULTURE 



November 25, 1911 



horticulture: 



VOL. XIV 



NOVEMBER 25, 1911 



NO. 22 



II I'.IJMII I) WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 11 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 



\VM. .1. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



SIBSCKIPTION TRICE 



One Year, in advance, $1.00: To Foreign Countries, 92.00; To 



Canada, $1.60. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Offlc* at 

 Boston. Mass.. under tue Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVEB II. LUSTRATION— Clematis montana var. 

 rubens. 



PHYSOSTEGIAS— Richard Rothc— Illustrated 725 



NEW CHINESE PLANTS IN ENGLAND— Edwin 

 Beckett 725 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Allamandas — Astilbe Japonica — Covering 

 Herbaceous Border, Etc. — Cyclamen — Lilium speci- 

 osum— Outdoor Roses — John J. M. Farrell 727 



THE EXHIBITIONS: 



French Chrysanthemum Society — Elberon Horticul- 

 tural Society- The Milwaukee Show 728 



Cincinnati Flower Show 729 



CL1 BS AND SOCIETIES: 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — Tarrytown Hor- 

 ticultural Society — Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Florists' and Gardeners' Club of Rhode Island 



—Are You With Us? 729 



l !il i and Society Notes 730 



INTERNATIONAL CHRYSANTHEMUM CONGRESS 

 AT BIARRITZ— C. Harman Payne 730 



DURING RECESS New York Bowlers— Chicago Bowl- 

 ers—Washington and Baltimore Ladies 732 



SEED TRADE— Pea and Bean Percentages— Carrots, 

 Mangels and Garden Beets — Strenuous Outlook for 

 1912 —Destructive Temperatures in Colorado, Kansas 

 and Oklahoma 736 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures -New Flower Stores 738 



Flowers by Telegraph — Caplan's New Flower Store, 

 Illustration 739 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo. Chicago. Cincinnati 741 



Detroit, New York, Philadelphia 743 



St. Louis, Washington 749 



OBITUARY— James Hart— John Caldwell— John D. 

 Crawford— John Jules Fonta — Elizabeth P. Foster — 

 Reuben T. Woodward— Frank P. Baum — William H. 

 Moon 748 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A New Raspberry — Illustrated 730 



A Noted English Chrysanthemum Grower — C. Hay- 

 man Pa vuc 730 



News Notes 730-731-735-736-739-750 



Nephthytis picturata. Illustrated 732 



Clematis montana var. rubens 732 



St. Louis Notes — Philadelphia Notes 734 



I • : sonal 735 



Washington Notes 735 



Incorporated 736 



Chicago Notes 739 



Greenhouses Building or Projected 749 



The result of the recent annual election 

 Politics u| fche Massachusetts Eorticultural So- 

 versus i has created a sensal ion. For the 



Horticulture pa-! i,.,, years a quiescent state has pre- 

 vail -nner warring fac- 

 tions of the Society, which has been followed by a 

 greatly improved financial condition and phenomenal 



orticultural work, not only of the Si 

 ciety but ommunity. Peace and progress have 



liled in horticultural Boston for a decade, and the 

 wanton act which has ruthlessly precipitated the Society 



':' jgrei i regretted. 



Had there been any principle or important issue at 

 there might be some excuse, but there was neither. 



Personal ambitions may have been accountable for the 

 unusual appearance at the polls of half a hundred or 

 more members who are not accustomed to take any inter- 

 est in the society's affairs. Thai a horticulturist of such 

 standing and value lo the Society as Mr. Peter Fisher 

 should have failed of re-election as trustee when he 

 ic ;i 1 1 \ had the largest support of the regular voluntary 

 voters is a blov. a1 the vital interests of horticulture that 

 i- deplored and stronglj resented. The end is not yet. 



The exhibition season is now on 



What have the the wane. What have we learned 



exhibitions taught? from the experiences of this year's 



shows? What deductions can be 

 drawn that will be \aluable for future guidance so that 

 the direct usefulness of these events shall be enhanced 

 and that the best results may be attained. Our readers' 

 answers to this query would probably be as diverse as 

 their own individuality. Should there he any who 

 have learned nothing, then so far as they are concerned 

 the exhibitions have to that extent failed in their mis- 

 sion. Exhibitors — whether successful in prize winning 

 or otherwise — managers and promoters, judges, visitors 

 whether professional or of the general public — for each 

 and every one the experience of each year should impart 

 its lesson — knowledge not before possessed — and for the 

 future, purposes and aspirations of which the stimulating 

 motive is a desire for advancement. Xow is the right 

 time, while the memory is fresh, the critical spirit still 

 active and people are yet in the mood to listen or to 

 read, to tell your friends frankly and without prejudice, 

 where and how in your opinion improvement may be 

 made. The subject is' surely a prolific one. 



While penning the foregoing we n - 



What is C all a quite lively discussion, to 



"arrangement?" w hieh we recently had the pleasure 



of listening, between some observant 

 and progressive-spirited gentlemen as to the justice of 

 the judges' decisions in making their awards to exhibits 

 "arranged for effect" on a certain occasion. A fair 

 unanimity wa- expressed as to the number of points 

 variously credited as per the scale by which the judges 

 had been governed, excepting as to the item of "arrange- 

 ment" which in the case under discussion was. of course, 

 a weighty factor. On the judges' figures on this point 

 the debaters split and the basis of their contention was 

 their several interpretations of the word '"arrangement." 

 Sow, one great aim in all rules of competition and judg- 

 ing should lie to make everything so clear that the pos- 

 sibility of misunderstanding on the part of exhibitors, 

 judges or public should be reduced to a minimum and 

 here seems to be a place where there is room for improve- 

 ment. To a man of a certain temperament, color har- 

 mony will be of paramount importance and no group of 

 plants or flowers, however well placed otherwise, will 

 gain his commendation if it so be that his color sense 

 is -hocked. To another it may be mainly a question of 

 form inecise balance or rambling irregularity? To an 

 other the compliance with certain rules as to the nat- 

 ural habits of plants — as, for instance, the placing of 

 an epiphytal species on the ground level and a terres- 

 trial species in an elevated position in an orchid group, 

 wool. I be faulty and inadmissible arrangement in the 

 estimate of the last named — and so on. In view of these 

 facts and the dissatisfactions which have developed at 

 times why ic drop t J i i ~ ambiguous wonl "arrangement" 

 from our scales of points and adopt sub-divisions which 

 will tend to eliminate these sources of trouble. Scales 

 of points are a great advance over (he old impressionist 

 method of judging, but that they are not yet perfect 

 will, we think be generally admitted. 



