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December 16, 1911 



horticulture: 



VOL. XIV 



DECEMBER 16, 1911 



NO. 25 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Joseph A. Maiida, Presi- 



i c !' c i New York Florists' Club. 

 FRI'lTS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Jersey 

 Oranges— Position of Fruit Houses and Their Ven- 

 tilation Making a Peach Border — Melons — George 



II Penson. Illustrated 857 



WHITE PHLOXES— Richard Rothe. Illustrated 858 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Care of Calceolarias from Now On — Forc- 

 ing Early Narcissus — Gloxinias for Spring Flower- 

 ing — Increasing Your Fern Stock — Fuchias — Lilies 



Intended for Easter— John J. M. Farrell 859 



THE COMING ROSE AND CARNATION CONVEN- 

 TION AT DETROIT—.;. Farenwald 861 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW OF 1913 861 



ROYAL INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHI- 

 BITION, 1912 861 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 872 



New Flower Stores- Flowers by Telegraph 873 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 875 



Detroit, Providence, St. Louis, Washington 877 



New York, Philadelphia 879 



DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers 884 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society— Elberon Horticul- 

 tural Society — Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club 862 



Newport Horticultural Society, Andrew Meikle, por- 

 trait — Lenox Horticultural Society — New York and 

 New Jersey Association of Plant Growers, Illus- 

 trated 863 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — New York Flor- 

 ists' Club, John Young, secretary, portrait ; W. C. 

 Rickards, Jr., treasurer, portrait — Joseph A. Manda. 864 

 Chicago Florists' Club — Paris Chrysanthemum Com- 

 mittee 865 



Club and Society Notes 866 



OBITUARY— James Douglas— Sir Joseph Hooker— 



Meta Phillips Landreth 866 



SEED TRADE — A Seedsman Inventor— Another "Pure 



Seed" Bill Introduced— Notes 870 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Good Service Recognized 861 



Catalogues Received 870 



Incorporated 870 



Chicago Notes 874 



Personal . 874 



News Notes . . . .' 884 



New York State College of Agriculture 885 



Publications Received 885 



Patents Granted 886 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 886 



Fire Record 886 



As we near the holidays the hustle and 

 Get ready bustle increases and will intensify with 



tc get busy ,, iU ,], ,i., v thai passes. He wb akes 



ready early and starts "ah ad ol I u 

 II be likely to finish in like manner. What can 



Liv greater comfort and satisfaction after it is all over 

 than the consciousness that everything has been done in 

 order, every obligation promptly met. ever} little detail 

 carefully carried out and every customer pleased? The 

 enjoyment of all this is not possible, excepl by deliber- 

 ately thinking it out well beforehand and then by the 

 systematic and thorough doing ahead of everything that 

 can possibly be made to contribute towards the linal 

 realization. The right material — enough of it. in the 

 right place and put to profitable use by the right per- 

 son are essentials in the orderly expediting of business 

 in this period of so great possibilities for the ambitious 

 florist. "Get busy" is good advice but ":_ r ei ready to get 

 busj " is equally important. Do it now. 



The inconsistency of exhibition sched- 



Haphazard ules never fails to furnish a fertile 



premium lists topic for discussion. We have just 



been looking over one recently sent 

 out by a State Horticultural Society for a mid-winter 

 show in which the first prize for five apples is $2.00 in 

 each of over a score of classes. A pretty good price for 

 apples — 40 cents apiece? And each exhibitor, whether 

 winner or not, takes his fruit away with him. nothing 

 the worse for wear, after the show closes. In the same 

 schedule the sum of $3.00 is offered for twelve American 

 Beauty roses — 35 cents apiece, in mid-winter — and, 

 whether winner or loser on prizes, the exhibitor, of 

 course, gets nothing back. On the other hand, $8.00 is 

 up as first prize for 50 carnations. The carnation man 

 can't find any fault with that. Evidently the disparity 

 is due, not to prejudice or intent to slight or to over- 

 reward any particular class, but simply to a faulty con- 

 ception of the comparative conditions appertaining to 

 each. Schedule making calls for broad knowledge, and 

 lots of good sens* and our exhibitions suffer oftener than 

 we are apt to realize, because these essentials are lack- 

 ing in the schedule makers. 



The mention in our St. Louis notes for this 

 A great week and in various other news items from 

 record time to time, of the place still held by 

 chrysanthemum Mrs. Jerome Jones as a mar- 

 ket variety, reminds us that this grand old chrysanthe- 

 mum has now been in existence for nineteen years and 

 bids fair to hold its own indefinitely as a favorite ex- 

 hibition flower in its distinctive class as well as a useful 

 late commercial sort. This is remarkable when we con- 

 sider that of the hundreds of varieties well-known at the 

 time of its introduction in 1892 all are practically ex- 

 tinct with the exception of Gullingfordii, Maud Dean 

 and possibly, one or two others. Geo. W. Childs and 

 Ivory which still are with us were introduced in the 

 same year as Mrs. Jerome done-. Col. Appleton, • 

 Timothy Eaton. Maj. Bonnaffon and other well- 

 seasoned stand-bys were not yet in existence. No 

 doubt the long tenure of the Mrs. Jerome Jones on the 

 exhibition tables has been in some measure due to the 

 liberal special premiums contributed by Mr. Jones as a 

 memorial to the sweet, philanthropic lady whose name 

 it hears and to the gentleman, her father, whose pro- 

 duction it was and to whose patient devotion the 

 chrysanthemum owes so much of its prestige. But the 

 variety, individually, is also undoubtedly responsible for 

 its popularity, not alone in this country but abroad, some 

 thing which premiums could never have maintained 

 without exceptional merit in the flower itself. 



