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HORTICULTURE 



December 23, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



TUL. XIV 



DECEMBER 23, 1911 



no. 26 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION Victor Lemoine. 



ORIENTAL POPPIES— Richard Rothc— Illustrated 893 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK — Acalyphas — Cymbidiums — Cypripediums — 

 Culture of Palms During Winter— Dracaenas— Get- 

 ting Readv for Grafting Roses— The Forcing of Tu- 

 lips— John J. M. Farrell 893-894 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Late 

 Grapes — Pot Vines and Peaches — Tying in Peach 

 Trees — Effect of Water on Mushrooms — George H. 



Penson 895 



VICTOR LEMOINE— Illustrated 897 



HISTORY OF THE FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA Robert Craig. Edwin Lonsdale, portraits — 



David Rust 900 



GLADIOLUS NOTES— C. Betscher - 901 



DAHLIA VARIABILIS—/?. S. Thompson 901 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, Thomas 

 Pegler, Wm. N. Craig, Peter Fisher, portraits — Ameri- 

 can Gladiolus Society — Western Dahlia and Gladiolus 



Association 902 



Nassau County Horticultural Society — St. Louis Flor- 

 ist Club — American Rose Society — New York to De- 

 troit — Yonkers Horticultural Society — Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society — Pennsylvania Horticultural 



Society 903 



Club and Society Notes 904 



HYBRIDIZING THE GLADIOLUS— H. W. Koemer . . . ■ 904 

 OBITUARY— Henry F. Lord, portrait— Lucius S. Fife 

 — Henry Adams Sauer — Charles E. Clarke — Freder- 

 ick A. Seidlich, Jr. — Frank Pierkovski — Anthony 

 Schramm — Arthur E. Greatrex 904 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. If". //. Adsett 905 



THE FIRST AMERICAN ORCHID HYBRID— Richard 



Gardner • • ■ 905 



DURING RECESS — A Trip to Framingham— Chicago 



Bowlers 906 



SEED TRADE 908 



A VALUABLE CLIMBING ROSE—.). /. Fish— Illus 908 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



mer Departures- New Flower Stores 910 



Flowers by Telegraph 911 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 913 



Cincinnati. New York, Philadelphia 915 



St. Louis, Washington 921 



MISCELLANEOl 



Chicago Notes 906 



News Notes 906-922 



sonal 907 



dii inal Leaves and Herbs 908 



Washington Notes 920 



Philadelphia Notes 920 



ton Notes 920 



Beautiful Holiday Books 922 



enbouses Building or Contemplated 922 



Incorporated 922 



It has been a very common habit with 

 Worthy of a many old-school gardeners in this 

 better fate country to deplore the decline of inter- 

 est in the cultivation of the so-called 

 hard-wooded greenhouse plants, — New Holland and 

 Cape plants, etc. — in recent years, and to make compari- 

 sons between the present day florist and his predecessor 

 of a generation ago, not at all complimentary to the 

 judgment or cultural attainments of the plantsman of 

 today. This line of criticism has been aimed solely at 

 i he American grower. But we notice in The Garden, of 

 London, issue of December 2, 1911, a lengthy communi- 

 cation lamenting over a similar decadence as prevalent 

 in England, the writer intimating that the gardener 

 under glass of the present time is far from being the 

 equal of his fellows whose displays of ericas, epacrises, 

 boronias, eriostemons, hoveas, and the like were the 

 crowning triumphs of cultural skill as displayed in the 

 shows of the past. It is some consolation to know that 

 the defection from old-time standards is, therefore, not 

 local but that if we have fallen from grace we have done 

 it in good company and, further, that the contributing 

 <;aiiM's have been practically the same, viz., the encroach- 

 ment of the soft-wooded plants on the field, due in a 

 large degree to the advancement in greenhouse construc- 

 tion and heating facilities— conditions which are not to 

 the liking of the old-time hard-wooded favorites, the dis- 

 appearance of which all plant lovers must regret. 



In the following pages we have en- 



An honor deavored to set forth in a somewhat 



well bestowed fragmentary manner the stupendous 



achievements of Victor Lemoine and 

 to remind our readers, while the man is yet alive, of 

 the invaluable services he lias rendered to horticulture. 

 If Victor Lemoine's garden children were to be all elim- 

 inated from our nurserymen's stock and catalogues it 

 would leave an appalling void and a large share of our 

 garden beauty would be gone. If Begonia Gloire de 

 Lorraine alone should be taken from the florists' holi- 

 day plant list, how sadly we should miss it ! In awarding 

 the George B. White Medal of Honor to this world bene- 

 factor, the trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety made no mistake. It is safe to say that no individual 

 the world over, has done more or as much for this cause, 

 not only in recent years but for more than half a century 

 than Mr. Lemoine. As far back as 1855 he received the 

 Medal of Honor of the Exposition Universelle in Paris. 

 The great work of Lemoine as a hybridizer is too well 

 known to require comment now, except that we cannot 

 refrain from again alluding to its amazing scope. While 

 other hybridizers have distinguished themselves with 

 one or perhaps two genera of plants, Lemoine's work has 

 extended over many, while his work on one of several 

 genera, such as Syringa, Philadelphus. Deutzia. Clematis, 

 Gladiolus or Begonia (several other genera might be 

 enumerated) alone, would have well entitled him to the 

 honor he is now accorded. The work of Victor Lemoine ; 

 like that of the Darwins, is a family work. Mr. Emile 

 Lemoine has co-operated with his renowned father for 

 many years and the third generation is already inter- 

 ested in it. But the horticultural world will with 

 unanimity agree with us when we express the hope that 

 the distinguished senior member of the house may yet 

 be spared many years to continue his great and useful 

 work. 



