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HORTICULTURE 



December 30, 1911 



horticulture: 



/OL. XIV 



DECEMBER 30, 1911 



NO. 27 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 "COVER ILLUSTRATION — Campanula persicifolia 

 grandiflora. 



CAMPANULA PERSICIFOLIA GRANDIFLORA— Rich- 

 ard Rothe 929 



REV. C. S. HARRISON IN SUMMER LAND— C- S- 

 Harrison 929 



SEASONABLE NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' 

 STOCK— Asparagus — Bedding Begonias — Care of 

 Geraniums — Have Your Propagating Bench Ready — 

 Hvdrangeas for Easter— Roots Stored Under Benches 

 — John J. M. Farrell 930 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Top 

 Dress Strawberries — Peach Buds Dropping — HistoTy 

 of the Vine — Tomatoes — Cucumbers — George H. Pen- 

 son 931 



AMERICAN BULBS—/?. ,V- Thompson 933 



OBITUARY: 



Victor Lemoine, portrait — Chas. J. Schultz — Jonathan 



Periam — Sir Joseph Hooker, portrait 934 



Fred H. Johnson— G. Van Antwerp — Gervasse Pfordt 

 —Dr. J. Q. Mulford 935 



A SUGGESTIVE EXHIBITION 935 



THE GLADIOLUS AND ITS FUTURE—./. E. Kunderd. 935 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



National Association of Gardeners — Morris County 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Society — Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists — Club and Society Notes 936 



MUSTARD AND CRESS— G- C Watson 937 



SEED TRADE 940 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 942 



Flowers by Telegraph 943 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 945 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 947 



Syracuse 952 



St. Louis, Washington 953 



Philadelphia Retail Christmas Market 954 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine — Illustration 933 



Dynamiting Land— John F. Johnston 933 



Personal 936 



Publication Received 936 



Chicago Notes 937 



Some Christmas Gifts 937 



C. Harman Payne, portrait 937 



Federal Nursery Inspection and Quarantine 939 



Catalogues Received 940 



Incorporated 940 



Scaline 940 



I 'a t ents Granted 954 



We little realized when we published 

 The death of 1 1 it> portrait and a partial resume of the 

 Victor Lemoine ]jf e WO rk of this venerable horticul- 

 turist in our issue of last week that the 

 eminent subject of our sketch had, a few days before, 

 passed on to bis reward. There is nothing we can add 

 now to what we have already said as to the great and 

 lasting benefits which horticulture the world over enjoys 

 as the result of Victor Lemoine's genius and industry. 

 America extends to France her sincere condolence and 

 sympathy in the irreparable loss which she and the 

 whole horticultural world has sustained in the passing 

 away of her distinguished son. Du' 11 repose en I'ni.r' 



In the brief paper by A. E. Kunderd which 

 Fragrant appears in this issue mention is made of 

 Gladioli the possibility of yet evolving the long- 

 sought fragrant gladiolus. It certainly 

 would be a big boom for the gladiolus if the sweet odor 

 of the German iris or freesia. for instance, could he 

 added to its other charms. This leads us to inquire 

 whether any one knows anything of Gladiolus odorus. 

 In Eobert Mafnock's Horticultural Magazine, as long 

 ago as July, 1838. there appeared an article on this 

 species, a specimen of which had been sent from the 

 Botanic Garden. Hull. England, and which was accom- 

 panied by a colored illustration showing the flower to be 

 of the nanus type, white delicately tinted with lavender 

 and lemon. I- tin- species -till available or is it in 

 existence under some other botanical name? A really 

 fragrant parent would l>e a big step toward the realiza- 

 tion of Mr. Kunderd's ambition. 



Our frontispiece depicts one of the 



A favorite most useful members of the Campanula 

 for Centuries family and a practical article on this 

 subject from the pen of Bichard Bothe 

 appears in another column of this issue. Campanula 

 persicifolia has been a garden favorite for centuries. 

 Under the title of Bell-flowers John Parkinson in his 

 Paradi.si in Sole Paradisus Terrestris wrote nearly 300 

 years ago as follows: 



Campanula Persicifolia alba vel coerulea, the Peach- 

 leafed Bell-flower white or blew hath many tufts, or 

 branches of leaves lying upon the ground, which are long 

 and narrow, somewhat like unto the leaf of an almond or 

 Peach tree, being finely nicked about the edges, and of 

 a sad greene colour, from among which rise up divers 

 stalkes, two foote high or more, set with leaves to the 

 middle and from thence upwards, with many flowers 

 standing on several small foot-stalkes, one above another, 

 with a small leafe at the foote of every one; the flowers 

 stand in small greene huskes, being small and round at 

 the bottome but wider open at the brimme, and ending in 

 five corners, with a three forked clapper in the middle, 

 set about with some small threds tipt with yellow, which 

 flowers in some plants are pure white, and in others of a 

 pale blue or watchet colour, having little or no sent at all; 

 the seede is small, and contained in round flat heads, or 

 seede vessels. The roote is very small, white and threddy, 

 creeping under the upper crust of the ground, so that often- 

 times the heat and drought of the Summer will goe near to 

 parch and wither it utterly. It requireth, therefore, to be 

 planted in some shadowie place. 



All the Bell-flowers do grow in our Gardens, where they 

 are cherished for the beautie of their flowers. 



The Peach-Bels as well as the others may safely be 

 used in gargles and lotions for the mouth, throate. or 

 other parts, as occasion serveth. The roots of many of 

 them, while they are young, are often eaten in sallets by 

 divers beyond the Seas. 



