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HORTICULTURE 



October 12, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXVIH 



OCTOBER 12, 1918 



NO. IS 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Hybrid Laelio Cattleya 

 Liberty 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Publicity Cam- 

 paign — Advertising Before and After the War 3C1 



OBITUARY — Charles Gustavus Roebling — Peter Crowe, 

 portrait — Nathan R. Graves — Herbert Meehan 363 



FLORISTS' TELEGRAPH DELIVERY ASSOCIATION 

 — Report of Secretary A. Pochelon — Thoughts as 

 You Go About Dally 364-3G6 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— St. Louis Florists' Club 

 Roll of Honor, Illustrated — Boston Gardeners' Con- 

 ference Postponed — Horticultural Society of New 

 York 366 



HYBRID LAELIO CATTLEYA LIBERTY 367 



SEED TRADE— List of Premiums Won at Michell's 



Exhibit 367 



Vegetable Seed Export Inciuiry — Corn Diseases Be- 

 ing Studied 368 



Seeds Placed on Preference List by War Industries 

 Board 376 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers bv Telegraph 370 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia 373 



Rochester, St. Louis 37.5 



YOUR WORK AND MINE— (7. W. Burkett 375 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York. Roches- 

 ter, Cincinnati 376 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Conference on Nursery Import Regulations 367 



News Notes 371 



Publication Received 371 



Visitors Register 375 



Business Troubles 375 



Catalogues Received 375 



Horticulture hears that several 

 Holland bulbs small lots of bulbs have arrived in 



New York on board the S. S. "Belgic" 

 ■which doeked on Tuesday. Word of arrival of the 

 oarlier and larger shipments is an.xiously awaited. 

 Under present conditions, no information relative to 

 tlie movement of vessels while in voyage is permitted; 

 we must await actual arrival, which in this ca.se, it is 

 lioiiod may be within a few (lays. 



The ipiestion of seed stocks of high breed- 

 A serious ing and standard quality, always a para- 

 outlook moujit consideration with the seedsman, 

 now looms up as an urgent problem that 



must be solved right in this country and immediately, 

 if a most disastrous condition for long time to come is 

 to be escaped. We have been so long dependent upon 

 foreign skill and precision in many classes of vegetaltle 

 seed supply, for example, that it becomes almost second 

 nature to look for it to materialize, much as we expect 

 the sun to rise every morning, although we know that 

 the land has been laid waste, the men killed or inca- 

 pacitated and the business dismantled in much of the 

 seed-growing sections of Europe and that chaotic con- 

 ditions exist generally, and, furthermore, are liable to so 

 continue for years to come. It is reasonable to believe 

 that we in this country can take the lead in most lines 

 of this highly-specialized industry in the near future 

 and keep it permanently, if only its vast importance and 

 fill-reaching consequences are sufficiently realized. 



Another hearing 

 on plant embargo 



A circular letter dated October 5th 

 of the Federal Horticultural Board 

 reads as follows : 



"In my circular letter of August 29, accompanying the 

 proposed revision of the rules and regulations governing 

 the importation of nursery stock, plants, and seeds into 

 the United States, it was suggested that it might be ad- 

 visable to call a conference for the discussion of the pro- 

 posed regulations as outlined in that letter. In order to 

 give ample opportunity for the presentation and discus- 

 sion of any reasonable objections that may be made to 

 these proposed regulations, the board calls a conference 

 for their final consideration at the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Room 11, Federal Horticultural Board, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, at ten o'clock a. m., October 18, 1918. All in- 

 terested parties are invited to attend this conference." 



Horticulture has already taken a strong, and it 

 feels justified position in bringing to the attention of 

 its readers the danger to horticultural trade interests 

 in the proposed drastic exclusion of nearly all the plants 

 which our trade growers have been importing for gen- 

 erations. It matters not whether any infestation has 

 even been found on them, if they have earth at their 

 roots they are to be excluded, as are also many others 

 which are imported without earth. Inoffensive rhodo- 

 dendrons and azaleas will be barred. The fact that 

 they have been imported for a hundred years or longer 

 without causing trouble does not seem to count with 

 the authorities in charge of the situation. These 

 ))lauts will be immediately excluded under the pro- 

 jiosed regulations taking effect June 1st. Even if 

 times and conditions were normal it would be difficult 

 to get in sufficient stock of these plants to form a 

 nucleus. for propagation, imder present disturbances, it 

 is simply impossible within the time allowed. Three to 

 five years as things are now, would lie none too much to 

 allow. There are no azaleas available in Belgium 

 now, and before they can be produced there, they will 

 be forbidden entry here. Belgium will have her best 

 market for azaleas, bay trees, pahns, camellias, arau- 

 carias, rubbers, orchids, etc., clo.sed to her. It will 

 be many years before we can possibly replace these Bel- 

 gian importations and also rhododendrons with Amer- 

 ican grown plants. Horticulture does not oppose 

 the exclusion of any plant which is known to carry 

 dangerous pests, but why keep out necessary material 

 which has been coming in for many generations with- 

 out having caused the slightest injury. Horticulture 

 is strongly opposed, however, to such swee]iing 

 measures as are now proposed and again urges those 

 of its readers who will be affected thereby, to register 

 their protest to the Federal Horticultural Board, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, at once. 



