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II U KT 1 CULT ORE 



October 19, 1918 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXVIII 



OCTOBER 19, 1918 



NO. 16 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION—Lilium Myriophyllum in an 

 Italian Garden in Ma,ssachusetts 



THE PLANT QUARANTINE 385 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— The Publicity 

 Campaign 385 



WHAT CAN GARDENERS AND FLORISTS DO TO 

 HELP WIN THE WAR— W. N. Craig 387-388 



OBITUARY— Louis Emil Schmutz, Jr., portrait— Walter 

 R. Siebrecht— Tbeodore Shober— Charles T. Even- 

 den — Alexander Mead — Ralph M. Ward — Michael 

 Treisea 389 



FLORISTS TELEGRAPH DELIVERY ASSOCIATION 

 — President's Address — Portraits — Treasurer's Re- 

 port 390-392 



SEED TRADE— Statement of A. T. Boddington Co., 

 Inc. — New England Crop Report 393 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 395 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Rochester 397 

 St. Louis, Washington 399 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Nassau County Horticul- 

 tural Society — New York Florists' Club — St. Louis 

 Florist Club — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural 

 Society— Chicago Florists' Club 400-401 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 

 Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Cin- 

 cinnati, Boston 401 



.MISCELLANEOUS: 



Autumn Foliage 389 



Chicago and Cook County Florists "Go Over the Top" 



on the Fourth Liberty Loan 395 



■ Business Troubles 395 



Visitors' Register 399 



Destroy Insect Pests of Garden and Truck Crops Now 399 



Searching tor Potato Wart 399 



Publication Received 402 



Patents Granted 402 



Duriii;)' the ])ast week most of the 

 Holland bulbs Hollaiid bulbs have been safely lauded 

 in New Yoik. Some delay has been 

 ('X]M'rienced in getting them off the docks because of 

 congestion there due somewhat to the shortage of steve- 

 dores. It is now expected that things will he straight- 



ened out by the end of the present week and the thou- 

 sands of cases of bulbs reshipped to their destinations. 



Every winter many thousands 



Winter protection of herbaceous plants are killed 



of herbaceous plants by improper covering during 



winter. All such (hovering should 

 be dune u.s late in the season as possible — preferably 

 after the ground has been frozen. A frequent mistake 

 is that of using manure and leaves for covering; plants 

 which retain their foliage through the winter should 

 be .covered only sparsely and never with material which 

 forms an impervious mat. A slight sprinkling of pine 

 boughs, coarse straw or salt liay — never enough to 

 wholly hide the foliage is the only safe method of cov- 

 (^ring such plants. 



The unprecedented figures to which 

 The flower prices have soared, at a period 



flower famine when low values have invariably pre- 

 vailed heretofore, may be partially ac- 

 counted for by the unusual death list which is to be 

 fouml ill the columns of practically every newspaper 

 one ]jicks up. Deserted, indeed, is he for whose ob- 

 sequies .some relative or friend has not been found t« 

 express grief or remembrance by saying it with flowers. 

 Then again there is the call, increasing daily, for flow- 

 ers to cheer the sick and wounded in the hospitals, and 

 the florists are hard-pressed to supply even a fraction 

 of the needs of this service, which is sure to last strong 

 all througl) the season. The flower growing business 

 has been very hard hit by the present difficulty to obtain 

 •'help" and the product has been considerably curtailed, 

 so, with decreased supply and increased demand the 

 florist is e-\])eriencing a most unusual sensation. It is 

 not unlikely that these conditions of decreased product 

 may continue all through the coining season for reasons 

 which will be readily seen by anyone who has kept in 

 touch witl) the trend of events for the past twelve 

 months. 



Th.e hearing given at Washington 

 Plant embargo yesterday by the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board relative to the proposed 

 plant (juarantine was not largely attended as a result 

 of the request of the Board that on account of the in- 

 fluenza epidemic in Washington. ]iarties interested 

 present their views by letter. One of the points raised 

 is the consistency of excluding rose plants which do- not 

 have earth at their roots while manetti, canina and 

 multiflora rose stocks are to be admitted. Ijily of the 

 Valley pips which have no earth on their roots are to 

 be admitted we understand, the exclusion of clump^s 

 with earth will not therefor be a severe loss. Undoubt- 

 edly azaleas and rhododendrons should be admitted for 

 at least several years. Several nurserymen are advo- 

 cating the immediate adoption of a rigid quarantine 

 against all plants having earth at their roots, not be- 

 cause of any jjest danger, but as a trade protecti\'c 

 measure against foreign competition. Trade protec- 

 tion in this respect is a tariff question and Hoeticttl- 

 TURE fails to see how the Federal Horticultural Board 

 can allow its action to be influenced in the slightest 

 degree bv anv tariff consideration. 



