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H E T I C U L T U E E 



July 13, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXVIII 



JULY 13, 1918 



NO. 2 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Sweet Pea Floradale Fairy 



LETTERS FROM AN OLD TO A YOUNG GARDENER 

 —William fionins— Illustrated 29 



SWEET PEA FLORADALE FAIRY— George W. Kerr. . 29 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— The St. Louis 

 Convention — The Publicity Campaign — "Put it 

 Through" 31 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Nurserymen — Stamford Horticultural Society— Cana- 

 dian Horticultural Society — Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society 33 



Florists' Club of Washington 43 



OBITUARY — Rear Admiral Aaron Ward — Robert Hoop- 

 er Pearson, portrait — Dr. Loring W. Puffer — James 

 Christian Spencer 34-35 



THE GINGER JAR— George C. Watson 36 



DURING RECESS— The Waretown Outing, Illustrations 

 ^Employees' Outing of R. & J. Parquhar Co., Illus- 

 trations 36 



SEED TRADE— Expediting Seed Imports— Potatoes- 

 Beans — Tomatoes and Melons — Onions 37 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Cashing In — Henry Penn 38 



New Flower Stores ' 43 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, 



St. Louis 41 



Washington 43 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, Boston, Wilfrid Wheeler, portrait, St. Louis, 

 New York, Philadelphia, Rochester 44-46 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



How Flowers are Appreciated 32 



Inconsistency in a Great Industry 32 



News Notes 36-43 



About Hibernating and Averages 37 



British Penalties for Injuring Crops 37 



Patents Granted 37 



Visitors' Register 43 



New Corporation 43 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 46 



Business Troubles 46 



We were somewhat surprised to read in The 



About American Botanitf that wheat rust does not 



wheat li;ive to grow on the harberry as part of its 



rust ]jfe cye'.e, but that if no barberry plants are 



about it sets up its infection directly upon 



the wheat plant and. tliereforo, the barberry coines in 



as only a possible harborer of the rust. We have been 

 led to believe from the literature sent out from govern- 

 mental sources and from state experiment station ex- 

 perts that the barberry is an essential factor in the 

 distribution of the wheat rust and that the destruction 

 of the barberry would eradicate the wheat rust, and we 

 believe this to be the popular understanding of the sub- 

 ject. If our contemporary is right the people should 

 know, it and not be deceived into the belief that by the 

 uprooting of this beautiful and useful fruiting shrub 

 they are really saving the wheat crop. 



Our reading columns this week con- 

 Nurserymen tain an account of the very successful 

 aroused launching of the Market Development 



Organization during the progress of the 

 recent Convention of Nursei"}'men at Chicago. The 

 nurserymen are now following the course of action that 

 other large commei'cial interests have found it neces- 

 sary to adopt and although they appear to have been 

 rather tardy in waking up to the situation, the plan as 

 now started shows that the welfare of the nursery 

 business will be promoted energetically and by men 

 thoroughly progressive and competent both intellec- 

 tually and financially. Never in the experience of the 

 nursery trade in this country has there been a time 

 when cooperation and a persistent pull-together in a 

 common direction was more emphatically needed. The 

 names which appear among the list of actual projectors 

 should be ample assurance that this reform has now 

 been happily realized and that the work in hand will 

 be pushed forward steadily to a successful outcome. 

 HoRTicuLiT'RE is pleased to see this willing endorse- 

 ment of the program previously outlined. Now let all 

 take hold. 



The war has done much to 



Foreign Demand for change the sources of horti- 



Horticultural Supplies cultural .supplies. Not only 



From the United States have growers and dealers of 



the United States had to 

 seek supplies, formerly obtained from countries now 

 closed to us by the war, elsewhere ; but many countries 

 similarly cut off like I^ussia, Sweden, and the Republics 

 of South America, are trying to supply their needs here. 

 A letter just received from South Africa is of particular 

 interest. The writer says, "We want to get in closer 

 touch with what is doing in the horticultural world 

 in America. Our conditions are very much more like 

 your conditions than those of the British Isles; there- 

 fore, your varieties, etc., are of greater interest to us." 

 This writer fully apiu'eciates the great climatic advan- 

 tage we possess in being able to produce in one section 

 of this country or another, seeds suited to almost any 

 part of the world. After the war the great fleet of ves- 

 sels now being built for the srovernment, as transports, 

 will become availalile for commercial service and 

 will develop regular communication with ports and 

 markets hitherto not reached by us. Shall we be pre- 

 ]iiired to take advantage of these new conditions? 



