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HORTIC U LT U U E 



November 2, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXVIII 



NOVEMBER 2, 1918 



NO. 18 



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CONTENTS Page 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— .Mains Parkmanii 



OBSERVATIONS AND VISIONS— R(f7in/(7 Rothe 433 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign — Your Work and Our Work 435 



CRABAPPLES IN AUTUMN 436 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Texas State Florist Asso- 

 ciation — Chrysanthemum Society of America 428 



.Mid-West Horticultural Exposition 439 



OBITUARY — Joseph Becvar— .James B. Allen — Nicholas 

 Cardis — George D. Orton — Clarence E. Redfield — 

 Seth Miller— Henry H. Sarver, Jr.— John W. Mont- 

 gomery — Miss Theresa Whitman. . '. 438 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, Fishkill, N. Y., Albany, Cincinnati, Phil- 

 adelphia 440 



SEED TRADE— Black Leg Epidemic Fought by Seed 

 Growers — Investigating Seed Exports — Onioiis Save 



Soldiers' Lives 441 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Password as Well as a Slogan — Henri/ Penn 440 



Flowers by Telegraph 442 



New Flower Stores 443 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland 445 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester 447 



DURING RECESS— Chicago Bowling 447 



FERTILIZERS AND WAR SUBSTITUTES— TViZHam 



P. Redd 448 



FUEL PROBLEM VICISSITUDES 450 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Some Significant Advertisements 435 



Plans for a Temple of Agriculture 437 



From a War Garden, poetry 437 



In Upper Canada 437 



United War Work Campaign 437 



Saying It With Flowers— Illustrated 438 



A Lily Bulb Query 439 



News Notes 443 



Ten Little U-Boats, poetry 449 



Visitors' Register 461 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 451 



IIoui'iC'UL'i'uiii-: is plea.setl to note 



Tariff versus the wide interest taken in its varions 



plant exclusion ,.ilit(irials on the proposed action of 



tlie Federal Ilorticultnral Board on 



e.velusioii of plant imports from foreign countries, and 



the many favoi'ahle comments received, assure tis that 



the attitude taken bv Horticulture, i.s in accord with 



the .-cntiment of the ji-reat majority of the American 



tr.ule. HoKTicri.TtTitic lias consistently advocated tlie 



exehision of all plants which may harlior and become 



the means of iiiti'oducing dangerous fungus or insect 



pests, and has as ciiiisi.stently protested against the 



exclusion of plants «hich do not. The question of 



]ilant e.vclusiou under the Federal Horticultural Board 

 is in no sense a tariff question, and the work of this 

 Hoai'd should not be confounded with tariff issues, 

 which fomi no part of the scope of its work, nor should 

 any action on the part of the board be expected to take 

 the place of tariff' regulation, however much 

 ]>roteetion through the tariff' may be needed 

 foi' the benefit of certain nursery interests. The 

 liini that maintains its own propagation establishment. 

 anil organization, on the basis of American wages, is 

 certainly up against the competition of firms who im- 

 ]:<)rt most of their young plants at a cost less than they 

 civn lie produced here. A tariff schedule, aft'ording 

 adequate protection to this line of home production, 

 should be established, and maintained. Horticulture 

 realizes the need of and recommends that such protec- 

 tion be accorded to American nursery growers, by a 

 sntficient tariff; on the other hand we see no rea.son 

 For exclusion at the pre,sent time of such plants as bay- 

 ti-ees, azalea iudica, hybrid rhododendrons, and many 

 others not produced here and not likely to be produced 

 in this country for many years, and the exclusion of 

 which will prove a serious loss to the trade generally. 

 The few criticisms we have received, have confounded 

 the two issues, and are based mostly on that of tariff, 

 and tariff' protection, which does not concern the Fed- 

 cial Horticultural Board. 



A 



favoring 

 breeze 



The old saying that '■'It's an ill wind that 

 blows nobody good'" has been impressive- 



ly exemplified in the florists' business dur- 

 ing the few weeks since the distressing 

 cpideniic set in. It goes without saying 

 ihat no Horist or otiier pei'son whose heart is in the 

 riglit place will gloat over a prosperity based upon his 

 rellow-inau's misfortunes and grief. Yet the preva- 

 leiue of the dreaded visitation at this time has in its 

 I'esults been very largely responsible for the une.xpeeted 

 rejuvenation that has come to the stricken flower busi- 

 iiesv and undoubtedly divei'ted to the wallet of many a 

 sorely tried grower and many a despondent retailer a 

 few of the iici'dcil dollars so I'utblesslv denied him in 

 tlie course of leeent events and saved him from im- 

 peiuliug ruin. That a considerable numl)er of con- 

 cerns would lunc been "'foi'ced to the wall" this season, 

 had eniulitions continued as they were has lieen very 

 cxideiit. l^>iit in the situation as iu)w shaped we see 

 "tlic wind tempered to the shorn lamb." A compar- 

 ison of wholesale values at. tlie preM'iit tinu' with those 

 pievailing a year ago is intei'esting. I'oses, which are 

 selling readily at six to eight dollai's a bundi'ed in the 

 \ew York market, for instance, rai'ely realized at this 

 ])eriod last year above seventy-fixe cents a hundred for 

 strei'l hawking — a eonditicui which, if repeated this 

 I'all. could have led to but one ending. Dahlias, car- 

 nations, chr\ santhemums anil practically all other 

 seasonalde ilenis grown in the o|)en or under glass 

 tell a similar story. Hut it is not necessary 

 to go into I'lii'ther details. It is somewhat of 

 a relief, hnucxcr. to realize that this refreshing 

 change for the better is not wholly due to the un- 

 pri'cedentcd death toll but that the inei'cased call for 

 tioweis to cheer the ill and wounded in the hospitals 

 ami the home-sick in camps and in the scattered fam- 

 ily circle has helped materially to the welcomed I'csult. 

 .\nd the great cam])aign of the S. .V. F., for "Say It 

 With Flowers" has begun to bi'ing fruit, beyond a 

 doulit. So it is altogether a very auspicious beginning 

 for the season. 



