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HORTICULTURE 



November 23, 1918 



horticulturb: 



VOL XXVIII 



NOVEMBER 23, 1918 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Early Propagation 

 — Soil — Pots — Feeding Growing Plants — Tempera^ 

 ture — Arthur C. Ruzicka 505 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign — Department ot Registration 508 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society — Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 ot Boston — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 



American Sweet Pea Society 508-509 



Albany Florists' Club 510 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 522 



OBITUARY— E. E. Ferrari— Leonard Rueber— Henry 

 Gaethje, Jr.— Du Brutz English— W. A. Drawiel— 

 James Young — M. Pierre Guillot — Howard D. Coe — 

 Benjamin Connell 512 



SEED TRADBJ— American Seed Trade Association- 

 Notes 513 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



P. T. D. Suggestions— A/bert Pochelon 510 



Flowers by Telegraph 514 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland 517 



New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, St. Louis 519 



DURING RECESS— Chicago Bowling 519 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Rochester 520-521 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



When They Get Together — George C. Watson 507 



Burton Inspection Party 507 



Vine Covered Wall, Illustrated 512 



Publications Received 513 



Catalogue Received , 513 



News Notes 514 



Visitors' Register 519 



We are asked by the Food Administration 

 Turkey? in its Thanksgiving Day advice to "shavo 



with the suffering millions of Europe" and 

 "in hiiinhic levorenoe .spread a frugal table with the 

 IViiits of our own fields,'' etc. Please pardon an in- 

 sistent curiosity to know what connection this all has 

 with the fact tliat wc are expected to pay 65 cents to 



$1.00 a pound for our one turkey a year. The turkey 

 is "fruit of our own fields," but under present con- 

 ditions its right on a "frugal table" at Thanksgiving 

 laiglit V)e questioned. We read in one "Bulletin" that 

 ■'children in Europe are starving for lack of milk.'' 

 The "Bulletin" of another department tells us that 

 inilk in France sells at six cents a quart, while we in 

 tlii^ "hiiid of milk and honey" are soaked for anywhere 

 Irom sixteen cents upward. 



In enumerating the causes behind the 

 rofitable recent election, the Baltimore Eveninq 



Sun for November 7 has this to say: 

 "Possibly a still more potent influence was the farmers, 

 who were sore because the Government would not allow 

 them to 'charge all the traffic would bear' for their wheat 

 and limited them to twice the normal price and more 

 instead of allowing them to gouge America and her allies 

 to the limit. The farmers pay far less than their share 

 of the income taxes and are reaping a rich harvest on 

 their crops, including wheat, but they apparently strike 

 at Wilson because he would not give them a free hand 

 at profiteering." 



'I'hcrc api)ears to be .some sound reasoning in this 

 plain talk by the Sun. But our old friend Gifford 

 Pincliot, much of whose past activities Horticulture 

 was moved to commend and support, is out with a 

 iiiiiarkable letter in rebuttal to the foregoing in which 

 hv asserts that what the farmers have done "is the great- 

 est and most patriotic service rendered by any class of 

 our people in the great war.'" Ts not this statement 

 ratlier wild? The farmer — and we class under this 

 tciiii the aristocratic owners of vast tracts of cereal- 

 growing land in the great west as well as the small 

 tillei's of a few acre-s of promiscuous produce every- 

 wliere — the fai-mer has done well and nobody will be 

 disposed to question the essentiality of his industiy to 

 tile nation's life. But no one class should be singled 

 out as subjects for exclusive distinction as having "won 

 the war'' and for what the farmer has done he has been 

 well paid and in some instances overpaid. Far from 

 ba\ing been "neglected by the Goveniment" and suf- 

 IVred from "persistent refusal of common justice" as 

 rharged by Mr. Pinchot, the fanner has been well taken 

 care of, his interests priniaiily conserved by what has 

 i;i()wii to be tlie greatest Department of the government, 

 and the condescension by the average congressional can- 

 diilate to the fanner vote is well known. "Wliat the 

 farmer got for himself and his wife and family" seems 

 til trouble Mr. Pinchot very greatly but if current re- 

 ]:(irt.s are reliable he might be able to relieve his anxiety 

 l)y consulting the records of the automobile dealers as to 

 wlio have been the largest buyers of pleasure cars during 

 recent years. ]\Iany of our readers will doubtless agree 

 with us that there are others whose patriotism, with no 

 string to it, lias found expression in supreme sacrifice 

 and suffering and uncomplaining submission to priva- 

 tion, whose participation in the wonderful uprising of 

 iinr people constitutes one of the most luminous pages 

 in tlie annals of humanity. Why, then, all this frenzied 

 anitation on behalf of one class to the exclusion of all 

 others? To prevent tlie lircaking down of present price 

 levels seems to be a rulimr jiassion, even in some gov- 

 eriinieiit circles. But tliere are industries which are 

 sufferinp; bitt<M-lv and tbev demand otherwise. Mr. 



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