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August 24, 1918 



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AUGUST 24, 1918 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— J. Fred Ammann, President- 

 elect Society of American Florists 



MUSHROOMS— Jo?i» Johnson 185 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— Thirty-Fourth 

 Annual Meeting at St. Louis — President's Address — 

 Secretary's Report — Treasurer's Report — Report of 

 Washington Representati\e — Committee on Tariff 

 and Legislation — Wednesday's Sessions — Report of 

 Publicity Committee — Election of Officers — Florists' 

 Telegraph Delivery Association — Florists' Hail Asso- 

 ciation 187-198 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Anna Millang— Frank A. Coyle— 

 Mrs. George Wittbold 198 



SEED TRADE — American Tomato Seed Desired in 

 Mazatlan — Redtop Seed Situation — New England Crop 

 Report — Onion Sets — Pea and Bean Crop — Notes 200 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 202-203 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago. Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh 205 



Rochester, St. Louis 207 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lancaster County Florists' 

 Association — Nassau County Horticultural Society.. 207 

 American Gladiolus Society — American Dahlia So- 

 _ ciety 209-210 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Philadelphia, Boston, Rochester, Lancaster, Pa., 

 Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 208 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



My Last Vision of Beauty— (7. S. Harrison 185 



Personal 185 



The Rubbish Pit— Arthur E. Thatcher 185 



Missouri Botanical Garden — Illustrations 189-191 



Publications Received 198 



Patents Granted — Catalogue Received 200 



Business Troubles 203 



New Corporations — News Notes 208 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 208 



There is still much uncertainty about 

 Holland bulbs the arrival of Dutch bulbs. The 



original plan was that the Holland 

 government would sanction the sailing of one or two 

 steamers to carry bulbs from Rotterdam to New York. 

 This plan the government now appears to be reluctant 

 to carry out, although tlie impbrt licenses for bulbs 



were issued, we understand, by our War Board, largely 

 in view of this plan. The Holland bulb-growers are 

 now most anxious to have their patrons in this country 

 consent to shipment via London. This the buyers here 

 hesitate to do, believing that London is at present a 

 very congested port and that the danger of delay there 

 is too great a risk to assume, which risk would fall 

 wholly upon the Ijuyer here. It will probably require 

 much persuasion to make the Netherlands government 

 carry out the first plan and such persuasion must be 

 immediate or it will be too late. 



The loug-taiked-of Convention i:^ on 

 The convention ;ind, by the time HoRTicut.ruRE 



has reached its readers, will have 

 passed into history. The condensed story of the pro- 

 ceedings up to '( Imrsday noon will be found in our 

 jeading columi..-. The present is the third time the 

 S. A. F. has convened in St. Louis. Both of the pre- 

 ceding conventions held in the busy city across the 

 Mississippi were conspicuously successful and lo'.ig to 

 be remembered by those who were so fortunate as to 

 participate. We feel some S3'mpathy for St. Louis over 

 the unfortunate conditions attendant upon their prep- 

 arations for the .National Flower Show and attendant 

 Convention, as well as many things, including high 

 railroad rates, which have seriously reduced the at- 

 tendance from the eastern part of the countiy. But 

 when the full story of the Convention of 1918 is told, 

 it is quite possible that this may prove to have been the 

 most significant and widely influential event in the 

 Society's history u;t to the pre.sent time. 



Among vegetables the mushroom 



Why not is one ol the highest in food 



more mushrooms value. It is also one of the most 



delicious. With a sufficient sup- 

 ply of properly cooked fresh mushrooms on the table 

 high priced meai^ might well be dispensed with — in 

 fact many of us would prefer the mushrooms. It is 

 true that as a rule mushrooms cost more than steaks 

 or chops, but this should not be so, certainly not iii all 

 cases, since the raising of them is neither expensive nor 

 difficult. The agricultural colleges would do the 

 people a priceless service if they would teach and pop- 

 ularize the raising of this succulent vegetable. The 

 common people in several countries produce their own 

 supply of mushrcoms and regai'd it as no more difficult 

 than does the hon.sewife the raising with yeasr the 

 dough she bakes into bread. The two processes are 

 really identical, differing only in materials and time. 

 There are really few people in the rural parts of the 

 country who couid not with comparatively httle 

 trouble and expense arrange to raise for their own use 

 at least a plentiful supply of this luscious and highly 

 nutritious vegetaMc. Demonstrations in mushroom 

 grooving throughoiu the country would lie of incalcula- 

 ble value to the inral population, providing they are 

 given by men who have the ability to impart their 

 knowdedge, whi':h must be if the kind gained from 

 successful practice — theoretical knowledge will not do. 

 On another page will be found an article on mushroom 

 growing by one (f our most successful growers. 



