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HORTICULTURE 



August 31, 1918 



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VOL. XXVIII 



AUGUST 31, 1918 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Fordhook Hybrid Gladiolus 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Mulching— The 

 Steam Boilers — Lime — Pruning Back Plants — Arthur 

 C. Ruzickai 217 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Closing Hours 

 at St. Louis — Report of Publicity Finance Committee 

 — Report of the National Flower Show Committee — 

 Members of S. A. F. in Front of Moolah Temple, 

 Illustration — Report of School Garden Committee — 

 Report of the Committee on Memorial to the Late 

 William R. Smith— Report of the Convention Garden 

 Committee — Report of Committee on President's 

 Address — Memorial Resolutions — Final Resolutions — 

 Report of Judges on Trade Exhibition — National Pub- 

 licity Campaign— Ladies' S. A. F 219-225 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers bv Telegraph 226 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York. Philadelphia 229 

 Rochester, St. Louis. Washington 231 



OBITUARY — Joseph Haddleton — Richard Higgins — 

 Edwin A. Seidewitz 231 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Cleveland, Pittsburgh. St. Louis, Washington, Boston 232 



THE COAL SITUATION 232 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Gladiolus Society 

 — Canadian Horticultural Society — N. Y. Federation 

 of Horticultural Societies 233-234 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Outdoor Arts Company 227 



Visitors' Register 231 



We learn that the leading hulh-growers 



Holland bulb of Holland have shipped their orders 



situation to customers in this country, by vray of 



London. It seems that the Holland- 

 America line, the usual carrier, was unwilling to risk 

 the sailing of one or two of their steamers as had been 

 looked for by the growers, and as they had given their 

 patrons here to e.xpect, when orders were placed, and 

 that their only hope of malcing shipment was via Eng- 

 land. This ronte is likely to prove much more expen- 

 sive than by direct steamer from Eotterdam to New 

 York and there is also the question of delay in trans- 

 shipment and of deterioration of the bnlbs meanwhile. 

 If the importers are fortunate enongh to escape such 

 delay, the bulk of the bullis sIkuiM arrive here early in 



Septemlier. 



In traveling through the country 

 Better cultivation one is struck by the greatly im- 

 proved appearance of fields and 

 crops over the condition of the same prior to war. 

 Strange as it may seem and notwithstanding the higher 

 cost of labor, the farmer is tilling his fields better, and 

 raising better crops, especially in the eastern states, thao 

 ever he did before. The reason is not hard to find — he 

 never before got so high prices for his products — and 

 he is straining every nerve to make the most of the 

 present abnormally high market, and this in spite of 

 tlfe scarcity of labor, high wages, and fifty per cent or 

 more increase in cost of fertilizers, tools and other sup- 

 plies. The present situation of the florist corresponds 

 very closely to what the farmer has been through. It 

 will be interesting to see how the florist meets his diffi- 

 culties. 



We have been following with keen interest 

 Progress all that transpired at the St. Louis gather- 

 ing last week and are well satisfied that it 

 will rank high in the annals of the society as a mile- 

 stone of progress on the road to a higher plane in the 

 business world of the future for all departments of com- 

 mercial horticulture. It was, as we expected, a very 

 serious minded convention and it set good fruit. Mat- 

 ters of vital interest to the trade were continuously 

 under consideration and earnestly discussed and as those 

 in attendance were there for that very purpose, rather 

 than recreation, all the sessions were consequently well 

 attended and every discussion followed with close atten- 

 tion. It has been said that in the future, co-operation 

 and not competition will be the slogan but that is so 

 only in a very limited and .personal .sense. If the 

 stability, dignity and material prosperity of the floral 

 industries are to l)e conserved and advanced, competition 

 will have to be, in the new conditions that will follow the 

 end of the war, of the keenest and most aggressive char- 

 acter. Competition, be it understood, not among our- 

 selves in individual antagonism, but in defensive and 

 offensive rivalry and struggle with other industries to 

 secure and maintain the lead in efficiency and popular 

 support. Without in the least underestimating the 

 many other important issues of the convention we must 

 give due recognition for notable advancement in the 

 aforementioned direction, to the F. T. D. section of the 

 S. A. F. We cannot but express admiration for the 

 splendid spirit of shoukler-to-shoulder progressiveness 

 displayed. The F. T. D. section is very much alive 

 and their zeal from their level-headed and never-tiring 

 president and their indomitable industrious secretary 

 right down through the membership, speaks volumes for 

 the character and importance of their vocation in the 

 days to come. The retail florist trade has just awakened 

 to its own streng-fli, and having now, like Gen. Foch. 

 as.sumed the aggressive in its own behalf, nobody can 

 predict to what length it may go. Secretary Pochelon's 

 announcement this -week, on page 225 is an assur- 

 ance of what we may expect in the way of ]iro]v 

 aganda in the weeks that intervene between now niid 

 the October mooting in Clevelaftd. The generous ollVr 

 of .$•")!). 00 should incite to a lively com]ietition and tlio 

 free country-wide jiublicity for the lucky winner will 

 bo woi'th iiinnv times .$.")0.00. 



