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HOETICULTURE 



September 7, 1918 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXVIU 



SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 



NO. 10 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Mrs. J. A. Peterson, Presi- 

 dent-elect Ladies Society ot American Florists 



THE STARS AND STRIPES—/. K. M. L. Farquhar, 

 poetry 241 



VEGETABLE CULTURE— Winter Lettuce — Cauliflow- 

 er — Onions — Potatoes — John Johnson 243 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS — Convention 

 Aftermath — Report of the Committee on Nomen- 

 clature — Roses in Minneapolis 244 



The Publicity Campaign 246 



Department of Plant Registration 247 



COST PRODUCTION— C/ior/cs H. Totty 245 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — The Gardeners' Convention 

 — American Rose Society — N. Y. Federation 247 



SOME BOSTON INSTITUTIONS 248 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia 253 



Rochester, St. Louis 255 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS; 



Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New York, 

 St. Louis, Rochester, Cincinnati 256-259 



OBITUARY -- George Ford — Lyman S. Briggs — John 

 White — Dudley Hartford 257 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Model Formal Garden — Illustrated 246 



Catalogues Received 247 



New Corporation 253 



News Notes. ..■ 251-255-258 



Timber Census 257 



Business Troubles 258 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 258 



Patents Granted 258 



There is still much imceriaiuty as 

 The Holland bulb to the time when Holland bulbs 

 situation are likely to reach this coun- 



try. Much of the nursery stocli 

 shi|i|icrl to tills country from Holland' by way of Eng- 

 land last spriui; was three months on the way. We have 

 no assurance a.H'aiiist such delay now. We can only 

 hope that conditiiiijs may lie lietter soon. 



■ Eaifia has practically gone out of 

 Scarcity of raffia the market. This is because there 

 is now no means of getting it 

 from Madagascar. In England, the war office has 

 restricted the use of it to budding fruit trees. Perhaps 

 the best substitute is the archangel wood bark mat 

 which as boys we used to pull apart for plant tying 

 purposes. TTnfortunately that, too, has become scarce 

 since imports from northern Europe in the packing of 

 wh"ich tlie arcliangel mat was largely u.sed, have become 

 negligilde. Cannot some one suggest a suitable plant- 

 tying material of home origin? 



"Those who expect to be able to im- 

 Supplies port from Europe at the close of the 



after the war ^yai' such supplies as they secured 

 there before the war, are likely to be 

 disappointed. The fact is that, even now, as the result 

 of four years of interruption to the production of ex- 

 jiort material, and the inability of growers there to give 

 proper attention to growing stocks, there is compara- 

 tively little material in suitable condition for export. 

 Of the nations we draw from, Belgium has unquestion- 

 ably suffered the most and it is doubtful if any of the 

 valuable collections of bay-trees and azaleas of Ghent 

 and Bruges remain. Many j'ears must elapse before 

 tliey can be replaced. Other countries have suffered 

 to a less degree, yet in these the shortage and high cost 

 ot lalior and scarcity of fuel have seriously crippled 

 liolticultural production. For many years we have ad- 

 vocated the desirability of producing our supplies in 

 this country — now, it will be our only means of ade- 

 quate supply. 



Much of the annoyance and mis- 



The best season understanding arising from the 



to sow lawns presence of weeds in newly sown 



lawns might be avoided if the 

 advantage of sowing lawns at this season of the year 

 were more generally understood. At this season seeds 

 of weeds which are present in the ground are not likely 

 to start and the grass seed will start and attain a height 

 of several inches before the ground freezes. The next 

 liest season to sow a lawn is the early spring as early 

 as the ground may be worked. Lawns sown late in 

 spring have to compete with the natural growth of 

 weeds which we expect to grow elsewhere, but which 

 when they come in the lawn are frequently blamed to 

 the seed. If we plant a vegetable garden we expect to 

 cultivate it and hoe down the weeds. There are un- 

 thinking people who seem to have the belief that grass 

 seeds should not only have the power to grow bt}t that 

 they should also possess the miraculous power of pre- 

 venting the growth of weeds about them. Let those 

 who wish clean lawns take advantage of (he. present 

 sowing time. 



