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HORTICULTURE 



September 21, 191S 



horticulture: 



VOL XXVllI 



SEPTEMBER 21, 1918 



NO. 12 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 1^7 Swicnmer Street. Boston, Ma»«. 



WM. J. STEWART, Editor Mid Mansger 

 Telephone. Beach 292 



8CBSCBIPTION RATES: 



One Tear, in adrance, $1.00; To Foreign Countries, (2.00; To 

 Canada, flJM). 



Entered ag eecond-clasB matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston. Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



coFmatTs 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— General View of Floral ex- 

 hibition at New York State Fair 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS — National Pub- 

 licity Campaign— What is Advertising? 289 



NEW YORK STATE FAIR— Illustrated 292-293 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Chicago Florists Organize 



for Liberty Loan Drive 293 



American Dahlia Society, R. Vincent, Jr.. portrait 

 — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society— 

 St. Louis Florist Club— Rhode Island Horticultural 

 Society — New York Federation of Horticultural 

 Societies and Floral Club — Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society 294-296 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Floral Telegraph Delivery Association — F. T. D. Con- 

 vention Notes 293 



Flowers by Telegraph 299 



SEED TRADE — Extravagant Claims for Gourds Ad- 

 vertised as Valuable Beans 297 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Roch- 

 ester, St. Louis • 301 



WINTER EFFECT IN THE BROOKLYN BOTANICAL 

 GARDEN— A' or»! an Taylor 304 



OBITUARY— Frank S. Fisher — Thomas N. Griswold — 

 John W. Gibson 305 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Rochester, Pittsburgh, St. Louis. Cincinnati, 

 Boston 305-306 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



The Cattleya Fly 291 



Golden Ophelia 291 



Visit to Gypsy Moth Laboratory 291 



Mr. and Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy, portraits 296 



Perilous War Finance 296 



Patents Granted 303 



News Notes 296 



Nasturtium Wilt 297 



Proposed National Reservation in Georgia 297 



Publications Received 297 



War Time Banquets 303 



Visitors' Register 303 



Sale of a Noted Establishment 305 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 305 



Catalogues Received 305 



We feel like registering' a well-meaning 

 The dahlia protest in respect to the conrse which 



dahlia development seems to follow of 

 late, judging from what has heen .shown in the exhihi- 

 tions in the last j'ear or two. The tendency to over- 

 exploit the so-called peony-flowered and decorative 

 classes is very evident. Raggedness and lack of sym- 

 metry in a flower are seemingly regarded as chief 

 "qualities'" for these modern classes and. consequently. 

 a lot of stuff is luit forward that, as it seems to us. 



should have gone to the rubbish heap. We do not wish 

 to be understood as casting disfavor on the peony and 

 decorative types of dahlia or comparing these types to 

 their disadvantage with the old formal super symmetri- 

 cal standards. On the contrary, we have a very de-, 

 cided partiality to the boldness and artistic "abandon" 

 of the now popular classes over the old-time favorites, 

 of which Glenny, eighty years ago, said, "The bloom 

 should be perfectly circular and between half and two- 

 thirds of a ball, the petals should be regularly laid and 

 alternate, like the scales of a fish; the petals should 

 be so true as to form circles to the centre and the cir- 

 cle formed by the ends of the petals should become 

 n'arrower as they approach the centre," etc., etc. But 

 Glenny laid down other rules, some of which the dahlia 

 raisers of the present day might profitably heed. Coarse- 

 ness, distortion, dull washy colors, flimsiness of petal, 

 weakness or tendency to crookedness in the stem — all 

 these defects are far too common in some of the col- 

 lections one sees nowadays. Mere bigness seems to 

 have usurped refinement in the estimate of essential 

 qualities in a dahlia. 



_ J • ^ ,1. The Federal Horticul- 



Proposed import regulations . , t. t i • ^ J 



^ , . tuial Board has lUst fl 



on nursery stock, seeds, , , ,, -,'',, 1 



, . J u lu issued a letter dated * 



plants and bulbs . , „.,, .,„,„ 



August 29th, 1918, in 



which it says, in part, as follows: 



"The experts of this department have given careful 

 consideration to the restrictions which should be placed 

 on the importation of nursery stock, plants, and seeds into 

 the United States as a result of the hearing of May 28, 

 1918. It is proposed to make these restrictions effective 

 on and after June 1, 1919. The proposed quarantine will 

 exclude all plants and plant products for propagation from 

 all foreign countries, except as provided for in the regu- ' 

 lations issued under the quarantine. For your informa- 

 tion, and for any suggestions which you may care to make, 

 I am sending you a copy of the tentative regulations gov- 

 erning the importation of such nursery stock, plants and 

 into the United States. In the provisional recommenda- 

 tions of the Bureau of Plant Industry, submitted as a ten- 

 tative program of action in connection with the notice of 

 hearing, it was provided that some four groups of plants, 

 normally imported with earth about the roots, should be 

 prohibited entry at future dates, in the case of three of 

 these groups beginning July 1, 1919. The regulations as 

 now drafted eliminate these groups altogether. Except 

 as to the group (Azaleas, etc.), for which a longer period 

 was suggested, this is not a wide variation from the tenta- 

 tive program, inasmuch as the regulations now proposed 

 do not go into effect until June 1, 1919. Furthermore, un- 

 der existing war conditions and the action of the War . 

 Trade Board, importations of plants of all of these groups ] 

 will be greatly limited if not stopped for the period of the 

 duration of the war. 



Regulation 2 provides for the unrestricted entry of 

 two groups of plants, namely (1) fruits, vegetables, ce- 

 reals, and other plant products imported for food purposes, 

 and (2) field, vegetable and flower seeds. 



Regulation 3 provides, under compliance with the 

 conditions of the subsequent regulations, for the importa- 

 tion of five groups of plants as follows: 



(1) Lily bulbs, lily of the valley, narcissus, hyacinths, 

 tulips, and crocus, free from balls of soil or 

 earth. 



(2) FYuit stocks, seedlings, cuttings, scions, and buds 

 of fruits for reproduction purposes. 



(3) Rose stocks for reproduction purposes, including 

 Manetti, Multiflora, Brier Rose, and Rosa Rugosa. 



(4) Nuts, including palm seeds, for oil or reproduc- 

 duction purposes. 



(5) Seeds of fruit, forest, ornamental, and shade 

 trees, seeds of deciduous and evergreen orna- 

 mental shrubs, and seeds of hardy perennial 

 plants. 



These groups of plants and seeds under regulations 

 2 and 3 include the plants and seeds which were repre- 

 sented as essential to the floriculture and horticulture or 



