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H E T I C U L T U E E 



December 21, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XYVIII 



DECEMBER 21, 1918 



NO. 25 



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CONTENTS Page 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Christmas Mar- 

 ket— Watering— Drainage— Pots— Artftwr C. Ruzicka 605 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign gQ7 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Carnation Society 

 Convention— Detroit Florists' Club— Lancaster County 

 Florists' Association — Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston— Nassau County Horticultural Society- 

 Club and Society Notes 608-610 



SEED TRADE— Seed Marketing Investigations— Pepper 

 and Eggplant Harvest of Isle of Pines 611 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association— New 

 Flower Stores g14 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland 617 



New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, St. Louis.!!.! 619 



OBITUARY— Samuel H. Eaton— David Warwick 621 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Release of Needed Men Now in Camps 607 



Superiority of Rose Premier " ' 607 



Plants Foremost in Popularity for Christmas— iilus- 



trations 609-610 



A New Single Violet 610 



New Chrysanthemums 610 



Business Troubles' !!!!!!!!!!!!! 610 



Visitors' Register !!!!!! 611 



News Notes !!!!!!! 615 



Chicago Notes !!!!!!!!!!!!! 619 



New Publications !!!!!!!!!!!! 620-621 



Sewaging to Conserve Fertilizer !!!!!!!!!!!!!... 621 



Catalogue Received !!!!!!! 621 



Greenhouse Building Prospects .'........!!!!! 622 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated ..!!!!!!! 622 



A bulletin just issued by the U. S. De- 

 Somewhat partment of Agriculture purports to give 

 vague effectual remedies against the spotted 

 garden slug, which frequently becomes a 

 menace to gardeners and mushroom growers. Amonii 

 other recommendations, "road dust" is advised as a 

 barrier over which the slugs cannot pass. We would re- 

 spectfully ask what is meant by "road dust.'' Officials 

 usually so exact should be more explicit on such matters 

 in these days when the scrapings of most roads are large- 

 ly comjwsed of oil and coal tar products, all of wliich 

 are destructive to plant life. No doubt such substances 

 wouUl be hard on the slugs but how alwut the plants? 

 Wliat is meant by "road dust?" 



A correspondent of an English paper 



Short-sighted recently had something interesting to 



say concerning the usefulness of Begonia 



corallina as a flower in table decoration. Wiv is it that 



we have nothing of the kind to offer commercially in this 

 country? In the inevitable scarcity this holiday season 

 of the stereotyped roses, carnations, violets and lilies, it 

 seems most regrettable that the flower trade has not pro- 

 vided ahead for the vacancy by placing at the disposal 

 of the people commercially something new and appro- 

 priate for the Christmas demand which would fill the 

 bill and add materially to the floral wealth adapted to a 

 proper celebration. Horticulture has so advised re- 

 peatedly. There is no scarcity of available subjects but 

 the artificial supply men seem to have a monopoly of the 

 inventive enterprise at present. 



We would call the attention of our read- 

 A timely ers, particularly those engaged in the 

 admonition retail cut flower trade, to the very im- 

 portant and timely warning served by 

 the secretary of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Associ- 

 ation in this issue of Horticulture as to the unwisdom 

 of accepting from the public small trifling orders for 

 the delivery of holiday flowers or plants in other towns. 

 Horticulture has already spoken editorially in strong 

 advice on this subject which if not handled with wise 

 discretion is sure to bring keen disappointment to un- 

 witting customers and corresponding loss of future busi- 

 ness to the individual as well as reproach to the flower 

 trade in general. Misunderstandings due to the present 

 state of production and market values can be minimized 

 by a straightforward presentation of conditions as they 

 exist, and for which the florist is not in any way respon- 

 sible in any department, neither has he any prospect of 

 control in the immediate future. This is a subject that 

 vitally affects the efficiency and development of the 

 exchange order system inaugurated by the F. T. D. 



Gradually the florist plant trade^and 

 The soon they will be joined by the garden- 



plant embargo ing profession — are coming to a real- 

 ization of the changed conditions 

 which they must encounter from the present time until 

 the foreign markets are again opened tQ us to buy from. 

 Horticulture has done its best to awaken the trade to 

 seriously comprehend just what Dr. Marlatt's embargo 

 ruling meant to them individually and collectively. The 

 S. A. F. and otherorganizations have also been energetic 

 in their efforts to have more time given to the trade to 

 get prepared in advance and adjust itself to the pro- 

 po.sed exclusion of a large part of the stock they have 

 lieen getting from foreign sources but as in many other 

 matters wliich appertain to the general good, the atti- 

 tude of a large proportion of the plant growing fra- 

 ternity ha.s been "It will not be much of a shower" and 

 "Let George do it." Now, when it transpires that neither 

 azaleas nor rhododendrons, araucarias nor pabns, tuber- 

 ous-rooted begonias, gloxinias, dahlias, cannas, nor even 

 dracaena canes nor orchids can be brought into this 

 country, people are l)eginning to get nervous. One hojje 

 remain.s — tliat the indefiniteness and crude blundering 

 in the text of the ruling may be its undoing, for an 

 exact adherence to its specifications will exclude many 

 ])roducts which its originators probably never intended 

 it should exclude and, further, a strict enforcement will 

 still further imjwverish horticultural Belgiunii — that 

 section which has suffered most cruelly from Hun rav- 

 ishment — practically completing the ruin of their prin- 

 cipal means of livelihood, and if persisted in will tend 

 to fasten upon this coimtry the accusation of insincerity 

 and callousness in such a way that we cannot possibly 

 esca])e from it. 



