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HORTICULTUEE 



December 28, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XYVIII 



DECEMBER 28, 1918 



NO. 26 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS Page 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign 631 



CLUB AND SOCIETIES— New England Nurserymen's 

 Association — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural 

 Society — Chrysanthemum Society of America — Club 

 and Society Notes 632 



THE PLANT IMPORT TANGLE— Win/red Rolker... 633 



SOME GOOD SHRUBS 635 



IMPORTANT SHIPPING DECISIONS— BJfon J. Buck- 

 ley 636-637 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 638 



New Flower Store 647 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Rochester, St. Louis 641 



OBITUARY— John Paget — D. Mendels — Joseph A. 

 Crotty 643 



COMMERCIAL HORTICULTURAL CHEMICALS— F. 

 A. Wilson 644 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Forests as War Memorials 629 



Over the Hills of Home, poetry 631 



Catalogues Received 632 



St. Louis Notes 632 



Christmas Berried Plants — Illustration 633 



New and Rare Plants 633 



A Beautiful State Capital— G. C. Watson 637 



Visitors' Register 639 



The Alsation Potash Deposits 645 



Reconstruction Course in Agriculture in Ohio 645 



Indiana's Garden Record 645 



Summer Flowering Trees 646 



From an English correspondent we learn of 

 A a remarkable transition in the horticultural 



hopeful trade in his country since the signing of the 

 sign armi.stice. N^pggjy stock is in great demand 

 and supplies are insufficient. This is espe- 

 cially true of roses and rhododendrons, both of which 

 have been curtailed by shortage of labor necessary to 

 their production. Eevival of business will undoubtedly 

 come here with the opening of the planting season, as it 

 already manifests itself in England, where planting is 

 usually carried on all through the winter. Let us take 

 courage and get ready. 



Effective on and after June 1, 1919, Quar- 

 Quarantine antine No. 37 of the Federal Horticultural 

 No. 37 Board excludes all plants having soil at 

 their roots from entry into the United 

 States. Horticulture has from the first opposed the 

 drastic action of the Board, which has now become law. 

 We believe that while some further protection was neces- 

 sary, the present law goes altogether too far in excluding 

 as it does many classes of plants which have been im- 

 ported for a century or longer without having caused the 

 slightest offense. The embargo, unless modified, will 

 work irreparable loss to all branches of commercial hor- 

 ticulture. The few nurserymen who advocated such ex- 

 clusion mth the expectation of getting by it protection 

 against import competition to some particular line of 

 their own beyond what a proper tariff would afford, may 

 yet have reason to regret the course they took. , 



We are now near the close of the most 

 Happy eventful year in our existence — a year full 

 New Year of tragedy and probably the most momen- 

 tous period in human affairs since the be- 

 ginning of the Christmas era. Before the next issue of 

 Horticulture can reach its readers 1918 will have 

 passed into history and we shall have extended to one 

 another our more or less hearty good wishes for the new 

 year now about to cross the threshold. Let us all, in 

 this happy time, when universal peace has at last dawned 

 upon the world, individually bury in oblivion forever, 

 all animosity, all resentment and all desire to inflict 

 injury on our fellow man who may have for real or im- 

 aginary reasons incurred our personal displeasure. Let 

 this be the starting point of a new relationship in our 

 attitude and intercourse with one another. Let us, too, 

 in the flower business, take to heart the admonition 

 which we have tried to impress upon the public, and 

 "Say it with Flowers" as far as possible in our dealings 

 with our fellow-florists — not the flowers of commerce but 

 the flowers of kindliness, of sincerity, of charity for all 

 and malice toward none. 



Although the Christmas trade ru.sh is now a 

 A new thing of the past, geographical limitations 

 deal make any comprehensive account of its ex- 

 periences, lessons or outcome impossible at 

 this time. This is an exceptional year for everybody, 

 and for the florist especially the situation has been un- 

 precedented. In fact, conditions in horticultural indus- 

 try as now shaping up are ho less than revolutionary, 

 and anyone who aspires to conduct a well-ordered and 

 prosperous holiday business next year and the years fol- 

 lowing will do well to look deeply and earnestly into the 

 developments which this season has brought out. He 

 whose breadth of vision and depth of thought can get no 

 farther in sizing up the situation than the stereotyped 

 and stupid "50 per cent more than last year,'' "about 

 the same as last year," etc., does not count. There are 

 many factors to be reckoned with in our future iilanning 

 that have never liefore intruded themselves. Some are 

 already apparent ; others are yet to come. But let no- 

 body fool himself that, now the war is ended, florists 

 and horticultural practice are to drop back again into 

 former ruts "It can't be done." 



