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August 2, 1913 



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AUGUST 2. 1913 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Glimpse of Ten Thousand 

 Crotons in one o£ Robert Craig Company's Houses. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Cat- 

 tleyas — Care of Smilax — Mulching and Feeding 

 Chrysanthemums — Poinsettias in Pans — Propagating 

 Crotons — Repairing Heating Apparatus — John J. M. 

 Fan-ell 133 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— A Contrast— Mil- 

 dew — Black Spot on Beauties — Lime — Liming the 

 Benches — Greenfly — Commercial Fertilizers — Arthur 

 Ruzicka 134 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Care of 

 Late Vinery — Care of Strawberries — Melons in the 

 Frames — Tomatoes — George H. Penson 135 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— TV. H. Adsett 135 



DENDROBIUM THYRSIFLORUM— M. J. Pope, Illus- 

 trated 137 



"WALTER MOTT'S NOTES BY THE WAY 137 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Flor- 

 ists — Boston to Minneapolis — Philadelphia to Minne- 

 apolis — St. Louis Florist Club — American Rose Soci- 

 ety — American Carnation Society 138 



Rhole Island-Greystone Sweet Pea E.xhibitlon — Club 

 and Society Notes 139 



THE HORSE CHESTNUTS— B.ulletin No. 41 of the 

 Arnold Arboretum 139 



NEW AZALEAS SHOWN AT GHENT 140 



SEED TRADE 144 



OBITUARY— Robert Sydenham 144 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Stores 146 



Flowers by Telegraph 147 



The Large Design 148 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston — Chicago — Cincinnati — New York — Philadel- 

 phia — St. Louis 151 



DURING RECESS— Fun at Detroit— Notes 153 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Control of Two Elm Tree Pests 140 



Kroeschell Heaters for London 143 



Patents Granted 143 



Incorporated — Catalogues Received 144 



Another New Lily 144 



Cincinnati Notes 147 



News Notes 147 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 148 



Personal 149 



Popular Refrigerators, Illustrated 149 



Publications Received 158 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 158 



Xotwitlistanilinp' nil that has been said 



Reckless ;,)i(l all that has lioen written in recent 



credit-giving y(.;irs urging the need of more caution 



in extending credit in the flower bii.si- 



ness there seems to be no diminution in the number of 



preposterous business failures. The latest is a Chicago 



firm, scheduling liabilities of $'2,300, and assets amount- 

 ing to $6 ! No need of am' lengthy argument to eluci- 

 date what such a statement means in the "way of lax 

 credit giving. The old-time system of asking for pay- 

 ment of accounts once in six months so long prevalent 

 among the retail florists in dealing •with fashionable 

 customers, and extended sometimes to even a year by 

 the bulb dealers who were willing to wait for their 

 money until the bulbs had been flowered and the 

 product disposed of, dies a slow death. Whatever 

 jirogress is made towards more prompt settlements in 

 any department of the business makes it easier for all to 

 follow suit and helps all around. Short-time debtors 

 make long-time friends. 



We are in receipt of a letter from Con- 

 Parcel gressman David J, Lewis of Maryland, 

 post menaced {\^q parcel post expert, sounding a note 



of warning over what seems to be very 

 like the first serious effort of the express companies to 

 destroy the parcel post. ilr. Lewis declares that should 

 the '"administrative powers" clause of the parcel post 

 law be stricken out as is threatened the vital force of the 

 parcel post will be killed and the hard work of forty 

 years lost. He asks that letters and telegrams be sent 

 to senators and congressmen, demanding that the law be 

 let alone and the service of the parcel post expanded and 

 cheapened as the postmaster general may find it needful 

 and feasible. We were pleased, as no doubt the ma- 

 Joi'ity of our readers were, when the announcement was 

 made that a larger limit of weight and a lower rate of 

 jjostage would go into effect August 15. This an- 

 nouncement, it seems, has stirred up the express and 

 laiiroad interests. The Anierican people, however, have 

 had their fill of express domination and we do not be- 

 lieve they are in the temper to submit to any inter- 

 ference with what has been so laboriously secured. 

 "Hands off." 



It is generally acknowledged, we be- 



Florai art In licve, that a larger participation by 



the flower show the retail florists in the public flower 



shows would be most desirable for 

 many reasons and would add much to the public interest 

 in these affairs. The difficulty of getting this element to 

 exhibit is well known and has been frequently com- 

 mented upon in these colimins and elsewhere. As we 

 have before remarked the competitive idea is undoubtedly 

 the great stumbling block. One can hardly blame the 

 florists either, for the jjrestige placed in jeopardy when 

 a decorator of wide repute enters a competition of this 

 character is a matter of much more serious import to 

 him than the chances taken by plant or flower growers in 

 their competitions can ever be. The only possible way 

 we can see by which the retail florists can ever be in- 

 duced to enter enthusiastically into the flower exhibi- 

 tions is to do away with all competitions on tables, man- 

 tles and the like in the commercial classes and assign 

 booths to all retailers who will accept same and agree to 

 display examples of their flower work as has been done 

 so successfully at several of the large exhibitions in 

 Chicago. We hope the management of the Interna- 

 tional Flower Show will find it feasible to give this plan 

 a practical tryout at New York next spring. 



