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HORTICULTU HK 



January 12, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



yOt. nVll JANUARY 12. lt»8 NO. 2 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTR.VTIO.N- .Mains llorib\nula 



PROPOSKI) QUAR.ANTINE AGAINST FOREIGN 

 PLANT INTRODUCTIONS—^. O. Sanders 29 



THE .MALl'SES 31 



OBITUARY — Robert Scrivener — Howard Riedinger — 

 Charles Homecker 32 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Southampton Horticultural 

 Society — American Carnation Society — To the Carna- 

 tion Growers of New England — Meetings Next Week — 

 Society of American Florists — American Rose Society 



—Horticultural Society of New York 32-33 



Club and Society Notes 43 



SOME TIMELY LEGAL ADVICE— E»on J. Buckley... 34 



SEED TRADE— Bo'.giano's Seed Establishment Cele- 

 brates its 100th Anniversary 36 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Vase of American Beauties, Illustrated 38 



Flowers by Telegraph 39 



New Flower Stores 43 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston. Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester.. 41 

 St. Louis ; . . . 43 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 

 Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago 44-4.5 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Closing Large Country Homes 29 



Violet Growers Discuss Big Shipping Problem 32 



News Notes 32 



Catalogues Received 35 



Visitors' Register 43 



Business Troubles . 43 



New Publication 46 



Impressive Coal Figures 47 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 47 



The first week of 1918 has provided an 

 A memorable abundant supply of anxiety and sen.«a- 

 '^^^^ tion for the horticultural people. With 



the wholesale cut flower fstablisliincnts 

 of the metropoli.s deprived of heat and watt-r for days in 

 succession, Chicago buried .under a phenomenal snowfall, 

 greenhouse ranges in many sections crushed or frozen 

 up and contents annihilated for lack of fuel, flower ship- 

 ments spoiled in transit and lily bulbs arriving in ruined 

 condition after a prolongt^d tran.scontinental trip in zero 

 weather, we have a most remarkable concatenation of 

 untoward circumstances which certainly gives us suffi- 

 cient cause to vividly remember this extraordinan' 

 period. The imprecedented term of severe cold could 

 hardly iiave been planned with greater exactitude U> 

 catch tlie greenhouse industry in a helple.ss predicament. 



.\cting oil the mlvicu uf the fuel adniiniiilralor und, in 

 iiuiny iiihtunccs influenced furtlicr by their own judg- 

 ment of the situation as re<.'ar(ls fuel and the buKineiM 

 outlook, not a few growers had alrcaily shut down sec- 

 tions of their establishments and still further reductions 

 in (i]K'ration were contemplated to follow the holiday 

 cleanup and by this means the coal on hand had been 

 variously estimated as sunicicnt to carry the reduced 

 area through for a month or two. Hut Ihi! grievous arc- 

 tii' visitati'^n knocked all such calculation in the head, 

 )'aralyzing every source of supply, and thus most effectu- 

 ally com|iclling compliance with tlie injunction to ma- 

 terially reduce the flower product. 



The list of glass houses reported frozen 



Damage ,]j) jn^j crops destroyed during the |)a8t 



widespread {qi^ djiyg ig a lengthy one and includes 



not only small establishments which 

 were the sole or principal means of support for their 

 hard-working owners and their families, but many al.so of 

 the big flower "factories" in which large capital is in- 

 vested and considerable labor is employed. In consider- 

 ation of the circumstances as they impress us we have 

 hesitated about pulilishing a list of the names of these 

 sufferers as news matter at the present time and have 

 about come to the conclusion that the publication of 

 such details of widespread misfortune would most likely 

 only serve to aggravate the seriousness of the hardship 

 in many cases. For this reason we have thought it best 

 to omit from our news columns most of the reports that 

 have come to us of the individual damage inflicted, feel- 

 ing al.so that these reports might in some instances have 

 been exaggerated and the direct loss greatly overesti- 

 mated, and hoping that in time this may prove to have 

 been the case. 



The first half of January has long been 



A temporary recognized as a very lean period in 



quiet every fonn of horticultural industry. 



Everyone is moved to stop and gather 

 himself together, as it were, sum up the year's business 

 results, get accounts straightened out, take inventory 

 and formulate plans for the coming year. The florist 

 usually finds the ]iublic disposed to take a rest after the 

 holiday spending and excitement and a week or two more 

 or less usually passes before things start to speed up 

 for the midwinter season. There is reason to believe 

 that, even in the exceptional conditions that now pre- 

 vail, the usual livcning-up process will duly take place 

 and the apathy which is disturbing the minds of many in 

 tlie trade at present will be only short-lived and will pass 

 off with the coming of better weather and the systematic 

 stabiliment of general business under the new order of 

 things which is being gradually worked out. That the 

 direct effect of the recent havoc will then be materialized 

 in a greatly curtailed flower product and actual scarcity 

 in some places, with much higher market values than 

 in recent years, is quite possible. Greenhouses that 

 have been dismantled now are most likely to be devoted 

 to the production of food crops and young vegetable 

 plants for spring requirements when they are again 

 started up and will thus be wholly eliminated from the 

 flower market field for this season at least. 



