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H U Tl C U L T U K E 



Janiiar)' 26, 1918 



horticulture: 



VOL UVII 



JANUARY 26. 1918 



NO. 4 



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CONTENTS Page 



(". OVKK I LLl ST K .\ T 1 Oi\ — Cattleya Raphaelae 

 (C. Triansp x C. aiirea) 



NKW YORK INTERNATIO.NAL FLOWER SHOW 77 



SOCIKTY OK AMERIC.A.N FLORISTS: 



National Flower Show Indeflnitely Postponed — Con- 

 vention and Trade Exhibition to be Held in St. Louis 

 as Planned 77 



ARTEMISIA— KifTiard Wof/ic— Illustrated 79 



TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR PRIZE 79 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Florists 

 — Massachusetts Nurserymen's Association — South- 

 western Nurserymen Organize — Meetings Next Week — 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society — Lancaster County 

 Florists' Association — New York Florists' Club — 

 Buffalo Florist Club — Westchester and Fairfield Hor- 

 ticultural Society — State Florists' Association of 

 Indiana — Stamford Horticultural Society — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society 80-81 



SEED TRADE— A Slogan tor the Seed Trade; David 

 Biirpic — Annual Dinner of Peter Henderson Co 84 



OK INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Stamp and Poster Trade Boomers — A Story With a 

 Moral — New Flower Stores 86-87 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia 89 



Rochester. St. Louis 91 



LOCAL AND GE.XERAL NEWS: 

 Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Rochester, New York, 

 Cincinnati 92-93 



OBITUARY— S. B. Coffin— Mrs. John Schneider 93 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Our Cover Illustration 77 



Flower Growing Essential 79 



Greetings to the Florists of the United States 79 



William Plumb in .Action— Illustrated 82 



Publications Received 82 



Catalogues Received 83 



Business Troubles 91 



Visitors' Register ] 93 



Welcome Commendation 94 



News Notes 94 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 95 



Cost of Heating by Gas 95 



We believe the action of the S. A. F. 

 '^° Executive Board and National 



National Flower Flower Show Committee in post- 

 show this year poning the National Flower Show 

 until conditions are more propitious 

 will meet with general approval. Many misgivings 

 have been felt as to the wisdom of going on with the 

 preparations for this momentous enterprise in the ex- 

 isting chaotic conditions as to transportation and other 

 dubious contingencies which might have a serious bear- 

 ing on the success of the undertaking. All the National 

 Flower Shows thus far have been conspicuously and 

 progressively successful, financially as well as horticul- 



lurally, and it is well that no chances be taken now, 

 as a fMihire to nniintuiii the record would be a far- 

 iniching calamity. The National C-oniinittces have 

 iictcil w iscly. 



'J'lie old, old "lioiie of contention'' — the 



'^^'^ removal of over-crowded trees, planted 



"red rag" originally with the intention to thin them 



again „iit jn ijue time — has come to liie surface 



again, in n controver.-iy between the Hoston 

 park commissioners, who jiropose to leinove the centre 

 trees in a triple row of red oaks l)ordering tlie Arbor- 

 way, ])lanted when small by the late J. A. I'cttigrew, 

 and a number of remonstrants led by A. A. Shurtleff, 

 consulting architect of the commission, who demand 

 that the trees should remain. Why is it that so many 

 people, seemingly otherwise normal, harbor such a vio- 

 lent bias against any action which seeks to provide for 

 tlie free and symmetrical development of specimen trees 

 in public reservations to their full natural beauty? 

 Sucli propositions invariably have the same effect as a 

 red rag on certain cattle, in stirring up a grievance. 



Despite the combination of adverse con- 

 Come ditions now prevailing in the larger por- 

 to Boston tion of this country, Boston is earnestly 

 hoping that the meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society in this city next week may be 

 well-attended by the votaries of the divine flower and a 

 great success in every respect. Boston has had the honor 

 of receiving and entertaining the Carnation Society on 

 several occasions in the past and each occasion proved a 

 lustrous event in the historj' of the Society and in the 

 (lcvelo])inent of the flower it seeks to promote. Nowhere 

 in the world arc better carnations produced than in 

 and around Boston and it "goes without saying" that 

 the exhibition which will be put up on this occasion 

 will be one of rare excellence and beauty, well worth 

 the time, expense and effort involved in attending, how- 

 ever great the distance may be. So come, one and all, 

 bring your best productions and feel assured that you 

 will be well repaid. 



;\mong the agencies that are doing 

 An alliance elTective service in behalf of beauty in 

 for defense horticulture in these troublous days 

 when ornamental horticulture is hard- 

 pressed as never before, count the Garden Clubs of 

 .\merica, the Woman's National Farm and Garden 

 -Association and other bodies of similar character and 

 purpose all over this country. The supjiort they give is 

 wholehearted, unflrigging and through mediums of pub- 

 licity which are strongly influential in directions that 

 are not always very accessible to the commercial horti- 

 culturist but are of incalculable value to the continued 

 |>rosperity of his business. The florist, nurseryman and 

 seedsman all owe a big debt of gratitude to these en- 

 thusiastic disciples of the gospel of beauty who have 

 put their hearts and souls into the campaign to save 

 our flower gardens from being recklessly overrun and 

 sacrificed in the hysterical stampede for food produc- 

 tion to the exclusion of everything else that is dear to 

 the heart of the gardener. We regard this work which 

 these people are doing and these ends to which they are 

 devoting their efforts as no less patriotic, no less needful 

 to humanity in the present time of distre.ss and for the 

 days that are to come in the hidden future, than are 

 those other commendable agencies whose energies are 

 so scrupulously centered upon the production and con- 

 servation of food crops and the mere bodily sustenance 

 of the people. 



