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horticulture: 



fOL XXVII FEBRUARY 2. 1918 WO. S 



ri Ml I-lirl) WKKKI.V IIV 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO, 

 147 Summer Street. Boston, Mami. 



WM. J. STEUAKT. Editor aDd Mannccr 

 Trirphoae, B— h tM 



Knlrrril ■• irronilrloM iiinller PiTfinber 8. IIKM. at th* Poit Offlc* 

 ■ t KuBlon. Ma»i.. undi-r llie Act of Cunsres* of Marr b 3, 1 8TU. 



CONTENTS P^ 



COVER ILLI'STKATION — Avenui? of Palms at 

 Bultenzorn, Java 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— The Meetings- 

 President's Address — Secretary's Report — Treasurer's 

 Report— The Exhibition— The Awards 101-102 



NEW ENGLAND NURSERYMEN'S ASSOCIATION... 103 



LARGE CITIES FEARING A FAMINE IN FRESH 

 VEGETABLES— //oirard M. Earlc IC"; 



S. A. F. PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN 105 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society — 

 Tennessee Horticulturists— P. W. Popp, portrait — 

 Meetings Next Week — Farmers' Week at Cornell, 

 Ithaca, N. Y.— Club and Society Notes 106-107 



■SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" 107 



SEED TRADE— Bermuda Onion Seed 108 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL I-T,ORISTS: 

 New Flower Stores 110 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh 113 



Rochester, St. Louis 115 



OBITUARY— A. Yauchzi— Eugene R. Biechschmidt— 

 Alfred E. McCormick— W. H. Beaumont 115 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



New York, Cleveland, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Phil- 

 adelphia, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis 116-118 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Seeds Will Win the War: Sow Them— Ceoj-ffe C. 



Watson 103 



Cromwell Patriotism 103 



An Asiatic Florist's Store and a Great Botanical 



Garden— Illustrated 105 



News Notes 110-118 



Visitors' Register Ill 



Business Troubles Ill 



New Corporations 115 



Patents Granted 115 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 118 



W'c Icani from the Chicago papers that 

 Some the Cook County fuel administration has 

 concession decreed that Chicago florists may fill 

 orders on '"heatless" Mondays for funer- 

 als weddings and tlie sick, only. This restriction is far 

 from drastic and the florists will, no doubt, gracefully 

 accept and comply. Should flowers be sent to all the 

 sick people who would enjoy them and be benefited by 

 having them there would not be enough to go around. 

 "Slogan"' makers, get busy; set your wits to work and 

 strike out something new that will fit the case. 



Mr. Earl's contribution to our columns 



Seed this week comes at a very opportune 



conservation time and should have a thoughtful 



reading. There is a very serious seed 



.shortage and the wisdom of a careful conservation of 



what we have must be apparent to all. It should be 



made to go as far as possible in supplying the needs of 



those who will use it with judgment and not waste it. 



Amateurs should be encouraged to buy yoimg plants 



grown liy I'vjierLs whenever iHissiliie iiiid set tliein out in 

 their gardens in preference to frying to proihice tlieir 

 own plants from f-i-ed, a course which will bring tliem u 

 measure of suctc-s not otlierwis(! |Hi.s.silile. One of the 

 things which tiic average amateur is very slow to learn 

 is that it takes but a single seed, iiowever minute, U> 

 make a fuli-fled.L'cd plant. 



Many of the wealthy .•^iininier residents 

 Curtailing „f Newiwrt and el'^ewhcrc arc closing up 



their conservatories ciliier volimtariiy or 

 under orders from the local fuel autiiorities and llie coal 

 that would have been used to heat these grcenhouseF 

 will be devoted to home needs. Several cars of coal con- 

 signed to the Newport estate of E. J. Herwind of New 

 York have been confiscated. Mr. Berwind is president 

 of one of the laigest coal com[)anies in the country and 

 it would appear that there is no "respect of persons'" 

 with the administrator. Or is it possibly a "camou- 

 flage" I It has been suggested that the shutting down 

 of so many private conservatories at this time should 

 tend to incrca.se the sale of commercially grown flowers. 

 We shall see. \jet us hope so. 



The old saying that ''It is an ill-wind 



The turns none to good" holds as true today 



bright side as when it was first written, some four 



hundred years ago. It applies quite 

 nicely to the ca.niation show now open in Horticultural 

 Hall, Boston. In obedience to the order of tiie fuel 

 administration the big e.xhibition hall is not heated 

 and the temperature is, therefore, not exactly comfort- 

 able for humankind without overcoats and furs but for 

 the carnations it is fine. Never before have they stood 

 up so bright and crisp, .so wakeful and sprightly, and 

 the American Carnation Society will do well to record 

 it as an experience to be kept in mind as worthy of re- 

 peating when arranging for future shows. No flower 

 more thoroughly enjoys cool pure air than does the 

 carnation. It not only enjoys but demands it. 



Reports indicate a large shortage of seed 

 Seed of some of the leading vegetable crops. 

 scarcity Shortages have resulted from failures of 

 seed crops in this country, failure to receive 

 usual shipments of seed from foreign countries and also 

 from the unprecedented demand for garden seeds last 

 spring. In consequence of this unfortunate condition, 

 many of the leading seedsmen are notifying their cus- 

 tomers that should they be unable, in certain ca.ses, to 

 supply the particular varieties called for they will en- 

 deavor to complete orders with other standard sorts, as 

 near as possible to those ordered. No seed house of 

 high character would ordinarily think of substituting 

 other varieties of seeds for those ordered, without giv- 

 ing notice or having an understanding with the cus- 

 tomer to that effect but the exceptional conditions now 

 existing in the seed trade in all parts of the world make 

 it inevitable that planters in a great many cases must 

 accept varieties otlier than those they would prefer or 

 else go entirely without. Choice, under such circum- 

 stances, may .safelv be left to the judgment of any well- 

 informed and reliable seedsman. Having sent notice 

 broadcast of the insuperable difficulties under which 

 he must work and announced his intention to fill orders 

 by substitution when stock called for is exhausted, he 

 has a right to expect the customer to accept and make 

 the best of it. The safest course for anyone disposed to 

 be exacting is to place orders at once. It looks as 

 though there would be plentv of disappointments ahead 

 and he who procrastinates will surely get a large share 

 of them. 



