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U II T 1 C U L T U R E 



Febrimry 10, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXVII 



FEBRUARY 16, 19ls 



NO. 



II IIIISIIKI) HKIKl \ m 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



\» M J. STKMAKT, Killlor iinil Mniirigir 

 Telephone, llcocli ?"'* 



AUVKKTISINO It \ 1 1 - 



I'rr Inrti, SO Inclint (o pace fl.tfi 



lilsrouni on f'ontrnrin for con<iecullve Innerllonn. as fullotvn; 



One monlli 14 llmeB), 6 per cent.; three montlia (13 (Imeii), 10 



fer cent.; »1% niontli* (30 tInieH), -'0 per cent.; one year (6'i tlinen), 

 IHT r,'H(. 



I ,. , r .( consecutive, rnlfH mm iipitlirtiiiun. 



Enlcr.ii n.^ B.ciriiil ci:isH iiiiiiiir lipceinlier 8, ItKM. at the I'liBt t»(Il<"« 

 at IlostoD, Mass., under the Act of Congreii of March 3, IMTU. 



it will cost $30,000. iiti(] two yc'iiiH' (inie. to restaie the 

 I'niiiklin I'nik ^'olf linkts. ploiifflicd u\) liitst yw"' for 

 wiir pirdcns. lie iccoinineiKls tliiit the "afiiieultiinil 

 I \|i(iimont in tin- |Piirks" be (liscoiitiiiiied imd land el.se- 

 where he used, wliirli is s(;nsihle iidviee. With the vast 

 stretches of iimiscd land Been on all sides as one travels 

 liy trolley or otherwise throufxh the suhurhan districts 

 the nncalled-fi)r e\trii\a;;anc(' of last season in the 

 plowing; up of line lawns and llower jrardens for the 

 idanlin;,' td" potatoes, heans and ealihages is ini|>res.sively 

 ap]iarent. 'J'his year there shoiiitl lie. and probably will 

 ''e more <;eneral "war gardenin^r" liy the j)iiblie but let 

 MS liope that it will be done with better judirnieiit. 



Tlie House, on motion uf IJcpresentative 

 The Young of Nortli Dakota, has included in 



barberries (|i(. agricultural bill an appropriation for 

 CONTENTS '" '^^"a"" "the eradication of the barberry bush,'" 



P'**?'-' said to be distributor of the black rust 



IdVKK ILLrSTHATIO.V— Hose Ophelia ,■ , .„,,. a , ^ i ^.,> a<w> /.,„, i i i fit 



KOSK GROWING TNOKK GL.^SS-Propagation-Se- "'"^■'' "' l'^^'' «1estroyed lbU,OOU,000 bushels of wheat 



lection of Wood — Temperatures — Watering and in the Dakotas and Minnesota alone. It is expressly 



Syrinuing-Shading-.irr;,./,- c. «Mi.ci-a 149 ^j^^j^^j ^j^^^ "Nation-wide destruction of the barbern' 



.SOCIETY OF AMERICAN' FLORISTS— Meeting of the . i •• n i i i j ii • *■ rni " 



Exec.tive Conunittee-The Publicity Campaign. .151-152 ''"sh ' Will be planned under the appropriation. The 



(.mTl-ARY-Ti.e Late c. E. Faxon-John O. Graham- "two-host' character of the black rust has been known 



.lohn G. Gardner- Mrs. William Bayersdorter— Karl for many years. As in the case of the cedar apple and 



Voigt 153 white pine blister rust, the eradication of the pest ap- 



(LCB AND SOCIETIES-. New York Florists' Club— pears to call for the extinction or isolation of the least 



Buffalo Florists- Club 153 valuable of the two host plants and as between the wheat 



FcSrwlLL^WIN THE- WAR; ' ' PRODUCE- ' IT I "'-P ^^^ «- '-•'--•'-' '' °- --.t/<^ ^^^(f^'' there 

 Daviii Burpee 154 • '"" ''"^ "° choice, of course. But it would be nothing 



THE FUTURE OF HORTICLLTUHE IN AMERICA- ^''O'"*' "^ ^ distressing calamity if it should prove abso- 



l\'. .1. ji/(i«(/(( '. 154 lutely necessaiy to destroy not only the wild barberries, 



SEED TRADE- The Canners' Convention; Notes 156 so highly prized for their fruit, but tlie garden species 



OF INTEREST TO RET.\IL FLORISTS: ii-i well, including the grandest of all hedge plants for 



.\ Florists' Disclaimer— X;iw Flower Stores 158 the eoliler sections of the country, Berberis Thunbergi. 



i'"LOWER MARKET REPORTS: We hope this far-reaching proposition will have most 



Boston, Chicago. Cincinnati. New York, Philadelphia 161 t-ai-eful consideration and exhaustive study from every 



DURING RECESS-Stamford Horticultural Society. . . 163 standpoint and that no hasty action may be taken, under 



L0C.4L .\ND GE.NKRAL NEWS: inciteiiicnt of the existing food conservation stress, on 



.New York, Boston. Philad^'lphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, „ „„„ „„ i .„ ,• „ .i ,,„„,. „i „^i„f„i 



St. Louis, Rochester. Cleveland 164-166 " "loa.sure SO d.rastic and wantonly wasteful. 



MISCELLANEOUS: I'lKler the title of "Snow and Seed 



California-Grown Boxwood-Illustration 152 The ( 'Mtalosues," the Philadell-bia 



-A. W ise Imijorting Provision 155 ^ » i ,- ,, °. • , -r^ , . ■ 



Visitors' RouisK^r 156 **^'' catalogue North American for February xJnd 



takes precedence presents a two-column editorial 



which is a most elo(]uent testi- 



Very reassuring indeed is the news .|„,|,ia| to the indispcnsability of the seedsman's cata- 



"'"*'* wjiich comes from New York of the lo^r,,,., wjiicli it declares should be "the best-read liook 



New York intensified interest and optimistic in .\merica during the next few weeks." It draws a 



'•internationar' sentiment concerning the outlook for gra)ihic wood picture of desolate, shell-scarred fields — 



a success as usual in the Interna- '"i"'^'"'^ o^/eres stretcOiing through many lands which 



tional Flower Show next month. The postponement of lieit't"f"ie had ]uovided generously for more millions of 



the National Flower Show planned for this spring at P<'"pl'— "'kI tl't" terrible reality o a world brought 



St. Louis was well-advised and most commendable but ';<■'''"''• ^" f'jmnie lliau ever before. It tells of .^merica s 



this annual New York affair is quite a different matter ''."*.^- >" ^"'>sti ute such a picture of plentiful produc- 



and any letting-up or break in the series would, we "•"! «f "'''^^ has never seen not alone for now but 



believe. "unfavorablv affect the future prosperity of these ""t"' !''" war-wrecked nations have had time and chance 



enterprises. As there is no lack of fine local material <" revive their i.rostrate fields and reestablish heir farni 



to fill the exhibition hall to its limit the question of "'"1 ^/J''^^^" forces-perhaps a generation hence. It 



transportation irregularities and delays need cause no 'Vf-'cs the ]danning of homo gardens for next spring an( 



concern. There can lie '-'no such word as fail"' when !'^ ,t'"" V""-' '"'l' •*']? ^w'"^ ''"'i . """*'i"='^.^ 



the staunch workers put their shoulders to the wheel <'"»''l'^' ^^^ "^f ^ patriotic duty second to none. Is it 



as thev are doin- in New York. ^'">' ^™";1"' /''"* '''^^\. ^o"/ ''l°"f ^' 'f '^"'"'^ '"''?''' 



rea.sons for the conviction that the seedsman s catalog 



Now comes the aftermath of .«ome of should he the best read bo(jlc in .\merica during the next 



Unwise [])(. foolish things that were done all few weeks? The seedsman himself w'ill be put to the 



war gardening over the country last year in the war test as never before so soon as the snow has vani.shed, for 



garden paroxysm. A report by the we are fast becoming "a nation of gardeners" and the 



chairman of the park and recreation board states that seedsman is in the saddle. 



