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February 23, 1918 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER I LLLSTRATIOX— Crataegus Holniesiana 



VEGETABLE CULTURE— Hot Beds— Preparedness- 

 Varieties to Plant Now — Cauliflower and Lettuce — 

 Tomatoes — John Johnson 175 



TWO GREAT ROSE NOVELTIES 175 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 177 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Convention 

 Postponed Until August— The Publicity Campaign.. 177 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Federation of 

 Horticultural Societies and Floral Clubs — .Meetings 

 Next Week — Nassau County Horticultural Society — 

 Illinois State Florists' Association — American Rose 



Society 178-179 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Club and 

 Society Notes 189 



SEED TRADE— Retail Prices on Vegetable Seeds- 

 Kentucky Blue Grass in Missouri and Iowa — Boost- 

 ing the Bean 180 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh 185 



Rochester, St. Louis 187 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston. Cleveland, New York, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, 

 Rochester 187-188 



OBITUARY— Theodore Krombach— Joseph S. Chase- 

 Alfred Patrick— Frederick W. Boyce — Mrs. William 

 Mnnro 190 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Crataegus Holmesiana 179 



Greenhouses of IDx-Emperor Li at Seoul, Korea — 



Illustration 180 



News Notes 182 



Joseph Barnit, Jr., portrait 183 



Visitors' Register 183 



The Holland-America Importations 187 



Catalogues Received 190 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 191 



Business Troubles 191 



New Corporations 191 



Patents Granted 191 



i'lic coming of even as many as thirty- 

 The two traveling representatives of Dutch 



Dutchmen horticultural exporting houses on the 

 Nieuw Amsterdam, shows a considerahle 

 measure of courage on the part of these gentlemen 

 after their sensational and somewhat distressing experi- 

 ences last fall in their effort to get home after a similar 

 visit to this country last summer. It also emphasizes 

 the indispensability of the American market in the eyes 

 of the Holland growers. Just what success awaits them 

 in their campaign this season may not be predicted but 

 we shall not be surprised if they find it very hard sled- 

 ding. 



Two matters wliich iiold jironiinence in 

 The s. A. F. our news columns this week are the posfc- 

 Convention pniieincnt of the St. Louis convention of 

 llio Society of American Florists until 

 August and the vigorous preparations being made for 

 the notable exhii)ition to be held in New York next 

 month. Tlic moving of the convention to the time of 

 the year with which it has always been identified will 

 meet with practically universal approval, tiie setting 

 aside of the 1!)18 National Flower Show leaving no 

 dominant reason for the abandonment of the old mid- 

 summer vacation idea in connection with the S. A. F. 

 Convention. So now the experiment of merging it 

 with the National Flower Show will necessarily have 

 to lie on the table for an indefinite period. In a way, 

 this convention change clears the way for intensified 

 activity in the New York enterprise and should 

 strengthen it considerably. Notwithstanding the un- 

 usual conditions and perplexities attaching to this affair 

 this year, the resolution to see it through seems now 

 to have been justified in the new spurt of animation and 

 determination among the commercial exhibitors, upon 

 whom it appears must fall the greater part of the 

 lesponsibility this time. 



Incessant is the S. 0. S. call from every 

 Generosity gjje now. A myriad agencies are work- 

 ing and straining every nerve in sedu- 

 lous appeal on behalf of the Eed Cross and other 

 humane institutions. The response is spontaneous and 

 open-hearted and among the ever-ready contributors the 

 floral interests stand second to none in the degree and 

 proportionate extent of their generosity. Generosity in 

 its most noble quality. consists of something more than 

 sharing with others that of which one possesses more 

 than one has need for, and much more than giving 

 away that upon which another may have a better claim 

 and he who in big-hearted sympathy for his fellowman 

 in distress freely contributes that which he himself 

 needs and can ill afford to give, merits by far the grcatex 

 commendation. We have noticed in connection with the 

 turning over of flower show proceeds, including cash 

 premiums cheerfully forfeited by exhibitors for the ben- 

 efit of various philanthropic activities, that as very often 

 happens in such cases, public recognition and gratitude 

 are prone to overlook and forget those who may have 

 made the greatest sacrifice. The young woman who at- 

 tires herself in the apparel of a waitress at the flower 

 .'ihow and "pours tea" for the cause, the well-to-do patron 

 who contributes liberally of that which he will never 

 miss — such are, of course, worthy of honor and approba- 

 tion and they get it in plentiful measure as everj'one 

 who reads the newspapers well knows, but of the heroic 

 sacrifice of the rnan whose normally scanty profits from 

 his labor have been reduced to the vanishing point in 

 tliis most cruel winter, who yet unselfishly gives the 

 plants and flowers which are his only means of liveli- 

 hood and seeks no return other than an approving con- 

 science and possible bit of ribbon — of this we hear little 

 or nothing. Yet who is better entitled to acknowledg- 

 ment and a good word? 



