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Miircli 9, 1918 



HORTICULTURt: 



VOL XXVII MARCH 9, 1918 NO. 10 



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HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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Roleml as »econilclii«« innlter December 8, IIKM. nt the Post Ofllce 

 • I KoatoD. MoB».. under tbe Act of CooRress of March 3 . 1870. 



CONTENTS Pase 



COVER ILLISTRATION — View in the Botanical 

 Garden at Uuitenzorj;, Java 



VEGETABLE CULTURE— Early Peas— Celery— Onions 

 — Brussels Sprouts — John Johnson 221 



NURSERYMEN. ATTENTION— Nurserymen's Market 

 Development Fund— New England Nurserymen's As- 

 sociation 223-224 



OBITUARY — Michael J. Vielbig — John Lynch — Mrs. 

 John Charlton— Thomas Greaves— William F. Harkett 224 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' Conference in 

 New York- R. I. Horticultural Society — Holyoke- 

 Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' Club— Lan- 

 caster County Florists' Association — Meetings Next 

 Week— Income Tax Reiwrts— Society of American 

 Florists— Notes 225-226 



SEED TRADE— Production of Bermuda Onion Seed in 

 Southwest — Notes — •'Acorns" 228 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 230 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS; 



Boston, Chicago. New York, Philadelphia, Rochester 233 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 

 Chicago, New York. Rochester, Boston 236-237 



miscella>:eous: 



Publication Received 221 



Rose Tausendschoen in Bar Harbor, Me.— Illustration 224 



M. A. C. Flower Show 224 



News Notes 230-231 



Visitors' Register 231 



A New Semi-Monthly Publication 235 



Cover Illustration 235 



New Corporation 235 



Catalogues Received 238 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 238 



Wliu i.- not -lad that Marcli is here? 

 "Cometh .March with wind and rain; 

 Cometh March with sun and shine; 

 Cometh March the bold again- 

 Weather sombre; weather fine." 



Nobody loves March weather but at its worst it cauiiot 

 equal what we have fjoiie through for the past three 

 months and whether it displays the fury of a lion or 

 tlie gentleness of a lamb it is in either case the welcome 

 prelude to a spring looked forward to by the majority 

 of our readers with a yearning unprecedented. From 

 almost every standpoint the winter now taking its last 

 fling at us has been for the horticulturist a time of 

 desperate struggle, uncompromising in its exactions and 

 at times almost hopeless in its outlook. But, glory be, 

 its pitiless clutch is at last weakening and it will soon 

 be but an odious memory. May we never experience 

 another like it. One such in a lifetime is sufficient. 



Spring 

 <n sight 



.Now tliiit Ihinyc lire commencing to 

 What'* iiiaw out. tiic iiurser}'niaii and gardou 

 the damage? vMnkcr will lie wistfully rectmnoitcring 

 among his plants, shrubs and trees to 

 a!^certuill what dist ruction ha.s been worked among 

 them by the severe weather to which tliey liavc liecii 

 exposed. It is rather early yet to form any liiit the nujsl 

 general conclusions, for the full elTivt of their exposure 

 will not lie disclosed for some time and we iiave still 

 to pass througii a most treacherous period with jiossi- 

 liilities of mischief fully as great as in the midwinter 

 frieze. ]'!n(jugh is already in plain evidence of dis- 

 heartening havoc among siibjecls hithe.ito n^garded as 

 tiiistworthy. Yet jt is (piite [lossible that some thiiigr 

 reputed to be unreliable may turn out to have stood tlie 

 ordeal far better than one would dare to hojie for under 

 tire circumstances, the why and wherefore of which no 

 man can yet readily account for. 



We have ])cruse(l with interest the call for 

 Do a "gardeners' conference" to be held in New 

 it now York City on Marcli 1.5, "to establish the 

 ]irofession of gardening in the public eye on 

 the same liigh plane as other sciences." Certainly a 

 roost laudable purpo.se and one which we ardently hope 

 may be well advanc-ed on the way to fulfilment by the 

 dtliberations at the coming meeting. We hardly need 

 to specify one imputation which lias done much to re- 

 duce the gardener in the employers' respect to the level 

 of the menial. We made ])articular comment last week 

 on the impending legislation in the State of New Jer- 

 sey prohibiting the offering to or accepting by an em- 

 ployee anything in the nature of a 'tip" or gratuity as 

 a comniL«sion on orders, etc. We submit that the gar- 

 dener, so far as this may apply to him, should not wait 

 fur the jiassage of any such restrictive legislation but 

 on his own initiative, come out scpiarely and unecpiivo- 

 cally in denunciation of these disoreditod practices. If 

 the |)ioposed conference can but l)ring this about, now. 

 as a voluntary act. one of the worst impediments to the 

 advancement of the gardener towards the same high 

 phme accorded to "otlior scipiicps" will have been I'dci^- 

 tiially removed. 



"It's all wrong, this idea that in order to 

 Fallacious finance the war we nnisl deprive ourselves 



ideas °f ^" ''"' ^^^ '^'"'^ necessities. For if you 



deny luxuries to those who can afford them 

 you automatically deprive the less fortunate 

 and less skilled of bread, raiment and shelter. No com- 

 munity ever got rich by limiting its people to the bare 

 necessities of life. All progress, all civilization, all wealth 

 beyond the bare needs of the moment are the direct result" 

 of the production and sale of luxuries." 



Thus reasoned one of the speakers at the opening of 

 ilie big automobile show in Boston this week. His argu- 

 ment fits well into IIorticitlture's creed as applying 

 to the horticultural industries, often expres.sed in these 

 columns ever since the time last summer when narrow- 

 minded, short-sighted people began to broadcast the 

 jicrnicious doctrine that the public should abandon to 

 their fate all non-essential indu.slries, especially that 

 of the florist. The delusion is dying a hard death but 

 die it must and sentiments such as are above quoted, 

 and on such an occasion, cannot but help very materi- 

 iilly to that end. Florists, nurserymen, gardeners, park 

 and landscape men — all should take a re-solute stand 

 and speak up at every opportunity on this principle 

 which so vitally affects not only their own sustenance 

 but also in a great degree the prosperity of tbe entire 

 community. 



