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May 4, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION'— Narcissus Emperor and Em- 

 press Naturalized in Grass Under Oaks 



VEGETABLE CULTURE — Lima Beans and Melons 

 Under Glass — John Johnson 433 



REGULATION RESTRICTING BTJEL CONSUMPTION 

 BY FLORISTS 435 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— The Publicity 



Campaign 435 



Department of Plant Registration 436 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Gladiolus Society 

 — Meetings Next Week — Horticultural Society of New 

 York— Notes 436 



OBITUARY— Joseph Tailby— W. W. Simonds— James 

 E. Connor — M. J. Hannigan — Conrad Hess — Nancy 

 Wilder Bigelow 437 



•THE FLOWER: A SYMBOL OF TRIUMPH"— Scuddy 

 Richardson 438 



SEED TRADE— To Boost Philadelphia Market Garden 

 Products — Chicago Notes — Notes 440 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 

 The Publicity Drive — Henry Penn 442 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh 445 



Rochester, St. Louig 447 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 

 Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, Rochester, 

 St. Louis 448-449 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Bituminous Coal Prices 435 



Bulbs Planted in Grass — Illustrated 437 



Polnsettias — Illustrated 438 



Reforestation 439 



The Barberry Scare 439 



Catalogues Received — Patents Granted 439 



Personal .' 443 



Your Next Duty — Henry Penn 447 



Visitors' Register 447 



Business Troubles 447 



News Notes 449 



Publications Received 450 



Saturday, April 27, was Arbor Day in 



Plant Ma.ssachusetts and the occasion was duly 



more trees observed by the planting of trees by 



town officials, school children and others 

 in many localities, with appropriate exercises, but we 

 have seen no evidence of any comprehensive practical 

 effort in that direction although there are thousands 

 upon thousands of acres of unproductive land in the 

 state which miglit be thus turned to good account. For 

 many reasons, one of which is the fuel shortage, more 

 trees have been cut down during the past year than in 

 any other recent period although there were fewer to be 



• lit tlian over before, it is undoubtedly true that the 

 |ilaritiiig of young trees to replace them falls far short 

 i>( that rct]uiieinciit. We should not forget tliat tree 

 |ilaiitiiig for shade and for timber is our boundcii duty 

 to the generations that are to follow us. We should have 

 been attending to it systematically and on a large scale 

 during the past forty years, to match the consiiinpliou. 

 Had we done so it would hav.' I»>i>ii an asset of untold 

 value today. 



It has been a long-standing tradition 

 Reduced of the florist business in this country 



production and that it has long maintained an un- 

 its effect interrupted growth in volume and 

 importance, each year seeing a great 

 extension of the area of glass houses, a vast develoi)mont 

 of the business in every department and inyrciised 

 iiuml)er of people engaged in it. Now we seem to have 

 lome to a time when this no longer holds true. The 

 greenhouse building industry has come almost to a 

 standstill while, in addition to the usual depreciation 

 and abandonment of antiquated structures, there are 

 many places wliith have been idle under the combined 

 pressure of unprecedented cold and fuel scarcity. The 

 latest ollicial order, limiting the tlorists' coal supply to 

 fifty per cent of normal, for next season, which appears 

 in this issue of IIouticultuke, tightens still more the 

 screws and the outlook is plainly for a further curtail- 

 ment of the annual greenhouse production in every sec- 

 tion of the I'nited States and in Canada as well. There 

 are other ])otentia]iries looming up wliieh need not be 

 chronicled liere that are quite likely to contribute to a 

 very substantial reduction of flower and plant product. 

 What will l)f the outcome? Can the country consume 

 what will be grown and will the waste of the past be 

 ehniinated in tbe coming .season? It begins to look a 

 little tliat wav. 



\ <()rrespondent in a British nu'tedii)- 

 ogiial journal relates an observation to 



The 



blessing of (Iciiu.ii.strate the protection afforded to 

 snow [:lanl life by a covering of snow. Two 



iniuinium thermometers placed over 

 night, one on top of the snow — which was only one 

 and one-half inches deep — and one on the ground under 

 the snow, registered minimum temperatures respectively 

 of 2 degrees below zero and 24 degrees above zero — a 

 difference of 20 degrees! Frequent and heavy snowfall 

 is not usually looked upon by the average mortal as a 

 cause for gratulation. An "open winter," with storms 

 few and light, is much more to his liking. Boston has 

 had an experience of that .sort the past winter and it is 

 safe to say that horticulturally she ]u)\>cs it may be many 

 j'ears before she again has a like visitation. The damage 

 done to nurseries and gardens by the merciless weather 

 of last winter, in the absence of Xature's blessing of 

 deep snow protection, is most pitiful, unparalleled with- 

 in the memory of anyone heard from thus far. Ever- 

 greens, such as thuyas, retinosporas, teugas and buxus 

 have suffered terribly, not only here but in states south- 

 ward but equally severe and ruinous has been the killing 

 in this vicinity of herbaceous border and rock garden 

 plants usually reliable, such as primroses, hollyhocks, 

 lychnis, campanulas, etc. for which the ab.«ence of snow 

 covering seems to have been the only cause, as twenty 

 five or thirty miles back from the sea coast, where there 

 was an abundance of snow, all tliese things have come 

 through in perfect condition. Xo more snowless win- 

 ters, please. 



