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CONTENTS 



Page 

 rOVKR ILLUSTRATION- Garden of Succuleuts. 



SYSTE.M AND EFVICIKSCY— Joseph J. Lane 577 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign— Express Your Personalit.v 579 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY 580 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society- 

 Meetings Next Week — Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 of Boston — New York Florists' Club — Florists' Club 

 of Washington — Tarrytown Horticultural Society — 

 Stamford Horticultural Society — Chicago Florists' 



Club— International Flower Show, 1919 581-583 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Reception 



Planned in Botanical Gardens 591 



SEED TRADE— American Seed Trade Association— 

 P. W. Uolgiano, portrait — Onion Seed Prospects, 

 Federico C. Vaiela — Jacques L. de Vilmorin, portrait 584 

 OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



More F. T. D.'ism, Hrnn/ Penn — New Flower Stores. 



586-587 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago. New Y'ork. Philadelphia 589 



Pittsburgh. Rochester. St. Louis 591 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. Rochester, Chicago, Wash- 

 ington. St. Louis 592-594 



OBITUARY'— William Hav— Dennis Murphy 594 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



"Please Omit Flowers." AJexnnder MacLellan 579 



E. J. Shaylor. portrait 583 



New Corporation ) 587 



Business Troubles 591 



Visitors' Register 591 



Rosa Hugonis — Robert Py]e 594 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 595 



News Notes 595 



\\'c are in receipt of a telegram from 

 Bulb •\Vni. r. Gude, who is watching closely 



exclusion con- the interests of the Society of Amer- 

 firmed jcan Florists at the centre of govern- 



mental action, to the effect that "l)ulbs 

 must remain on the restricted list for the time being." 

 This looks verA' unpromising for this year's quota of 

 bulbs from Holland and Japan. It has one advantage 

 in that it gives us timely notice. Our growers can now 

 go ahead and prepare a.? best lliey can to fill the gap in 

 the plant and flower market which now seems unavoid- 



iibli-. 'J'he seed trade have cluiini'il for .xnne years past 

 ibat llicre is no |ir(.itit for Uiem in tlie bull) trade, so 

 ihey need not worry. Tlie importing houses, making 

 a specialty of bulbs will sulTer most. 



.\t tile recent liciiring of llonsts and 



A change in iiiirscryiiien itefore the Federal Horti- 



pi.mt material cultural Board at Washington, Dr. 



Iwiircbiid callc(i attention to changes 

 likely to occur in future plant i!U|iorts and in plant 

 material used by (lori.sts and nurserymen. Dr. Fair- 

 < bild thouglit that imports of many i)lants now brougbt 

 Ironi Kiirojie would diminish and that in their place 

 icceiit inlroiliictions of Mr. F. 11. Wilson and other col- 

 lectors would be used. We fully agree with Dr. Fair- 

 cliild in this view. Tlie difficulties incident to the War 

 cannot fail to stimulate production of forcing material 

 for florists in this country as well as material now im- 

 ported l>y nurseryiuen for landscape jdanting. and there 

 is no question that many plants lieretofore included in 

 such im]iortations will be superseded by jdants recently 

 introduced from (liiiia and olsewiierc as these introduc- 

 tions become more generally known and stock of them 

 becomos availal)lo. 



Former .Vttorney (Jeiieral Wickersham is 

 Specious (pioted as saying ''Business as usual means 

 advice waste as usual." That is not necessarily 

 so. It depends entirely upon what one 

 legards as "waste." Money spent for so-called "lux- 

 uries" is not wasted; it is simply circulated. Another 

 sophistical writer of epigrams says : "Luxuries as usual 

 means a victorious Germany. Save and buy War Sav- 

 ing Stamps." How can the florists, the theater people, 

 the automobile people and other people proverbial for 

 their liberality contribute money to War Stamps, Red 

 Cross, or various other good purposes if you stop the 

 money from reaching them? The Red Cross and the 

 Liberty lioan lose nothing by allowing the money to 

 pass first through tlie hands of these people but they 

 certainly must lo.se by any cour.sc that will stop such 

 concerns from doing business and making it impossible 

 for them and their employees to give. The circulation 

 of money is not necessarily "'waste." 



With but one-half his usual supply ot fuel 



The available to him for next winter, and that 



Outlook at a price almost prohibitive, the florist 



generally, lias heen contemplating the im- 

 mediate future with more or less alarm. Quite recent- 

 ly, however, he seems to be coming to a calmer and 

 more hopeful view of the situation. Many florists will 

 run all their houses until Christmas stock is disposed 

 of, after which half or more of each establishment may 

 be closed until Marcli, or perhaps carried along witli 

 crops requiring only low temperature. It will not lie 

 surprising if such flowers as antirrhinums, calendulas, 

 clarkias, larkspurs, lupins, gilliflowers, mignonette and 

 others requiring comparatively low temperature will 

 he more jilcntifnl in our market than heretofore. The 

 grower should not shut his eyes to the obvious rule that 

 supply governs price and that with reduced production 

 prices will undoubtedly rule much higher; a market 

 condition that will be greatly added to by the closing 

 of so many private greenhouses and the consequent in- 

 crease to the volume of trade from the owners who in 

 other years had their own supply. 



