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NOVEMBER 28. 1914 



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CONTENTS PaK« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — South African Harrisii 

 Lilies 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Al- 

 lamandas — Care of Carnations — Care of Gardenias — 

 Propagating Crotons — Rhododendrons — Preparing 



Ground for Asters — John J. M. FarrcU 753 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS: 



Trouble With Mrs. Aaron Ward — Sheep Manure — 

 Soot — Storing Manure — Potting Soil — The Coal Sup- 

 ply—Electric Lights— .4 rfftur C. KuzUka 754-75.=) 



SACCOLABIUM GIGANTEUM— Illustrated 755 



SOUTH AFRICAN HARRISII LILIES 755 



ARNOLD ARBORETUM— Bulletin No, 63 757 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society- 

 American Association of Nurserymen — Pacific Coast 

 Horticultural Society — Chrysanthemum Society of 



America — Lancaster County Florists' Club 758 



Gardeners' Convention — Notes 759 



NEW DAHLIA ALBERT MANDA— Illustrated 759 



SEED TRADE — Faulty Conclusions— Canners' Con- 

 vention Matters — The Bean Situation — San Francisco 



Prospects — California Seed Notes 760 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS 764 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 765 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston San Francisco — Washington 766 



OBITUARY— J. L. Fillow— Andrew Glorius 767 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 767 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Fran- 

 cisco 763 



St. Louis, Washington 771 



AlISCELLANEOUS: 



A Great Holiday Display 759 



Catalogues Received — Publications Received 762 



News Notes 762 



Accident to Thos. F. Galvln 764 



Visitors' Register 766 



Where are the Flower Buyers? 767 



Decorative Planting at the Panama-Pacific 767 



Little Benny on Flowers 771 



Mites on Mushrooms 771 



Ginkgo From Seed 771 



Fruit-Bearing Shrubs to Attract Desirable Birds... 776 



The Shaw Banquet 776 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 776 



Fires 776 



Now tliat the real flower-buying sea.son luis 

 More started in we are wondering who will throw 

 bricks the next brick. The last one we heard came 

 from the Metropolitan Opera House in New 

 York when the opera season opened last week, in an 

 edict prohibiting the passing of flowers over the foot- 

 lights to tlic performers. The cessation of steamer 



travel during the past summer was a disastrous blow to 

 the florist business, felt most severely, of course, by the 

 seaport florists but affecting the trade generally to a 

 considerable extent. Nobody whined about it and it was 

 accepted philosophically because it was realized that it 

 was our share of the indirect burden resulting from the 

 war. The ban on theatre flowers comes, then, at a very 

 bad time and is all the more grievous because it seems 

 oppressive and uncalled for. The flower business is pre- 

 eminently one of the arts of peace. Its influence is 

 liumanizing to a degree attained by but few commercial 

 avocations. As now established and conducted it repre- 

 sents large investments of capital and provides refined 

 employment for tens of thousands of people. The influ- 

 ence of their work and their products is "all to the 

 good" and they should not be molested. It is unfortu- 

 nate for the nurseryman and the florist and, in some 

 respects, the seedsman, that so much persistent antag- 

 onism against their calling is continually cropping up. 

 We are inclined to think tliat much of the arrogant in- 

 terference and tyranny whicli tlie florist has been called 

 upon to combat up to the present time is largely du<» to 

 his own supineness. His national society might be 

 made his best defensive weapon against the meddling of 

 politicians, priests and others liaving a little authority 

 but the more he needs its help the less he seems disposed 

 to use it. 



.V case now before the court in New 



An important .Fersey, the outcome of which will be 



lawsuit iif interest to florists and nurserymen 



wiiose gTeenhouses or plantations are 

 located along a railroad right-of-way, is that of W. A. 

 Manda. Inc., against the D. L. & W. R. R. The rail- 

 road company is elevating its tracks tlirough South 

 Orange, which were formerly on the natural level, and 

 in carrying out their plans have taken a wide strip of 

 Mr. Manda's hardy plant gardens adjoining the rail- 

 road for a distance of over one thousand feet. This 

 tract, originally valueless for planting had been over- 

 laid by Mr. Manda to an average depth of nearly three 

 feet with highly enriched loam and was devoted to the 

 intensive culture of herbaceous perennials, fine gar- 

 den shrubbery and rare evergreens. Mr. Manda's claim 

 against the D. L. & W. R. R. runs into a large figure, 

 covering not only the value of the plants taken with the 

 land but of the compost in which they were growing; 

 also the damages to his establishment as a whole, as well 

 as to the plantations contiguous to the new embank- 

 ment and the resultant injury to material in the green- 

 houses and in the outside beds from the interference 

 with light and air and the descent of noxious fumes and 

 gasses from the locomotives. Such nrospective damages 

 are difficult to show in advance and, being largely con- 

 jecture, are inadmissable as evidence in any court. Yet 

 to anyone with an intimate knowledge of plant life and 

 the essential requirements of a commercial enterprise 

 such as Mr. Manda has established it is manifest be- 

 yond any jmssibility of doubt that a .serious and perma- 

 nent injury will be inflicted. On this broader phase of 

 the question, as we have said, no practical basis of com- 

 pensation is possible, so we are all the more anxious to 

 see Mr. Manda win out in full on such specific claims 

 for redress as, under the circumstances, it has been pos- 

 sible for him to formulate and present in acceptable 

 legal form. Wlien this litigation has been finally set- 

 tled the decisions arrived at will no doubt furnish .some 

 data of pertinent interest and value. 



