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HOKTICULTUKE 



December 12, 1914 



HORTICUI TURE 



VOL XX 



DECEMBER 12. 19)4 



NO. 24 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— New Rose Mrs. Mborfield 

 Storey 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Chry- 

 santhemum Stock Plants — Palms in Winter — Or- 

 chids — Propagating Bouvardias — Winter Protection 

 —Flats— Joftn J. M. Farrcll 825 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Care of Outside 

 Roses — Electric Light on Roses — About Grafting — 

 About Shawyer, Russell and Six-foot Stems— Ferns 

 and Roses in Same House — Arthur C. Kiizicfca. .826-827 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 830 



LET BROTHERLY LOVE PREVAII^G. C. Watson.. 830 



THE VALUE OF THE TRADE JOURNAL 831 



TEXAS ROSES FOR SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION— 

 R. C. Kerr 831 



THE VALUE OF SODA WHEN POTASH IS SCARCE 

 —Burt L. Harticell 831 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— Program of 



Buffalo Convention — Premium List 832 



Boston to Buffalo — New Carnations Registered 833 



'CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Albany Florist Club- 

 Minnesota Horticultural Society — Park Institute of 

 New England — Pittsburs-'h Florists' and Gardeners' 



'Club — Newport Horticultural Society 834 



Florists' Club of Washington — National Association 



of Gardeners — Society of American Florists 836 



Club and Society Notes 837 



OBITUARY— J. F. Mallon — George Cooke— Franz 

 Schramm — John J. Connelly— Joseph B. Robinson... 839 



SEED TRADE — Prison for Bogus Seed Man— Supply 

 of Sugar Beet Seed — To Correct Abuses in the Seed 

 and Bulb Trade 844 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Two Pleasing Floral Arrangements — Illustrated... 836 



Christmas Hints — Window Advertising 846 



Flowers by Telegraph 847 



The Mid-December Lull— G. C. W 850 



New Flower Stores 850 



Arrangement of Roses and Barberton Daisies — Illus- 

 tration 852 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, — San Francisco — Washington — Chicago .... 849 

 New York 851 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Albany, Boston, Buffalo 855 



Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. 

 Louis, Washington 857 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Anniversary Greetings 830 



Two Promising New Dahlias — Illustrated 833 



Publications Received 838 



. A Nursery Company Expands 844 



Business Troubles 844 



A Landsdowne Howl 851 



Visitors' Register 852 



Personal — During Recess 853 



News Notes : 853 



New Corporations 862 



Notable Increase of Insect Remedies 863 



Maximum Light in the Greenhouse 864 



Coke for Greenhouse Heat 864 



"Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 864 



This is Hoeticdltuee's tenth annual 



An Christmas number. It also marks the 



anniversary tenth anniversary in Horticulture's 



career. Many changes have taken place 

 in the ten years which have elapsed since Horticul- 

 ture's first issue appeared. Of the men who were most 

 active in floriculture at that time a startling number 

 have passed away. Of the varieties of roses, carnations 

 and chrysanthemums which held the leadership in the 

 floral world almost all have been supplanted. The 

 business has grown enormously, greenhouse construction 

 has made mighty progress and great strides have been 

 accomplished in the way of store equipment and selling 

 methods. And — which interests us most of all — Hor- 

 TicuLTL'RE has entrenched itself more strongly with each 

 passing year and those who at the start could see "no 

 room for another paper" now realize that they were mis- 

 taken and are not sorry. 



In turning over the pages of Horticulture 

 Ten tor the past ten years we quickly find that, in 

 years j^g flower business as in many other respects, 

 ■'history repeats itself." For instance, it is 

 quite interesting to note how uniformly wholesale prices 

 on certain staples have been maintained for correspond- 

 ing dates from year to year. Ten years ago the same 

 stagnation followed the Thanksgiving Day activity 

 which we have been experiencing this year, just as it had 

 been in the years preceding and has been in all the years 

 since, although there was no war or notable commercial 

 depression which could be held responsible. The gen- 

 eral belief that market prices are lower this year than 

 ever before at this date appears not to be well-founded, 

 if weekly trade paper quotations in the past are any 

 criterion, indeed, on roses the figures given are in 

 some cases considerably higher than those given years 

 ago, but it must be conceded that the quality of the 

 goods on which the quotations are given is far ahead of 

 that of — say ten years since. With the exception of the 

 violet and the cattleya the standard of value, generally, 

 seems to have been maintained quite well, everytliing 

 considered. 



What of the next ten years? Wlien Horti- 

 Looking CULTURE has reached its twentieth anniver- 

 forward ggry how will the record of progress read? 



How many of the present-day favorites in 

 plants and flowers will have passed into oblivion and 

 on what now lines will advances have been made? The 

 writer of those notes hopes to be still able to swing the 

 editorial pen after the lapse of another decade and that 

 in the onward and upward march of advancement in the 

 art to which all its energies are devoted Horticulture 

 may lie piivileged to take an honorable and honored 

 jiart. SluiU we sec the national society quadruple its 

 mombcrship and become a great and efficient bulwark 

 against malign influences and pernicious legislation? 

 Will the paramount problem of flower distribution have 

 come any nearer to solution? Sliall we have our home- 

 grown Dutch bulbs, forcing lilies, lily of the valley, rose 

 stocks, rhododendrons, lilacs and azaleas? We should 

 like to see all these things come about and there are 

 many more ideals in every department of horticulture to 

 wliich we may and should aspire. We do not doul)t that 

 the coming years will be well filled out with American 

 horticultui-al triumphs. No profession offers a fairer 

 field or a more certain recompense. To the work and 

 the workers Horticulture again pledges its best. Look 

 forward, not backward. 



