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HORTICULTURE 



September 5, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



VOt. XX 



SEPTEMBER 5, 1914 



NO. 10 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston. Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 282. 

 WH. i. STEWART, Editor fuid ManaEer. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post OlBce 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Mrs. William F. Gude, 

 President-elect Ladies' Society of American Florists 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Care of Primulas — Cyclamen for Next Year — Dutch 

 Bulbs — Hydrangeas — Sweet Peas — Starting the Fires 

 —JoJi n J. M. Farri'U 353 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Old Soil— Ma- 

 nure for Mulching — Potting Soil — Curled Foliage — 

 A rth iir C. Ruzieka 355 



A VISIT TO THE BERKSHIRE HILLS— Illustrated 356 



THE BOSTON S. A. F. CONVENTION— Report of 

 Committee on Final Resolutions — Addition to Report 

 of Judges of Trade Exhibit 358 



MYRIOPHYLLUM PROSERPINACOIDES— Illustrated 359 



THE WHITE FLY PROBLEM— Jtf. C. Ebel 358 



SEED TRADE— The Import Situation— The Cheapest 

 Commodity — The Deluge — Humanity — European Seed 

 outlook — Local Conditions — Notes 362 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 364 



Flowers by Telegraph 365 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Park Superintendents; G. X. Amrhyn, portrait — 

 Connecticut Horticultural Society — Florists' Club of 

 Philadelphia — North Shore Horticultural Society — 



International Flower Show 366 



Club and Society Notes 367 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 369 



Philadelphia, St. Louis 371 



OBITUARY— Mrs. J. M. Keller— Mrs. John P. Ward 

 —P. R. Quinlan 377 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Publications Received 357 



Replanting Raspberries and Asparagus — Wilfrid 



Wheeler 358 



Record Price for Potatoes 358 



Catalogues Received — Visitors' Register 360 



St. Louis Notes — Cincinnati Notes 364 



New Corporations 364 



News Notes 365 



Chicago Notes — Personal 371 



Philadelphia Notes 377 



Two Boston Convention Exhibits — Illustrated 377 



Two New Laws In Georgia 378 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 378 



We receive at this season of the year many 

 Sowing interesting notices of local flower shows, 

 the seed initiated and conducted by amateurs and 



occasionally aided by the participation and 

 encouragement of the florists of the neighborhood. Ab- 

 stractly these affairs have not sufficient interest for the 

 readers of HorxTiccLTURE to justify our giving space to 

 any mention of them in our columns but in a broad 

 sense they fill a very useful function as feeders to the 

 growing sentiment of the public gardenward and the 

 ultimate upbuilding of the commercial floricultural 

 interests through this salutary influence. Village Im- 

 provement Societies and Children's Garden campaigns 

 act as an incentive to the people to improve their gar- 

 dens, adorn their porches and windows with plants and 

 to make beauty spots of the waste places and the seeds- 



man and florist will profit by the increased demand thus 

 occasioned. So, by all means, extend a helping hand 

 to such movements and the good seed thus scattered 

 broadcast will yield an abundant harvest in due time. 



We notice that our several British contem- 

 WaKs poraries are emphasizing the necessity of 

 burden more home-production of food stuffs in the 



present emergency and the economizing with 

 what is now available. Gardens that have heretofore 

 been devoted to flower culture to gratify the esthetic 

 taste may in this great emergency be wisely given up to 

 the raising of vegetables and fruit to help out tlie food 

 supply. Our friends across the water have for the 

 present more serious business before them than the pur- 

 suit of floriculture and it is impossible that the adverse 

 influences of the terrific struggle in which their country 

 has become involved should not distract their attention 

 from this, the most peaceful of all avocations followed 

 by mankind. We extend sincere sympathy to our dis- 

 tressed co-laborers of whatever race, across the seas, and 

 express the sincere hoi)e that the conflict may be quickly 

 over and that they all may be soon enabled to resume 

 their occupation of makinsr the world brighter and 

 sweeter to live in. We, on this side, can realize how 

 true it is that "there is nothing like a great war to 

 emphasize the blessings of peace." 



The first shock of the European 

 Distress ^ar calamity liaving passed we now 



and opportunity begin gradually to realize the re- 

 sultant possibilities and probabili- 

 ties which must be taken into consideration in all lines 

 of commercial horticulture. Doubtless, in some phases 

 we have overimagined the dire effects of the confusion 

 on production and transportation of materials we are 

 accustomed to get from Europe; in some respects the 

 effect may be exactly the reverse of what we, on first 

 thought, figured out. But, as a general proposition, 

 there can be no question that this sad conflict will have 

 a tremendous bearing on the course of our business here 

 in America regardless of its duration or its outcome 

 politically. For some it will mean stress and perhaps 

 disaster; for others it will spell opportunity. The 

 transportation problem, which at first seemed a hope- 

 less derangement, appears to have been partially 

 straightened out with prospects of gradual improve- 

 ment, particularly so far as Dutch and British goods 

 are concerned. Btit it seems to be generally accepted 

 now that we must get along without lily of the valley 

 or azaleas for the coming season at least. It must be 

 left to American growers as to what shall take the place 

 of these staple commodities in our flower markets. The 

 opening is certainly favorable for the exercise of good 

 business judgment and resourceful foresight. If this 

 emergency should operate to lay the foundations of 

 some substantial home industries which will tend to 

 make the American trade independent of foreign supply 

 and divert into the pockets of home producers the money 

 which has been going abroad every year for plants and 

 bulbs the present check will prove to have been a most 

 propitious opportunity for commercial horticulture in 

 this country, tending to conditions which we have long 

 been hoping for. 



The present time — youngest born of Eternity, child and 

 heir of all the Past "Times with their good and evil, and 

 parent of all the Future — is ever a "New Era" to the think- 

 ing man To know it. and what it bids us do, is ever 



the sum of knowledge tor all of us. — Carlyle. 



