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HOBTIOULTURB 



October 10, 1914- 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XX 



OCTOBER 10, 1914 



NO. 15 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Successful Transplanting of 

 Large Shade Trees 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Ar- 

 dlsia crenulata — Poinsettias for Pans — Pandanus 

 Veitchii — Preparing Fields for Next Year — Manure 

 for Winter — Potting Evergreens for Winter — John 

 J. M. Farrell 513 



VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS— iTuftert M. Canning 515 



CONVENTION GARDEN NOTES— «■. Finlayson 515 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Florists' Club of Philadelphia— Albany Florists' Club 

 — American Carnation Society — Horticultural Society 



of New York — Club and Society Notes 516 



Award of the White Medal of Honor 517 



Truckers' Convention 53G 



DURING RECESS— Rochester Florists— Illustrated .. . 518 



SEED TRADE— The European Situation— Domestic 



Seed Crops — Vine Seeds and Beans 520 



Bean Prices for 1915 — Bulbs of High Degree — British 

 Seeds — Chicago Seed Notes 522 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS— Florists' 

 Telegraph Delivery Association — New Flower Stores 524 

 Flowers by Telegraph 525 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 529 



Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington 531 



OBITUARY— George T. Hodges— Luke Mahon— Joseph 

 Cincotte — Jesse Bell 527 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Gladiolus Golden King 515 



Topsfield Notes 517 



Catalogues Received 518 



Soldiers of the Golden Plume, Poetry 517 



News Notes 525 



Boston Notes — Cincinnati Notes 526 



Chicago Notes — Washington Notes 526 



Business Troubles 526 



Philadelphia Notes — Visitors' Register 527 



St. Louis Notes 531 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 536 



Moving Big Trees 536 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 538 



Patents Granted 538 



"Enthusiasm should run riot in this busi- 



The key ness to make it the success it should be," 



to success says Mr. Finlayson in his notes on the 



Convention Garden in this issue. No 



truer words were ever spoken concerning every branch 



of horticulture. Mark the man whose whole being is 

 wrapped up in his plants — who is in the work, not alone 

 as a purely commercial undertaking but because he is 

 truly heart and soul in love witli it and you will find 

 him in the front rank, a recognized leader in his chosen 

 field. Of such sterling material are our Dawsons, 

 Craigs, Walsh's, Cooks, Burpees, Mandas and scores of 

 others whose names come to mind, men "to the manner 

 born," in whose make-up unquenchable ardor and en- 

 thusiasm are the dominant factors. We cannot have 

 too many of such. 



We are pleased to receive news of a 

 More than more hopeful aspect in the various 

 holding its own wholesale flower centres. The cheer- 

 ing feature of the situation is not 

 simply that sales are livelier and prices better but tliat, 

 upon the coming of a brief cold spell and a touch of 

 Jack Frost, the market responds at once with a jump. 

 This shows plainly that the "weary flat state and vjx- 

 profitable" market which has figured so often in our 

 weekly reports of late is not entirely a reflection of the 

 business uncertainty and financial stress of which large 

 commercial interests have been complaining for months,, 

 but is rather cliargeable to the ordinary class of local 

 and temporary ricissitudes of weather and crop with 

 which the flower trade has long been familiar. Consid- 

 ering the largely increased production, due to the re- 

 markable and uninterrupted growth of the flower pro- 

 ducing industry and the steady influx of capital indi- 

 cated by our weekly records of greenhouse building, the 

 healthy stability of the flower business in these disjointed 

 times is really wonderful to contemplate. And it is not 

 unreasonable to conclude that a business which shows 

 such virility at such a time must be well across tlie line 

 between luxury and indispeusability. 



Much experimenting has been indulged in^ 

 ivianetti and many promising leads have been fol- 

 lowed to an unsatisfactory outcome, in the 

 effort to find a stock on which to graft forcing roses, 

 which should rival or excel the universally used Manetti, 

 but that old standby still holds the field against all com- 

 ers. Next to the search for a substitute has been the 

 endeavor to make commercial Manetti growing a pay- 

 ing proposition in this country. Tliere seems to be no 

 question but that Manetti stock of equal if not better 

 quality than tlic European product can be grown 

 here. It is argued by some that tlie greater 

 amount of sunlight here makes the Manetti wood 

 too hard. Good growers whom we have con- 

 sulted, however, say that they have tried home- 

 grown Manetti on a fair scale and found the wood 

 in no way inferior to the best imported. The question, 

 which has come to the front with the general import 

 issue at the present time, resolves itself simply into one 

 of cost. It is the opinion of those growers whom we 

 have consulted that without some radical reduction in 

 the standard of wages and other conditions here or a 

 corresponding advance in same abroad, it will not pay 

 to try to grow Manetti in America in competition with 

 the stock from Europe. Yet they may be mistaken- 

 about that. 



