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HOETICULTURE 



December 19, 1914 



horticulture: 



VOL XX 



DECEMBER 19, 1914 



NO. 25 



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CONTENTS P»B« 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in Store of Penn the 

 Florist, Boston 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Pel- 

 argoniums — Lilies for Easter — Propagating Lorraine 

 and Cincinnati — Propagating Carnations — Sowing 

 Primulas — Panax Victorise — John J. M. t'arreXl 873 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Christmas Notes 

 — Care of Houses in General — Propagation — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka 875 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club, 



Portraits 876 



American Rose Society — Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston, Portrait — National Association of 



Gardeners 877 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 879 



Club and Society Notes 896 



SEED TRADE — Low Figures on Peas— Canners Back- 

 ward — Unreasoning and Unreasonable — Improved 

 Outlook— Wholesale Seedsmen's League — Notes 880-882 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Why Some Succeed and Some Do Not 884 



Associated Retail Florists 885 



New Flower Stores 897 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Boston, Washington, Chicago 886-887 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago 889 



Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Wash- 

 ington 891 



DURING RECESS— New York Bowlers 896 



OBITUARY— Evelyn Fuller Al ward— Joseph G. Har- 

 rison 898 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Corporations 882 



Business Troubles 882 



News Notes 898 



Compliments of the Season 896 



Visitors' Register 896 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 898 



Before the time rolls around for our next 

 MeTy weekly .salutation the great joyous holiday 

 Christmas of the Christian world will have passed, 

 to all so it is in order for Horticulture, here 

 and now, to extend cordial greeting and 

 good wishes to its numerous and constantly increasing 

 host of readers. Hoeticultuue is particularly fortu- 

 nate in the character and quality of her supporters, be- 

 tween most of whom and the paper there exists a much 



closer attachment than would be developed from any 

 list of subscribers built up merely on ordinary lines of 

 expediency. We are constantly reminded of -the fact 

 that the majority of our subscribers are also interested 

 readers of Horticulture's pages and we are happy 

 in the thought of the myriad of reciprocal "wireless" 

 kind responses which our printed Yuletide message of 

 greeting will bring forth from every place where Horti- 

 culture finds a welcome, and that means not only every 

 portion of our own countrj' but most parts of the civ- 

 ilized w'orld. This is a time to express our gratitude 

 for life and health and love. But of all our gifts none 

 is so precious as that of friendship. Merry Christmas 

 to one and all is Horticulture's wish. 



It appears, from the records of the 

 Good work State and Federal inspection officials, 

 and good that among the dangerous pests in- 



consequences tercepted in plant importations of 



various kinds from foreign countries 

 there have been no less than fourteen instances of brown- 

 tail moth and two of egg masses of the gypsy moth. We 

 are pleased to know that these undesirable stowaways 

 were caught and sincerely trust that no other similar 

 colonies got by the argus-eyed inspectors, for we have 

 some considerable knowledge of the creatures and their 

 abominable work, based on very practical experience. 

 But we would remark right here that it gives us no small 

 satisfaction to call attention to the aforementioned rec- 

 ords as evidence conclusive that Massachusetts is not tlie 

 only place from which the dissemination of the pests 

 may be feared and that if they sliould yet be found col- 

 onized elsewhere, as is quite probable, and the source 

 from which they came not positively known, then the 

 blame cannot be laid at the door of New England. It 

 is a fact beyond question that there are no nurseries in 

 any part of the world where insect existence is so per- 

 sistently combatted or the stock sent out cleaner than in 

 the nurseries located in New England. This is one 

 good result of the moth scare, the value of which to the 

 buyers of nursery stock cannot be too strongly stated. 



The movement which has now 

 "On earth taken form in New York, as men- 



peace, good will tioned in our notes on the recent 

 toward men" meetings of the New York Flor- 

 ists' Club and the Associated Re- 

 tail Florists, for co-operative action by all the local 

 trade interests to have certain business restrictions re- 

 moved or modified has one very significant and pleasing 

 aspect. We refer to the manifest cordiality between 

 different departments of the trade which in the past 

 have not always pulled together. It has long been evi- 

 dent to the unbiased observer that the unharmonious 

 and sometimes almost hostile attitude of the various 

 divisions — plant growers, flower growers, market deal- 

 ers, commission men and retailers — towards each other 

 has been a serious impediment to the proper develop- 

 ment of the floricultural industry as a whole, and a 

 handicap to any well-meant society effort to this end. 

 Not only in New York but in other places do we see un- 

 mistakable signs of the breaking down of the old bar- 

 riers and of a gradual tending to line up together for the 

 common good. The possibilities in this convergent 

 predilection, if wisely fostered, are most inspiring. The 

 movement is akin to the society affiliations from which 

 so much of good is confidenty expected in the near 

 future. Horticulture has on every opportunity advo- 

 cated the "get togetlier" policy and will continue to en- 

 courage by all possible means every sincere effort with 

 that object in view. 



