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January 13, 1917 



HORTIC ULTURE 



VOL. XXV JANUARY 13, 1917 NO. 2 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Magnificent white Oalc. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Asters 

 for Inside Flowering — Miscellaneous Crops — Potting 

 and Care of Cattleyas — Left Over Stock — The Dahlias 

 Reminders — John J. M. Fan-ell 37 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Tar Paint on Pipes 

 — Care of Cuttings in the Sand — Selection of Wood 

 for Second Batch — Hadley vs. Hoosier Beauty — 

 Arthur C. Rnzieka 39 



THE BELGIAN SITUATION 40 



CONCERNING HOLLAND SHIPMENTS OP LILY OF 

 THE VALLEY 40 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club- 

 Meetings Next AVeek — Florists' Hail Association — 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society — Horticultural 

 Society of New York — Chicago Florists' Club — Ameri- 

 can Carnation Society — Chicago to Indianapolis — 

 American Rose Society — Tarrytown Horticultural 



Society — Southampton Horticultural Society 41-42 



Chicago Florists' Club — Gardeners' and Florists' Club 



of Boston 43 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— Notes 46 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 50 



Flowers by Telegraph 51 



Advertising Genius 52 



DURING RECESS — Boston Bowlers — North Chicago 

 League 50 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Philadelphia 43 



St. Louis 50 



Pittsburgh, Washington, Chicago 53 



OBITUARY— Asa L. Brown— Mrs. Paul Huebner— John 

 M. Elser — Hamlin Johnson — Mrs. Julius Siebold .... 52 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 55 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 57 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Fire at Craig's — Illustrated 43 



New Corporations '. 43 



Catalogues Received 44 



Massachusetts Horticultural College 46 



About Express Charges — C. Betscher 52 



The Traffic Congestion and its Lesson 62 



Visitor's Register 62 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 62 



Patents Granted — Business Troubles 62 



Our readers' attention is called to the an- 

 Not a nouncement in this issue of the plan pro- 

 bad idea posed by the publicity committee of the 

 Chicago Florists' Club for increasing the 

 sale of >flowers for St. Valentine's Day. Flowers are the 

 ideal valentine gift and if the florists all over the coun- 

 try will enter promptly and enthusiastically into this 

 very simple and practical publicity scheme there can be 

 no doubt tliftt the sale of flowers for that purpose will be 

 materially increased this year. The proposition seems 



an excellent one and we hope it can be carried out in a 

 manner ereclitable to the flower trade. Should it, how- 

 ever, be made use of as a pretext for storing flowers in 

 advance and jacking up selling prices for the occasion, 

 then will all the advantages to the florists' business from 

 this effort be more than nullified and the trade will be 

 forced to face the inevitable penalty of public resentment 

 and virtual pro.scription. Watch out. 



Considerable anxiety has been felt among 

 Watch the plant importing trade in regard to a 



the game rider understood to be attached to the Ag- 

 ricultural Appropriations Bill now before 

 Congress, which, if passed, would give the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board at Washington arbitrary and autocratic 

 control over the business of nurserymen or florists who 

 ship plants or trees, with power to establish a quarantine 

 on suspicion without a hearing. It is quite a irlief 

 HOW to learn, on the authority of the chairman of the 

 Committee on Agriculture that no such rider as was 

 feared has been tacked on to the Agricultural Appropria- 

 tion Bill. It will be well, however, for all clubs and as- 

 sociations of florists, seedsmen and nurserymen, local as 

 well as national to keep a close watch on movements in 

 Washington for it is well known that there are influen- 

 tial interests constantly active to whom tlie welfare of 

 the commercial horticultural people is a very minor con- 

 sideration. 



We gladly give space to the communi- 

 Do your cation in this issue on the traffic situ- 



spring buying ation and its lesson. The burdensome 

 early effects of the unprecedented car short- 



age have already been severely felt by 

 florists and others sending out or expecting shipments 

 of holiday goods and the outlook for the coming months, 

 as given by our correspondent, is not overdrawn. Those 

 who contemplate purchasing building material, heating 

 or ventilating apparatus, implements, or outfit of any 

 kind for the coming spring should get busy at once, else 

 they are in danger of loss and embarrassment from 

 freight congestion and delay. As the costly holiday ex- 

 perience has shown, similar trouble is not improbable in 

 the transportation of plants and the lighter classes of 

 florists' supplies by express. "A word to the wise is suf- 

 ficient." Watch the advertisements in this paper as they 

 ap])ear from week to week and place orders well ahead. 

 Advertisers, too, should make their announcements very 

 early this season, for ob%'ious reasons. 



The results of the fire at the plant of 

 A" The Eobert Craig Company last Satur- 



admonition Jay might have reached the propor- 

 tions of a stupendous calamity to one of 

 the best known plant growing establishments on the con- 

 tinent had the weather been such as might reasonably 

 be expected at that date. "What fools these mortals be I" 

 Wha^ in the world can the owners of such a plant be 

 thinking of to have a lot of wooden supports, partitions, 

 roofs and other inflammable material about their boiler 

 house ? A comparatively modern establishment, at that ! 

 Only recently we took occasion in our editorial notes to 

 mention the great advancement which had been made of 

 late years in tlie construction of greenhouses and espe- 

 cially their heating outfit, whereby fire risk in such struc- 

 tures has been reduced to a minimum. This latest dis- 

 closure shows there is still room for improvement. The 

 lesson, fortunately, has been at a comparatively insig- 

 nificant cost and all friends of dear old Eobert Craig ^vill 

 rejoice. But these disasters should be practically impos- 

 sible in modern built places. 



