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H R T I C U L T TT R E 



January 20, 1917 



hortic ulture: 



VOL. XXV JANUARY 20, 1917 NO. 3 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Pasadena's New Year Cele- 

 bration. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Canterbury Bells — Violets — Pennisetums — Propagat- 

 ing Ficus — Vincas — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 69 



THE DANGER OF FOREIGN PLANT PESTS— ^oft/t 

 C. ^Vister 71 



THE "WHY" OF THE CARNATION— S. J. Goddard 71 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 



Suggestions to State Vice-Presidents — The Conven- 

 tion Exhibition, Illustrated — The Convention Garden 72-73 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW 73 



CLEVELAND AS IT WAS— Wimom W. Castle 74 



OBITUARY— John Gale— George H. Arnold— R. M. 



' Pratt— Arthur Netting 75 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Connecticut Horticultural 



Society— St. Louis Clubs 76 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Meetings 

 Next Week — New York Florists' Club — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Club and Society 

 Notes 78-79 



DURING RECESS— Henderson's Employees Make 

 Merry, Illustrated — New York Florists' Bowling Club 76 



SEED TRADE— Another Seed Bill— The Locked Door 

 on European Shipments — One Week's Imports 80 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS; 



New Flower Stores 82 



Flowers by Telegraph 83 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh 84 



PASADENA'S NEW YEAR CELEBRATION— Illus- 

 trated 85 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York.... 87 

 Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington.... 89 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Burpee's Annual, Illustrated 74 



Exhibition at New York 75 



Visitors' Register 79 



Catalogues Received 80 



Business Troubles 82 



Nev/s Notes 82 



Personal 84 



New Corporations — Patents Granted 94 



Greenhouses, Building or Contemplated 94 



Uiii' cover illustration shows a New 



A favored Year's scene in one of our most favored 



land cities, in this vast country with its great 



variety of climatic conditions. Tliose of 



us whose lot is cast in a colder latitude will be excusable, 



surely, if we are a bit envious of a place which can turn 



out such a gorgeous display of flowers and verdure at 



a season when our northern gardens are frozen and 



desolate. We must congratulate our friends on the 

 other side of the continent on their strict nile against 

 the use of anything but fresh flowers in these floral 

 pageants. Artificial material has its uses, but not in 

 such a place on such an occasion. 



Our correspondent in this number, who 

 A comes forward with such strong convictions 

 weighty in approval of the proposed quarantine 

 problem against tree and plant importations from 

 abroad seems to impute to us a possible 

 selfish disregard of the general welfare because we 

 admit to our columns the views of correspondents with 

 whose opinions he cannot agree. But Hokticultdre's 

 correspondence columns are open at all times to any 

 and all who have convictions on any subject of vital 

 importance to American horticulture and who are able 

 and willing to express them acceptably. The matter of 

 pknt importation, at the present stage of home plant 

 production, is of vital importance, from whatever view- 

 point we may individually consider it, and so it seems 

 hardly necessaiy to assure the gentleman that the ap- 

 pearance in our columns of the communication whicli 

 lie criticises is in no sense any evidence of Horticul- 

 ture's indiflierence to the general welfare or of a 

 willingness to jeopardize the future of our gardens and 

 forests for a mere business advantage. We have heard 

 much on both sides of this controversy in its various 

 aspects for several years back and there is much more 

 that might l:ie and undoubtedly will be said for and 

 against the drastic remedial and pre^'entive measures 

 which are being urged. We hope those of our readers 

 who have clearly defined ideas on this or any kindred 

 topic will feel free to express them in our columns. Wo 

 can assure them of a receptive and intelligent audi- 

 ence for that is the class whicli Horticulture seeks 

 to interest. 



Secretary John Young has some 

 "All up!" sound and practical advice for the 



for the S. A. F. incoming S. A. P. state vice-presi- 

 dents, in this issue. State vice-pres- 

 idents sometimes need to be reminded of their duty to 

 the society wliich has conferred so marked an honor upoii 

 them, and to the great industry whose welfare in their 

 immediate territory has been in a certain degree placed 

 in their keeping. How often the selfish, cold-blooded 

 question, ''What has the S. A. F. done that I should sup- 

 port it?" is asked, only those who have held official 

 responsibility in the society know. Secretary Young 

 has enumerated a few of the society's benefactions 

 and, as ho intimates, there are many more that 

 might be mentioned. "Lest we forget," one of the 

 memorable services rendered by the S. A. F. to the 

 flower trade of the country which Mr. Young has not 

 mentioned — although it was local in its immediate ap- 

 ]ilication — was the ci'ushing defeat administered to the 

 tlien arrogant United States Express Company by ap- 

 peal to the Interstate Commerce Commission some ten 

 years ago against the extortionate transportation charges 

 and arbitrary treatment of flower shipments to the New- 

 York market. If the florists have forgotten that epi- 

 sode the express magnates have not. With a member- 

 ship of fifty thousand, which is not at all an unreason- 

 able number, instead of two thousand, it requires no 

 great' stretch of the imagination to realize the possibili- 

 ties for good in such an organization. Every state vice- 

 president should "do his bit" to tliis end and there will 

 never be a better time to make the effort than the 

 ]iresent. 



