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March 31, 1917 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Boston Spring Show 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Ferns 

 —Gloxinias— Hardy Roses— Lily of the Valley in Cold 

 Storage-Plants for Vases, etc.— Reminders— J^oftn J. 



M. Farrell *^° 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT 417 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— Meeting of Ex- 

 ecutive Board '*^' 



BOSTON SPRING SHOW— Illustrated— List of Awards 



419-420 



ST. LOUIS SPRING EXHIBITION— Illustrated 420 



PHILADELPHIA ROSE FESTIVAL- Illustrated 422 



List of Awards *2* 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Horticultural Society of 



Western Pennsylvania 418 



New York Florists' Club — Association of Kew Gar- 

 deners in America 4^5 



Club and Society Notes 440 



SEED TRADE— Re Delays in Transit 426 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 428 



Flowers by Telegraph 429 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh 430 



Washington 431 



OBITUARY— John G. Barker— Lawrence Cotter, por- 

 trait—David J. Roche— Rae L. Friedman 431 



FLOAVER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 433 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 433 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling League.. 440 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 Exclusion of Currant and Goosberry Plant Im- 

 portations 417 



New Corporations 428 



A Visit to Waverley, Mass 428 



Publications Received — Visitors' Register 426 



Personal 426 



Another Indiana Tornado 426 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 440 



Patents Granted 440 



Butt of a million newspaper jokes, pitied 

 His and scoffed at by turns for these many years 

 Innings by his supercilious city dwelling friend, here 

 comes the "commuter" as the man to be en- 

 vied now. Doff your hats to him, all, as he proudly 

 struts up the street to the railroad station with his new 

 garden tools and bundle of seeds. He's got you on the 



run for once, together with the H. C. L. The subur- 

 banite is liing. 



We undoubtedly have plenty to complain about 

 Hard aiid to endure under protest, but just consider 

 lines what our bretliren in Great Britain are "up 

 against" in the recent Government Orders and 

 Regulations, which prohibit the distribution of business 

 catalogues eitlier by hand or post except to such indi- 

 viduals as may actually make a direct request for a copy. 

 Another bit of evidence that General Sherman knew 

 what he was talking about when he gave his famous 

 definition of war. 



The great flower show drive of March, 



A 1917, has been safely carried through and 



happy ter- nil hands have come out without even a 



mination scratch. For all of this we should feel 



duly thankful and rejoice. The result in 



St. Ijouis is especially significant and gratifying for it 



seems to remove all question as to the success of the 



National Flower Show in that city next year, assuring 



one more in the unbroken line of triumphs since the 



N"atioual Flower Shows were inaugurated. 



A few days more and the great Easter 

 The liustle will be on for everyone in any way 

 time to connected with the flower business. There 

 advertise ^yill be trade enough for all — as much as 

 can be handled to advantage and profit, 

 probably. But what about the days to follow? We 

 often think, and have even dared to print it, that the 

 money some florists put into Easter advertising could 

 be spent to better purpose in the period directly follow- 

 ing Easter. Who will have the courage to try it? 



We have on hand a number of other hand- 

 About some photographs taken in the large flower 

 pictures shows which we shall publish in later issues 



of Horticulture. Eestrictions as to the 

 use of flash lights, outrageous prices by "official" photo- 

 graphers and other conditions beyond control, often in- 

 terfere with the securing of pictures that adequately 

 show up the strongest and most attractive features of 

 these big exhibitions. At best, the engravings can con- 

 vey but an indifferent impression of the objects in a 

 scene where color is the main feature. Until the art of 

 color photogTaphy has advanced far beyond its present 

 possiljilities tlie only way to know what a flower show 

 looks like is to go and see it. 



The course of events shows plainly 

 S. A. F. that the present executive board of 



reconstruction the Society of American Florists, 

 like its immediate predecessor, has a 

 large measure of revolutionaij daring in its make-up 

 and very little regard for traditions. The time-honored 

 August convention custom is due to suffer a blow next 

 year which may be its finish. The shifting of the office 

 of secretary from an elective to an appointive position 

 will, we presume, have to run the gauntlet yet of the 

 Convention at New York next August but the all-per- 

 vading propensity for turning things topsy-turvy which 

 seems to be the ruling passion over all the earth in these 

 ruthless times has probably not yet got through with 

 the S. A. P., so watch out for periscopes from now on. 



