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HOETICULTUEE 



April 28, 1917 



morticuIvTurb: 



VOL XXV 



APRIL 28, 1917 



NO. 17 



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effect upon our particular industry, of the war crisis in 

 \vhich our country has been so reluctantly involved and 

 the consideration of how we may, individually and col- 

 lectively, meet the emergency, forestall and prepare 

 ourselves against whatever may appear ominous and 

 take such advantage of any course or opportunity as 

 may appear to be discreet. The oppressive advance in 

 the cost of coal, iron pipe, glass and other material en- 

 tering into horticultural construction and maintenance, 

 the scarcity and insatiable demands of labor, increasing 

 freight rates, lack of transportation equipment by either 

 land or water, and resultant flower pot famine, and the 

 many emergencies, real or apparent, which are blamed 

 upon the war — all these crowd upon the mental vision 

 of the earnest business man when he tries to peer into 

 the future and find out or reason out something on 

 which to base his plans and ma]i oiat a course which he 

 can adhere to and keep up with the situation. There 

 need be no solicitude as to the final issue, but the hor- 

 ticultural interests are entitled to a square deal and 

 should be given an equal business chance with other in- 

 dustries in their relations with the public. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Salvia virgata nemorosa. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 



Bougainvilleas — Compost — Tuberous Rooted Begonias 



— Pelargonium — Plialaenopsis — Reminders — John J. 



M. Farrell 545 



SALVIA— J?tc;iar(J Rothe 547 



SEMI-TUBEROUS OR SOCOTRANA BEGONIAS— 



John J. M. Farrell 547 



CRAZY HYSTERICS— Georgre C. Watson 547 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Lancaster County Florists' 

 Club — Meetings Next Week — National Association of 

 Gardeners — Lenox Horticultural Society — American 

 Dahlia Society — American Institute of New York 548-549 



Club and Society Notes 552 



A SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION 550 



IN THE LINE OP PROGRESS— Mrs. Francis King... 550 



THE YOUNG GARDENER— /o7tw Johnstone 552 



OBITUARY— James McClane— A. I. Philips 554 



SEED TRADE — Production of Bermuda Onions in 



Texas — Notes 556 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FX,ORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 558 



Flowers by Telegraph 559 



Mothers' Day Publicity 560 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston 560 



Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh 561 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York 563 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 565 



Washington 569 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Tribute to the Memory of George Washington.... 550 



Coming Exhibitions 550 



Garden and Club Work Instruction 550 



A Progressive Massachusetts Institution 552 



A Death Wave — C. S. Harrison 553 



Visitors' Register 553 



A Choice Spring Bloomer — Illustrated 554 



Quarantines on Five-leaved Pines, and Currant and 



Gooseberry Plants 555 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 555 



New Corporations 555 



News Notes — Personal 558 



Judging by the frequency with wliich 



The the topic is broached wherever one 



issue and chances to be, the most vital subject 



how to meet it demanding attention at the present 



time, with the horticultural as well 



as most other business interests, is the immediate direct 



There is nothing in the cautious pro- 

 Wanted — cedure suggested in the foregoing 

 a square deal that should necessarily impel a man 

 to a pessimistic conclusion as to what 

 tlie immediate future holds out for him in a business 

 way. The burdens enumerated — the high cost of ma- 

 terial which he must have, increased taxation, exacting 

 labor conditions, etc. — these are all things which he has 

 only in common with his neighbors in other fields of 

 industry and which may reasonably be expected to fully 

 adjust and balance themselves in due time. The war 

 situation as reflected by these developments carries 

 nothing with it that should permanently afl:ect our busi- 

 ness disastroitsly or imperil its stability. Perhaps we 

 can't make the sf)eed we formerly did but we can at 

 least insist that nobody rocks the boat. Unfortunately, 

 however, other influences are at work, outspoken and 

 pitiless, with the confessed purpose of alienating the 

 public from the support of the florist, spreading broad- 

 cast advice that is hostile to the florists' business, tend- 

 ing to impair his investments, bring him to face possi- 

 ble financial niin and, in addition cause further hard- 

 ship upon toilers of both sexes in all branches of flori- 

 cultural work. Writers in some of the most influential 

 newspapers in the country have carried their cold- 

 blooded drives very far in the past few weeks and we 

 wonder for how long the flower and plant trade are 

 going to submit to it without protest. Land and green- 

 houses all represent money investment — often the hard- 

 earned accumulations of a life-time; coal costs money, 

 labor costs money and the man who conducts a green- 

 house has had to stand for his full share of the en- 

 hanced expenditure which attaches to all these indis- 

 pensable factors in his business and that newspaper or 

 tliat clc.rgj-man or organization of any kind which 

 takes deliberate advantage of its touch with the pul)lic 

 to single out tlie floral industry for special attack under 

 such conditions of economic stress as now prevail and 

 thus attempts to cripple one of the most refined and 

 elevating commercial industries, certainly displays a 

 perverted and supremely selfish mentality. We submit 

 tliat the flower industry suffers in greater or less degree- 

 every time that one of these soulless visionaries breaks 

 loose. The flower business cannot and should not 

 stand for it. 



