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HORTICU I/r U H K 



May 12, 1917 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XXV 



MAY 12, 1917 



NO. 19 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Florists' Vases and Pottery 

 Ware 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Antirrhinums — Bay Trees — Lorraine Begonias — Ceme- 

 tery Vases — Gardenias — Reminder. — John J. M. 

 Farrell 611 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Declare War Too 

 —The Heating System— Early Planting— Depth of 

 Soil — Arthur C. Ruzicka (513 



THE HOLLOW STEM DISEASE OF PEAONIES— 

 WilUam Ko/Zins- Illustrated 614-617 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Ladies' Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists 61 S 



OBITUARY— John Davey— Charles L. Johnson— Joseph 

 Amann 618 



SEED TRADE 620 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



National Co-operation Advertising 622 



New Flower Stores 622 



A First Prize Display of Pottery 625 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Boston 624 



Rochester, N. Y., Pittsburgh, New York 625 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati 627 



New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Rochester. 



N. Y., St. Louis 629 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 618 



Business Troubles 622 



"Some" Weatlier 620 



Publication Received 620 



Personal 625 



News Notes 625 



Visitors' Register 625 



It is sai(3 to have been proposed and 

 A universal tjjp proposition seems to have been 

 Memorial Day received with favor, that our Ameri- 

 can Memorial Day, May 30. be 

 adojited by all the allied nations and reverently observed 

 henceforth in memory of their heroic dead. Thus in all 

 probability 'we shall see a world-wide floral lioliday 

 miglity beyond comparison in its influence on the using 

 of flowers. The idea is one bright spot among the 



"Dire combustion and confused events 

 New hatch'd to the woful time." 



The land tilling craze is already responsible 

 A for the creation of a new and quite import- 



new job ant position in some cities — that of town 



supervisor of home jjardens and there is 

 plenty for the incumbent to do, the main difficulty in 

 most cases lieing to tlnd a comjjetent man who thoroughly 

 understands the work, to hold down the job. What a 

 change from the time not long ago when there were gar- 

 deners, old and young, on all sides clamoring for work. 

 .\fter allowing for all reconcilable causes for such a 

 situation it is still difficult to account for the vanishing 

 of the surplus. ^AHiitlier have they flown? 



.Vever in the history of the seed trade have 

 The ill,, stores experienced anything approaching 

 big rush il^. clamorous rush for garden vegetable 

 seeds now going on. So rani|)ant has it been 

 tliat several of the leading houses of Boston have been 

 compelled to shut down their seed department, either 

 partially or fully, so that orders for vegetable seeds 

 and garden requisites already accepted may be filled. 

 The situation as regards flower seeds is however, quite 

 different — tlie demand l)eing reported as much below 

 normal, ^lauy garden plots heretofore devoted to flower 

 purposes arc slated for sterner service tlu's year it would 

 seem. And flower seeds of many kinds arc almost un- 

 obtainable, auybow. 



I'eople in many ]>laces are much disturbed 

 Garden (i\er the possibility of having their home 

 thieves \ cgetable gardens looted about the time the 

 crop is ready to har\est. There is a big dift'er- 

 ence in communities in this respect. Some places have 

 a large class of people who appear to assume that any- 

 thing growing in fields and gardens is common property. 

 (3ther neighborhoods are fortunate in that thieving of 

 this sort is comparatively rare. The Bridgeport, Conn., 

 Telegram wants a Home Garden Guard and some 8-bore 

 shells to check marauders in the city limits and suggests 

 Ibat tlie gardener in the countiy resort to the time- 

 honored and effective method of liypodermic injections 

 I if rock-salt through a gun liarrel ! We understand that 

 depredations of tliis sort are almost unknown in Euro- 

 pean communities where intensive home gardening is 

 general. Perliap>; we shall mitgrnw it when gardens 

 become more common here. 



The carefully prepared paper by Wilham 

 Save Rollins on the nuiliguant disease that so 



the paeony -eriously menaces our noblest spring 

 flower, which is the leading feature of this 

 issue of HoiiTH'Ui.TfRE, should and doubtless will be 

 perused with close attention by pseony growers every- 

 where. This, we understand, is not a new disease in 

 Europe, but, having got to America it has taken on a 

 more sinister aspect here, and as there has been no at- 

 tempt to describe and illustrate it in a way that would 

 put paeony growers on guard, it lias now become widely 

 spread and is the most serious trouble in the paeony 

 world today, and rapidly becoming more so, because 

 American paeony growers are spreading it all over the 

 country. ^Ir. T'ollins describes the disease so clearly 

 that liy aid of the illustrations any one will be able to 

 distinguish this from all other fungous diseases, a matter 

 of great importance, as if radical and constant attempts 

 are not made to stamp out this pest, the growing of 

 paeonies will be a matter of great difficulty. We con- 

 sider Mr. Eollius' paper a veiy valuable contribution to 

 the literature of this noble plant which in the last few 

 years especially has been making most astonishing pro- 

 gress in popularity. 



