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HOKTICULTURE 



May 19, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXV 



MAY 19, 1917 



NO. 20 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — New Flower Store of W. J. 

 Palmer & Sou, Buffalo, N. Y 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Amaryllis — Allamaudas — Chrysanthemums — Cibo- 

 tium Schiedei — Canterbury Bells — Care of Splreas — 

 Reminder — John J. M. Farrell 641 



SUCCESSFUL GROWING OF CYMBIDIUM INSIGNE 

 SANDERII— Waiie?- Go/(— Illustrated 643 



NEW CAMPANULA VAR. MARION GEHRING— Illus- 

 trated 643 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— Sewickley Horticultural Society- 

 Meetings Next Week — Lenox Horticultural Society — 

 St. Louis Florist Club— New York Florists' Club — 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — American 

 Dahlia Society — American Rose Society — Coming 

 Exhibitions— Chicago Florists' Club — Notes 644-645 



ARBORETUM NOTES 646 



OBITUARY— Tortus Groffstrom— Dr. Loyld — Jean Staf- 

 ford—Mrs. F. F. Benthey— William McRae Thomp- 

 son — Charles G. Weeber 648 



THE NURSERY TRADE AND THE WAR 650 



SEED TRADE — The Seedsman's Side — Seed Committee 

 Named 652 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS'— About 

 Price Fluctuations, C. W. Wors — New Flower 

 Stores 654 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE— New York, 

 Pittsburgh, Chicago, Rochester, N. Y., Boston 656 



WHEN BUYING GOODS BE SURE YOU HAVE A CON- 

 TRACT THAT IS A CONTRACT— fiHon J. Buck- 

 ley 657 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS— Boston, Chicago, Cin- 

 cinnati, New York 659 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rochester, N. Y., St. 

 Louis 661 



MISCELLANEOUS— Frost Damages Strawberries in 



Missouri 647 



Proposed New Quarantine Against Gypsy Moth 647 



Floriculture at Iowa State College 648 



Immediate Quarantine on Pines and Black Currents 648 



Patents Granted 648 



Visitors' Register 650 



Nierembergias 650 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 651 



New Corporations 654 



News Notes 656 



Catalogues Received 656 



We liavo had inquiry repeatedly for iiii'orma- 



A tion as to where a serviceable flower pot 



useful washiriEf machine might he obtained and are 



device uiad to he able now to refer our readers to 



the adverti.«ement which appears in this 



issue. We are infonned that operators are turninp: 



out clean pots at the rate of 1,000 to 1,.500 per hour 



with the machine and they are as clean as when they 



come from the kiln. In view of the diiBculty experi- 

 enced in getting new pots from the factories this season 

 and the .'icarcity and cost of hand labor at present we 

 feel justified in making this specific mention. All suc- 

 cessful growers insist on the indispensability of clean 

 liots if best cultural results are to be attained. 



'Pile announcement of the abandonment 

 "Cold feet?" im- this year by the Lenox (Mass.) Hor- 

 ticultural Society of its time-honored 

 exhibition on account of existing economic conditions, 

 firings home to us very impressively the seriousness 

 with which the well-to-do and high society people re- 

 gard the situation brought about by the world conflict 

 into which our country has entered. Following so close 

 on the throwing up of the Pittsburgh show plans this 

 Lenox decision is something of a damper. We hope 

 there will be no more cases of the same kind. It is 

 worth recalling in this connection, that during the four 

 years of awful civil strife, from 1861 to 186.5, the 

 weekly and annual exhiliitions of the ilassachusetts 

 Horticultural Society were continued without any in- 

 terruption and the period was one of practically un- 

 abated niterest in all departments of horticulture. 



Jlotliers' Day reports and comments as 

 Varying leccived from different quarters indicate 

 opinions ,is wide a variance in experiences this year 

 as there are diverse views as to the value 

 of this annual ofiservauce to the florist in a broad way. 

 One thing is sure — the project has not failed of wi(ie 

 ])ublicity and whatever of weakness or objectionable 

 characteristics may have been detected cannot be 

 charged to lack of advertising. It is to be observed 

 that wliile some of the trade deprecate the enhanced 

 prices charged for some flowers on this occasion others 

 are jubilant and look upon this feature as an achieve- 

 ment to be proud of. As far as our own individual 

 observations go we are convinced that the frenzied 

 jump from $2.00 to $10.00 and $13.00 per hundred for 

 white carnations at wholesale for one day's use and 

 the proportionate increase at retail does more injury 

 directly and indirectly to the florists' repute than all 

 tlie more or less extra business done and cash taken 

 in can offset. AVliat do you think? 



ilr. Eichter's communication presenting 

 Unjustly the ■'seedsman's side," which we copy this 

 accused \\i:ek from the Philadelphia Record, im- 

 parts to the critics and the public gener- 

 ally sonic straightforward and convincing information 

 as to existing conditions in the seed market. We know 

 of no line of Inisiness which has done so much, and 

 kept at it so persistently as has the seedsman to edu- 

 cate the public in Hhe proper handhng and care of 

 the seeds they Imy and to guide the amateur soil tiUers 

 towards success in their gardening efforts. Yet there 

 arc vast numbers of those who seek to raise kitchen 

 crops this year whose net results will just amount to 

 tlie destruction of good seeds and little more except. 

 perhaps, arraignment of the man from whom the seed 

 was purchased, as a rogue. LTnfortunately, the loss of 

 seed through ignorance and inattention will not be all, 

 tlie inclement weather and inhosiiitalile condition of 

 the ground in many localities adding greatly to the 

 destruction. In fact, we are informed that on some of 

 the Long Island estates where lawns have been plowed 

 11]) and planted to potatoes, the potatoes have rotted 

 and the sfround is being plowed over for the second 

 time. When this happens to the gardener who is sup- 

 posed to know, wlieie can we expect the novice to get 

 on? 



