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HORTICULTURE 



February 3, 1917 



HORTICULTURE, 



yoL XXV 



FEBRUARY 3, 1917 



NO. 5 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Carnation Doris 



SWEET PEA NOTES— Geo. W. A'er)-- Illustrated 136 



SWEET PEAS IN CALIFORNIA AND MASSACHU- 

 SETTS— Ilwi. .Sj»i— niiistrated 137 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Apply Bone and 

 Tankage Now — Temperature During Cloudy Weather 

 — Keep the Propagator Going — The First Potting — 



Where to Put the Plants— Irf/iitc C. Ruzicka 135 



THE •• WHY " OP THE CARNATION—/?. T. Lombard 



— C. ir. Wors—Wdlhuc B. Patterson 139 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— Annual Meeting 

 — President's Address — Reports of Secretary and 

 Treasurer — Oiflcers Elected — Boston Next Meeting 



Place— The Exhibition— List of Awards 140-141 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Missouri State Florists' As- 

 sociation — Chrysanthemum Society of America — 

 Ladies' S. A. F.— Meetings Next Week — Club and 



Society Notes 142 



OBITUARY— Mrs. John Condon— George Zeiner 143 



DURING RECESS— The Morristown Dinner— New 

 York Club Dinner— Essex County (N. J.) Florists' 

 Club — Boston Florists' Bowling Teams — Florists' 



Club of North Chicago— Washington Bowlers 144-145 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— Chicago Trade 



Notes — Notes 148 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores— Publicity for St. Valentine's 



Day 150 



Flowers by Telegraph 151 



NEWS ITEJIS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington, St. 



Louis. Cincinnati, Boston 152-153 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago. Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh, St, Loiiis 155 



Washington 157 



M ISCELLANEOUS : 



Sweet Pea Buds Dropping — Wm. Sim 137 



Begonia Epirus 140 



Chelsea and Holland House Shows Abandoned..,. 141 



Publication Received 142 



Personal . . 145 



News Notes 153 



Visitors' Register 157 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 162 



Patents Granted Ig2 



Wiii-niiij,;- ol' tlie iiicreasiug scarcity of nianv 



Buy MJi-ts of flower seeds — those especially which 



now and arc su|i|ilicil from foreign sources — has 



buy right |„.^,|| u■jv^,„ repeatedly in onr seed trade 



notes and elsewhere of late. On some of 



these, prices have taken a big jump already, which is 



bad enough but the lil<ilihood of an absolute clean-np 



before the season is half under way is much more serious, 



^Yp wfuijd urge upon all our readers to make up the lists 



of what they jecpiiic and aet their ,seed orders placed at 

 tlie earliest possible date. Nothing can be gained by 

 procrastination for conditions are sure to be less favor- 

 able Iffter on. No one needs to look any further than 

 the seed houses advertising in Horticulture. They 

 aic I'epresentative merchants and you'll gain in the 

 long run by sticking to the class you find advertising 

 i-egularly in Horticulture's pages. 



The season of annual festivities and indoor 

 As you recreation in club and society circles is on. 

 like it The momentous question of how to fittingly 

 plan such celeiji'ations has cost many an ear- 

 nest committeeman sleepless hours and no end of worry. 

 Some organizations adhere tenaciously to the time-hon- 

 ored "stag" dinner — a "laughing, quaffing and unthink- 

 ing time"' with speeches and songs and stories, "so many, 

 and so many, and such glee." Others prefer to doll up 

 and invite tbe ladies to come and "trip the light fantas- 

 tic toe.'' Here under tlie allurement of the mirthful maze 

 the caterer's art soon goes into the discard and the toast- 

 master's "We have with us this evening" becomes a dust- 

 dry Iwine to imjiaticnt revellers chafing to 



■'Knit hands and beat the ground 

 In a light fantastic round." 



Each variety has its staunch and nucom|iromising 

 advocates. Take your nick. 



Nothing but good tan come out of the 

 The earnest discussions of the commercial 



carnation's status of the carnation as a cut flower 

 place which have been going on and, we hope, 



will still continue in the columns of Hoij- 

 ■ricui.TUifi':. Incontrovertible facts have lieen brought 

 out on all sides of the question. On one thing evei'y 

 writer agrees — that there is room for improvement in 

 carnationdom, and the start seems to have really begun, 

 for recognition of one's failings is the first step in any 

 reformation. As the.se lines are being penned the co- 

 horts of the divine flower are assembled at Indianapolis 

 intent upon doing something in a concrete way to ad- 

 vance the interests of the carnation and American car- 

 mition growers. The secretary's warning note of dc- 

 ci'easing membership is plain cvitlence that a good 

 shake-up and revival would not l)e inopportune. And 

 tbe Carnation — l)less her — is well worthy of it. 



The call for "odd things" in cut flower^ 



A flower — sorts that have not figured noticealtly 



of the future in the offerings of the city flower 



stores heretofore — has become so 

 .searching and insistent that not a few flower growers 

 are now making a good business out of growing such 

 as specialties for the market in tbe larger cities. Boston 

 liiis. perhaps., taken tlie lead in this ticparture from tbe 

 "idd I'uts." We have just noticed an interesting article 

 by F, Herbert Chapman in the Horticultural Trade 

 ■Journal. (British) on "Freesias and Nerines," two 

 liulbous ]ilants of which he thinks much more might be 

 made. The freesias, of course, have for a long time 

 lieeii firmly established favorites in this country but the 

 iierine is scarcely known outside of the private conserv- 

 atories. As Mr. Chapman says, the nerine is plainly on 

 its wa>- to ultimately take its ]>lace in the flower market 

 as a plant of great utility. It flowers in innumerable 

 tints from white to scarlet, crimson, rose pink and cerise 

 and its only serious drawback is its slowness to increase 

 but that obstacle will be easily overcome, no doubt, as 

 soon as our invincible California bulb growers get busv 

 with it. As to its recejition in tbe flower market there 

 can be no question. 



