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HOETICULTUEE 



February 10, 1917 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOt. XXV FEBRUARY 10, 1917 NO. 6 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 



147 ;Stxmmer Street. Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Beach 298. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS P^se 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Changing the Wilderness 

 into a Garden. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Bed- 

 ding Plants-^Carnation Cuttings — Chrysanthemums — 

 Fibrous Rooted Begonias — Reminders — John J. M. 

 FarreU 171 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Care of Newly 

 Potted Plants — Get Ready for Shifting—Watering 

 the Old Plants — Tying in the Beauty Houses — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka If 3 



THE PLANT QUARANTINE PROJECT— James Mc- 

 Hutchison—Wm. F. Glide— C. J. W. 0«o!onder. . .174-175 



PLANTS CERTIFICATED AT BOSTON— A. H. Feivkes 175 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety — Meetings Next Week — Society of American 

 Florists — American Carnation Society — Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society — Floor Plan National Rose 

 Festival — Nebraska State Florists' Society — Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York 176-178 



New York State Federation — Connecticut Horticul- 

 tural Society 185 



THE "WHY" OF THE CARNATION— C Betscher— 

 C. W. Wors 179 



SEED TRADE— American Seed Trade Association — 

 One Week's Imijorts — Congressional Seed Distribution 180 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 182 



Flowers by Telegrapli 183 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Washington, Chicago 184 



DURING RECESS— Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston — New York Florists Bowling 184-185 



OBITUARY— James A. Fletcher— John T. Ellerbrecht— 

 P. J. Lake— Morris K. Pease 185 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo Chicago, New York. Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh 187 



Washington . 189 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Catalogues Received 180 



News Notes 182-184 



Personal — New Corporations 185 



Visitors' Register 189 



Of Interest to Gardeners and Tree Men 194 



Publications Received— Patents Granted 194 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 194 



We take pleasure in present iiig this 



Show week a diagram sliowinor tlie plan of 



arrangement the National liose Festival to be held 



in Philadelphia, March 20, 21, 32, 33, 

 under the direction of the American Rose Societv. It 

 will be seen that this show will be staged to give the 

 effect of one big rose garden. Tlie time is rapidly ap- 

 proaching when all large public flower shows will be laid 

 out on a definite perfected plan in advance. The old 

 method of locating incongruous exhibits without consid- 

 ering their relationshi]-i to one another or to the show 

 as a whole, in form, color or character, is bound to dis- 

 appear and it cannot go too soon. We have very much 

 to learn yet in the art of flower show arrangement, but it 

 is gratifying to see that iniDrovcment is well under wav. 



V\\' are surprised and a bit amused at 

 A "new" old tlie claims made by one of our western 

 flower day c(.intemporaries, which has been throw- 

 ing bouquets at itself for having been 

 responsible four years ago for the inauguration of a new 

 Horal holiday — Valentine's Day — and really seems to 

 take itself seriously! The trade press is a good thing. 

 Wherever located it has our good-will absolutely, and 

 w'hen one of its members accomplishes anything for the 

 good of the trade we are glad and don't mind their 

 [wasting a little, but there's a limit. The writer of these 

 lines spent some of his youthful years in the retail florist 

 business and can tell our Chicago friend that at that 

 time, forty years and more ago, Valentine's Day was a 

 floral occasion of no small acount and with sulBcient de- 

 mand for certain flowers to sometimes affect prices ma- 

 terially. Of course the amount of valentine business 

 done was small as compared with that of the present 

 day, but it Ijore a favorable relationship to the business 

 as a whole. We refer ])articularly to Boston but we 

 tliink the foregoing woulcl also apply to New York, Phil- 

 adelphia and other places where Cupid is wont to roam. 



We devote considerable space in this issue 

 Is further to the much-discussed quarantine ques- 

 legislation tioii. Some of the communications w'hich 

 necessary? now appear have been in type for two 

 weeks or longer and should have been used 

 at an earlier date but for the lack of space. The inter- 

 national complications which have occurred in the mean- 

 time may ]ierhaps jnit a somewhat different aspect on 

 the problem from that which existed previously but the 

 subject has lost none of its importance to the American 

 florist and nursery trade and our readers who are at all 

 concerned in tlie imjxjrting, growing or selling of the 

 goods affected by the proposed legislation will do well 

 to jjeruse carefully the cori'es])ondence herew'ith pre- 

 sented. Of tlie making of laws there is no end. So far 

 as plant im]Mirtation is concerned Hokticultuke agrees 

 that the legislation now on the statute books is all that 

 is needed. Instead of making it more drastic, effort 

 to co-ordinate and simplify what we have would seem to 

 be the better course and such would assuredly meet with 

 the hearty approval and co-operation of the trade. 



The "why'' of the carnation in 

 its relationships to the market. 

 the grower and the pulilic, proves 

 to be a many angled topic and 

 there is yet much that can be drawn out to the advan- 

 tage of all concerned and to the future, commercially, of 

 this important crop. It appears to us that the time is 

 not far away when tlie wide gap between the big ''show 

 type" blooms and the old-style every day favorite flower 

 of the people will have to be distinctly recognized in 

 the trade and impi-essed upon the public, for these two 

 classes serve separate uses and really have Init little 

 in common. As one of our corresjiondents aptly sug- 

 gests, the production of inferior jiroduct from the mod- 

 em i>atrician sorts brings only clisappointnient for the 

 grower and discredit for the carnation. Better, far, 

 for the man who, for whatever reason is growing for the 

 cheap market, to leave the exhibition novelties to the 

 grower who is able to do them creditably and can com- 

 mand an ap].u-eciative market at prices according, while 

 he himself sticks to the older l>reeds which respond 

 better to his methods and can be marketed profitably 

 at a low price. In fine, there should always be a jilace 

 for both the two-dollars-a-hundxed and the two-dollars- 

 a-dozen kinds, provided they are kept distinctly ajiart 

 and ]!rcsented accordingly. 



Carnation 

 classes and values 



