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HOETICULTDBE 



June 30, 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXV 



JUNE 30, 1917 



NO. 26 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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 1^7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



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CONTENTS 'page 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— F. W. Bolgiaiio, President- 

 Elect American Seed Trade Association 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Be- 

 gonias— Good Cultivation Essential — Marguerites for 

 Next Winter — Propagating Ficus elastica — Poinsettias 

 — Reminders — Jolin J. M. Farrell 813 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Association of 

 Nurserymen — Lancaster County Florists' Association 

 — International Flower Show — American Peony So- 

 ciety, James Boyd, portrait — American Sweet Pea 

 Society — Newport Show Postponed 815-816 



DURING RECESS— Commodore Westcott Entertains, 

 G. C. Watson — Dennis at Waretown 817 



OBITUARY— Henry Fischer— Mrs. Carrie W. Harrison 

 — James Ivera Donlan — Levi DeFreest 818 



SEED TRADE— Seed Tiade Convention— F. W. Bolgiano 

 — A Dangerous Bean 819-820 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 822 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Pittsburgh 816 



St. Louis, Philadelphia 817 



Rochester, Buffalo 823 



Boston, Chicago, New York 824 



Cleveland, Washington 825 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New Y'ork, Philadelphia 827 

 Pittsburgh, Rochester, St. Louis, Washington 829 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Notes at Dedham 816 



Red Cross Day at Palmer's, Buffalo, N. Y.— Illustrated 816 



News Notes 822-834 



New Corporations 822 



Visitors' Register 829 



The Coal Situation 834 ' 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 834 



Patents Granted 834 



Oil .luue 1-.% u bill was iiitroduc-ed in 



A the U. S. Senate by Mr. Fletcher and 



far-reaching ;^fter its second reading was referred 



measure to the Committee on Commerce. The 



do<'iiment is entitled "A Bill to define, 

 ri^gulate and punish trading with the enemy, and for 

 other purposes." and is known as the "Trading with 

 the enemy Act.'" Its provisions if adopted and carried 

 out will practically put an end until the close of the 

 war of the business of tlie horticultural importers — if 

 we interpret it rightly. Our readers wdio may be inter- 

 ested should write to their respective congressmen for 

 a copy of the bill which is much too comprehensive in 

 its details for any attempt at analysis in the limited 

 space at our disposal. Its effect, if passed in its present 

 form, 1I110II the florist, nurseiy and .seed business can- 

 not fail to lie \crv far i-oaching. 



\\ (■ learn hxnn our British trade 

 Inconsistencies iMUitciupoiary of the recent ruling 



that the Kew Bulletin is not an 

 ''essential publication" and the resultant order that its 

 issuance be suspended. All horticulturists who know 

 somt^thing of the I'eliability and great value of the in- 

 formation disseminated through the Kew Bulletin will 

 sincerely regret its enforced discontinuance and will be 

 disposed to agree with our coiiteinpo.rary when it says: 

 "That the available supply of paper is limited we are 

 well aware, but whilst paper can be found for printing 

 all sorts of trashy piffle, that is neither edifying nor use- 

 ful, and boardings are plastered with appeals to the pub- 

 lic to eat less bread, when either its price or its flavor 

 suffice to ensure as little as possible being consumed, it 

 is false economy to supress a publication which keeps the 

 record of economic botany, and disseminates information 

 of importance and value to many great industries carried 

 on throughout the British Empire." 



The same paper also brings \i\) the issue as to the 

 justice of the raising of great quantities of vegetable 

 plants in the public parks for sale at cheap rates to 

 allotment holdei's, while nurserymen and market gar- 

 deners whose business must suffer from this competi- 

 tion are required to contribute their share in taxes to 

 maintain the parks. We have parallel cases here in 

 Ihis country where the exigencies of war are made the 

 justification for many an assault upon the rights of the 

 individual. Neither ethics nor principle get much con- 

 sideration in war time, for "policy sits above con- 

 science" and the florist, for example, is expected to 

 patriotically submit his bu.siness to immolation as a lux- 

 ury, while he, also patriotically, must respond gener- 

 ously when called upon to "draw his wallet" for the 

 cause. 



The authorities of Atlantic City and 



Pushcart Paterson, N. J., aided and abetted by 



competition the store florists, -are on the warpath 



against the flower peddlers. In Atlantic 

 City these include many farmers and truck dealers who 

 are accustomed to do quite a business in wild flowers 

 and garden l)lo(ini on the strength of their license to 

 peddle food stutt', a privilege which costs them the 

 nominal sum of thirty-five cents a year. They will 

 hereafter be obliged to put up the full price of a ven- 

 dor's license, thirty-five dollars, if they continue to sell 

 flowers. In Paterson the grievance of the florists is the 

 old, old one, protesting the hurtful competition of men 

 who pay no rent or taxes and employ no help. The 

 two widely distinct view-points from which the ped- 

 dling of surjjlus flowers at cheap jwices may be con- 

 sidered are sufficiently apparent, we presume, to all who 

 read HoitiicuLTUHE. The itinerant dealer surely 

 serves a useful and even beneficent purpose as a medium 

 for getting into the hands of the masses the accumula- 

 tions of otherwise unsalable flowers that are thrown 

 upon the wholesale markets of the large cities from 

 time to time. The regular store florists have neither 

 the facilities nor the disposition to tackle the problem, 

 but still it is manifestly unfair to these legitimate Imsi- 

 ness firms who pay high rents and taxes and employ 

 labor the year .round to allow the ]iush-cart man to roam 

 freely about the business section where they are located. 

 The Paterson florists make what appears to be a strong 

 point for their contention in .showing that a suitable 

 ])lace has been provided for the push-ca.rt element in 

 tlie municipal markets so that neither the public who 

 want chea|i flowers nor the growers who produce them 

 need to sufl'cr. 



