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Docombor 1, 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL XXVI DECEMBER I, lffl7 NO. 22 



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HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 1'47 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



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CONTENTS "^ag« 



COVKU ILLl'STKATK >.N Niw Hose Silvia 



THRICE I'RO.MISI.NG NKW UOSKS 569 



"OVER l.N JERSEY" ^ 569 



T. M. C. A. WAR KIWU KLOWER SALE.- 571 



PENN'S AITIM.N E.XH lUITIO.N— Illustrated 571 



THE S. A. F. PUBLICITY FIND 572 



PROPAGATION OF DECIDUOIS TREES AND 



SHRIBS— JoAn Kirkcgnard 572 



PROI'AG.VTING EVERGREENS BY CUTTINGS— 



.1. K. Robinson 573 



OBITUARY— David Welch, portrait— Wm. B. Smith... 573 

 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Chrysanthemum Society of 



America 573 



Meetings Next Week 574 



American Rose Society 584 



SEED TR.^DE — The Pea Canners and the Seedsmen — 



Notes 575-576 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 578 



Flowers by TeleKraph 579 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago. Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York. . . . 581 



Philadelphia, Rochester, St. Louis 583 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Cleveland 573 



Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Rochester, New Y'ork, 



St. Louis 574 



.MISCELLANEOUS: 



Personal 573 



A Bank's War Garden Show — A New Source of Fer- 

 tilizer — -Massachusetts Agricultural College 576 



New Corporations 578 



Visitors Register 584 



Publications Received 584 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 587 



News Notes— Patent Granted 587 



There are many florists" clubs and oilier 



Practical <rardeners' and florists' organizations, 



patriotism the officers and members of which should 



peruse carefully the account of the splen- 

 did patriotic effort of the Chicago Florists' Club for the 

 Y. M. C. A. War Fund, as given in this issue of Hor- 

 TicuLTCRE. The example which the Chicago florists 

 have set is an object lesson for the entire country and 

 should bring home to some of the lagging ones an im- 

 pressive reminder of their duty at this time. It beats 

 fla<r waving and singing "America" all to a frazzle. 



"The war," said Lloyd George, the British 

 prime minister, in a recent speech', "has been 

 prolonged by particularism. It will be short- 

 ened by solidarity." That is his own way of 

 saying that it will take a united front to win; that 

 every man, every woman, must put his or her soul into 

 the war. This self-evident truth in connection with the 

 world conflict applies with like import to the perplexing 

 ]roblems which now or later on surely will confront the 

 florist, seedsman and nurseryman, in consequence of the 

 va^t economic changes which impend as a result of the 

 upheaval. Only by a "solidarity" in which all elements 

 are welded and immediate individual self-interests are 

 laid aside can the common welfare be adequately con- 

 served and protected. Other large interests, from the 

 national entity down through the various employments 

 which men follow, are all eomine to the realization that 



About 

 greenhouse coal 



Be a 



unit 



"luirtic'uluri.xnr' in uiiy grout undorlaking is liuucuforth 

 tlio sign of wenknt^R and defenceless inferiority. I^et no 

 nmn horticulturally employed Unlay «ithiiold his fealty 

 and gujiport froiii (iii- institutions and orguni/.utions 

 111)011 whose ro|iresentativc characlei and cfhcieney so 

 Hiiirh will depend. (Jet together. J'.c a unit. 



We have heard of two greenhouse 

 <onoernR in New I'^ngland — one in 

 itcilford. Ma.-;s.." the other in An- 

 thony, J{. I. — wiidse shipments of 

 roal on cars en route are said to have been taken by 

 tlie government authorities. As a rule, growers seem to 

 have been able thus far to get coal as needed althougli 

 some of them have run dangerously dose to tlfe empty 

 bin and all are more or less concerned as to what may be 

 their lot after ]>resent supplies have iieeii exhatisted. 

 The project of liaving a delegation go to Washington 

 to present the necessities of the craft to the federal au- 

 thorities has received little encouragement from those 

 who are most familiar with the situation and outlook 

 and there appears to be no better course now than to 

 hope and trust in, the word that cojncs from Wa.shington 

 that much of the newspaper talk of proposed drastic 

 action by the authorities is without official foundation. 

 The horticulttiral industries are very fortunate in hav- 

 ing at Washington, through the S. A. F., a man of the 

 calibre and influence of William F. fiude, who is indus- 

 triousy and faithfully looking after their interests with 

 an efTectiveness and grasp which probably no other indi- 

 vidual would or could exercise. The best course is to 

 "possess our souls in patience," with the conviction that 

 "Mr. Gude is doing all that can be done and that any un- 

 favorable turn in the situation will not escape his im- 

 tiiediate attention. 



The expected has happened and up, up, 

 Where jrQ (he market values of flowers for 

 theory falls Thanksgiving Day. The rose crop has 

 passed its zenith for the time being, the 

 chrysanthemum flood is noAV rapidly subsiding and as a 

 coincident the first cold wave worthy of the name comes 

 on, four days before the Thanksgiving holiday, just as if 

 it had been all purposely arranged by an omnipotent 

 power for the express purpose of making flowers scarce 

 and sending prices sky-high. Those who had flowers to 

 cut at this juncture no doubt feel jubilant over this 

 turn of affairs and coal bills will look less formidable 

 in the light of the market returns to the grower, show- 

 ing selling values doubled, ti-ebled and in some instances 

 even quadrupled, and all witliin a period of forty-eight 

 hours. One cannot blame them for rejoicing, after the 

 weeks of disheartening depression through which we 

 have just passed. Yet there can be no question but that 

 the situation as it has developed is fraught with danger 

 for the florist and is liable to bo made use of by detract- 

 ors, to the serious impairment of his standing with the 

 jiublic. No business can afford to have the public in a 

 resentful attitude but that is the logical outcome of ab- 

 normally high prices, especially when they materialize 

 suddenly and just before a holiday. What the florist 

 business needs to make it remunerative and prosperous 

 is not so much lusher prices as to enjoy a continuous 

 clean-up. It is the surpluses that are entirely lost or 

 sold for a song that cut the earnings. A rea.sonable 

 average market value without spasmodic fluctuations 

 would be the ideal condition, the attainment of which 

 is a nut that no one w-ho reads these lines, will expect 

 to live to see cracked. Theory and philosophy have 

 their uses but there are some things that no philosophy 

 ran lift and the convulsive inequalities of supply and 

 demand in the flower trade is one of them. 



