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IIOHTICU LTUHK 



Septumbur 1. 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXVI SEPTEMBER 1, in? ttO. 9 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



COVER ILLUSTR.^TION— Mrs. Julius Uoehrs. Presi- 

 dent-Klect Ladies' Society of American Florists 



NOTES ON CULTIHE 01'' FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Carnations — Chrysantliemunis — PelarKoniums — 

 Sowing Cyclamens — Violets — Reminders — John J. M. 

 FancU 249 



A .TKRSEV RAMBLE— Illustrated 251 



SOCMFTY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Closing Session 

 — Report of Credit and Collection Bureau Committee 

 — Convention Rooted Cuttings 252-253 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— National Association of 

 Gardeners — Lancaster County Florists' Association — 



Clul) and Society Notes 253 



American Rose Society 254 



SEED TRADl-:) — American Seed Trade Association An- 

 nual Report — Select Healthy Bean Seed Now — Want 

 Information as to Seed Stoclis — Douglas P. Laird 

 Goes to the P^ront — Dutch Bulb Shipments Prohibited 256 



OBITrARY— Mrs. Thomas Meehan 258 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 258 



Flowers bv Telegraph 259 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago. Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 



Rochester, St. Louis 261 



Washington 263 



Dl'RING RECESS— Reading, Pa., Florists 263 



NEWS ITEMS: 



Washington, Rochester, St. Louis, Cincinnati 265 



JIISCELLANEOUS: 



What is Fame 251 



New Corporations 258 



Visitors' Register 263 



Storm Havoc in New England 266 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 266 



The new.s, which has just reached us. 



No ik'C-lariiijr an embargo on the shipment 



Dutch bulbs of lnill)s from Holhuiil, is ven' disturb- 



thls year • ing and unless some modification oT 



the edict should yet be granted, it 



means serious loss and derangement to a large section 



of the seed and florist trade of this country. Tlie di.s- 



appointment will prove a keen one to many. If any 



protest is to be made it sliould be done at once as the 



bulbs are now lying on t\u\ docks in TJotterdani and will 



soon be spoiled. 



There i.s no denying that business 



A good activity and normal prosperity has 



time coming been cut into, more or less, during the 



past few months by existing "war con- 

 ditions/' more especially in the extreme eastern section 

 of the countiy, where the jxjiiey of retrenchment on the 

 part of people who liave liitlierto been liberal patrons 

 of liorticulture has borne heavily on floral, gardening 

 and kindred industries. It is not to be expected, how- 

 ever, that this situation will continue for any great 

 length of time. It is well known that trade interests 

 in Great Britain, for instance, suffered a veiT severe 

 set-back at the beginning of hostilities but ^\■e hear a 

 very different story now and what happened there is 



lialile tu buppen liore but in a niucli mure pronounced 

 way possibly. We were interested to lieur winil F. \\. 

 V. Brown luid to sny nt the Convention as to the e.v- 

 trcmely j)rosiK'rous conditions he liad found in the florist 

 business in Canada on u recent visit there. So, if your 

 liarp i.s su.speiidod in the willow tree, lielter take it 

 down and shine it up for the merry time that's coming. 



.According to the registration book, there 

 Up and \v(>|-i. represented in tlic New York ('i)iiven- 

 doing tion attendance tliirty-one states, including 

 District of Columbia, in tcrritor)' extend- 

 ing iroin .Atlantic to Pacific aiul from the I.4ikes to the 

 (lulf. as well as outside territory comprising (.'anada. 

 Cuba and Hcrniiida. Hy far the largest rejjreseiitation 

 as indicated by tbc registration i)ook came from I'ciin- 

 sylvania, Illinois counting .second and Massachusetts 

 third. The absence of any obligation to register in or- 

 der to get tickets for entertainments, etc., as in pre- 

 vious conventions, put the registration Inrnk "into the 

 discard" as a barometer of the attendance on this occa- 

 sion and the great majority. esj)e<'ially of local people, 

 came and went without being recorded, so that a close 

 comparison of the 1917 event witii its predecessors, on 

 the basis of attendance, is out of the question, but "the 

 cream of the trade'" was well represented and the in- 

 terest in the proceedings was well maintained as wit- 

 ness the vote for officers which far exceeded that re- 

 corded at either one of the two former Nevr York con- 

 ventions. It was a business convention throughout, 

 serious but very good-natured withal. 



Tlie very pertinent question of protection 



Still in against the al)use of the credit system has 



abeyance |)oen |)romiiu'ntly i)efore the trade for 



many years. 'IVenty-nine years ago, at 

 the first New York Convention, it was introduced by 

 ['resident E. G. Hill who said: 



"This is an important and somewhat delicate subject 

 for us to discuss but it is of such moment as to demand 

 consideration at our hands. Kindred associations have 

 their protective unions for preventing the dishonest from 

 imposing upon the unsuspecting . . . The ledgers of many 

 of the gentlemen iiresent today could testify the need of 

 some measure of relief being adopted by the Society. I 

 might suggest that it be made the province of the Society, 

 through the medium of the secretaryship, to post, on In- 

 formation furnished by reputable members, dishonest and 

 unreliable men whether they be members or not. It cer- 

 tainly is and should be the duty of the ofhcers of this 

 Society to drop from membership, on a written complaint 

 of a given number, men who persistently refuse to honor 

 their just obligations." 



The eiTect of llr. Hill's reconnncndation was the 

 api)ointment of a special committee consisting of .7. 

 C. Vaughan, cbainnan, M. A. Hunt, J. D. Carmody, 

 Robt. J. Halliday and Robert Craig. This committee 

 reported at the convention in Buffalo the following 

 year, recommending the formation of a branch society 

 to be known a.s tlie Florists' I'rotective Branch of the 

 S. A. F., and giving details of tbe projMjsed method of 

 conducting it, making membership in the S. A, F, a 

 prerequisite to membership in. the Protective organiza- 

 tion. This report was di.seussed with considerable vigor 

 and the Constitution and By-laws of tbe "Florists' Pro- 

 tective Association'' appears as an appendix to the S. .\. 

 F. report for 1889. Without going farther into the 

 subsequent history of the original movement for a bet- 

 ter regulation of business credits, we should say that 

 the project as it appears today after a lot of hard thresh- 

 ing by Mr. AVelch's committee, appears to stand just 

 about where it did in 1888. 



