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HORTICULTURE 



September 16, 1917 



hor ticulture: 



rOL XXVI SHPTF.MBER 15, I9I7 WX IJ 



11 III.IMIKI) WK.KKI.T IIT 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Narcissus Naturalized lii 

 the Grass 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— SyrlnKlng— Shak- 

 ing Plants after Syringing — Keep the Houses Warm 

 Enough— Drainage— Rush the Boiler Repairs— The 

 Flower Pots— Supply of Plant Food— .Ir/ftiir C. 

 Ruzirka 301 



A NEW HARDY DWARF HEDGE PLANT 303 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club- 

 Meetings Next Week — Horticultural Society of New- 

 York — Stamford Horticultural Society — Club and 

 Society Notes 304 



NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLICITY INAUG- 

 URATED BY THE S. A. F 305 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Boston Dahlia Show— Rochester 

 Flower Show — Coming EJxhibitions 305 



OBITUARY— Henry Gaertner— Mrs. Sarah E. Purdy— 

 William R. Slebrecht — Fred A. Anderson — Mrs. 

 Arthur Schutz— Charles H. Rea— R. R. Stouten- 

 borough — Alexander McAllister 306 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, Rochester. Pittsburgh, St. Louis 307 



DURING RECESS— Newport Horticultural Society 307 



SEED TRADE— Buy Labeled Field-Crop Seed— Heavy 

 Frost Damage 308 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 310 



Flowers by Telegraph 311 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York Philadelphia 313 

 Pittsburgh, Rochester, St. Louis 315 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Azaleas at Eureka, Cal. — Illustrations 303 



Solanum "Cleveland" 303 



Narcissus Naturalized in the Grass 303 



A Record Peony Sale— C. 8. Harrison 303 



A New Melon, Illustrated 306 



L. H. Bailey Back from the Orient 306 



A Nice Easter Plant, Illustrated 306 



Vines In Pots for Next Season's Fruiting 306 



New Corporations 310 



Visitors' Register 315 



Grapes Cracking — Catalogues Received 317 



Frost Damage in New England 318 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 318 



Patents Granted — News Notes 318 



Ft was an animated and enlightening 

 "Publicity" debate that the New York Florists' 

 gets another dub indulged in on last Monday night 

 boost when the subject of national publicity 



for the florist business was brought up, 

 — enlightening because of the freedom with which it was 

 discussed and the frankly divergent views that were 

 ■uncovered as to the scope of the movement, the attitude 

 which the club should assume and the extent to which 

 it should participate financially in the proposed cam- 

 paign. Wisdom was shown in the decision finally to 

 hold up for a month action on the question of a club 

 subscription to the fund, for while prompt and ener- 

 getic action now is needed to maintain the proper en- 

 thusiasm yet it is well that nothing shall be done which 

 later on might be open to criticism as having been hasty 

 and ill-advised. The New York Club naturally holds 

 a position of leadership among organizations of its kind 

 and whatever it may do in a matter of such universal 

 moment should and will have a potent and country- 



wide indueiice. .\n interesting and timely conununica- 

 tion from tlie Publicity Finance t'ommittee will be 

 found in this issue of Ilorticulture. 



The coal i)roblem does not appear to be 



A luiy nearer solution tiian it was several 



serious weeks ago. Many greenhouse bins are 



situation still empty or nearly so and the question 



of securing even a ])artial supply now 

 over-tops that of price. The cold wave of the past 

 week comes as an acute and i>ainfiil reminder of the 

 near approach of the time when the fires must be kept 

 up to full speed, and we are not surprised at the alarm 

 manifested by greenhouse men whose coal supply 

 ordered weeks or even months ago has not yet begun to 

 materialize. Here is where the flower grower once 

 more is in danger of running up against the "luxury" 

 discrimination, for the destination of every oar of coal 

 must now be accounted for to the Government agents 

 and the mandate regarding its distribution is first, 

 Government; second, home; third, necessities. 



The question of whether or not it 

 The would be possible to import flow- 



Holland bulb ering bulbs from Holland this sea- 

 situation son is One which has caused both 



florists and seedsmen much anxiety. 

 The Holland-American Steamship Line had cancelled 

 all its sailings last February and as our readers 

 will no doubt remember there were no boats to 

 carry the thousands of cases of nursery stock usually 

 shipped from Rotterdam in ]\Iarch and as a result many 

 cases of these goods remain, now worthless, on the 

 docks in Rotterdam. Notwithstanding this condition 

 of transportation, the salesmen of the Holland bulb 

 growers many of whom had previously arrived in this 

 covmtry and being unwilling to lo.se their export trade, 

 already seriously reduced by the cutting of the Ger- 

 man and English markets, eagerly booked all the orders 

 obtainable, hoping to find means of trans|X)rtation to 

 this country for their bulbs either by prevailing upon 

 the Holland-American . Line to send special steamers 

 with bulb cargoes or, failing this, making shipment by 

 way of Norway. In June, the Holland bulb growers 

 informed their customers here, that such special steam- 

 ers would be despatched from Rotterdam, safe passage 

 having been promised by the German government on 

 condition that the steamers should not call at any port 

 in Great Britain, but permitting examination by the 

 British authorities nt Halifax instead, to which con- 

 dition the Britisli government consented. Early in 

 August information came that the S. S. Waaldyk would 

 sail on the 25th of that month with bulbs. On August 

 .30th notices appeared in several daily papers that the 

 government of Holland had placed an embargo on the 

 export of all bulbs. Subsequent advices informed us 

 however that this embargo applies only to exports of 

 bulbs for feeding cattle for which it is stated that hun- 

 dreds of tons were used in Germany last year, and not 

 to bulbs to be exported to this country' and Scandinavia 

 for flowering purposes. Many conflicting reports have 

 reached us but as we mentioned briefly last week we 

 have assurance that at least one steamer, the Waaldyk, 

 is now well out in the Atlantic with a cargo of 26,000 

 cases of bulbs, the Holland-America office in New York 

 having received a cablegram that she actually sailed 

 on Saturday, September 8. and in view of the route 

 that she would have to follow it is figured that the 

 steamer may be expected to arrive in New York about 

 September 24. 



