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SoptGinber 29. 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



TDL XXVI 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— The Lily Pool at the Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., Exposition 



THE FLORISTS' WI.N'TER PLANT PROBLEM— 



//. H. liartsch~C. ('. PoUuorth—Frcd Burki 349 



THE PIBLICITY QUESTION— /^nfntfr Welch 351 



THE PROPAGATION OF THE TREE PEONY— C. S. 

 Harrison 351 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lancaster County Florists' 

 Association — New York State Federation — Meetings 

 Next Week — Clirysanthenuim Society of America — • 

 Cleveland Florists' Club — Westchester and p-airfield 

 Horticultural Societ.v — American Dahlia Society. 352-353 

 Chicago to Detroit 359 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Rochester Flower Show— Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York — New Haven County 

 Horticultural Society— Retail Florists' Exhibit at 



Syracuse. N. Y., Fair. Illustration 353 



Illinois State Florists' Association 359 



Cleveland Flower Show Enlarged 365 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS ITE.MS: 



Boston. Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Philadelphia, 

 Rochester 354-355 



SEED TRADE— To Expedite Bulb Deliveries— Reduced 

 Yields — Notes — Catalogues Received 356 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 358 



Flowers by Telegraph 359 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia, Rochester 361 



St. Louis 363 



OBITUARY— Edwin M. Haven, portrait— Henry Youell 

 —Robert S. Peabody— Prank Huntsman— William 

 Ha rve.v— William B. Entemann 364 



MISCELLANBX)US: 



Comrades in Arms, portraits 355 



New Corporations 358 



Visitors' Register ! . ! . . 363 



Blight of Heliotrope — H. H. Bartsch 365 



News Notes — Patents Granted 366 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 366 



Since it became evident that the cus- 



The toman' supply of forcin? material 



florists winter t "u i i. i i i i i- ^i 



. . ■_. ""^Ti abroad was not to be had for the 

 plant problem tt i 



coming season Horticulture has re- 

 ceived many inquiries on the subject 

 and a number of timely communications from well- 

 known growers with suggestions as to the best means of 

 meeting the situation which is thus forced upon, the 

 trade. The outlook for at least a partial supply of 

 Dutch bulbs has improved most decidedly within the 

 past few days as indicated in our news columns this 

 week but there seems no possibility of the receipt of 

 nursery stock as in past years — absolutely nothing from 

 Belgium. The communications from several plant 

 growers who have been giving much thought to the 

 problems thus created, which we are privileged to pre- 



.scnt ill tills issue, merit nueful peru.«al. "Korewnrned 

 18 forenrmed." Now is the time to lay plans ahead for 

 the coming days of famine and enhanci-d prices. 



The situation as regards seed siipjily 



The present j,, dij^ country is suHicieiitly dcspurate 



and future |., furnish a powerful stimuhint to the 



seed supply )i,,ine production on a big scale of field 



and garden seeds of the liighest quality, 

 inure csiiecially soiiu' of th(j.se on whicli Kiiro|)eiin grow- 

 ers have held a m(iiio]K)Iy in the past. It will be, at best, 

 some years before we may expect our .\inerican growers 

 to attain the elliciency with which the 8|)ecialized busi- 

 ness of seed growing and selection has been carried on 

 in the European countries, but we hardly need say (hat 

 unless a beginning Is made nothing can ever be accom- 

 plished, and it is safe to say further that the opportunity 

 and the rccomiieiise will never be any more inviting than 

 they are now. All our advices show that the situation 

 as it now looms up for the coming season will test the 

 courage and the business ability of the American seeds- 

 man to the limit. A sufficient supply of reliable quality 

 seeds in many of the crops most likely to be demanded 

 for next season's planting, or any adequate recuperation 

 of stocks that were depleted or in many instances en- 

 tirely exhausted by the unprecedented increase of acre- 

 age devoted to field crops and garden vegetables last 

 spring, is obviously out of the question, and the matter 

 of market values thus becomes a very hard nut to crack. 

 Supply, qualit}' and prices are "in the air" and on all 

 these jKjints the seedsman has his work already cut out 

 ahead for him, if we read the signs aright. There will 

 be a very embarrassing shortage in many kinds of flower 

 seeds as well, but the deficiency as regards garden veg- 

 etables will, of course, be most keenly felt. It remains 

 only for our seed growers to apprehend and grasp in a 

 large industrial way the world-wide exigency and golden 

 opportunity as now shaping up. As a stable and re- 

 munerative business for the immediate future, that of 

 specialized seed production in America stands second 

 to none. 



Aleditating on the situation as re- 

 The ferred to in the foregoing, the 



colleges should thought comes as to what our State 

 help .\gricultural Colleges are doing, 



might do or should do, to prepare 

 young students and equip them with the knowledge re- 

 quired for a successful career as seed growers. It is a 

 well-known fact that only a relatively small percentage 

 of our Massachusetts College graduates decide to follow 

 agriculture as an avocation, and presumably this is also 

 the case elsewhere. Instead of being so anxious to place 

 the young men as inspectors and in other public' posi- 

 tions these institutions could do much to recoup the 

 State for its expenditures for educational purposes by 

 instructing them in the art of seed growing and thus 

 fitting them to engage in an industry not only highly 

 profitable to themselves but which would result in cre- 

 ating a high standard of cultivation and would eventu- 

 ally add immensely to the much needed material for 

 planting purposes. The wide variety of .soils to be found 

 all along the eastern edge of our country from Penn- 

 sylvania to Elaine and especially the light gravelly soil 

 so prevalent in large sections of New England is said 

 by those who understand it to be particularly adapted 

 to the seed growing industrj'. Once put in motion In 

 a comprehensive and constructive way the practical value 

 of such a course would soon be convincingly demon- 

 strated. Let no time be lost. 



