HO irr 1 CULTUKE 



October 20, 1917 



horticulture: 



VOL XXVI 



OCTOBER ::0. 1917 



NO. 16 



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CONTENTS Page 



Page 

 COVEIt ILLUSTRATION— Nephrolepis exaltata "Presi- 

 dent Wilson." 



ROSK GROWING UNDER GLASS— Ventilation— Plac- 

 inp: the Heat— Feeding— Crown Gall— Tying— Clean 



Out the Spider— Blackspot—.l;-?7i»r C. Ruzicka 421 



AN APPEAL TO THE GROWER— .1. Farentcald 423 



SEED GROWING FOR AMERICA— .4. G. Hecht 423 



S. A. F. PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN 424 



ECHOES— L. W. C. TiithiU 424 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— .Meetings Next Week— Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America— Carl Hagenburger. portrait 

 —Society of American Florists— Cleveland Flower 

 Show— New York Florists' Club— American Rose 



Society— Mas.sachusetts Horticultural Society 425-426 



Club and Society Notes 435 



OBITUARY— G. Pappa.s— John H. Hale— Heiiry Jerola- 

 •nan 426-427 



SEED TRADE— Philadelphia Seed News— Notes 428 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 43O 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia 433 



Rochester, St. Louis 435 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston, New York. Chicago, Rochester. Philadelphia, 

 Pittsburgh, Cleveland, St. Louis 436-438 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Propagating Bedding Plants 423 



The Winter Course at Cornell University 423 



.Another New Nephrolepis 423 



Publication Received \ 423 



Emblematic Bedding at West Park, Pittsburgh, 



Pa., Illustration 426 



Catalogues Received 428 



Fruit Show at Boston 428 



New Corporations 430 



Visitors' Register 431 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated -. . . 438 



A communication from Professor Hecht of 

 A grave Amlier.st Agricultural College on the suh- 

 exigency jpct of Seed growing in this country, ap- 

 pears in this issue and is worthy of the 

 attention of the .\merican seed trade, for it touches on 

 !i matter which vitally affects their interests. This sub- 

 ;< ct i.s both timely and urgent, as everyone engaged in 



the tteed trade is fully aware. Tlie apriculturHJ eollegCf;, 

 wiierevcr loented. <iiii ]nrforin a splendid service for 

 litis ((iiiiilry if they will lake up this matter seriously 

 and at onrc, and we iiave no doiiiit tiiat tiiey will liiid 

 lite .•iecdsmen ready and willing to encourage and co- 

 operate with tliem. 



W 1- MH not surprised at the uneasiness and 

 Express ,.\iii cDiistcnuition which ]>rcvailR in many 

 service .|iiarter.- over tlic existing conditions and 



iiiitlook as reganis the transportation and 

 delivery of pliints and flowers liy e.vpresR. In the past 

 the express coinpanies have iieeii alert and eager for this 

 iiusiness and extremely jealous of conipetitioji by parcel 

 [)ost or other methods of carrying these goods. But now. 

 under the pressure of Government traflii- and niouopo- 

 iizing of railroad service, they arr simply overwhelmed 

 and thi-ow up tkeir hands insofar as the safe delivery of 

 these perisiiable goods is concerned. We have knowledge 

 of a small ])arcel sent from Boston to New York two 

 weeks ago by .American Express which was not delivered 

 until the fourth day after they accepted it, although it 

 was marked for special attention and haste. A package 

 from New York to Hahway, N. .7., recently, which took 

 two days to make the twenty-five mile trip, is another 

 instance. We arc informed that the service has im- 

 proved somewhat within the past week but how long this 

 will last, no one knows. The jiroblem of getting flow- 

 ers from growers at a distance to the lartre city markets 

 during the busy season which is now afiproaching has 

 a formidable look at the present time. 



One has oidy to saunter through the whole- 

 ''''^* .<ale flower markets and commission houses 

 road to on any morning throughout the season to dis- 

 quaiity cover the fact that not all rose gowers pro- 

 duce flowers of uniformly good or even 

 passable quality. So exceptional, indeed, are the estab- 

 lishments that turn out high-grade blooms right along 

 tliat tiie buyers in the wholesale market know most of 

 them by name and not infrequently are able to recognize 

 lit sight this or that grower's product. There never ha-s 

 i)een a year when the grower has needed every cent that 

 bis goods can realize so imperatively as he will this year 

 l)ut if he expects to get top prices he must put 

 ([uality into his goods and even at best that 

 will be close enough to tlie danger line under the 

 conditions that now loom up. We would, therefore, 

 call the attention of our readers, esjiccially those grow- 

 ing roses for the wholesale markets to the very practical 

 and timely notes on the cultural care of roses under glass 

 by A. C. Ruzicka which' will appear in HouTicui/rL'KE 

 weekly through the season. ^Ir. Biizicka's ability as a 

 rose grower is widely recognized and the advice he gives 

 in these notes is sterling and reliable. The imperfect 

 jiroduct which so many growers turn out is undoubtedly 

 due verj' largely to the indifference and neglect of the 

 little things on which Mr. Ruzicka lays so much stress. 

 Read carefully what he has to say and in following the 

 advice he gives you will be doing just what all of the 

 i-eally successful rose growers practise continuously. 



Commencing with the first issue in November. 

 1917. advertising rates in "Horticulture" will be 

 slightly advanced as shown on the new price list 

 at top of this page — this as an unavoidable result 

 of the war revenue law providing for higher 

 postage and other special taxation on publica- 

 tions. This step was taken months ago by other 

 horticultural weeklies. 



