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HORTICULTURE 



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HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXlll 



JANUARY 1. 1916 



NO. I 



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HOKTICUUTURE PUBLISHINO CO. 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTKATIUN— A L'liurcli WeaUing Uocora- 

 tion 



NOTKS ON Cl'LTCRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Com- 

 post for Winter — Orchids — Freesias — Sweet Peas — 

 Winter Protection — Placing Seed Orders — Jotiti J. M. 

 Farrrll 7 



RrnniXKIA— Ric/iorrf llothc Illustrated S 



GE.NISTA: CYTISTS— ('. K. Miltioii 8 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The First Potting 

 — Where to Put the Plants — ("are in the Propagator — 

 Shading the Cuttings After I'otting — Arthur C. Hu- 

 zicka 9 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— Presidents' 

 New Year Address — Appointments by the President — 

 Department of Registration 11-12 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Meetings Next Week— Mis- 

 souri State Horticultural Society — Club and Society 

 Notes 12-13 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— »•. H. Adseit 13 



THE HORTICULTURIST AS KING — C. S. Harrison.. 14 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE— Boston, Chi- 

 cago, Providence, San Francisco 15 



SEED TRADE— A Bargain— Notes 17 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 18 



Flowers bv Telegraph 19 



CHRIST.MAS IN CHICAGO 20 



OBITUARY — George Pedrick— .■\lexander Chisolm — 

 Charles H. Chenery 20 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Y'ork 21 



Providence, San Francisco 23 



St. Louis, Washington 25 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



"A Remarkable Career" 13 



Dinner to Theodore Wirth— Portrait 13 



Summer Bedding at Highland Park, Rochester, N. 



Y.— Illustrated 14 



Catalogues Received— New Corporations IC 



Erlangea tomentosa 1'? 



Publication Received — Patents Granted 17 



Visitors' Re.aister — News Notes 20 



Greenhouses Building or Cnntemplated 30 



Damage hy Calf 30 



We give especial prominence this week to 

 The the verj' sanguine and inspiring greeting 



President's ,,f the new President of the Society of 

 message of American Florists and Ommcntal Hor- 

 ticulturists. We hope his rosy predic- 

 tions of advancement in numbers and usefulness for tlio 

 Society and prosperity and happiness for its member.^ 

 may be abundantly fulfilled. The horticultural indus- 

 tries liave, in the S. A. F. as constituted today, one of 

 the most serviceable agenfies ever devised for concen- 

 trated energy which shall in return benefit all. Mutual 

 helpfulness is the keynote <if such an institution and if 

 that is freely forthcomins. 5;ubstantial progress is as- 

 sured. Let everyone — North, East, South, West — give 

 the new president the support which he solicits. 



The year l'.tl5 lias been a ineinurablc one and 

 Adieu, tiiunu'nt<iii> i-veuts have followed one another 

 1915 111 rapid .-uceessioii. It came in with fore- 

 bodings; it goe.« (lilt burdened with iiidclilile 

 nu'iiiories, not all of which are uonibre. Wiialcver it lin.s 

 ijone for us or failed to do for us, nn, iiidividuiilii or us 

 a profeH.siiin, is now settled beyond rt'iall and it is for 

 us now to face the rising .sun of the New Year with the 

 liope that "ever ur;:cs on, and tells us tomorniw will be 

 better." Reiiieinberiiig the <|iiotation that "Things at 

 the worst will cense, or else elimb ujjward to what they 

 were before" and with the unmistakable evidence all 

 around us that the worst is over and decisive iiiiprove- 

 inent well under way, we can now readily forget and 

 forgive the past for all its deficiencies and move on ifito 

 the sunlight and the promise of a Happy and Prosperous 



New Yciir. 



House Bill 636 introduced by Kepre- 

 Retrogression sentative Andenscm, providing for tlie 

 abolislinient of the special mail rates 

 which have apjdied to seeds for a period of more than 

 ii generation, and sulistituting therefor regular mer- 

 chandise rates, is a retnigressive measure on which Con- 

 gress should waste no time. Seeds are the foundation 

 of all prosperity and the action taken so long ago as a 

 stimulus to their wide distribution was a recognition of 

 this fact, as was also the custom of sending out free 

 seeds, in its original intent. Tlie latter under present 

 methods, as everybody knows, has come into disrepute, 

 but we fail to see how the government can consistently 

 put the burden of double postage rates upon the small 

 garden planters who pay for their seeds, while at the 

 same time it is loading the mails annually with eighty 

 or ninety million packets of gift seeds on which no post- 

 age whatever is paid. If any change is to be made in 

 postage on seeds, let it be in the direction of lower, not 

 higher, rates. It costs no more to transport and deliver 

 seeds than it does periodicals and it would be a mighty 

 p)oor grade of seed that would not exceed in its .worth 

 to the people some of the literature that finds its way 

 into the second-class mail. 



In a very interesting pamjiblet on Credit 

 A New Policy, sent out b^' a western lumber con- 

 Year Wish cern, the last words are "A Sale is only a 



Loss until the bill is paid." We venture 

 lo suggest that very few of our readers have ever re- 

 u'^arded their business transactions quite in that liglii 

 ;iiid yet the losses due to credit giving — even that wliicji 

 is carefully considered as well as that given imliscreetly 

 — occur to all of us with a frequency which should be 

 -uifieient to convince us of the hard truth underlying 

 I he aforesaid conclusion. Eagerness to make sales, to 

 increase the gross amount of business transacted and 

 '|uantity of goods handled, is iin<lnulitedly the largest 

 factor in loading up our ledgers with accounts col- 

 lectible — so-called, but too often far from it. We are 

 now at that period of the year when balances are struck 

 and more or less effort is made to clear things up and 

 start with a new clean slate. If we can do this with our 

 collections it will be easy to do it with our payments. 

 On the other hand, if we do it with our payments we 

 help the other man to do his part also. 'J'be process of 

 annual settling-up has usually been prolific in failures. 

 If this .January should prove the reverse it will be very 

 pleasing and a fine testimonial to the growing stability 

 of commercial horticulture and its allied industries. In 

 extending the coinplinieiits of the season to the trade we 

 can think of no better wish than tluit all may be able 

 to collect in full and to pay in full, evei-ytbing that the 

 vear 1915 has left on the books. 



