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January 15, 1916 



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Jj. vJ IV I 1 ^ \J *-* 1 yj fv.l->' sonlinicnt luul llicic is no cimnncl in llir i'i>lli';,'c 



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vol- XXIII JANUARY IS, 191.. NOJ ,^^^,.^^^^ propriety lie deVoUnl. Kl-.wer.-. .sh..ui.| l.e the 



1 1 111 i-m i« wKKKi.v n\ last, not the first, in the list of Inxiiries, tn l>e pusheil 



HORTICUCTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. nsido. 



147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. One of the direct n'sulls of liie Kiiniiieiiii 



Trirphonr, oit..rd tvi. Home war afTGctintr the florist trade is the 



W M. J. STKWAHT. K<IUor anil Muiagrr. ""'• ""t-Lln'b mu noi 161 liuut, lb liie 



— ,, — Industry necessity for providini' in Home way the 



sl'lISC III I'TION KATKS ; j i a J 



onr »r.ir. In atitanrp, "»i.iio: To I'orrisn coiinirioi.. J2.00; To fancy bnskcts and otiu'r goods formerly 



*'"""'"'• *'■'"'• su]iplied by the artizans of the central European touu- 



EDtcrcd 18 secoiij-ciciss mntter December 8. iiiH, ni tiio I'oBt oflicc tries. Oiir wide-owake im]iorting liouses did not take 



" "■— ■" MMH--. under the Act of Congress ..f March .% 1870^ ,,,„g ^^ ^^.^^ ,,p ^|,jg j-jma^i^,, ^,, ,„ p^Tceive i(s possi- 



CniWTFNTS Page ''''''''^^'' following the dosing up of their long estahlished 



^*^*^ * I!»ni 1» sources of supplv. .Mn-adv the domestic ))roduction of 



COVER ILLrSTIJATIoN View in Sc-henley Park, these goods has' assumed astonishing pioporlions and 



NOTt^'^ON CULTURK OF FLORISTS' STOCK-Adian- v^-t the industry as an American institulion is only in 



turn F-arleyense—Camalions— General Propagating— lis infancy. Hest of all, is the fact, very evident to any 



Lorraine and Cincinnati negonlas— Marguerites— Icy _ one "with half an eye," that the styles and originality in 



Blasts— ./oAn ./. .1/. FnirrU 71 ,],|, „f,ojg being turned out here are far superior in hol.l 



ROSE GROWING rNDHK GL.\SS — Keeping Tab on ° .. ? ,■ l- a ■ i i i^u i r i • 



Young Stock-Keep the Young Plants Clean-Venti- conception and artistic finish to the goods formerly im- 



lation on Cloudy Days— .lr//iur C. «H2icfca 73 ported from Europe. Everything seems to indicate 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club— _ that tiiis industry is a permanent acquisition for our 



Meetings Next Week ■■■■ ■ '* home trade and that, regardless of the outcome in Eu- 



New York Federation — Houston Convention Garden, .i • i- <■ ^i.- i e i ■ i r .i ii 



olorge E Kessler. Portrait-Horticultural Society of 'Op^-'. the nnpoiling of this class of material for the tin, - 



New York— Rochester Florists' Association 75 ist trade is largely a thing of the past. 



The Carnation Convention— Society of American ^ , . , ,, if .. |I,,,.|i,.ulturil 



Florists-Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club- ;» /"S taU. tjeloie tlie JloilicultuMi 



Massachusetts Forestry Association— Florists' Club of * "^Id Club of Boston last week, W. A. Manda 



Washington 7G for conquest urged that the propagation of hardy 



Southampton Horticultural Society— Park Institute of garden herbaceous ijlanls by seed should 



NrT^ON^f rL0WEH's"H0W."''.''.°.''^ '^« ^^^'^ generally followed by growers in'this country 



DURING REC'ESS— Tarrytown Horticultural Society- in preference to the more coninion method of root 



New Y'ork and New Jersey Association of Plant Grow- division. The result, ^Ir. Manda believed, would be, in 



ers— Morris County Gardeners' and Florists' Society— ^i,^g_ r^ substantial increase in new forms and a general 



SE^ETTRlDi^Americaf S'Trade ' Assoela-tion- '' advancement in quality over the long-cultivated types. 



Proposals for Government Seeds— Notes 79 Once a "break" is started the progress of evolution 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: would be startling. Many of our native plants, for e.\- 



New Flower Stores— The Worm Turns 80 .„npi(._ gtill exist only in "their primitive form although 



NEwri'^Ttlxis'^FROArEVERYWHERE: '"^c" i" <''at stage they seem to suggest more ),romising 



Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco 82 jjossibilities than arc apparent in the original wild 



Providence, R. I., Philadelphia, Cincinnati 83 chrvsanthemum of China and Japan from which our 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: . ,, ^ , „, highly cultivated varieties have all been evolved. One 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 85 i i. ii ■ i i j , • „ i 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis 87 "^'ed not thmk long or deep to conjure up wondrous 



Washington 93 things in imagination. There are plenty of sul)jeets 



OBITUARY— Mrs. H. C. Doescher — James H. Lagan — within the reach of anv budding Lcmoines well equijjped 



Charles W. Smith— Alfred W. Baxter-Clare V. Tlerney ^^^^^y^ ^^le required zeal, judgment, patience and— 



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MISCELLANEOUS: numuity. ^ „ . , , ^ , ^ , ,^ 



The Rights of an Employee 73 The Horticultural Trade Journal (Eng- 



' The Philadelphia Spirit — ^ym. J. Muth 77 Improving land) is carrving some interesting com- 



A Promising Late Chrysanthemum 77 the rose municalions on the question of rose im- 



■View in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh 77 , , i v i • i i i i 



Perennial Lupins, Illustrated 77 provement and the qualities which should 



Clear off Your Desk 78 now 1)0 striven for by the hybridist, rmniunity from 



Growing Ardisias— Jo/in ./. M. Farrell 78 certain diseases or fungous attacks is one of the ideals 



Publications Received 78 favorably urged and the correspondents referred to seem 



New Corporations — Patents Granted 79 j • -i. e -n i i i j. i • -i 



News Notes 78-83 "-o regard immunity from raildew, black spot and similar 



Visitors' Register 83 maladies as within the possibility of attainment. Re- 

 Catalogues Received 92 sistance to black spot is certaiulv a quality worth striv- 



G reenhouses Building or Contemplated 94 5,^^ f^„. ^^^^ ^1,^^^ ^^^^^.^ .^^.^ already sorts aijjjarcntly 



— ■ " immune, because of the te.xture or other character of 



We are sorn' to see the Harvard junior their foliage, the goal seems not an impossible one. As 



Undoing prom committee take the reactionary stand one of the writers mentioned says — "The combination 



progress which they have in regard to the use of of the plant pathologist and the practical breeder ha.s 



flowers at the various entertainments plan- resulted in things hitherto strange and little understood, 



ned for the present season. They have officially re- now beginning to take their place; in an orderly scheme, 



quested those students who are to attend, to omit send- and this new knowledge has, as one of its most impor- 



ing flowers to their feminine friends, as a matter of tant aspects, the control it will ultimately give the 



"economy." Those who know the small proportionate breeder over disease and deformity." It is suggested 



part which flowers fill in the expense account of the that disease-resistant character should be given a place 



average student will smile at the suggestion. The in the judging scales for new roses. 



