February 19, 1916 



HORTIOULTUSE 



241 



hortic ulture: 



VOL. XXIII FEBRUARY 19. 1916 KQ. 8 



PUBLISHEU WEEKLY BT 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 1^7 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford Mt. 

 WM. J. STEWART, EdItoF and UanaBer. 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Conservatory at Como Park, 

 St. Paul, Minn. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Acalyphas — Amaryllis — Orchids — Schlzanthus — Start 

 for Next Christmas — Sowing Musa — Lily of the 

 Valley Pips— /oft?i J. M. FarreU 239 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Lining the Boxes 

 for Shipping — Watcli Heavy Snows — Keep Boiler 

 Flues Clean — Propagating — Arthur C. Ruzicka 241 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Meetings and Exhibitions — Ameri- 

 can Rose Society — New York Florists' Club 242 



Banquet Gardeners' and Florists' Cluli of Boston, 

 Illustration — Chicago to Moline — Horticultural So- 

 ciety of New Yorli — Holyoke and Northampton Flor- 

 ists' and Gardeners' Club 243 



"Novelty Night" at Chicago — Nassau County Horti- 

 cultural Society — Connecticut norticultural Society 244 

 Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society- 

 Horticultural Society of Western Pennsylvania — 

 St. Louis Florist Clulj — Lenox Horticultural Society 

 — Cincinnati Florists' Society — Club and Society 

 Notes 245 



SEED TRADE>— One Week's Imports 246 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Valentines Day Publicity — New Flower Stores 248 



Flowers bv Telegraph 249 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Pitts- 

 burgh 250 



DURING RECESS— Bowling Scores at Boston 251 



OBITUARY— George A. Galloupe — Mrs. Joseph Guerin 

 —Henry C. Sherrer 251 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 253 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 255 



Washington 260 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Rose Prima Donna, Illustration 244 



Carnation Laura Weber, Illustration 244 



New Corporations — News Notes 246 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 246 



Seed and Plant Forcing Device 246 



Rather Cheeky 246 



Business Troubles 250 



Visitors' Register 251 



Rose and Carnation Show 251 



Carnation "Yellows" — George L. Peltier 260 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 262 



Patents Granted 262 



'I'lir li'i'i)(>rt of the J'rcHfriiinjis rjl 



An institution (he Tliirtv-first Annual Convention 



which stands for ,,f the Society of American Florists 



something ;||,(1 Oniiimeutal Horticulturists has 



just Ik'ch received from the Secrc- 

 tarv's olVirc. It is a book of 370 pages of interestiiiir 

 matter, giving in detail the story of the year's work in 

 the national society, including the doings at San Fnin- 

 cisco. The list of members in good standing contains 

 the names of 407 life and 1224 annual members. As 

 we glance over these names we are impressed with the 

 significant fact — one which we wish every young man 

 engaged in any floral or horticultural industry should 

 take note of — that the majority of the men wlio have 

 attained prominence in horticultural and floral circles 

 in this country are enrolled as members in the Society 



of American Florists — some of them for many years 

 and, of these, many dating their best success in their 

 chosen field from the time when they began to partici- 

 pate in the activities of that organization. No one as- 

 piring to eminence and success in his work can afford to 

 have his name missing from the list of his fellows who 

 have identified themselves with an organization so use- 

 ful. Even if one can but rarely attend its conventions, 

 still membership in the S. A. F. is an asset for the 

 holder, worth many times its cost, a certificate of char- 

 acter that should not be underestimated, for a man is 

 generally sized up according to the sort of company he 

 keeps. If advancement is to be made the man of to- 

 morrow must be better than the man of yesterday or 

 the man of today; if not, his efficiency and his chances 

 for success will measure low in comparison with the 

 standards set by his more intelligent and progi'essive 

 fellows. To a young man imbued with the right pur- 

 pose and spirit to go ahead, affiliation with an organi- 

 zation which can count in its ranks the leading men in 

 their class as our great national society unquestionably 

 does, cannot but serve as a healthy stimulant and prac- 

 tical helper. 



The "divine flower" is or should be at 

 The this time of the year at its best and ac- 



status of the cordingly has been given the place of 

 carnation greatest prominence as a subject for in- 

 spection and discussion at a number of 

 local club and society meetings recently. Everywhere 

 there seems to be an undercurrent of feeling that the 

 carnation is not under present conditions making the 

 best of its opportunity as a commercial flower. Just 

 why this is so has been for some time a subject of dis- 

 cussion wherever the craft gather together. Some have 

 been temporarily carried away and their misgivings al- 

 layed by the remarkably strong market enjoyed by the 

 carnation in common with other flowers during the 

 greater part of the present winter. But, while it is 

 true that those growers who had carnations to cut dur- 

 ing the months of December and January had eveiy 

 reason to rejoice over their market experience, yet this 

 good fortune is recognized as having been largely due 

 to a succession of peculiar conditions in which the dis- 

 tinctive popularity of the carnation could hardly be 

 called a factor and specialists in this flower are not slow 

 to express concern as to its relative position in the mar- 

 ket. The frequency and seriousness with which this 

 important subject is being considered and discussed by 

 the leading carnation growers is, however, an encourag- 

 ing augury and gives assurance that adequate ways and 

 means for correcting defects and conserving the best 

 interests of the carnation as a '•people's flower" will be 

 zealously followed up. Uoirricui/ruRE's views as to 

 what quality is most to he desired and fostered in the 

 present stage of carnation development has been re- 

 peatedly expressed. We would simply reiterate here our 

 conviction that, if the popular favor for the carnation 

 is to be effectively stimulated, then all other considera- 

 tions can wisely be subordinated to the one outstanding 

 question of restoring to the flower that long-keeping 

 cliaracter which counted for so much in its old-time 

 prestige with the peojile. more especially those of the 

 middle classes by whom the carnation was held in high 

 esteem for its intrinsic value. One happy result of the 

 test of lasting quality in the exhibits at Cleveland last 

 fall was to sliow that neither goodly size of bloom, 

 nor rciisonablc distance of shipment injuriously af- 

 I'ects the lasting (pialities of a carnation. The why of 

 sleepy flowers plainly must be sought in other directions. 



