271 H H T I (' U L T U H E February 26, 1910 



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VOL. XXIll FEBRUAKY 26. 1916 NoTs l'"">'- '" ''" '"'^' '''"'" '"•'l"""*'^ miUSM.ll a.ti\ily ill will- 



iliiw f;|asB tli'tiiiiii(i for Ixitli iliimc'slic mid i'.\|piirt ship- 



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1^7 summer Street, oomton, Mass. i ■, i i • r .i . i 



, , , ,, . . .^ wliitc h'lul IS II coiisiMiiiciiri- of the siroii'' iipwiird imir- 



WM. J. bTKWAKT. K.lllor ud ll.n.(rr. I^'< '" 1"^' "'"U a'><l t'»' l'"'>"t prU C SlllUltloll gl-lllllllly 



■Dtrrr,. a. «HH.ud.cl«.. matter Kcember 8. IKH. at thr I'u.t Otn.-. '"* " /t-O', ''"T" ""C. Pig iron is hi^'h. Ill.sO «U'.'l lllld 



u UuatoQ, ums., nndiT tii<> Act of Couvrnt of Uarcii 3, 187V. nciirly nil otlicr iiiatermlb I'literiii^' iiiU) the cuiistriic- 



^^r^ /~k iWTir iM T & ^"^^ ''"" '""' <^''l"'P"'P"t of green ho 1 1 SI'S arc at pri-sont high 



nnwu II I i-cTi) ?^n\v- 7 II 1 ,. . "^ I'liccd with no i)n>.*iiecl of a reaction. Wi- iiiidcrstand 



COVfc<K ILl.,1 hTI{.M R).N— All Ideal (. oiiservutory. ' , ,, ,.,, ', ' , ,, ,, ., , ^. „ , 



NOTES ON Cri>TlKK OV KLOKISTS- STOCK— ''"'♦ ""' """Hwl tonnage of the I nited States Steel 



ralicolartas—Pulius— Propagating Vlolet-s — Sowinn Corporation is at jiresent a little over fS.iKMi.iMio tons. 



Se<?d of Tender Aquatics— Sweet Peas— Compost for |„ addition to the iircscnl high cost of materials, lalu.r 



i'Tfirn "/'".*'. ^^'^"""'^'^-''"'•'^'ns GladloH^ohn J. ^^^ „ndouh(...liy will he scarce and high priced next spring 



MAU.NOI.IA SALiciFOlVlA—./.fl.j,iri- ."!!"!. ']!;!!!! 272 ""^1 suininer. Thousands have gone to Eurojie to join 



ACTl.N'!lil.\ AKGl'T.A — Illustrated 272 the colors, and practically none are coming from Europe. 



UOSK CKOWI.NG I'NDKU CLASS— Early Planting— The countrv is liusv, and thousands are einiiloyed mak- 



v!'.'.'','i''',;\'r""T'M'^'"\ ^'''""■••^'^'^^P After the ■ „,„nitions, bridges, and other construction work. 



\enta— .tr//iiir C. I{u:irkti 273 ,,", , , ' . ," , . , ,, 



CLlIiS AND SOCIKT IKS— Lancaster County Flor- hictones of all kinds are now being operated to cafiacitv. 



Isls' Clul>— Meetiims and Exhibitions— St. Louis Club Strikes will certainly follow these conditions, and there 



and Society Meetings- Connecticut Nurserymen's As- will probably be no relief from this up.set condition in- 



nnn^'^p"°';;f^V^oo"%f ''f-' -^'"'tV ' i ; " V;,' T ' •^; • •; "^ side of a year or two. So all considerations of prudence 



DURING RFXKSS — St. Louis Florist Club — West- i j. • i ^ in .. ,. ,■ ■ , , 



Chester and Fairfield Horticultural Society— Roeh- "»" foresight would seem to favor proirediiig without 



ester Florists' Association — Bowling Scores at Boston 276 delay in the matter of aiiv conteni|)lated building. There 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Chicago to Philadel- is nothing in the situation which suggests tlie slightest 



<r J^n"^R°Anr^^ n"°'\,"';""'f' °° •;••«; Ill advantage in delav now. 



bhED TRAOI'} — One Weeks Imports — Notes 278 '^ 



OF INTERKST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: It is .stated tiiat at the annual meeting of 



New Flower Stores— Flowers by Telegraph 280-281 Time to the Association of OfTicial Horticultural 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERVWHERE-Pittsburgh, call a halt Inspectors a resolution was : pt-vl and 



Washington. Philadelphia, New York, Chicago 282 / i ii i^ i i n . ., i i, i 



OBITL'ARY-Conrad Bergestermann 282 ^^'"t *" *'"' l'cflt''-'>l Horticultural Hoard 



FLOWER MARKKT REPORTS— Boston. Buffalo, Chi- mging "tiiat the federal fjuarantine l>e .strengthened 



cago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia 285 and that an ab.solute quarantine lie jilaced on all plants 



Mi^w'^^oo^.l'i ^'^ Louis, Washington 287 ^.jth soil about the roots, e.vcept such as are introduced 



INIIjW KUbEv5 — /v. fx. HUl. 292 \ i.1 JT C3 T\ i- J. i? * • lA r • i 



MISCELLANEOUS- .^' ^"^ ^- ^- department of Agriculture for experiment 

 To Kewites in America 276 =>'i<l tho.se to be held in fjuarantine for a rca.sonable peri- 

 Catalogues Received— Movements of Gardeners 278 od."' Tliere is nothing in the report to indicate tliat men 



Business Troubles-News Notes 280 i„ any way connected with practical Imrticulture or 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes.' .■.;::::.■; 293 "-epresentative of the interests affected had any voice in 



A Book That All Will W'ant 294 this decision which certainly has a very drastic tone. No 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 294 rea.sonable horticulturist has any fault to find with the 



'==^=^^^=^^^=^^=^^==^^^^^==^=^=^^= |)rinci]ile on which our existing inspection and (piar- 



i'lie scarcity of fertilizers in this couii- aiitine laws are based. Rut it is an accepted truth that 



Fertilizer try, brought about by the European "Best things carried to excess are wrong,'" and here 



and insecticide war, has made it necessary for the seems to us to be an example of excess that may Justi- 



dllemmas .Agricultural and other Departments fiably be interpreted as contemplating arbitrary oiijues- 



at Washington to inaugurate a search sion. The impossibility of importing palms, araucarias. 



for domestic or other available sources of supply. The bay trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and numerous other 



latest encouragement in this direction comes from the horticultural stocks, should sucli a proposition become a 



Commissioner of Fisheries concerning large bone de- law, needs no proving and should t;he finns wlio inii)orl 



posits which have been located on the Pribilof Islands these goods from abroad or the growers who plant and 



but the practicability of utilizing these deposits in a cultivate them resent this new drive against their busi- 



commercial way has yet to be determined. Tlie fcrtil- ness as an unwarranted persecution they can hardly be 



izer problem has its counterpart in the insecticide in- blamed under the circumstances. Miich has alreadv 



dustry where similar difficulties have come in on account happened from the operation of the rigorous rules now 



of the scarcity and greatly increased price of certain existing, to dishearten the horticulturist and retard the 



staples. We learn from the N. Y. Commercial that jirogress of horticulture in this country. We have seen 



paris green is practically out of the market in this conn- Scions of rare trees and shrubs from abroad that had 



try, resulting from the inability to obtain sufficient iieen completely killed by the superfluous cyaniding 



quantities of blue vitriol, as well as white arsenic for process they had been submittefl to in Washington. It 



its manufacture. The insecticide people have troubles of seems an injustice tliat the florist and nursery interests 



their ovra, as can be plainly seen, and as for the horti- should have to sufl'er so .much from theoretical and 



cultural people, eternal vigilance to nip all insect raids often panicky legislation based largely on individual 



in their early stages, seems to be the only safe line of notions and put in effect by over-zealous public oificials 



*^tion. \vho know little and appear to care little as to the mis- 



The advancing price of vrindow gliiss, white chief caused. If tlic Society of .American Florists is 



Build lead and other materials entering into the con- looking for an opportunity to do something for the in- 



now struction of greenhouses suggests the advisa- dustries wliich it represents, tlic conditions here com- 



bility of early action on the part of parties con- mented upon present an excellent opening. 



