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CONTENTS Page 



COVEai ILLUSTRATION — French Hydrangeas tor 

 Christmas. 



.NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 or Chrysanthemums — Geraniums — Shading Orchids 

 — Subtropical Bedding Stock — Young Carnations — 

 Outside Frames—Joftji J. M. Farrell 303 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Tying Beauties- 

 Cutting Out Blind Wood on Beauties — Taking Out 

 Old Sticks While Tying— Disbudding Young Stock — 

 Arthur C. Ruzicka 305 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Rose Society- 

 New Jersey Florieultural Society — Meetings and 

 Exhibitions — Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 

 Southampton Horticultural Society — Buffalo Florists' 



Club 306 



Newport Horticultural Society — Florists' Club of 

 Washington — Club and Society Notes 308 



DURING RECESS— New York and New Jersey Asso- 

 ciation of Plant Growers, Illustrated — Essex County 

 (N. J.) Florists' Club 309 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— An Equitable 

 Postage Bill — Danish Embargo on Root Seeds 310 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 312 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERYWHERE: 

 W'ashington, New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadel- 

 phia, Pittsburgh 314 



OBITUARY— August Junge— William A. Martin— David 

 T. Watson — Mrs. J. A. Pettigrew — Albert Roper, Por- 

 trait — Max Rudolph— Fred W. Bruenig 315 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 317 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



French Hydrangeas — Actinidia arguta 303 



A Splendid Publication 305 



News Notes 312-319 



Personal — Business Troubles 313 



New Corporations 313 



Visitors' Register 319 



. Publications Received 325 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 325 



Tlir liill til iiioflily ilic postage on eata- 

 The log^es, printed price lists, etc., which 



catalogue \ve publish in full in our seed trade notes, ' 

 postage bill jg one in which the seedsmen are vital- 



1\' concerned. It is identical we believe, 

 with the proposed bill submitted by Mr. Therkildson 

 at the meeting of the seed trade in San Francisco last 

 summer and which was endorsed by them. It may be 

 found necessary to have some adjustments and amend- 

 ments to the bill before it is passed, but as a whole it 

 will no doubt meet the approval of the catalogue men. 

 It would be well to provide, if possible, that its enact- 

 ment would not interfere with the use of the parcel 

 post for catalogue mail by those who prefer that method 

 for all or part of their issue. 



'I'he year 191G jndiiiiHes to take its place 

 O"'" as a period of unprecedented activity in 



opportunity (lower phow exploitation. The time is 

 i)uite fitting for lively agitation in this 

 cduntry of horticiiilura! subjects and matters pertain- 

 ing to the planting and adoininent of home grounds, our 

 [leople being forced by existing circumstances to fhid 

 within the boundaries of their own land much of the 

 wherewithal for individual and social relaxation and 

 recreation. The flower show, as a means to tliis end, 

 can wield a mighty and farreaehing influence if well 

 londucled and tliere is every indication that the exhibi- 

 tions of lillG will make an unparalleled record in that 

 respect. Kural progress and the development of agri- 

 cultural industries arc receiving more attention today 

 than ever before in this countrj- and horticulture will 

 come in for its share of consideration if those who carry 

 its banner will do their full duty. The greatly improved 

 outlook for the flower show in its popular and financial 

 aspects is due not a little to the present tendency to 

 break away from old traditions and narrow policies, all 

 of which means progress and expansion on modern lines 

 and in no otiier way can public interest be won and 

 retained. 



Under the caption, "Have the 

 The American American carnation raisers reached 



carnation abroad their limit?" :Montagu C. Allwood, 

 a well-known English carnation 

 expert, discusses in the Horticultural Trade Journal 

 for February 2, 1916, a very bold question in a very 

 outspoken way. Reading "between the lines" one can- 

 not but draw the inference that some of our friends 

 among the Britisli carnation raisers are disposed to be 

 rather envious of the development of our modern carna- 

 tion in this country and its popularity in England. 

 Perhaps this is not to be wondered at, but we confess 

 to some sur|)rise at the conclusions Mr. Allwood has 

 reached in com]iaring the older with the more recent 

 American introihictions, and the latter with those of 

 British origin. He plainly alfirms that the recent Amer- 

 ican productions are not up to the standard of those of 

 five or ten years ago from a commercial standpoint. He 

 concludes that we have readied our limit and maintain.^ 

 that the British raisers are making a far greater head- 

 way in producing commercial varieties. In his judg- 

 ment Enchantress and May Day, for example, are far 

 superior to Alice. Gorgeous, he pronounces the "great- 

 est of all recent American falacies;" Pink Sensation 

 cannot compare with old Winsor; no modern white will 

 touch White Enchantress or White Wonder; nothing 

 has really beattTi Mrs. T. W. Lawson and he cannot find 

 a good pink variety among all the recent American 

 varieties, while he emphatically as.serts that as a dark 

 pink carnation !Mary Allwood can leave the American 

 varieties "high and dry." Just why the latest American 

 introductions have made so poor a record across the 

 water is something beyond us but Mr. Allwood's arraign- 

 ment would impress us more convincingly were it not 

 for the note of envy which seems to underlie his ill- 

 concealed gratification over the alleged rout of the 

 American carnation as a factor in the English field. 

 He remarks in passing that the British Carnation 

 Society is more alive than the American Society. We 

 shouldn't be surprised if that might be true and if Mr. 

 Allwood's criiirjue should provoke a little new spirit 

 and energy in that time-honored body, now celebrating 

 its .silver jubilee, he may inadvertently have done us a 

 good turn. 



