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horticulture: 



Toi- mil MARCH II, 1916 wa u 



ri'Ul.lNIIKn WEKKLT BV 



HORTICULTUR.E PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



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■BWrrd ■■ •ecood-clati matter December 8. 18H, at tbe Tost Offlr* 

 at Boatoii, Maaa., under tbe Act of Coogreaa of klarcb 3, 187V 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER IL.LUSTHATION— A House of CycIamenB and 

 Primroses at Uixniont, Pa. 



NOTES ON CILTIKE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Achimenes — Bedding Plants — Gardenias — Plialaenop- 

 sis — Sowing Feni Spores — Propagating Stevia — 

 John J. M. Fanrll 335 



ROSE GROWING INUIlR GLASS— Repotting— Haul- 

 ing Away Old Greenhouse Soil — Drainage — Save the 

 Ashes — Arthur C. Uuzicka 337 



SAXIFRAGA— /fichard /f offte- Illustrated 338 



GROWING CARNATIONS 338 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Flor- 

 ists — Meetings and Exhibitions — American Carna- 

 tion Society — Gardeners' Essay Contest — Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia — Holyoke and Northampton 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club — New Bedford Horti- 

 cultural Society— St. Louis Club and Society Notes 

 — The Horticultural Society of New York — Illinois 



State Florists' Association — Ladies' S. A. F 339-340 



Club and Society Notes 347 



SEED TRADE— Canners' Bulldozing— Tearing Down 

 the Fences— Danger Ahead — The Rennie Company's 

 Disaster — Trade Conditions — One Week's Imports — 

 Lifting the Embargo on Seed Supplies— Notes 341-342 



OF INTERE^ST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 344 



DURING RECESS— Essex County (N. J.) Florists' 

 Club — Boston Bowling Scores— N. Y. Florists' Bowl- 

 ing Scores 345 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYT\'HERE: 



Chicago. Washington. Pittsburgh, New York 346 



Philadelphia, Boston 347 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR— Georpe C. Watson...... 347 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago, New York, 



Philadelphia 349 



St. Louis, Washington 35I 



OBITUARY— Harold Berman — Joseph F. Vavrous— 

 William Wells, Sr.— M. J. Madden— John W. Dun- 

 ham—August Kruger 356 



MISCIiLLANEOUS: 



To Obviate Delay in Receipt of Foreign Invoices 342 



Catalogues Received 342 



Business Troubles , , , 344 



Visitors' Register 345 



A House of Cyclamens 347 



Personal ' ' 351 



News Notes _ .. .351-358 



Two Handsome Medals— Illustrated 357 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 357 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 358 



Patents Granted 358 



It is said that green dye for staining 

 A "green" carnations for St. Patrick's Day is a 

 nuisance scarce commodity this year. We are de- 

 lighted and wish our friends in Germany 

 would l<:eep every ounce of it. Reforms sometimes come 

 about, not by choice, but by compulsion. Let this odious 

 practice of humiliating a heliiless flower and humbug- 

 ging an unenlightened public die as (|iiickly as possible 



The communicatiuu to the Secretary of 

 A State ut Washington whicii is mentioned 



reasonable in detail (in another page of this issue, 

 requett requesting some ollicial action to expedite 

 the delivery of foreign mail uf immediate 

 cumniercial imiiurtance is in our Judgmi-nt a reasonable 

 pro|)ositiun. With projier oversight as siiggeHted by the 

 loniplainaiits it should not be dilliiult for the respon- 

 sible authorities to arrange some practical way of put- 

 ting through such mail matter a.s consular invoices, uills 

 of lading, etc., on the steami-r which carries the goods. 

 We hope the result of the ajipcal may be prompt action 

 and a favoralib' outcome. 



As the time for the opening of the 

 Don't great National Flower Sh(»w draws 



miss the near the tremendous aiiiouiit of ef- 



National Flower licient labor put into the preparatory 

 Show work becomes evident and the vast- 



nes8 of the enterprise as developed 

 and moiildi'il by the men at the helm begins to be real- 

 ized. All indications point to an unprecedented horti- 

 cultural triumph, a splendid demonstration of Philadel- 

 phia's bigness as a liorticultural centre and the rapidly 

 advancing position of our profession in the esteem of the 

 public. Every one of our readers who can possibly do so 

 should visit this splendid exposition and acquire uplift 

 and inspiration. 



There are some busy times ahead for 



An opportune IIorticitltuuic. Special Sj)ring Tradw 



time Number will be issued on March 2.") 



and this will be followed by National 

 Flower Show Issue on Ajiril 1. Then will come the an- 

 nual Easter edition. All of these issues will be full of 

 interest for the trade in all de])artments and all sections 

 of the country. They will be business getters for all 

 who arc enterprising enough to take advantage of the 

 publicity opportunities afforded in the advertising pages. 

 lIouTU'Li/ruRK readers are distinctly of the most ready 

 and most to be desired class of buyers. You can get 

 your share of their patronage on spring trade if you 

 wisli and will tell them about what you have to offer. 



The catalogue postage bill to which we 

 The called attention in our issue of last week 



catalogue has the approval of the seed trade gen- 

 postage bill erally so far as we have been able to 



ascertain. The bill is commented upon 

 by some as being loosely drawn and somewhat ambigu- 

 ous Ijut no doul)t these defects will be smoothed out by 

 ilu' experts of the post ollice department. As it appears 

 ill its present shape the average man will have some 

 dirticully in fully comprehending its import. As we 

 suggested in our previous note, it is important to know 

 whether the adoption of the bill will affect in any way 

 I he operation of the parcel post system to which some 

 ( atalogue houses have, at considerable expense, adjusted 

 ;licir business. Dealers issuing catalogues approximating 

 I nc pound in weight will no doubt want to retain their 

 parcel post privileges in the first zone, at least, and if, 

 as we assume, the new bill contemplates the continuation 

 of this privilege so that a catalogue firm may choose 

 between it and the new method according as to which 

 would be most advantageous to them, then the bill 

 sliould find no objectors among those who are most 

 directly affected. As things now are, the houses issuing 

 small catalogues are heavily penalized and a reform such 

 as is proposed would save them considerable money and, 

 by its elasticity, in a way encourage the making of better 

 (•ataloinies. 



