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HORTICULTURE 



March 18, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL XXIII 



MARCH 18, 1916 



HO. 12 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — A Wilderness Turned Into 

 a Garden. 



NOTKS 0.\ CULTTRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Chrys- 

 anthemums — Care of Seedlings — Fancy Leaved Cala- 

 diiinis — Tuberous Rooted Begonias — Odontoglossums 

 — Starting Bulbous Stock— Formaldehyde; Hydrangea 

 panlciilala- -./o/in J. M. Farrell 367 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Rose Growers' 

 Garden — The Ventilators— Temperature for Keeping 

 Roses — Arthur C. Ruzicka 369 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Illinois State Florists' Association— American Rose 

 Society — Meetings and Exhibitions — New York Flor- 

 ists' Club— Buhalo Florists' Club, E. C. Brucker, por- 

 trait — Women's National Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Association— -Maine Florists' Society 370-372 



Chicago Florists' Club 388 



Alumni of the New York Florists' Club 389 



SEIED TRADE — Seedmen's Disclaimer — The Catalogue 

 Postage Bill — Flood Damage in Holland — One Week's 

 Imports — Notes 374 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 376 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Chicago, Washington, New York 378 



OBITUARY— Mrs. John Walsh— Josiah B. ShurtleCf— 

 Joseph Henry Burchard — .\sa Eldridge Brown — George 

 L. Freeman— Sackville S. Bain 379 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New \ork, Philadelphia, St. Louis, 

 Washington 381 



DURING RECESS— About the "Din-Dan"— Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia — Boston Florists' Bowling Club 

 — N. Y. Florists' Bowling Club 383 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Field of White and Red Pine— Illustrated 372 



New Corporations 374 



News Notes 376-378 



Visitors' Register — Personal 377 



Business Troubles 379 



A Summer Flower Show for New York 388 



A Wilderness Improved 388 



Catalogues Received 389 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 390 



I II (jiir reading columns this week there will 

 Helpful be found notes on two interesting events 

 auxiliaries planned for the coming season directly 

 under the management of women. Some 

 means for promoting a more effective and practical par- 

 ticipation in horticultural activities by women has long 

 been sought but progress has been rather slow for 

 obvious reasons. The new organizations which have 



1... iiii, :-j.iuii^ iij. have a good field and oiiening to do 

 ;,'(«id ."JiTvicc by bringing togetJier women intensU'd iu 

 imy form of ngriculture and liorticiilture and enlisting 

 tlie support of ])hilunthroi)ioally disposed j)Copie for tlie 

 jiurposc of lir'lj)ing ond encouraging women wlio desire 

 to inaiie a living in these lines of work. The nioveiiunt 

 already reaches a very extended field, for the Women's 

 National Agricultural and Horticultural Association, 

 which is one of the most active, now includes among il« 

 members women from every state of the Union, 'i'he 

 conditions imposed, by the turmoil in Eurojie, wliereby 

 .\mericans are compelled to seek their relaxations ami 

 .■^oiial pastimes in their own land are especially favorable 

 at the present time for such enterprises ond, with wi.sc 

 far-seeing policies patiently and tlioroughly carried out, 

 the outlook is very encouraging for the future advance- 

 ment of horticulture througli the work and influence of 

 these helpful au.xiliaries. 



Our editorial note "Time to Call a Halt" 

 Drifting published in a recent issue, has called forth 



a number of letters from readers in various 

 parts of the country, some of these favoring protest 

 against the drastic recommendations of the federal in- 

 spectors in the matter of plant im[)orts, while others 

 take the ground that it is best not to interfere with any 

 legislation which lias for its object the restriction or 

 prohibition of any and all horticultural imports from 

 foreign countries. A request from most of the writers 

 of these letters that their identity be kept confidential 

 prevents our )irc.«enting them in regular form in our 

 reading columns but, as will be surmised, the line of 

 business in which the writers are severally engaged has 

 much to do with tJieir views for or against the restric- 

 tive measures a.s applied to j)lant importations. 



We think it hardly necessary to assure our readers 

 who have followed these editorial columns regularly, of 

 our hearty sympathy with all proper efforts to develop 

 and expand our home production and this to the end 

 that we may in due time become entirely independent 

 of foreign supply, but the time is not in sight yet nor 

 does there seem to be any organized movement of any 

 magnitude thus far to bring this condition about. Tliere- 

 fore we fail to see that the plan suggested by the horti- 

 cultural inspectors would accomplish any good for the 

 florist and nursery trade but, on the contrary, much 

 harm, by di.'^organizing and embarrasing the trade in 

 some of its most efficient commercial channels. On the 

 other hand, we would respectfully again recommend that 

 if the horticultural inspecting department of the govern- 

 ment work is to bestow any signal benefaction upon the 

 horticultural interests of this country the sooner they 

 get into friendly affiliation with these interests and 

 consult the representative men of American horticulture 

 on the work to which they have been assigned the better 

 it will be for us all. We have been told of instances 

 where the inspectors have wanted to destroy perfectly 

 healthy Manetti .stocks because they mistook the callous 

 at the base of the cuttings for "root gall" or some other 

 wart affliction. Plenty more might be said on this 

 phase of the subject. Our columns are open to any who 

 are interested and have the courage to sign their names. 



