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HORTICULTURE 



April 1, 1916 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVKK ILLI."STKATION— rartial View of the Fourth 

 National Flower Show, Philadelphia 



NOTES ON CrLTlKE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Azaleas — Antirrhinums — Easter Preparations — Per- 

 ennial Border — Swainsona — Astilbe for Memorial 

 Day — ,Ao/i»> J. M. Farrcll 441 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Flower Shows 

 — Keep the Houses Cool — Syringing — Sulphur — That 

 Easter Crop — Arthur C. Ruzicka. 443 



NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW— Illustrated— Exhibi- 

 tors and Awards — The Trade Section 444-448 



NEW YORK SPRING SHOW— F. R. Pierson, portrait. 440 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America — Nassau County 



Horticultural Society 449 



Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — 

 St. Louis Florist Cluh — .Meetings and Exhibitions — 



Lancaster County Florists' Association 450 



Connecticut Horticultural Society — Club and Society 

 Notes 451 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 452 



HORTICULTURAL LITERATURE— Leonard Barron.. 452 



OBITUARY— William Bayersdorfei^-Frank Buffinton, 

 portrait 454 



DURING RECESS — Boston Florists' Bowling League 

 — St. Louis Retail Florists — New York Florists' 

 Bowling Club 454-455 



SEED TRADE — New Seed Laws — One Week's Im- 

 ports 456 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Among Chicago Retailers 458 



Flowers by Telegraph 459 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh 460 



Boston 461 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Pittsburgh. St. Louis 463 



Washington 465 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Catalogues Received 456 



New Corporations 461 



Visitors' Register 465 



Business Troubles 465 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 470 



An EflScient Dormant Spray 472 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 472 



.■^uiiU' pciijili,. lii.iiii and lirouglil up 



Philadelphia — elscwlien- have settled in their 



her ways and miiuU tliat Phihid<"]]iliia is provin- 



her performance [.Jal and her ways antiquated. The 



critic? of the bifr citv on the Dela- 



wuif are, liowever, not all from New Kugland, New 

 York and the "woolly west" hut include among their 

 number many denizens of the town itself who seem rest- 

 ive under (he state and municijial enactments to which 

 the people in no other city of any prominence in tliis or 

 any other country would long Kiibinit. In connection 

 with the refu.<;al to allow the opening of the National 

 Flower Show on Sunday, the Philadelphia Hecord which, 

 in common with the other local daily papers, devoted 

 .■ipaco generously to the flower show, administered a 

 stinging editorial rebuke to the officious municipal au- 

 thorities whose "assininity" and "idiocy" were responsi- 

 ble for the Sunday closing edict. We quote in part: 



"It is diffcult to see how a line can be drawn between 

 the Flower Show, held in a hall owned by the city, and 

 the Zoologiial Gardi'U oicupyliig ground also owned by 

 the city. Neither exhibition is given for prolll. but for the 

 entertainment and benefit of the public. If it is quite legal 

 to visit the Zoo on Sunday and to pay an admission foe for 

 the privilege of seeing monkeys, kangaroos, hyenas and 

 other captive animals disport themselves, why should It 

 be illegal to visit a beautiful display of flowers on the 

 same day and to pay for the innocent and elevating pleas- 

 ure derived from the sight? In the very statement of the 

 case the idiocy of Sunday's proceeding becomes api)arent. 

 It is a crime to pay money to see thousands of roses In 

 bloom, but quite within the law to see an elephant take a 

 bath." 



We observed that many flower stands where flowers 

 were on sale were doing business on Sunday without 

 hindrance, so that it appears to be permissible to buy 

 flowers on the street but not permissible to look at tliem 

 in a hall on Sunday. Still, the best course when one is 

 in Eome is to "do as Rome does" and we people who 

 only see Pliiladelphia as occasional visitors, should be 

 quite satisfied to take the town as we find it. If Phila- 

 delphia thinks it conducive to the good government and 

 civilized behavior of its nearly two million people to ex- 

 clude the public from a national flower show, but leave 

 them free to admire and to purchase flowers from the 

 street fakirs on the Sabbath what right have we to criti- 

 cize? And if street car conductors and others entrusted 

 with a share of the proper education of people from out- 

 side exercise their prerogatives as censors, why should 

 we resent these efforts at practical instruction in pro- 

 priety according to Philadelphia standards? We did 

 not journey to the City of Brotherly Love for the pur- 

 pose of "shooting up" her ways and customs. It 

 wouldn't accomplish anything if we did. We did go 

 there in the interest of horticultural progress — to learn 

 from the cultural experts of that recognized center of 

 gardening art, something of what their experience has 

 taught them and to inspire them with a compensating 

 return in like manner. From the returns thus far our 

 mission has been more than successful, as visitors and 

 local participants alike must acknowledge. As a horti- 

 cultural step forward, as an achievement without pre- 

 cedent, Philadelphia's National Flower Show takes a 

 proud place. A grand success in the main qualities that 

 make for success and stimulate emulation — that tells 

 the stor}-; and in the words of one of the foremost stu- 

 dents of legal lore in the S. A. F. — "there we are satis- 

 fied to rest our case." 



