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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATIO.N- ITimula clatior. 

 NOTES ON CILTIRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Begonia Gloire de Lorraine — Bedding Plants — Dahlias 

 — Memorial Day Lilies— Orchids After Easter — John 



J. 3/. FarrrU 663 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Water in the Vases 

 -Care of Plants Tliat Are to be Grown On— The 

 Sod Heaps — Bone Meal for Roses— .Jr/JiHc C. liuzicka 565 

 CLl'BS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society — New Haven County Horticultural 

 Society — St. Louis Florist Club — Meetings and exhi- 

 bitions — Nassau County Horticultural Society — Hor- 

 ticultural Society of New York 566 



Organization of College Florists — Club and Society 



Notes 567 



NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL, FLOWER SHOW— 



Illustrations 567 



WH.-\T THE CO.MING OF THE S. A. F. TO THE 

 SOUTH MEANS TO THE SOUTHERN FLORISTS— 



i?. C. Kerr 568 



SEED TRADE — One Week's Imports — Notes — A Letter 

 From Any Congressman; Suggested Form Letter 



for Replv 570 



OF l.NTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 572 



Flowers by Telegraph 573 



Interior View^ of New "Rose Shop," Lancaster, Pa., 



Illustration 575 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadel- 

 phia. New York. Washington 574 



OBITUARY— William E. Doyle, portrait— Charles H. 



Bell 575 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati. New York, Philadelphia 577 



Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington 579 



DURING RECESS— New York Florists' Bowling Club 



— Chii ago Bowlers 584 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Polyanthus Primroses 567 



Summer Flower Show for New York 569 



Visitors' Register 569 



Catalogues Received 570 



Personal 574 



News Notes 574-585 



Hollyhock Rust 584 



Publications Received 584 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks 584 



New Corporations — Business Troubles 585 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 585 



We can hardly expect that jnany of our 

 The reailers will find time for editorial read- 



Easter glow ing tin.'? bu.sy week. Easter, like Christ- 

 mas, comes only once a year ju.st now, 

 but f(jr all florists and other nature-lovers we hope and 

 believe that every day will be Easter bye-and-bye. Let 

 us make the best of it while we are here, in the spirit 

 of "peace and good will to all" and improve every op- 

 portunity to draw mnre tightly the tics that bind us 



togi'lhcr, for the promotion of the good, the true and 

 the beautiful. Next week, Hokticultuuk will try to 

 tell the Easter business story. 



First in vnluo among the things recently in- 

 Spanish trodiKfil lis conimcrcial cut flowers wc can 

 Iris ciiiisistcntly chiss (he .S|)aiiisii iris. Kvi- 



di'iitly its career for this purpose lia.'^ but 

 just begun and there can be no ipiestioii as to its much 

 larger use in the immediate futtirc. For table centre 

 vase purposes it is really without a su|)orior in its way 

 as those who saw it used with such exquisite effect at 

 the New York Show can testify. Add to its good qual- 

 ities of pure colors and classic fonn that very essential 

 trait of long-keeping as a cut flower and the Spanish 

 iris certainly is "some class." 



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Tt is not difficult to di.scern in the recent 

 dcvi-lopments in showdom some conclu- 



flower show siy,. indications of wliat we may expect 

 transition jn the character of future piililic floral 

 exhibitions. Whether we like it or not. 

 we are soon 1o say good-by to the old-style flower sliow 

 with its meaningless pyramids of decorative plants and 

 its rows of clum.sy jars and bottles of cut flowers. Deco- 

 rative art in arrangement will be a potent factor in all 

 pay shows henceforth or else they will not prove "pay" 

 sliows. This has been a long time coming, but once 

 here the issue must be met by the schedule makers. The 

 point ha.s already been raised as to what is to become 

 of the small exhibitor under the new order of things. 

 That problem can and doubtless Avill be settled equitably 

 in due time. Fine cultural skill must have unstinted 

 recognition and emulation in this respect should be 

 given every possible inducement but the time is still 

 far in the future wlicn the .\mcrican public will be suf- 

 ficently informed and appreciative on technical points 

 of excellence to "draw their wallets" in support of such. 

 This we think has been proven beyond question. 



.\niiouiieement is made of the award of the 

 Two Topiarian Club tro]jhy in landscape archi- 

 lines of lecture at Harvard to a California student, 

 endeavor second and third places being awarded to 

 Massachusetts students. This is an annual 

 competition open to students of the School of I^and- 

 scape Architecture at Harvard. The subject of the 

 competition this year was the development of a piece of 

 propci-ty witli a .system of formal gardens on a sloping 

 site, in the .style of the gardens of the Italian Renais- 

 sance. Another bit of npws comes from Cincinnati 

 where the Garden Club is planning for the beaiitilica- 

 tion of the highways and already along one of the prin- 

 cipal roads leading into the city rambler roses have 

 been planted in great abundance for a distance of .sev- 

 eral miles, in such number that when they are in bloom 

 that thoroughfare will be a veritable lane through flow- 

 ers. Education in the planting of trees is also to be ex- 

 tended. While glad to know of any and all movements 

 for the advancement and uplift of horticulture, as be- 

 tween the two instances mentioned the latter one does 

 seem to us to promise the greater measure of usefulness 

 if carried forward in a practical and sy.stcmatic maimer. 

 Putting aside the question of the expediency or appro- 

 priateness of the introduction of foreign gardening 

 modes in this country the fact remains thcat topiary gar- 

 dens can never be indulged in by any 1)ut the wealthy. 

 What is most essential is that the people at large be 

 imbued with a fuller appreciation of sylvan and floral 

 beauty. 



