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horticulture: 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— C. C. Trepel's Hoof Green- 

 house. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Orchids — Gardenias — Pot EJvergreens — Poinsettias 

 — Primulas — Late Propaeration — John J. M. Farrell 595 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Keep the Fires Go- 

 ing — Pot-Bound Plants — Care of Outdoor Roses — 

 Arthur C. liu-zicka ; 597 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS 598 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New Jersey Floricultural 

 Society — Meetings and Exhibitions — Club and Society 

 Notes 600 



SEED TRADE— Petty Tyranny— Counter Trade— About 

 Beans — One Week's Imports — Notes 602 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS; 



New Flower Stores 604 



Flowers by Telegraph •. 605 



NEW^S ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago 606 



Boston. New York, Washington 607 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati 609 



New York 611 



Philadelphia. Pittsburgh. St. Louis. Washington.... 616 



OBITUARY— James MacMachan— Frederick Bolze— 

 .A.ndrew McKnight 616 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Visitors' Register 597 



Personal 599 



New Dahlia Gertrude Manda, Illustrated 599 



Publication Received 599 



Catalogues Received 602 



News Notes 604 



T. J. Nolan, portrait 600 



New Corporations 600 



A Roof Greenhouse 617 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 617 



Patents Granted 618 



The St. Louis wliol(-salers are certainly 



St. Louis' long on courage, if our news notes tell the 



nerve truth about their Easter performance. It 



takes some "sand" to refuse to open up 

 and do business on Easter Sunday morning in tlie face 

 of the allied forces of retailers and growers. It is a 

 problem hard to deal with but we are of the opinion 

 that it would be better in the long run for all interests 

 if the flower markets should all close up tight on Sun- 

 day throughout the year, except for the care of ship- 

 ments arriving unavoidably on that day. A few sales 

 might be lost but, on the other hand, the retailer wi.-;li- 



Haif 

 the battle 



ing to l)c prepared to meet some einergoiicy call on Sun- 

 day would tiien liiid it nccos.sary to lay in a su])|)ly on 

 Saturday for that purpose, something he need not do 

 now when the wholesaler i.« willing to carry stock sub- 

 ject to his call. The great ililViculty is in getting all 

 to agree and to stick to the agreement and tlnit is where 

 St. liouis seems to have accomplished .^rimetliing note- 

 woi-thy. 



The old notion that only a very limited 

 number of varieties could be profitably 

 grown for commercial cut flower use 

 seems now to have been pretty well re- 

 futed, as will be plainly evident to anyone who 

 has oppoi-tunity to observe the great variety of stock 

 offered in the wholesale marts from day to day. 

 Each season has its crop of comparatively new things 

 which are put forward for i)opular favor by growers who 

 are not willing to stand still and simply follow along in 

 the same ruts as their neiglibors. The only way, how- 

 ever, to compel attention and give a new subject a fair 

 start is to show it at its very best and in adequate quan- 

 tities to make an impression. There can be no more ef- 

 fectual way for permanently injuring tlie pros|X!cts of 

 any new candidate for populai-ity than by introducing it 

 in inferior quality. Far better not to touch it at all 

 until it can be done well. There is in any ca.se a cer- 

 tain amount of risk to be assumed in the preparing and 

 placing on the market of any new thing but the pos- 

 siliilities of failure will be largely decreased by the ex- 

 ercise of good judgment as to the time and jilace and 

 other circumstances attending the debut, but most of 

 all by showing the goods in a degree of quality as near 

 t(i |ierfe<tion as can possibly be attained. 



The great spring floral festival having 

 passed into history, other activities 

 scheduled for the weeks which in- 

 tervene between now and the summer 

 f|uietude will now claim attention. in many places 

 Memorial Day holds a prominence scarcely less than 

 that of Easter and in such section the production 

 (if well-grown crops of appropriate material that can 

 be dc|)ended upon as to time, regardless of the con- 

 dition of outdoor products, can hardly be overdone. 

 W'c presume that unwisely promoted enterprise — 

 Mother's Day — will also call for more or less advance 

 preparation in some circles. June weddings and school 

 graduations too, are only a few weeks removed and 

 there are strong indications that the amount of garden 

 |jlanting done this season will be of unprecedented ex- 

 tent, in both hardy and tender material. In the way 

 of exhibitions all pa.st records for a similar period of 

 the year will be beaten. Boston's big May show, the 

 notable garden exhibition at Pelham Bay Park, New 

 ^'ork, in early June and the four proposed sweet pea 

 shows of June and July are all outstanding affairs that 

 will help to keep things stirring horticulturally as never 

 before. All America will have to stay at home this year 

 and this grand opportunity, the like of which will 

 never occur again, to push horticulture into the fore- 

 ground as a rational and all absorbing substitute for 

 foreign travel and attendant diversions must not be ne- 

 glected in any respect if we are to extract from it the 

 full advantage which lies so easily within our reach. 

 "Make hay while the sun .shines." 



Busy 

 times ahead 



