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horticulture: 



VOL. XXIII 



MAY 20. 1916 



NO. 21 



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HOKTICULTUB.E PUBLISHING CO. 

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CONTENTS Page 



COVER LILUSTRATIOX— Plant Group in Boston May 

 Flower Show 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Ferns 

 — Flowers for Memorial Day — Lycastes — rrimulas — 

 Single Stem Chrysanthemums — Stock Plants — John 

 J. M. Farrcll 691 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Early Planting- 

 Whitewashing — Concrete Benches — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 693 



CLUBS .AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston— St. Louis Florist Club — Meetings 

 and Exhibitions — Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society — Society of American Florists — 

 Nassau County Horticultural Society — Lenox Horti- 

 cultural Soeietv — New Jersey Floricultural Society 

 —Club and Society Notes 694-695-696 



EFFECT OF THE WINTER IN THE ARNOLD 

 ARBORI-yrUM 697 



SEED TRADE — Expediting Shipping Documents- 

 One Week's Imports 698 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 700 



Flowers by Telegraph 701 



THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF THE FLOWER 

 BUSINESS— .4. J. GiMman 702 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati 705 



New YorK, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh 707 



St. Louis, Washington 714 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston. Washington, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, 

 Philadelphia 712-713 



OBITUARY— J. Gurnev Fowler— Jose Krug 709 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



St. Louis 1917 Spring Show 693 



Memorial Day, poetry 693 



Washington Test Rose Garden 693 



Plant Group in Spring Flower Show, Massachusets 



Horticultural Society — Illustration 695 



Field of Juniperus — Illustration 697 



Pruning Roses 698 



News Notes 700 



Hail Storm in St. Louis 703 



Floral Baskets at Boston May Flower Show — Illus- 

 tration 713 



Visitors' Register 713 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 714 



Patents Granted — Business Troubles 714 



Trouble 

 ahead? 



We are infonned by the Aiuericaii Consul 

 TT. S. Coinmerco Reports, that the Board of 

 General at London, England, through the 

 Trade there proposes shortly to issue niles re- 

 stricting the importation into England of certain com- 

 modities, among those mentioned being bulbs, flower 

 roots, plants, trees and shrubs. Tliis is important if 

 true. We are not infonned as to the powers exercised 

 by the body called Board of Trade, but should any widely 



ciri'ilive liim 111' phicinl upon tiie sliipnient to Eiigliuid 

 from Ilollaiul mid i-lscwiiere of llu' varioii.s t>ull>.x, plants, 

 ftc, of whicii tinat Britain ha-s hitherto bcoii a iicnvy 

 buyer the result on tlio .Aincrican niarki-t next fall would 

 Itf far-rcatliin^ and can perliaiw be iiiia]i;ined. The 

 horticultural trade ini))orter does not find existence to 

 be all comfort and joy in these monicntoiis days. 



"How few bo the things, the which If a niiin has at 

 his command his life llowB gently on." 



At the recent iiiceling of llu- New York 

 Where Cut Flower Exchange a vote \vil< pa.<s>ied 

 fair play Is |iro)iibiting the making u|( of floral de- 

 essential ^\,^nii and retailing of flowers on tbe mar- 

 ket premises. This action, which has 

 long been contemplated, gives general satisfaction to the 

 market dealers themselves as well as to the retail trade. 

 The making up of flowers in any form for retail cusf/ini- 

 ers by \vbolesalo people has at all times been siniiclbiiig 

 about as aggravating to the retailer as the waving of a 

 red rag before a bull. As a business principle their conten- 

 tion is right, a.s has been always admitted by legitimate 

 wholesale dealers. But there are two sides to the ques- 

 tion and in any town w'here the retail storeman makes a 

 jn'actice of buying flowers direct whenever he can from 

 producers who mainbiin no city headquarters, while one 

 or more wholesale dealers are paying rent and carrying 

 stock with which to supply him, then the retailer stands 

 on rather shaky ground when he begins protesting 

 against the wdiolesalers' competition. A spirit of fair- 

 ness is essential on both sides for the right settlement of 

 such amtroversies and no settlement can be really per- 

 manent and efFcctive unless this fact is recognized and 

 tlie "golden rule" applied. 



Reports from various sources indicate 



Friend that not for many years have the 



of the flowers spring wild flower.s been so abundant 



or .so beautiful as this .season. Trailing 

 jirbutus, as we have before mentioned, has rarely been so 

 perfect in foliage and in purity of color. Violets, blood- 

 root, hepatica, springbeautj' and other gems of the wood- 

 land seem to have found the peculiar characteristics in 

 tbe weather of the recent winter and spring greatly to 

 their liking and ifl our gardens the same healthy vigor 

 and profuscness of bloom is in evidence among all the 

 low-growing spring-flowering border plants. The rea- 

 son for it all is easily discerned in the deep snow which 

 this year covered so large a section of the country and 

 protected these things a.gainst the ferocitj' of the Febu- 

 ary and March weather. In many of the spring-flower- 

 ing garden shrubs it is interesting and instnictive to 

 note the well defined line of the snow lilankct, flowers 

 being produced in profusion on the lower branches of 

 forsythias and azaleas of the Daurica type, etc., while 

 above the line practically eveiy flower is blasted. At 

 this season of the year one of the most momentous ques- 

 tions for the gardener is that of tbe effect of the winter 

 on many of the most prized garden favorites. One can 

 never be sure until buds are well along as to what he 

 may expect from his rhododendrons, comuses, wisterias, 

 early clematises and many other things which because of 

 their precocity are so easily started into activity by a 

 few warm days in early winter and their flower buds, 

 divested of their protecting overcoats, doomed to be 

 ruined later on. ^^lo problem of winter and spring ef- 

 fect is full of puzzling contradictions and one year's de- 

 ductions are quite likely to be overthrown by the experi- 

 ences of the next year. But one thing is sure — deep 

 snow, long tarrying, is the garden's best winter friend. 



