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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLISTRATION— Belgian Azaleas 



NOTES ON ClLTlTvH OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Be.conias— Dracaena indivisi — Increasing Flcus 

 by Mossing— Nerines — Palms — Vincas for Next Year 

 —John J. M. FnncU 721 



THE IRIS IN CALIFORNIA— 0. S. Harrison 723 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Flor- 

 ists — American Rose Society — Meetings and Exhibi- 

 tions—American Association of Nurserymen — Lan- 

 caster County Florists' Club — Women's Farm and 

 Garden Association— International Garden Club — 



Club and Society Notes 724-725 



Horticultural Society of Western Pennsylvania 727 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN WINTER 

 FIX)WER1NG SWEET PEA— /foicard M. Earl 726 



BOSTON MAY FLOWER SHOW— Illustration 727 



OBITl'ARY— George W. Cardwell— Robert Ilaentze — 

 U. B. Wakeman— Mrs. M. Ullenbruch— John Wright 

 —John Krai— Alfred Ross 728 



LOOKING BACKWARD AND LOOKING FORWARD— 

 Albert M. Herr 728 



SEED TRADE— Trade Conditions— Seed Trade Con- 

 vention — American Seed Trade Association — One 

 Week's Imports— New Australian Sweet Peas — Grass 730 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 732 



Flowers bv Telegraph 733 



NEWS ITEMS FR0:M EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, St. Louis, Washington, Boston 734 



Philadelphia 735 



Amherst, Mass 746 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia 



Pittsburgh 737 



St. Louis, Washington 739 



THE RED SPIDER— Pojfcer Thayer Barnes 744 



MISCELL..\NEOrS: 



Rose Los Angeles — Illustrated 723 



In Lilac Time, poetry 723 



Fall Flower Show at Cleveland 723 



A Great Reform 723 



Movements of Gardeners 727 



Catalogues Received 728 



Minnesota Nursery Laws 730 



Nursery Stock Import Rules 730 



News Notes 732 



Business Trotibles 732 



Decoration Day. poetry 735 



■Visitors' Register 739 



Publication Received 745 



Greonhonses Building or Contemplated 746 



Xext Tue.s(lay is Memorial Day. In a 

 Memorial thoii.sand cemeteries tombstones will be gar- 

 Day landed and grassy mounds strewn witli 

 flowers in loving remembrance of dear ones 

 gone. This beautiful custom of placing the flowers of 

 spring-time on the graves of fallen heroes and departed 

 friends is something that will never pass away so long 

 as the human race remains. Artificial flowers and otlior 

 expedients may have a little run here and there, because 

 of the expense or the fleeting character of fresh material, 

 but it will be for a brief period only and the natural 



flower will agiiiii come into n*- own. 'IMiis year wc hear 

 f.irel)i«lings of n scarcity of flowers in some marketa to 

 >ui)ply the Mrnioriiil Day (Icmiuid. We liope there will 

 be no scarcity. An inadequate supply of flowers at such 

 ii time with the inevit.ni>le accoini)anying advance in 

 prices is a menace to tiie florist business, a prolific source 

 of resentment, distrust and aversion for the florist, 

 which far outweighs any apparent advance accruing 

 from the enhanced prices made possible by n short sup- 

 ply. So we hope there will be an abundance of good 

 flowers, that normal prices will prevail everywhere and 

 that the great floral holiday of 191fi will pass into his- 

 tory as "tiie best ever" for each nnd every reader of 



HORTICDLTDHE. 



The Flower Show outlook for next 



The spring seems quite promising. Three 



flower show !,;„ exhibitions, to be lield in Boston, 



^ever Xe^ York and St. Ixiuis, respectively, 



arc already fixed for March, and there 

 are others as yet in embryo. Under the requirement* 

 now essential for the successful conduct of a public ex- 

 hibition, one year in advance is not any too soon to 

 begin work. That this is generally realized is shown 

 in the preparatory steps already taken in the three cities 

 aforesaid. Boston's preliminary schedule of prizes 

 (March 21-25, 1917) is already printed and distributed 

 Cards bearing the legend "St. Louis 1917 Spring Flower 

 Show (March 15-18, 1917)— Be a Booster— Visit us in 

 1917 — We Want You" — have been sent out far and 

 wide. As mentioned in our news columns this week. 

 Cleveland which has the exhibition fever ever since last 

 fall's happy event, is in the ring for a September blow- 

 out under the guidance of the same hustlers who man- 

 aged things so well last year. All will find a wide field 

 for the exercise of aggi'essive executive ability, for the 

 old-style show has no chance whatever, and it is equally 

 certain that even a modem show, however deserving in 

 itself, will lose, out unless energetically exploited ac 

 cording to modern publicity methods. 



We wonder how much money the S. A. 



A F. will be able to gather in for that 



questionable present to Miss Jarvis. The S. A. F. 



project iias had on its hands for several years 



the matter of a testimonial of more 

 commendable character and nobler purpose which might 

 well have been completed before plunging into this 

 hasty scheme, the propriety and decency of which, from 

 the Society's standpoint is seriously questioned by many 

 of its members. We have received a number of letters 

 approving of our views on this '^Mothers' Day" subject 

 as expressed editorially in a recent issue of rioRTicUL- 

 TURE. One of these communications is from the Presi- 

 dent of the American Carnation Society, which we take 

 the liberty of quoting from, as follows: ■ 



My Dear Mr. Stewart: 



I do want to congratulate you on the timely editorials 

 in reference to the Mothers' Day fund, especially the one 

 in the issue of Horticui-ture under date of May 13th. 



I fully agree with you that speaking from strictly a 

 commercial standpoint it's a mistake to promote any 

 special days for the use of flowers, and furthermore I con- 

 sider it very inappropriate for any line of business to 

 ever try to commercialize that which we should revere. 



I sometimes think it's no wonder old Europe often 

 looks upon us Americans as being moncij mad. I regret 

 very much that as an official of the American Carnation 

 Society I must send out an appeal for this fund, but this 

 was agreed upon by the Executive Board at Philadelphia 

 in my absence and officially we must sometimes do that 

 which we would not do individually. 



Very truly yours, 



J. P. Ammanx. 



