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February 6, 1916 



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VOL XXI FEBRUARY 6. 1915 NO. 6 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLl'STHATION— Joseph H. Hill, President- 

 Elect American Carnation Society. 



NOTES ON CULTLRE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Sniila.x Beds — Cyclamens — Chrysanthemums — 

 Jerusalem Cherries — Orchids — Watering— Jo/in J. M. 

 Farnll 169 



ROSE GItOWING UNDER GLASS— Drainage— The 

 Novelties— Clean Pots for Young Stock — Crocking 

 the Pots 171 



IRIS TINGITANA Boiss. and iJeut.— Illustrated— 

 M. Free 172 



OBITUARY— William R. Keay 172 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Carnation So- 

 ciety — Society of American Florists — Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia — Horticultural Society of New York 

 — American Association of Nurserymen — New Eng- 

 land Nurserymens' Association 173 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society — Nebraska State 

 Horticultural Society — American Gladiolus Society. 174 

 Oyster Bay Horticultural Society — New Jersey Flori- 



cultural Society — St. Louis Florist Club 175 



Club and Society Notes 175 



DURING RECESS— Buffalo-Rochester Bowling Con- 

 test, Illustrated — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 



Boston 175 



North Westchester Horticultural and Agricultural 

 Society — North Shore Horticultural Society — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Lenox Horticultural 

 Society — Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Chicago Bowling — New York Florists' Bowling 

 Club 176 



DISEASED SWEET PEAS—/. J. Taubenhaus 178 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adset 180 



SEED TRADE— Rye Grass and the War 180 



A Notable Chicago Seed House Illustrated — From 

 the Wholesalers' Standpoint — Onion Sets — Notes... 182 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



The Road to Success — Henri/ Penn 184 



New Flower Stores 185 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Boston — Chicago — Albany, N. Y. — Lancaster, Pa 187 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 189 



Philadelphia. San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington. 191 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Raising Holly from Seed — ./. F. Huss 171 



Fumigating Antirrhinum — Do You Know That — . . . . 171 



Beautifying Home Grounds 172 



Pacific Coast Notes — Philadelphia Notes 178 



Visitors' Register 178 



Breed and Good Breeding — George C. Watson. 180 



Plttsburph Notes 185 



New York Notes 191 



Publications Received — Brown Ants 197 



News Notes 185-197 



Business Troubles 198 



Oreenhnusps Buildins or Contemplated 198 



'J'lic- retail florists of Buffalo showed a 

 The march most praise-worthy spirit in their action 

 of progress in contributing examples of carnation 

 dinner table decoration, simply for the 

 common good and wthout any competitive or adver- 

 tising character. There were nine of these tables pre- 

 pared by nine leading retailers, all mark? of identifi- 



cation being carofuliy avoided. Noboiiy can question 

 the advantage accruing to the flower trade nf HufTalo 

 from the ediicjilion thus freely given the public of the 

 city or the great special value to the cnrnntion and 

 those who grow it commercially, of this demonstration 

 of itfi decorative uses and ita claims for popular favor. 

 In this innovation and in the splendid originality of 

 the biuiquet hall decoration the Buffalo florists set a 

 standard which no future carnation convention can 

 dare to ignore. It marks a permanent progressive step. 



We are much pleased with the atti- 



Harmony indg taken by the .American Cama- 



wlthout Incum- (iou Society in its action at Buffalo 



brance a.s regards participation in the Na^ 



tional Flower Show at Philadelphia 

 next year. Wien it is shown, as the secretary of the 

 organization demonstrated from his records, that the 

 shifting of the date of the annual meeting from Jan- 

 uary until Jfarch means loss of membership and partial 

 disintegration no fair-minded person can upbraid tlie 

 Six-iety for conserving its vital interests and holding 

 on to the only course which will keep it from disaster. 

 The unanimity and sincere enthusiasm with which the 

 jjroposition was adopted to participate to the fullest 

 extent in the Philadelphia event in addition to the 

 annual convention in St. Louis two months previous, 

 is the best sort of assurance to the S. A. F. that it has 

 no more harmonious ally among its various special 

 au.xiliaries than the devotees of the divine flower, and 

 whatever misgiving miglit possibly have arisen in some 

 past years in this particular can no longer be enter- 

 tained. 



The slogan vvhicli Boston business boost- 

 Build now ors have adopted, "build now," seems to 



have met with a reception even more en- 

 thusiastic than its originators looked for. It is pointed 

 out that action on the line suggested by the motto will 

 have broadly a double effect, in that it will give practi- 

 cal help to the unemployed and at the same time will 

 benefit the inventor on account of the low prices at 

 which materials may now be bought. Why should not 

 this suggestion have a pertinent bearing also on the 

 matter of greenhouse building? Notwithstanding the 

 opinion prevalent with some classes of the florist busi- 

 ness that greenhouse building has been carried to the 

 limit of the need for such property, there is reallj' no 

 foundation for expectation that the construction of 

 modem greenhouses will be curtailed, but rather, on 

 the contrary, it is bound to increase and extend beyond 

 comparison with the record of past years. The only 

 element of doubt is as to whether it is to proceed un- 

 int.orruptedly now or is to be restricted temporarily 

 until general business commences to hum and values 

 on all building material, labor and capital, are ad- 

 vanced by the impetus of revived activity. We believe 

 that the greenhouse builders will be able to show any 

 intending investor that the present is a most favorable 

 opportunity, while the well-informed grower needs no 

 argument to convince him that the only road to sure 

 success under the conditions of today lies in first-class 

 modem building, heating and equipment and the longer 

 one holds on to outclassed, obsolete and worn out 

 structures the harder it will be for him eventually to 

 recover lost ground or even hold his own. Build now, 

 if you are ever going to make an effort to "get there." 

 The moral effect of an optimistic, self-reliant move- 

 ment now- would do much to further establish the flower 

 growing industrj' in the estimation of the financial 

 world. "Build now." 



