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HORTICULTURE 



March 27, 191S 



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MARCH 27, 1915 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLrSTR.\TIO.\— F. R. Pierson's Rose Garden, 

 New York Spring Flower Show. 



XOTKS O.N CILTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Can- 

 nas — Foliage Plants — Primulas — Ground for Carna- 

 lions^Sweef Peas Outside — Keep a Diary — John J. 



il. Farrcll 417 



NEW YORK SPRING FLOWER SHOW 419 



List of Awards 420 



Julius Roehrs' Orchid Arrangement — Illustration.... 421 



The Trade Displays 422 



BOSTONS SPRING FLOWER SHOW 423 



Dutch Garden Display of R. & J. Farquhar Co., Illus- 

 trated — .Awards 423 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY— Secretary's Report 424 



Treasurer's Report 426 



HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS— W. A. Manda 428 



FAILURE OF CARNATIONS— .4. A. Pembroke 428 



ONE REASON WHY— G. C. W 428 



SEED TRADE 430 



OBITUARY— Alexander Procter— Mrs. Edward McMul- 

 kin — William B. Patterson — Mrs. Hosea Waterer — 



William Hatcher 430 



ANNUAL BANQUET OF NEW YORK FLORISTS' 

 CLUB— Illustration 432-433 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 434 



Flowers by Telegraph 435 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERYUTHERE: 



Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Pittsburgh 436 



Chicago 437 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lancaster County Florists' 

 Club — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston — A 



Southern Invitation — Club and Society .Notes 438 



New York Florists' Club — Philadelphia Spring Show 



— Pacific Coast Flower Show 439 



Coming Events 448 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, St. Louis, 



San Francisco 441 



Wafihington 443 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Popular Colors in Sweet Peas 429 



Catalogues Received 430 



"Pernicious Advice" 430 



Personal 435 



Boston Compliments New York — A. A. Pembroke 439 



New York Florists' Club Bowling 439 



Visitors' Register 443 



The Watsons 448 



A Visit to Waverley, Mass 450 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 450 



News Notes 450 



New Corporation 450 



Wluit do you tliink of the management 



An Inborn of tliat exhibition? And those judges — 



propensity jg there any punisliment drastic enough 



to inflict upon them? There is no trait 



more generally characteristic of the human race than 



that of kicking. Almost from tlie minute of birtli, 

 ili.s?iitisfactii)n witli tlic esloblished order of things and 

 a dc'lcnniiiation to kick up a fuss if we don't have our 

 own way is onr common instinct. It in, doubtless, one 

 of nature's provisions for tiie "survival of the fittest," 

 that we should be prepared to make a struggle, not only 

 for what belongs to us, but for all we can get of what 

 liclongs to the other fellow, as well. The ma«tery of 

 this inborn ini])ulso is the function of civilization and 

 the history of the world thus far would seem to indi- 

 cate that civilization has yet "a long, long way to go." 

 But we started to talk about the exhibitions. Did you 

 ever undertake that delightful little sinecure of a job 

 — the management of a flower show? Or was the honor 

 of an a|)pointmcnt as a judge at these affairs ever thrust 

 upon you by your admiring and appreciative friends? 

 If so, may be you know something about this subject. 

 "Get mc?" 



We all know the "bad loser." We 

 don't suppose there was ever a show 

 where the species was not in evidence 

 in one or another of its forms. Un- 

 questionably he has his uses as a corrective influence 

 against liasty or prejudiced decision and as a whole- 

 some, although unpalatable, restraint upon the auto- 

 cratic spirit of manager and judges, without which 

 they might become too pompous and seek to hold on 

 to tlieir job indefinitely, to the exclusion of their 

 fellows, every one of whom is, in his own mind, of 

 course, fully competent to judge and to manage. But, 

 my dear sir, supposing that we did get a second 

 prize, or possibly no prize at all, when we are fully 

 convinced that we were entitled to first — let us for- 

 get it and suppress those outraged feelings and our 

 friends will like us just as well, and perhaps better 

 than if we persist in pulling them to one side to pour 

 into their ears our grievances against the judges. Brace 

 up; things will yet come our way and then we shall 

 have a chance to see our rival who lost and got fussy 

 about it in the same light in which others see us now! 



The virtue 

 of self-control 



Judges are human — no different in that 



A word respect from the rest of us; liable to 



about judges make some mistakes; prone to defend 



their decisions, maybe, rather than to 

 admit that they have made a mistake. Perhaps we are 

 not so careful in all cases in selecting them as we 

 should be. In any exhibition, however small, and in 

 increasing proportion according to its size, it is no light 

 responsibility we place on their shoulders. The best 

 are none too good, in any case. There are many con- 

 siderations to be taken into account in their selection 

 Per.sonality, relation with and to the people on whose 

 accomplishments they are asked to set their seal of 

 comparative excellence — these are pre-requisites of im- 

 portance second only to a thorough knowledge of the 

 goods they are to pass upon. The professional judge 

 system which prevails to some extent in other countries 

 has its undoubted advantages as compared with our 

 custom of asking our neighbors and friends to serve us 

 in this capacity, but our communities are too widely 

 scattered and our distances are so great as to make the 

 professional judge plan impractical here at present. 

 Under conditions as we have them we must make the 

 best of our opjwrtunity, bearing in mind that if we 

 are to get the most competent men to serve us in these 

 trying duties we must desist from fault-finding or those 

 who are self-respccing will be very likely to find an 

 excuse for "side-stepping" the honor. 



