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HORTICULTURE 



May 22, I9ir> 



horticulture: 



VOL XXI 



MAY 22, 19IS 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLISTK.\T10N— Hoses on the Porch 



NOTKS ON CILTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK- Bav 

 Tree.'!. Hox. Ktc.—Chry.saiitliemums— Ericas— Flowers 

 for Meiuorial Day— Forcing Lily of the Vallev — Ven- 

 tilation — John J. M. Farrcll " 681 



TO INCREASE FLOWER SALES [ 686 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Dalilia Society— 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society— Texas State 

 Florists' Convention— .Vnierican Rose Society— Holy- 

 oke and .Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' Club 683 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston— Westchester 

 and Fairfield Horticultural Society— Lenox Horticul- 

 tural Society— Connecticut Horticultural Society 684 



St. Louis Florist Club— Society of American Florists 

 —Horticultural Society of New York— New Orleans 



Flower Show 685 



iMay Flower Show 687 



OBITUARY'— Edward Laxkin— Mrs. Margaret Eber- 

 hardt- E. J. Welch, Jr.— Frederick Weir 688 



EVERGREENS IN PROVIDENCE— Fred'fc C. Green.. 689 



SEED TRADE— Pea and Bean Vicissitudes— The Pro- 

 posed Wisconsin Seed I^w— The San Francisco Con- 

 vention — A Bird Window. Illustrated — San Francisco 



Sweet Pea Show Postponed 690 



New Seed Stores — Notes 691 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



What Florists Can Do for .Memorial Day 692 



Flowers by Telegraph— New Flower Stores 693 



NEWS ITEMS FRO.M EVERYWHERE: 



Boston, New Bedford, Pittsburgh, Washington, Chi- 

 cago 694 



Philadelphia, San Francisco 695 



DURING RECESS— Syracuse Visits Rochester 695 



FLOWER .MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo. Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 697 



Philadelphia. St. Louis. San Francisco, Washington 699 



A FINE CAR.NATION HOUSE— Illustrated 704 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



.Memorial to the Late George Dickson 686 



Blossoms of Peace, Poetry 686 



Cultivation of Medicinal Plants 686 



Memorial Day, Poetry 686 



A June Picture 687 



Visitors' Register 687 



Personal 687 



United States Department of Agriculture 688 



A Soldier's Grave, Poetry 695 



News Notes 699 



"Equal to Gold Mining" 704 



Expensive Plant Food 704 



Do You Know That 704 



Publication Received 705 



Business Troubles 705 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 70(i 



New Corporations 706 



Glass CutUng Made Easy 706 



Boston University graduation exen im > uiU 



A take place on June 2 and for the first time 



notable in the hiblory of tlic Oollofic llic pirls will 



contrast not 1)0 tilt- rc(i|iionls (if tlonil pift-; from 



I heir friends. .\t n dai-s incctin;: it was 

 voted that tile iiLstoni be done away with. It eeoms 

 hardly credible that a class of normally constituted 

 young women should take such action and it certainly 

 suggests that the girls of today are drifting away from 

 the old moorings and must be d(>iicicnt in the finer 

 tastes wliich graced their mothers wlien the charm of 

 flowers no longer makes irresistible apjK'al to tliem. 

 Sunultaneously comes the information that Harvard 

 students who dine at Memorial Hall have this spring 

 established the precedent of decorating their tables with 

 lilacs, sweet peas and other flowers every day. This 

 seems like reversing the old order of things. The 

 young men deserve commendation on their exhibition 

 of refined sense and good taste. •A.'^ for the girls — well 

 nobody can predict what they will do next ! 



The list of local amateur organizations 



A that have come into afTiliation with the 



campaign .American Rose Society as given in this 



vwell started issue, looks very encouraging and bears 



the' stamp of practicability as a solu- 

 tion of the long-standing problem of how to secure the 

 joint support of both amateur and trade interests. 

 HouTiCDTUiiic earnest!}' advocated this plan a number of 

 years ago and we are pleased to see it ado|)ted and put 

 into operation so effectively as the information now 

 given out by Secretary Hammond seems to indicate. 

 By this course no less than five hundred enthusiastic 

 new adherents are acquired and without any disturb- 

 ance of existing methods or of the active professional 

 element in the central body, without whose unswerving 

 loyalty and ever- ready generosity the .\meriran Rose 

 Society would long ago have passed into oblivion. It 

 is reasonable to assume that with judicious handling 

 of the situation as it now takes form, many more affili- 

 ating groups may be constituted throughout the entire 

 country and the resultant benefit to the commercial rose 

 industry will be well worth all it costs. 



Xo occasion in the year carries a finer 

 Memorial Day human Sentiment and none more ap- 

 propriately suggests the profuse use of 

 flowers than does this essentially American holiday. 

 Instituted originally by a people overjoyed in the at- 

 tainment of peace after a terrible civil war, in grateful 

 recognition and honor to the memory of those who had 

 given up their lives in the service of their country, the 

 custom in time took on a wider significance until it 

 has become a firmly established perpetual annual ob- 

 servance in remembrance of the dear ones who have 

 been taken from ii.«. This is no fiori.st-made holiday. 

 It had its birth in the hearts of the people and no 

 florist has ever thought it necessary, so far as we know, 

 to beseech the public to prove to the world their patrio- 

 tism or their remembrance by buying some of his 

 flowers. But there are many ways in which the florist 

 may assist to inspire the people in jiis community with 

 a greater appreciation of the eminent fitness of fresh 

 flowers and blossoming plants for this hallowed celebra- 

 tion in the midst of the spring glory. We are told that 

 there are many localities where Memorial Day is ac- 

 corded a very scanty observance. It should not be al- 

 lowed to so continue. The people are all right at heart 

 on this subject, but they need a little waking up, not, 

 however, by means of advanced price> or embalmed 

 flowers, or metal wreaths or window-card admonitions of 

 duty. "Where there's a \vill there's a wav." 



