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U li T 1 C U L T U H K 



Juno 26, 1915 



horticulture: 



VOL XXI 



JUNE 26. 1915 



NO. 26 



■■rill.IHIIKI) WKEKI.Y BY 



horticulture: pubuishing co. 



147 SuiTiTner Street, Boston, Ma«». 



Trlrphonr. Oiford sai. 

 \VM. J. STEWAKT, Editor and MuiAier. 



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BDtered as second-claaa matter December 8, 1904, at the Post OfDce 

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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTKATlo.N Ulioilodendron Kaempferi 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Carna- 

 tions — Cinerarias — Compost Pile — Boston Ferns — 



Palms— Painting— Joh;i J. M. t'ancU 841 



RHODODENDItONS .\ND RHODODENDRON EXHIBI- 

 TIONS— T. li. Hntnrhl 843 



RHODODENDRON K.AEMPFERI— B. //. Wilson 843 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Convention 

 Outlook — National Flower Show, Philadelphia 844 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Tarrytown Horticultural 

 Society — Lancaster County Florists' Club — North 

 Shore Horticultural Society — Rhode Island Horticul- 

 tural Society — Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society 84.'> 



American Sweet Pea Society — New Bedford Horticul- 

 tural Society — American Peony Society 846 



Peony Show at Boston — Morris County Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Society — Club and Society Notes 847 



RHODODENDRONS IN THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM 848 



SEED TRADE — American Seed Trade Association — 

 President's Address — Secretary -Treasurer's Report.. 849 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 852 



Flowers hv Telegraph 853 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia,- 



St. Louis 854 



Washington, Pittsburgh. Boston 855 



OBITUARY— D. U. Augspurger— Karl Koenig — Albert 

 C. Rett- James H. .McKav 855 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 



San Francisco 857 



St. Louis, Washington 859 



DURING RECESS— Waretown Blossoms Out — Florists' 

 Club of Philadelphia 864 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. B. Adsett 864 



THREE REMARKABLE IRISES— C. S. Harrison 864 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chicago Flower Show 844 



Summer and Winter — Illustration 846 



Directors of New York Cut Flower Exchange — Illus- 

 trated 847 



Cornell Students Visit Boston 850 



News Notes 852 



A New Diervilla 864 



New Gipsy Moth Quarantine Regulations 865 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 866 



The iufoniiatioii i-elati\c to the appi'daching 

 Headed g. A. F. Convention at San Francisco and 

 ""ight the substantial forecast basei3 on facts al- 

 ready established for the National Flower 

 Show of 1916 at Philadelphia, as presented by Secretary 



.luiiii ^ c.iinj^ 111 iins issue of HonTicui.ii UK, ai.- cer- 

 tjiiiily j)regnuiit witli the assurance of success and a 

 ( ouvincing optiniisni which sliould go far towards sat- 

 isfying any one who lias hitherto felt any doubt as 

 to the outcome of these venture's. Plainly Philadelphia 

 is ready — as she is also unquestionably able — to make 

 the most ambitious national event of IfllG an occasion 

 eminently worthy of lier best traditions and well-earned 

 horticultural fame. 



Prevailing trade conditions and the un- 



Expenslve r^ortain outlook for the immediate future 



lessons should be suthcient incentive for tliought- 



ful business men to give serious considera- 

 lioii to tlie lesser details of practice and accounting — 

 small things which in "piping" times of easy prosjierity 

 are apt to be passed over as trifles not wortli taking 

 cognizance of. We .venture to say that tliere is not one 

 of our readers who cannot bring to mind some or many 

 ways in which he might with advantage to his business 

 follow a little more -closely Franklin's admonition to 

 'take care of the pennies." Practically every issue of 

 HoRTicuLTunE tcils of busincss embarassments, here 

 and there in eveiy branch of commercial horticul- 

 ture. All through these announcements runs the thread 

 of trouble — not alone for the party of the first part, 

 but for all those wlio directly or indirectly must bear 

 a share, more or less grievous, in the loss. Economy 

 now cannot alter the past but it may in some degree 

 offset its effect. "Locking the stable door after the 

 horse is stolen" is synonymous with a profitless act but, 

 nevertheless, it is not a bad idea to lock it, all the 

 same, and keep it locked hereafter if one proposes to 

 continue keeping horses. 



As we meditate on the course of events in 



One the flower business, seed trade and nursery 



way out trade and the particular happenings which 



prompted the foregoing lines there come 

 to mind the repeated attempts in various trade centers 

 to establish throupli mutual agreement some basis of 

 credit giving and collections which by its general en- 

 forcement would have tended to make impossible most 

 of the paralyzing wrecks of the recent past and which if 

 adopted now would provid(} some assurance against such 

 catastrophes in the future. The verv existence of such 

 precautionary provisions as are in force in other lines 

 of trade would in itself act as a check upon the extrava- 

 gant living and reckless business methods which are the 

 legitimate children of reckless credit giving. The indififer- 

 ence or blindness, which as our business grows in magni- 

 tude, leads us still to saunter along in the slipshod way 

 which was thought good enough in the. days of small re- 

 sponsibilities and big profits, is costing us all dearly and 

 he is indeed hopelessly stone-blind who cannot discern 

 the clouds that are yet on the horizon. Greater economy in 

 operation, less of the passion to beat out the other fellow 

 and a stricter accountability on the part of ourselves 

 and all those with whom we deal will go a long way in 

 helping to carry us through the.se disquieting times. 



