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HORTICULTURE 



July 17, 1915 



horticulture: 



bargain counter hu sees only a menace and a nuisance. 



But, after all, when we read of the throngs of people 



■:====^=^=^^=^=^=^=^=^^^^^^^^^^ standing in a line reaching half way across a big de- 



VOL. XXII JULY M, 1915 NO. 3 partment store in Chicago, eager to take advantage of 



PiBLisiiED WEEKLY BY a salc of roses advertised at seven cents a dozen, a new 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. train of thought is set in motion and we find ourselves 



147 Summer Street, Boston. Mass. wondering whether this bit of enterprise really did any 



Telephone, Oxford 292. injury to the busiucss of the legitimate retail florist or 



wsi. J. STEWART, Editor anil Manager. whether he woirld have profited in the least if all that 



Entered aTsecond-elass matter December 8. 1904. at the Po8t Office Surplus which was_ unloaded at a few dollars a thousand 



at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. \y^^ been thrown into the QUinp instead. 



CONTENTS Page ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^® ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^° ^°^ ^ 



COVER ILLUSTRATION-Echinops Ritro „ J^^^ ,^ season of low prices on Dutch bulbs 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK-Chry- °"*^^ '^""' This IS m accord With our prediction last 



santhemums— Lorraine Begonias— Rambler Roses— outlook January when, basing our convictions on 



Priming Flowering Shrubs — Start Freesia Bulbs — the views expressed by parties well-in- 



Perennial Lupines and Larkspurs— Joftji J. M. ^^ formed on the situation in Holland, we said that in all 



^.^""^LL'^' '^^t'^" x^xVT^^'-ri "^'t'Voo" t' V"^i"l-" probability the better classes of Dutch bulbs would be 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Late Planting— ^ «? i . u • j- • i • i i j + -^ ;i +.^ 



Mildew— Icing the Shipping Boxes— Lining Boxes— offered this season at prices which had appertained to 



Fumigation — Arthur C. Ruzicka 67 the more ordinary kinds heretofore. We now under- 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Texas State Florists' Asso- stand that the Dutch bulb-growers' union has decided 



elation; R. C. Kerr, portrait; Address of Patrick to cut hyacinth prices about one-half. Whether this 



Welch, President S A. ^y ••■■••■■■••■•■■••;;•■■•■ ■ " -n-iH induce the more general purchasing and planting 



American Association of Park Superintendents — i i, i j, , i i- • j. i 



Cincinnati Florists' Society— American Sweet Pea of these bulbs by the general public remains to be seen. 



Society 69 but, at least, it sliould. The worst feature of such a 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club— American situation, which is admittedly caused by accumulations 



ll^'-FtrTsfs'ciubof W^M^^ --Iting from the lack -of European demand, is the 



Ists' Club 70 demoralization attendant upon the unloading on the 



St. Louis Florist Club— Gardeners' and Florists' Club American market of large consignments to be sold for 



of Baltimore— Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- whatever thev will bring. We had a taste of that last 



tural Society — American Carnation Society — Chicago j u " i .51, t,- u 4-1, 1, • j. 



Grand Floral Festival-Boston Sweet Pea Show 71 year and the large seed houses, which are the heaviest 



Coming Events 89 buyers of these goods, knowing what is likely to happen, 



AN ESTATE WHERE GARDENING FLOURISHES— can hardly be expected to take any great chances now. 



Illustrated , 72 niuch as they might wish to help their Holland friends 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— w. H. Adsett 72 jj^ ^^eir pitiable '"dilemma. As to the tulips, while no 



FIELD CULTURE OF CARNATIONS-Jra Landis 73 gerious break in prices is looked for, yet a much better 



SEED TRADE 74 gpadg for the same price seems probable. Darwins have 



OF INTERES'T TO RETAIL FLORISTS: taken such a lump in demand that we shau have to pay 



Florists as Advertisers and Bookkeepers — R. C. Kerr 76 „ ,, 'i 1 ^ ji j ii ■ i.- i 



New Flower Stores 77 ^"" rates, undoubtedly, for the genuine article. 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: We are pleased to be able to tell our 



Chicago, Philadelphia Cleveland, San Francisco . . . 78 -^ condition waders that Mr. Ruzicka will from now 



Washington, D. C, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati — ,. ,, , . , , , . , 



fjofgg 79 not a theory on resume his re.gular weekly articles 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: On rose culture under glass. In the 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- very practical chapter which he contrilnites this week, 



adelphia 81 referring to the marketing of roses at the present time, 



San Francisco St. Louis^ Washington. -y f it will be noted that he says, "Cut roses that arrive in 



^^'™ .V ,f 7 .'" . M '^'°"''Z-u ^T'^ *e crowded markets now milst be strictly first class or 



OBITUARY — Mrs. John A. Macrae — William Hill— F. ,, • .1 , .1 -i, i, • -n , , £i 1 1 



Zimmermann-John Lambert 90 ^he price that they will bring will not be a profitable 



MISCELLANEOUS: °^® -^^^ "^^ grower."' This statement would hold true 



Resting Grafted Roses— Sowing Mignonette 65 as applied to almost any season of the year under the 



Echinops Ritro 72 present advanced skill in rose culture, of which Mr. 



Personi""" ^'''■"''*"^~^."''.^!^^".°.".'. .^!''"'^^'^ :::::.■; .' 74 Ruzicka himself is recognized as a conspicuous expon- 



Storm Da^agein' Cincinnati— Business Troubles !'.!'. 79 ent. Defective roses of any variety are not wanted in 



Visitors' Register — New Corporations 83 any of the wholesale markets even for the cheap trade. 



A Pest Conquered 89 "Strictly first class" does not necessarilv mean special 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated -to ^^^. ^^l^^^'i^;^^ g^^,y.^ however, nor does it" demand stems 



~ of extraordinary lenoth but it does mean straight stems, 



I'he great flood of roses and other flow- ^.i^^^ gj^ggy foliage^ gnd buds well formed and even 



A dilemma prs whicli has recently overwlielmed all eolored— all cut at the right stage of development and 



tliG big flower markets from the Atlantic without a blemish. Anything else is held in contempt, 



to the Mississippi river has given the flower trade a ^pn by the street fakirs, no matter in what grade it 



difficult situation to solve. Each community has gone may pass muster bv reason of length of stem. The 



about it in its own way as usual, but everywhere the rose grower who woiild make a success of it today must 



question of price has been lost entirely in the great ojve 'it his individual attention, likewise must the rose 



proposition of how to distribute the huge apcumulations seller stick close to his job. On beino- asked whv he 



without allowing them to reacli the waste barrels. Nat- did ^ot invest in a range of rose hou.ses^ Patrick Welch, 



urally, at such a time the retail florist finds much to ex- Boston's pioneer wliolesale dealer sagely replied, "I turn 



asperate and incite him to vengeance. In the curbstone them into moiiev ; that's enough for any man to ti7 



fakir, the pusli-eart pedler and the department store to do." 



