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August 14, 1915 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Corner in a Formal Garden 

 at Bar Harbor, Maine 



NOrES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Chry- 

 santhemums — Mulching Mixture — Roman Hyarinths 

 — Poinsettias — Stock Geraniums — Supply of Leaf 

 Mold— /oftre /. M. Farrell 193 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Storms— Picking 

 Leaves on Beauties — Mildew — Arthur C. Ruzicka. . . 195 



LARKSPURS AND ASTILBES 195 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS: 

 Program for the Thirty-first Annual Convention — 



Off for San Francisco 196 



Ways and Means Committee of the Pacific Coast 

 Horticultural Society, Portraits 197 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Cleveland Flower Show 196 



North Shore Exhibition — American Rose Society... 198 

 Coming Events 216 



AN EFFECTIVE VINE COMBINATION, Illustrated.. 200 



OBITUARY— R. J. Graves— Alfred C. Burkhardt— Wil- 

 liam H. Westcott 201 



SEED TRADE— Crimson Clover Seed— Crop Damage 

 in Massachusetts — Notes 202 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 204 



Flowers by Telegraph 205 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 

 Washington, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati . . . 206 

 Boston, Chicago — Notes 207 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York . . . 209 

 Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington 211 



DURING RECESS— New York Florists' Bowling Club 

 Outing 217 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



No Quarantine of Nursery Stock 202 



New Corporations 202 



Personal — News Notes 204 



Catalogue Received — Business Troubles 204 



Visitors' Register 207 



Belgian Plant Shipments will be Permitted 211 



Publication Received 216 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 21S 



We take opportunity to again commend 

 Preparedness f,, qu,- readers the very practical advice 



given t)y Mr. Enzicka in hi.s rose notes. 

 'I'lic warning to get I'eady and well prepared now to meet 

 tlic prospective emergencies of winter may not be 

 needed by some readers of Horticulture but we all 

 know that there are many who procrastinate until too 

 late and some time or another have to pay dearly for 

 their indifFei'cnce and improvidence. The admonition 

 applies to any and all growers as well as to the rose men. 

 "Preparedness" has taken on a .startling national sig- 

 nificance within the past few months. It is not without 

 its application as a business policy. 



Secretary Young, who has exceptional 



The facilities for correctly estimating the 



Convention probable attendance at the San Francisco 



Convention of the S. A. F., writes from 

 the front a very optimistic letter, stating that the out- 

 look for a favorable representation is daily becoming 

 ijrighter, notwithstanding the accepted fact that the 

 attendence fi'om the far East will be very light. There is 

 so much to be seen in California that is of interest 

 to florists and the gardening fraternity generally that 

 anyone making the eflEort to be present on this auspicious 

 occasion will be well repaid for making the trip and, as 

 the time approaches, many wavering individuals are 

 piretty sure to come to a favorable decision and pack up 

 for the jouniey to the Coast. Horticulture's sincere 

 wishes for a numerously attended and otherwise success- 

 ful and profitable 31st Convention are extended to 

 the grand old S. A. F. and the brethren of the Golden 

 West. 



Once a year when the Society of Ameri- 

 A can Florists assembles in national con- 



trade booster volition HORTICULTURE honors the occa- 

 sion by dressing up a little and coming 

 out as a special edition. Tlie trade buyers are all inter- 

 ested in the doings of the big organization which for the 

 past thirty-one years has stood in the foremost position 

 in America as the representative of floricultural prog- 

 ress. Our issue for this year is scheduled to appear next 

 week. It will contain full information of the proceed- 

 ings at San Francisco and will be in all respects the 

 equal of any of its predecessors in publicity value for 

 those trade advertisers v,dio are sufficiently discerning 

 and wide-awake to take advantage of the opportunity 

 oifered. There is yet time for the late comers to get in 

 line but plea.se do not delay further. If you have any 

 specialty about which you would like to apprise the 

 active and intelligent trade buyers, there is no better way 

 to "get there"' than through the columns of Horticul- 

 ture's Convention Number. 



Commenting on the reported in- 

 "Robbing teution of the fraternal organ- 



Peter to pay Paul" izations of Waterbury, Conn., to 

 limit their expenditures for 

 floral tributes in memory of dead members to a small 

 amount, the Jleriden Eecord comes out with an editorial 

 condemning the lavish use of flowers for funeral pur- 

 poses and urging that "the money which is expended 

 oa short-lived blooms should be devoted toward reliev- 

 ing material want." It states that according to esti- 

 mates of Chicago florists more than $100,000 had been 

 spent on flowers foi' victims of the Eastland disaster 

 and uses this grossly exaggerated estimate as an argu- 

 ment in support of its contention that much suffering 

 and privation might have been averted by a better use 

 of the money. This is another instance of the boom- 

 erang mischief which is always sure to result from 

 these inflated yarns wliich stupid florists here and there 

 are so prone to give out and the sensational reporter so 

 eager to circidate. Wiatever virtue there may be in 

 these repeated ])ropositions to divert money from flower 

 buying to "relieving suffering" is completely counter- 

 acted by the impossibility of enforcing such diversion. 

 We see no reason to believe that if the florists of the 

 country were despoiled of half their business the amount 

 contributed for charity would be appreciably increased. 

 .Vs we have repeatedly urged, it is full time that the 

 S. A. F. should raise its voice against these hostile at- 

 tacks upon a worthy industry. 



