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HORTICULTURE 



November 6, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXII 



NOVEMBER 6. 1915 



NO. 19 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— New York Wholesale Cut 

 Flower Protective Association Luncheon 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Azaleas — Cinerarias — Cyclamen — Orchids — Poinset- 

 tias — Time to Start Bulbs — John J. M. Farrell 597 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Watch the Feed- 

 ing — The Coal Bins— Storing Manure — Soot — Arthur 

 C. Ruzicka 599 



THE CLEVELAND FLOWER SHOW— General Com- 

 mittees—Portraits—The Bowling Tournament. . .600-601 



THE FALL FLOWER SHOWS— San Francisco Fall 

 Flower Show — Morris County Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Society — Chicago Grand Floral Festival — Lenox 



Horticultural Society 602 



Boston Fall Show 603 



INTERNATIONAL FLOWER SHOW, NEW YORK. ... 603 



OBITUARY— Dennis Dwyer— Edward G. Eggeling — 

 Charles Thomas Lee — Albert C. Heubner — George 

 Economopoulas— P. W. Timme — Harry Allen 604 



LONG ISLAND PLANT GROWERS 606 



THE SEVEN BEST CARNATIONS 606 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORIST: 



New Flower Stores 608 



Flowers by Telegraph 609 



A Valentine Heart, Illustration 611 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling League 608 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Washington, Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago 610 

 Pittsburgh, St. Louis 611 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, 



Philadelphia 613 



Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, Washington... 615 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — New York Wholesale Florists' Protective As- 

 sociation — Society of American Florists — Oyster Bay 

 Horticultural Society 620-621 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Chrysanthemum Tiger — Illustrated 601 



Visitors' Register 604 



Transporting a Specimen Plant 604 



News Notes 608-603 



Belgian Enterprise 615 



Massachusetts Awards at San Francisco 621 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 621 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 622 



Patents Granted 622 



Although most of the tree.s are bare, sum- 

 Indulgent jjjer flowers still linger iii the gar(iens in 

 Jack Frost a large section of the country where usual- 

 ly gar(3ens are desolated by the time 

 November comes in. There are salvias, caniias, cosmos, 

 ageratum, French marigold.':, petunias, some roses and 



even dahlias, still in sufficient quantity to make the 

 suburban plots look bright and to make quite a showing 

 in the wholesale markets. We like to see them. They 

 work no very great injury to the indoor flower trade 

 and we shall have to face winter dreariness soon enough. 



Wliile it is generally acknowledged that 



A thriving the flower business has made but little 



industry progress during the season of 1915, it 



appears from our observation and ac- 

 cording to reports from various sources that the land- 

 •scape gardening industry and the trade in hardy gar- 

 den ornamental material have been enjoying a season 

 of rare prosperity. Perhaps the enforced staying at 

 home since the outbreak of the European war has con- 

 dured partly to this result and it is quite probable that 

 the automobile, which has' unquestionably had a reverse 

 influence on the florist business, has given a new im- 

 I ictus to the laying out of suburban homes. No line of 

 horticultural work holds out better promise for the am- 

 bitious young man than that of liardy ornpmental 

 gardening. 



An 



A notification has been received by all the 

 wholesalers in New York to the effect that, 

 ethical gj; ^ joint session of the Association of 

 question Retail Floi'ists and the Greek-American 

 Florists' Association, it was the sense of 

 the meeting that wholesale florists do not sell at retail 

 and calling for an immediate statement of the whole- 

 salers' position on the matter. No doubt the retailers 

 know what they are doing. We hold no brief to speak 

 for them or for the wholesalers or to proffer advice, both 

 sides being presumably able to take care of their re- 

 spective interests, yet, as unswerving advocates of or- 

 ganized co-operation we should much prefer to see 

 questions of this character made the subject of friendly 

 joint consideration between representative men of both 

 interested parties. Knowing how averse the leading 

 wholesale men in New York are to selling anything at 

 retail we are at a loss to understand just why these 

 wholesalers have alone been selected to receive a com- 

 munication such as that referred to. The retail people 

 may have some basis of complaint which does not ap- 

 pear on the surface but one naturally wonders, at this 

 juncture, what their attitude is towards those large 

 wholesale growers, for instance, who are openly com- 

 peting for retail business while at the same time plac- 

 ing a considerable part of their product on the whole- 

 sale market. And, further, how can an organization of 

 retail store keepers, none of whom are producers, con- 

 sistently take such an issue with the legitimate whole- 

 salers, if a combination of several of its own members 

 is in the field as a competitor in the wholesale trade? 

 We are heartily in accord with the proposition that 

 wholesale dealers should keep strictly out of the retail 

 Ijusiness. But the rule of fairness demands that, in ex- 

 change for this ]irotection, the retail dealer is in honor 

 bound to e.xtend to the wholesale dealer cordial support 

 to the full extent of the latter's facilities for serving 

 him. In this direction much more might be said as 

 all those "close lo the firing line" well know, but proli- 

 ably we ha\'e gone far enough for the present. 



