HORTICULTURE 



January 4, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



JANYARY 4, 1919 



NO. 1 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Propagator- 

 Selection of Tea Wood — Lime — Fumigation — Arthur 

 Ruzicka 5 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— Officers for 1919, 

 portraits — President Ammann's New Year's Greeting 

 — The Publicity Campaign 7-9 



POPULAR HOLIDAY PLANTS— Begonia "Glory of Cin- 

 cinnati" — Illustration 10 



HARDIHOOD OF CONIFEROUS EVERGREENS— R. E. 

 Horsey 11 



OBITUARY— Arnold DeBree— George L. Waterbury— 

 Mrs. Augusta C. Mather — George J. Allen — Andrew 

 Masson — Mrs. Adam Schillo 14 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago — Boston 14 



New York — Rochester 22 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia 15 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 16 



New Flower Stores 17 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 

 Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York.... 19 

 Rochester, St. Louis 21 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Christmas in Chicago 21 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 15 



News Notes 10 



Patents Granted 15 



Already the help situation is being re- 

 The Help Heved. Men released from the army and 

 Question navy are in most cases seeking re-employ- 

 ment in their former places. In the 

 eastern coast cities there are thousands of unemployed 

 now and their number is daily increasing. It should 



not be difficult therefor for growers to secure the addi- 

 tional help ivipiired for the coming spring at wages con- 

 siderably lower than those now prevailing. 



A correspondent writes us from Ghent, 



Word from under date of December 4th, 1918, as 



Belgium follows: "Our post connections are re- 



established now with the whole world, 

 and I am glad to report that we are enjoying good 

 health in spite of all the troubles we had to bear during 

 four long years. Our German oppressors tried to ruin 

 the florist trade as they did all other kinds of Belgian 

 business. If our greenhouses have been saved from 

 destruction we have now nearly no plants to fill them. 

 Azaleas will be very expensive for some years. It is im- 

 possible to make any quotations now." 



The mild weather which has prevailed 

 Lower Prices until now, has greatly reduced the con- 

 on Coal sumption of fuel. Reduced consump- 

 tion in general is even now tending to 

 produce surpluses of soft coal, and Horticulture hears 

 from a reliable source that in the near future a sub- 

 stantial reduction in price may be expected. Flowers 

 have never brought better prices than during the present 

 season and such prices can hardly suffer much reduc- 

 tion until after Easter. For Easter the supply in sight 

 is much below normal and it now looks as if another 

 rich harvest were in sight at that season for the florist 

 who has material to offer. With the coal situation 

 easier, the grower faces an unusual opportunity. 



Many landscape architects en- 

 Commissions to deavor to obtain commissions on 

 landscape architects orders of seeds and nursery stock 

 which they place, which commis- 

 sions if allowed are usually passed back to their clients. 

 These clients are given to understand that by placing 

 their orders through the landscape architects they get the 

 advantage of what they designate as professional dis- 

 count and which they hold up to their clients as a sub- 

 stantial offset to the fees which they charge. It is clear- 

 ly unwise for any nurseryman or seedsman to encourage 

 these interlopers, and several firms are giving public 

 notice that they do not give commissions to landscape 

 architects, nor can they obtain any better terms than 

 are given to their customers who buy directly. This 

 course is the only ethical one, any other is most repre- 

 hensible. We see little difference between the landscape 

 architect who seeks to extort a commission and any em- 

 ployee who demands or accepts commissions on pur- 

 chases made by him for his employer, the only differ- 

 ence as we see it seems to be that to the latter the gain 

 is direct, to the other it is indirect. Both are guilty 

 of exaction. The landscape architect is no more entitled 

 to commissions for his clients than is any other architect, 

 and the better class landscape architects do not have to 

 stoop to such insidious means of peddling their services. 



