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HORTICULTURE 



January 11, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



JANUARY 11, 1919 



NO. 2 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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CONTENTS 



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INCREASE YOUR OUTPUT AND YOU WILL MAKE 

 MONEY— A Booster 29 



THE GARDENER AND HIS RECOMPENSE— M. C. 

 Ebel, portrait 31 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 29 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 32 



American Carnation Society 33 



Westchester New York Horticultural Society and 

 N. Y. State Fruit Growers' Association 39 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 



The Publicity Campaign 33 



POPULAR SELLING WINTER FLOWERING PLANTS 

 — Primula malacoides — Illustration 35 



THE PLANT IMPORT TANGLE 35 



OBITUARY — A. W. Vose — Van Earl Leavitt — Capt. 

 George E. Kirk— E. Y. Teas— Wm. H. Coldwell — Wm. 

 H. Amling 36-37 



SEED TRADE— Investigate Quality of Seed— Regula- 

 tions for the Importations of Seeds — Disinfect Seed 



Potatoes Before Planting — Nitrate at Cost 38 



Seed Trade Notes 37 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



"Say It With Flowers" — A. Pochelon 40 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia. 

 Rochester, St. Louis 43 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



St. Louis, Washington 37 



Chicago, Philadelphia, New York 45-46 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Victory Gardens 29 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 33 



Restrictions Removed 38 



Visitors' Register 37 



News Notes 37 



Catalogues Received 39 



The dropping of wreaths and floral trib- 

 Flowers by utes from air pianos has been more or less 

 airplane ln vogue in Europe during the war and 

 for the last few days at Oyster Bay. While 

 it is possible to carry and deliver flowers by airplane. 

 it will probably be a long time before it is put in prac- 

 tice. Flowers are bulky when packed, liable to freeze 

 in high altitudes, and the airplane is therefore not a 



promising vehicle, for florists' delivery — but it will un- 

 doubtedly be used for certain special occasions. Which 

 of our enterprising florists will be the first to use it? 



There are now indications that the 



Business spring trade will come in considerably 



improvement larger volume than last year. While 



higher taxes and another government 

 loan arc in sight there is the expectation that that loan 

 will be the last and that taxes may be gradually reduced. 

 Labor has already become easier and it now looks that 

 very soon there will lie no acute shortage. The difficult} - 

 of getting labor has caused the postponement of much 

 building and landscape improvement which it is likely 

 will be undertaken, during the coming season. 



Every reader of HORTICULTURE 

 Plant embargo a should now realize what the en- 

 blow to horticulture forcement of the new plant 

 embargo which takes effect June 

 1st next will mean to the horticultural trade. It means 

 among other things, the complete exclusion of all nur- 

 sery and greenhouse stock for forcing purposes, and prac- 

 tically all trees, shrubs, woody vines, conifers, rhododen- 

 drons, roses, boxwood, bay trees, etc.. used for outdoor 

 planting and decoration. It is questioned whether the 

 action taken by the Eederal Horticultural Board is in 

 accordance with the law as enacted by Congress: it seems 

 certain, however, that it was not intended as the spirit 

 of this Act, that, the policies and destinies of the entire 

 horticultural trade with its millions of dollars of in- 

 vestment, should lie arbitrarily jeopardized by any un- 

 wise or unjustified action on the part of that Board. 

 Horticultural interests will suffer greatly by the appli- 

 cation of the embargo and we believe that it will later be 

 revoked, when its evil effect shall have been felt, but that 

 will be too late to save from ruin, the victims of it- 

 enforcement. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 Money prizes eietv is now considering — as are other 

 societies engaged in similar work — the 

 proper course to pursue in carrying on its work in the 

 immediate future — with the curtailed use of coal and 

 shortage of labor, few establishments arc in position to 

 grow material suitable for exhibition, and with the ex- 

 ception, perhaps, of orchids, there i- very much material 

 iii existence. The average grower is endowed with more 

 or less public spirit and takes pride in exhibiting his 

 products whether money prizes are offered or not. 

 Usually he regards the money prize as an offset to his ex- 

 pense in making an exhibit. The value of the money 

 prize lies in making it large enough to attract competi- 

 tion and thus stimulate enthusiasm for high grade ex- 

 hibits. To be effective it should be announced long in 

 advance so that the proper material may be grown. A 

 good flower show cannot be staged without long prepa- 

 ration, and ample time for this work is quite as impor- 

 tant as the money prize. We believe that better result- 

 will be had by concentratinu funds for more attractive- 

 prizes in larger exhibitions. We understand that the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society is now considering 

 the advisability of holding a lame orchid show in 1920. 



