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110 RTICULTU It E 



January IS, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



JANUARY 18, 1919 



NO. 3 



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CONTENTS 



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THE PLANT EMBARGO MENACE— John ScheeperS .53-54 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New Bedford Horticultural Society 54 



Chicago Florists' Club — Stamford Horticultural So- 

 ciety — Southampton Horticultural Society — St. Louis 



Florist Club 55 



American Carnation Society — Gardeners' Conference 



at Pittsburgh 58 



Northampton Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Florists' 

 Hail Association of America 60 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign — Committee Meetings — Department of 

 Plant Registration 58 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB 59 



OBITUARY— Mrs. Thomas Page — Mrs. Emily Blewett 

 Prickitt — George Conklin Saltford — Lieut. William 

 Aherne 61 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



A Store Beautiful 64 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Rochester, 

 St. Louis 67 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Philadelphia — Lieut. John H. Earl, portrait — Roch- 

 ester — Chicago — Washington — Boston 69-70 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 60-65 



Dendrobium Lionii — Illustrated 61 



Controlling Cucumber Disease by Seed Treatment and 



Crop Rotation 62 



Catalogues Received 63 



Patents Granted 63 



What is the Best Way to Store Manure? 63 



Visitors' Register 65 



It is refreshing to read of the 

 Flowers in demand brisk demand for flowers in 

 in London London. People there had be- 



come thoroughly tired of the de- 

 pressing conditions incident to the war and reaction 



quite une □ ias tal en pla< • ■. Dinm 



social functions arc the order of the day with tin- result 

 thai flowers are in demand at high pi leciallj 



orchids and \ inlets. 



The present week marks sev- 

 Buiiding materials e ral substantial reductions in 

 coming down in price ,1,,. cos l ( ,| cons j iction ma- 

 il rials. One of the largest 

 corporations has ju-t announced a reduction of twenty- 

 five per cent in the cqsl "I' steam and hut water boilers 

 and other heating apparatus. Lower prices for struc- 

 tural steel are also indicated. Other lines musi inevi- 

 tably follow this action, lor industry will In- at a stand- 

 still until they do, and until they do. they may expei I to 

 be practically without new business. Unskilled labor 

 is now plentiful at rates about the same as before the 

 war. Mills and shops throughout the country are run- 

 ning on reduced time and the managers in several in- 

 stances have intimated that there is little prospeci of 

 improvement during the next six months. Competition 

 for skilled labor among employers is no longer in evi- 

 dence and it now appears that the much talked of period 

 of readjustment is no longer to come, it is here now. 

 The sooner we get to a new -olid basis which shall be- 

 come our future normal conditions the better it will 

 be for all id' us, for real prosperity cannot come while 

 war-time inflation lingers. Then and then only will 

 the florist he justified in making permanent improve- 

 ments or additions to his establishment. Had be done- 

 so under recent high prices it would have been almost 

 impossible to earn any return upon the outlay. 



It has taken the horticultural 



The trade aroused trade a long time to come to a full 



at last realization of the evil which 



threatens horticulture and horti- 

 cultural art and industry by the new embargo placed on 

 all plants having earth at their roots, which becomes 

 operative June 1st. Light months ago Horticulture 

 sounded its warning to the trade, urging attendance at 

 the first hearing at Washington on May 28th. Unfor- 

 tunately very few representatives of the trade and some 

 of the larger houses were not represented. From then 

 until now HORTICULTURE more than any other trade 

 medium has continued to sound the warning, and now 

 although it is the eleventh hour and the full conse- 

 quences of inaction loom up before us. and although the 

 required efforts will necessarily be much greater, if any 

 abatement of the embargo is to be secured we still hope 

 thai every possible effort will be made to save us from 

 this unwarranted restriction by a department of out 

 government whose mission it should be to foster rather 

 than to destroy our industry. The Federal Horticul- 

 ural Hoard has evidently not heeded the suggestion 

 made at the hearings that inspectors be sent abroad to 

 examine, where growing, material intended for ship- 

 ment to this country. This plan would not be difficult 

 in the cases of England. Holland and Belgium from 

 which three countries most of the restricted stock 

 comes. Later the inspection might be extended to other 

 countries. The cost would be small compared to the 

 value of such inspection to the horticultural interests of 

 this country. 



