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HORTICULTURE 



January 25, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



JANUARY 25, 1919 



NO. 4 



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CONTENTS Page 



GROWING SWEET PEAS IN TUBS— Arthur E. 

 Thatcher— Illustrated 77 



PROTEST SENT TO SECRETARY OP AGRICUL- 

 TURE 77 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign — Meeting of Executive Board — Meet- 

 ing of the Publicity Gommittee — A Correction 79-80 



ARTHUR HERRINGTON AND OTHERS PROTEST 

 QUARANTINE 80 



OBITUARY— John H. Dillon, portrait— Conrad Frau- 

 enfelder — John H. Slocombe — Mrs. Augustus Gersten- 

 berg — John Moore — James Horan — Thomas Poynter 

 — Mrs. Patrick McGovern — James McCollom 81 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New England Nursery- 

 men's Association, A. E. Robinson, portrait — Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston — Florists' Club 

 of Washington — Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society — Tennessee State Florists' Association 

 — Lancaster County Florists' Association — Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society — Massachusetts State 

 Vegetable Growers' Association — Convention of 

 Fruit Growers — Albany Florists' Club — A Victory 

 Meeting — Rochester Florists' Association 82-86 



SEED TRADE— A. C. Kendel's New Seed Store, Illus- 

 trated — Notes 87 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 88-89 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York, 

 Rochester, St. Louis, Washington 91 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago. Washington, Rochester, St. Louis, Boston 93 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News from Belgium 80 



Valueless Gourds 80 



Catalogues Received 87 



Personal 89 



Business Troubles 91 



News Notes 94 



Visitors' Register 95 



New Corporations 95 



The Mayor's Gate Column of the Bos- 

 Did Dillon ton Evening Record of the 21st inst. 

 get his due? makes the following comment on the 

 passing away of Capt. John H. Dillon 

 formerly chairman of the Boston Park Commission: 



The sun has set on the life, of John H. Dillon, a man 

 who loved Nature and her varying moods and who was a 

 master hand at ornamental gardening. The former chair- 

 man of the Department of Parks and Recreations bore 

 many crosses the past few years of his official life. He was 

 loyal to his friends and forgetful of himself. He was ex- 

 tremely sensitive and reflections upon his administration 

 cut him deeply. He did well by the city. It is to be ques- 

 tioned if the citv did as well bv him. 



It seems truly sad thai a gardener who had served 

 the City of Boston faithfully and well for 33 years 

 should, because of a political overturn, have found him- 

 self unable to obtain employment even in a more humble 

 capacity in the department in which most of his life 

 had been spent. Failure to get such employment great- 

 ly depressed Capt. Dillon and may have indirectly short- 

 ened his life. 



Nursery production in Holland 

 The Holland nursery has been greatly reduced since 

 situation the war began. Russia which 



had previously bought liberally 

 in Holland was the first country cut off. Not only did 

 she buy extensively roses, ornamental trees, shrubs and 

 conifers for out-door planting but her purchases of 

 forcing plants including lilacs, azaleas, deutzias, etc., 

 had been enormous. Then Germany had been a large 

 buyer, her purchases including aucubas, rhododendrons, 

 hydrangeas, spiraeas, clematis, etc. For the first two 

 years of the war this trade continued in diminished 

 volume, now it has ceased. England. EoUand's best 

 customer, had reduced her purchases to a mere fraction 

 of her former demand. America had been looked to as 

 the most hopeful field, which hope has now been ban- 

 ished by the recent embargo of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board. Is it to be wondered at then that many 

 of the nurserymen of Holland have pulled up and 

 burned much of their nursery stock and prepared the 

 ground for vegetable crops. The stocks of nursery ma- 

 terial in Europe are now reduced to a lower level than 

 for several generations and under all the adverse con- 

 ditions now existing there is no telling when there will 

 be any improvement. 



An 

 abundance 



for 

 Valentine's 



Day 



Only a bunch of violets sweet. 



Only a vision of heavenly blue; 



Only blue eyes they love to meet, 



Only a token of love for you. 



Only a little gift, 'tis true. 



Yet when you look with your eyes of blue 



Over them fondly with tender care, 



Surely my love will meet you there. 



(Copyright. 1917, Ben). J. Brovm.) 



Notwithstanding the greatly diminished products in 

 florists' standard flowers and other disturbing conditions 

 which have operated in the conduct of business thus far 

 this season, it is now very' gratifying to see how rapidly 

 increasing is the daily market supply of miscellaneous 

 flowers which individually fill a comparatively unimpor- 

 tant place but collectively make an interesting and bril- 

 liant contribution to the contents of the store windows 

 and ice chests and will fill their part in attracting the 

 public eye and inspiring the heart to "Say it with 

 Flowers." Particularly serviceable and appropriate for 

 the sentiment of Valentine's Pay are these little gems — > 

 these forget-me-nots, violets, pansies, daisies, sweet peas, 

 primroses, daffodils, freesias, mignonette and many 

 other dainty things that might be enumerated — and 

 there is much in the situation this year, with its home- 

 coming reunions and visions of domestic felicity un- 

 broken by war's alarms. No day in the calendar has 

 better claim to floral supremacy than has that devoted 

 to the god of Love and nothing should be left undone 

 by the florists to impress upon the people the sweet 

 sentiment of the occasion and appropriateness of its 

 widespread observance by gifts of the flowers of spring- 

 time. Of things appropriate to this day there will be 

 an abundance and it does not appear that there will be 

 any reason to fear prohibitive prices, so let us give it 

 a good push and it will respond in proportion. 



