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HORTICULTURE 



February 8, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX FEBRUARY 8, 1919 NO. 6 



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CONTENTS Page 



ENDURANCE OP CONIFEROUS TREES AT WEL- 



LESLEY, MASS.— T. D. Hatfield 125-126 



GARDENING AFTER THEi WAR— Leonard Barron.. . 127 

 AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY— Business Meet- 

 ings — Theodore Dorner, portrait — The Banquet — The 

 Exhibits and Awards — Carnations, C. S. Strout — Car- 

 nation Democracy, illustrated 129-131 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' Conference at 



Pittsburgh 131 



Club and Society Notes 134 



OBITUARY— Mrs. E. M. Gill, portrait— John T. Milli- 

 ken — Newman S. Wax — Joseph Macgregor — Matthew 

 Richmond — Benjamin H. Shoemaker — Charles J. 

 Hewson — Leon Becker — Charles Adams — William 

 Vogt — Harry F. Meyers — Albert Saxer — Henry Holt- 



kamp— Mrs. Charles Lohr 132-133 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis 133 



New York 139 



Chicago 141 



SEED TRADE— Proposal to Amend Agricultural Law 



of New York in Relation to Seeds — Notes 135 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Men of Action, Henry Venn — New Flower Stores. .136-137 

 FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Rochester, St. Louis, 



Philadelphia 139 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Proposed Quarantine of Barberries 126 



Belgium's Plight 126 



Some Products Found Worthless 126 



Floriculture at Cornell During Farmers' Week 127 



A British View 127 



Visitors' Register 133 



Vegetable Show at Boston 134 



Catalogues Received 135 



News Notes 137 



An English trade journalist 



A good time coming writing from London three 



weeks ago says : 



"Glad I am not the only individual who thinks that our 

 trade is in for a good time. A well-known specialist is 

 preparing for such period as fast as possible from stocks 

 that were always large, and remarks in a letter that when 

 the gardening element becomes free from the army "we 

 shall have the time of our lives." There are so many things 

 in gardens that have been neglected, and all that is wanted 

 is the opportunity to make such as they were, or better!" 



This is most encouraging and shows that England 



after four; years of privation is enthusiastic for her 

 gardens. The same spirit is already manifest here, 

 (iood times are at hand. 



We were much surprised in perusing the 

 Weil, well pages of a recent official department pub- 

 lication to find the following bit of advice : 



"A bundle of rags fastened to a pole and soaked in kero- 

 sine is an effective weal on to burn out nests of gregarious 

 insects, as the apple tree tent caterpillar, fall web worm 

 and others." 



Perhaps the author of the foregoing bit of advanced 

 horticultural information will tell us what will happen 

 to the tree limbs under this heroic treatment. We 

 should like to see him undertake to put it into practice 

 on the premises of any intelligent orchardist. We think 

 it would be a case of the shot-gun or the watch dog, and 

 would make a good movie film. 



We present in another part of this 

 Ruthiessness paper an interesting letter for the con- 

 var. sideration of our readers, who will, we 



americana f e el sure, sympathize deeply with Mr. 

 Sander in the predicament which 

 threatens him and his fellow horticulturists across the 

 seas. The name of Sander stands in the annals of hor- 

 ticulture too high and too lustrous to be lightly passed 

 over by the florists and gardeners of America, unmindful 

 of the great debt which they owe to this enterprising 

 man. In the orchid history of the last half century, he 

 stands without a peer, and we know we speak to no 

 unsympathetic ears when we ask every reader of Hor- 

 ticulture to do what he can, by influence and appeal, 

 to secure a modification of the new example of American 

 autocracy, which if allowed to get by, will work so much 

 ruin at home and abroad. "Et tu. Brute!" 



The wave of indignation and 

 General condemnation protest at the action of the 

 of quarantine No. 37 Federal Horticultural Board 



in excluding from importation 

 into this country practically all nursery and florists' 

 plants after June 1st is increasing in force daily. It is 

 highly significant that the personnel of the Board does 

 not include any one having much — if any — actual horti- 

 cultural knowledge. We understand that the Board is 

 comprised of entomologists, bacteriologists, and plant 

 pathologists. Originally there was a horticulturist on 

 the Board. Why was he removed? We do not believe 

 that Congress ever intended that a quarantine should be 

 established against practically all plants and against the 

 whole world. This is what the quarantine established 

 li\ the Board virtually does. As we understand the act 

 it provided that quarantine should be established 

 against localities or plants which might prove to be 

 dangerous. It would seem that the Board had not 

 only exceeded its authority but had done that which the 

 act was not intended to do. It is unfortunate that the 

 horticultural interests of the country are jeopardized by 

 the drastic action of a Federal Board, which apparently 

 has little sympathy with the interests which have been 

 — perhaps none too wisely — placed within its power. 



