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HORTICULTURE 



February 15, 1919 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XXIX FEBRUARY 15, 1919 NO. 7 



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CONTENTS Page 



POPULAR WINTER FLOWERING PLANTS— Primula 

 obconica — Illustration 149 



QUARANTINE 37— Arthur E. Thatcher 149 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign 151 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York Florists' Club-^- 

 Gardeners' and Florists Club of Boston — American 

 Dahlia Society— Washington Florists' Club— St. Louis 

 Victory Banquet — Southampton Horticultural Society 

 — Rhode Island Nurserymen Organize — Chicago Flor- 

 ists' Club — Chrysanthemum Society of America — 

 Agricultural Meeting at Boston 152-154 



THE PLANT EMBARGO MENACE 154 



HOME PRODUCTION POSSIBLE— T. D. Hatfield.. 155 



OBITUARY— Mike Chronis— Mrs. Elizabeth Fenrich— 

 Milton Alexander — Joseph L. Ball — Wm. Meggatt — 

 John P. Shaffer 155 



LIFE AND VEGETATION OF THE HAWAIIAN 

 ISLANDS—/. Otto Thilloic 156 



SEED TRADE— New Building of the G. H. Hunkei 

 Co., Milwaukee, Wis., Illustrated— Notes 158-159 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Advertise, Henry Penn— Practice What You Preach 



— New Flower Stores 16(1-161 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York. 

 Rochester, St. Louis 163 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago 157 



Boston, Rochester, New -York. Philadelphia, Cincin- 

 nati, Washington 165-166 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



In Memoriam, poetry— David S. Miller 155 



The Locusts are Coming 156 



Visitors' Register 156 



Catalogues Received 157 



News Notes \\ 154-156-166 



New Corporations 163 



Business Troubles 166 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 167 



Publications Received 167 



We learn from a Bulletin jusl 

 American grown bulbs issued by the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture that 



"To determine the practicability of successfully grow- 

 ing flowering bulbs and to do the work at a cost which will 

 enable the industry to thrive in this country in competi- 

 tion with imported stock of similar character, experiments 

 are being undertaken by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture at a bulb farm which it maintains at Belling- 

 ham, Wash." 



This is not much in the nature of news, for this Bel- 

 lingham experiment is nothing recent. The hit of real 

 interesting "news" in the document is found further 



along in which, alter being assured that the stock pro- 

 duced at the Bollingham farm- lias proved superior to 

 the imported, we are informed that 



"In the fall of 1917 a carload of bulbs grown at the 

 Bellingham gardens was shipped East and constituted the 

 supply of this class of bulbs used in the congressional seed 

 distribution. This car of bulbs was the first full carload 

 of domestic grown bulbs ever shipped across the continent. 

 Last fall another full carload of similar stock was sent 

 East for the same purpose." 



At the rate we are progressing it would be interesting 

 to learn how long it will be before there will be sufficient 

 surplus available for test by competent parties who can 

 judge of the forcing properties of the Bellingham bulbs. 

 It is gratifying to learn that the product has proved 

 superior but. in respect and where. Further informa- 

 tion will be welcome. 



Within the past two or three 

 Trade improvement weeks there has 1 n a decided 



improvement in horticultural 

 trade generally. Seedsmen have been receiving better 

 response than for the past two years, especially from the 

 larger private estates. The war or Victory garden trade 

 conies later, and it is generally expected from present 

 inquiries, that this trade will at least be equal to that of 

 last year. Nurserymen are receiving even now, substan- 

 tial orders for delivery when spring opens and early 

 correspondence indicates that planting operations which 

 have been neglected or held in abeyance, will be under- 

 taken this season. Bedding plants will lie none too 

 plentiful, especially geraniums, on account of the closing 

 of numerous establishments where these have been large- 

 ly grown as a result of the shortage and high cost of 

 fuel. Prices of such plants will rule higher than last 

 year, both on account of scarcity and of increased cost 

 of production. This increase in prices will not deter 

 purchasers, who have come to realize that horticultural 

 products in common with all other- must inevitably 

 cost more. 



Protests, from individuals, from firms, and 

 Protests from numerous organizations, have been 



forwarded to the Federal Horticultural 

 Board against Quarantine No. 3T. The almost complete 

 shutting out. of all plants hitherto imported from for- 

 eign countries has aroused a storm of indignation from 

 both amateur and commercial plant growers and HORTI- 

 CULTURE has consistently protested against what it has 

 considered to be an unwise and unwarranted proceeding 

 on the part of this branch of governmental authority. 

 It now appears that the Board itself is less positive of 

 its action than it was several weeks ago. The wrong 

 done to the horticultural interest- of the country is 

 being voiced in unmistakable terms, following which 

 the intimation comes from Washington that certain 

 modifications will be made. Further modifications 

 should be in order, and will be demanded. In a letter 

 dated February 10th, Dr. C. L. Marlatt charges the 

 Dreer Nursery Company with instigating propaganda 

 against the quarantine. Horticulture from its own 

 knowledge can assure Dr. Marlatt that the Dreer Com- 

 pany is but one of hundreds of horticulturists both com- 

 mercial and private who feel and speak as the Dreer 

 ( 'ompanv does. 



