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H R T I C U L T U K E 



February 22, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX FEBRUARY 22, 1919 NO. 8 



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CONTENTS Page 



THE PLANT EMBARGO MENACE— "Absurdities and 

 Anomalies" in Quarantine 37 — Another Vigorous 

 Protest 173-174 



PROTECTING AMERICAN CROP PLANTS AGAINST 

 ALIEN ENEMIES 174 



ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS OF MERIT 

 FOR NEW ENGLAND^WiHiam H. Judd 17. r > 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign — Tbe Plant Quarantine 177 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Lenox Horticultural Society 

 St. Louis Florist Club — Holyoke and Northampton 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club — International Flower 

 Show, 1920 — Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 — Nassau County Horticultural Society — Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York 178-179 



Club and Society Notes 190 



OBITUARY — Frederick Algner — Mrs. Alice Kent— 

 Marius Mutillod — Mary Belle Henderson — Dean 

 Thompson — John Maurice Hunt — Mrs. Mattie Mc- 

 Farland 180 



SEED TRADE— European Seed Situation— Important 

 Seed Legislation Pending — Embargo on Red Clover 

 Seed Exports Removed 182-183 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Do Good by Stealth— G. C. Watson 184 



New Flower Stores 185 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Rochester, 

 St. Louis 187 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, Rochester. St. Louis 189-190 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Winter Mushroom 174 



Expects Enough Fertilizer 177 



An Important Hearing 177 



Improving Blueberry Industry ' 177 



Carnation Bernice — Illustration 17ft 



Take Up the Slack 180 



The Seedsmen 181 



Catalogues Received 181 



Visitors' Register — Business Troubles 185 



News Notes 190 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 190 



New Corporations 191 



Soft coal has declined in price 

 Coal prices lower f rom two to three dollars per ion 



according to the locality and deal- 

 er, from former top notch figures. There is novi 

 abundance of coal on hand everywhere .and dealer- are 

 anxious to book orders for immediate delivery. Some 

 dealers do nol hesitate to admit that a further reduction 

 is likely to take place in the near future. It is generally 

 believed that next year's supply will be procurable at 



prices which will range probably one-third less than 

 io e qov f .ailing. Purchases should be made now 

 only for immediate needs. 



Anothei bad insect pest, the Eu- 

 Another insect pest ropean corn borer (Pyrausta nu- 



bildlis) lias made its appearance 

 in two states in this country. New York and Massachu- 

 setts. In New York at seem- to have invaded three 

 counties, while in Massachusetts it seems to be as yet 

 limited to one or perhaps two. Besides corn this borer 

 attacks practically all herbaceous plants which have 

 flower-stems or leaf -stalks large enough to harbor it and 

 also such garden and flowering plants as celery, Swiss- 

 chard, beans, beet, spinach, dahlias, hollyhocks, gladiolus, 

 chrysanthemums and geraniums. Fortunately its flight 

 is shorter than the brown-tail and gipsy moths and it 

 is honed that if energetic measures are taken at once, 

 which are already well under way, the borer may be 

 exterminated in a few years. 



"This Quarantine is Come to 

 Stay, and to Stay Forever" 



Not in many years has there been such heated 

 discussion following a lecture of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, as that which, last Saturday, fol- 

 lowed the lecture by Dr. B. T. Galloway of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, on "Protecting 

 American Crop Plants Against Alien Enemies."" Dr. 

 Galloway, as had been expected, discussed at length the 

 situation with which the Federal Horticultural Board 

 had to deal, and the conditions which caused the Board 

 to place an embargo on all foreign plants, with a few 

 minor exceptions. In the audience were several persons 

 from Xew York and Xew Jersey, who made the journey 

 to Boston for the sole purpose of getting correct infor- 

 mation of the purpose of the government in relation 

 to the quarantine. The lecture was Largely a resume of 

 the reasons already set forth in the literature, or de- 

 fense of the embargo, after which Dr. Galloway gave his 

 hearers the opportunity to ask questions. The state- 

 ments and arguments of the lecturer were vigorously 

 assailed by Mr. W. N. Craig, of Brookline, Mr. W. II. 

 Wyman, of Abington, and other speakers, and it was 

 in the midst of Mr. Craig's arraignment, that Dr. Gallo- 

 way made the retort: "This Quarantine is come to 

 stay, and to stay forever!" Unfortunate as the 

 language and spirit of this retort may have been, es- 

 pecially coming from an official of the government, it 

 nevertheless disclosed beyond any question of doubt, the 

 futility of any further appeal for consideration of the 

 rights of the horticultural trade to officials assuming this 

 arrogant and defiant attitude. 



