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HORTICULTURE 



March 1, 1919 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIX 



MARCH 1, 1919 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 THE FLORICULTURE OUTLOOK FOR 1919— S. 8. 

 Pennock 197 



WILLIAM J. STEWART— portrait 199 



OBITUARY — C. S. Harrison, portrait — Abram H. 

 Cushman 200 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS: 

 National Publicity Campaign 201 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Lancaster County Florists' Association— Gardeners' 

 Conference at Minneapolis— Florist Club of Phil- 

 adelphia 202 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 208 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, 

 Washington, St. Louis 211 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, St. Louis 213 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Another Quarantine 200 



Changing the Terms After the Goods Are Bought — 



Elton J. Buckley 203 



Pruning Fruit Trees 204 



Honor John Westcott 2Q6 



Patents Granted 206 



Visitors' Register 209 



News Notes 209-213 



Certain nurserymen have felt that 

 Plants without soil Quarantine 37 did not prevent 

 to be excluded them from importing small plants 

 of azaleas, rhododendrons, coni- 

 fers, etc., provided all the soil were washed from the roots, 

 and that it would still be possible to pack young plants of 

 these, without soil, by simply packing so as to keep the 

 fine fibrous roots moist by means of moss, oiled paper or 

 other material which would preserve their moist con- 

 ation. We now understand that all excluded plants 



will positively be kept out, and that their entry under 

 any circumstances except through the Department of 

 Agriculture will not be permitted. 



The pen which has given visible ex- 



Though dead, pression to the messages of our edi- 



he lives torial page since Horticulture had 



its birth will do so no more; the hand 

 which guided it and the brain whose inspiring thought 

 it traced will never again be able to direct it, they have 

 completed their work and are at rest. Our worthy and 

 beloved editor, William J. Stewart, has crossed that 

 bourne from which no traveler returns, and from 

 beyond which no further message can come. Yet he 

 lives. His true horticultural spirit and zeal still live in 

 undying inspiration to all who have been fortunate 

 enough to have known him. 



Advance information as to the 



Holland bulb prices prices of Holland bulbs for next 



to be still higher season is to the effect that they 



will be about double those of last 

 year. Horticulture understands that the syndicate of 

 bulb exporters to this country have come to an agree- 

 ment to ask uniform prices and thus eliminate price 

 competition. War conditions have forced many of the 

 smaller growers to abandon bulbs and grow vegetables, 

 while the larger growers generally have reduced their 

 bulb acreages. This curtailment of production has made 

 it possible for the larger export growers to combine to 

 fix prices. Such price-fixing, furthermore, is looked 

 upon approvingly by the Netherlands government — it is 

 not under government ban as with us. How the trade 

 and retail buyers in this country will regard the great 

 advance in prices is quite uncertain. Many felt that the 

 top notch in bulb prices was reached last year and will 

 regard bulbs at double last year's cost as unsafe specu- 

 lation. The higher level of prices will stimulate the 

 growing of the Holland bulbs in this country, especially 

 early and Darwin tulips and the popular varieties of nar- 

 cissus, and it will now be cheaper to grow these here 

 than to import them. Hyacinths are more difficult as 

 they involve much hand labor — but they are much less 

 important. Over-reaching in prices has frequently 

 broken up industries, monopolized by localities and 

 caused their successful establishment in other places. 

 We have no desire to see our friends of the Holland bulb 

 district commit this error yet it is not unlikely that they 

 by forcing the development of bulb-culture in this coun- 

 try, are incidentally forging the blade which shall very 

 shortly cut off their trade with the United States. Un- 

 wittingly, perhaps, they are surely co-operating with our 

 Department of Agriculture in its efforts to exclude all 

 foreign material and to promote its production at home. 



