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HOKTICULTURE 



March 8, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



MARCH 8, 1919 



NO. 10 



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CONTENTS 



Page 



SWEET PEAS— Geo. W. iter;— Illustrated 221 



IN MEMORIAM 223 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign 225 



QUARANTINE REGULATION NO. 37 227 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club Victory Banquet — Ill- 

 inois State Florists' Association — Connecticut Nur- 

 serymen's Association — Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society 22S 



Club and Society Notes 224 



THE ONION MAGGOT—/. G. Sanders 230 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 233 



New Flower Stores 233 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Rochester, 



St. Louis 235 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston 227 



Chicago, Rochester, Philadelphia 237 



OBITUARY: 



George T. Earle — Gustav Poehlmann 237 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Winter Flowering Sweet Peas 221 



Fertilizers Still High 221 



Farmers' Week in Massachusetts t 224 



News Notes 227 



Can the United States Grow its Own Fruit? 229 



Protest Against the European Corn Borer Quarantine 229 



Catalogues Received 230 



Visitors' Register 233 



New Corporations 235 



A Patriotic Appeal 238 



Publications Received 238 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 239 



Mr. E. U. Wilson of the Arnold Arbor- 

 Home again etum arrived in San Francisco, last 

 Saturday, after having spent two years 

 in Korea. Japan and Formosa collecting new plants. 

 Mr. Wilson has found and brought back many promising 

 new tilings especially in conifers. His new introductions 



from Formosa will be of particular interest, since he is 

 the first white man who has explored the higher in- 

 terior mountains and high sea-cliffs. Xo plants from 

 these tropieal altitudes 30 far a- we know have ever 

 before reached civilization. 



Business in all lines of horti- 

 Business improvement cultural trade is improving 



rapidly. During the past week 

 the seed business has been very active. Nursery order.? 

 are also coming in in good volume and what is still more 

 encouraging there are numerous inquiries for land- 

 scape construction, with enough already booked to oc- 

 cupy the early part of the season. 



We learn from Belgium that 

 What Belgium says azalea- are the only plants which 

 remain in that country. No 

 other plants could be kept in good condition during the 

 war. The prices for next fall if permitted entry to this 

 country will be about double those quoted in 1914. This 

 is due to an increase of about two hundred per cent in 

 the cost of labor and about one hundred per cent in cost 

 of fuel, fertilizer and other materials. The Belgian 

 government is making strong representations at Wash- 

 ington through diplomatic channels against the plant 

 embargo which would be a hard blow to Belgian grow- 

 ers, who "through four long years of all kinds of en- 

 durances and hardships which they had to bear from 

 their German oppressors, had even* day more courage 

 because they knew that the sympathy of the world was 

 with them." 



An appeal direct to D. F. 



Win the plant embargo Houston, Secretary of Agri- 



be rescinded? ■ culture made in the early part 



of this week, by nursery and 

 florists' organizations, against plant exclusion as ordered 

 in Quarantine 37 may result in this unwarrantable and 

 ill advised quarantine being rescinded. The committee 

 representing the nurserymen and florists contended that 

 the Federal Horticultural Board had exceeded its au- 

 thority, that Congress did not authorize the exclusion of 

 all plants from all countries as Quarantine 37 with a 

 lew exceptions does, but only such plants as actually 

 brought, insects or fungi known to be dangerous or plants 

 from little known countries. The committee contended. 

 that England, Holland, Belgium and France could not 

 be classed as little known countries and should not be 

 included in any quarantine. The committee look for 

 favorable action by Secretary Houston, failing which 

 the matter will be brought before Congress at its next 

 session. Florists and nurserymen will offer no objec- 

 tion to proper restriction where there is real necessity 

 for such, but they will not look on supinely and see their 

 business destroyed by such unjustified and disastrous 

 measures as are now imposed upon them by the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board. 



