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HORTICULT C K K 



March 22, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



MARCH 22, 1919 



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CONTENTS Page 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Feeding— Cutting— 

 The Young Stock— Arthur C. Ruzioka 269 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS: 

 Meeting of the Executive Board— National Publicity 

 Campaign 271-273 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



Illinois State Florists' Association— Win. J. Keimel, 

 portrait— St. Louis Florist Club — Nassau County Hor- 

 ticultural Society— New York Florists' Club — Roch- 

 ester Florists' Association— Westchester and Fairfield 

 Horticultural Society— Horticultural Society of New 

 York— Ladies' Society of American Florists 274-275 



THE ONION FLY— John 8. Dolrj 275 



AMERICAN TILIAS 275 



IN MEMORIAM— C. S. Harrison 278 



SEED TRADE— Cabbage Seed Supply Low 279 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph _ 280 



New Flower Stores 281 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia. Rochester 283 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, St. Louis. Rochester, Cincinnati 285 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Pruning Clematises 269 



A Little Known Hedge Plant 273 



Delphiniums: Raising Plants From Seed ^77 



How to Grow Rust-Resistant Asparagus 279 



Visitors' Register 2S1 



A Finely Developed Estate 286 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 287 



New Corporations 287 



News Notes 287 



It is only natural to assume that the 

 Outdoor interest in gardening awakened through- 

 gardening ou t the eountrj among amateurs, ami 

 which led to the formation of so many 

 garden clubs last year should find expression in the out- 



door garden. The call of the garden is loudest in the 



spring when we lool ea ;er] tw the firs! blossoms in 



^= the open air ami ii is here that our interests in the hardy 



NO. 12 plants, shrubs, vines and trees begins or L r ain- new in- 



== spiration. Ami after all is not the outdoor garden the 



most interesting field of garden work ami also the 



most enduring in the perennial satisfaction which it 



affords. 



( 'ci'iain coal-deal \ us to under- 



The coal stand that present prices of coal will be the 



situation minimum prices for the year, ami that 



after April monthly advance h ill 



be made. Eorticulture does m e t coal- 



ders will be able to manipulati I : - way. 



With many mills throughout the county clos 



many mure about to close oi adopl shorter hours and 



with iron, steel, copper, wool and riearl all other raw 



materials showing lower prj :es and continued lessening 



demand, it is hard to see ho^\ coal shouli u sole ex- 



e it ion. Hortk dxtokj believ* that coa cai I 



maneuvered to higher prices than thos lay, and 



that from now onward prices will gradually come down. 



After an absence of over two years in 

 E. H. Wilson Korea, Japan and its Southern islands 

 home again including Formosa. Mr. E. H. Wilson, 

 the famous collector for the Arnold 

 Arboretum 1 , arrived in Boston last Sunday. In Korea 

 Mr. Wilson found many new plants all of which are ex- 

 pected to prove hardy here. His exploration of Formosa 

 is especially interesting as he is the first white man to 

 have reached its highest altitude. Mount Morrison which 

 rises to aboul 16,600 feet above the sea. The slopes of 

 this mountain abound in pines, firs and junipers, most 

 of which are new to us. Formosa, too, has the most 

 wonderful sea cliffs in the world rising to a height of 

 over 6,000 feet. Mr. Wilson has traversed them. We 

 shall await with eagerness the accounl of his exploration 

 of this remarkable and little known island. 



Before the War. German plant 

 South American growers did a large expori 



trade to South America. They even went 



the length of having gri 

 constructed on the decks of several steamers plying be- 

 tween Hamburg and South American ports, in which 

 the plants, chiefly palms were closely packed. A com- 

 ' tent gardener accompanied each shipment and gave 

 the plant- necessary care in temperature, watering and 

 ventilation during the voyage. Heat was provided by 

 steam-pipes fed from the ships boilers. As a result of 

 this care plant- reached their di m in excellent 



condition and this trade was flourishing when the war 

 stopped it. It cannot be speedily resumed, and it d e 

 seem that the opportunities offered to growers of the 

 i niieil Slates now that we are to enjoy better steamship 

 communication and closer business relations with the 

 republics of South America, should no *norei 



our growers. 



