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HORTICULTURE 



March 29, 1919 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XXIX 



MARCH 29, 1919 



NO. 13 



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CONTENTS Page 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Planting Rose 

 Stock — Mulching — Ventilation — Syringing — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 293 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign 295 



IN MEMORI AM— William J. Stewart 295 



OBITUARY— William G. Ellwanger 295 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 



New York Florists' Club — Lancaster County Florists' 

 Association — Florists' Club of Philadelphia — Massa- 

 chusetts Forestry Association — American Dahlia 

 Society 296-297 



THE PLANT EMBARGO MENACE 298 



SEED TRADE— Removal of French Embargo on Seeds 300 

 Must Clover Be Inoculated? 302 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 300 



Flowers by Telegraph 304 



The Problem of Fairness and Justice — Henry Penn 305 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 

 Rochester, St. Louis 307 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Chicago, Philadelphia, Rochester, Cincinnati 309-310 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Corporations 295 



Phlox amoena as a Rockery Plant — Illustration .... 297 



Publications Received 297-301 



Visitors' Register 300 



Catalogue Received 301 



Testing for Corn Root Rot 302 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 311 



Certain varieties of garden are in 

 Garden peas short supply or quite unobtainable. 

 scarce Foreign garden peas have been prohib- 



ited for several years and the home 

 crop of several sorts failed or nearly so. Resort must 

 be made to other sorts in some cases of nearly similar 

 character to those which have failed or are in short crop. 



Forsythias, Prunuses and numer- 

 The mild winter ous other early-flowering shrubs 



are now in bloom. Nearly all trees 

 and shrubs are responding to the premature spring con- 

 ditions we are now enjoying in opening flower bud or 

 swelling or opening leaf-buds. TheTe has been no 

 winter-killing during the past winter, the weather has 

 been too mild and the ground has not been frozen deep 

 enough nor long enough to cause damage. Never be- 

 fore have we seen a winter so mild, just as we had never 

 seen any so bad as the previous winter. 



The landscape men are now getting 

 Landscape men more or less business. It is chiefly 

 getting business f the repair kind, restoration of es- 

 tates which because of labor and 

 business conditions of the past three years have suffered 

 from neglect. Then, too, much of the devastation 

 wrought by the extraordinary severe winter of 1917-1918 

 has ii"i as yet been restored. With the more optimistic 

 sentiment now evident the re-planting of winter-killed 

 trees and shrubs which had been put off last year is 

 now being undertaken. Many conifers and certain 

 herbaceous plants are in short supply, due both to win- 

 ter-killing and interruption of importations since the 

 war began, and because of advanced prices for this ma- 

 terial replacements will run into considerable money. 

 There is a great deal of new residence construction in 

 the hands of architects merely awaiting lower cost of 

 material and more settled labor conditions to be car- 

 ried out. Horticulture feels that as things are now de- 

 veloping such conditions will exist within a few months. 



The time is at hand when it be- 



What shall we do conies necessary for the trade to 



about bulbs? know what to do about Holland 



bulbs. Under the ruling of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board now in force snowdrops, 

 seillas, bulbous irises, chionodoxas and many other 

 species having clean, smooth, round surfaces cannot be 

 admitted. Horticulture avers that the F. H. Board 

 has been rather forcefully aroused to the wrath of the 

 American horticultural trade at its destructive embargo. 

 Secretary Houston has not yet replied to the appeal of 

 the trade against it. A belated reply will not save the 

 situation. Bulb orders must be placed within a few 

 weeks and under present restrictions orders may be 

 placed for only five kinds of bulbs and lily-of-the-valley. 

 All catalogues will have to be revised and hacked down 

 to less than half their present size, eliminating three- 

 quarters of the material now listed. There will be great 

 commercial loss both to growers in Holland and to deal- 

 ers here, and quite unnecessarily so, but what is even 

 more regrettable is the loss of the artistic element of 

 horticultural and sacrifice of the beautiful in our 

 gardens. 



"It is a most pertinent suggestion 

 Trees as memorial* made by Secretary Houston of the 

 Department of Agriculture in his 

 letter to the Governors of the several States, urging the 

 observance of Arbor Day by the planting of trees dedi- 

 cated to the memory of those of our soldiers who have 

 fallen in the war in which they fought for our ideals of 

 civilization and humanity," says the Boston Post. The 

 sentiment is one which appeals directly and strongly to 

 the heart of our people. It is recognized officially by the 

 American Forestry Association, whose programme of 

 work is widely extensive in the planting of memorial 

 trees for soldiers. It finds local illustration in the ac- 

 tion of town and village communities with regard to 

 their parks and public ways. Abroad, the Forestry As- 

 sociation is aiding the governments of Great Britain, 

 France and Belgium in their schemes for repairing the 

 devastation wrought by the Huns. This has been terri- 

 ble. In France, the accounting now shows about 1,500,- 

 000 acres of forest land destroyed by shell fire or cut 

 down for war needs: virtually all of Belgium's forests 

 of timber value felled by the Germans. Great Britain's 

 sacrifice in forests amounted to fully 450.000 acres. To 

 restore and beautify the world for which o,ur boys fought 

 and sacrificed so bravely is their best and most enduring 

 monument. 



