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II B T I C U L T U UK 



April 5, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



APRIL 5, 1919 



NO. 14 



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CONTENTS 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Roses for Summer 

 —The Sod Heaps— Supply of Manure and Fertilizers 

 — Cleaning Up — Arthur C. Ruzicka 317 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign— Department of Plant Registration. . 319 



THE PLANT EMBARGO MENACE— An Amendment 

 —Not Necessarily Final— Ships Ballast Not an Im- 

 portant Source of Introducing Plant Enemies 320 



WHY MANY RETAILERS DO NOT PUSH CARNA- 

 TIONS— Chas. J. Thciss 322 



NEARLY EVERY TRANSPLANTED TREE SHOULD 

 LIVE 324 



OBITUARY— Fred W. Ude, Sr.— Grace M. Miles— Percy 

 Rogers 325 



ADAPTATION OF VEGETABLES— Dr. Will W. Tracy 326 



SEED TRADE— Size of Catalogues 327 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Flowers by Telegraph 328 



New Flower Stores 329 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago. Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Rochester, 

 St. Louis, Washington : . . . 331 



LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago, Rochester. Washing- 

 ton, Cincinnati 333-334 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 319 



Pa-chysandra Terminals 320 



Can Not Trust to Foreign Inspection of Stock 321 



Aquilegies, Long Spurred Hybrid — Illustration 321 



Summer Spraying 327 



Publications Received — Catalogue Received 327 



Visitors' Register 329 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 335 



Patents Granted 335 



A famous 



bulb grower 



has passed away 



We have just received notification 

 of the death of Mr. G. II. van 

 Waveren of Hillegom, Holland, at 

 the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. 

 van Waveren was the ''Grand Old 

 Man" of the Holland bulb district; one of the highesl 

 authorities on bulbs and bulb culture and beloved by all 

 who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He gave con- 

 siderable attention to hybridizing narcissi — the well 

 known Van Waveren's Giant being one of his numerous 

 achievements. He was a familiar figure at the London 

 Flower Shows having visited England regularly every 

 year from 1847 until 1914, when the war prevented his 

 visits. Being a great connoisseur of tulips and nar- 



cissi he »:is sought as a judge at the large exhibition in 

 England, lie. had many friends in the United States 

 bj whom he was dearly beloved. For a number of yearfl 

 the active management of his linn . M. van Waveyen & 

 Sons, now the largest in Holland, has been carried b) his 

 mpii M r. Theodore van Waveren. 



Amendment \'c>. 2 to Regulations 



Amendment No. 2 supplemental to Notice of Quaran- 



tine No. 37 dated in the District 



of Gelumbia the '.'1111 day of March, 1 !M !». amends W 



read as follows : 



Regulation 14. Special permits for importation in limited 

 quantities of prohibited stock. 



An explanatory note follows which we find very in- 

 definite and leaves us quite in doubt as to the value of 

 this amendment to the trade, the full text of which will 

 be found on another page of this issue. It is most un- 

 fortunate that the Federal Horticultural Hoard does not 

 make itself more clear and exact. What does the Board 

 mean by limited quantities, and why does it not give 

 some idea now of what safeguards it will prescribe in 

 such permits as it will issue? Throughout the whole 

 action of the Federal Horticultural Board there appears 

 to have been lacking a frank and straightforward policy 

 in its attitude to and conferences with the trade. No 

 one can tell just what amendment No. 2 actually mean-. 

 Has the Board yet formulated its own definition or is it 

 too groping and merely feeling out the temper of the 

 trade. If so the Board will learn fully the mind of the 

 trade with the advent of the next Congress. Horti- 

 culture lias taken the ground already that Quarantine 

 37 is largely unnecessary, unwise, and destructive to the 

 interest of many thousands of our citizens whose 

 voice will yet he heard for the rights to do business 

 which they claim and are entitled to enjoy. There 

 should be included in the personnel of the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board some one possessing some business dis- 

 cretion. 



Adieu! 



My friend, as I am going far away — 



Ah, well, there is but little I can say; 



My heart is full, the words that I would speak 



Die on my lips, I am so strangely weak. 



There's one thing I would ask before I go, 

 You'll grant it. dear, for old time's sake, I know: 

 'Tis only this, that midst all bright new scenes, 

 And spite of all the space that intervenes, 

 That dreary length and breadth of surging sea, 

 You'll sometimes give a little thought to me. 



Remember not the cruel words, unkind — 

 The sore mistakes I made blot from your mind, 

 But think of me as loving friend and true, 

 Deal gently with me, as you used to do. 



Forget, dear, every act that caused you pain, 

 Life is so short — we may not meet again: 

 Perchance this message brief may be the last 

 That I shall ever send you from the past. 

 Yet fate hath willed it so by stern decree, 

 An ocean needs must roll 'tween you and me. 



Farewell, with trembling fingers now I write 

 This sad, sad word, with tear-be-dimmed sight, 

 Think of me. dear, as loving friend and true, 

 Remember me for old time's sake — adieu! 



William J. Stewart. 



The above poem was written by the late editor of 

 Horticulture, William J. Stewart, during his last illness 

 and has just come to light. — Ed. 



