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HORTICULTURE 



April 19, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



APRIL 19, 1919 



NO. 16 



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CONTENTS 



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MASSACHUSETTS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 368 



GROWING AND FORCING HYDRANGEAS FOR 



EASTER 369 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— National Pub- 

 licity Campaign 371 



HYDRANGEA MME. MAURICE HAMAR, Illustrated. 372 

 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— R. I. Horticultural Society 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America — Florists' Tele- 

 graph Delivery Association — Lancaster County Flor- 

 ists' Association 374 



Florists' Club of Washington 383 



OBITUARY— Geo. C. Worthen— Henry D. Rohrer 375 



ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS, Edward Williams 376 



SEED TRADE— Seed Trade with European Countries. 377 

 BETTER FRUIT FOR NEW ENGLAND, M. G. Kains. 378 

 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS: 



St. Louis 378 



Rochester, Chicago, Philadelphia 379 



DURING RECESS— Florists' Club of Washington 380 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Rochester, Philadelphia 383 



Boston, St. Louis, Chicago, New York 385 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Forcing Bulbs with Electric Lights 372 



Some Attractive Laburnums 373 



Fertilize the Garden 373 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 377 



Patents Granted 378 



The Buyer That Was a Little Too Shrewd 379 



Sanguinaria Canadensis 385 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 



A notable ,.j,, tv ] las decided to hold an Orchid 



flower show Show next year which will open on 



Wednesday, March 24th. This will 

 bring it three days after the closing of the S. A. F. 

 Flower Show in New York and it will close a week 

 before Easter so that trade exhibitors from a distance 

 will be able to attend to their exhibits in Boston per- 

 sonally without interference with the New York Show 

 or their Easter work. An elaborate prize schedule is 



now being prepared with an allotment of four thousand 

 dollars for the orchid classes. Prizes will be offered for 

 seasonable bulbs and other plants. Preliminary sched- 

 ules will be ready in a few weeks and may be had on 

 application to the Secretary of the Society, Mr. Wm. P. 

 Rich, Horticultural Hall, Boston. 



Nurserymen and florists who have had 

 Exorbitant plants come from Holland this season 

 freight rates } iav e been compelled to pay to the Hol- 

 land America Line rates of freight 

 which appear to us to be unwarrantably high. We can- 

 not see why such rates, even under present conditions 

 should approximate nearly four times what prevailed 

 before the war. The only alternative the importer has 

 at present, is to route his shipment via Antwerp by the 

 Cunard Line, which now has transatlantic service with 

 that port. It is also announced that the Cunard has 

 despatched a steamer from New York which will call 

 at Eotterdam as well as Antwerp and it is understood 

 that the port of Eotterdam will hereafter be regularly 

 visited by steamers of that line. It is decidedly to the 

 interest of importers to encourage Cunard competition 

 rather than to continue with a line which has practiced 

 extortion in its excessive freight charges. 



Everyone owning a suburban or country 



Conifers home wants to have at least conifers for 



to cost more the sake of their cheery green foliage 



during the winter months. The propa- 

 gation and growth of conifers to salable size takes 

 about three times the length of time necessary to get 

 most of the deciduous shrubs to a like stage and the 

 cost consequently of producing them is correspondingly 

 increased. Then, too, the production of conifers in this 

 country has not kept pace with the production of flower- 

 ing shrubs so that there is relatively little stock of the 

 former on hand. It will be impossible, owing to the 

 new quarantine embargo, to obtain them in anything 

 like the quantities that they have been used in the past. 

 Their use must be of necessity diminished and inevi- 

 tably their price will go up. One redeeming feature in 

 the situation will be that such conifers as we get of 

 home production will be of the more hardy types since 

 it will not pay growers to attempt many of the half- 

 hardy kinds which heretofore have been imported from 

 Holland. The Japanese yews are perhaps the most sat- 

 isfactory of all our dwarf conifers, being extremely 

 hardy although of very slow growth. Retinospora pisofera 

 and its drooping form R. filifera are also very desirable 

 and have been found more hardy than most of the other 

 retinosporas. The hardier forms will of course be those 

 most extensively grown, but it will take decades to pro- 

 duce at home a sufficient supply. 



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