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HORTICULTURE 



April 26. 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



APRIL 26, 1919 



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CONTENTS 



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SORBAR.IA ARDOREA, illustrated 393 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS 393 



S. A. P. & 0. H.— National Publicity Campaign 395 



EXPLANATION OF ENTRY OF PLANT NOVELTIES 

 UNDER QUARANTINE NO. ' 37 — Quarantine on 

 Black Stem Rust — Instructions for Sterilizing Sand 

 and Soil for Packing Bulbs Under Quarantine 



No. 37 396, 397 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — 



New York Florists' Club 398 



OBITUARY: 

 Jas. M. Buist— Robert S. McCormick — Jos. A. Mc- 



Clunie — Joseph Craig 399 



COMMUNITY BETTERMENT— Geo. N. Smith 400 



SEED TRADE— Potato Diseases Prevalent— Seaweed 



Furnishes Potash Fertilizer 401 



SALES AND PROFITS— Hodgson Jolly 401, 402 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cincinnati 407 



Chicago, New York 409 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Fertilize the Farm Orchard 397 



Polyantha Roses as Bedding Plants 403 



Pruning Rambler Roses with Hedging Shears 410 



New Green Bean from Japan 398 



Azalea ledifolia 395 



The Wave of Prosperity — Henry Perm 395 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 409 



Publications Received 410 



Patents Granted 411 



It is noticeable how readily customers accept 

 Prices an( j respond to the higher prices now asked 

 for flowers and plants. It is seldom that 

 there is any occasion for explanation — purchases are 

 made and paid for with the evident understanding on 

 tlic part of the customer that the higher prices now 

 charged are necessary and proper. It is of most im- 

 portance that the florist reciprocate this spirit by seeing 

 to it that his patron receive the best possible service and 

 value in exchange for the money spent. A satisfied cus- 

 tomer brings others and this is the surest way to success. 



Never in its history has the retail hoiti- 

 Revival of cultural trade been more active than 

 retail trade since the opening of the present season. 



Seedsmen all over the country have been 

 unable to keep up with their orders, and nurserymen are 

 struggling with masses of orders which had accumu- 

 lated prior to the opening of the shipping season. During 

 the past two years many owners had, from sentimental 

 or economic reasons, spent but little money on their 

 gardens — in fact, it would have been considered in bad 

 taste or, even unpatriotic to have expended money and 

 labor on any garden other than a war garden. Then 

 the war garden has not been of unmixed benefit. To the 

 market gardener and suburban farmer it has been a 

 source of trouble, upsetting his markets, especially for 

 the more easily grown summer vegetables. The effect 

 was such that many market growers found it unprofit- 

 able to gather their crops and many were actually 

 plowed under. The war garden, like the war itself, is 

 already a thing of history and we have swung back to 

 our former manner of living. Writing from Europe 

 some four weeks ago a young American said, "I want to 

 get back to God's country, although it go as dry as 

 Sahara" — and those who have not been obliged to leave 

 God's country are now equally anxious to get back to 

 God's way of living in it. What is more they are get- 

 ting back, and that is why our trade is booming and will 

 boom throughout the year and for years to come. 



Amendment No. 2 to Regulations supple- 

 A delusion mental to Notice of Quarantine No. 3? 

 or snare? together with a letter indexed HB-104. 



and dated March 25, 1919, of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board appear to be most misleading in 

 view of the Board's more recent letter HB-105 dated 

 April 10, 1919. The amendment and letter of March 

 25th would seem to indicate a letting down of the bars 

 to the extent of enabling nurserymen and florists to im- 

 port necessary propagating stock of new varieties and 

 standard stocks," and the letter stated that "Permits of 

 the latter class (from countries which maintain inspec- 

 tion and certification of nursery stock in accordance 

 with the requirements of the Plant Quarantine Act) 

 will lie issued only for ports where inspection service is 

 maintained including at present Boston, New York, 

 Newark, San Francisco, Seattle, also Philadelphia and 

 New Orleans. Now it appears that all such imports 

 must go to Washington and later be released to the im- 

 porter. This requirement renders the new regulation 

 of little value and really leaves the whole matter very 

 uncertain as to what the intending importer must event- 

 ually submit to. Is there no one on the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board who possesses enough common sense to 

 see the wisdom of setting forth in one pamphlet in a 

 lucid manner the Quarantine and its amendments and 

 regulations in a form that will do away with its present 

 ambiguity as now contained in the numerous publica- 

 tions of that Board which appear to be largely sup- 

 plementary and contradictory. 



