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HORTICULTUKE 



May 10, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIX 



MAY 10, 1919 



NO. 19 



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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 

 Edward I. Farrington has been selected as 

 editor of Horticulture to succeed the late Wil- 

 liam J. Stewart. Mr. Farrington has had long 

 training as a horticultural journalist. He was 

 editor of Suburban Life for many years, and is 

 well known as a writer and lecturer. We be- 

 speak for him the same good will and hearty 

 co-operation which the readers of Horticulture 

 so generously extended to Mr. Stewart. 



WILLIAM W. CASTLE, 

 President of the Horticulture Pub. Co. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Coal to Be Cheaper 441 



Arboretum Aiding Nurserymen 441 



Editorials 442 



The Valuable Japanese Yew 443 



Rambling Observations of a Roving Gardener 444 



National Publicity Campaign 445 



Growing Dahlias Commercially 445 



How to Cut Rose Blooms 445 



A Worcester Florists' Plan 445 



Trees and Shrubs That Flower Early 446 



An Appeal and a Promise 446 



Borrowed Ideas 447 



Rose Growing . . '. 44S 



Starting a Florists' Business 448 



Seed Trade 449 



Marketing Peony Blooms 450 



News and Gossip 451 



Flowers by Telegraph 452 



Flower Market Reports 455 



Making a Lawn 45S 



The outlook is good in all branches of bor- 



Looking ticulture, one of the must favorable indica- 



ahead tions being the apparent disposition of 



estate owners to restore their gardens and 



greenhouses to the well kepi condition which they 



showed before the war. Landscape gardeners report 

 that orders are coming in rapidly, and one large con- 

 cern in Boston has enough work already in hand or 

 planned to last throughout the summer. It should be 

 ootedj however, that this is nearly all restoration work — 

 simply the rehabilitating of gardens and grounds that 

 have been neglected the past two or three years. The 

 big work is waiting, bui ii is certain to come, which 

 means good business for all classes of horticulturists 

 for years ahead. 



In view of the w lei fully line display 



An made by the Japanese flowering cherries 



opportunity this spring, the announcement made by 

 Prof. 0, S. Sargent, director of the Ar- 

 nold Arboretum, concerning the distribution of seeds 

 and grafts is an important one for nurserymen in this 

 country. These early flowering trees are being increas- 

 ingly appreciated by the public and the demand un- 

 doubtedly will keep pace with any supply which may be 

 offered. Prunus subhirtella is one of the handsomest 

 of the cherries and a fine tree for private estates and 

 public parks. The Arboretum is ready to distribute 

 seeds, it is stated, and when the stocks have been grown 

 will provide a moderate number of grafts. As Prof. 

 Sargent says, any nurseryman who will make it his busi- 

 ness to produce a supply of this beautiful cherry for 

 American gardens will do a good thing for his country 

 and doubtless, also, for himself. 



The Horticultural Sm-iety of Pasa- 

 Another dena, California, has adopted strong 



protest resolutions calling on its local rep- 



resentative in Congress to secure a 

 modification of Quarantine Xo. 37. prohibiting the im- 

 portation of plants and bulbs. This is just one more of 

 many such protests and is not likely to have any more 

 effect upon the stubborn minds of the horticultural 

 board in Washington. As Mr. E. C. Yick says in the 

 New York Sun: "It may be a good thing to encourage 

 the protection in America of many plants that are now 

 imported, but there are other ways of doing it beside 

 issuing a decree prohibiting the importation of any 

 plants into the country except, a very few. We are be- 

 coming tied down to so many regulations and restric- 

 tions that unless it ceases our "home of the free' will 

 have less freedom than any other country on earth." 

 This statement is echoed by thousands of gardeners, 

 both professionals and amateurs. They feel that if any 

 person or body of persons desires to see erected a wall of 

 high protection, they should be frank about the matter, 

 and not try to obtain it under a mask of false pretenses. 

 Perhaps there are those who feel that additional meas- 

 ures of protection from foreign plant pests are needed. 

 But there are few who are not willing to admit that the 

 regulation as it stands is illogical, and that there is no 

 legitimate excuse for putting it into force, without giv- 

 ing ample time to allow the growers and dealers of this 

 country to readjust the conditions under which they are 

 working. 



