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HORTICULTURE 



June 7, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



Established by William J. Stewart In 1904 



VOL. XXIX 



JUNE 7, 1919 



NO. 23 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



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Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office 

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



The congressional fight on Quarantine 

 The fight Regulation No. 37 has begun. There is 

 is on every prospect, too, of a good, lively battle. 

 Congressman Treadway of Stockbridge, 

 Mass., is the man to fire the first gun,. Last week Mr. 

 Treadway made an energetic protest against blanket 

 authority being vested in the Horticultural Bureau of 

 the Department of Agriculture to make rules and reg- 

 ulations regarding the importation of plants and bulbs. 

 Mr. Treadway quoted from resolutions adopted by the 

 Lenox Horticultural Society condemning the practice 

 of the Federal Bureau and announced that he would 

 ask for a full explanation of the workings of the bureau 

 when the item for its maintenance was reached. This 

 is only the signal shot. Wait until the real barrage is 

 laid down. Then something is likely to happen. 



have found two years ago. Conditions are analogous to 

 those in the piano business, for example. Not for years 

 have -ii many pianos and piano players been sold. Some 

 concerns can hardly keep up with their orders, and in- 

 struments with prices running from $400 to $600 are 

 most in demand. The business of the talking machine 

 dealers is equally good, and the higher grade machines 

 have the call. Now this demand does not come from 

 the wealthy class, but from salaried men and wage earn- 

 ers. Some time ago a motorman in uniform stepped 

 into a department store and asked to see some toys for 

 his children. Nothing satisfied him until a compli- 

 cated mechanical toy priced at $60 was produced. That 

 interested him. He dug down into his jeans, produced 

 the amount specified and had the toy sent home. No 

 matter how optimistic we may be, we cannot expect 

 that this sort of thing is going to last. A readjustment 

 is bound to come all along the line, and the florist who 

 settles back with a feeling that he never will have to 

 hustle any more to get business is going to have a rude 

 awakening. It is time to make hay while the sun shines, 

 of course, but it is equally advisable to get the hay under 

 cover in anticipation of rainy weather ahead. The wise 

 florist is the man who lays his plans now for future 

 business by studying his trade, by testing out all avail- 

 able advertising methods suggested, and especially by 

 rearranging his credit system so that there will be fewer 

 losses when money is less plentiful. 



With the surprising volume of business 

 Will it last? w hich has helped to fill the coffers of the 



florists and growers during the pa9t 

 few months there has come a certain tendency to believe 

 that a new era has set in and that high prices with 

 plenty of trade will continue indefinitely. Perhaps no 

 such thought has taken definite shape, but it is evi- 

 denced by the disinclination in some quarters to reach 

 out for future business, or even to take part in the 

 national publicity campaign now being carried on. Let 

 the situation be analyzed, though, and it is likely to 

 appear that the florists' trade, like other lines of busi- 

 ness, is simply reflecting the wave of prosperity which 

 has come with unprecedentedly high wages. If the 

 dealer will go over his books, he will be likely to find a 

 very different fist of names from that which he would 



Footprints on the Sands 

 of Time 



The immortal lines of Wm. J. Stewart's fellow towns- 

 man, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : 



"Lives of great men all remind us 

 We can make our lives sublime 



And departing leave behind us 

 Footprints on the sands of time," 



are a happy sizing up of Mr. Stewart's long and active 

 life. He left many footprints, and the finest and best 

 was the one that took him 15 years to impress on the 

 world — and its name is 



Horticulture. 

 No finer way, to keep his memory green forever, 

 lies to his admiring friends than in keeping that foot- 

 print fresh and green in the path he pointed it — namely 

 for the wholesome development of horticulture in its 

 highest reaches in every direction. To do this, support 

 Horticulture wholeheartedly by sending it advertising, 

 news, advice, articles. And tell all your friends to sub- 

 scribe. When you come to think of it, this line of action 

 is really a bigger compliment to Mr. Stewart's memory 

 than writing fine poems about him — much as everybody 

 appreciates these beautiful tributes. Send in that ad., 

 and with your own sub. see that you add a new one 

 from some neighbor, not already in the runnin<r. 



GEORGE C. WATSON. 



