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HOBTICULTUEE 



August 5, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIV 



AUGUST 5, 1916 



NO. 6 



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CONTENTS P»«e 



COVER ILLUSTR.A.TIOX— Lilium regal e( my riophyllum) 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Cattleya gigas — Repairing — Feeding Clirysanthemums 

 • — Geranium Cuttings — Winter Flowering Sweet Peas 

 — Reminders— /o/j7! J. M. Farrcll 167 



CAMPANULAS— i/M6ert W. Canning 168 



POTENTILLA— ieic7iarf7 /Jot/ie- Illustrated 169 



HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION— Dr. John H. Wash- 

 burn 171 



SEED TRADE— Holland Shipments Not Insured 

 Against Loss by Delays — One Week's Imports — In 

 Chioago — Seed Legislation — Notes 174 



DURING RECESS— Lancaster County Florists' Club 

 Picnic and Officers — Bound for Bar Harbor — Boston 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club Picnic — Illustrations 176-177 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Washington 173 



Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago 176-177 



New York 181 



Pittsburgh 189 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 178 



Flowers by Telegraph 179 



FLOWEai MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 

 St. Louis, Washington 181 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — American Carnation Society — Texas State Flor- 

 ists' Association — Coming Exhibitions — American As- 

 sociation of Park Superintendents — Club and Society 

 Notes 189 



OBITUARY— Michael Donohue — Richard H. Dunbar- 

 George Roney — John Supper — John W. Lyon — Mrs. 

 T. Kalish — William Thomas Logan 189 



MISCELLANEOUS: 

 Visitors at the Cornell Rose Test Garden, Illustration 168 



In Houston, Texas — Illustration 173 



A Texas Greeting 173 



Rochester Flower Show 173 



Catalogues Received 174 



New Corporations — Business Troubles 174 



New York's Big Explosion 183 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 190 



Patents Granted 190 



Freaky Facts and Factless Freaks 190 



A burning question in the British 

 Government horticultural journals at the present 

 Inconsistency time is the prohibition of bulb imports 



from Holland and still allowing the 

 Dutchmen the use of the parcel post by which they may 

 send bulbs in small quantities indiscriminately to any 

 address in the United Kingdom. It is not surprising 

 that the British seed and bulb trade are "all het up" 

 over this peculiar ruling which, while it prevents the 

 facilities whereby their customers may get their supply 



from foreign sources. This is, of course, a local question 

 with which we have nothing to do but it brings home the 

 ' reflection that human nature is the same the world over, 

 that government officials are guilty of the same stupidity 

 wherever one goes and that London, after all, is not 

 very much different from Washington. 



While it is expected that the northern 



All eyes and eastern territory, from which the S. 



on Houston A. F. draws its largest membership, will 



be represented by a very small attend- 

 ance at Houston, yet it is evident that throughout this 

 section a lively interest attaches to the Convention iu 

 that city, now close at hand. That the occasion is ex- 

 pected to bring to a head projects and innovations 

 which, if favored by the Convention, are destined to 

 have a serious and far-reaching bearing upon the future 

 policy and activities of the Society, is apparent from the 

 very frequent discussions which one hears and the 

 opinions expressed concerning the Convention's pre- 

 sumable attitude on a number of vital questions, some 

 of which are slated for consideration at this meeting and 

 some of which aie not yet. Let us hope that whatever 

 decisions are reached may prove to have been acts of 

 wisdom, resulting in substantial and indisputable bene- 

 fits from their operation. Otherwise it were better that 

 the Society should "stand pat" for the time being, on 

 the course it has followed and the methods which have 

 gained for it, to say the least, a fair measure of success 

 thus far. Nothing less than obvious necessity can ever 

 justify "constitution tinkering." 



Possibly the most ominous menace to the 

 The old order of things in the National Society 

 trend of jg the unqualified success so far of the great 

 events National Flower Shows, not only financial- 

 ly and horticultually, but as social rendez- 

 vous for the craft and a source of publicity and prof- 

 itable business for the trade exhibitors. It seems to be 

 in the minds of not a few energetic members of the 

 Society that this big spring event is rapidly shaping 

 itself to develop into an annual affair, ranking as the 

 greatest American horticultural enterprise of the year, 

 and that sooner or later the Society will be brought by 

 force of circumstance to see that the peculiar conditions 

 and needs which in the past made the mid-summer 

 meetings desirable and popular have, as they declare, 

 practically ceased to exist. So it seems to be a well 

 settled conviction with many that the days of old-fash- 

 ioned summer conventions and new-fashioned "conven- 

 tion gardens" are already numbered. Manifestly there 

 is unrest within the Society's ranks. The almost revolu- 

 tionary program cut out for Houston shows this; the 

 talk of the street and of the market places shows it. The 

 trend of events, the unforeseen exigencies that crop up, 

 the accumulation of funds in the treasury and conse- 

 quent financial pre-eminence of the S. A. F. among 

 kindred organizations, furnishes a fresh stimulus and 

 tends to foster new ambitions, all of which will press 

 for a hearing — if not this year, very soon. Tlie "Grand 

 Old Society" having now lived the allotted span of a 

 generation since its birth, these things are to be expected, 

 and if it can be shown that they are in the line of prog- 

 ress and not merely for the sake of change or to gratify 

 individual capric-e they should and undoubtedly will pre- 

 vail. But it is a safe proposition to hail "from Missouri" 

 in all such matters and he is the true friend of the 

 Societv who will insist on beinjr "shown." 



