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HORTICULTURE 



August 19, 1916 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Robert C. Kerr, Presldent- 

 Elect, Society of American Florists. 



NOTES OX CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 

 Cattleyas — Freesias — Lorraine Begonia — Nephrolepis 

 Plants for Christmas — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 239 



JACKSON DAWSON: IN MEMORIAM — Wiw/rte(Z 

 Roelker 239 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Late Planting- 

 Lime — Sijraying with Copper — Ventilation — Arthur 

 0. Ruzicka 241 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS— Thirty-Second 

 Annual Convention — Opening Session — President's 

 Address — Secretary's Report — Treasurer's Report^ 

 Report of Washington Representative — Report of the 

 School Garden Committee — Tuesday Evening Session 

 — President's Reception — Wednesday's Session — Trade 

 Exhibition — Portraits — Florists' Hail Association. 242-248 



TEXAS STATE FLORISTS' ASSOCIATION 248 



DURING RECESS— Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 tural Society — Boston Market Gardeners 248 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY 249 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Canadian Horticultural As- 

 sociation— Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural 

 Society— Coming E.xhibitions — Nassau County Horti- 

 cultural Society— St. Louis Florist Club— Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' Society— Notes 250 



SEED TRADE— Federal Seed Import Law Amended— 

 Crop Notes by Bureau of Estimates— Low Germina- 

 tion o£ Crimson Clover Seed — Important Customs 

 Ruling — One Week's Imports — Notes 252 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 254 



Flowers by Telegraph 255 



NEWS ITEMS FROM E\^ERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia, Cin- 

 cinnati, Boston 256-257 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Phil- 

 adelphia. Pittsburgh 261 



St. Louis, Washington 263 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



New Corporations 248 



Business Troubles 250 



Catalogues Received 252 



News Notes 254 



A Gladiolus Fete 258 



The New "Rainbow" FYeesias— wWried Roelker. ... 258 



Visitors' Register 263 



The White Pine Blister Rust 268 



Freakish Facts and Factless Freaks '. 268 



Massachusetts Agricultural College ., 269 



Patents Granted ' 269 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplate(J 269 



The Houston Convention has passed into 



An history and the outcome of the sedulous 



epochal efforts of the Texas florists seems to have 



convention amply justified the Xational Society in 



its decision to extend to the South the 

 courtesy of a visit. AVhile we should be sorrj- to see the 

 custom of electing a president from the city in which 

 a Convention is held and the elevation of ever}' vice- 

 president to the presidency, become an established in- 

 variable rule in the S. A. F., yet it must be said that if 

 .ever any man deserved election to that high oflBce by 

 reason of earnest, persevering and faithful work, it is the 

 man whom the Convention has so honored on this occa- 

 sion and we have not the slightest doubt that the year of 

 liis administration will be a busy one for him and his fel- 

 low-officers in the national organization. We are not 

 fully in accord, however, with everything done at 

 Houston. We should have preferred that the good old 

 plan of the appointment of two directors by the presi- 

 dent-elect had been retained. Some of the best workers 

 in the ranks, some of the best presidents the S. A. F. 

 has had, were "discovered" and first brought into active 

 service through the judicious exercise of tliis privilege 

 by the incoming presidents — men who would never have 

 '■'run for the office" had such a course been required. 

 It is our sincere hope that the new method of selecting 

 directors may w^ork out as well for the Society as the 

 one which has now been abandoned as "antiquated." 

 To the other constitutional changes we see no particular 

 objection but it may be advisable for the Society to get 

 legal a.ssurance that they have made no mi.stake under 

 the Cliarter of the Corporation in adopting the plan of 

 a movable annual meeting based on convenience. The 

 Charter makes the place for the annual meeting 

 optional, but gives no authority to depart from the uni- 

 versal corporation rule as regards the date for hold- 

 ing an annual meeting. The selection of New York for 

 the Convention of 1917 after an interim of seventeen 

 years will meet with general satisfaction throughout 

 the country and the election of A. L. Miller as Vice- 

 President means that "there'll be something doing" 

 right along. 



The American Gladiolus Society has been 

 An old struggling with that hoar*- old problem — 

 problem the "amateur" versus the "professional" 

 exhibitor, as to where to draw the line to 

 properly classify each and how to apportion the emolu- 

 ments and honors so that all classes will get a fair show 

 in the exhibition hall. Like many another earnest and 

 well-meaning body of men before, they find in their 

 ranks almost as many different views on this subject as 

 there are members, and it would seem that the only 

 thing to be done is to follow a "middle-of-the-road" 

 course as it is impossible to satisfy everj'body. We are 

 of the opinion, however, that exhibitors, amateurs 

 especially, are not so captious and inconsolaljle when they 

 fail to win all the honors, as we sometimes think. With 

 the desening amateur the aspiration to approach per- 

 fection for the ver}- love of the work and the pleasure of 

 achievement is as potent as the ambition to win prizes 

 and an occasional or even frequent failure on the latter 

 will neither dispirit nor deter him from future effort, 

 but incite him, rather, to renewed exertion to attain 

 the goal. 



