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August 26, 1.916 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIV 



AUGUST 26, 1916 



NO. 9 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Hedge of Thuya occidentalis. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Bou- 

 vardias — Carnations — Giganteum Lilies — Miltonias — 

 Transplanting Large Palms — Reminders — John J. M. 

 Farrell 279 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Mulching Early 

 Planted Benches — Supplies and Coal — Tying — Liming 

 the Benches — Arthur C. Ruzicka 281 



SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS— Report of Con- 

 vention Completed — Closing Session — Report of Com- 

 mittee on President's Address — Report of Judges, 

 Trade Exhibits and Convention Garden — Election of 

 Officers — Memorial and Final Resolutions — Report of 



National Flower Show Committee 282-286 



Luncheon with Houston Rotary Club 302 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports — Notes 286 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association — New Flow- 

 er Stores 288 



Flowers by Telegraph 299 



NEWPORT SUMMER SHOW 290 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 291 



New York, Boston 295 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, 

 Washington 293 



OBITUARY— Mrs. James M. Thorburn 295 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America — Lancaster County Florists' Club— Com- 

 ing Exhibitions — Sewickley Horticultural Society — 

 Ladies' Society of American Florists — Florists are 

 Invited to Cleveland — Gladiolus Society of Ohio — 

 The "International" for 1917 300-301 



DURING RECESS— Albany Florists' Club, Thomas 

 Tracey, portrait — Connecticut Nurserymen's Asso- 

 ciation 301 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



News Notes 288 



Refreshing Dahlia Blooms — A. J. Fish 290 



Hedge of Thuya occidentalis 290 



Dahlia Mrs. Alfred I. Dupont— Illustrated 290 



Publication Received 293 



Visitors' Register 295 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 302 



Personal — Patents Granted 302 



Now that the time is approaching for ad- 



A" vance prize schedule framing we would call 



anomaly attention to the rather inconsistent fact 



that La the Garden Club exhibitions and other 



affairs in which select society ladies figure iniluentially 



much more attention is given to the matter of flower 



arrangement and the perfecting of floral color com- 

 binations for decorative purposes than at those shows 

 that are more or less exclusively under the jurisdiction 

 of the professional people whose well-being must in the 

 final reckoning so largely depend upon the status of this 

 phase of floricultural industry. Flower arrangem(?nt 

 is the extreme fine art of flora handicraft, and it is in- 

 deed a singular anomaly that in a flower show intended 

 for the public eye this truth should be so generally 

 disregarded. 



We publish in full the itemized report 



A big of the chairman of the National 



undertaking Flower Show Committee showing in 



detail the complete financial trans- 

 actions connected with the Fourth National Flower 

 Show at Philadelphia. There is much more in this re- 

 port than the mere array of figures although we are 

 quite sure the number and size of the items given will 

 be a surprising revelation to the majority of our readers. 

 In no other way can so clear an idea be gathered of what 

 it means to successfully carry through a National 

 Flower Show as by a careful perusal of this report of 

 the committee which so creditably fulfilled the heavy 

 duties which had been entrusted to them. As a chart 

 for those who may be ambitious to emulate the Phila- 

 delphia exploit and "go it one better" if possible, Mr. 

 Asmus' document will be invaluable. It will not be out 

 of place to suggest here that the Society cannot expect 

 to enjoy perpetually the amount of gratuitous work 

 which has been done so unselfishly hitherto by devoted 

 members at mucli personal sacrifice. The National 

 Flower Show has come to stay, unquestionably, and all 

 the necessary machinery for its orderly and systematia 

 management must be installed and perfected as rapidly 

 as possible, and all on a strictly business basis. 



With china asters of very inferior 

 A situation quality wholesaling at a price ap- 

 and a forecast jiroaching winter quotations on car- 

 nations, five to ten dollars per hun- 

 dred asked for lily of the valley, and cattleyas held at 

 a dollar to a dollar and a half per flower the summer of 

 1916 has certainly developed some most unusual con- 

 ditions in the flower nuarket. The foregoing refers 

 especially to the situation in New York city, but other 

 centres have been going through experiences not dis- 

 similar. Tlie present week sees the incoming of the 

 second and better crop of asters and the pinch, so far as 

 asters are concerned, is probably at an end for the present. 

 Growers having anything to offer in the cut flower line 

 during the last few weeks have had good reason to feel 

 elated and as a direct result we may expect to see pro- 

 duction overdone in the summer of 1917. Then the man 

 wlio leads in the quality of his product will be the only 

 one having "a ghost of a chance," for the peculiar cir- 

 cumstances operating this year are not likely to be 

 paralleled for a long time to come. It is sad to see some 

 of the trashy stuff that is sent to the city flower markets 

 with the expectation that it will find a purchaser. Making 

 due allowance for the attacks of disease and insects and 

 the vagaries of the weather, it remains that inefficiency 

 and inexcusable carelessness are very largely responsible 

 for most of the ruljbish that encumbers the tables of the 

 wholesale dealers. Starting with bulbs of equal grade 

 one grower's gladiolus spikes will command a ready sale 

 at from four to six cents while those from his neighbor 

 lie around without a taker at one dollar a hundred or 

 less. It is plain that the latter doesn't know or doesn't 

 care and this class we shall have always with us. '"Tis 

 true 'tis pity; and pity 'tis 'tis true."" 



