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HOETIOULTUEE 



September 9, 1916 



HORTICULTURE. 



VOL. XXIV 



SEPTEMBER 9, 1916 



NO. 11 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — A Hardy Fern Garden. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK — 

 Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora — Liliuni multiflorum — 

 Mignonette — Orchids — Phlox — Reminders — John 

 J. M. FarreU 343 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — Depth of Soil- 

 Shaking the Plants After Syringing — Drainage 

 Under the Benches — Weeds — Arthur C. Ruzicka.... 345 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Coming Exhibitions — Flor- 

 ists' Club of Philadelphia — Meetings Next Week — 

 Club and Society Notes 346 



DURING RECESS— Holyoke and Northampton Club.. 346 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 349 



The Pea Crop — Bean Estimate and Prices — Corn — • 

 California Crops — European Crops — Vine Seeds — The 

 Ferrv Entertainment 350 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 352 



Flowers by Telegraph 353 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, New York, Boston, Pittsburgh 354 

 St. Louis 355 



OBITUARY— H. B. Denker— Mrs. Frederick Heeremans 355 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



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



delphia ; 357 



St. Louis, Washington 359 



SO.ME IMPORTANT NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN 

 TREES AND SHRUBS— J^oTin Dunbar 364 



MISCELLAN'EOUS: 



Advancing of Prices— Why Not?— P. M. Reed 347 



A Hardy Fern (harden 347 



French Bulbs Destroyed 347 



New Hybrid Water-Lilies 348 



View in Gladiolus Show Room — Illustration 349 



Visitors' Register 352 



News Notes 352-355 



New Dahlia Albert Manda — Illustration 355 



New Corporations — Business Troubles 355 



Catalogue Received 359 



Gladiolus Pink Perfection — Illustration 359 



Planting a Railroad Embankment — Illustration 364 



Patents Granted 365 



Collection of Debts Barred by Bankruptcy Proceed- 

 ings— SUoji J. Buckley 366 



The long delaj's in tlie transportation, of 

 Importers' nursery stock, bulbs, etc., which importers 

 trials iiave been experiencing are very exasperat- 

 ing and the resulting uncertainties make 

 the lot of the horticultural importer one that is neither 

 easy nor enviable. We have Just learned of the arrival 

 in New York this week of a lot of French bulbs shipped 

 from Marseilles on July 12. The condition of the bulbs 

 has not yet been ascertained. A repetition of last sea- 



son's discouragements and losses seems inevitable. To 

 what extent our government might be able to mitigate 

 these conditions by expediting examination and facilita- 

 tino' delivery on the arrival of the goods we are unable 

 to say, but we shotild like to see a little more considera- ' 

 tion "displayed in that direction. From the view point 

 of the seed, nursery and florist trade most of the govern- 

 mental activities seem to be of a character to perplex 

 and impede rather than to promote and develop our 

 horticultural industries. 



A correspondent in this issue of 

 A bond noRTiCULTCRS asks the pertinent ques- 

 of sympathy *^°'^- ^^y ^he geranitim growers should 

 not now get a higher price for their prod- 

 uct than heretofore. He puts the prop- 

 osition before our readers in a verj- practical and we 

 hope, convincing light. The ''"high cost of living" is en- 

 riching the farmer and almost ever\-body else except the 

 flower and plant grower and the magazine publisher. 

 About eveiy item which enters into the cost of making 

 and selling a geranium or any other plant has gone up 

 except the price of advertising same. That remains 

 where it was. Yet everything that goes to make and 

 circulate a journal has also gone up, except cost of mail- 

 ing and that one soon is liable to be taken away any day. 

 So the makers of HoRTrcuLTCEE can sympatliize with 

 the makers of geraniums, the only difference in their 

 respective situations being that the latter can switch 

 over, for such time as they choose, to making something 

 else which offers more lucrative returns, while the for- 

 mer has no alternative but to stick or quit. 



The expected shortage in the supply of 

 Boom ]i]y of j;]^g valley for the coming season 

 the sweet brings to the front a problem for the flor- 

 P*3 ist trade as to how the place liitherto oc- 



cupied by this flower is to be filled. Lily 

 of the valley has come to be almost indisjiensable for cer- 

 tain classes of floral work but from present outlook it 

 would appear that people who insist upon having it will 

 be obliged to pay well for the luxury unless some unlike- 

 ly modifications of existing restrictions on shipments 

 from Europe should be made. In casting about for some 

 flower to acceptably fill the gap, the Eoman hyacinth 

 will undoubtedly be a first choice and the quantity of 

 these required by the cut flower trade will be far in ex- 

 cess of the requirements of recent years. But the supply 

 of Eoman hyacinth bulbs is this year probably not more 

 than one half the normal quantity. We think one effect 

 of these conditions %rill be a greatly increa.sed sale of 

 winter-flowering sweet peas, especially tlie white varie- 

 ties and this is in all respects a pleasing outlook, in that 

 it gives a stimulus to a distinctly American product and 

 one which possesses every qualification for extreme 

 popularity. Growers having facilities for the winter 

 cultivation of sweet peas for local use or in a larger 

 commercial way will in either case find the investment a 

 profitable one and it is not yet too late to make a start. 

 The finest sweet pea seed ever offered anywhere is that 

 which has been arlvertised in recent issues of Horticul- 

 ture. The growth in poptilarity of the sweet pea since 

 the introduction of the winter-flowering Spencers has 

 been most remarkable but this, we feel .«tire, is only a 

 small preliminary to what the immediate future will 

 have to show. 



