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HORTICULTUEE 



October 21, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XXIV OCTOBER 21, 1916 NO. 17 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HOKT1CULTUR£ PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Summer Street. Boston. Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 292. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Uanager. 



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

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



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— An Object Lesson in Land- 

 scape Art. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Alla- 



' mandas — Carnations — Young Cinerarias — Planting 

 Shrubs— Primulas for Christmas— Reminders— John 

 ./. M. Fan-ell 533 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Proper Cutting- 

 Watering After a Crop— Leaky P'aucets- The Heat- 

 ing Pipes— Grading— -Irfhuc C. Ruzicka 534 



TUNICA SAXIFRAGA— flichard J?o»ie— Illustrated. . . 535 



SOME HANDSOME AUTUMN SUBJECTS 537 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — American Rose Society — 

 Florists' Hail Association — Meetings Next Week — 

 National Flower Show Committee — St. Louis Florist 

 Club — Coming Exhibitions — Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society — G'ardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston — Nassau County Horticultural Society — Club 



and Society Notes 538-539 



St. Louis Spring Flower Show 540 



FALSE REPRESENTATION— BHon J. Buckley 543 



SEED TRADE— Revising Estimates— Peas and Beans 

 — Vine Seeds and Spinach — European Demand — Can- 

 ners' Shortages — Potatoes and Onions Very High — 



One Week's Imports 544 



Notes 543 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 54G 



Flowers bv Telegraph 547 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, Cleveland, Pittsburgh. Phila- 

 delphia, Boston. St. Louis, New York 548-549 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, 



Philadelphia 551 



St. Louis. Washington 553 



OBITUARY— H. J. Kenney — Richard Scommodau— A. 

 C. Oelschig 535 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



A Glance at Rowayton 535 



Cypripediuni v Pollettianum — Illustrated 535 



Gordonia alatamaha 535 



View in Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y. — Illustrated 537 



Landscape Art 537 



Catalogues Received — New Corporation 540 



Insecticides Purer — Publication Received 542 



To Kill the Chrysanthemum Leaf Roller 542 



News Notes 546 



Personal — Business Troubles 549 



Visitors' Register 553 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 558 



Patents Granted 558 



The job of nursery inspector under tlie 

 What a State Board of Agriculture of Massac-hu- 

 chance! setts for which civil service examination nf 

 ap]>licants will be held ne.xt Monday, with 

 its munilicent salary of $2.50 per day, ought to draw a 

 big crowd of eager aspirants ( ?) We can already see, 

 "in our mind's eye" the long line of botanical and ento- 

 mological experts waiting for their turn! The few 

 qualifications required include such trifles as the follow- 

 ing: 



OnR must know how to recognize growing plants and 

 their kindred at a glance; how to recognize insect pests 

 or fungus diseases; what insect pests and fungus diseases 

 they have in foreign countries and not here; must have 



training in care of plants; good eyesight; must pass good 

 physical examination. 



The quality of many of the men employed in govern- 

 ment or exjieriment station horticultural jrositions is 

 sometimes scoffed at but what can be expected for the 

 emoluments usually offered for such service? 



\^'hen passing through the passenger 



Combatting waiting room of one of the ferry houses 



The H. C. D. in Xew York our attention was drawn 



to the flower stand where hung a card 

 inscribed "Wedding and Fimeral Designs, $1.00." One 

 sometimes hears or reads plaintive dissertations on "the 

 High Cost of Dying," etc., btit the next time we have 

 to listen to such we shall refer the critic to that ferry 

 florist for consolation. His generosity, as will also be 

 seen, extends not only to the custo^ner in mourning but 

 to those matrimonially interested, and who can say that 

 this florist is not "doing his bit" to discourage race 

 suicide by holding down the "High Cost of Marrying" ? 

 But supjwsing tliat the young lady most interested in 

 the event should rebel at this economical procedure? 

 We recall a case wliere a colleen from the Emerald Isle 

 disdainfully rejected a bridal bouquet of full-blown 

 roses with "It's not ro-o-.ses I want ; it's boods !'' We 

 can see trouble aliead for those one-dollar wedding "de- 

 signs." Fimerals are safer for there the victim can't 

 ■•kick." 



The revised constitution and by- 



The laws of The Florists' Telegi-aphic 



growing F. T. D. Delivery as adopted at the special 



meeting of that organization at 

 Chicago last week .shows much care in preparation and 

 ill fitting its provisions and requirements to the condi- 

 tions encountered in the years that liave elapsed since 

 the Association was founded with no previous experience 

 on which to draw as a basis for government. The docu- 

 iment is lengthy and not necessarily one for repro- 

 duction in its entirety in our limited space, espe- 

 cially as copies are available to all who are sufficiently 

 interested to ask Secretary Albert Pochelon of Detroit 

 for same, .\rticle 2, See. 1, however, should have mucli 

 general interest for many of our readers and we repro- 

 duce it her(>. as slmwing clearly the olijects of the As- 

 sociation : 



The Association has for its objects: The mutual ex- 

 change of orders between retail florists in the different 

 cities and towns in the United States and the Dominion of 

 Canada; to educate its members in the proper handling and 

 promotion of the exchanging of orders by telegraph, tele- 

 phone, and mail; to give publicity to the service rendered 

 by members of the Association in order to promote the out 

 of town business of each member of the Association; to 

 promote and encourage the exchange, between members of 

 the Association, of ideas, principles, policies, methods and 

 manner of handling and conducting the retail floral busi- 

 ness, for the betterment and education of the members; to 

 promote a good feeling and honest dealing between all 

 mem!/ers of the Association; to insure the prompt payment 

 of all accounts contracted between members of the Associa- 

 tion; and to further generally the interest of the retail 

 floral business and encourage the co-operation of retail 

 florists. 



That is pretty good doctrine and lias a very practical 

 application where, perhaps, the florist trade has lacked 

 greatly in the past. The rules as regards business lie- 

 tween members are very carefully drawn with the oli- 

 jeet of obviating any causes for dissatisfaction such as 

 may have transpired in previous operations and a suffi- 

 cient advance in dues and ])ayments into the guarantee 

 fund to ensure financial stability under all circum- 

 stances. The outlook for the growth and expansion of 

 the class of retail business promoted by this .Association 

 is very promising. 



