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H E T I C U L T TJ K E 



November 4, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXIV 



NOVEMBER 4, 1916 



NO. 19 



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CONTENTS Pa^e 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — An Ideal Flower Store. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— 



Dracaena indivisa — Ericas — Forcing Gladiolus — 



Smilax — Veranda Boxes for Winter — Reminders — 



John J. M. Farrell 597 



SILENE — Richard Rotftc— Illustrated 598 



LILIUM REGALE — Arthur E. Tftaicfter— Illustrated . . 598 

 ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Spraying with 

 Copper — Cutting Roses — Fresh Water for Vases — 



Arthur C. Ruzicka 59'J 



THE EXHIBITIONS— The Madison Show— Coming 

 Exhibitions— Lenox Exhibition — Iowa State College 

 Exhibition — Mt. Kisco Show — Chicago Floral Art 



Display 601-602 



Boston Autumn Exhibition 603 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— New York and New Jersey 

 Association of Plant Growers — Chrj-sathemum So- 

 ciety of America— American Rose Society — Meetings 



Next Week — Club and Society Notes 606 



OBITUARY — Fred W. Biermaas — James Arado — 



Thomas Franks — Henry Schwarz 607 



SEED trade: — An Important Court Decision — One 

 Week's Imports — High Vegetable Prices In Wiscon- 

 sin — Notes 608 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



An Ideal City Flower Store— New Flower Stores — 



Flowers bv Telegraph 610-611 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 612 



DURING RECESS— Boston Cut Flower Exchange — 

 Boston Florists' Bowling League — Washington Bow- 

 lers 61?, 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, 



Pittsburgh, St. Louis 615 



Washington 617 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



No Embargo on Belgian Products 605 



New Forestry Officer 605 



October Song, poetry 605 



New Dahlia and Chrysanthemum Types 605 



The Boy Scout in Agriculture 606 



News Notes 607 



Business Troubles 608 



Personal 613 



Visitors' Register 617 



Combination Vegetable and Fruit Cellar 622 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 622 



New Corporations 622 



The floral art display planned by the 

 A commendable Chicago florists, of which advance 

 move information is given in our columns 



this week, has the merit of novelty, 

 as it certainly has that of sound up-to-date business 

 sagacity and enterprise. Even- move made by the horti- 

 cultural interests in the direction of wider publicity for 

 the florists' art and products should be enthusiastically 

 supported by every one connected with the trade, for 



only in this manner can this business hold its own and 

 attain its natural growth in the race with other com- 

 mercial activities of today. 0!)scurity is aboijt the worst 

 infliction that can be visited upon any industry under 

 pi-evailiug business conditions. Hitherto, most of the 

 efl'ort for publicity in the flower trade has been indivi- 

 dual and entirely selfish — and even of that there has been 

 l)ut little. Broader vision and united purpose must now 

 be brought to bear upon the situation, and the upbuild- 

 ing; of the flower trade as an institution rather than of 

 the individual florist must be the objective point. We re- 

 gard the Chicago project as an admirable one and an 

 example worthy of emulation by the florists of every 

 community in the land. 



From time immemorial it has been the 

 Maltreating custom to hang garlands of laurel in 

 the laurel celebration of gi'eat and joyous events in 

 the progress of civilization and to cro'^sii 

 with laurel the victor in games of strength and endur- 

 ance or ia recognition of genius. But now, according to 

 the newspaper stories, it appears that another and baser 

 use has been found for this time honored tree. The 

 statement is made that thousands of tons of laurel 

 which up to early August of this year was imported from 

 Italy into Germany ostensibly to make wreaths for the 

 soldier dead, were really employed in the manufacture 

 of asphy.xiating gas for use against the allies. So this 

 "mede of mightie conquerors and poetic sage," once a 

 symbol of victory and peace, has in these strenuous 

 modern days l)een diverted from its former position of 

 honor and instead of serving to decorate the victor has 

 t)ecn com]jclleil to assist in dispatching the enemy I 

 Humiliating, indeed, for the venerated laurel and har- 

 rowing to tlie feelings of humanity when not calloused 

 by the awful sa\agerj- of mortal strife. May the time 

 quickly come when tlie peaceful laurel may resume and 

 thenceforth retain for all time its traditional place in 

 civilized life. 



In a general way, the flower market should 

 Pinched be in better condition this .season than one 

 year ago when freezing weather held off ex- 

 ( eptionally late. Gardens were bright with flowers well 

 into November last year, eannas, salvias, cosmos, agera- 

 him, dahlias, marigolds, petunias and other things of 

 like nature among flowering garden plants being still in 

 fairly good form in the vicinity of Boston at a consider- 

 ably later date than present writing. Naturally the ex- 

 istence of garden bloom in quantity must affect unfavor- 

 ably the market price of florists' indoor material and to 

 that extent the present season is favored, but there are 

 other factors which dominate th{» situation and the low 

 values and depressed demand which a large section of 

 the country is experiencing just now is due probably to 

 .several causes, among which the a|)proaching presiden- 

 tial election may properly be included. Fluctuations in 

 tiif market value of the perishable products of the florist 

 are inevitable and there is a well defined period in fall 

 when a decided sag in prices must be faced every year, 

 yet it is productive of uneasiness to see the values go up 

 in every item entering into the cost of carrying on a 

 greenhouse business while there appears no way in 

 which the returns from the produce can be proportion- 

 ately advanced. The man who raises wheat, potatoes, 

 dairy products or other food material is now enjoying 

 an enormously enhanced income from his industiy 

 which puts him at once in the auto-owning class, but his 

 brother who devotes himself to the ornamental end of 

 horticulture '"gets it going and coming," with no means 

 of redress in sight tlirough |)olitics or otherwise. 



