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HOETICULTUEE 



November 11, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL. XXJV NOVEMBER 11, 1916 NO. 20 



PCBI-ISHED WB^KLV BV 



horticultufj: publishinc co. 



147 Summer Street. Boston, Mass. 



Telephone. Oxford S92. 

 WTd. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



■ntered as gecoDd-claas matter December 8, l'J04, at the Post Office 

 ■t Boston , Mass., under the Act ot Congress of March 3. 1878. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Lilium candidum. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Carnations — Violets — Orcliids — Spiraea japonica — 

 Sweet Peas — Reminders — John J. M. Farrell 629 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Feeding— Soil for 

 Potting — The Sod Heaps — Working Ahead — Arthur 



C RUZicJCd '• Dol 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Westchester and Fairfield Horti- 

 cultural Society — Coming Exhibitions — Northampton 

 (Mass.) Flower Show — New Bedford Show — The 

 Tarrytown Show — Sewickley Horticultural Society — 



Glen Cove Show— The Boston' Show 632-633-634 



Texas State Flower Show 639 



THE PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW— Georj/e C. 

 Watson 634 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA 635-637 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Meetings Next Week— Flor- 

 ists' Club of Philadelphia 637 



Society of American Florists 644 



New YoTK Florists' Club 649 



OBITUARY — George Cartwright, portrait — William F. 

 Molloy, portrait— Nellie R. Thoirs— William Good- 

 Thomas J. Gannon — Michael Donovan — John Skelton 

 Brown— Frank Mitseh— Charles R. Pauter — Frank 

 Soblcek 638-639 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 640 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS; 



New Flower Stores 642 



Flowers by Telegraph ^ 643 



Max Schling's Philosophy, Illustrated 64.5 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, New York, Washington, St. Louis, Pittsburgh 644 



DURING RECESS — New York and New Jersey Plant 

 Growers' Outing — Boston Florists' Bowling League.. 644 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, 

 St. Louis, Washington 647 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 640 



Lilium candidum 640 



News Notes — Business Troubles 642 



Catalogue Received 644 



Visitors' Register — New Corporations 654 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 654 



Gipsy Moth Apparently Eliminated from Ohio, New 

 Jersey and New York 654 



The Society for the Protection of 

 The Native riant>; makes a fervent ap- 



laurel folly peal through the columns of the 

 and the florists' Bostoii newspapers a-sking the public 

 Interests to exercise discretion in the use of 



laurel for decorative purposes — this, 

 of course, referring to the native "Mountain Laurel,'' 

 Kalmia latifolia. Attention is called to the fact that 

 this is the most beantiful of our native shrubs, not only 

 in its flowering period, but as a striking feature of the 

 winter landscape. The public are warned that the in- 

 roads being made on this typical feature of the New 

 England woods for Christmas dressing of churches and 

 the festooning of ball rooms, buildings, etc.. must soon 

 deplete the laurel supply to the extent of near extermi- 

 nation and regret is expressed at the wa.steful destruction 

 of floral beauty by the winter cutting of the green lau- 

 rel boughs which carry the embryo flowers for the com- 

 ing summer. We heartily concur with the sentiments 

 and applaud the efforts of the friends of the mountain 



laurel to preseiTe it for the beauty of our woods, 

 swamps and pastures and the enjoyment of future gen- 

 erations- One ally they should have is the florists' trade. 

 Floriculture is not advanced nor its interests promoted 

 in the slightest degree by the use of this wild material. 

 More artistic, appropriative and effective results are at- 

 tainable bv the use of florists' and nurserymen's prod- 

 ucts for every purpose to which the laurel is put. For 

 ;t Office that reason as well as for the more altruistic one. florists' 

 organizations should join forces with horticultural so- 

 cieties and others in a vigorous crusade against this 



laur"! folly. 



If there is any one feature more 



A fair noticeable than all others in connection 



deal for with florists' organizations and florists' 



the ladies i(>ireations of the present as compared 



with tho-se of a few years back it is the 



custom of providing social entertainments in which the 



ladies are invited to jiarticipate. The innovation is a 



most excellent one and worthy of even wider observance 



than has yet been given to it. "We have noticed that 



wherever the plan has been given a trial it inevitably 



becomes a permanent habit, which is just a.s it should be, 



for the florists' business is greedy and inexorable in its 



demands upon his time, depriving his home circle of his 



companionship in a manner and to an extent equalled 



in but few other occupations. So it is very proper and 



right that such consideration as is possible should be 



given to those who are so often deprived of their rights 



to his society by the exactions of his vocation. 



We have read with much interest an 

 Sentiment iirticle bv a cori'cspondent of the Provi- 

 in floriculture dcncc .Tournal on "Wliy .\mcricans Are 

 not 'NTatural Florists." The correspond- 

 ent, who states that he had interrogated several success- 

 ful florists on this question, expresses his convictions 

 that the reasons for the small percentage of American- 

 born men in floricnltnre are that this is a business where 

 emolument is subordinate to fondness for the avocation 

 and tliat "sentiment in a matter of business is altogether 

 incompatible with the American inborn spirit of busi- 

 ness, which leaves no room for anything but business." 

 He further submits that "to the American grower a 

 plant merely represents a producer of commercial ar- 

 ticles, each of which will bring him as many cents as 

 the market will decide." Again the writer avers that 

 "The work simply does not appeal to the American 

 bov." In all of this there may be a modicum of truth, 

 but the sentiments here given currency are simply tradi- 

 tionary and habitual as regards American character and 

 as mere repetitions carry little weight. We have the 

 privilege of a large acquaintance with the floricultural 

 people of .\merica and while it is true that a considerable 

 liercentagc are of foreign birth yet it is also true that 

 among these who have come to us from across the sea 

 one finds many who.se money-making proclivities and 

 mercenary estimate of the goods they produce is fully 

 up to the limit of the shrewdest Yankee ever born. Tt 

 is probably well for the stability of the flower industry 

 that this is so, for "Imsiness is business." Yet if it 

 comes to a "show-down" on young men of .\merican 

 birth having a sincere love for their chosen calling, 

 combined with business aptitude, we would suggest n lit- 

 tle scrutiny of the voung men now studying horticulture 

 at Amherst. Oornell, TJrbana, and other institutions of 

 like character and we feel confident that the .\mcrican- 

 born boy who aspires to a floricultural career will not be 

 found wanting in his devotion to the art, apart from his 

 business instincts. .\11 we need is time and we'll "get 

 there-" 



