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HOETICULTUEE 



November 18, 1916, 



HORTICULTURE, 



VOL. XXIV 



NOVEMBER 18, 1916 



NO. 21 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATIO.N— Chrysanthemum Basket at 

 New York Show. 



NOTES ON CULTURE OP FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Fuchsias — Daffodils for Early Forcing — Forcing of 

 Ixiaa — Japan Lilies — Propagating Crotons — Remin- 

 ders— JoAn J. M. Farrell 661 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GL-i^SS- Mice and Rats- 

 Clean the Boiler Flues — Last Chance for Repairs — 

 The Christmas Crop — Arthur C. Kuzieka 663 



THE EXHIBITIONS— Chicago Florists' Art and Flow- 

 er Show — Tuxedo (N. Y.) Horticultural Society Show 

 Lancaster County Flower Show — Hartford (Conn.) 

 Exhibition — Cleveland Flower Show, Illustrated. .664-665 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College 637 



NEW YORK EXHIBITIONS— American Institute Chrys- 

 anthemum Show — Horticultural Society of New York 666 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— American Sweet Pea Society 

 — Meetings Next Week — Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society — New York Florists' Club — National Associa- 

 tion of Gardeners 667 



Pittsburgh Florists' and Gardeners' Club — Lenox 

 Horticultural Society — American Rose Society — West- 

 chester and Fairfield Horticultural Society — Club and 

 Society Notes 668 



DURING RECESS— Boston Florists' Bowling League.. 668 



OBITUARY— Katherine Elizabeth Freeman— Trueman 

 Lanham — George Bird — Fred W. Vick, portrait 670 



VEGETABLE GROWERS' ASSOCIATION OF 

 AMERICA 671 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 672 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 674 



Flowers by Telegraph 675 



NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



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

 Philadelphia, Pittsburgh 676-677 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



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

 adelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis 679 



Washington 681 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Unhealthy Primula obconica — J. J. it. Farrell 669 



Patent Granted 672 



News Notes 674 



Visitors' Register 677 



Pot Famine Here— P. M. Read 686 



Personal — New Corporations 68G 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 686 



The financial statement of tlie Amer- 



Sweet pea jea^ Sweet Pea Society which ap- 



society orospers pears in this issue will greatly please 



the many friends of the tlainty 

 flower in the interest of which this organization is main- 

 tained. To have a fair balance in the treasury and all 

 bills paid in full after nine years' uphill work in thesi' 

 times of society multiplying is very encouraging, and 

 insofar as this condition is due to the keen inspiration 

 of tlie Maine atmosphere last summer tlic Bar Harbor 



meeting was certainly a wise move. No doubt the meet- 

 ing of 1917, should it take place in Boston as planned, 

 will add still further to the strength and stability of the 

 society and to the pojjular interest in the flower for 

 which it stands. 



We learn from our news clippings that or 

 A good Thursday afternoon of this week the flor- 

 example i^ts of Fort Worth, Texas, have agreed to 



close their ])laces of liusiness so that all 

 inaj' be able to attend the meeting of the State Florists' 

 Association and visit the flower show on that date. There 

 was a time, years ago, when similar recognition was oc- 

 casionally accorded to such events, as well as annual pic- 

 nics and the like, in some of the older floral centres, but 

 the custom appears to have entirely died out. In fact 

 it often happens that the employees in flo^yer stores in 

 towns where flower shows are on, are ven' often unalile 

 to give information to a stranger as to date or locality 

 even of the exhibition and seem mildly surprised that 

 they should be expected to know. We think the course 

 of the Texas florists is a most excellent one and not only 

 well calculated to promote pleasant fraternal relation- 

 sliips but to develop greater respect for the florists' call- 

 ing, both from outside and from within. 



The cut flower wholesalers of Xew 



What modern York City who, by united action 



business demands liave within a few years effected a 



salutary advancement in the mat- 

 ter of credit giving and account collecting, have now, as 

 mentioned in our local notes, put in force another much- 

 needed reform which requires that boxes in which flowers 

 are taken from the wholesaler must be paid for or else 

 returned wdien emptied. As in the case of the aforemen- 

 tioned innovation, the retail trade will ]irobably give gen- 

 eral approval to tliis edict which seems to be another step 

 in the direction of a code of trade ethics for a business 

 which, considering it5 size and imix)rtance, has been far 

 behind the times in that respect. Other flower trade 

 centres have talked in an idealistic sort of way about the 

 need of these reforms and others that are sure to come 

 eventually, but so far they seem to lack the cohesion or 

 the courage to ])ut their wishes into clfect. New York 

 ha.s started a wliolesome and incisively defined example 

 for the trade elsewhere and those who refuse to adopt 

 regulations of like character will find in the long run 

 (hat they have made a serious mistake. 



Printers' Ink, for November 2, in an 



A question editorial note under the caption of 



of money -^Var Cries Without War Chests," ar- 



and methods raigns the Florists' Telegraph Delivery 



.\ssociation for attempting to inaugu- 

 I'ate a national campaign to influence the pul)lic, with an 

 inadequate amount of money and an antiquated and dis- 

 credited metliod. It particularly warns the Association 

 against the "'press agent" method of publicity which it 

 says "died a natural deatli shortly after the demise of its 

 ])arent — Mr. Something- for-Notliing." It agrees that 

 tiiere is a glowing opportunity to increase the per capita 

 consumption of flowers by showing the people when and 

 jiow they can use more flowers, hut "it will require all 

 the skill and experience of a trained advertising organi- 

 zation to do it." According to Printers' Ink, if the flor- 

 ists of this country are really serious about increasing 

 the use of flowers they should .set out .seriou.sly to raise a 

 "war fund," which it asserts would need to be several 

 times the proposed amount of .$10,000, and anything less 

 would be like trying to "dig the Panama Canal with a 

 toy spade." Many of our readers will ])ri)l)ably agree witli 



