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HOETI CULTURE 



December 9, 1916 



horticulture: 



VOL XXIV DECEMBER 9, 1916 NO. 24 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Stimmer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Beach 39S. 

 WM. 3. STEWAKT, Editor and Manager 



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CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— Cypriuedimn insigne Sanderae. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 or Christmas Plants — Christmas Greens — Cinerarias — 



Fern Spores — Reminders — -John ./. M. FarrcU 761-762 



CARNATIONS— CftaWw X. Utrout 762 



WINTER FLOWERING BEGONIAS— /oftn S. Doig— 



Illustrated 763 



IBERIS— /fifTicrrrf /fo^Af- Illustrated 764 



CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE SANDERAE 764 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— Christmas Roses- 

 Soot — Be Ready for Snow — Care of Grafted Plants — 



Work in the Propasator — Arthur C. Kitsickn 765 



THE LATE BAYARD THAYER— C. S. ^araent 767 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GARDENERS 768 



OBITUXRY — Isaac Pollard — John Baldinger — C. 

 Thompson Adams — F. N. Strail — Mrs. Andrew Mc- 



Adams 770 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES — Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Cluh of Boston — American Gladiolus Society — Meet- 

 ings next week 771 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports 774 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 776 



Flowers by Telegraph 777 



Associated Retail Florists of New York 781 



NEWS ITE.MS FROM EVERYWHERE: 



Chicago, Boston, Washington 778-779 



New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis 781 



Pittsburgh 784 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago 785 



New York, Philadelphia 787 



Pittsburgli, St. Louis, Washington 789 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Benj. Hammond for Mayor 767 



It Couldn't Be Done, poetry 767 



An Appreciation 767 



Rose Tournament at Pasadena, Cal 769 



Chrysanthemums in Oklahoma — Illustrated 772 



New Corporation — Business Troubles 772 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 774 



^alea Shipments Satisfactory 774 



_■ Visitors' Register 774 



• A New Industry in Boston 776 



Some Boston Plant Establishments 782 



A Corner in the Cleveland Flower Show — Illustrated. 782 

 Department of Agriculture to Build Potash Factory.. 794 



The Flower Pot Industry—./. G. Whillrlin 795 



Fighting Moths in New England — Patents Granted... 795 

 Greenhouses Building or Cnntemplated 796 



From the office of llie Orchid World, 



The HaywardV Heath, Sii.s.sex, England, one 



war blight of our nio.'^t prized e.xchanges, cnmes the 



announcement that "the editor having 



heen called up for military service, the publishers beg 



to notify all sub.scribers that The Orchid World will be 



discontinued for tlip diiratifni of the war." The Orchid 



World is a monthly, devoted exclusively to orehidology, 

 edited by Gurney Wilson, F. L. S., up-to-date and au- 

 thoritative in contents and handsomely illustrated and 

 orchid fanciers and enthusiasts on this side of the At- 

 lantic will, we know, join with Horticulture in sin- 

 cere regret for the enforced discontinuance of this useful 

 joui'nal, and in heart-felt hope that the awful conflict 

 in Europe may soon come to an end and that the tal- 

 ented editor of The Orchid World may be providentially 

 spared and enaliled to return unharmed to the editorial 

 cliair which he has so ably filled in the pa.st. 



Willi tbis, its twelfth birthday aiuiiversary, 

 Our ilouTicuLTURE presents compliments and good 

 creed uislies to the thousands of friends whose gen- 

 erous support has made its existence possible 

 during these twelve eventful years. Journalistic life 

 today is far from being a summer dream, even in this 

 country of peace and so-called prosperity. As the sit- 

 uation stands today, it takes pretty good "stuff" to be 

 worth even the paper on which it is printed. Nearly 

 everything which enters into the cost of a pviblication 

 bas advanced in price, that of paper having more than 

 lioubled, and the end is not yet ia sight. The most 

 ] tactical solution for the problem which thus confronts 

 llie publisber would seem to be fewer pages and more 

 c )ndensed and useful contents, and if the latter should 

 be forthcoming the former will undoubtedly be forgiven ! 

 IIouTiC'Vi.TURE has always striven to represent all that 

 is progressive, dignified and creditable in American hor- 

 ticulture. It has heen our earnest desire to help in our 

 huiul)le way towards the advancement of horticulture as 

 a pi'ofession, as a commercial industry and as a pojnilar 

 recreation, in every way possible. Our entire sympathy 

 is with all agencies looking to the same uplifting end. 

 Standing on the threshold of another year Horticui.- 

 Tiiti-; extends hearty good wishes to all its colahorers in 

 the good work and jiledges itself anew to the cau.se of 

 /loirerx everij dni/ in ereri/ home. 



Ill tlie printed ])rogram for the Chrysantheinuin 

 Our .Show of the Lancaster County (Pa.) Florists' 

 aif" .\ssociation a praiseworthy attempt was made to 

 1 1 re pa re the public for higher rates on flowers, 

 ll was represented that an advance in selling prices i* 

 inevitable in the face of the enormous increase in the 

 co.st of labor, coal and the many smaller items indisjien- 

 sahle in the conduct of a florist's business. It is cer- 

 tainly very desirable that the income from the sale of 

 flowers in the aggr(>gate should be materially increased 

 in Older to meet the enhanced cost of production hut 

 wlether this can be best accomplished by advancnig the 

 selling price per dozen bl(X)ms or, on the other hand, by 

 disposing of more flowers at the old prices is a question 

 worthy of careful consideration. Just .so long as enor- 

 mous (juaiitities of flowers of various grades of (piality 

 aie lost in the large markets at certain seasons. Indeed, 

 under present conditions of production it is a very rare 

 day whicli sees the flower market cleaned up and yet the 

 use of flowers by the people is pitiably insignificant as 

 compared with what it should be. What course should 

 the flower grower pursue in order that his product shall 

 find a greater welcome and a fuller recognition by the 

 people — not for funerals, weddings or special holidays, 

 imt as essential adjuncts to a well-ordered daily exis- 

 tence? This is the florists' problem as Horticulture 

 sci's it at the close of Ifllfi. 



