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HORTICULTURE 



December 23, 1916 



HORTICULTURi: 



VOL. XXIV DECEMBER 23, 1916 NO. 26 



PtTBUSHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 l'^? Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Beach 293. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager 



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

 at BoBton, Mass., onder the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



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COVER ILLUSTRATION— View in the Rhododendron 



Ravine, Highland Park, Rochester. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Manure — Gardenias — Giganteum Lilies for Easter 

 — Hydrangeas — Schizanthus — Renjinders — John J. M. 



Farrell 837 



CYCLAMEN— ^/oftn Doig 838 



SEMPERVIVUM— BJcftard i?o<fte— Illustrated 838 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Propagating 

 Benches — Shading — A Cross House as a Propagator — 



Temperatures — Arthur C. Ruzicka 839 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston — Sewickley Horticultural Society — 

 Society of American Florists — American Rose Society 

 — Minnesota Horticultural Society — Nassau County 

 Horticultural Society — American Carnation Society — 



Club and Society Notes 842-843 



OBITUARY — Daniel Stilphen — Charles Elbrecht — 



Charles W. Prescott— The Late Wm. C. Barry 844- 



DURING RECESS — Lancaster County Florists' Club 

 Annual Banquet — Washington Florists' Bowling.... 844 



SOILS — Leonard Macombcr 845 



MARYLAND WEEK 846 



SEED TRADE— One Week's Imports— M. Van Waveren 



& Sons, Ltd 848 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — The F. T. D. Busy 850 



Flowers by Telegraph 851 



NEWS ITEMS— Boston, Washington 853 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, New York 855 



Philadelphia, Washington 857 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Orchid Cultural Notes 841 



Chrysanthemum Hamburg Late White— Illustrated . . 841 



The Bagatelle Rose Garden 841 



Sense and Sentiment 841 



Publications Received 844 



Holland Growers to Discontinue Auction Consign- 

 ments 845 



A Dwarf Lemon for Florists' Use — Illustrated 845 



National Forests and National Parks 847 



News Notes 862 



Catalogues Received — New Corporations 848 



Carnations at S. J. Goddard's 852 



Suow Blocked the Evergreen Raid 853 



Visitors' Register 857 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 862 



Patents Granted 862 



Mr. Ruzicka, iu his rose notes this week, 

 Strive strikes a responsive chord when he asserts that 

 for the under existing conditions — the high cost of 

 ''^st everything, etc., — there is nothing in growing 

 lx>or stock except a lot of hard work and a 

 deficit. As Mr. Ruzicka says, "every plant must be a 

 tlioroiighbred or there will be money lost." Written 

 more particularly for the attention of the rose growers 

 this truth has equal ap|>lication to the growers of carna- 

 tions or any other class of plants raised for the florist 

 trade. The thought impressed itself upon us when vis- 

 iting the carnation houses of S. J. Goddard at Framing- 

 ham a few days ago, as mentioned in another part of this 

 paper. The flowers grown by Mr. Goddard are of a 



(juality that at once takes the carnation out of the cheap 

 class of florists' stock and clothes it with a dignity that 

 arrests attention and compels enthusiasm. Why are 

 theye not a greater number of carnation growers who 

 make it their aim to produce blooms of the quality mar- 

 keted regularly by establishments such as the one we have 

 mentioned ? All might not get there, for there are many 

 local and incidental impediments not easily overcome, 

 but with a more general exercise of the requisite amount 

 of ambition, insight and endeavor, there can be no ques- 

 tion that the quality of the stock seen in many whole- 

 sale marts might be materially advanced toward a higher 

 standard and the returns from the sale of the goods 

 increased accordingly. 



Our news columns this week contain the 

 Prosperity? announcement of the closing down for 



an indefinite period of a well-known mid- 

 dle-west flower {)ot factoiy because of the present cost of 

 material, the exactions of labor, etc. The Walworth Mfg. 

 Co., of Boston, commenting upon the continued advance 

 in cost of raw materials entering into the manufacture 

 of heating apparatus, give the following comparison of 

 prices of today with those of Dec. 1, 1914: 



1914 1916 



Pig Iron, per ton $15.25 $28.25 



Bar Steel, per 100 pounds... 1.20 2.90 



Sheet Steel, per 100 pounds.. 2.85 4.90 



Copper, per pound 121/3 .33^ 



Zinc, per pound 053 .16 



A prominent dalilia grower in a western city, ac- 

 quaints the trade and the public with the fact that \nth 

 the exception of postage stamps, everything connected 

 with the management of his business— from the tools 

 used in the production of the crops, to the paper on 

 which the finished product is billed, has advanced in 

 price from 20 per cent, to over 100 per cent, 

 in • the past year or two while he is quoting 

 the same prices as heretofore. To have a work- 

 ing profit left over, he states, will require more care 

 in extending credit to persons unknown and also to those 

 who in the past have been negligent in meeting their 

 obligations when due. The foregoing facts hardly fit 

 in well with the boasted prosperity of which we hear so 

 niuch. Concerns .'^uch as the Walworths and others who 

 can "pass it along'' to their customers need not suffer 

 and may benefit from existing conditions, but there are 

 others, many of them, who find it quite impracticable 

 to do so and among these are certainly the florists and 

 nurserymen. 



Horticulture voices a loud "me too" in accord with 

 the dahlia grower al)ove quoted. The cost of paper alone 

 has advanced more tlian 100 per cent., yet our subscrip- 

 tion and advertising rates remain as they were before 

 this great wave of "prosperity" struck in. To continue 

 thus we need the co-operation and kindly consideration 

 of our friends to the extent of early subscription remit- 

 tances and prompt settlement of advertising accounts 

 together with all tlie increased business they can send us. 

 Christmas is here and Xew Year's close by, and in wish- 

 ing our subscribers and advertisers the Compliments of 

 ■ the Season we here seize the opportunity to suggest that 

 by now carrying the foregoing advice into execution they 

 will be doing a very welcome part towards assuring a 

 wave of genuine prosperity for- ITorticulture. With 

 these timely liints we lay down our pencil and extend to 

 one and all our sincere wishes for 



E flDcrt^ Christmas 



