872 



HOETICULTURE 



December 30, 1916. 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL XXIV DECEMBER 30, 1916 NO- 27 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 147 Sommer Street, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Beach 292. 

 WM. J. STEWABT, Editor and Uanaeer 



SUBSCRIPTION BATES: 



One Year, in advance, Sl.OO; To Foreign Countries, *2.00; To 



Canada, $1.50. 



ADVERTISING BATES: 



Per inch, 30 inches to page • • • • $1.00 



Discounts on Contracts for consecutive insertions, as follows: 



One month (4 times), 5 per cent.; three months (13 times), 10 

 per cent.; six months (26 times), 20 per cent.; one year (52 times), 

 30 per cent. 



Page and half page space, special rates on application. 



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

 at Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, a87a. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION — Perle B. Fulmer, President 



Ladies S. A. F. 

 NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Sweet Peas — Forcing Dahlias — Geraniums — Oncid- 

 iiims — Propagating Carnations — Reminders — John J. 



M. Farrell 869 



CARNATIONS— C/iar/es 8. Strout 870 



CARNATION PROBLEMS— GM«tai'e Thommon 870 



POLEMONIUM— RicftariJ Kotfte- Illustrated 871 



IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS WITH PEONIES— C. S. 



Harrison 873 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— National Flower Show 

 Guarantee Fund — Ohio State Horticultural Society- 

 Meetings Next Week 874 



NOTES ON CONIFERS 876 



OBITUARY— Samuel Snyder— J. E. Hoopes— Chas. J. 

 Blackert— L. D. Baldwin— Robertson Kirkpatrick, 



portrait 878 



SEED TRADE — Record Prices — To Sell by Weight In- 

 stead of Measure — Effect of Export Demands on Seed 

 Peas — The Seed Corn Situation — Bean Crop Failures 



— One Week's Imports — Notes 879-880 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores 882 



Flowers by Telegraph 882 



MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS— BZton J. Buckley. . . 884 



NEWS ITEMS— Chicago, Boston 885 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York 887 



St. Louis. Philadelphia 889 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Fall Measure to Combat Rose Diseases 874 



Visitors' Register 874 



Remedies for Grass Diseases 875 



Fruit-Vegetable Tomato 875 



A New Use for Dahlias 875 



The Fertilizer Situation in Connecticut 878 



Business Troubles 882 



Personal — New Corporations 885 



The Bird Treaty 885 



Proposed Federal Quarantine Against Trees and 



Plants 895 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 894 



Massachusetts Agricultural College Notes 894 



Xiiljody will dispute the assertion that 

 To Horticulture presents a very attrantive 



the ladies front cover picture in this issue. The 

 talented young lady who has heen chosen 

 hy the feminine auxiliary of the Society of American 

 Florists as their standard bearer for the year 1917 is 

 exceedingly popular among the members of both 

 organizations and it goes without saying that the suc- 

 cess of the big convention in Xew York next summer 



commendable 

 project 



will be enhanced in no small degree through the partici- 

 pation of the Ladies' Society under her ins]nring leader- 

 sliip. Congratulations, ladies, with Houticulture'.-* 

 best wishes for a hapjay and successful 1917 



The New Year knocks at the door as we pen 

 Coming these closing lines for 1916. The old year 

 our way has been kinder to us than its predecessor 



— more so, perhaps, than we expected when 

 it was ushered in. We all recall how with subdued con- 

 fidence, rather hopeful, yet discreetly moderate from 

 the discipline of previous experience, we welcomed 

 its coming and now so quickly is it gone, its story irre- 

 vokably written. Fortunately we may all now greet 

 the incoming year with a measure of confident reliance 

 which was not possible twelve months ago. The situa- 

 tion is decidedly more encouraging and we fully ex- 

 pect to see the season upon which we now enter well 

 filled with progressive horticultural activity. 



It is pleasing to note with how much 

 A spontaneous enthusiasm the local 



newspapers have come forward in ap- 

 proval of the plan proposed by the 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club of 

 .\ndover, Mass., for the purpose of continuing their 

 fall exhibitions. During a number of years past they 

 liave been putting up a really fine show each fall but 

 the public patronage has not always sufficed to defray 

 the cost and now the Club faces the alternative ot 

 financing these enterprises through some other means 

 iir abandoning them altogether and so the experiment 

 <if having a list of guarantors or associate members has 

 been decided upon and will be tried out for the coming 

 year. The florists and gardeners of Andover and 

 vicinity richly deserve the assistance they ask for and 

 the encouraging way in which the papers have espoused 

 their cause seems a very good omen that they will suc- 

 ceed, and we cordially hope they may. 



After an exceptional fall trade and the 

 largest money income on record for the 

 Christmas season it goes without saying 

 that the plant and flower trade people 

 should now be in the mood to spend and to expand. Their 

 customers have been making money and will put most 

 of it into circulation at home — certainly not abroad. 

 The florist, plant.sman, nurseryman, seedsman and 

 landscape gardener are all in line to get a substantial 

 share of the distribution and indications all point to 

 1917 as destined to be the best buying year ever experi- 

 enced in these- particular lines. You who have some- 

 thing to sell to these people — what are you going to do 

 to get your proportion of this business? There is no 

 l)ctter medium for your use, considering the cost, than 

 the advertising pages of Hoi!Ticui,TUiiE. Buying power 

 is what the advertiser is supposed to pay for but does 

 not always get. Buying is the long suit in Horticul- 

 ture's circiilation. No other paper in its class can 

 outrank it in influence and effectiveness among the pur- 

 chasing classes of the trade. Now is the right time to 

 get busy, for the "big drive" will start early in Jan- 

 uary. IToRTicuLTruE is ready. Are you? 



lIArPY yEW YEAB. 



Your 

 opportunity 



