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HORTICTJLTUKE 



July 20, 1912 



»a^^'ra'¥*¥^^¥ T¥ T*¥ TB U* mav safely be said of the great majority of floral designs 



IKKJ ^. M. l^^ KJ M^ E \J JVJ:^ py{ out that one-half of the stock used would, in the 



j^Q "^ hands of a capable artist, make a much more beautiful 



* and appropriate piece. 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY \yQ endorsc most heartily the views ex- 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. The passed by Mr. W. Atlee Burpee in Hs 



11 Ha,n,lto« Place Boston. Mass. ^^^^^^ g.,, . ^ f;= 



Telephone, Oxford 292. i i i i i ■ -n 



WM. J. STEWART, Edit or and Mannger. lislied last week, relative to tlllS Bill 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post Office at (S.6850) . It WOuld be preposterous to make merchants 



Boston, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. and manufacturers of the United States pay a higher 



^ ^-^-^— ,—>„—.— ~ rate of domestic postage than that at which their com- 



COVER ILLUSTRATION-" Gar J^ning. ^^^ ftitors abroad niay mail their catalogues to any 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Calce- destination here, lo the seed and nurseiy trades, the 



olarias — Care of Nephrolepis — Pansies for Winter proposed increase of fifty per cent in the rate of postage 



Flowering— Poinsett las for Pans— Orchids— Schizan- would be the imposition of a needless and wrongful 



thus— John J. M. Farrell 73 i,a„-iaU,-n >jp,.f +0 the Bible there is no book more 



FRUIT AND VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS— Pot Up uarasmp. .Next TO ine i3iDie, tneie i. no dook more 



Strawberries— Mushroom Spawn— Pot Trees— A Gar- highly treasured and put to more frequent use in the 



dener's Friend— Georr/e H. Penson 74 rural home than the "Seed Book." There, it is an 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS — The Planting educator and a means of bettering the condition of its 



-Beautles-Blackspot-The Early Planted Houses- recipient by calling his attention to new and improved 



Arthur V. Ruzicka '^ , • f j i. • i j.i i • ii i i? xi 



A GREAT TRIUMPH FOR THE SWEET PEA— W. T. kinds of crop materials, thus enhancing the value of the 



Hutchins 77 products of his land. The average seed or nursery cata- 



AMERICAN SWEET PEA SOCIETY— The Meeting— jog^e is really a valuable work, replete with instruc- 



T.,?o?.,':^""o'i.^^l?,TJ''n'^^'''^'*'°°~H''4,°^-''i'^"pi''.'''f ^^ tions for the Vowing of crops of all Idnds, carefully 



DURING RECESS — Gardeners and Florists' Club of i . ? i j_ x ^ t • xi 



Boston— Lancaster County Florists' Club Picnic— Cook prepared, printed at great expense, and is vastly more 



County Florists— A Philadelphia Spasm 80 than a mere advertisement or price list. An advance in 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Society of American Florists the rate of postage would tend to reduce its descriptive, 



-Canadian Horticultural Association-National Asso- cultural and educational features, for which it is now 



elation of Gardeners — Chicago Florists' Club — St. , n j j ■ i-j. j.- j? ii i 



Louis Florist Club 81 welcomed and preserved as an institution of the niral 



Club and Society Notes 82 household. The bulletins of the Department of Agricul- 



PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF SWEET PEA DISEASES ture, and we believe too those of the Agricultural Ex- 



AND THEIR CONTROIW. J. Tauhenhaus. ^ ■ ■ • • • ■ ■ 82 .jj^^gut Stations of the various states, are now admitted 



OBITUARY— Chas. E. Bnnton— Geo. Farrant— Frank D. f . . . . , ' , , , , 



Voris— Jos. Wetzier-Mrs. A. S. Burns 84 to the mails free— it IS a question whether the seed and 



THE HOLLAND HOUSE SHOW— W. H. Adsctt 84 nursery catalogues are not aecoraphshing a work equal 



SEED TRADE — Garden Peas from New Zealand— Notes 88 jn value to both. 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: On page 88 of this issue appears 



Steamer Departures — New Flower Store 90 /-.„„„ , „«„^ii„„ • i n i.i i • • j tt o 



Flowers by Telegraph 91 °"« ^ ^"^ ' "9 i^ f^l the decision of V S 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: always a seedling General Appraisers as rendered 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Phila. 93 under date of June 80, relative to 



New York, Washington, St. Louis 95 ^j^g classification of "evergreen seedlings" under the 



''SJ^pi^^MU and Mildew-iY. C. Ebel 77 tariff act of 1 909. This was the result of a protest by 



Polypodium Mandianum superbum— Illustration 79 K. « J. Farquhar & Uo., of Boston, against the levy of 



Fern Group by W. A. Manda — Illustration 81 twenty-five per centum ad valorem duty on transplanted 



News Notes ........... .82-84-88 evergreen seedlings over four vears of age and entitles 



Chicago Notes — Washington Notes — In Bankruptcy.. 85 ,, ° -,,. ° ii" c i j j. 



St. Louis Notes 86 "H seedling evergreens regardless of age to free entry. 



Evergreen Seedlings-^Catalogues Rec'd— Incorporated 88 It appears that certain New York importers had come 

 Personal 91 to an agreement with the customs officials, that seed- 

 New York Notes ....... 95 linsfs over four years old should be classified and become 



Cincinnati Personals — The Gardeners Song 100 t ;- • i i , , n ■ -, -ii i.i • 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 102 'l"tiable as nursery stock and m accordance with this 



= agreement evergreen seedlings exceeding this age were 

 Atteiitiiin is called, in our account everywhere classified and duty levied as nursery stock. 

 An opening of the exhibitou of sweet peas in Messrs. Farquhar in their protest contended that such 

 for real artists Boston, to the tendency of florists in classification was arbitrary, inconsistent, and a contra 

 their decorative work to overload, a indication of paragraph 668 of the Customs Tariff Act 

 failing which is not only expensive but very destruct;ive of August 5th, 1909. They claimed that evergreen seed- 

 to graceful artistic effect. This is, of course, nothing lings, of any age, were entitled as such to free entry, 

 new. With the majority of workers in flowers it has citing in support of their contention para.gi-aph 264 in 

 been an invariable failing since the infancy of the busi- which stocks, cuttings or seedlings of pear, apple, quince 

 ne^. In the early days of the flower trade when the and the Saint Julieu plum, are limited to three-years- 

 supply was meagre and every available flower repre- old or less. They contended that there was nothing 

 sented money the man who could make the least num- whatsoever in the act to indicate or suggest that Con- 

 ber go the farthest in "making up" was the one who' gress had intended any limitation on the age of ever- 

 could command the best price for his services. In addi- green seedlings — in fact the limitation of other kinds 

 tion, he was also the one who achieved the most repute of seedlings and the absence of any limitation as to 

 as an artist. Today, with the inexhaustible supply of evergreen seedlings may be taken as a clear indication 

 material the economical side of the question makes no tliat it was the intention of the framers of the Act to 

 very strong appeal and, judging from the examples of leave these seedlings unlimited as to age. We like to 

 decorative work seen at flower shows generally, artistic allude to this outcome of a protest under circumstances 

 perception is very weakly developed in the majority of particularly unpromising, because it was won by a 

 exhibitors. There is, perhaps, no phase of florists Boston house, single-handed. The decision is, of course, 

 work in which education through public trade exhibi- one of no small importance to the American nursery 

 tions and otherwise is so sorely needed as in this. It trade. 



