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HOETICULTUEE 



September 7, 1912 



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SEPTEMBER 7, 1912 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLl'STRATION — Masdevallia tovarensis. 



MASDEVALI^IAS— Jlf. .7. Pope— Illustrated 341 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS STOCK— 

 Bouvardlas — Cyclamen tor the Holidays — Crimson 

 Ramblers— Hydrangeas— Laelia anceps — Making a 



New Peony Plantation — John J. M. Fnrrell 342 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GL.ASS— Using Cracked Ice 

 in Boxes — Lime — Killarney Roses and Mildew — 



Syringing — Arthur C. Ruzicka 343 



PERENNIAL PHI-OXES— (?. H. Pcnsun 343 



FRUIT AND VEGETiVBLES UNDER GLASS— Feed- 

 ing Strawberries — Watering Finished Trees — Shad- 

 ing — The Ant — Soil — George H. Penson 345 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 American Rose Society — Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — Florists' Club of Washington — Mrs. Frank H. 



Traendly, portrait — Club and Society Notes 346 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE— W. H. Adsett 347 



OBITUARY — Stephen Delbar — James X. Devine 347 



FEDERAL PLANT QUARANTINE AND INSPECTION 



LAW — Form of Application for Permit 349 



SEED TRADE ' 350 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



New Flower Stores — Steamer Departures 352 



Flowers by Telegraph 352 



C. A. Kuehn's New Store, Illustrations 354-355 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia 357 



New York, St. Louis, Washington 359 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Growers Wanted for National Flower Show 346 



The Bruges International Exhibition 346 



Where the Credit Belongs — Patrick O'Mara 347 



At Dreer's — George C. M'atson 347 



Washington Notes — New York Notes 347 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 347 



Catalogues Received — Patents Granted 350 



Large Crop of Chinese Narcissus 350 



News Notes 352-355-359 



Chicago Notes — St. Louis Notes 354 



Philadelphia Notes 355 



Personal — Publication Received 359 



Tla-re is already some talk of San 



San Francisco's Francisco as the place for the next 



ambitions National Show, following Xew York 



— the time to be 1915, the year of 

 the Panama Exposition. The S. A. F. has already 

 given evidence of favorable consideration of the invita- 

 tion to hold the 1915 convention in San Francisco and 

 the merging of flower show and convention into one big 

 affair at that time has been mentioned as being within 

 the range of possibility. It is intimated that the S. A. 



F. would find San Francisco and the Exposition govern- 

 ment ready to meet them half-way in the matter of 

 ];rizcs and that a unique and altogether unprecedented 

 open air horticultural demonstration would be assured. 

 There appears to be practically no limit to the ambitions 

 of the Pacific Coast floricultural people in this project. 

 Convincing proof that they mean Imsiness and are get- 

 ting at it in good season can lie found in the list of Cal- 

 ifornia members added to the S. A. F. rolls in the past 

 two years, wlien the secretary's annual report is pul)- 

 lished. 



The passing of three weeks has al- 

 To keep ready relegated the Chicago Con- 



up the interest vention to the '"bygone" shelf. So 



recently an all-absorbing topic for 

 comment and discussion and so soon cast aside ! Yet 

 many of the questions there brought forward are as im- 

 ])ortant, and should be as much alive today as they were 

 then and they will so continue. Here is one direction 

 in which a closer concentration of effort between the 

 florists' clubs and the national society could be turned 

 to great practical advantage. The various local clubs 

 are now resuming their regular meetings. The presi- 

 dent's address at Chicago find the report of the commit- 

 tee appointed to consider its recormnendations, which of 

 necessity received only a brief and superficial con- 

 sideration, might well be made to furnish live topics 

 for a whole season's discussion in the local organizations 

 and thus accomplish a world of good. Take the subject 

 of "overhead costs" for example. AVho can doubt that 

 if every organization of commercial florists in the coun- 

 try — growers and dealers — should make this the one 

 topic for consideration at their October meeting, the re- 

 sult would be of great benefit to the trade at large ? Only 

 in some such way can we reap the full measure of good 

 which is brought forth at sttch a gathering of the bright- 

 est and most successful men in the trade. 



The import of the federal plant 

 The plant inspection law is given in this paper 



inspection law together with a copy of the form of 

 application for permit to enter nur- 

 sery stock under the provisions of this law. This is the 

 act known as H. P. •^4119 "to regulate the importation 

 of nursery stock and other plants and plant products." 

 The Federal Horticultural Board established by the law 

 has been appointed and, we understand, is now consider- 

 ing the regulations which are to be prescribed by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. The Board is made up as fol- 

 lows : 



C. L. Marlatt, Assistant Chief Bureau of Entomology 

 (Chairman); Dr. W. A. Orton, Plant Pathologist (Vice Chair- 

 man); Peter Bisset, Bureau of Plant Introduction; A. F. 

 Burgess, Entomologist; Geo. B. Sudworth, of the Forest 

 Service. 



The law will go into effect on October 1, 191,3. A 

 permit will be needed for each separate importation. 

 This is one of the most important legislative acts ever 

 passed, in its relationship to the business of the florist 

 and nurseiyman and otir readers are advised to peruse 

 it carefully and thus become thoroughly familiar with 

 its pro\'isions. As finally passed and approved it prac- 

 tically upholds all the terms of the Simmons Bill 

 against which much protest was made. We hope that 

 with all the legislation of one kind or another affecting 

 the nurserj'man, florist and seedsman recently enacted 

 we shall now be given a respite for a while. We are 

 pleased to see the name of Peter Bisset on the list of 

 Board members. Mr. Bisset has the respect of the entire 

 horticultural fi'aternitA'. 



