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HOETICULTUEE 



March 7, 1914. 



HORTICULTURE 



VOL. XIX 



MARCH 7, 1914 



NO. 10 



PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY 



HORTICULTURE PUBLISHING CO. 

 II Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 



Telephone, Oxford 293. 

 WM. J. STEWART, Editor and Manager. 



Entered as second-class matter December 8, 1904, at the Post OfBce 

 at Boston, Mass., ander the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



CONTENTS Page 



COVER ILLUSTRATION— A Pierson U-Bar Green- 

 house at Pittsburgh 



NOTES ON CULTURE OF FLORISTS' STOCK— Care 

 of Dahlias — Carnations — Gardenias — Lilies for 

 Easter — Orchids — John ./. M. Farrell 325 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS— The Snow— Shift- 

 ing the Young Plants — Setting the Plants on the 

 Benches — Preparing the Benches — Arthur C. 

 Ruzicka 326 



DICTAMNUS— fiicftard «oi7ie— Illustrated 327 



ROSE GROWERS. ATTENTION 329 



CLUBS AND SOCIETIES— Florists' Club of Philadel- 

 phia — Connecticut Horticultural Society — Oyster Bay 

 Horticultural Society — New Bedford Horticultural 

 Society — Society of American Florists — Texas State 



Florists — Massachusetts Horticultural Society 330 



Club and Society Notes 332 



Chrysanthemum Society of America 333 



International Flower Show at New York 332 



SEED TRADE— A Dubious Outlook— Troubles of the 

 Pea Growers and Dealers — Price Cutting — A Hot 

 Place in June — Bean Cunning — Next Canners Con- 

 vention 336 



Chicago Seed Notes — Notes 338 



OP INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Steamer Departures 340 



Flowers by Telegraph — New Flower Stores 341 



OBITUARY— John M. Foss— Jas. P. Copeland— Wm. W. 

 Bailey— Abel S. Wolfe— Wm. A. Sheldrick— John 

 Hetherlngton 343 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis... 345 

 Washington 347 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Massachusetts Agricultural College 327 



Injurious Mulching 327 



Boston Park Department 327 



A Trio of Totty Novelties— Illustration 329 



A Dreer Specialty — Illustration 329 



French Seedlings Infested with Brown-Tall Moth 



Nests— C. L. Marlatt 329 



Publications Received 332 



Catalogues Received 334 



Business Troubles 340 



Chicago Notes — Philadelphia Notes 342 



Washington Notes — News Notes 342 



Dutch Auction Stuff in England 343 



Personal — Visitors' Register 347 



New Corporations 347 



A Pierson U-Bar Greenhouse at Pittsburgh 347 



During Recess 347 



How to Control Moth Pests 352 



Farmers' Week at Amherst 352 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated . 354 



Fires 354 



Organizers of the "Florists' Union of 

 Unionizing America" have been at work among 

 the florists? the florists, gardeners, designers and 

 flower salesmen of New York City, seek- 

 ing to form a local union and enroll members. We are 

 informed that a meeting has been called for March 9. 

 Just how this new movement will be received by the 

 interests named we do not pretend to foresee. But it 



is our opinion that there are organizations enough al- 

 ready and what is needed is to bring what we have up to 

 the highest possible efficiency and to promote the wel- 

 fare of all by a closer co-operation between the existing 

 representative bodies throughout the country. The in- 

 trusion of the union organizers will hardly be welcomed 

 by the profession and the proposition will be found a 

 very difficult one to handle according to union methods. 



A versatile correspondent of the Phila- 



They're delphia Public Ledger, philosophizing on 



at it again the vast difference between the profit on 



mining coal, which the census says is 

 seven cents per ton gross, and the profit made by the 

 florist on his goods, states that "a big Philadelphia 

 florist" told him that "when he sells the retail man 

 $1.00 worth of flowers the latter charges an average of 

 $3.00 to his customers for them." Every little while 

 this spook continues to be dragged out for scare-crow 

 use on the public. When will our florists learn not to 

 feed the newspaper correspondents with this sort of 

 stupid misrepresentation which is invariably used for 

 the purpose of discrediting the florist business and to 

 make it in the estimation of the public a synonym for 

 reprehensible extortion ? 



As the date for the big New York 



Flowers Flower Show draws near, we hear 



real and artificial again the customary protests 



against the displaying of artificial 

 flowers. In connection with the trade exhibitions at the 

 S. A. F. conventions we have been disposed to favor the 

 florist supply dealers, who include much of this material 

 in their general displays, our contention being that these 

 trade exhibitors are of financial value to the Society, 

 lieing among the largest buyers of space, and that, pay- 

 ing for the privilege as supply dealers, they should be 

 permitted to show any material which they are accus- 

 tomed to sell to florists, many of whom attend the con- 

 ventions for the express purpose of seeing the goods that 

 the supply dealers have to offer. But in the case of a 

 public flower show we can see a decided incongruity in 

 exploiting imitation flowers for popular scrutiny and we 

 are heartily in accord with the sentiment that would 

 keep these things out of sight of the public. Artiflcial 

 flowers have their legitimate uses, and it is no discredit 

 to a supply dealer that they are a material factor in his 

 business, but it is never one of their legitimate uses to 

 take the place of fresh flowers where these can properly 

 be used. In exploiting his business before the public, 

 every florist must, of course, be his own judge as to 

 whether or not he will use these goods in his usual course 

 of business and deck his place with imitation finery and 

 tinselled trash or degTade an undefiled carnation with 

 a coat of paint and then lie to his customers as to the 

 origin of its tawdry green tint, but all this can and 

 should be debarred from the public flower show. The 

 supply dealer will not sutler by the restriction for he has 

 a wealth of beautiful baskets, vases, Jardinieres and 

 other flower and plant receptacles and no end of dainty 

 and useful accessories to give a pleasing and graceful 

 flnish to floral work, and it is our belief, after a heart- 

 to-heart talk with the most eminent florist supply deal- 

 ers, that they fully appreciate the situation and are 

 ready to accept the restrictions proposed. In the long 

 run the supply man will lose nothing liy thus helping 

 the florist to hold his position with the public as a 

 florist and not as a dealer in cheap imitations and 

 <rimcracks. 



