March 21, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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cultural Society has selected July 22 

 and 23 as the dates for their annual 

 flower show. One-half of the net pro- 

 ceeds will be given to the Southamp- 

 ton Hospital. The show committee 

 this year consists of Martin McLough- 

 lin, chairman; William Fitzpatrick, 

 secretary; Frank H. Smith, financial 

 secretary; William McLeod, treasurer; 

 Ulysses G. Ager, James Guilfoyle, 

 Charles E. Frankenback, Charles A. 

 Jaggar and Joseph G. Cassidy. 



STOREHOUSE FOR AZALEAS AND IVIES AT BOBBINK & ATKINS. 



The fall shows of the American In- 

 stitute of the City of New York will 

 be held as follows: Dahlia, Sept. 22 

 to 24; Chrysanthemum, Nov. 4 to 6, 

 1914. Knight & Struck Co. offer the 

 following special prizes for the Dahlia 

 Show. 



For the best single specimen blooms, 

 one each of the following: Mrs. Fran- 

 cis King, Mrs. Thom:is W. Barlow, Mrs. 

 Grosvenor, Mrs. Wm, R. Warner, Jr., 

 Mrs. D. C. Bl.'iir, Chiettrtin; 1st prize, 

 $6.00; 2nd, $4.00. For twelve long- 

 stemmed flowers of the Heatherhome Mid- 

 summer Oiant Cosmos, assorted colors; lat, 

 $3.00; 2nd, $2.00. 



Wm. a. Eagleson, 

 Secretary, Board of Managers. 



At the March meeting of the Con- 

 necticut Horticultural Society Presi- 

 dent Huss announced that the Society 

 would be favored with a lecture, ac- 

 companied by stereopticon views, by 

 Theodore Wirth, on the Park System 

 of Minneapolis. This lecture is to be 

 given at Saengerbund Hall, 7G Wells 

 street, at 8 o'clock on the evening of 

 March 20th. President Huss exhibited 

 six handsome cinerarias, also prim- 

 roses and stocks. Alfred Cebelius ex- 

 hibited three plants of Ceneraria stel- 

 lata. Hugo Kuehl showed a vase of 

 snapdragon, the product of seed sown 

 last May, making the plants ten 

 months' old. President Huss request- 

 ed the secretary to read an article on 

 "The Whys in Plant Disease Control," 

 by J. J. Taubenhaus. 



Alfred Dixon, Secy. 



The March meeting of the Nassau 

 County (N. Y.) Horticultural Society 

 was held on Wednesday, the 11th. Mr. 

 Redstone of Hitchings & Co. was a 

 visitor and addressed the meeting. P. 

 Honey man received 1st prizes for an- 

 tirrhinums and violets. 



At the April meeting Mr. Wilkinson 

 of the New York State Department of 

 Agriculture, will deliver an address on 

 "Home Gardens," after which there 

 will be a "smoker" or social evening. 

 This being the first to be held, it is 

 hoped the members will help the com- 

 mittee of arrangements in every pos- 

 sible manner. The meeting is called 

 for G P. M., instead of 7 P. M. as usual. 

 (Members please note.) Exhibits for 

 next meeting will be: 12 narcissus, 

 large trumpet type; 12 early flowering 

 tulips, 1 pot or pan of hyacinths. Next 

 meeting will be held at Pembroke 

 Hall, Glen Cove, on Wednesday even- 

 ing, April Sth, at 6 P. M. 



Hauby Jones, Cor. Secy. 



Salesman Fred Lautenschlager re- 

 ports the sale of one Kroeschell boiler 

 each to Charlie Meier, Henry Meier 

 and A. S. Cerny, of St. Louis, each 

 boiler having a capacity to heat 30,000 

 square feet of glass. 



No plant growing place of any ex- 

 tent can get along today without a 

 serviceable cool storage house such as 

 is shown in the accompanying picture. 

 In fact, we doubt if there is any struc- 

 ture of the kind in any establishment 

 which the owner finds sufficiently 

 large for his needs, especially during 



busy season. The cool sheds of the 

 Easter plant growers are a fascinating 

 sight just at present with their ranks 

 and tiers of blooming material which 

 has been brought to the exact state of 

 finish and will spend the rest of the 

 days till shipping time in the cool re- 

 freshing atmosphere of the retarding 

 house. 



FLORISTS AND UNIONS 

 Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — In your issue of March 

 7 you commented editorially on union- 

 izing the florists and expressed the 

 opinion that the union organizers will 

 hardly be welcomed by the profession. 

 I quite agree with you, Mr. Editor; 

 they were never welcomed by any pro- 

 fession. I would like to ask, however, 

 are there not reasons, even among 

 florists, for the employee trying to pro- 

 tect himself from unreasonable condi- 

 tions? I may here state that, person- 

 ally, I am opposed to organizations, be- 

 lieving that they are a menace to 

 personal liberty and individuality. 

 Some argue that idealism is an idle 

 dream, and they throw up their hands 

 and fall in with the crowd. I believe 

 we should not give up the fight, but 

 should at least make an attempt at 

 our ideals, even though we may be 

 considered singular for so doing. 



But, to return to our subject, I 

 have had some experience of the 

 tyranny of the florist. I was employed 

 by one for a short time, who worked 

 his help from five in the morning un- 

 til seven and eight at night and, in 

 addition to that, to save the expense 

 of a night man, sat up with fires un- 

 til 2 o'clock in the morning, there be- 

 ing hardly power enough to keep out 

 frost. I found in conversation with 

 my fellow craftsmen that it was quite 

 a common thing among the trade. 

 The magnificent wages we received 

 was twenty dollars a month and board. 

 Greenhorns and foreigners were in 

 great demand, others being considered 

 too wise. But that, it may be argued, 

 was years ago. Here is a conversa- 

 tion I listened to several months ago: 

 A florist asked another if he knew of 

 a good man he could hire. "What 

 kind of a man do you want?" "Oh, a 

 Dago that I could get tor 15 or 20 

 dollars a month and board." That 



was in enlightened Boston In the 

 twentieth century. Now, Mr. Editor, 

 an Italian is a man, and if he is not 

 treated as such, do you blame him 

 for organizing to protect himself? 



GEORtiE F. Stewart. 

 Medford, Mass. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



Professor A. H. Nehrling of the Flor- 

 icultural Department has made plans 

 for a general enlargement of the work 

 of his department. For some time 

 past it has been found that because 

 of the increased enrollment and the 

 progress that has been made in conse- 

 quence, the present equipment is en- 

 tirely inadequate. When the addition 

 to French Hall is completed, it is ex- 

 pected that the original part of the 

 building will be given up entirely to 

 floriculture. A reading room devoted 

 to floricultural subjects will be in- 

 stalled; a room for storage purposes 

 and a work room fitted up with mod- 

 ern equipment will also be provided. 

 Prof. Nehrling is also planning a com- 

 plete reorganization of the courses, 

 making them more specialized and 

 professional in order to fit the men 

 for practical work. This is in ac- 

 cordance with the example set by the 

 University of Illinois which at its 

 last commencement, granted the first 

 college degree in floriculture ever 

 given in this country. 



A seminar for the members of the 

 Senior class has been introduced for 

 the disc-urrsion of special problems in 

 advance work. A jiumber of men arc 

 inl ending to take up graduate work if 

 the necessary facilities are provided. 

 It is hoped that more greenhouses 

 will be added in the near future; with 

 the Increasing number of regular an.l 

 short course student?, it is essential 

 that the department should have more 

 space for practicii' work for these 

 students. 



