HORTICULTURE 



Vol. XXXII 



JULY 3, 1920 



No. 1 



THE TALK OF THE TRADE 



Cut fioiuls of afiiantuin have been 

 in strong demand for the past few 

 years, and in the East particularly 

 there seems to be a good opening for a 

 grower to handle this crop properly. 

 a,f he will surely find ready sale and at 

 a fair price. The varieties hydrldum 

 and Croweanum seem to be the most 

 satisfactory, and this is really not a 

 hard crop to handle. There is more 

 stock grown around New York and 

 Philadelphia than around Boston, but 

 even Philadelphia and New York 

 could use more, and it is particularly 

 true that a crop of cut fronds coming 

 regularly into Boston would find quick 

 sale. I know of one storemau, for in- 

 stance, who is now ready to contract 



for 2, .500 cut fronds every week, and 

 this is only a bit of information I hap- 

 pened to run across and doesn't indi- 

 cate by any means what further could 

 be done. 



Well grown pot plants of adiantum 

 are also good property, not particularly 

 Farleyense, as that is a more fancy pot 

 plant and not in such heavy demand, 

 but cuneatum, hybridum. Croweanum 

 and also that very good pot plant va- 

 riety Farleyense gloriosum. The lat- 

 ter is a very pretty plant when well 

 grown and gives good results as a 

 store plant. 



Growers who started on planting 



MiPir new roses earlv are now a'lle to 



judge a little bit of the growing quali- 

 ties of these new Introductions, and 

 reports from all directions would indi- 

 cate that Dunlop is a hustler. While 

 there was a tendency to mildew in the 

 pot plant stage, after it was planted it 

 quickly outgrew this trouble and is 

 jumping ahead with every indication of 

 it being one of the rankest growers of 

 any of the forcing roses. Let us hope 

 that it will give the good results tliat 

 we have a right to expect from present 

 indications. 



The Sunday closing idea is spreading 

 fast, and it is right that it should. 

 Florists all over the country are falling 

 in line, and it is to the credit of the 

 trade that this movement has been a- 

 ('opted so readily. There is no reason 

 ill the world why flower stores should 



.Madam Kuttf>rflv 



