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HOR T I CULTURE 



Mar 18. 198« 





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Some fourteen years ago I began the growing of carnations, and especially of seedlings, more as a 

 pleasant occupation from which I derived considerable recreation and relief from business cares and worries. 

 In a few years the results attained in my work proved so encouraging that I began the introduction of 

 such new varieties as proved commercially successful and had received the approval of the retail florists of 

 New York City. 



This was done in the belief that the dissemination of the best results of my labors among the craft 

 would prove beneficial and profitable to our carnation brethren. During the past two years 1 have become 

 aware that more or less loss has been incurred by many in the trade who have purchased new varieties, 

 either of others or of my own origination, and I have been subject to more or less unjust criticism from 

 certain quarters. 



While I have been unusually careful about keeping records, as well as conservative in the descrip- 

 tions of the varieties sent out, I am convinced that no amount of care on my part will insure a certain pro- 

 portion of growers to successfully cultivate the new varieties which I might introduce, and as the intro- 

 duction of new sorts has always been done at a monetary sacrifice. I have decided to cease the active pro- 

 duction of carnation plants and cuttings for sale as well as the introduction of new varieties, and from 

 this onward the resources of the Cottage Gardens Carnation Department will be devoted to growing car- 

 nations exclusively for cut blooms. 



I desire to take this opportunity to express my extreme gratitude to those who have shown a friendly 

 interest in my work, and who have contributed to what little success I have attained by cheering me on- 

 ward with words of genuine appreciation, and to assure those friendly spirits, who are above carping criti- 

 cism, that so long as I continue to labor for the advancement of the divine flower, they will still be welcomed 

 to the Cottage Gardens as they have been in the past. 



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Queens, L. I., April 24, 1906. 



CHAS. W. WARD. 



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THE PAGOSCOPE. 

 (Translated by G. Blelcken.) 



This is a device to register frost in 

 the critical spring-time. The appara- 

 tus is invented by M. N. Bernel- 

 Bourette, 36 rue de Poiton, .Paris; the 

 price is 20 fr. ($5.) It has been tested 

 and is recommended by several ex- 

 periment stations and horticultural 

 societies in France. The apparatus 

 •comprises two thermometers, fixed up- 

 on a zinc-plate frame, the lower por- 

 tion of which contains a little reser- 

 voir, to be filled with water, not cal- 

 careous, however (rain or boiling 

 water perhaps best); a cotton wick 

 draws the water to a muslin envelope 

 .surrounding the base of the right 

 hand thermometer. 



About half an hour or so after sun- 

 down, we read the degree of tempera- 

 ture, indicated by the right-hand wetted 

 thermometer, and place the end of a 

 moveable arrow upon the correspond- 

 ing figure on a plate on the top of the 

 apparatus. 



Now we read the left hand ther- 

 mometer, follow up the figure obtained 

 on a horizontal extending line clear 

 across to the right hand thermometer, 

 and notice the point where this line 

 crosses the arrow, set, as stated above, 

 to correspond with the right hand 

 thermometer. 



The field between the two ther- 

 mometers is divided into three zones, 

 red, yellow, green, which zones are 

 not, however, equal. If the noted 

 crossing occurs in the red field, danger 

 of frost in the night and the follow- 

 ing morning is certain, while should 

 it cross the green field no danger ex- 

 ists; but should the crossing finally 

 occur in the yellow field the case is 

 doubtful either way. _ Revue Horticole. 



Geraniums, red, white and pink, 4 in. pots, $7.00 

 Carinas, Mad. Crozy, Alph. Bouvier, Egan- 



dale, Italia, Queen Charlotte 8.00 



Scarlet Sage, 4 in. pots 7.00 



Centauria Gymocarpa and Candidissima, 



3 in. pots • • 5.00 



Verbenas, 2'; in. pots ■ 2.50 



Petunias. 1% in. pots 2.50 



Double Petunias, 5 in. pots, fine 5.00 



HERMANN SCHOENFFLO 

 86th and Crothers Ave., Elmwood PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Send me a list of varieties that you already have, and I will send you 10 newer 

 ♦ varieties that you ought to have, such as 





Jeanne Nonin, White Coombes, Mrs. Swinburne, etc. } 



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The great MORTON F. PLANT now ready at $7.50 per doz., in 2% inch 

 My initio is still the same. Your money back if not entirely satisfied. 



CHARLES H. TOTTY 



HAD1SON, N.J. 



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NEWS NOTES. 



George Ostertag has been appoint- 

 ed superintendent of parks in St. 

 Louis, Mo.] to succeed Andrew Mey- 

 er, who takes the position of city 

 forester. 



ness at once with a warehouse at 

 Oakland and temporary offices at 108 

 Cole street, San Francisco. 



John Driscoll and Ernest Read have 

 bought the greenhouses of Thomas 

 King in Fall River, Mass., and will 

 make a specialty of raising cucumbers 

 and tomatoes. 



The buildings of the Sagadahoc 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Society 

 at Topsham, M#., were threatened with 

 destruction by a forest fire on May 1, 

 but the valiant efforts of- the towns- 

 people who started back fires checked 

 the flames in time. 



The Cox Seed Co., of San Francis- 

 co, Cal., whose offices and ware- 

 houses in Sansome street were de- 

 stroyed by the late disaster, an- 

 nounce that they will resume busi- 



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