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/IORTICULTURE 



February 24, 1906 



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ROBERT CRAIG 



The Best SCARLET ever offered to the trade. 



We can make immediate delivery of rooted cuttings of the above variety. 



$12.00 per 100. $100 per 1,000. 

 I J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet, 111. 





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of 20 to 30 cords to the acre, and that 

 stable manure has proved to be a com- 

 plete manure, but if a second crop is 

 to be grown on the same land an addi- 

 tional ton of some special fertilizer 

 suitable to that crop is often necessary. 

 But after all the growing of all crops 

 depends more on the man than any- 

 thing else. 



In the course of the discussion which 

 followed his opening remarks, in re- 

 ply to a question, Mr. Rawson stated 

 that he had found the arc electric light 

 beneficial in the growing of lettuce 

 under glass and that he was now ex- 

 perimenting with the application of a 

 current of electricity in the soil which 

 promises to be of still greater benefit. 

 He said if any one doubted the effect 

 of electricity on the growing crops 

 under glass he would be glad to nave 

 them see two of his lettuce houses, 

 one of which was treated with elec- 

 trical appliances and the othi i with- 

 out them. The difference in the re- 

 sult was very marked in favor of the 

 electrically treated crop. He was still 

 in the experimental stage on this sub- 

 ject and hoped in the course of a year 

 to report the results more fully. 



Referring to the matter of the steril- 

 ization of the soil he said that after 

 the experience of eight years he had 

 found it more successful and satisfac- 

 tory; in fact, it was the best thing 

 he ever did in the greenhouse line and 

 the most profitable. 



In answer to another question he 

 said that the trouble with most farms 

 is the lack of proper treatment. The 

 soil was not worked enough. He ad- 

 vised one ploughing in the fall fol- 

 lowed by two more in the spring. 



INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 



Translated fr< 



Berlini by 



"i tartenfli 

 G. B 



The city of Mannheim, Germany, is 

 planning an International Art and 

 Horticulture Exhibition, the cost of 

 which is estimated at $200,000. The 

 management of the Horticulture Ex- 

 hibition is intrusted to Prof. Max 

 Lauger, Farlsruhe, and the Art Ex- 

 hibition to Prof. Ludwig Dill. From 

 city funds $12,000 are promised, while 

 from private parties a guarantee fund 

 of $80,000 has already been given. 

 About $25,000 of the fund is to be used 

 to buy pieces of art from exhibitors. 

 How much money is put aside for hor- 

 ticultural purchases is not disclosed. 



We are sorry to learn that Joseph 

 A. Manda. of South Orange. N. J., is 

 sick with typhoid fever. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Herman Anhausser of Lansdowne 

 had a fire on the morning of the 16th. 

 Started in the boiler shed. Damage 

 $50. Might have been worse except 

 for the strenuous efforts of William 

 J. Muth, a Philadelphia wholesaler, 

 who got on the roof and worked like 

 a real fireman. Unfortunately the roof 

 had a slant with plenty of ice, and 

 without thinking Mr. Muth took a 

 slide and came down real quick, strik- 

 ing on the frozen ground with a ter- 

 rible bump. Mr. Eckels says that all 

 Americans are honest at bottom. It 

 was a good thing for Mr. Muth that 

 he hit on the honest place. 



C. W. Ward of Cottage Gardens gave 

 an illustrated lecture on Carnations be- 

 fore the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society on the 20th inst. There was 

 an interesting exhibition of new car- 

 nations, roses, primulas and cyclamens 

 at this meeting. 



A. B. Scott reports that the demand 

 for young roses grafted on the Dick- 

 son-Manetti stock is unusually large 

 this season, and that he is already 

 booked to the full capacity. 



Paul Klingshorn of the Durnont 

 forces is down with typhoid fever. 



OBITUARY. 

 February 13 the last of the Pouyal 

 family died in San Francisco. It was 

 noted as a prominent family of flor- 

 ists. The parents, John and Marie, 

 opened a plant and flower store thir- 

 ty-five years ago. Three months ago 

 it was noted in HORTICULTURE that 

 Alfred Pouyal, the only surviving 

 member of the family, made a decora- 

 tion of the flower store on its thirty- 

 fifth anniversary. The father died 

 two years ago. The elder son, Ray- 

 mond, who succeeded the father in 

 the store's management, died one year 

 ago. The mother, who succeeded 

 Raymond as manager, died three 

 months ago. when Alfred, the last of 

 the family, took the store's manage- 

 ment, but on the 13th instant he too 

 passed on— following father, mother 

 and elder brother. 



An International Botanical Con- 

 gress will be held in Brussels in 1910. 

 Owing to the death of Professor Er- 

 rera, the Count Kerchove de Denter- 

 ghem will be chairman of the organ- 

 izing committee. This gentleman. 

 who is and has been for many years 

 president of the Royal Horticultural 

 and Botanical Society of Ghent, is a 

 well known and ardent lover of horti- 

 culture in all its branches 



A FINE BROOKLINE ESTATE. 



The estate of E. D. Brandegee, com- 

 prising some 225 acres, is one of the 

 finest around Boston. Besides the 

 large greenhouses, which contain many 

 fine orchids, ferns and specimen dec- 

 orative plants, there are rose, carna- 

 tion, violet and chrysanthemum 

 houses, one large house devoted to 

 mixed flowering plants, such as 

 heaths, acacias, callas. etc., under the 

 efficient charge of Mr. Weir, the su- 

 perintendent and gardener of the 

 estate. There are about fifty acres in 

 ornamental grounds, twenty in garden 

 park and two acres in rhododendrons, 

 of which there are about seventy-five 

 varieties. Some of the rhododendrons 

 succeeding best here are Everestianum, 

 rosy lilac; H. H. Hunnewell, dark 

 crimson; H. W. Sargent, crimson; 

 Mrs. Milner, rich crimson, elegant 

 foliage; Roseum Elegans. an old sort 

 but should be in every collection; 

 Lady Armstrong, pale rose; Hannibal 

 rose, late variety; Delicatissimum, 

 white tinted with pink; Charles Dick- 

 ens, dark scarlet; Album Grandiflorum, 

 bluish, fine foliage; Mrs. John Clutton, 

 white; Sappho, white blotched with 

 maroon; Blandyanum. crimson, and 

 Chionicles, yellowish white. 



For summer decoration of the 

 Italian garden and on the terraces 

 around the mansion 100 bay trees 

 from 7 to 16 feet in height, standards 

 and pyramids, are used. They are 

 usually set out about the last week in 

 April and put in the storage house the 

 middle of October and given all venti- 

 lation possible in mild weather. Box 

 plants, standard and pyramid, Cali- 

 fornia privet in pots and tubs, stan- 

 dard lilacs. Hibiscus syriacus, laxus 

 Hibernica in tubs, and English hollies 

 are also largely used for the same 

 purpose. 



The estate has some fifty acres 

 woodland, about one hundred acres in 

 meadow and mowing. The driveways 

 and roads are annually fixed up with 

 crushed stone, which keeps them in 

 fine condition. The lawns have fre- 

 quent top dressings and waterings in 

 dry weather, and when mowed feel 

 like velvet under foot. 



W. SWAN. 



Zimmer Bros, will open a new 

 flower store at the corner of Farnum 

 and 19th streets. N. W.. Omaha, Neb. 

 George Zimmer has been with the Col- 

 fax Floral Co., of Denver, and Lewis 

 Zimmer has had charge of the con- 

 servatory at the State Insane A •vlum. 



