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E. J. Fancourt of the Pennock- 

 Meehan Co. left on the 19th inst for 

 a week's trip on firm's business to 

 Baltimore and Washington. 



Robert Crawford, Jr. is rusticating 

 at Atlantic City after an unusually 

 strenuous season. Business has been 

 better at this point than any previous 

 period of the firm's history. 



The Dreer Arboretum is the title 

 given to the new e.xperimental garden 

 at Riverton, N. J., by yours truly. Mr. 

 Eisele and Mr. Clark are far too 

 modest to claim a high sounding name 

 like that. Nevertheless we believe 

 the cognomen is almost justified when 

 the large number of new and rare 

 shrubs and hardy plants from all parts 

 of the world are considered. 



The collection is located on the 

 southwest banks of the extensive lily 

 ponds and consists of many new and 

 rare specimens among which were 

 noted: Buddleia ^aphiolepis. a shrub 

 which, according to the authorities, 

 does best on light well-drained soil — 

 conditions which can hardly be 

 claimed for the location next to the 

 lily pond; Spirea bumalda Walluf, a 

 dwarf shrub of the same sub-family 

 as' the well known Anthony Waterer; 

 Azalea canescens, a variety belonging 

 to the nudifiora section, which is a 

 native of the eastern states. 



Among the new deutzias we noted 

 the variety fostuosa belonging to the 

 gracilis section but unknown to cultiv- 

 ation generally; also Lonicera Maacki, 

 Rhododendron myrhifolium, Senecio 

 clivorum, A7,a!ea mollis L. J. Endtz, 

 Dimoychanus Manchurius fol. var., 

 Rhododendron fimbriatum, Andromeda 

 calyculata pumila, Ligustrum lucieton- 

 ium, Demorphanthus argentea var., 



Deutzia discolor major and a host of 

 other rare things in evergreen and de- 

 ciduous shrubs. 



The garden is for the testing ot 

 items not generally known or grown in 

 our climate and will no doubt be a 

 valuable auxilian.- to the business and 

 a centre of interest to visitors of an 

 enquiring turn of mind. Xext year 

 the intention is to plant all around the 

 eastern banks of the lily ponds with a 

 still larger collection. 



If you want to see things done with 

 a rush and yet with a system so ac- 

 curate that it is almost impossible for 

 an error to occur, visit the Dreer pack- 

 ing sheds in April. Hundreds of men 

 are at work at the benches, helpers 

 are scurrying up with box-loads and 

 barrow-loads, wagons are starting off 

 every few minutes for boat or train — 

 a most inspiring bustle all around that 

 makes even your scribe wiggle his 

 pencil faster than usual. 



Roses are going out rapidly at pres- 

 ent. One range of potted plants under 

 glass comprises about fifty thousand 

 square feet of space and looks like a 

 field of wheat. Mr. Eisele says that 

 one of the surprises this year is the 

 demand for Penzance Sweet Briars. 

 An experimental section for outdoor 

 testing of new Hybrid Teas was estab- 

 lished last year and proved so inter- 

 esting that it has been largely ex- 

 tended this year. Two hundred vari- 

 eties, most of them unknown in this 

 cotintry, are now under test. This 

 will be a Mecca for rose enthusias s 

 during the coming summer. An im- 

 portant development of last summer's 

 work was the discovery of La Detroit, 

 Mr. Eisele declares this to be one of 

 the best bedding roses extant — more 

 flowers and a stronger grower than 

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