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HORTICULTURE. 



May 8, 1909 



NEW ENGLAND FRUIT SHOW. 



On Oct. 19 to 24 next, inclusive, a 

 New England fruit show will bo held 

 at the building of the Horticultural 

 Society, Huntington and Massachu- 

 setts avenues, as a result of the con- 

 ference of governors of the New Eng- 

 land states last fall. 



The objects of this exhibition are to 

 stimulate interest in fruit growing 

 among the farmers of New England, to 

 show the consuming public that New 

 England fruit can be grown that is 

 equal in appearance and superior in 

 quality to that now grown in the West. 



The committee in charge has set 

 110.000 as the sum needed tor the pre- 

 mium list. In Massachusetts alone 

 agricultural and similar organizations 

 have already pledged upwards of $1200. 

 Prizes will be offered for all fruits and 

 will be for quality and appearance of 

 all recognized varieties and in all 

 styles of package. 



THE TREE AGENT. 



As he appears to the Bangor News. 



Without regard to Governor Feriiald's 

 wishes about the right date for our Arbor 

 day, which in theory should come to Maine 

 regularly every year, the dapper chap who 

 i-alled on yon last winter and ate corn beef 

 and cabbane at vour table, and seemed to 

 like it, and then walked off gayly to make 

 other oon.iuests — bearing your autograph 

 for six peach trees, two banana bushes and 

 a choice lager beer tree — this treeman 

 comes to see you at the very time you are 

 oui of money and demands cold cash on 

 delivery in spite of your personal incliua- 

 lions in .he matter, and without even ask- 

 ing to learn the cause of death of the 

 trees yow bought and paid for last year. 

 You recall now that as you stood above the 

 chopping block and brought you axe down 

 with a great whack upon the stalks of the 

 dead .ind mummified treelets that you then 

 and there residved to buy no more trees 

 from anybody, bnt here he is again with 

 the old smile on bis face and the old 

 story on his tongue, and nothing new but 

 some bundles of lead pencils that were, 

 grown in the nurseries of Itucliester N. Y. 



The company makes good all losses from 

 death, does it? A sort of life Insurance 

 company tgainst deceased trees is it? Not 

 much! When an old oountryman has 

 worked days and s,-it up nights over sickly 

 yo!iug trees, wiien he has blistered his 

 hands and watered the trees with his 

 sweat .nnd his tears, you cannot replace 

 them. It is just as if the doctor who had 

 killed your bab.v ^should say he would drop 

 around and bring you -another baby that 

 was "just as good." There is no substitu- 

 tion for the things we work for and suffer 

 for. The travelling tree man is a sweet 

 and beguiling companion over a table re- 

 cumbent under) loads of baked beans and 

 brown bread. He will sell you what you 

 want at his prices, but if yoii do not know 

 what yon want or are not alrsolutely sure 

 of it, a farmf-r will rweive a greater meas- 

 ure of mei*cy from a society of the Black 

 Hand in Sicily than he can hope for from 

 the chap who sells prnspivtive fruit from 

 copper plate samples, that have been col- 

 ored by hand or else "made in Germany." 

 — Bangor News. 



APPLES IN NEW ENGLAND. 



New Englanders who put their money 

 Into or.Tugo culture in the south should 

 til' ' •lit on the statement of the 



I \ s that apple culture in New 

 ! ~ the greatest return and is 



!■ - - than any other class of or- 



ch:iriiry to wiiich New I^ngland is adapted. 

 He says there is plenty of cheap land in 

 this part of the country tliat is admirably 

 adapted to apple raising. Vet a proportion, 

 — sometimes a ver,v large proportion — of the 

 apples sold in New England markets come 

 from other sections, and we buy them at 

 the good pric(-s necessitated b.y the fact 

 that the dealer.* have to |iny a goQd profit 

 abroad and then the freight chai;ges for 

 bringing them into this section. It would 

 appear that some people with capital are 

 neglecting an obvious chance to make a 

 good return on the investment easily and at 

 home, where they can watdi their invest- 

 ment closely. ^Brockton ICnterprise, 



Range of Conservatories at Central Park, Davenport, Ia. 

 Erected by Lord & Bnmham Company 



NEWS NOTES. 



Beverly Farms, Mass. — The Pierce 

 Nursery has secured the contract for 

 planting hedge and trees on the Lee 

 estate. 



Paducah, Ky. — C. L. Brunson & Co., 

 have been engaged to supply the 

 plants for the stations of the N. C. & 

 St. L. R. R. 



John E. Dwyer, formerly manager 

 for Burr & Co., has leased four acres 

 of land in Manchester, Conn., and will 

 start in the nursery business. 



Windsor Locks, Conn. — The Brain- 

 ard Floral & Nursery Co., have re- 

 ceived the order to beautify the 

 grounds around Memorial Hall, 



Portersviiie, Pa. — A demonstration 

 in spraying was held on the Oliver 

 farm on April 23, under the direction 

 of inspector P. L. McCIure. J. L. 

 Fisher of Pittsburgh was the lecturer. 



The Boston & Maine has contracted 

 with Loring Underwood, a landscape 

 architect of Boston, to plant 1000 wild 

 rose bushes between the Fitchburg and 

 Southern division tracks, at the new 

 Belmont station. 



The New York State Forestry Com- 

 mission is making preparations to 

 plant seed for 600,000 Norway spruce 

 at Randolph, Vt. The International 

 Paper Company is engaged in a similar 

 enterprise at Randolph. 



PERSONAL. 



Miles Dietrich has taken a position 

 at the Simonds greenhouse, Barre, 

 Mass. 



R. L. Woodward has returned to 

 Indianapolis, Ind. and started in land- 

 scape gardening. 



Ernest A. Asmus. formerly of Chica- 

 go has been placed in charge of the 

 Muskrat Nursery on the Government 

 forest reserve at Helena, Mont. 



Prank N. Howe of Hartford, has 

 taken a position as manager of land- 

 scape and nursery work for George 

 Johnson & Son, Providence, R. I. 



J. M. Prost, formerly an assistant in 

 West Park, successfuly passed the re- 

 cent civil service examination and has 

 been appointed city forester of Chicago 

 with a salary of $2,000. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Yokohama Nursery Co.. Ltd., Yoko- 

 hama. Japan. — 1909-10 Descriptive 

 Catalogue of Bulbs, Plants, Seeds. 

 Enclosed in covers of wood veneer 

 fastened with knots of vermilion floss 

 and lettered in gold. This publication 

 proclaims its Japanese origin in exter- 

 nal appearance. It is finely illus- 

 trated with half-tone engravings, and 

 six full-page plates in beautiful colors, 

 of lilies. Pink Cherokee roses, Mag- 

 nolia parviflora flore semipleno, Vibur- 

 num Carlesii, Kudsu vine and deco- 

 rated porcelain flower pots. 



The Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of 

 the Board of Park Commisioners of 

 Minneapolis, Minn,, recently issued is 

 not only a splendid record of praise- 

 worthy progress in park construction 

 but an art volume as well. The cover 

 illustration — a scene in Mississippi 

 Park — in colors, and the many full- 

 page half-tone views inserted through- 

 out the volume are fine examples of 

 reproductive art and the typographical 

 work throughout is fully up to the 

 high standard of the contents. A 

 number of diagrams and maps are 

 bound with the book and are interest- 

 ing as showing the character of the 

 improvements contemplated under the 

 supervision of that energetic superin- 

 tendent. Theodore Wirth. 



N. F. McCarthy & Co. are having an 

 unusually fine stock of spring plant- 

 ing material, both hardy and tender, 

 at their Tuesday and Friday plant 

 auction sales at 84 Hawley street, 

 Boston. The attendance at these sales 

 is excellent and growers having sur- 

 pluses to dispose of will find this a 

 prompt and effectual means of reduc- 

 ing stock. Catalogues of each sale 

 are issued in advance and mailed to 

 applicants. 



Cincinnati, O. — The park commis- 

 sion have rented for a term of ten 

 years the Jackson Nurseries on Price 

 Hill. The nursery stock on the prem- 

 ises belonging to D. R. Herrick was 

 purchased for $2,000. 



SIBERIAN ARBOR VITAE 



The finest dwarf Evergreen 

 Hedge Plant. 



Ol'wang'er (Si, Barry 



Hount Hope Nurseries 

 ROCHESTER, - - . N. Y. 



