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HORTICULTURE 



May 22, 1909 



RUTHERFORD 

 N. J. 



JULIUS ROEHRS CO. 



Large stock of Bay Trees, Box Trees, Blue Spruce, Choice Evergreens, etc,, 



all in finest condition. 



Palms, Stove Plants, Begonias, Hydrangeas in all sizes and prices. 

 Fine assortment on hand of both newly imported and semi-established. 



LET us QUOTE YOU PRICES. 



FORESTRY AT MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



From the beginning the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College has paid 

 considerable attention to forestry. 

 Courses of lectures have frequently 

 been given, prizes offered and interest 

 aroused in other ways. A considerable 

 number of graduates from the institu- 

 tion have gone into forestry work and 

 some of these are recognized today as 

 amongst the leading professional for- 

 esters of the country. Nevertheless, 

 there has been a strong feeling in re- 

 cent years that the college ought to do 

 more for forestry, and that in particu- 

 lar there should be established perma- 

 nent courses dealing with modern pro- 

 fessional forestry and forest manage- 

 ment. 



While something still depends upon 

 the action of the present legislature, 

 matters have progressed far enough 

 now to make it seem fairly certain that 

 the work can be opened up to advan- 

 tage this coming autumn, with the 

 opening of the fall semester, Septem- 

 ber, 1909. The plan is definitely to 

 establish a complete and permanent 

 department of forestry in the Division 

 of Horticulture. President Butterfield 

 and Professor Waugh have been for 

 some mouths engaged in a quiet search 

 for a suitable man to head this depart- 

 ment. While the man has not been 

 selected, there are two or three very 

 promising candidates in view. No seri- 

 ous trouble is anticipated in securing 

 a good man for the work. 



The present plan is to offer two 

 straight years of professional forestry. 

 These will be given in the form of 

 elective courses covering junior and 

 senior years, and will have very much 

 the same standing in the college cur- 

 riculum as landscape gardening and 

 botany now have. The courses will be 

 available, therefore, not only to men 

 who wish to become professional for- 

 esters, but a certain amount of the 

 work can be elected by landscape gar- 

 deners, tree doctors, farm managers, or 

 any other students who, tor any rea- 

 son, are interested in forestry. In all 

 probability some short courses will 

 also be given. Professor F. William 

 Rane, state forester, will continue on 

 the staff of the college faculty as lec- 

 turer in forestry and will assist the 

 department in various ways. 



The courses of study proposed, 

 though strictly professional and rea- 

 sonably complete in themselves, are 

 not expected to duplicate the work 

 done at such forestry schools as Har- 

 vard and Yale. The work in those in- 



stitutions is post graduate in charac- 

 ter, while at Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, the courses will be of 

 undergraduate grade. Furthermore, a 

 definite understanding has been se- 

 cured between the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College and the two institu- 

 tions named looking toward direct co- 

 operation. It is expected that men who 

 take forestry courses at M. A. C. and 

 afterward go to Yale and Harvard for- 

 est schools will receive full credit for 

 such courses. 



The establishment of this new de- 

 partment means a decided advance. It 

 is a big undertaking, but one which is 

 sure to succeed because of the wide- 

 spread interest in forestry. 



BOOM THE CHRYSANTHEMUM 

 SOCIETY. 



Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — As a member of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America I 

 wish to express my appreciation and 

 extend my hearty support to President 

 Smith's appeal for an increase in mem- 

 bership of that organization. Mr. 

 Smith very truly points to the benefits 

 conferred to the growers of chrysanth- 

 emums generally by the work of the 

 C. S. A. and its committees. And while 

 he does not do so he undoubtedly 

 could have offered practical sugges- 

 tions which if acted upon would ma- 

 terially increase the benefits conferred. 

 The work of the organization may not 

 be above criticism (if you happen to 

 know anything in the universe that is, 

 please hold up your hand) and sincere 

 criticism is solicited. But standing 

 oft with your hands in your pockets 

 and criticising the other fellow, seldom 

 accomplishes anything. In traveling 

 the highway of human progress, you 

 have probably noticed that it Is pretty 

 generally up hill, and for every one 

 that is willing to give a helping hand 

 to push the benzine buggy, there are 

 nine who meander contentedly along, 

 either doing nothing themselves or 

 ridiculing the efforts of those who are, 

 but ready to get in and ride as soon 

 as the machine decides to go, or the 

 top of the hill has been reached and 

 there is prospect of a comfortable 

 coast down the other side. 



Perhaps it may seem like Imposing 

 upon good nature to ask it, but will 

 not each member of the C. S. A. make 

 a special effort to get at least one new 

 member during the remainder of the 

 year' I will guarantee to send one 

 myself. I- L- POWELL. 



Millbrook, N. Y. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Seattle, Wash. — According to the 

 annual report of the State Commis- 

 sioner of Horticulture, a total of 1,186,- 

 470 packages of fruit grown in the 

 state were taken by the Seattle mar- 

 ket. In apples alone Seattle took 468,- 

 917 boxes as compared with 75,600 

 boxes taken by Taeoma and 62,169 

 boxes taken by Spokane. 



Rochester, N. Y.— The McCollom 

 tract of 120 acres has just been pur- 

 chased by the Champlain Realty Com- 

 pany, a subsidiary company of the In- 

 ternational Paper concern whose agent 

 has charge of all its woodlands and 

 proposes to use this tract as a nursery 

 for raising Norway spruce and pine. 

 600,000 seedlings will be planted this 

 year, and it is the plan to plant this 

 number every year, at the end of four 

 years transplanting them in the field, 

 thus maintaining a steadily growing 

 supply of spruce and pine. The for- 

 estry policy of this company may well 

 be studied by many owners of waste 

 lands so called. 



"Right on the Spot 

 —That's All" „ 



Variegated Periwinkle, out of 4 in. pots, 



strong $8.0 



Variegated Periwinkle, out of a-in pots a. 5' 

 Variegated Periwinkle, Rooted Cuttings .9 



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Clematis Paniculata, out of 3-in... 

 CleniatU Paniculata, out of a-in . 

 Lobelia, Dwarf Blue, strong, out of s-ic 

 Co1>Aea Scandens strong plants, out 



Stevia, variegated, out of a-in.. 



Alyeeum, very dwarf, out of 3-in 



Olerlioma or Ground Ivy, out of 3-i 

 Single Petunias, dwarf, out of 3-in... 

 Ageratuutt^blue, dwarf, out of 3-i 



Cash witli order. 



SAMUEL V. SMITH 



3323 Goodman St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



FOR SALE 



FOUR EXTRA LARGE 



Latania Borbonica Palms 



From 10 to 12 ftc-t high auJ spruaa; 

 in cypress Ijo.xts. .\lso sl.'i smaller 



LATANIA PALMS 



In lioxes. All splencUil .specimen plants. 

 Can ship by frelglit after May 1. 



JOHN RALPH Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



