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HOKTI CULTURE 



August 10, 1907 



List of Advertisers 



Page 



Allen J. K 178 



AUcn Wm. Stuart Co. 178 

 Anaerican Nursery.- .160 

 Andorra Nurseries. ..169 

 Aichmann God(rev."»75 

 Atlanta Floral Co. ..-175 



BirrowsH.H.&Son.isS 



Baur Floral Co. 1 58 



Bayersdorfer H.& Co. 



■ - 176 



Bay State Nurseries. -160 



Beaulieu 171 



Boddington A. T. 171-173 

 Boston Florist Letter 



Co 175 



Boston Plate and Win- 

 dow Glass Co 187 



Braslan Seed Growers 



Co 17' 



Breck Joseph & Sons 171 

 Breitmeyer's J. Sons. 175 

 Bridgeman's Seed 



Warehouse 171 



Brill Francis 17^ 



Bdrpec W. A. & Co..i7» 



Carrillo & Baldwin ... 172 



Castle W.W ..187 



Chicago Carnation 



Co 158 



Childs John Lewis... 173 



ChiversT. H 174 



Clarke's David, Sonsi75 

 Clipper Lawn Mower 



Co 187 



Conard & Jones 172 



Cooke G. H •- 175 



Cottage Gardens ibu 



Cowee A 179 



Craig W. P. 160 



Donohoe W. H 175 



Dorner F. Sons & C0.158 



Dreer H. A 159-187 



Du Rie W. B.. 170 



Dysart R. J. 176 



E Iwards Folding Box 



Co 176 



Ehret Fred 176 



EiselcC 173 



Elliott Wm. & Sons. .170 



Esler J G 186 



Ernest W. H 186 



Exotic Nurseries 169 



Eyres i75 



Farquhar R. & J. & 



Co 171 



FenrichJ.S 178 



Fiske, H.E. Seed C0.171 



Foley Mfg. Co 187 



Ford Bros. 178 



Froment H. E. 178 



Galvin Thos. F. 175 



Getmore Box Factoryi79 



Grey T.J. Co 171 



Glide Bros. Co 175 



Gjttman Alex. J 178 



Hail Asso. 186 



Haines J. E 158 



Harlowardcn Green- 

 houses 158 



Harper Wm. Warner. 169 

 Hartmann Hjalmar & 



Co 171 



Hauswirth P. J, ... .175 



Heacock Joseph 172 



Heiss J. B . 172 



Henderson Peter & 



Co 174 



Herbert David&Son.i73 

 Hews A. H.&C0....186 

 Hicks Frank S. & Co 179 



Hilfinger Bros 186 



Hilchings & Co 187 



Koran E. C 178 



Jacobs S. & Sons . .. .187 

 Johnston Heating Co. 187 

 Johnson Seed Co 171 



Kasting W. F 179 



Kervan Co., The 1 "9 



King Cons. Co 187 



Koral W fg. Co 175 



Lager & Hurrell 17.1 



Langjahr, Alfred H. . . 1 7S 



Leuthy A. & Co 173 



Lord & Bumham Co. 187 



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Manda Jos. A 172 



McCanhy N. F. .158-179 

 McConnell Alex.. - 175 

 McKeUar Charles W. 176 



McKissick.W. E 176 



McManus Jas 178 



Miami Floral Co 158 



Michel! H. F. Co. 169-170 

 Michigan Cut Flower 



Exchange 179 



Millang Charles 178 



MiUang Frank 179 



Miller Theo 175 



Mineralized Rubber 



Co 187 



Milling, A 173 



Moninger J. C 187 



Moore, Hentz&Nash 179 



Morel Bros 172 



Morse C. C. & Co.. . .171 

 Murdoch J. B.& Co. .179 

 Murray Samuel 175 



New England Nur- 

 series . 160 



Niessen Leo Co 160 



Ordonez Bros. 172 



Palethorpe P. R. 186 



Palmer, F. E 174 



ParkFloralCo 175 



Payne John A 1 86 



Pennock-Meehan Co. 160 

 Perkins St. Nurseries. 173 



Pierce F. O. 187 



PiersonF.R. Co 158 



Pierson U Bar Co 187 



Poehlmann Bros, Co.. 176 

 Pulverized Manure 

 Co. 186 



Ray nor John I. 178 



Reed& Keller 179 



ReidEdw 176 



Reinberg Peter 1 76 



Rickards Bros 171 



RobinsoD D. Sons • • .174 

 Robinson H.M.& Co. 179 



Roehrs Julius Co 172 



Roland, Thomas . . . ito 

 Rolker August & Sons 



158-186 



Rose Hill Nurseries .174 

 Rusconi D 172 



Salisbury Florist Co.. 174 



Sander & Son 172 



Scheepers John & C0.173 



Schulz Jacob 175 



Scott, John 173 



Scott Robert ... 174 



Shanklin >amuel W..t7o 



Sheridan W. F 178 



Siggers & Siggers 186 



Situations & Wants. -184 



Skldelskv S.S 174 



Smith W.C. 15S 



Smyth Wm. J 175 



Southworth Bros. ...i74 

 Standard Pbtt Glass 



Co. 186 



Stearns A. T. Lumber 



Co 187 



Stem J. & Co. 177 



Stumpp & Walter Co. 



....158-172-173 



Sutherland Geo. A. 



Co 176 



Thorburn J.M. & Co. 171 



Totty Chas. H 158 



Traendly & Schenck.178 



Valentine, J. A. 175 



Vick' s Jas. Sons 171 



Vincent R. Jr. & Sons. 173 



Walsh M. H... 160 



Waterer John& Sons. 160 



Weber F. C 17-? 



Weber H. & Sons-. ..158 



Welch Bros 176 



Winterson E. F. Co.. 176 



Yokohama Nurseries 

 Co 172 



Young lohn 178 



Young, Thos. Jr..... 1 75 

 Young & Nugent ... .175 



Zirngiebel August.. . .171 

 Zv lanek Ant. C. 170 



Is Your Name In The Above 

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SHRUB CHAT. 

 Just now the prairie rose, last but 

 not least of the garden roses, is loaded 

 down with its profusion of satiny pink 

 bloom. This glorious garden and pil- 

 lar shrub is not known or appreciated 

 as it should be. 



Rhododendron maximum is about 

 through flowering. It is a pity that 

 this useful evergreen should have to 

 qualify its standing as a garden shrub 

 by a comparison with the earlier and 

 in every way more showy fancy hy- 

 brids. Its inferiority of foliage effect, 

 ils more straggly growth, monotony of 

 flower color and habit of obscuring 

 the bloom with the young growths 

 are serio. s h.Hndicaps in the estima- 

 tion of those who are familiar with the 

 hardy hybrids. Here is a shrub that 

 invites improvement at the hands of 

 the plantsman and hybridist. 



The loniceras. which a few weeks 

 ago were objects of beauty, laden with 

 honeyed bloom are again attracting at- 

 tention with their wealth of crimson, 

 scarlet and orange fruit, no less beau- 

 tiful than they were in their spring 

 dress. 



Spiraea Anthony Waterer has been 

 condemned for its untidy brown seed 

 masses which follow the dropping of 

 its attractive pink bloom. It certainly 

 is a most objectionable habit for an 

 otherwise superb garden shrub. But 

 its readiness to keep constantly bloom- 

 ing all through the season if given a 

 little attention atones for this one 

 drawback which can be overcome by a 

 little time and trouble spent in trim- 

 ming back the branches as fast .is 

 they go out of flower. On a large place 

 where planted in quantity this is not 

 always practicable but in any mode- 

 rate-sized garden there is no good ex- 

 cuse for neglecting it. 



For covering buildings, walls, or any 

 other object with a rapid growing vine 

 nothing can excel Actinidia arguta. 

 When well established the stems will 

 grow at an incredible rate and the 

 massive dark foliage is exceedingly 

 rich and effective. 



Rosa lucida alba — so-called, but pos- 

 sibly a distinct species, found some 

 years ago in Deerfleld, Me., is now be- 

 coming pretty well distributed among 

 I he gardens in the neighborhood of 

 Boston. It is a late bloomer very 

 free and vigorous, the flowers snow- 

 white and deliciously fragrant. Un- 

 lortunately it usually falls victim to 

 myriads of rose bugs which finding no 

 olher roses to feed upon except 

 setigera (which, by the way, they for 

 some reason avoid) pounce upon this 

 and riddle and tear the petals to shreds 

 totally destroying its beauty. One of 

 these bugs, of red color, with pointed 

 snout and rather smaller than the or- 

 dinary rose chafer is more destructive, 

 if possible, than this better known 

 pest. 



Ijgtistrum Ibota, although lacking 

 the luxuriant and glossy foliage which 

 makes its relative ovalifolium or Cali- 

 fornia privet so seductive, has the ad- 

 vantage of hai'diness where the latter 

 Is liable to winter-killing and makes a 

 very attractive single specimen on the 

 lawn or in the mixed shrubbei-y bor- 

 der with its symmetrical form and 

 arching branches laden in July with 

 fragrant white flower clusters of which 

 the bees are verv fond. 



HYDRANGEA PANICULATA GRAN- 

 DIFLORA. 



Our frontispiece shows a handsome 

 hedge of this well-known garden shrub 

 and indicates a use for it at once effec- 

 tive and appropriate. Owing to the 

 lateness of its leafing out in spring and 

 the earliness of its leaf-shedding in 

 fall this shrub is not well adapted to 

 the purposes of a hedge proper but as 

 a facing for a high hedge of other ma- 

 terial or against a background of any 

 dark grefen foliaged shrubs or trees it 

 has few rivals. If planted where shade 

 strikes it through the mid-day hours 

 the flowers will retain their whiteness 

 in perfection for several weeks. If 

 cut down almost to the ground every 

 spring and given plenty of stimulant 

 enormous heads of flowers will be pro- 

 duced on stiff stems of great length. 

 The above facts are generally known 

 to florists and others. It is not so well 

 known, however, that by pinching out 

 the flowering tips as soon as they be- 

 gin to form, usually about July 1 to 5, 

 the crop may be retarded and an abun- 

 dance of late flowers secured at a pe- 

 riod when the cool weather keeps them 

 pure white for a considerable time and 

 when they will com'e in very accept- 

 ably for floral decorative work. 



Alexander McConnell of New York 

 City sailed on S. S. Oceanic. July 31, on 

 a pleasure trip to England. Ireland, 

 Scotland. Isle of Man. France and Ger- 

 many. He expects to reach New York 

 again about October IG. This is Mr. 

 McConnell's first trip across the Atlan- 

 tic in 22 years. A host of friends will 

 wish this genial and universally be- 

 loved representative of New York's re- 

 tail flower trade "Bon Voyage" and 

 great physical benefit from his well- 

 earned vacation. 



Special Philadelpbia 

 Convention Number 



Will Be Issued 

 August I 7. 



It will reach the best trade at the con- 

 vention and all through the 

 country. 



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