epiember 7, 1907 



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merpohlii and N. Todeaoides. Lager 

 : Hurrell, Summit. N. J., liad a fine 

 ollection or orcliids. W. W. Rawson 

 o.. showed dahlias, and B. Hammond 

 'racy made a good exhibit of gladioli, 

 lostly seedlings. 

 F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 taged their beautiful Nephrolepis su- 

 erbissima. Blue Hill Nurseries 

 howed a collection of seedling 

 erennials. 



.lohn Reilly. gardener for Mrs. M. B. 

 (lason took many first prizes including 

 ive for asters. Bernard Reilly, gard- 

 ner for Miss Bartlett, also had a big 

 lundle of firsts as also did A. Mag- 

 Lusen, gardener for George N. Black, 

 I'hose fern won first place as specimen 

 dant. Wm. Swan won the Lord & 

 Jurnham cup for display of plants, 

 he special Mitchell prize for collec- 

 ion of fruit and the Crafts prize for 

 )Moxes. Mrs. Leland got the Rob- 

 'rts & Hoare silver medal and Schle- 

 ;el & Fottler special for suberous lie- 

 ;onias. J. J. Middleton won the 

 rhos. J. Grey prize for sweet peas. 

 rhe Farquhar cup for collection of 

 regetables went to Mrs. Gordon Ab- 

 DOtt, the White cup for collection of 

 vegetables to Mrs. Phelps Dexter and 

 I number of lesser special premiums 

 ivere variously won. 



Certificates of merit were awarded 

 IS follows: 



Lager & Hurrell, Summit. N. J., for 

 jollectio.'i of orchids. 



F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown. N. R., 

 for Nephrolepis superbissiraa. 



Henry A. Dreer Co.. Philadelphia, for 

 aquatics, and also for Nephrolepis 

 Amerpohlii and Nephrolepis Todea- 

 oides. 



W. W. Rawson, Boston, for collec- 

 tion of Dahlias, and also for Gladiolus 

 Harvard. 



Blue Hill Nurseries, South Braintree, 

 for collection of seedling perennials. 



B. Hammond Tracy, Wenham, for 

 collection of Gladioli. 



baceous grounds, many acres in extent, 

 brilliant with color, were also admired 

 for the luxuriant health of everything. 

 At the close appropriately enthusiastic 

 thanks to Mr. Wyman for the pleasant 

 occasion were vociferously voiced. 



GARDENERS' AND FLORISTS' CLUB 

 OF BOSTON— A FIELD DAY. 



Saturday, August 31, furnished an- 

 other in the series of enjoyable out- 

 ings which have afforded so much 

 pleasure and instruction for the club 

 members. The trip this time was to 

 the Bay State Nuresries at North 

 Abingtoii on invitation of the pro- 

 prietor, W. H. Wyman. Mr. Wyman 

 met the party at the railroad station 

 on arrival and there were enough to 

 fill two big vans besides sundry 

 smaller vehicles. The visitors were first 

 conducted to the restaurant where a 

 good dinner was enjoyed and then the 

 afternoon was passed in visiting and 

 inspecting the three large tracts now 

 being operated by Mr. Wyman and the 

 storage and packing sheds and other 

 appurtenances of a. modern nursery 

 business. Not only were enterprise and 

 thorough business methods evident 

 on every side but all were impressed 

 with the adaptability of this sec- 

 tion for nursery purposes as was well 

 demonstrated in the luxuriant green 

 and healthy vigor of everything at a 

 time when in most sections of New 

 England, grass, foliage and flowers are 

 brown and withered from the effects 

 of the long-standing drought. Especial- 

 ly in the case of evergreens was the 

 congenial character of soil and en- 

 vironment well evidenced. The her- 



FRUIT GROWERS MEET. 



Three hundred fruit growers were 

 present at the joint meeting of the 

 New York State and Ontario Count'. 

 Fruit Growers' Assiciaticns. at the 

 New York Slate Experimental Station, 

 August 28. 



Charles K. Scoon, om.^ of the prom- 

 inent fruit growers of Ontario county, 

 made the address of welcome. He 

 alluded to the fact that while the 

 country nrouiid the Experiment Station 

 was not the largest fruit growing dist- 

 rict of the State yet it had large fruit 

 plantations and extensive nursery in- 

 terests, which in connection with the 

 l-jxperiment Station made it a place of 

 special interest to the fruit growers. 

 S;^eaki:ig of the Station ijc said that 

 the institution had much to show of 

 interest to the fruit grower and that 

 the men on the staff of the institution 

 were really the servants of the public 

 and that if the fruit growers and other 

 farmers had no questions to ask them 

 they would have nothing to do. J. R. 

 Cornell of Newburg, president of the 

 New York association responded. 



The first address on the program was 

 on "Plant Breeding and its Importance 

 to Fruit Improvement," by Dr. H. J. 

 Webbei'. professor of Experimental 

 Plant Biology at the State College of 

 Agriculture, Ithaca. Dr. Webber re- 

 viewed the entire subject of plant 

 breeding and told the fruit growers 

 that it was not necessary to be a Bur- 

 bank to accomplish something in the 

 development ot new varieties of plants. 

 "There is nothing secret," said Dr. 

 Webber, "in plant breeding. It is 

 simply an interpretation and applica- 

 tion of natural laws and these laws 

 are so simple that any one can un- 

 derstand them. All plant breeding is 

 based upon the fact that all individuals 

 are different. In the human family 

 individuals are all different and this is 

 just as true among j.dants. This fact 

 has been taken advantage of in the 

 development of the tomato and the 

 sugar beet. In the case of sugar beets 

 they select the plants with the largest 

 sugar content and breed from them. 

 These men have simply taken advant- 

 age of individual characteristics and 

 breed the plants in such a way as to 

 develop same." 



In connection with his address. Dr. 

 Webber exhibited a number of varieties 

 of Timoth\- hay, which was of marked 

 interest to the audiencs, as it was 

 generally supposed that there was only 

 one variety of Timothy. 



The next address was by Prof. N. P. 

 Heriiick. horticulturist at the Station, 

 on the "Hardiness of the Peach," in 

 which he gave results of an investi- 

 gation along that line conducted by 

 liim in IVtichigan and New York. The 

 data has wide practical value to the 

 growers of peaches. 



The session was concluded by an ad- 

 dress by P. J. Pari-ott. entomologist at 

 the Station, in which he explained the 

 work the Station was doing and called 

 attention to a number of things that 

 would be of interest to the fruit grow- 

 ers H. R PEACHEY. 



HARDY SHRUBS— PLANTING 

 AND TREATMENT. 



A ir.niev read b.v S. C. Moon, Xlorrisville, 

 P;i., l)efore the SociPty of Aiuei-icau 

 Florists. 

 Acknowledging without much pre- 

 amble the distinguished compliment of 

 being invited tc address this intelli- 

 gent audience, on a subject with 

 which you are already familiar, I will 

 assvinie that we all understand, by the 

 terru "hardy shrubs," the class of pe- 

 rennial bushy plants, deciduous and 

 evergreen, though largely deciduous, 

 which are used for ornamenting lawns 

 and gardens. Though mostly of mod- 

 erate size when planted, some of them 

 eventually attain the proportions of 

 small trees. The term hardy will vary 

 with the location of the planting, but 

 will not materially affect the sugges- 

 ■tion here presented. How to plant 

 them will be considered in a two-fold 

 light. First, the distribution and ar- 

 rangement of the plants on the lawn, 

 a,nd second, the method of setting the 

 roots in the ground. 



As a general rule, the most effective 

 way to plant shrubbery is in masses 

 with not too much variety in one 

 group. Prof. Bailey says: "The shrub- 

 bery masses should be placed on the 

 boundaries; for it is a fundamental 

 concept ot landscape gardening that 

 the centre of a place shall be open. In 

 most places the mass or border plant- 

 ing should be the rule and the isolated 

 specimens the exception; but unfortun- 

 ately the rule is usually reversed." It 

 is easy to see cons|)icuous evidences 

 of the truth of the above statements in 

 almost any suburban neighborhood in 

 examples of good and of poor arrange- 

 ments. (See our frontispiece.) 



Many planters seem to think it de- 

 sirable to have a well developed plant, 

 of as nian\ varieties as can find accom- 

 modations on the lawn, in order that 

 they might enjoy each plant individu- 

 ally as it passes through its varying 

 changes of foliage, flowering, fruitage 

 and leaflessness throughout the year. 

 Such an arrangement may be appro- 

 priate for an arboretum or trial 

 grounds, and there are special charms 

 in .such a collection of shrubs as each 

 successively comes into bloom. But as 

 the blooming period of most shrubs is 

 only from two to four weeks, the beau- 

 ty of foliage hues both in the green- 

 ness of summer and in autumn foli- 

 age, si'ch as that of the golden elder 

 and philadelphus, variegated weigela. 

 puri>le-leaf plum and barlierry, etc.. is 

 considered done very effectively, but 

 more frequently the result is a cou- 

 sjiicuous blotch amid the verdure. 

 The handling of bright colors always 

 requires a high degree of artistic skill 

 or the result will be dis))leasing to the 

 most refined tastes: it may afford 

 valuable object lessons to the student 

 and gardener but it is not the way to 

 produce the most effective results in 

 lawn adornment. 



To quote again from Prof. Bailey's 

 essav on shrubbery: "Plants scattered 

 over a lawn destroy all appearance of 

 unitv and purpose in the place. 

 Everv part of the place is equally ac- 

 cented. The area has no meaning or 

 individuality. The plants are in the 

 wav. They spoil the lawn. The place 

 is random. In large grounds the 

 shrubbery border sliould be composed 

 of successive masses of several plants 



