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HORTICULTURE 



June 21, 1913 



A CAPE COD GARDEN. 



The garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, on Mon- 

 day, June 16, visited the peony and 

 rose garden of Wilton Lockwood at 

 Orleans, Mass. It is a long train ride 

 of over three hours to this town at 

 the further end of Cape Cod but the 

 visitors were well repaid by the sump- 

 tuous hospitality of their host and the 

 impressive demonstration his garden 

 aitords of what persistence and well- 

 directed industry can achieve in most 

 unpromising surroundings and natur- 

 ally unproductive soil. Mr. Lock- 

 wood's show garden comprises about 

 an acre quadrilateral in form, sur- 

 rounded by a fringe of trees and a 

 high pergola or arbor, the inner walls 

 of wnich are covered with various 

 rambler roses, the outside clothed with 

 honeysuckle and the top covered with 

 grape vines, which makes an effectual 

 protection against the wild winds 

 which sweep across the sandy barrens 

 of Cape Cod and without which protec- 

 tion peony culture would be impossi- 

 ble. Never have we seen such luxuri- 

 ant arowth as these climbing roses 

 have made under the generous feeding 

 of fertilizer and water which they evi- 

 dently receive. 



The centre of the garden is occupied 

 by a circular lily pond in which rare 

 aquatic gems abound. Around this 

 pond with grass walks between are 

 the peony beds. Here every promising 

 novelty gets an affectionate reception 

 and trial and, in instances not a few, 

 proving that "promising" is the limit 

 of their virtues. The ears of some of 

 the peony introducers ought to tingle 

 ■when Mr. Lockwood lets loose a volley 

 of his choice invective in the use of 

 which he is a past master. He has 

 planted a number of English oaks to 

 provide needed shade against the tor- 

 rid sunlight. The peculiar arrange- 

 ment of this garden hemmed in by the . 

 high arbor and enjoying the evapora- I 

 tion from the water in the centre 

 seems to provide ideal conditions for 

 roses particularly. Many hybrid teas 

 are interspersed and they make a mar- 

 velous growth and inflorescence. The 

 peonies are not up to last year's qual- 

 ity, Mr. Lockwood says, but the visi- 

 tors all agreed that they looked pretty 

 good to them. 



TWO NOTABLE AWARDS. 



On Friday. June 13, the committee 

 on prizes and exhibitions of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 and a number of invited guests made 

 a tour of the Boston Park System and 

 then visited and inspected the Arnold 

 Arboretum, the result of the visit be- 

 ing that a gold medal was voted for 

 the Park Department in recognition of 

 what it had conferred upon the people 

 of Boston in demonstration of taste- 

 ful landscape planting and a gold 

 medal for the Arnold Arboretum as a 

 testimonial of the society's apprecia- 

 tion of the great work done by that 

 institution for the advancement of 

 horticulture. 



Waterloo, la.— The Galloway Bros.- 

 Bowman Seed Co. have moved their 

 greenhouses from Prospect Hills to 

 land south of their seed house, where 

 they will he enlarged to double their 

 present capacity. 



MICHELL'S SEASONABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



PANSY SEED (New Crop) 



Michell's Giant Exhibition Mixed. A 



truly Giant strain which we have se- 

 cured from the leading Pansy Special- 

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 Plants are of strong, sturdy habit; 

 flowers of immense size, heavy texture 

 and of varied colors and shades. Trade 

 pkt., 50c. ; 75c. per % oz.; per oz., $5.00. 



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single, separate colors .$1.50 $12.50 



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PRIMULA CHINENSIS SEED 



Alba Magnlfica, White .60 $1.00 



Chiswicli. Red 60 1.00 



Kermesina Splendens, Crim- 

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Rosy Morn, Pink 60 1.00 



Dnchesg, White, carmine cen- 

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Holbom Bine 60 1.00 



Michell's Prize Mixture 60 1.00 



PRIMULA OBCONICA GIGAN- 

 TEA SEED 



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Lilacina, Pale lilac 50 



Kermesina, Crimson 60 



Rosea, Pink 50 



Alba, White 50 



Hybrida, Mixed 50 



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TARIFF AMENDMENTS. 

 We are notified that a brief, in part 

 as follows, has been filed with Con- 

 gress by the Tariff Committee of the 

 S. A. F. & 0. H.: 



••H. It. 3321, page 54, paragraph 21.5. line 

 15; Omit the words and all other decora- 

 tive greenhouse plants and on page .53. 

 paragraph 216, line 10. insert the words, 

 or greenhouse immediately after the word 

 nursery. 



••Reasons: This will harmonize the bill 

 liy bringing nursery and gi'eenhouse stock 

 into the same paragraph, at the same rare 

 itf duty which is essential because the line 

 (tf disiinctiou bet^'een nursery and green- 

 house .stock is so ill defined, that it is im- 

 possible to distinguish the two classes of 

 stock, for instance: Nursery stock grown 

 out of rloors in southern Tnited States 

 would lie greenhouse stock in the north: 

 this would necessitate the different rates 

 of duty for different parts of the United 

 States, or the arbitrary application of a 

 rate not in accordance with the provisions 

 of the Bill. Again such plants as bay 

 trees are hardy outdoors eight months of 

 the year, but during the winter must be 

 kept in greenhouses. Then there are other 

 plants grown out of doors as nursery stock, 

 also used for forcing in greenhouses, such 

 as lilacs, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, and 

 many others. 



••These conflicting conditions would lead 

 ii> endless confusion and litigation in the 

 cl.-issitication of this mercliandise. so the 

 above changes are absolutely necessary to 

 insure the smooth working of the Rill, also 

 to protect the lionest importer, and pre- 

 vent the unscrupulous from making false 

 custom entries. In addition to this, much 

 of the greenhouse stock consists of cheap 

 pl.'ints wliicli are used by the masses and 

 might very properly come under the lower 

 rate of p.'iragraph 21G. 



•11. R. 3321. page 125. line 1, paragraph 

 .5l>i>. insert the words •four years old or 

 less" after the word 'seedlings.* This 

 change is important, otherwise nothing 

 could prevent large valuable evergreen 

 trees coming in free of duty. It is also 

 the exact intent of the law and will avoid 

 the endless litigation which prevailed under 

 former tariff. 



"These changes have the emlorsement. 

 as before stated, of the United States Ex- 

 aminer of Plants at the port of New 

 York, also of the .\merican Association of 

 Nui^serymen and three other trade organi- 

 zations who handle these goods." 



The above does not come to us offi- 

 ciali.v from the Tariff Committee of the 

 S. A. F., but it seems to be in line with 

 good reasoning and, no doubt, is well 

 advised. 



NEWS NOTES. 



New York, N. Y. — Frank .M. Duggan, 

 formerly with Rickards, has opened a 

 seed and bulb store at 42 West 28th 

 street. 



New York, N. Y.— Ralph M. Ward 

 started June 7th on an extended 

 Western trip via Toronto to Van- 

 couver. 



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FLOWERFIELD, L. I., N. Y. 



