November 21. lyos 



HORTICULTURE 



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PROPAGATING WHITMANI FERN. 



Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir,— I have some Nephrolepis 

 Whitmani and Nephrolepis Amer- 

 pohli. I would like to work a stock 

 lor next year; can you tell me how to 

 go about it 9 Any assistance you can 

 give will be gratefully appreciated by 

 A GROWER. 



To work up a stock ot Nephrolepis 

 ferns for another spring you should 

 have some good-sized plants to bench 

 at once, say 5 or 6 inch, planted in good 

 soil about 12 x 12 inches. Soil in bench 

 should be about 5 inches deep. The 

 tops of plants should be trimmed of 

 the old upward foliage about once a 

 month, so as to give plenty of light 

 and air for the runners. It is a good 

 plan to mulch lightly with rich soil 

 as the runners work to the surafce. 

 Runneis are ready to take when they 

 have developed their second frond and 

 should be planted in good rich soil or 

 potted in 2 1-4 or 2 1-2 in. pots, and 

 well shaded until established. Nephro- 

 lepis ferns do their best in a night 

 temperature of 65 to 70. 



HENRY H. BARROWS. 



PLANTING HOLLYHOCKS AND 

 MONTBRETIAS. 

 Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir, — When would you advise 

 planting double hollyhocks and mont- 

 bretias? Can it be done now? 

 Yours truly, 



OUTDOORS. 



You might have planted double 

 hollyhocks six weeks ago with good 

 results, but it is too late now. 

 It would be better for you to wait until 

 April to plant both the double holly- 

 hocks and montbretias. 



RUFFLED GLADIOLI. 

 I grew some of Mr. A. E. Kunderd's 

 new ruffled gladioli this season and 

 they are verily the most beautiful type 

 in cultivation. The new Primulinus 

 with its deep rich yellow color and 

 peculiar formation of flower is also 

 very beautiful and will probably prove 

 to be valuable for breeding. 1 made 

 several crosses on different types with 

 this variety the present season, and 

 have some fine looking seed. 



L. MERTON GAGE. 



KEEP PEGGING AWAY. 



M ■ ■ 1 1 seldom mount by a single bound 



To the ladder's very top; 

 They must slowly climb it round by round. 



With many a start and stop. 

 And the winner is sure to be. the man 



Who labors day by day, 

 For the world has learned that the safest 

 plan 



Is to keep oa pegging away. 



You have read, of course, about lhe hare 



And the tortoise, the tale is old, — 

 How they ran a race — it counts not 

 where — 



And the tortoise won, we're told. 

 The hare was sure he had time to puis, 



And to browse about and play, 

 So the tortoise won the race because 



He just kejit pegging away. 



A little toll and a little rest. 



And a little more earned than spent. 

 Is sure to bring to an honest breast 



A blessing of glad content. 

 And so, though skies may frown or smile. 



Be diligent day by day: 

 Reward shall greet you after awhile 



If you just keep pegging away. 



— Nixon Waterman. 

 \ i e :in i 'nit Evator. 



During Recess 



THE NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB 

 SMOKER. 

 w. C. Rickards and his staff who 

 till so acceptably the post of purveyors 

 and entertainers of the critical florists 

 and ornamental horticulturists of the 

 Metropolis added another to the long 

 list of their successful achievements, 

 H. Wednesday evening, November is. 

 The club room was filled to the limit 

 with smoke and members and the 

 singers, musicians and vaudeville en- 

 tertainers provided for the amusemeni 

 of the company were right on their 

 jcb, especially the bagpiper, Captain 

 Cameron who was a never failing 

 center of interest for his countrymen 

 and of subdued awe for those who 

 were not. In the ante-room Joe Manda 

 did the honors with tireless hospi- 

 tality and if there were any hungry 

 ones left at the wind-up it was not his 

 fault. The company present numbered 

 one hundred or more and was com- 

 posed, with a few exceptions, of the 

 younger element in the club which is 

 coming forward with commendable 

 energy and rapidly changing th'e com- 

 plexion of the activities of the organi- 

 zation. It was nearly midnight when 

 the party broke up, all well pleased 

 with the evening's entertainment. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICULTU- 

 RAL SOCIETY. 

 The Nassau County Horticultural 

 Society held its first annual ball on 

 Thursday, Nov. 12, in Pembroke Hall, 

 Glen Cove, N. Y., and it was very well 

 attended. Miller's Orchestra supplied 

 excellent music and dancing was kept 

 up till an early hour. A committee 

 including some of the gardeners' wives 

 looked after the refreshments in first- 

 class style. 



JAS. KESSON, Rec. Sec'y. 



BOWLING AT ASTORIA. 

 The Astoria (N. Y.) Bowling Club 

 had a Ladies' Night on Tuesday, No- 

 vember 17, and many handsome tro- 

 phies were distributed among the 

 bowlers, Mrs. Miesem winning first 

 prize. Phil. Kessler and John Donald- 

 son requested that their own scores be 

 buried in oblivion for obvious reasons. 

 The officers of this happy aggregation 

 are W. H. Siebrecht, pres., sec'y and 

 treas.; J. Miesem, capt. 



PROSPERITY STARTS. 

 Orders already within $100 of being 

 one half my spring, 'OS. sales, and if 

 it keeps up this way long shall have to 

 refuse wholesale orders by February 

 1st to protect my retail trade which 

 has heretofore been my besl bold. 

 Think '09 will be a record breaker 

 from present indications in bulb trade. 

 J. L. MOORE. 



MOVEMENTS OF GARDENERS. 



James Rust, formerly with P. L. Sal- 

 tonstall, Hyde Park. .Mass.. has takeu 

 a position on the Morton F. Plain 

 tate, Groton, Conn. 



Mr. Wm. Dunman, gardener at the 

 Union Printers' Home of Colorado 

 Springs, has been offered a more lucra- 

 tive position at the Nebraska Univer- 

 sity. Lincoln, Mebr. 



PERSONAL. 



W. H. Maynard of Detroit is repo 

 cuite ill but mil dangerously so. 



John A. Lamberl lias taken a posi 

 lion as manager tor J. 1.. Parker, 

 Birmingham, Ala. 



L. E. Marquisee of Syracuse. X. Y.. 

 is seriously ill with cerebral hemorr- 

 hage at his home. 



Miss Lus.v Graves, of 1!. W. Field 

 (lower store, Northampton, Mass., is 

 critically ill at her home. 



Visitors in Albany: P. B. Green, 

 representing H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Philadelphia; M. J. Beatus, of Dayton 

 Paper Box & Novelty Co., Dayton, O. 



Visitors in New York: H. G. Eyres, 

 Albany; Carl Jurgens, Jr., Newport, R. 

 I.; Sidney Hoffman, Boston; John 

 Scott ot Brooklyn— his first appearance 

 since his long illness; David Welch, 

 Boston, on a holly inspection trip to 

 .North Carolina. 



Visitors in Boston: W. P. Craig, 

 Philadelphia; ..'. N. Champion, New 

 Haven, Conn.; D. F. Roy, Marion, 

 Mass.; C. R. Knickman, representing 

 Ale Hutchison & Co., New York City; 

 T. Mellstrom, representing Sander & 

 Sons, St. Albans, Eng.; E. J. Harmon, 

 Portland, Me. 



Miss Bertha Foehlmann, sister of the 

 Poehlmann Pros, of Chicago, will be 

 married Thanksgiving Day to Mr. A. 

 Hoppe of New York. The acquaint- 

 ance was formed while abroad last 

 year. Miss Poehlmann is an artist o£ 

 considerable merit. 



NOTES FROM THE ROCKIES. 



The El Paso County Horticultural 

 Society, Colo., has just closed up its 

 tent h annual year. Its object is to pro- 

 mote and encourage' the cultivation of 

 trees and flowers among the masses and 

 particularly the children, to whom is 

 offered at its annual flower show a 

 liberal amount of cash and other pre- 

 miums. Its work in civic improvement 

 has been the means of placing this city 

 in the foreground as the most attrac- 

 tive and healthy on the western circuit 

 to the Pacific Coast. 



Prof. S. H. Pammel's remarks in a 

 recent issue of HORTICULTURE on 

 the Flowers of the Rocky Mountain Re- 

 gions had a gratifying effect upon the 

 reader, inasmuch as it brings to the 

 attention of the horticultural readers 

 a few of the floral atractions of this 

 locality. If Mr. Pammel's first trip out 

 here was a revelation to him I would 

 ci Mainly have made his last more so 

 in the indigenous floral line if I had 

 seen him on his recent visit. Few 

 realize that Colorado is the Flower 

 Garden of the Continent. 



JOHN BERRY. 



