April 20, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



529 



YOU WANT SHRUBS 



WE WANT YOUR 

 — ORDERS — 



Per 



100,000 BERBERIS Thunbergi $1.00 to $(0 00 



2,000 CORNUS SANOIUNKA and Alba, 4 to S ft 9 00 



6,000 LKJllSTRUn Ibota, 2'« to 3 ft heavy 10 00 



3,000 SPIREA L. Van Moute, 4 ft. fine 10 00 



5,000 LIGUSTRUn Ibota, 2 years S.OO i 



Eto.» Et«3. 



Per TOO 



300 Golden Elders, extra 3 ft $10.00 



25,000 Ligustrum Ibota Seedlings. 2 yrs forlinineout 2.00 



500 Golden Willows, 4 to 6 ft 



2,000 Poplars Lombardy, 8 to 10 ft 



Low Branched, 10 to 12 ft 



200 

 5.00 



Eto. 



Send for our price list of AZALEAS, RHODODENDRONS, KALHIAS, HAQNOLIAS and EVEROREENS 



The CONTINENTAL NURSERIES, Franklin, Mass. 



Send us your list of Wants in Shrubs «nd Perennials and mention H-^rliculture when writing. 



SMALL FRUITS AND THEIR RE- 

 LATION TO THE HOME 

 GARDEN. 



It is a source of surprise that the 

 householder and gardener are apt not 

 to give the care and attention to the 

 growing of small fruits that is given to 

 the vegetable and flower garden, and 

 it is very hard for a fruit grower to 

 understand the reason for this. Pos- 

 sibly the land owner does not care 

 for this class of fruit, or perhaps he 

 thinks it is too hard to grow; at any 

 rate we do not find these fruits as 

 common in our gardens as they were 

 fifty or more years ago. To be sure 

 the strawberry is grown almost every- 

 where, but in how many gardens will 

 you also find raspbeiTies, blackberries, 

 currants, gooseberries, etc. You may 

 see a few bushes of each of the above 

 but not in the great variety that would 

 insure a long season of these delicious 

 fruits. Few people realize what a long 

 period these fruits will cover. Begin- 

 ning witli the strawberry June 15th, 

 and endin.g with the blackberry Sep- 

 tember lOlh, we can cover a season 

 of the year when no other fruit, with 

 the exception of the peach, can at all 

 compete with these small fruits. The 

 strawberry can be had from five to six 

 weeks by planting early medium, and 

 late varieties, combining all the best 

 flavors and most attractive berries. 

 Then raspberries, from early to late, a 

 season of six weeks, which, with red, 

 black, and yellow varieties, are among 

 the most attractive summer fruits. 

 Red currants, while largely used for 

 preserving, are a very delicious and 

 refreshing fruit when thoroughly ripe, 

 and used together with one-third of 

 the white variety cannot be surpassed 

 for the table on a hot day. Goose- 

 berries too are but little grown in the 

 home garden chiefly because but little 

 known, and they really should be 

 classed as one of our best fruits. 

 Thoroughly ripe gooseberries are most 

 delicious eating, are easily grown and 

 take up but little room in the garden, 

 for one bush will produce eight or ten 

 quarts of the fruit. 



The matter of space one has at his 

 command must of course have a great 

 deal of consideration before being 

 planted, but a well planted garden can 

 be made to accommodate all these 

 small fruits mentioned and still leave 

 room for a few apple, pear, peach and 

 plum trees. Currants and gooseber- 

 ries will stand a good deal of shade so 

 plant them under the larger trees; 



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10,000 AMERICAN ARBORVITAE 



(Thuya Occidenialis) 



Each tree grows wide apart and splendidly developed on all sides. So bushy 

 that for hedges or screens they will go almost twice as far apart as ordinary 

 Arboiviiaes will. Thev have been frequently transplanted and are supplied with 

 an abundance of fine fibrous roots. Can be dug and shipped with ball if desired. 



per 10 per 100 



3-4 ft. size $6.00 $50.00 



4-5 ft. size 7.50 60.00 



Prices for dealers only. Packing additional at cost. 25 or more 

 at the rate per 100. 



Send to us for Ornamental Nursery Stock of all Kinds. 



THE WM. H. MOON CO., Morrisville, Pa. 



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FRUIT and VEGETABLE PLANTS 



If you want Fruit Plants, Trees or Vines for the Garden or for Com- 

 mercial Purposes write to Wilfrid Wheeler, Concord, Mass., who 

 has a complete line of Strawberry plants, Raspberry and Black- 

 berry roots. Currant and Gooseberry bushes. Grape vines, Apple, 

 Pear, Plum and Peach trees. All clean stock and true to name. 



Enough fruit plants can be furnished to plant a small Home Garden 

 for ?3.75 or a larger one for ;?6.oo. Write for catalogue to 



WILFRID WHEELER, 



CONCORD, MASS. 



then a fence or a hedge is an excellent 

 place for blackberries or raspberries. 

 Strawberries need the sun and lots of 

 it but you surely can spare a sunny 

 spot for that fruit and grow fewer 

 potatoes and cabbages. Fruit always 

 seems so much more attractive to 

 grow than vegetables, but this may 

 simply be a personal prejudice. You 

 however will agree with me in think- 

 ing that fruit tastes a great deal bet- 

 ter when you are out working in the 

 garden than, for instance, a beet or a 

 squash or an onion. 



Don't let this year go by without 

 planning for the home fruit garden 

 and give it the best care you can. It 

 takes only one year to get most of 

 these fruits into bearing condition, and 

 once established you have your garden 



as long as you will care for it. We 

 need more fruit knowledge among our 

 people. Too many of us are too hur- 

 ried and busy to give the subject even 

 a passing thought, much less intelli- 

 gent study. Then too we see so much 

 fruit offered for sale on our streets 

 that the fact that we can grow our 

 own is not Impressed upon us. A per- 

 son, once having grown fruit for him- 

 self though, will never return to the 

 store article. Plant an abundance of 

 these good things with which nature 

 has so richly endowed us, and enjoj"- 

 them to their fullest extent. 



WILFRID WHEELER. 



William H. Maher has the contract 

 to keep the parks of Newport, R. I., 

 in order for a year. 



