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HORTICULTURE 



AprU 20, 1907 



Memorial Day in Five WeeKs 



We are all ready with the biggest and most desirable stock ever offered in this country. 



Immortelle and Cycas Wreaths, Metal and Porcelaine Designs, Inscriptions, Letters, 



Emblems, Bouquet Holders, Doves, Cape Flowers, Sheaves, Fibre Ribbon, 



Waterproof Crepe Paper, Vases, Tone Ware, Tin Foil, Wire Frames, Etc. 



All the above and many others. Just what you want. Order early and let people see you have them. Catalogue 



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 CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., 



See our Greens Advertisement on paae 539. 



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 and 9 Chapman Place, 



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Boston, Mass, 



TWO GOOD TAMARISKS. 



The Silver Tamarisk. 

 I see most of the Eastern catalogues 

 do not mention this. It was introduced 

 by Professor Budd. I have had ten 

 kinds of tamarisks. This is tlie most 

 beautiful and the hardiest of all, do- 

 ing well in Minnesota. The Russian, 

 the silver, the Odessana and Amuren- 

 sis are all one and the same with dif- 

 ferent names. I have discarded all but 

 this which is well adapted to the semi- 

 arid regions. Thousands have been 

 sold in Colorado, where they give the 

 best of satisfaction. 



C. S. HARRISON. 



Tamarix hispida aestivalis. 

 A new variety raised from Tamarix 

 Kashgarica, more vigorous and not so 

 compact as the type. In July the 

 branches are covered to the half of 

 their length with numerous sprays of 

 flowers of a bright carmine pink. 

 Blooms two months before Tamarix 

 hispida. Awarded a first prize at the 

 Paris International Exposition of 1900. 

 The plumes will be found valuable for 

 florists' decorative work. G. C. W. 



Conn., is by C. D. Jarvis, and deals 

 with the apple leaf miner, a pest of the 

 apple tree, first described in 1S60 by 

 Dr. Blackenridge Clemens who 

 named it Tischeria malifoliella. Since 

 that time it has received frequent 

 mention in entomological literature 

 but has not been regarded as a seri- 

 ous pest until last year, when it was 

 reported as doing much injury in Ver- 

 mont, many partially defoliated trees 

 being observed as a result of its rav- 

 ages. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Bulletin No. 3 of the American As- 

 sociation of Park Superintendents has 

 come to hand. It contains instructive 

 articles on The Water Garden, The 

 Herbaceous Garden, Bulbs, Play 

 Ground Management and Cement Con- 

 crete Construction by eminent mem- 

 bers of the Association. Copies may 

 be obtained from the secretary, Mr. 

 F. L. Multord, Harrisburg, Pa., for a 

 small price. 



Bulletin 45 of the Storrs Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, Storrs, 



Writing in the annual puWicatioii of 

 the National Carnation Society of Eng- 

 land, Mr. James Douglas undertakes 

 the defence of that society in reply to 

 those who had criticised unfavorably 

 its action in refusing to provide for 

 the so-called tree or winter-flowering 

 carnation in its exhibitions, at the 

 time the American varieties of the lat- 

 ter were beginning to make a sensa- 

 tion in Great Britain. He represents 

 that the National Carnation Society 

 was formed because the hardy summer- 

 flowering carnation and other "flor- 

 ists' flowers" were hopelessly at a dis- 

 count, whereas Covent Garden is now 

 and has always been overflowing with 

 winter-flowering carnation blooms. 

 He asks: "Where, then, is a need of a 

 special society for their encourage- 

 ment?" The best answer to his query, 

 viewing the situation at long distance, 

 is the popularity of the American type 

 of carnations among the flower buyers 

 and the splendid success of the ex- 

 hibitions of the Winter-flowering Car- 

 nation Society, organized because of 

 the proscriptive stand taken by the old 

 society. From our viewpoint the Na- 

 tional Carnation Society has made a 

 .costlv mistake. 



SHAPE OF ROSE BUSHES. 



The advice so often given to cut 

 back rose shoots to a bud pointing 

 outwards is good, as may be seen from 

 a glance at what is called an "open" 

 bush. Each spring the new shoots 

 have grown outwards, leaving the 

 centre of the plant open and free from 

 growths, with the result that the wood 

 gets thoroughly ripened. Where the 

 shoots grow inwards and cross each 

 other, they do not have the same 

 chance of growing and ripening 

 properly. It is not always possible to 

 find an outside bud just where one 

 would like to prune back to, but it is 

 preferable to cut the shoot rather 

 shorter or leave it rather longer, in 

 order to prune to a bud pointing away 

 from the centre of the bush. — The 

 Garden. 



OBITUARY. 



May M., wife of Fred W. 



St. Louis, Mo., died on April 7. 



Pape, of 



Chester Belding, for many years a 

 florist in Middletown, N. Y., died 

 April 9, at the age of seventy-five. 



John H. Brierly of Boulder, Colo., 

 died on April 1, aged 73. He is sur- 

 vived by a widow and two children. 



Amasa Kennicott, who passed away 

 on April 7 at his home near Chicago, 

 had devoted his life to horticulture. 

 In 1885 he started in business in 

 Chicago with his brother Flint, who is 

 now president of Kennicott Bros. Co., 

 but withdrew later and became an en- 

 thusiastic peony grower. He leaves 

 a widow and three sons. 



