September 11, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



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A SUMMER OUTING. 

 The lover of suburban scenery could 

 hardly clioose a place for a more pleas- 

 ing morning walk than over what is 

 known as Milton Hill, in the suburbs 

 of Boston. From the hill, which rises 

 abruptly from the rocky bed of the 

 picturesque Neponset river a mag- 

 nificent view opens before you. The 

 river winds in pleasing turns on its 

 way to Dorchester Bay, and when the 

 tide is in the lookout towards the At- 

 lantic is grand. History lends a little 

 romance to the scene, for here in 

 Revolutionary days the British general 

 and the fleet lying in the bay are said 

 to have exchanged signals. As one 

 proceeds down the other side of the 

 liill glimpses of the residences of the 

 wealthy of this neighborhood are had. 

 Toward the East Milton end there is 

 a, fine piece of rural scenery — one of 

 those old wayside watering places with 

 large, overhanging willow trees where 

 one can drive the animal right into the 

 ■water and out at the other side. To 

 me it seems to have been once the 

 -middle of the road with a brook run- 

 ning through, in other words a ford, 

 but when modern traffic demanded a 



OVER FIFTY ACRES IN 

 CHOICE EVERGREENS 



The Framingham Nurseries offer 

 a large and select stock of the 

 following Tarieties of 



EVERGREENS 



Abies Balsamea, Concolor, and Fraseri; Junipers 

 of various varieties; Picea Alba, Engelmanni, Ex- 

 celsa, PungeDsglauca. and Pungens Kosteri; Pinus 

 Excelsa. Mugho, and Strobus : PseudoTsuga 

 Douglassi; Retinosporas. assorted; hardy Taxus, 

 such as Canadensis, Cuspidaia. and BrevifoHa; 

 Thuya Occidentalis, Globosa, Peabody's Goldeo, 

 Pyramidalis. and Siberica; Tsuga Canadensis, 

 Hemlock Spruce, a large and fine lot. 



We have some fine specimens of Abies concolor, 

 Picca pungens, and Pinus Strobus. Most of the 

 above varieties can be safely planted from the 

 middle of August until the middle of Sep- 

 tember. A personal selectian is alv^ays advisable. 

 Boston and Worcester Electrics pass our grounds. 



ADDRESS 



W. B WHITTIE!^ & GO. 



South Framingham, Mass, 



wider street they swung a little to the 

 east and bridged the brook leaving the 

 watering place as it was. The engi- 

 neer who laid out this street deserves 

 great praise for not only leaving this 

 fine piece of wayside scenery intact, 

 but for the fine natural turns the road 

 takes as one approaches it from either 

 side. 



Our destination on this day, how- 

 ever, was the estate of N. T. Kidder, 

 where that famous plantsman, William 

 Martin, has charge. During the past 

 twelve years this place has been en- 

 tirely remodelled. The herbaceous col- 

 lection, which is one of the finest in 

 the neighborhood of Boston, is planted 

 in a rambling, informal way. Formal- 

 ism seems to be avoided in everything 

 on this estate; the shrtibs are planted 

 in irregular clumps opening up into 

 distant vistas. Coming to the green- 

 houses, one finds a collection of plants 

 rarely seen nowadays, when so many 

 private plant houses are getting to be 

 more like commercial places. Small 

 pieces of all the old-time favorites that 

 this place used to be noted for are in 

 evidence. Mr. Martin said he would 

 liKc to grow large specimens as in 

 times past, but having to keep up the 

 collection he cannot devote the space 

 that they require, since he has not the 

 amount of glass at his command he 

 used to have. I am proud to say I 

 spent four years under Mr. Martin's 

 strict discipline in plant growing in 

 the days he had to be reckoned with 

 at the exhibitions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. 



Leaving IMilton after a profitable 

 visit, we came to Brookline to Pro- 

 fessor Sargent's place, where we found 

 the veteran Charles Sander, as full of 

 enthusiasm as ever. He showed us a 

 new way of growing Lorraine begonias 

 planted out in cold frame. They seemed 

 to enjoy that, mode of culture, being 

 nice large plants with plenty of vigor 

 and Mr. Sander says they lift well in 

 the fall, taking hardly any notice of 

 the shift from the frame to the pot 

 or pan. Hippeastrunis, imantophyllum 

 and nerine are grown here in large 

 quantities, and of course, begonias and 

 gloxinias. At the present time Mr. 



Sander has a batch of gesnera-look- 

 ing plants, which I think would bo 

 valuable for the florists' trade. The 

 leaves have a leathery substance that 

 allows them to be tied up for shipping 

 in a manner one cannot do with the 

 common hybrids. In a frame, planted 

 out, were a new strain of these bulb- 

 ous plants, with enormous large, dark 

 scarlet flowers, certainly the largest 

 individual I have ever seen. 



Outdoors, the famous azaleas were 

 doing well, planted out in a bed. Large 

 beds of gladiolus and phlox were in 

 full flower. Mr. Sander thinks the 

 American varieties of gladiolus are 

 away ahead of the foreign ones. He 

 had a bed of seedling phlox, many of 

 them the equal of the named varieties. 

 Quite a piece of ground is devoted to 

 the Wilson introductions from North 

 China. I should think there were 

 thousands of seedling azaleas, and 

 rhododendrons growing in flats in their 

 first and second years' growth. We 

 certainly ought to get some valuable 

 additions from these. 



GEORGE F. STEWART. 



West Medford, Mass. 



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