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HORTICULTURE 



September 11, 1909- 



New Offers in This Issue. 



ARAUCARIAS: DECORATIVE 

 PLANTS. 



H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia. 

 For page &ee List of Advertisers. 



CYCLAMEN, GIANT STRAIN. 



R. & J. Farquhar i: Co., P.oston. 



For page see List of Advertisei's. 



DOUBLE ARCH CARNATION SUP- 

 PORTS. 



Elmer D. Smith & Co.. Adrian, Mich. 

 For p age see List of Advertisers. 



FALL PLANT AUCTION SALES. 



N. F. McCarthy & Co., 8-1 Hawie.T S3t., 

 Boston. 

 For pa ge see List of Advertisers. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 



B. Rosens. 48 W. 2i:ith St.. New York. 

 For p age see List of .advertisers. 



FIELD GROWN CARNATIONS. 



J. L. Dillon, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



For page see List of Ad vertisers. 



PEONIES AT CORNELL. 



HEDGE PLANTS FOR FALL DE- 

 LIVERY. 



C. E. Burr & Co.. Manchester. Conn. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



PEONIES. 



S. G. Harris, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



TREES, SHRUBS, ROSES, EVER- 

 GREENS, HARDY PLANTS. 



Leesley Bros., 40tb & Peterson Ats , 



Chicago, 111. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



VIOLETS FIELD GROWN: VINCA 

 VARIEGATED. 



Charles H. Green. Spencer. Mass. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



VIOLETS: PANSIES: BEDDING 

 PLANTS. 



J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



WINTER FLOWERING SWEET PEA 

 SEED. 



Ant. C. Zvolanek, Botind Brook, N. J. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



BOSTON FLOWER MARKET. 



The necessity for more room in the 

 Park Street Market is to be relieved 

 by an excavation under the sidewalk 

 which the Church committee will rec- 

 ommend at tht next parish meeting 

 and which will undoubtedly be ap- 

 proved. This will give approximately 

 jOO square feet more room, which will 

 be- utilized for storage vaults and leave 

 room for more stalls in the rear. It is 

 understood that all thought of moving 

 elsewhere is now dropped and the mar- 

 ket will occupy its present quarters in- 

 definitely. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Morristown, N. J. — John Orunne- 

 wakl has leased the Waller green- 

 houses and will open a retail store on 

 Speedwell avenue. 



Laurlum, Mich.— The A. JI. York 

 store has been handsomely decorated 

 during the summer and Mrs. Nord- 

 quist is now in charge. 



Springfield, Mo. — J. S. Farrington, 

 receiver for the Planters Seed Co., 

 has closed the place and will dispose 

 of the stock at auction. The liabili- 

 ties are in the vicinity of $12,000. 



Grafton, Mass. — The Norcross & 

 Stratton greenhouse, together with 

 dwelling house and land, has been 

 bought by Lyman F. Gordon, but he 

 has not definitely decided to what use 

 he will put the property. 



Peony Trial Plot at Cornell 



The picture on this page shows the 

 test plot of the American Peony So- 

 ciety this year, with President Farr of 

 the American Peony Society and Prof. 

 Batchelor at work. This snap shot 

 was taken by Prof. John Craig, and 

 is a good view of the appearance and 

 condition of the original collection. 

 In the distance is seen the tent, used 

 as headquarters, and a distant view 

 of the new plot. The object of this 

 plot as distinct from the original one 

 is to determine the best one hundred 

 varieties. With a view to do this a 

 number of firms have sent collections, 

 which embrace, in their opinion, only 

 the very best varieties for general 

 purposes. A new planting will be 

 made this fall, and adjoining these 



two plots, wherein the net results of 

 the work so far accomplished will 

 be concentrated by planting speci- 

 mens by themselves of all varieties 

 of which official descriptions have 

 been taken. Each year additional va- 

 rieties passed upon by the committee 

 on Nomenclature will be added to this 

 new plot. 



The oflicers of the American Peony 

 Society are: Bertrand H. Farr, Read- 

 ing, Pa., president: C. J. Malloy, 

 Rochester, N. Y., vice-president; J. H. 

 Humphreys, Andorra Nurseries, Chest- 

 nut Hill, Penna., treasurer; A. H. 

 Fewkes, Newton Highlands, Mass., 

 secretary, and Prof. John Craig, Cor- 

 nell University, chairman of the com- 

 mittee on nomenclature. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENERS. 



The profession of landscape garden- 

 ing, as practiced by the best exponents, 

 is a high art, also combining much of 

 the purely scientific. Sir Uvedale Price, 

 and Humphrey Repton, and Loudon 

 each had the highest respect for the 

 dignity of their calling as landscape 

 gardeners. They were men of the best 

 education, taste and refinement. But 

 they each had their satellites and pre- 

 tenders to the art. The same holds 

 good at the present day. It is no un- 

 usual thing — in fact, quite the rule — 

 to see the title "Landscape Gardener" 

 upon the sign-board of humble nur- 

 serymen who lay out suburban front 

 gardens. These men have no more 

 claim to the title than the surfacemen 

 on a railway. But why is the profes- 

 sion not regulated so that none but 

 registered practitioners can pursue it? 

 AVe ask the question very seriously, 

 since heavy expenditure and bad re- 

 sults often go hand in hand when in- 

 experienced, ill-trained "landscape gar- 

 deners" undertake the execution of 

 commissions. Yet these men succeed 

 in inducing owners of estates to spend 

 thousands on so-called improvements, 

 ar.d their original estimates are no- 

 where near the mark, and their work 

 appals the trained artist, and begets 

 a horror of the whole fraternity of de- 

 signers in the mind of the client. 

 More of this anon. — Journal of Horti- 

 culture, August 2(i, 1909. 



CHILDREN'S EXHIBITION AT BOS- 

 TON. 



Last Saturday was a gala day with 

 the children at Horticultural Hall, Bos- 

 ton, for that was the day of their an- 

 nual exhibition under the auspices of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety and they came by hundreds from 

 far and near, and spread out the prod- 

 ucts of their industry in school and 

 home garden, the display practically 

 filling the lai-ge hall and the small one 

 adjoining. The collections of fruit and 

 flowers and vegetables was exceeding- 

 ly creditable to the little gardeners and 

 well-won prizes were lavishly distrib- 

 uted. Altogether, it was one of the 

 most impressive events of the year hor- 

 ticulturally and well worth a visit. 



A plot of about 1200 square feet with 

 a portable house in the centre was laid 

 out under the supervision of Miss Julia 

 H. Bradley to show how a small home 

 plot may be arranged with tasteful sur- 

 roundings — lawn, flower garden, hedge, 

 window boxes, climbing vines, rockery 

 and vegetable garden in full glory. 



Detroit, Mich.— The State Fair 

 seems to have lost all power of at- 

 traction for florists, which is a bad 

 feature for many reasons. It is to be 

 hoped that the local Florist Club offi- 

 cers and the State Fair managers will 

 get together and arrange a schedule 

 which will bring out a good live com- 

 petition. 



