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HORTICULTURE 



November 6, 1909 



MUSHROOMS IN CARNATION BED. 

 Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Will you please let me know through 

 your columns if anybody has had the 

 following experience in his carnation 

 soil, and if so, what he would advise 

 me to do? 



In my carnation house in the centre 

 bed, 50x5 teet, mushroom spawn has 

 got In somehow. I am picking from 

 one to two quarts a day since about 

 September 18th. So far the carnations 

 seem none the worse for it! and look 

 clean and thrifty. The crop, of course, 

 is very welcome to the table of my 

 employers. If someone has had any 

 similar experience, will he pleas© let 

 me profit by his experience? 



G. BLBIKEN. 



A NEW RAMBLER ROSE. 



In reply to the query of Mr. Bleiken 

 I would state that it is a very common 

 occurrence to have mushrooms come ui) 

 in carnation beds. We have never 

 seen any bad effects. Some times they 

 will lift up a plant; then, we dig up 

 the stool and press the soil again 

 around the plant. M. A. PATTEN. 



Tewksbury, Alass. 



PTEROSTYRAX (HALESIA) 

 HISPIDA. 



This a shrub of much value, as a 

 solitary decorative object on the lawn 

 or by the water side, and is better in 

 these respects than Chionanthus vir- 

 ginica, to which it comes nearest, but 

 its habit is less pleasing. Pterostyrax 

 hispida possesses large handsome foli- 

 age of a light green tint, and is an 

 abundant bloomer in a young state, 

 and the blooming period is consider- 

 ably longer than in CJhionanthus. The 

 flowers are white, and bear a resem- 

 blance to those of Deutzia crenata. 

 Owing to the compact habit of Pter- 

 ostyrax hispida no pruning is required, 

 it is not injured by frost, and is not 

 particular as to the nature of the soil 

 or its position. 



F. M. 



New llosh DAiuiii..\K 

 Our advertising columns announce 

 the introduction of the new rose Day- 

 break, an illustration of which appears 

 herewith. As one of .Jackson Dawson's 

 productions no doubt will be enter- 



tained as to the excellent qualities and 



permanent value of this latest progeny 

 of the prolific Wichuraiana lineage. 

 On the other side, the parentage is 

 also of a high standard. The Dawson 

 has proved to be one of the hardiest 

 and most prolifie of pillar and piazza 

 roses. 



CARNATION SHASTA. 



The photograph ot Shasta, repro- 

 duced herewith, shows a bed which was 

 planted the first week in August, con- 



taining about 1800 plants. The photo- 

 graph was taken October 1st. Mr. Baur 

 states that they are running this bed 

 for blooms only, the intention at pres- 

 ent being not to take any cuttings 

 from these plants. They have another 

 house full containing about 8000 plants, 

 which they have kept cut back from 

 which to take cuttings. Propagation 

 will begin about November 1st, and 

 delivery of rooted cuttings will begin 

 about January 1st, 1910. Over 40,000 

 have been sold to date and indications 

 lioint toward a large total sale on this 

 variety. It will be remembered that 

 Shasta elicited more favorable com- 

 ment than any other variety at the 

 A. C. S. convention, where it scored 89 

 points last January. As a commercial 

 white carnation it has a most promis- 

 ing future. 



Carnation Shasta 



TREE PRESERVATION. 



We venture to say that practically 

 every reader of these lines knows of 

 some tree, historically valuable or 

 prized for its associations or for its 

 own beauty and shade which is rapid- 

 ly going to decay because of lack of 

 intelligent care. Some of us know 

 many such trees and how glad we 

 should be to see them put under the 

 care of an expert in that new but al- 

 ready indispensable art known as tree 

 Kurp:ery. Every tree lover should read 

 I he announcement on "The Preserva- 

 tion of Historic Trees,'' by John T. 

 Withers, which appears on another 

 page of this issue. 



