January 8, 1910 



horticulture: 



41 



After Adjournment 



An Errand Dog. . 

 Policemau William A. Hamilton's cocker 

 spaniel dog that was run over bj- an auto- 

 mobile Monday night has so far recovert'd 

 f ri m his injuries that he was able Wednes 

 day to perform his usual errand of taking' 

 the daily paper home. — Ke7tnebec (.1/,-.) 

 Journal. 



Better let him carry the trade papers, 

 too; that Is, if his mouth is big enough. 



WHITE CATTLEYA LABI ATA. 



Tool House Aeroplane. 

 When A. Hayashi, a Japanese nursery- 

 man of Alameda, at Park and Buena Vista, 

 awoke yesterday morning he was thunder- 

 struck to see his tool house reposing calmly 

 in the middle of Park street. A neighlxpr 

 said he saw the tool house sailing through 

 the air the night before on the wings nf 

 the high wind. — ^an Francisco Examiner. 



What will California spring on us 

 next? 



Florists Cut Crop of Gold. 



Sing hey for the merry, meriy florist! 



He ought to be a particularly merry chap 

 Christmas day, for he has been making 

 hay the last few days, as it were! > 



Flowers have been going up, almost 

 though not, of course, quite to the height 

 Of the beef and pork markets. — Omaha Bet. 



You people in Omaha had better lay 

 low when the reporter comes around. 

 The assessor may be your next caller, 

 a la Framingham. 



Hitched a Pulverizer On. 

 Nick Diede had a bad luck last Satur- 

 day while he went to hitch a pulverizer 

 on and hitched two horses on and wanted 

 to tie the others to them while he had 

 tied one on and wanted to tie the other 

 on that side turned over to the hind side 

 and came under the pulverizer and cut his 

 hind legs till in the bones so the animal 

 had to been killed as soon as possible 

 while the others cut themselves barely. — 

 Mtnio Herald. 



Such are some of the dangers of 

 agriculture. And the correspondent — 

 well, there are all Ivinds, you know. 



Another Wizard. 



"I'lant your seeds when the moon is 

 growing full. If you plant them when it 

 is on the wane ten chances to one they 

 won't grow. That is one of the most im- 

 portant things to know about growing 

 plants from the seed, accordiug to Mrs. A. 

 Fechtig, 341 West 37th street. New York. 

 Mrs. Fechtig has been raising plants for 

 her own amusement in a city flat and on 

 the roof of that Hat for thirt.v-eight years." 



'"There is something interesting about 

 gladiolas. If you lay the bulbs of flowers 

 of difl"erent colors side by side or on top of 

 each ether for the winter, your flowers 

 will be of quite a different shade from 

 what they would have been if you had 

 kept the bulbs of different shades separate. 

 That is one way I get new tints."— .£-1- 

 iracts .from a column article in the Chicago 

 Dialy Neius. 



The Daily News ought to be a good 

 subject for the Council of Horticulture 

 to practice on. Great chance for "the 

 fine Italian hand." 



Goshen, Ind. — A. E. Kunderd, the 

 gladiolus specialist and hybridizer of 

 Fort Wayne, Ind., has purchased 50 

 acres of land in Goshen, where he will 

 locate early next spring and grow 

 gladioli and other summer cut flowers 

 for the Chicago market. He will be 

 conveniently located on the Lake Shore 

 and Michigan Central, the Big Four 

 and Interurban Railways, 100 miles 

 east of Chicago and 17 miles east of 

 South Bend. 



Mr. E. V. Low sends us the accom- 

 panying illustration of his collection 

 of white labiatas — some twelve or 

 fifteen varieties — in bloom last Novem- 

 ber. These ar'e the outcome of many 

 years assiduous collecting from many 



sources. We know several ambitious 

 American florists who "wouldn't do a 

 thing" to that bunch of plants if given 

 permission to use the knife on them 

 and expense would be a minor con- 

 sideration. 



THE HEDGE AS A BLIZZARD 

 BUFFER. 



The magnificent work of the Read- 

 ing R. R. in keeping its lines running 

 on time during the record-breaking 

 blizzard of Christmas, 1909, while 

 every other steam road entering 

 Philadelphia was tied up for from two 

 to five days was ascribed by a high 

 official of the road to its splendid track 

 equipment and discipline in part; but 

 a great share of the credit was also 

 given to the privet hedges along every 

 embankment where drifting was like- 

 ly. The hedges proved at this time 

 as always a splendid wind break and 

 saved the company many thousands 

 of dollars in the labor cost of digging 

 out drifts. The hedge policy was in- 

 augurated many years ago at the 

 shrewd instigation of the Reading's 

 landscape gardener, Paul Huebner, and 

 time has amply demonstrated its wis- 

 dom. A local nurseryman was so im- 

 pressed with the effectiveness of the 

 idea in practical operation that he set 

 his entire office force to work writing 

 details to every railroad manager in 

 the country — incidentally offering their 

 stock of privet plants. A good and 

 timely stroke of business. Make a 

 note of this ye wide-a-awake nursery- 

 men! G. C. W. 



better advantage the column devoted 

 to the manufacture of paper flowers. 

 "Cut them out." 



The Report of the Country Life 

 Commission and Special Message from 

 President Roosevelt has been reprint- 

 ed tor free distribution by the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, Spokane, Wash. 

 This is Document No. 705 of the Sen- 

 ate, 60th Congress, 2nd session, and 

 its publication, to meet the wide- 

 spread demand for the document, 

 which is not available through gov- 

 ernment channels, is done with the 

 approval of President Taft. 



Evergreens: How to Grow Them. 

 By C. S. Harrison.— This book of 100 

 pages by our esteemed friend and cor- 

 respondent of York, Neb., deserves a 

 word of sincere commendation. It Is 

 written for the people of tlie great 

 prairie states — a section of the coun- 

 try ytt new, where necessity and util- 

 ity have the first say and esthetic sen- 

 timents are for a time necessarily 

 forced into the background. But C. S. 

 Harrison has been preaching the Gos- 

 pel of Beauty to those hardy pioneers 

 for these many years and Nebraska Is 

 justly proud of him. Every line he 

 writes is pregnant with the true hor- 

 ticultural spirit which makes for hu- 

 manity in its highest and best sense, 

 makes gardens in the desert and turns 

 the ranch into a home. The book 

 shows throughout the touch of the ex- 

 pert and its cultural notes and obser- 

 vations may be safely accepted as thor- 

 oughly reliable. Price, cloth, 50 cents; 

 paper, 25 cents. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Flower Garden, Vol. 1, No. 1— 

 We welcome this newcomer in the field 

 of floral literature and extend to the 

 publisher, J. C. Swanger, Salt Lake 

 City, Utah, our hearty good wishes. In 

 doing so, we venture to suggest in the 

 kindliest spirit that he might use to 



PERSONAL. 



Visitors in Boston.— J. Muller, repre- 

 senting Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, 

 N. .1., E. Andre, Trinidad, B. W. I. 



Carl L. Olson, employed by the Iowa 

 Seed Co., and Hazel L. Divilbiss were 

 married December 22 at Des Moines, 

 la. 



