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HORTICULTURE 



May 28, 1910 



"Heacock Quality" Palms Mean MORE: 



TRADE for You 



Your customers are commencing to stay outof doors 

 more now ; they are thinking of porch plants — and 

 most particularly, of PALMS. 



You can sell Heacock's Palms to your trade — profita- 

 bly — because of their handsome, thrifty appearance 

 and great vigor; they are an orr ament anywhere. 

 We grow Palms by ihe thousa- d, from seed; we know 

 how to produce the best results, and our stock is vastly 

 better than imported Palms at any price — yet ouis 

 cost no more, as you'll see from the following list. Our 

 stock I his year is extra.fine and we'd like a trial order 

 from you. We have splendid freight connections and 

 can ship promptly. 



ARECA LUTESCENS 



3 plants in pot. Each. 



6-ln. pot, 26 to 2» In. high $1.00 

 7-in. pot, 30 to 32 In. high 2.00 

 8-ln. pot, 36 Inches high... 2.60 

 g-ln. pot, 42 Inches high... 3.00 



COCOS WEDDELLIANA 



Per 100 

 2V^-in. pot, 8 to 10 Inches 



high SIO.OO 



PHOENIX ROEBELENII 



5-in. pots, nicely char- 

 acterized $1.00 



fi-in. pots, nicely char- 

 acterized 1.60 



KENTiA BELMOREANA 



6 to 7 leaves Per iloz. Per 100 

 5-in. pot. 18 in. high $6.00 $60.00 

 5-in. pot, 30 in. high 9.00 70.00 

 Each Doe. 

 6-in. pot, 2? to 24 



in. high $1.00 $12.00 



7-iii. pot or tub, 32 



to 34 in. high 2.00 24.00 



9-in. tub, 5 ft. high 



$7.50 and $8.00 Each 



MADE UP KENTIA FOR- 

 STERIANA 



4 plants in tub. 

 ■9-in. tub, 4'; to 48 



inches high $4.00 Each 



12-in. tub, 6.ft. high $15.00 Each 



"When in Philadelphia Be Sure to Look Us Up" 



Joseph Heacock Company, Wyncote, Pa. 



choice and number of varieties grow- 

 ing, cleanliness and scarcity of weeds, 

 quality as well as quantity of vegeta- 

 bles. Children's gardens should be 

 located near public schools, where 

 they may be reauily reached by the 

 children after school hours, and when 

 possible, one of the teachers should 

 remain with them to see that they con- 

 duct themselves properly. In planting, 

 arranging and cultivating the gardens, 

 the children should be allowed abso- 

 lute freedom, also to plant varieties 

 of their own choice. In this way, they 

 become more interested, take great 

 pride in working out new ideas, they 

 will study the plants more closely, 

 learn their economic value, purpose 

 for which they are used and will com- 

 pare them to their description in the 

 seed catalogTies. By giving them this 

 freedom, it becomes a matter of per- 

 sonal judgment and responsibility, 

 with the element of speculation and 

 experimentation entering into their 

 play. 



Window boxes may be bought ready 

 made and after fastening them to the 

 window sills, should be filled with 

 good, black loam and this soil should 

 be renewed each spring, after the 

 bulbs have ceased blooming and have 

 been taken out and put in a dry place 

 for fall planting. These boxes should 

 be planted with alyssums, alternan- 

 thera. or ageratums at the edge of the 

 box, with periwinkle, wandering Jew, 

 nasturtium, sweet pea, English Ivy, 

 or similar vines hanging over the sides 

 and umbrella palms, marguerites, 

 geraniums, petunias, coleus, begonias, 

 etc., planted in the center. Such plant- 

 ing gives a pleasing effect and these 

 boxes are judged as to arrangement 



of the plants, color effect in massing 

 and general conditions. 



Porch gardens will be planted with 

 almost the same plants as recommend- 

 ed for the window boxes, (these porch 

 boxes should be fastened to the rail- 

 ings of the porch and stairway) but 

 more hardy, such as the moruiu„ 

 glory, wild cucumber, moon flowers, 

 scarlet runner, Dutchman's jiipe, etc., 

 should be used. For permanent effect. 

 Hall's honeysuckle, bitter sweet and 

 Virginia creeper should be used; they 

 may be planted in the ground and 

 trained up along the porch to its roof. 



Front yards should be planted so as 

 to harmonize with the general treat- 

 ment along the street. 'Vine covered 

 fences or clipped hedges planted on 

 the property line to divide neighbors 

 is very poor taste; such planting de- 

 stroys the street effect, looks unnei,gh- 

 borly and makes one think the owners 

 feared their yard would be stolen. 

 With all the front lawns along the 

 street opened into one another, you 

 get a harmonious treatment along the 

 street that gives it a boulevard ap- 

 pearance. 



I have often seen pleasing effects 

 as the result of planting castor beans 

 against the house or porch with cala- 

 diums, cannas, coleus or geraniums 

 in front of them, but the best results 

 are gotten by planting such shrubs as 

 lilacs, mock oranges, highbush cran- 

 berries, althaes and Spiraea Van Hout- 

 tel against the house and porch corners, 

 with lower growing shrubs such as 

 weigelas, Japan quince, California pri- 

 vet, snowberries, Indian currants, 

 Thunberg barberries, Deutzias gracilis 

 and Lemoinel . or Spiraeas Anthony 

 W^aterer. tomeritosa or Bumalda plant- 



ed in front of the high growing ones, 

 forming a bank of foliage rising from 

 the lawn, up and against the house. 

 The shrubbery effects are permanent 

 in character and are almost as in- 

 teresting when the twigs are covered 

 ivith snow as when in bloom. 



The back yard gardens may be en- 

 tirely ornamental and are often con- 

 sidered the most desirable; they may 

 be entirely given up to growing veg- 

 etables, thus bringing the largest finan- 

 cial return, or they may be planted to 

 combine both the ornamental and 

 vegetable, which garden is undoubtedly 

 the best suited for the average city 

 home. 



The ornamental back yard gardens 

 may be considered of two types, the 

 formal or geometric garden and the in- 

 formal or naturalistic garden. In 

 formal gardens such plants as the 

 castor bean, caladiums, cannas, gera- 

 niums, alternantheras, yuccas, asters, 

 stocks, balsams, salvias, four-o'clock, 

 alyssums etc., are used with the low 

 growing plants, planted as borders 

 around individual masses of the higher 

 growing ones and these arranged in 

 circles, squares and other geometric 

 figures, with heavy grass lawns 

 stretched between these beds and 

 straight hedges of privet or Thun- 

 berg barberries bordering the lawn 

 and walks. The informal gardens 

 should have as much open lawn left 

 intact as possible, and no beds of 

 flowers or shrubs should be planted 

 in the center of the open space. These 

 would minimize the size of the lawn 

 and their patchy appearance detracts 

 from the composition of the whole. 



Naturalistic gardens require the 

 least attention as almost all plants 



