March 19, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



439 



Personal 



Thomas W. Head, of Groton, Conn., 

 is at the Bellevue Hotel, Belleair, 

 Florida, for a week. 



Mansfield, Ohio. — Albert Helbrook. 

 formerly of Columbus, is now with 

 the Berno Floral Co. 



Davenport, la. — Edward Patton has 

 accepted a position with Ludwig 

 Stapp. He was formerly gardener 

 for Miss Woltmann. 



Lenox, Mass. — Robert MacConnachie, 

 gardener for Mr. A. Kneeland, was 

 married March 11 to Miss Margaret 

 Williams. 



Wm. B. Jones, formerly head gar- 

 dener for T. L. Manson, East Hamp- 

 ton, L. I., has taken charge of A. B. 

 Boardman's estate at Southampton, 

 L. I. 



Van Wert, Ohio.— C. H. Trefflinger 

 has resigned his position at the Mc- 

 Conahy greenhouse and has gone to 

 Spartanburg, S. C, to accept a simi- 

 lar position. 



Waverley, Mass. — Wm. S. Grassie, 

 who has been with the Harvard 

 Botanic Garden for three years, has 

 bought several acres of land in Wav- 

 erley and will build a range of houses 

 and grow for the market. 



George C. Butler, for the past eight 

 years gardener to Hon. W. A. L. Baze- 

 ley. of Uxbridge, Mass., has resigned 

 and has accepted a position as superin- 

 tendent of the Messrs. Wells' estate 

 at Southbridge. Thomas Houlihan has 

 succeeded him in Uxbridge. 



Visitors in Boston: H. Suzuki, Yok- 

 ohama, Japan; A. Kakuda, New York; 

 Samuel Parsons, New York; C. C. 

 Laney, Rochester, N. Y.; H. S. De For- 

 est, New York; P. M. Read, New York; 

 C. B. Weathered, New York; J. S. Hay, 

 of Dreer's, Philadelphia; Robert Mil- 

 ler, Cromwell, Conn. 



CONSTRUCTING HOTBEDS. 



To the experienced private or mar- 

 ket gardener the hotbed is a very es- 

 sential adjunct. Necessarily the ex- 

 pense may not be very large, as a 

 cheaply constructed frame and sash 

 may be made to answer a very good 

 purpose; but a well-constructed frame 

 and good glazed sash, if properly taken 

 care of, are the cheapest in the end. 

 The manure may be taken for other 

 purposes after being used in the bed, 

 and being well decomposed is admir- 

 ably fitted for other crops. Frames 

 constructed of good plank, and as often 

 recommended, with iron loops on the 

 ends of the sides, to pass through mor- 

 tices in end pieces at the corners, and 

 fastened by inserting keys through the 

 loops will make the most convenient 

 ones, as they may be readily taken 

 apart when through with for the sea- 

 son, and packed away so as to occupy 

 but little space. Sash 3x6 feet are 

 about as handy as any size. 



In constructing the bed I prefer to 



EASTER 



PLANTS 



RAMBLER ROSES in Six Varieties, 



ACACIAS . . . • 



BOUQAINVILLEAS . 



HYDRANGEAS, White and pink 



GENISTAS 



AZALEAS 



MARGUERITES . 



HEATHS 



etc., etc., etc 



Each 



50c to $7.50 



75c to 5.00 



75c to 4.00 



50c to 5 00 



50c to 4.00 



50c to 5.00 



50c to 1.25 



50c to 1. 00 



LILIES, 12 l-2c per bud and flower 



LORRAINE BEGONIAS 



Young leaf stock, ready for delivery from May 25 on. 

 $15.00 per 100. $145.00 per lOOO 



Come and see for yourselves. Visitors always 

 welcome. Only 40 minutes from 

 North Station, Boston. 



Send for Time Table 



THOMAS ROLAND 



NahanL, Mass 



excavate a pit about a foot larger on 

 every side than the frame, and some 

 five or six inches dee*p. Fill this and 

 raise about two feet above the surface 

 with manure, and on this place the 

 frame and bank up with earth, cover- 

 ing the manure five or six feet deep 

 outside the frame; place the sash on 

 and let the manure steam. When the 

 heat has subsided to about 90 degrees — 

 it will go to 100 degrees or more — 

 spread on five or six inches of fine, 

 rich garden mould well filled with vege- 

 table matter, and in this after warming 

 up, sow your seed in drills running 

 from back to front side of bed. The 

 bed should face the south to receive 

 the full benefit of the sun's rays. Be- 

 ginners are too apt to sow their seed 

 in the hotbed before the heat begins 



to subside, and thus lose them. It Is 

 needless to state that horse stable ma- 

 nure, plentifully supplied with strawy 

 litter is commonly used, as this Is of 

 a quicker nature than other animal 

 manure. Care must be taken when 

 forming the bed that it is beaten well 

 down with the fork, and packed so as 

 to keep an even surface when the bed 

 settles, as settle it will, after heating a 

 while. 



The large variety of plants that the 

 hotbed Is useful In starting or for- 

 warding early in the season needs no 

 repetition here, but for all that re- 

 quires a long season, it is almost In- 

 dispensable. March is the proper time 

 for making up the hotbed, as a general 

 thing, in this latitude. 



RICHARD J. HAYDEN. 



