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HORTICULTURE 



March 2S, 1910 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 The Parks. 



As is the custom at this time the 

 various conservatories are ablaze with 

 color, and thousands of visitors throng 

 the aisles and enjoy to the full the 

 special display which marks the ap- 

 proach of Easter. The opening day 

 was Palm Sunday and at Garfield Park 

 it was estimated by the guards that 

 15,000 people passed within the doors. 

 The show room naturally attracted the 

 most attention and the color schemes, 

 now brilliant and again subdued, were 

 well carried out. Each day during 

 Passion Week, new plants were added, 

 the Easter lilies being held back till 

 the end. 



The rebuilding of the roof of the 

 great dome last fall is now pronounced 

 a success, as it has withstood the test 

 of the winter. The contract for the 

 remaining houses is now under con- 

 templation. Mr. Sell has had to labor 

 under difficulties, every wind storm 

 carrying oft from fifty lo one hundred 

 lights, and three men were kept busy 

 all winter making repairs on the roof. 

 These conservatories were built two 

 years ago and were a failure. In re- 

 building no curved glass is used, and 

 each glass is set in copper. 



Head Gardener Rudolph Schiele was 

 host to the throngs who filled the Lin- 

 coln Park greenhouses at their formal 

 announcement that spring is here once 

 more. Lilies were a predominating 

 feature and Mr. Schiele has been suc- 

 cessful in getting them out at just the 

 right time. The houses will be open 

 till 10 p. m., each evening till after 

 Easter. 



A Practical Idea. 

 It is not generally known that the 

 West Park Board has fitted up kinder- 

 gartens at Parks No. ?, and No. 2, 

 ■where plants are furnished from the 

 park conservatories and used as ob- 

 ject lessons to the little children. 



The idea originated with the So- 

 ciety for Permanent School Extension 

 and was adopted by the West Park 

 Board. Easter lilies, daffodils, tulips, 

 etc., are used as the basis for stories 

 Ijy the teachers and are reproduced in 

 pictures, etc., by the little folks. 



Lessons on seeds, bulbs, the care of 

 plants, how to make and care for a 

 garden, etc., will all be taught, and 

 as these schools are in a crowded por- 

 tion of the city these children would 

 doubtless have no other opportunity 

 to learn of plant life. Perhaps these 

 schools will produce some new lights 

 in the horticultural world, who knows! 



A Close Call. 



The various florists in the Fairbanks 

 Building, Wabash avenue, had a close 

 call, March 21st, when fire practicaTlv 

 destroyed the upper floors and shut off 

 the elevator service. On the second 

 floor is located the Flower Growers' 



ONION SETS — POTATOES 



Early Ohio Potatoes, $i.io bu.: Early Irish Cob- 

 blers, $i.io bu.; Genuine Danish Ball-head Cab- 

 bage Seed (imported stock) $4.00 lb. All Early 

 Radish seed (French Stock) $.40 per lb. Northern 

 grown Yellow or White Onion Sets, $1.00 per bu. 

 All F O. B. Syracuse. Remittance with order. 

 Reference any bank in Syracuse. 



F. H. EBELING, Seedsman 



Established i863 Syracuse, N.Y. 



■^"^ ^ , Harvest Time, whether 

 it's corn, cotton, or any other 

 crop, will show you >o«r profit from 

 the liberal amount of 



Potash 



you put in your commercial fertilizer this 

 Spring, or drill, or broadcast to follow 

 manuring. 

 ^ No crop can be a success without a balanced 

 feed ration." See that there's enough 

 rolash in the fertilizer you feed your 

 crops— from 6 to 12 per cent according to the 

 crop and soil. 



Potash Pays 



Urge your fertilizer dealer to carry Potash / 

 Salts in stock. He will have no trouble in// 

 buying them if he will write to us about it. 

 GERMAN KALI WORKS 

 --_._ Cooljoeotil Brdc.,Ballliiiore,Md. 



Market, and the water from the rooms 

 above poured down through the ceil- 

 ing. Notwithstanding, business went 

 on as usual 



An Instructive Exhibit. 



A study for the florist and one that 

 might be of real help to him is the 

 "Garden" reproduced by Marshall, 

 Field & Co. It occupies the entire large 

 south room on the eighth floor and 

 the amount of material used is enor- 

 mous. It is designed as a setting for 

 artistic summer furniture, and far sur- 

 passes anything else of its kind at- 

 tempted by this house. There are 

 masses of flowers and foliage, sur- 

 rounding a court with a fountain, vine- 

 covered trellises, lanes overhung with 

 roses, clematis and wistaria. A dozen 

 men are employed to do the decorating 

 of this store and under the super- 

 vision of an expert obtain results that 

 are worthy of careful study by the 

 florist who would do tasteful decorat- 

 ing 



Personal. 



Archie Spencer, for several years 

 with Peter Reinberg in his wholesale 

 store, is now with Lubliner & Trinz, 

 44 Randolph street. 



Michael Stauch, formerly of Joy & 

 Son, Nashville, Tenn., was in Chicago 

 for a few days on his way home from 

 si.Y months in Germany. 



Visitors; R. A. Lalnam, Minneap- 

 olis, Minn.; Geo. Vatter, Marinette, 

 Wis.; Miss E. Kaber, Laporte, Ind.; 

 W. Anderson, Kenosha, Wis.; J. Lit- 

 zall, Geneva, 111.; J. H. Shelton, Roch- 

 ester. Ind.: Michael Stauch, Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



cent annual meeting.— The first of the 

 "Masters" lectures for this year has 

 been given by Mr. A. D. Hall, director 

 of the Rothamsted Experimental Sta- 

 tion, the subject being, "The Adapta- 

 tion of the Plant to the Soil."— As pre- 

 viously announced in my notes, a fund 

 is being raised to provide a suitable 

 memorial to the late Mr. Peter Barr, 

 the "Daffodil King." The promoters 

 desire to provide a Barr medal to be 

 awarded annually in connection with 

 work amongst daffodils and the main- 

 tenance of an orphan through the me- 

 dium of the Royal Gardeners' Orphan 

 Fund.— The spring bulb show of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, held on 

 March )S and 9. was a great success. — 

 The National Chrysanthemum Society 

 has arranged to hold a trial of all va- 

 rieties of single chrysanthemums dur- 

 ing the forthcoming season, with a 

 view to determining varieties that are 

 too much alike. 



W. H. ADSETT. 



BRITISH JOTTINGS. 



A party of Canadian fruit growers 

 will visit this country this year, on 

 the invitation of the National Fruit 

 Growers' Federation.— The Horticul- 

 tural Club continues to make good 

 l)rogress on prosperous lines, judging 

 from the reiiort presented at the re- 



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