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HORTICULTURE. 



April 9, 1910 



Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; E. M. Sher- 

 man, Charles City, Iowa. 



The secretary's address is John Hall, 

 204 Granite Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 



ELBERON HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the Elberon Horticultural Society 

 meeting on the 4th of April, R. R. 

 Hughes read a paper on landscape 

 gardening which was very interesting 

 and opened up a large fleld tor di:i- 

 cussion. Mr. Hughes talked t'oi- some 

 time on the best trees and shrubs to 

 grow along the coast and also the best 

 grass seed mixture to use. The awards 

 I'or competitive exhibits were as fol- 

 lows: Wm. Seymour, 92 for Callas; 

 D. Kelley, 90 for cauliflower; P. Murry, 

 85 for gardenias; P. Ewen, 85 for 

 dracaenas; C. Duncan, 75 for roses; A. 

 Bauer, 70 for tulips. 



ALEX. FLEMING, Rec. Sec. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The annual banquet of the Lenox 

 Horticultural Society took place on 

 March 30, at the Curtis Hotel and was 

 a great success. The floral and Jlsc- 

 trical decorations were very fine. Al- 

 len Jenkins served as toastmaster. 



W. H. Elliott, president-elect of the 

 American Rose Society, who was not 

 present at the meeting which elected 

 him, has written to Secretary Ham- 

 mond accepting the honor and promis- 

 ing his best efforts towards the suc- 

 cess of the society. 



The best wishes of the members of 

 the Morris County Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Society are extended to Ar- 

 thur Herrington on the assumption of 

 his new landscape gardening business. 

 Mr. Herrington was one of the main 

 workers in organizing the Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' So- 

 ciety, was its first president and is 

 still one of its most active members. 

 No one knows what to plant and how 

 to plant it for results better than he. 

 His training abroad and his experience 

 here stand him well in hand now. 



INCORPORATED. 



Hamilton, Montana.— Bitter Root 

 Valley Nursery Co., capital stock $200,- 

 000. T. H. Hanbridge, S. P. Kerr and 

 G. I. Watters, directors. 



San Francisco, Gal. — California La- 

 dies' Flower & Plant Co., capital stock 

 $75,000. The company is to be man- 

 aged entirely by women. 



Oroville, Wash.— East Oroville Or- 

 chard Co., incorporated, capital stock 

 $40,000. A. P. Murray, L. L. Work and 

 e. S. Barns, incorporators. 



Hoboken, N. J. — Henry Nungesser 

 & Co., capital $50,000. Incorporators 

 Henry Nungesser and Geo. S. Mitten- 

 dorf of New York and Wm. A. Proes- 

 choldt of South Orange, N. J. 



Nashville, Tenn. — Tennessee Pecan 

 Co., nursery, capital $50,000. Incor- 

 porators, H. G. Baker, Masterson & 

 Peyton, John D. Benedict, J. Sam 

 Morton, T. J. Collins, J. R. Young, W. 

 W. Baird and A. R. Doddson. 



New York, N. Y. — A corporation to 

 deal in flowers, seeds, etc., under the 

 name of "Buds." capital stock $5,000. 

 Incorporators, Carl R. Gloeckner of 

 Jersey City, N. J., Wm. F. O'Connor 

 and Wm. H. Siebrecht. Jr., of New 

 York. 



MAKING SKYLINE. 



In the formal herbaceous and rose- 

 garden at Riverside Farm, the estate 

 of Mr. Edward Porter May, in Fram- 

 ingham, Mass., the east and south 

 boundary lines are left open to air 

 and sunshine, while the north and 

 west winds and cold draughts are ex- 

 cluded by a high spruce hedge and 

 the greenhouses, those making a dis- 

 tinct contrast between the two sides 

 of the rectangle. 



Now we know by the pictures of 

 famous Italian gardens, and by what 

 we have been told and seen of other 

 formal gardens, that these are mostly 

 on terraces, elevations, mountain 

 slopes, seashores, lake sides, etc., in 

 short somewhere where you can get a 

 view of the surrounding country or 

 water scenery. Gardens at the base 

 line of some monumental building or 

 at the base of some monument we will 

 have to except, because in such the 

 garden is mainly laid out to view those 

 architectural objects. But taking it for 

 granted that in general a formal gar- 

 den to look its best, in fact to com- 

 pletely justify its existence as a formal 

 garden, must be a sort of a platform 

 from which to look at a larger part 

 of beautiful natural scenery, it be- 

 comes of course necessary to leave 

 these sides or part^ towards this scen- 

 ery open. 



The views of natural woodland end 

 rural scenery e> lending toward the 

 east and sotilh in the above described 

 garden, save for a low privet hedge, 

 were left open. Yet it became obvious 

 that the high spruce hedge, thirty feet 

 on the west side, and tlie long glass 

 roofs of the greenhouses on tne other 

 side, were throwing the garden iu some 

 way out of balance. To counteract this 

 it became therefore necessary to higbt- 

 en the skyline of the low privet hedge 

 in various places. How this was ac- 

 complished without spoiling the airy, 

 sunny outlook toward the southern and 

 eastern fields and groves on the shores 

 of the Framingham reservoirs of the 

 Metropolitan system, the accompany- 

 ing pictures illustrate. 



Picture No. 1 shows two pear trees 



as well as by the other po.sts shown in 

 these pictures, but Cobea scandens 



left from an old orchara breaking the 

 skyline on the northeastern corner 

 close to the greenhouses. 



Picture No. 2 r-hovrs an opening in 

 the middle of the east side hedge, lead- 

 ing through an adjoining raspberry 

 field toward a grape arbor anrl beyond 

 into farm lands. In this view you see 

 also in the background a part of the 

 woodland scenery along the eastern 

 horizon. The arch is made of cedar 

 posts. The little tree to the left is a 

 cornus and the vines over tne arch 

 are Cobea scandens. Permanent vines 

 like wistarias, honeysuckles, clematis, 

 etc., have been planted by these posts, 



were used along with them for immed- 

 !.ate covering. 



In the picture No. 3, we come to the 

 south side privet hedge. This was 

 taken in the late autumn after the 

 cobeas had been pulled down. It 

 shows how this south side was left 

 comparatively open and unobstructed 

 and yet has in this summer-house a 

 definite ending of the formal garden. 

 Two pear trees were left standing 



when the garden was made, breaking 

 the sharp horizontal line of the hedge 

 but not enough to shut out any view. 

 This same principle may be applied to 

 the summer-house, and there is really 

 no impression of any obstruction al- 

 though it has a comparatively large 

 roof. 



The roof of the summer-house is 

 made of rattan matting such as used 

 for hot-bed covering. It is about 1^4 

 to 2 inches thick. The first layer of 

 matting was put over smooth, the sec- 

 ond layer with 16-inch lapping. Be- 

 tween the two layers Rubberoid paper 

 was placed, thus making a rain-proof 

 thatch looking like old country straw 

 thatching. The overhang on the 

 beams is about 10 inches. 



GERHARD BLEICKEN. 



ANOTHER APHINE DEMONSTRA- 

 TION. 



An Aphine demonstration under the 

 auspices of the Nassau County Horti- 

 cultural Society will be held on the 

 date of the society's next meeting, 

 Wednesday, April 13th, at Pembroke 

 Hall, Glen Cove, Long Island, between 

 the hours of 3 and 6 o'clock. Mr. Ebel 

 is anxious to have the gardeners and 

 growers submit a goodly collection of 

 insect infected plants, so that he can 

 prove decisively that Aphine will do 

 all that is claimed for it. 



The company last month reported 

 the largest business in its history, and 

 the merits of Aphine seem to have 

 been discovered both on the Pacific 

 Coast and in the South, from both of 

 which sections large orders are being 

 received. 



