November 26, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



739 



iiChrysanthemum Novelties:; 



nrHE varieties I send out from year to year always lead at tlie ex= 

 hibitions. Note the wonderful flowers of Mrs. D. Syme, How = 

 ard Gould and W. Woodmason, of last year's set. For next year I 

 will have Lady Carmichael, a beautiful white; Mrs. Q. C. Kelly, 

 pink; E. M. Byrnes, a lovely scarlet; F. T. Quittenton, a fine crim= 

 son, and others. ::::::::::: 



q IN NEW C4RNATI0N8 I will send out White House and Prin- 

 cess Charming, two kinds you will need in your business. White 

 House won the silver cup for best new variety at Morristown, Nov. 

 2nd, and bronze medal at Carnation Society meeting at Pittsburg. 

 My catalog will be ready in December. Send for a copy. : : 



CHA5. H. TOTTY, : : : : MADISON, N. J. 



nORE " EDUCATION " FOR THE 

 FARHER. 



A new fertilizer iJaper has been 

 started in the South, which announces 

 thaf one of its purposes will be to 

 "Educate" the farmer in regard to the 

 great advantages of mixed fertilizers, 

 and the folly of home mixing. One of 

 the means to this end consists of a 

 series of cartoons representing the 

 farmer in a most uncomplimentary 

 way. The text accompanying these Is 

 an insult to the intelligence of the 

 farmer. The plan is to have the local 

 papers reproduce these, and in this 

 the aid of the local fertilizer agent is 

 expected. The editorial announcement 

 concludes by stating that: "Once the 

 good work is started, and the editors 

 of the agricultural papers are con- 

 vinced of the big savings to the farm- 

 ers from using commercial fertilizers 

 manufactured in an up-to-date factory, 

 the battle will be won." 



The battle Is not likely to be won at 

 all on this basis. Many local dealers 

 are heartily in favor of meeting the 

 wishes of their customers for raw ma- 

 terial. Opposed to this is the attempt 

 of the manufacturer to bind the local 

 dealer not to sell raw materials, and if 

 this fails, the manufacturer will not 

 give the same credit accommodations 

 on raw material as on mixed goods. 

 The custom of manufacturers in giving 

 a local dealer exclusive territory on the 

 firms' brands, and then giving his next 

 •door competitor exclusive territory on 

 brands of exactly the same composi- 

 tion but sold under the name of some 

 ^'Bay window" company belonging to 



the same manufacturer, and continu- 

 ing the process as long as the supply 

 of dealers in a given town holds out, is 

 not one that is likely to make the local 

 dealer favor the manufacturers and 

 their anti-home mixing plans, as 

 against the best interests of the deal- 

 ers' customers. 



The editors of the agricultural pa- 

 pers are too well informed to take up 

 any such scheme and they, as well as 

 their readers, know that wherever 

 home mixing has been intelligently 

 tried, the "Big savings" are all on the 

 side of home mixing. It has been re- 

 peatedly shown that in factories 

 equipped with the most elaborate ma- 

 chinery for mixing, it is by no means 

 an unusual thing for goods to be 

 mixed by exactly the same process as 

 the faimer would use at home. This 

 is especially true for small lots of 

 high grade goods made from the best 

 class of raw materials. 



Many large factories are returning to 

 the old process of wet mixing, and for 

 this work there is a great advantage in 

 using mixing machinery, since the 

 process involves the use of sulfuric 

 acid and has the manufacturing ad- 

 vantage of permitting the utilization 

 of low grades of raw materials that a 

 farmer would never think of buying, 

 if offered to him in their unmixed 

 condition; it also serves to disguise 

 the filler. 



The manufacturers continue to press 

 the sale of 10-2-2 in the South, and 

 2-8-2 in the North, both of which per- 

 mit the use of low grade raw material 

 and filler. 



The farmer demands formulas better 

 suited to his crops and soils, and con- 

 taining less filler. Brands of higher 



grade are meeting with increased sale, 

 and farmers are learning that they 

 can make their own brands to suit 

 themselves. The ridicule of the trade 

 papers will not deter them in this. 



Home mixing is now rendered much 

 more practical and profitable by the 

 fact that dealers or farmers can now 

 buy both nitrate of soda and potash 

 salts direct from the producers, where 

 heretofore they were obliged to get 

 them through fertilizer manufacturers, 

 many of whom placed all sorts of ob- 

 stacles in the way of such purchases. 

 This dealing direct with the producers 

 of the two substances needed to sup- 

 plement basic slag, acid phosphate or 

 bone, in producing complete and filler- 

 free fertilizers suited to the various 

 needs of the farmer, results in a 

 marked saving in cost of the raw ma- 

 terials and so adds to the profit re- 

 sulting from home mixing. — Adv. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle of London, 

 publishes in its issue of November 12, 

 a very readable article from the Kew 

 Bulletin, by Mr. W. J. Bean on his re- 

 cent visit to the Arnold Arboretum. 

 This story of the impressions gained 

 by a gentleman so observant and well- 

 learned in tree growth, concerning 

 Boston's renowned Arboretum will 

 find many interested readers in this 

 country as well as across the sea. In 

 connection with Mr. Bean's communi- 

 cation the Chronicle sends out a sup- 

 plement illustrating Jackson Dawson's 

 new rose "Professor C. S. Sargent." 

 This was the name originally given 

 this rose but on account of the exist- 

 ence of another rose so named, we 

 understand that the title has been 

 changed to "The Sargent Rose." 



