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HORTICULTURE 



December 10, 1910 



RARE PLANTS FROM CHINA 



See our Spring Catalogue for 

 191 I, ready January ist, for 



REAL NOVELTIES 



in Shrubs, Vines and other plants. 



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HARDY RHODODENDRONS 



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 climatic conditions are no more severe than in Massachusetts. V^ e 

 have them, the finest stock in the world of brilliant hybrid 

 varieties which have stoad the test of years in American Gardens 

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EUROPEAN NOTES. 

 Arbor Day in England. 



Tree planting is to become common 

 in the British Isles, the idea being 

 copied by certain villages and small 

 towns from the United States. Con- 

 sidering the scarcity of timber trees 

 cultivated in a proper manner, and 

 less with the intention of game rear- 

 ing, which appears to be that of the 

 landed gentry, arbor day would un- 

 doubtedly answer a very useful pur- 

 pose in the lapse of time, and under 

 intelligent management. The inhabi- 

 tants of the pretty town of Eynsford 

 In Kent celebrated the festivities con- 

 nected with planting trees on Satur- 

 day, November 5, with much enthusi- 

 asm. Mr. E. G. Till, who was the chief 

 mover in the matter, was on this oc- 

 casion supported by Sir .Tohn A. Cock- 

 burn, late premier of South Australia, 

 and Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, M. P. 

 The event was associated with a show 

 of fruits, vegetables and flowers. 



Eynsford has had its arbor day for 

 several years, with excellent results as 

 legards the aspect of the town as a 

 whole and its healthiness. The i)'.ac? 



enjoys the advantages of having the 

 long established nursery of Messrs. 

 Cannell & Son in its midst, as well as 

 at Swanley, a village about two miles 

 distant. 



Dahlia Rhemkonig. 



This new variety originated from a 

 seed capsule of D. Parsival, and it pos- 

 sesses the freedom of its parent in 

 floweiing. What distinguishes the 

 novelty in other jjoints are the con- 

 stancy of the typical German show 

 dahlia lorni in every bloom, the shin- 

 ing snowy whiteness and the pleasing 

 durability of the flowers in the cut 

 state. Wherever shown in the past 

 autumn the flower found much admir- 

 ation, and when obsei ved on the plant 

 in closely planted groups the jjlant^ 

 were with their snowy flowers veiy at- 

 tractive features. 



Common Salt in Peach Culture. 



During many yeais' residence in 

 China, in Tong'/ee. in the province of 

 Petschili, close to the sea, writes Carl 

 Heine in Die Gartenwelt for Xovember 

 12, he had under his observation ex- 

 tensive plantations of peaches whicli 

 at high tides were overflowed by sea 

 water, so that the soil was quite satu- 

 rated with it. The trees were planted 

 on hillocks in I'ows 10 yards apait and 

 at a distance of .5 vards from plant to 



plant. They consisted of local sorts, 

 and were very robust in growth, the 

 fruit of enormous size, pleasing aroma 

 and fine color. In plantations far from 

 the coast and on borders of streams of 

 sv/ei't water, examples of peach trees 

 suffering from gumming, curl of the 

 leaf, and the shoots dead or dying, and 

 cropping miserably, were common 

 and poor in flavor. On returning to 

 Europe he applied common salt as an 

 experiment on Early Rivers, applying 

 '■• lbs. to each tree, and in the last sea- 

 son :; lbs. of cattle salt. The salt was 

 scattered over the soil as far as the 

 roots extended, and hoed in. The 

 trees were of the same age — two years 

 from the bud. 



The results have been of a gratify- 

 ing character — no gumming nor leaf 

 curl, nor any other disease; the growth 

 stronger and the fruit finer. The ap- 

 plication of salt to sweet and morello 

 he has liliewise tried; and the fruit- 

 fulness of the trees has increased. 

 This correspondent promises to report 

 more fully next year.. 



Dec. 6. 1910. 

 "It gives us great pleasure to say 

 that we have had excellent returns 

 from our advertisements in HORTI- 

 CULTURE." 



EASTERN NURSERIES. 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



