December 17, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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plants and confine each one to a single stem. Better 

 fruits are produced and they set just as freely, if no 

 feeding is given before the lirst three trusses are set. 

 Plants should have a sharp shake about noon each day 

 during the winter months to distribute the pollen. It is 

 not necessary to go over them with a brush. 



MUSHROOMS 



Beds which are on the dry side should now have a 

 thorough watering which will ensure a crop for Christ- 

 mas. 



EYES FOR ROOTING VINES 



When pruning vines a few laterals should be saved and 

 heeled in under some bench or other moist place, to fur- 

 nish eyes for producing young canes next year. 



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Somerville, N. J. 



The New Geraniums 



INTRODUCTIONS OF 1910. 



While the year 1910 has seen the advent of many 

 wonderful introductions representing great advance in 

 almost every line of standard florist flowers and plants 

 — the rose, the carnation, the dahlia and the sweet pea 

 all adding to their list new varieties of special merit, yet 

 none have made greater strides towards the highest 

 state of perfection, toward reaching the ideal than has 

 the zonal pelargonium, and it takes only a glance to con- 

 vince any one who is in the least acquainted with the 

 standard lists wp to today, that there is a new standard 

 to be considered, that a revision is at hand, that many of 

 the incomparable varieties of a few years ago are to be 

 relegated to the rear and that a new category is to be 

 made, old things passing away to make room for the 

 new. That the geranium of the future is to be more 

 beautiful, more brilliant, yes, even more magnificent in 

 every way than the geranium of the past, and, if possible, 

 even more popular than ever before is unquestioned. 



Taken as a whole the novelty list of 1910 shows some 

 grand acquisitions, embracing a range of color almost 

 bewildering in its variet}', comprising all the imaginable 

 tints, shades, and combination of colors found in tlie 

 geranium, from the most dazzling to the softest and most 

 delicate tint, baffling adequate description, and com- 

 pelling the most fastidious, and most critical to stop and 

 admire. Some of them seem to insist on being looked 

 at and many visitors after looking the varieties over in a 

 general way, invariably return to admire and comment 

 on one or more which has especially appealed to their 

 particular fancy. 



Among those which appear to have excited the great- 

 est admiration and are to be disseminated to the trade 

 by the Vincent Co. this season are the following: 



Jean Balde (Brt.) — A beautiful novelty shade of red- 

 dish purple; petals blotched white at base, very floriferous, 

 enormous trusses set upright on long flower stalks. 



Latham — Immense semi-double flowers of a beautiful 



shade of deep madder carmine with a white center, very 

 floriferous; a distinct variety, enormous trusses, supported 

 by long flower stalks. 



Pierre Suhau (Brt.>— Immense semi-double flowers of 

 a beautiful shade of carmine purple, with rich velvety fin- 

 ish,, low habit, free flowering beautiful trusses. 



G. Zille (Brt.) — Good trusses and large flowers of a 

 pretty shade of cochineal carmine, passing through violet 

 at center to beautiful and rich color; plant of good habit. 



Leonce Depont (Brt.)— Deep carmine shading purple 

 with a large white center; beautiful flowers, strong 

 trusses. 



Jean Eyriam (Brt.)— Free flowering, large trusses, 

 semi-double flowers, carmine lake with large white eye, 

 very distinct. 



Marguerite Philippe— Strong trusses, salmon carmine 

 with a white eye. profuse bloomer, dwarf foliage; an ex- 

 cellent plant for bedding. 



Raymond Poincare (Lem.)— Immense flowers of a deep 

 carmine color; upper petals blotched white, with large 

 white eye. 



Agathos (Roz-Bou)— Strong trusses, immense semi- 

 double flowers of a deep carmine. 



Baron Dhanis (Roz-Bou)— Grand cochineal red semi- 

 double flowers with a purplish tint. 



Comte Carminati Di Brambilla (Roz-Bou)— A very rich 

 color of currant red, modulating lighter towards center 

 two lower petals blotched white at throat, white eye; an 

 excellent variety with large semi-double flowers 'and 

 trusses. 



Comtesse De Hohenwart (Roz-Bou)— Immense flowers 

 of currant red with cardinal red upper petals, tinted lighter 

 toward center; very large trusses, a beautiful variety. 



White Marsh, Md. 



Tomato Wattes Wonder 



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The remarkable tomato herewith illustrated was 

 raised from a crossing of "Dawson's Plum" with "Far- 

 quhar's Bountiful," by T. T. Watt, gardener at Welles- 

 ley College, Mass. It needs but to be seen to demon- 

 strate its title to the name it bears. The plants shown 

 in the picture are 6 to 8 feet tall at half growth. When 

 growth is finished they average 12 ft. in height, fruited 

 from base to apex. The fruit is of beautiful shape and 

 liigh qiiality e^^])ecialIy as a salad tomato. 



