April 20, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



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VEGETABLES OR FLOWERS? 



"The war garden," sings the New 

 York World, "must flourish and bloom 

 in that beauty which is service. Its 

 richness must be vegetable, not floral." 

 And that is true and right enough. 

 It is the doctrine of the agricultural 

 department, of food conservationists 

 and war-winners of all sorts and 

 affiliations. We may accept without 

 argument the principle that it is vege- 

 tables rather than flowers that ought 

 to be raised in this year of the war 

 lord, in order that the lord o£ peace 

 may come soon. The vegetable gar- 

 den is to be preferred to the flower 

 garden. Dietetic necessity wins over 

 esthetic indulgence. 



But must we therefore have no 

 flowers? Far be it from any com- 

 munity or any individual to swallow 

 this food gospel with such grim literal- 

 ness as to have no flowers about him 

 this year save the dubious blooms of 

 his vegetable beds. Man shall not 

 live by bread alone, nor by beans, 

 peas, tomatoes, carrots and turnips. 

 Along with things to feed the body 

 there must be also food for the soul. 

 This year of all years, we need 

 beauty and fragrance to soften the 

 hard realities of life. The fierce strug- 

 gle, the violence, the bloodshed, the 

 primitive beastliness that war has re- 

 vived on so vast a scale, need some 

 antidote to make us remember that 

 they are not the normal order of 

 things. And what more potent anti- 

 dote can we find for war's ugliness 

 than flowers? 



VEGETABLE FORCING 



By Prof. R. i. Watts 



Which hns jnst come from the press. 

 This book wns priiduced In response to 

 nuinherU'SS Inquiries for n prneticiil np- 

 to-dnte volume on the forcing of vepe- 

 tnhlefl. In our Indpment It is tiie most 

 complete, final nnd nuthorntntire work on 

 for'-lnp ever iRsned. Tlie author of tliia 

 Intensely pnicticnl hook lins linil n Inrpe 

 experience in prowlnj; crops under prlasa. 

 lie plvea cleiirly nrni concisely, conipt''te 

 Instrnctlonfl covering Greenhouse Con- 

 Btructlon. Roil, rrepnrjitlon. Insecto, 

 nipenses. Mnrketinc. Cropping Systi'm, 

 nnd the crowing of all of tite most im- 

 portant Vegetahle Forcing Crops. The 

 book will lie found equally valuable to 

 amateurs nnd experienced gardeners. 

 Prlcf Nel S2.00. For Sale by 

 HOBTICCLTrRK PI'RLISHING CO. 

 BoBtoD, Mass. 



Let us have some flowers, by all 

 means. They are content to grow on 

 the edges of vegetable beds, to get 

 along with odd scraps of soil and 

 stray bits of sunshine. 



We may even go further and admit 

 the propriety of occasional plots 

 where flowers take precedence of 

 vegetables. Suppose you have a gen- 

 uine flower garden, filled with old- 

 fashioned perennials, a garden which 

 has taken years to develop, and 



THE BIG GUN 



We've made us a gun, a giant gun. 



That never the world has known; 

 Its thuuder-flame leaps up to the sun 



And touches the highest Throne, 

 Mere kings and crowns are blown 

 from its path. 



To uttermost darkness hurled — 

 For this is the gun of a people's 

 wrath : 



Its range is around the world ! 



We've made us a gun, aglowing gun, 



A gun of the steel of youth ; 

 Its bore is a pit the bad must shun, 



Its bed is the rock of truth, 

 Jehovah's tingers have set its sight. 



To carry his righteous curse — 

 For this is the gun of a Nation's 

 might! 



Its arc is the universe! 



We've made ua a gun, a master-gun. 

 Whose rumble can shake the earth 

 Till the wolves siiall tlee from the 

 held they've won — 

 Their litter die in its birth. 

 It makes stars tremble, yet they re- 

 joice 

 In sliivering orbits high — 

 For this is the gun of a people's 

 voice 

 And evil it bids to die! 



All cannon voices to silence fall. 

 Whenever its word begin — 



For this la the gun of a Nation's 

 call. 

 And ita ahell speaks only "Win!" 

 — John O'Keefe in the New 



York World. 



which is a source of never-failing joy 

 to your whole neighborhood. Must 

 you give cabbages and potatoes the 

 right of eminent domain in that gar- 

 den? 



There's a nice question for debate. 

 But in such a case public opinion in 

 almost any community will probably 

 say: 



"Keep the flowers. They will help 

 us to endure the war, and therefore 

 to win the war. We'll need less food 

 if we have flowers on the table." — 

 Erie Despatch. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Manchester, Conn. — John G. Pent- 

 land will open a new flowerstore in a 

 small building to be erected near the 

 entrance of the East Cemetery. 



New Bedford, Mass. — Henry Kranz- 

 ler, formerly in the employ of E. H. 

 Chamberlain for twelve years, will 

 open a retail flower store at 610 Pleas- 

 ant street 



Quidnick, R. \. — A fire at the Quid- 

 nick Greenhouses on April 5th caused 

 damage approximating $300 before the 

 Coventry firemen succeeded in extin- 

 guishing the blaze. 



Manchester, N. H. — Everett W. Web- 

 ster of Peterborough has been chosen 

 to give instruction in horticulture and 

 supervise the gardening provided by 

 the Manchester Food Committee. He 

 will have his headquarters in the office 

 of the superintendent of schools in the 

 City Hall. His salary for the first 

 three months will be paid by the 

 United States department of agricul- 

 ture and by the city for the remaining 

 three months of his term and should 

 emergency work be pressing at the ex- 

 piration of six months, Mr. Webster 

 may be continued by the national gov- 

 ernment as an assistant county agent 

 in Hillsborough county. Mr. Webster 

 was born in Roxbury, Mass. He at- 

 tended the Mechanic Arts High school 

 in Boston, the Boston Evening High 

 School and the New Hampshire Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and the Mechanic 

 Arts. Since leaving Durham he has 

 been employed by the N. H. Forestry 

 commission and as an assistant gar- 

 dener on the large estate of Mrs. Wil- 

 liam H. Schofield, Peterborough. Dur- 

 ing the past year he has been superin- 

 tendent and has had charge of vegeta- 

 ble and flower gardens, orchards, 

 shrubbery, lawns, and the horticultural 

 department of the farm. 



ROBERT DYSART 



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