May 4. 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



439 



The Memorial Day Drive 



NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE 



For the Biggest Memorial Day Business in the History of the Florists' Trade 



Eminently Fitting and Deservedly Popular are our Preserved Magnolia Leaves 

 and Cycas Fronds. Also an infinite and beautiful variety of Wax Flowers and 

 Wreaths and other artificial material appropriate for the occasion. 



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1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



REFORESTATION. 



We quote the following notes from 

 a circular letter which has just been 

 sent out by The Massachusetts Forestry 

 Association. 



Thousands of acres of woodland in 

 this State have been cut over this year 

 to meet the war demand for cordwood 

 and lumber. Nearly all of this land 

 is better adapted to growing trees 

 than any other crop, and should be 

 replanted .at once. In many cases if it 

 Is not replanted to valuable species, 

 it will soon be covered with weed trees 

 such as grey birch, alder, scrub-oak, 

 bird cherry and the like, which are of 

 little or no commercial value and 

 which will prevent valuable species 

 from growing. We already have near- 

 ly 1,000,000 acres of such land which 

 Is producing nothing of value, and con- 

 sequently practically nothing in taxes 

 for the support of the Commonwealth. 

 As a State we cannot afford to permit 

 this condition to continue. It is de- 



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plorable that as one ot the most dense- 

 ly populated States (430 persons per 

 square mile) and one of the wealthi- 

 est, we should have a fifth of our area 

 idle or waste land, and this area in- 

 creasing yearly. 



We are importing two-thirds of the 

 lumber we use, and paying from two 

 to three times what we paid for it 

 fifteen to twenty years ago. This is 

 bound to increase the cost of building 

 and consequently to increase rentals 

 and the cost of living. The only prac- 

 tical solution of the problem is re- 

 forestation to valuable species. With 

 the shortage of labor at present, we 

 should utilize all the available energy 

 we have for this work. School chil- 

 dren should learn how to plant trees. 

 A few small trees planted by each 

 pupil in the public schools especially 

 in the rural sections would in the ag- 

 gregate mean thousands of acres re- 

 forested each year. This is a time for 

 action, and instead ot the conventional 

 Arbor Day exercises of song singing 

 and speech making on the beauty of 

 trees, let us teach the children the 

 value of trees by having them do some 

 planting. 



We clip the following from the 

 WellsviUe. N. Y., Reporter: 



Information on the home vegetable 

 garden, but not the seeds for the gar- 

 den, may be obtained from the state 

 college of agriculture at Ithaca. Some 

 gardeners seem to think that free 

 government seeds are distributed from 

 the college and write for them. The 

 college does not furnish seed. Packets 

 of seeds have been obtainable, how- 

 ever, from the department of agri- 

 culture at Washington by making ap- 

 plication through the member of con- 

 gress from the districts in which the 

 applicant lives. 



It is not wise, however, to depend 

 on the seeds furnished by the gov- 

 ernmont since the seeds are presum- 

 ably of little-known varieties to be 

 planted for experimental purposes. 

 Thus they may be of a kind not de- 

 sirable for the home garden. Further 

 the amount of seed in each package is 

 small. The object of the free distri- 

 bution ot send, it is stated, is to intro- 

 duce new kinds and types and to learn 

 their merits when grown under va- 

 rious conditions. 



The collecro believes, therefore, that 

 the home gardener will do as well to 

 purchase from a reliable seed house. 



THE BARBERRY SCARE. 



The information now being so gen- 

 erally distributed through the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the various 

 State Experiment Stations, relative to 

 barberry as a host of the destructive 

 wheat smut in one of its stages, is 

 certainly very misleading to the gen- 

 eral reader. It should be very freely 

 and persistently explained by the 

 Horticultural Press, as well as other 

 publications, that the barberry re- 

 ferred to is the tall type (Berberis 

 vulgaris.. 



The Government and State Bulle- 

 tins do expressly state that the Jap- 

 anese Barberry (Berberis thunbergi), 

 so universally valued over so an ex- 

 tended territory for ornamental pur- 

 poses is not the mischief carrier, but 

 is perfectly harmless. To the trade 

 throughout the country who have been 

 buying the new Box-Barberry so freely 

 for propagating purposes, it will be 

 good news to know that it is unques- 

 tionably a pure seedling of Berberis 

 thunbergi, therefore equally harmless 

 Elm City Nvrsert Co. 



New Haven, Conn. 



CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 



Glen Road Iris Garden, Wellesley 

 Farms, Mass. — Catalogue and Price 

 List of Iris Seedlings raised by Miss 

 Grace Sturtevant. A very interesting 

 list of about fifty named seedlings, 

 many of which have won medals, cer- 

 tificates and honorable mention from 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



LIST OF PATENTS 

 1,262.170. Weed Puller, Charles B. 



Russell, Seattle, Wash. 

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W. Hales. Ridgewood, N. J. 



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