AuciusT 5, 1905 



HORTI CULTURE 



Games at Boston Florist's Picnic 



Boy's Race 



Girl's Race 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 



Sow pansy seed now if you want really 

 good pansies next season. Also sow all 

 kinds of perennial seeds. 



It is time roses for winter blooming were 

 planted. Give them all the air you can. 

 They ought to have been planted with the 

 soil made lirni around the roots, but to keep 

 the soil sweet it ought to be frequently 

 stirred. 



Grapes that are ripe ought to have a little 

 air at night; notloing hastens decay in ripe- 

 grapes so much as a musty, overheated 

 atmosphere. 



Keep the breastwood cut off peaches and 

 nectarines, both indoors and out. The 

 fruit needs light and_ne.\t year's fruiting 

 wood_^nccds_^sap. 



On wet clays clean the greenhouses and 

 clean the pots and pans, to have them in 

 shape for bye and bye. Keep carnations 

 planted out doors free of weeds, and get 



benches and houses ready for them. Count 

 to see if you have enough; if you don't have 

 enough, order what you need from some 

 one who advertises in Horticulture. 



QUITE RIGHT 



Some of the monthly magazines have gone 

 raving mad on various kinds of horticultural 

 fol-de-rol. For the most part, this takes the 

 form of violent spasms about plant breeding. 

 The most typical and frequent eruption can 

 be easily diagnosed as Burbankilis. The 

 characteristic symptom of this disease is to 

 laud, glorify, and make a fool of Luther 

 Burbank, who has never done anything to 

 deserve^such treatment. Tlicse articles are 

 a rank imposition on the public, and the pity 

 of it is that the pubUc docs not know it. - 

 Country Gentleman. 



A good rooter is useful on the grand stand; 

 also on the propagating bench. 



NEWPORT WINDOWS 



The florists of Bellevue avenue are giving 

 unusual attention to the arrangement of 

 the flowers displayed in their windows tliis 

 season. It may be because of unusual com- 

 petition, but, whatever the motive, the im- 

 provement is marked. Where flowers are 

 aiTanged with good taste there, invariably, 

 purchasers will hnger, while on the other 

 hand, purchasers are suspicious of places 

 where no evidence of taste e.'dsts in either 

 the selection or arrangement of the flowers 

 in the show windows. In one store window 

 last week I noticed a beautiful display, and 

 what seemed more than anything else that 

 an artist had a hand in the work, was that 

 the most common flowerjn the window was 

 utilized in_such a way that the effect it pro- 

 duced was just as pronounced as that of 

 lhc_vastly more expensive ones alongside 

 of it. The flower I have reference to was 

 yellow antirrhinum; they were good, no mis- 

 lake about that, but the orchids were good, 



