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HORTl CULTURE 



April 1, 1911 



Extra Choice Grafted Rose Plants 



Pink and Wliite Kiilarney, Richmond and {Maryland 



In 2j4-in. pots read for delivery April 15th 



$12.00 Per 100 



These young plants are taken only from selected wood of our strongest stock. 



Kaiserin, own root, 2 1-2 in. $4.00 per 100; $35.00 per 1000. 



OFFICE : 76 Wabash Av., Chicago, III. 



Bassett & Washburn, Z^^^J^s'^i 



: Hinsdale, ill. 



I TWENTY HOUSES DEVOTED TO | 



Rambler Roses, $.50 to $10.00 each 



Acacias, 

 Azaleas, 

 Marguerites, 

 Lilies, 



1.00 " 7.50 " 

 ..35 " 5.00 " 

 .25 " 2.00 " 

 .12! 2 per flower 



Bougainvilleas, $1.00 to $5.00 each 

 Heaths, .50 " .75 " 



BoRONiAS, 1.00 " 5.00 " 



Hydrangeas, white 



and pink, .50 " 5.00 " 



The above stock will be just right for Easter. Greenhouses 40 minutes from North Station, Boston. 



THOMAS ROLAND, - NAHANT, MASS. 



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Of what you have in Plants, Flowering or Foliage 



We are in the market as heretofore, for a large stock 

 and can use all you have if price and quality are* right. 



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ADDRESS 



C. C. TREPEL, Mgr., P'ant Department. 59^^ St., NcW Yofk 



coming new varieties. It appears tliat 

 we must rely on getting new varieties 

 to talce tlie place of those whicli we 

 term "standards" now grown. These 

 seem to lose vigor in a few years un- 

 der our present day treatment. If we 

 are going to keep up the popularity 

 of the carnation we must give more 

 consideration to the keeping qualities, 

 which to my understanding, means 

 substance. For fragrance we only al- 

 low five points. Should we not re- 

 quire fifteen points for each of these 

 — color, size, substance and fragrance, 

 ten points each for calyx and form, 

 and twenty points for stem, making a 

 total of 100 points? This scale, to 

 my judgment, would be more uniform 

 than the present percentage on which 

 our judging has here-to-fore been 

 made. I recommend the appointment 

 of a committee to take up this mat- 

 ter. 



Is it not true that the carnation was 

 made by the people the popular flower 

 on account of its fragrance, keeping 

 quality, and comparatively reasonable 



price as compared with the Rose? I 

 may add that some of our most 

 prominent retailers care to handle but 

 very few carnations. In fact, they 

 say that they would rather not handle 

 them at all on account of the many 

 complaints they receive, that the car- 

 nation blooms which they sold to their 

 customers had gone to sleep on the 

 day they were purchased. We should 

 give this matter our serious consid- 

 eration, for the buyer of carnation 

 blooms has a right to expect both 

 fragrance and keeping qualities in 

 them. It is too bad that we have 

 been getting away from this in most 

 of our present day varieties.. 



Now that we have a Carnation So- 

 ciety button we want to carry out the 

 recommendation of our former presi- 

 dent, Albert Herr, and that each 

 member gi'eet and welcome anyone 

 wearing the button, and also consti- 

 tute himself a committee of one, to 

 secure new members to this society. 

 Secretary's Report. 



The year 1910 may well be consid- 



ered a very successful one, for the 

 American Carnation Society. After a 

 vei-y successful convention at Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., in January, preparations 

 for this present convention were al- 

 most immediately taken up, and have 

 kept the secretary's office busy during 

 the entire year. The malls coming and 

 going out have perhaps never been so 

 large as during the past year. 



The membership made its usual , 

 slight gain. During the year 1910 we 

 added 57 new names, and against these 

 we have 28 on the delinquent list. 

 Sixteen new names have been added 

 since the first of this year. We now 

 have 344 members in good standing. 



We have collected the dues as dili- 

 gently as possible and turned them 

 over to the treasurer, taking his re- 

 ceipt therefor. There is, however, a 

 good deal standing out. 



Five deaths were reported during 

 the year, namel.v, Lyman B. Craw, of 

 Nevk' York; Mrs. M. S. Vesey, of Ft. 

 Wayne, Ind., who died on April 8th; 

 W. E. Hall, of Clyde, C. who died on 



