April 1, 1911 



HOKTICULTURE 



515 



New Offers in This Issue. 



AZALEA INDICA NOVELTIES. 



H. Frank D:irrow. New York, N. Y. 

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CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND BEDDING 

 PLANTS. 



A. N. IMerson, ("rifriiwell, Conil. 

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CUT LILACS FOR EASTER. 



Leo Niessen Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

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DREER'S HARDY DELPHINIUMS. 



Henry A. Ureer, Inc., l*hiladel])hia. Pa. 

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EASTER PLANTS. 



S. S. Peuuock-Meehan <;o., Philadelphia, Pa, 

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EASTER FLOWER SPECIALTIES. 



AL C. Ford, New York, N. Y. 

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EASTER FLORISTS' SUPPLIES,. 



M. Rice & Co,, Philadelphia, Pa. 

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EASTER PLANTS WANTED. 



C. (-'. Trepel, Blootningdale's, New York, 



N. Y. 

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FOREST, SHADE AND ORNAMEN- 

 TAL TREES. 



.\Tnerican Forestr.v Co., So. Framiiigham, 



Mass, 



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GLADIOLUS "NIAGARA." 



Frank Banning. Kinsman, Ohio. 

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HEARTLEY'S MOLE TRAP. 



George W. Ileartle.v, Toledo, Ohio. 

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MICHELL'S SPECIALS FOR FLOR- 

 ISTS. 



Heury F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, Pa, 

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NEPHROLEPIS ROOSEVELT. 



Good & Reese Co., Springfleld, Ohio. 

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RELIABLE SEEDS. 



O. V. Zangen, Hoboken, N. J. 



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ROSE "MELODY." 



S, S, Pennock-Meehan Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 

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RETAIL FLORIST. 



.Tohn V. Phillips, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

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THE SHATEMUC ROSE. 



Shateiunc Nurseries, Barrytowii, N. Y. 

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TANDEM GARDEN CULTIVATOR. 



■riie Sihailde llfg. Co., Elyria, O. 

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OUR VISITORS. 



(Liues by J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Boston.) 



Thev eome from the South, the West, the 

 North, 

 They rome from across the sea; 

 Our gardens are famed, aud the marvelous 

 worth 

 Of "ur dowers they come to se«. 



They come to the Hub, the Garden Hub, 

 The rarest of flowers have we; 



New treasures from China, in herb, and 

 shrub. 

 In creeper, and vine, and tree. 



The Lawson I'ink and Knchantress fair 

 Brought to Peter Fisher fame: 



Montgomery, Dawsou and Walsh all wear 

 The Rose's rich diadem. 



They are Boston men — we laud them well — 



And others have gone before, 

 Like Wilder, Hovey and Hunnewell, 



And at least a dozen more. 



Our Garden Saints! Do I speak tocj strong? 



For I worship at their shrine. 

 They have done the work that brings this 

 throng. 



And, like them, mav I do mine. 



SOME OF W, R. SMITH'S SAYINGS 



AT THE NATIONAL FLOWER 



SHOW. 



"When the Chorizema was first dis- 

 covered some travelers in, Australia 

 had not tasted water tor a week. Fam- 

 ished, they came across this plant and 

 water at the same time and place, and 

 they called the plant Chorizema, which 

 signifies 'to dance with joy.' " 



"I am fond of 'people's plants'; 

 whatever is for the people is my de- 

 light; things not exclusively for the 

 rich!" 



"Ficus pandurata. 1 had the Presi- 

 dent of the United States, Mrs, Taft, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Carnegie all shovel in 

 a little dirt around one of these plants, 

 and it is growing grandly in the new 

 Pan-American Building in Washington. 

 I had an idea it might be the original 

 of the Scotch costume. Four of these 

 leaves would make a Scotch costume, 

 but unfortunately, it only grows in the 

 tropics," 



"This exhibition is the most extra- 

 ordinary that ever occurred in this 

 country, and it is the grandest Peace 

 Convention ever held. How superior 

 it is to the drum and fife bringing 

 crowds around! This means peace, 

 sets people to thinking In peaceful 

 thought, and much of the credit is due 

 to the rose. You have done more for 

 the rose than any other State." 



"One of the things I want to see is 

 azaleas grown in America, instead of 

 being imported, but skilled labor is 

 too high here," 



"It isn't one thing, but everything 

 that is here, and everything is grand 

 I am astonished. You had a grand 

 one here 20 years ago, and I said then 

 as I say now, the Bostonians are the 

 most wonderful people on the face of 

 the earth. New York may get ahead 

 on something to eat, and so might 

 Pittsburgh on iron statues, but the 

 aesthetic soul of Boston is wonderful," 



"I am great for reciprocity. I have 

 sympathy and love for everyone who 

 loves the beautiful. The only part of 

 mankind that will be and ought to be 

 preserved, is the aesthetic." 



"The severest scolding I ever re 

 ceived was administered by Mrs. Jeff 

 Davis, who told me she never meas- 

 ured beauty by the square yard, when 

 I showed her a stem of hollyhocks." 



"This show is being handled with 

 an amount of brain power that is 

 unique, that is calculated to lift up 

 the whole human family into a higher 

 condition." 



"This is my religion. I believe that 

 the soul of man is lifted up by the 

 beautiful. Mr. Hoar said in a speech 

 he made here, that the individual 'who 

 didn't believe in God and the provi- 

 dence of God, and the nation who 

 didn't believe in it, was a failure. 

 France is a failure today, because ot 

 the infidelity of her people. There is 

 no man or woman who should not be 

 sunk to the lowest Hell if they do not 

 appreciate and love the beautiful." 



guided as they are by such men as 

 Sargent and Pettigrew, leave an im- 

 pression on every visitor that ever 

 comes here, I said in a speech 15 

 years ago in St, Louis, that the pro- 

 gressive improvement of" the aesthetic 

 culture of the Society of American 

 Florists' members was due to the pe- 

 culiar people living in Boston. Every- 

 thing must be elegant and excellent; 

 nothing but the best for Bostonians." 



"Any person that doesn't appreciate 

 this display is not fit to go to Heaven. 

 There will be no place there for such." 



"The acacia waves her yellow hair, 



Lonely and sweet. 

 Nor loved the less 



For flowering in a wilderness." 



"I was in the middle of the house 

 devoted to acacias when Robert Buist 

 came to visit Kew Gardens. I washed 

 my hands, and went in to have an in- 

 terview with him. I said: 'I under- 

 stand you are an American, and I have 

 had an idea of going to America.' He 

 answered me: 'We want no kid-glove 

 gardeners in America,' I never forgot 

 that rebuke. The next time I saw him 

 was 15 years later in his own store in 

 Philadelphia. He again said: 'I told 

 you we wanted no kid-glove gardeners 

 in America.' I told him he had no 

 right to assume that I was such a 

 gardener, and the meeting ended with 

 Mr. Buist's securing for me the privi- 

 lege of going to Washington." 



"Boston is a most wonderful, soul- 

 elevating agency. Its environments. 



HAIL STORM IN PENNSYLVANIA. 

 Old Boreas took advantage of your 

 correspondent's being in Boston last 

 week, and started in to cut up and 

 blow our old town off the map. 

 He struck the statue of William Penn 

 with lightning; sent a hailstorm 

 around one section of the city; and 

 a "churn" cyclone in another, Hol- 

 mesburg, Frankford, Germantown, 

 Manayunk were in the special sweep 

 of the latter, but while the blow was 

 fierce enough to unroof houses; blow 

 trolley cars off the track and cripple 

 the great Pennsylvania Railroad by 

 blowing down its block signal system 

 and holding up Commodore Westcott 

 six hours between Cornwalls and Hoi- 

 mesburg — the greenhouse men (so far 

 as heard from) seem to have escaped 

 much damage. R, Jamison ot German- 

 town had a slight loss — probably five 

 or six boxes of glass broken — but up 

 to this writing (March 29th), no 

 others are reported. All this occurred' 

 on the evening of March 27th, while 

 .your scribe was busy picking up 

 shaken down crockery in his state 

 room — during the gale. Fall River to 

 New York. 



In the Chester Co, "carnation belt," 

 tributary to Philadelphia, the follow- 

 ing sufferers are reported: Walter 

 McCoy, 800 panes, and hundreds of 

 plants; Isaac Passmore, damage to 

 glass, .$300; Howard Pyle, badly dam- 

 aged; Chas. Sheller, badly damaged: 

 Joseph Kift, 3,000 panes, and mucli 

 damage to Easter stock ; . Percy Barn- 

 ard, 600 panes; Geo, Love, 300 panes. 

 All this was from hail, ot course, and 

 not from the cyclone. We expect the 

 glass market will have a little revival. 

 It needs it, Ed, Flood says they are 

 giving glass away just now. 



