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HORTICULTURE 



May 20, 1911 



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MEMORIAL DAY 



Big'gest Day in the Year for the Florist 

 who Is Alert and £.nterprising 



We cater to that sort of trade and have made all preparations so that we 

 are again ready for you as in the years past. 



WHATEVER YOU WANT 



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In Cut Flowers our stock will be the biggest and best in New England. 

 In Greens, Ferns, etc., we recognize no competition as to quality and 

 quantity. In All Supply Lines our stock is up-to-date, orders are promptly 

 and accurately filled, and you can rely upon receiving 



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Early Flower Orders Shipped Direct from Greenhouses Without Handling 

 or Repacking. It will be a Big Day, Busy and Profitable for you if you 

 want to make it so. Send for Price List. Tell us what you want and 

 quotations will be sent promptly. 



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WELCH BROS., 



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BOSTON, MASS. 



WKolesale Florists and Supply Dealers 



Telephone, Main G2e7 -6268-54^1') 



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are worth added to the cost of the 

 flowers. 



I have not told you anything of the 

 new and superb varieties that are to 

 be had in paeonies. Each year brings 

 out new ones. Some of them are 

 without any doubt acquisitions to the 

 existing varieties. Their story is oue 

 by itself which I will leave for an- 

 other day. 



After your clumps become old and 

 the blooms seem to be smaller, it is 

 best to feed them liberally each 

 spring by digging in bone meal about 

 the roots. A good potato fertilizer 

 which runs 4-6-10 is also good. If they 

 do not then grow good blooms I would 

 divide them and set them in a new 

 place. This is advisable anyway 

 after they have been set eight or ten 

 years. 



You will all find that in growing 

 anything good it will take your best 

 care and thought. It is not easy and 

 you must not think of it only in the 

 light that to do anything that is a 

 credit to you takes great pains. What 

 I have said to you has been gained 

 by • practice, not observation. I tell 

 this to you to help you, to spur you 

 on to do your best with these noble 

 flowers. To grow them fine is grand 

 work, but to tell others how to do it 

 is grander and not half so much 

 trouble. 



Need I tell you that my work is 

 interesting? I am often in my field 

 when the newborn day stands tiptoe 

 in the misty east. The unfolding of 

 each new seedling keeps me in im- 

 patience until I see the enchantment 

 either in its beauty or its lack. How 

 can any lover of nature but go to 

 such work with delight? 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 



The National Gladiolus Society. 



This recently formed Society pro- 

 poses to hold two annual shows, the 

 first show to take place in London, on 

 July 18, in conjunction with the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's exhibition. The 

 council will meet during the flowering 

 season for the purpose of granting cer- 

 tificates to meritorious new varieties. 

 A handbook is to be compiled, giving 

 full information respecting the cul- 

 ture of the gladiolus, with a classified 

 list of named varieties. It has been 

 decided to have a trial ground at 

 Locksheath, near Southampton. The 

 new organization has been affiliated to 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Rosarians in Conference. 



The National Rose Society recently 

 entered on a new departure in holding 

 a conference of members. The Rev. 

 J. H. Pemberton, the President, opened 

 the proceedings with a well informed 

 and interesting address on "Roses for 

 the Garden." 



Jottings. 



The National Primula and Auricula 

 Society held its competitive spring 

 classes at Royal Horticultural Hall, on 

 April 25, when a varied and attractive 

 display was made. — The wearing of 

 roses on St, George's Day gave a fillip 

 to this branch of floriculture. Nursery- 

 men found an excellent demand, re- 

 munerative prices prevailing. — On April 

 27th, a deputation from the Garden- 

 ers' Company, one of the city guilds, 

 journeyed from London to pay a visit 

 of inspection to the chief Dutch bulb 

 farms. The party travelled to tlie 



Hook, and on arrival there journeyed 

 in motors to Leiden, subsequently see- 

 ing some of the largest bulb farms. — 

 The North of England Horticultural 

 Society has lately brought out the first 

 number of its monthly magazine. — The 

 twelfth report of the Woburn Experi- 

 mental Fruit Farm comprises an ac- 

 count of an interesting series of re- 

 searches on the silver leaf disease of 

 fruit trees. Exhaustive experiments on 

 preventive measures, unfortunately, 

 have not led to any definite result. 



W. H. ADSETT. 



SOME NEWS AND AN INVITATION. 



After eight months calm and careful 

 consideration, tlie postoffice department, 

 tlirouj^h the iron. Acting Third Assistant 

 Postmaster General, has decided that this 

 paper is not entitled to second-class rates. 



We respectfully convey our compliments 

 to the above named party and will he 

 please go to the devil, we will pay third- 

 class rates. We propose to "keep on keep- 

 ing on" just the same. 



From a relialtle source we learn that 

 Mr. W. A. Travers, acting third assistant 

 postmaster general, has been indicted for 

 selling certain rare stamps. We hope he 

 gets all that is coming to him. — and then 

 some. 



The above from the Wisconsin Hor- 

 ticulture, the official organ of the 

 Wisconsin State Horticultural So- 

 ciety, is pretty good evidence that 

 when our Western friends get their 

 mad up they are still able to say 

 things with old-fashioned frontier 

 bluntness. "Lay on, Macduff." 



Fulton, III. — Edward O. Hills, of 



Hills & Kirman, has decided to retire 

 from the greenhouse business and has 

 sold his interest to Mr. Kirman. The 

 business will be continued under the 

 name of John E. Kirman. 



