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horticulture: 



June 10, 1911 



Advertise 

 Your Stock 



In 

 Horticulture 



If you could figure 

 up how much busi- 

 ness you do not get 

 because someone 

 had forgotten your 

 address or 'phone 

 number, or because 

 someone did not 

 know you had what 

 they wanted you 

 would be surprised 

 at the amount you 

 had lost. 



Advertise Your 

 Stock In 

 Horticulture and 

 Stop This Leak 



During Recess 



Good News for Barnegat. 



That item in last week's HORTI- 

 CULTURE about the Aphine Mfg. Co. 

 having a mosquito repellant coolving 

 in the incubator, is certainly good 

 news tor Barnegat. Glory be! The 

 writer hopes that Mr. Ebel will make 

 it "double strong" and sure death! A 

 repellant is good, but an annihilator 

 would be still better! Blessings on 

 you, Mr. Ebel! If you succeed in 

 your laudable endeavor you will rank 

 with Lydia Pinkham as a Friend of 

 the Human Race. 



Once a year Commodore Westcott 

 invites "the boys" down to Barnegat. 

 He means well, but this is the way 

 it looks to some of us thin-skinned 

 lads : 



VlEWOFBEt>RO0M A>VD RFL>STII/E'51?e:OFA1PSCl"70. 



We pay the North American and 

 Bradford the compliment of a repro- 

 duction. The bed post stunt for 

 sharpening the stinger is a revelation. 

 Aha! so that's how the villains do it, 

 eh! Well, well, education certainly is 

 a great thing. Even the mosquitos 

 have got it. G. C. W. 



British Horticultural Traders' Re- 

 union. 

 We have received from Mr. J. S. 

 Brunton a copy of the menu and list 

 of toasts at the reunion dinner of the 

 British Horticultural Traders who re- 

 cently visited this country. It was 

 held at Anderton's Hotel, London, on 

 May 24. The toasts were: "His 

 Majesty the King," "The President of 

 the United States," "America," "Amer- 

 ican Horticulture," "The Ladies," 

 "The Horticultural Press" and "The 

 Chairman." The enjoyable affair 

 closed with the singing of "Auld Lang 

 Syne." 



New York Bowlers. 

 At the practice game on Friday 

 evening, June 2, W. J. Eldering of 

 Holland was present as a visitor. 

 Scores were made as follows: 



RAILROAD STATION GARDENING. 



See Cover Illustration. 

 Comparison of depots and grounds 

 of railroads in this country and abroad 

 offer results in unfavorable comment 

 by travelled persons. American rail- 

 roads, concerned largely with securing 

 dividends and eliminating expenses 

 which bring no visible returns for the 

 outlay, expend little money and effort 

 in the cultivation of the beautiful and 

 esthetic. Possibly less is done in this 

 line now than was done by them twen- 

 ty years ago. Then the Baltimore & 

 Ohio, for example, maintained a large 

 force of gardeners, and had green- 

 houses in which were grown bedding 

 plants for use around the stations. 

 The road does little of this now. 

 More, perhaps, is done by the Penn- 

 sylvania, but more attention is paid 

 by the latter road to shrubbery, which 

 may show better judgment. The 

 Santa Fe railroad has done a good 

 deal in the way of building attractive 

 station houses, as has the Southern 

 and Union Pacific, and other roads do 

 something to make their depots and 

 terminals attractive. It must be ad- 

 mitted, however, that the efforts in 

 this direction fall far short of what 

 might be considered desirable, from 

 the point of view of the public. Often 

 citizens associations take in hand the 

 improvement of grounds around rail- 

 road stations without cost to the rail- 

 roads, and some roads give prizes to 

 employes who make the best showing 

 around depots. 



This is a subject in which the ad- 

 vocates of the "city beautiful" idea 

 can arouse interest. Practical horti- 

 culturists and landscape gardeners 

 will naturally help to cultivate public 

 taste in the beautification of what 

 now are too frequently unsightly 

 places. R. Vincent, Jr., of White 

 Marsh, Md., while abroad recently, 

 was impressed by the different style 

 of treatment of station grounds and 

 premises by the European railroads, 

 which in the main are government- 

 owned. Perhaps beauty is not an as- 

 set in this country which can be 

 turned into money, but many persons 

 believe that it Is. At any rate, a pho- 

 tograph of a Berlin depot interior 

 which was brought back by Mr. Vin- 

 cent, and which is loaned to HORTI- 

 CULTURE by Prof. L. C. Corbett of 

 the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, shows how attractive a big 

 railroad station can be made, and it 

 should furnish a valuable object les- 

 son for American railroads. 



Ch'db'ue. 217 iril 224 

 MaiKla. 134 181 WS 

 Iiwln. 170 168 105 

 W.R'k'ds.l72 16.S 161 

 A. R'k'ds. 178 160 1^2 



KMknda i:« i:u lis 

 Shaw, 114 141 158 

 S.-ott. ISM l-l>< 1-*1 



NuRPiit, 109 113 92 

 Eldering, — lOS 89 



The Elliott Auction Company of 

 New York City will have their usual 

 annual trade sale of plants shortly— 

 probablv about the middle of June. 



Look Carefully Throogh 

 The Boyers' Directory 



It is the Key to the offers 

 of Advertisers in each issue. 



It will remind you of the 

 things you need now. 



