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HORTICULTURE 



June '24, 1911 



After Adjournment 



According to a correspondent in tlie State 

 of Washington, tlie tliird Sunday in June 

 has been selected as "Father's Day," and 

 a red rose is to be the emblem. Let the 

 old man sleep and rest that day. and he 

 won't care much what the emblem is. — 

 Boston Journal. 



Let the old man select his own 

 emblem. "Mourning Bride" or "Bounc- 

 ing Bet" or "Love in a Mist," might 

 hit his case better. 



A BEAUTIFUL MEDAL. 



Because the women at the Chicago Beach 

 Hotel, where the convention was held last 

 year, referred to the delegates of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen as a "bunch 

 of farmers," Chicago lost next year's con- 

 vention and Boston was chosen. — St. Louis 

 Exchange. 



Boston is dee-lighted and we doubt 

 not her ladies will find some more ap- 

 propriate and flattering cognomen 

 for the nursery visitors. We don't 

 mind snatching something from Chi- 

 cago once in a while. It keeps things 

 a-moving. • 



The name of William F. Kasting of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., has been presented to 

 Governor Dix for his consideration as 

 Commissioner of Agriculture to suc- 

 ceed Raymond A. Pearson, whose 

 term expires soon. Mr. Kasting is 

 park commissioner and is general 

 committeeman of the Thirteenth Ward. 

 The Governor could not name a more 

 Industrious and capable man for this 

 important position, and we hope Mr. 

 Kasting may be so honored. 



PRESENT-DAY GARDENING. 



There is nothing whatever to be 

 said against the modern rage for gar- 

 dening, which is the most innocent 

 and healthy of amusements, except 

 that it tends perhaps to be too purely 

 horticultural. It has not, says "The 

 Times," the vices of the old kind of 

 horticulture, for no one now tries to 

 make flowers look as artificial as pos- 

 sible; but it has new weaknesses of 

 its own which do to some extent less- 

 en the beauty of the modern garden. 

 There is a rage tor newly discovered 

 and for rare and difficult plants, and 

 many a skilful gardener spends all his 

 skill upon horticultural experiments. 

 The enormous variety of hardy plants 

 tempts the ambitious amateur to make 

 a collection rather than to ornament 

 his garden. There are so many of 

 them which he must grow if he is to 

 win the respect of other amateurs that 

 he is apt to find no room for the old 

 favorites, which anyone ran grow and 

 everyone ought to grow. In tact, the 

 art of gardening is to some extent 

 affected by the hurry and competition 

 of modern life, and there are fashions 

 in plants as violent and as transient as 

 fashion in dress. With all our advance 

 in horticulture we have not attained, 

 like the Japanese, to any settled 

 canons of judgment. Our fancy is 

 taken by new and lurid colors in flow- 

 ers, by mere size, or by some violent 

 eccentricity of their habit But these 

 weaknesses are all part of our general 

 defects of taste. They are not caused 

 by the modern passion for gardening; 

 they may sometimes pervert it. We 

 are learning to think more of the 

 plant than of the cut flower, and that 

 is the begining of all sound taste. The 

 old kind of flower show encouraged 

 both exhibitors and spectators to think 

 only of the flower and to ignore its re- 

 lation to the plant. The Temple Flow- 



Our illustration is from a photo- 

 graph of the Kroeschell gold medal 

 awarded Charles Strout, Biddeford, 

 Maine, at the recent National Flower 

 Show, Boston, Mass., for the twelve 

 largest carnation blooms. The gen- 

 eral design is along the lines of an 

 ancient coin. It is made to be worn 

 as a watch charm, or fob. The charm 

 proper is of solid polished gold; the 



lettering on the outer edge rich green 

 enamel; the carnation in the center is 

 carved out of a solid piece of light 

 yellow gold in high relief and rests 

 upon a background of antique rose- 

 colored gold, and these contrasting 

 colors bring out the whole design in 

 a very effective manner. The reverse 

 is finished in Roman colored satin fin- 

 ished gold. It was designed and made 

 by the Schrader-Wittstein Co. 



er Show does not foster this kind of 

 error. More and more it becomes a 

 show of plants rather than of flowers; 

 and its enormous popularity is a proof 

 of the growth of good taste in garden- 

 ing. — Journal of Horticulture, London. 



CARNATIONS AND AMERICAN 

 BEAUTY ROSES TOGETHER? 



"1. Can carnations and American 

 Beauties be grown together? About 

 what temperature? House 65 feet 

 long, 25 feet wide, good light. 



"2. At how low a temperature 

 (night) can Beauties be grown?" 



"G. J." 



1. It would not be advisable to grow 

 American Beauties and carnations in 

 the same house. The average carna- 

 tion needs a temperature of 50 to 52 

 degrees, and while there are some 

 varieties like Lawson and one or two 

 other sorts which can be made to do 

 fairly well in a slightly higher tem- 

 perature, it is not generally found 

 successful to attempt to gi'ow roses 

 and carnations under the same condi- 

 tions. It would also be difficult to 

 handle these two crops in the same 

 house on account of their require- 

 ments not being the same as regards 

 syringing and ventilating. 



2. American Beauties demand a 

 temperature from 56 to 58 degrees, 

 58 degrees probably being the safer 

 mark, even though they can be made 

 to do fairly well in a temperature of 

 56 degrees. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Alvln, Texas. — The Stockwell Nur- 

 sery Co. incorporated, is to take over 

 the business of the Gulf Coast Nur- 

 sery. 



Des Moines, la. — Charles N. Page 

 has been elected for the sixth time 

 president of the Iowa Seed Dealers' 

 Association. 



Memphis, Tenn. — A greenhouse be- 

 longing to Frank Trimble, 23 Diana 

 street, was slightly damaged by fire 

 on June 12. 



Nashua, N. H. — George W. Cohum 

 will now do business under the name 

 of George W. Coburn & Son, having 

 taken his son into partnership. 



Manchester, Mass. — Axel Ma,?nuson 

 will utilize a large tract of land, re- 

 cently purchased, for nursery pur- 

 poses. He will retain the greenhouses 

 on Bridge street. 



Moscow, Idaho. — J. L. Bourn's range 

 of greenhouses have been purchased 

 by Scott Bros., of Garfield, Wash., and 

 they will be run in conjunction with 

 their present range. 



Charlotte, Mich.— William Breit- 

 meyer. brother of ex-Mayor Breit- 

 meyer of Detroit has purchased three 

 acres of land here and will erect 

 greenhouses to cost about $15,000. 



Wilmington, O.— Fred Weltz suc- 

 ceeds to the business of Geo. Weltz's 

 Sons as the partnership has expired. 

 It is the intention of the present pro- 

 prietor to put the place in good re- 

 pair and continue the business. 



Mr. Ebel of the Aphine Manufactur- 

 ing Co. has received the following 

 communication from the Metairie 

 Ridge Nursery Company, Ltd., Harry 

 Papworth, president. New Orleans, 

 dated June 13th: — 



Replying to your favor in regard to your 

 Fungine, we are pleased to say that we 

 have found it a fine fungicide, especially 

 on our Chrysanthemum cuttings, and all 

 cuttings generally. Also fine for mildew 

 on roses. It is the best fungicide we have 

 ever tried. Yours truly, 



METAIKTE RIDGE NURSERY CO., LTD., 

 per R. E. S. 



