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HORTICULTUBE 



December 5, 1914 



Make Your CHRISTMAS A Hummer! 



WE CAN SUPPLY THE RIGHT GOODS AT THE RIGHT PRICES 



HOLLY-LAUREL- MISTLETOE 



See our Holly before Ordering Elsewhere as it is the finest 

 coining into Boston 



HOLLY. 1 case $5.00; 2 cases, each, $4.50; 5 or more cases, 



each, $4.00 per case. 

 MISTLETOE. 4 lbs. to the box, quality guaranteed. Per box, 



$1.50. 



BOXWOOD. Per case $7.50 



WILD SMIL.4X. Per case 6.00 



H.4RDY FERNS. Per 1000 1.50 



GAL.4X, Brown and Green. Per 1000, $1.25; per case 7.50 



LAIBEL ROPING. Finest' made, lie. per yard. 

 PRINCESS PINE ROPING. Well made, 8c. per yard. 

 LAIREL WRE.4T1IS. 12 incb riugs, outside measurements 18 



to 20 Inches, $2.00 per dozen. 

 Rl'scrs, Red. Imported, per lb., $1.00; Domestic, per lb., 75c. 

 CIIRISTM.^S BELLS. 5 in., per doz., $2.00; 3V4 in., per doz., 



$1.00; 2>4 in., per doz., 75c. 



CHRISTM.4S B.4LLS. 8 in., per doz., $6.00; 6 in., per doz., 



$4.00; 4 in., per doz.. $2.00. 

 IMMORTELLES, Red. The best color in the market. 

 EVER READY POT COVERS, Green White and Bed. To fit 

 all sizes. 



Large Assortment of CHRISTMAS RIBBONS. 

 REMEMBER WE ARE THE LAROEST FLORIST SUFPI-T 

 HOl'SE IN NEW ENGL.^ND. 



SELECTED PLANTS 



.AZ.ALE.4S — Mine. Petrlok, Simon Mardncr, Vervaeneana, Ver- 



vaeueana alba. .fLOO to $2.00 each. 

 BEtiONI.AS — CIncinnatti.. Extra fine, 35c. to $1.25 each. 

 POINSETTI.VS. Single and In pans, 25c. to $2.50 each. 

 PRIMI;L.\ OBCONICA. 35c. to 50c. each. 

 .4RDISIAS. .jOc. to $1.25 each. 

 .lERt S.M.EM CHERRIES. 25c. to 50c. each. 



^KJT l=-|_0\A/ERS 



We shall carry a full supply of every variety of flowers the market offers. 

 We would respectfully again call your attention to our Roses which are the finest in New 



England. Stock strictly fresh and none salted. 



We are cultivating roses under about 100,000 square feet of glass — only the best known varieties and our average 

 daily cut is 3000 roses, stems running all lengths, strictly free from mildew, with good heads. 



Most of our carnations are grown es;ie(ially for our trade and shipped to us every day which is true also of every- 

 thing else in thp line of cut flowers in season. Send for Special Price Quotations. 



N. F. McCarthy & co. 



112 Arch Street and 31 Otis Street, Boston, Mass. 



5002 



Telephones 5972 



Main 5973 



5974 



If one is busy 

 Call the other 



Editor HoKTi culture: 



Mr. Benard's paper read before the 

 California Association of Nurserymen 

 at San Diego, set me thinking. I said. 

 Why not grow nursery stock in Massa- 

 chusetts? The opportunity is just as 

 good here, and for some kinds, much 

 better. We have an example of what 

 can be done near Boston — the Little 

 Tree Farms of So. FYamlngham. Al- 

 though this farm grows large quanti- 

 ties and sells them cheaply, they are 

 specialists in a few things, conifers, 

 mostly pines, spruces and firs — large 

 quantities of these are still imported 

 from Europe. 



The European war is not the sole 

 opportunity. It has been a long time, 

 and foreseen; not the war, but the 

 opportunity. In one department of 

 horticulture. — the raising and culture 

 of carnations. — we have led the world 

 for a long time, and we are rapidly be- 

 coming leaders in sweet peas and 

 gladioli. We are sadly behind, how- 

 ever, in the raising of nursery stock. 

 Two reasons have been given; one is 

 the cheapness of labor abroad, and the 

 consequent cheapness of stock; the 

 other is the difficulty of getting ex- 

 perienced help. There should be no 

 difficulty iu getting experienced help. 

 There are plenty of men in the coun- 

 try ready to take up such work, and 

 competent men. too. If such men be 

 well paid, — and they should be, — I am 

 sure I could find plenty of them. 



I presume in this work, as in all 

 such work, you would need what we 

 call specialists. All-around men are 

 not just the right sort. One man may 

 be specially clever in raising seedling 

 stock, another, cuttings, grafting and 

 budding, although this work can be 

 readily done under the oversight of a 

 competent man, with inexperienced 

 help. The matter of raising seedlings, 

 however, is a more scientific opera- 

 tion, and needs a little more than over- 

 sight; it needs knowledge and skill 

 by a greater proportion of those who 

 may be employed in the work. 



Raising plants from seeds is, in a 

 way, an intuition. We have got to 

 feel, besides know, and the operations 

 attending the work must be well up in 

 details. As an illustration, a batch of 

 seedlings may be ruined by half an 

 hour's sunshine, or too much water, 

 and by lack of air. 



The Arnold Arboretum, I think, may 

 be rightly called a school of horticul- 

 ture, and among schools of horticul- 

 ture it occupies the premier place. 

 The master minds are Prof. C. S. 

 Sargent and Jackson Dawson. In this 

 connection it is not necessary to do 

 more than mention them. In their field 

 of work they are known the world over. 

 Nearly all trees and shrubs that are 

 hardy in Massachusetts and farther 

 north, are represented here, and a 

 large majority of them have been 

 raised here. The work is still going 

 on as vigorously as ever. Horticul- 

 ture is benefited throughout the civil- 



ized world and representatives from 

 all the countries come here for study. 

 Alfred Rehder, one of the greatest 

 authorities on plant nomenclature, was 

 a student here and is still here — a 

 professor in this part of the work. 



As to those who have forseen the 

 opportunity I could mention one Bos- 

 ton firm. About ten years ago one of 

 the partners of this firm spoke to me 

 about raising rhododendrons from 

 seed, and I had the pleasure of co-op- 

 erating with him in the beginning of 

 this venture. Now the firm raise 

 azaleas and rhododendrons by the 

 ten? of thousands. Incidentally, I 

 would suggest that raising rhododen- 

 drons from seed saved here, will (and 

 I believe from my experience that it 

 does) tend to harden the type. And 

 in time to come we shall depend alto- 

 gether on American raised rhododen- 

 drons. 



It appears to me, however, that the 

 nurserymen of the United States are 

 not taking advantage of what is done 

 for them at the Arboretum. To re- 

 peat, propagation and cultivation from 

 the very start is practiced here, and 

 the methods employed are open to in- 

 vestigation. "So here, if any nursery- 

 man wants to know what is best to 

 grow, and how to grow it, he can find 

 out. 



A propagating department should be 

 an annex to every well-managed nur- 

 sery. With this idea in view, I sug- 

 gested to Prof. Bailey, when he talked 

 about revising his Encyclopedia of 



