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After Adjournment 



Send in your subscription now for 

 1915. 



Watch out for red spider on the 

 azaleas. .Don't neglect syringing. 



HoBncOT-TURE — They all read it and 

 they read it all. That makes it a good 

 advertising medium. 



The most wasteful man we know of 

 is the one who tries to force tulips in- 

 to bloom for Christmas. 



The holly business in some cities 

 has now gone largely into the hands of 

 the market men and the fakirs. 



Keep an eye on the azaleas and re- 

 move any young leaf sprouts that 

 start to grow around the flower buds. 



Don't allow those poinsettias 

 crowded in pans to suffer from hun- 

 ger. Give them liberal food or they 

 are liable to shed their foliage. 



Clean up, clean up. Holiday custom- 

 ers will now be dropping in to get 

 suggestions and look over your stock. 

 Have everything scrupulously neat. 



Prepare for cold weather shipping. 

 Good packing is an essential to a 

 successful flower and plant business 

 and an expert packer is one of the 

 best adjuncts of a store. 



HORTICULTUEE 



Cyclamen plants are very fine this 

 year. Christmas sales of this bright, 

 moderate priced subject should be 

 large. The new salmon colored vari- 

 eties are in special demand. 



December 12, 1914 



A few of those seedling carnations 

 that "run all to grass." if planted in an 

 out of the way corner will furnish 

 foliage which will add 20 per cent, to 

 the value of any bunch of carnation 

 flowers. 



Try a few strawberry plants. Now 

 is the time to start them. Set them 

 on a shelf well up to the glass. Have 

 the pots clean at the start. Cleaning 

 after the fruit has formed is sure to 

 damage the berries. 



The time is now close at hand when 

 Old Boreas is liable to swoop down 

 with a howling blizzard and woe be to 

 him who is unprepared. The green- 

 house owner can have no more faith- 

 ful friend at such a time than one or 

 several of those Standard Electric 

 Thermostats. They never sleep. 



Anniversary Greetings 



To HORTICULTURE: 



Many happy returns and may there 

 be success for everyone. 



ROBERT CRAIG CO. 



Phila., Pa. 



Dear Friend: 



A joyous Christmas to HORTI- 

 CULTURE and to you and yours. 



ALEX. McCONNELL. 



New York. 



Never before have there been so 

 many varieties of flowers placed be- 

 fore the buyers as at the present time. 

 Calendulas, wallflowers. snapdrag- 

 ons, myosotis, nasturtiums, bouvarrtias, 

 rubnim lilies, and the little Pireflame 

 and Cecile Brunner roses are found 

 quite generally in the wholesale marts 

 in addition to the time-honored list of 

 standard stock. A few years ago one 

 might have hunted a long time before 

 finding any of the above-mentioned in 

 the month of December. 



To HORTICULTURE. 



We wish to congratulate you on the 

 tenth birthday of HORTICULTURE, 

 and we wish you the return of many 

 more. 

 With kindest regards, I am, 

 Sincerely yours, 

 W. F. THERKILDSON. 

 Advertising manager., 

 W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 



Arrangements were last week com- 

 pleted for the paying over of the $19,- 

 000 necessary to give the Maryland 

 Agricultural College a clear title to the 

 property upon which it is located at 

 College Park, Md. Several times leg- 

 islatures have objected to appropria- 

 ting money on the ground that the col- 

 lege did not have a clear title to the 

 property. As a means to an end it has 

 been considered advisable for the 

 State to foreclose its mortgage and for 

 the college to buy it in at the foreclos- 

 ure sale. 



Let Brotherly Love Prevail 



Our esteemed editor thinks a word of Christmas greeting from "the banks of the green 

 Delaware" (as Tom Moore put it) — to his countless readers in the United States and Canada 

 — and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world — is in order. It's a long way from William Penn to 

 the present minute. But even tlien (in Wm. Penn's time) they had their troubles. They had 

 to import bricks. Today you can see some of the old relics around Philadelphia, built of 

 the original imported. But William Penn never felt tliat he had to kill an Indian to get his 

 trade. On the contrary he made friends with the Indian, paid for what he got, and never had to 

 fi"ht anybody. The Pilgrims and Puritans were not nearly as wise. If we may believe history 

 — when "they landed — 



"First they fell upon their knees and praised the Lord, 

 And then pot up with fire and sword, 

 And fell upon the Aborigenees!" 



There is still a large leaven of the 

 she will long remain a Beacon and a shin 

 gards morality in business. In many o 

 to be a dead letter. Of course we do not 

 CULTURE. We know very well that they 



This greeting therefore is: — to gird 

 We are all one big family — all friends. 

 Cheating, lying, stealing, killing — in all 

 ly banished from our daily life and deal 



Let brotherly love prevail ! 



William Penn spirit about Philadelphia, and we trust 

 ing light to the rest of the country. Esnecially as re- 

 ther parts of the country the Ten Commandments seem 



mean by that, that we refer to any reader of Horti- 

 do business differently. 



up your loins — and stand by the Wm. Penn standard ! 

 and we must be true to the truth and love one another. 



their varied forms and modifications, must be resolute- 

 ings! 



