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HOKTICULTURE 



July 25, 1914 



EVOLUTION OF A FLORIST ESTABLISHMENT. 



The acompanying pictures show a 

 rejuvenated florist stand near Nar- 

 berth, Pa., about eight miles from City 

 Hall, Philadelphia. The place is lo- 

 cated on one of the thoroughfares be- 

 tween Philadelphia and its suburbs, on 

 the main line of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad, and has enormous traffic 

 passing its doors. The place was kept 

 tor many years by florists. When it 

 was at its prime as a florist establish- 

 ment, it was in charge of Mr. Kreuger, 

 who has since given up growing flor- 

 ists' stock, and located in Reading 

 Terminal, Phila. But as the place was 

 very old, it finally decayed, and could 

 not be resurrected as a greenhouse es- 

 tablishment witliout rebuilding every 

 square foot of glass. So when the 

 present owner took hold of it, he de- 



cided to turn it into a nursery, as the 

 locality seemed favorable for that en- 

 terprise. The home grounds, as shown 

 in these pictures, amount to two and 

 one-half acres, with three additional 

 acres rented from adjoining property 

 owners on three sides. A general line 

 of nursery stock is grown. The own- 

 er does not attempt to grow all he 

 sells, largely using the grounds as a 

 warehouse and transplants to this 

 nurserj- trees from wholesale estab- 

 lishments where land is cheaper, and 

 shade trees and evergreens can be 

 grown for less money than they can in 

 this high-priced section. Evergreens 

 appear to be in most demand; shade 

 trees, vines, and shrubbery next; and 

 herbaceous plants in comparatively 

 small demand. 



Picture No. 1 shows a section of the 

 drive, bordered with a low hedge and 

 climbing roses on cedar poles. In the 

 background is seen the original oflBce, 

 and the out-buildings. No. 2 shows the 

 12-foot privet hedge on the northwest- 

 ern side of the drive, and climbing 

 roses trained on cedar poles. No. 3 

 shows the new ofHce building just com- 

 pleted at a cost of about seventeen 

 hundred dollars. It contains two 

 rooms, toilet, and closets, and is 

 heated by a hot air furnace. It also 

 has a deep cellar for the storage of 

 bulbs and roots. The front hedge is 

 of golden privet, and is quite effective. 



This nursery has been named "The 

 Garden. " The owner is A. E. Wohlert, 

 landscape gardener, Narberth, Pa. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



The Department of Floriculture of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege is to have a booth at the S. A. F. 

 Convention in Boston. Professor A. H. 

 Nehrling, head of the Department, will 

 be in charge and he will be glad to 

 give information on any point concern- 

 ing the work of the College, its courses 

 and equipment. Illustrated pamphlets 

 may be obtained at the booth telling of 

 the work of the Department of Flori- 

 culture. The Department was estab- 

 lished in 1906 and has the proud dis- 

 tinction of being the first of its kind in 

 this country. By many, especially from 

 the standpoint of the eastern grower, 

 it is considered the best equipped in- 

 stitution for floricultural work. In re- 

 cent years the Department has been 

 strengthened by additional equipment 

 for instructional work both in the 

 class room and laboratory. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Flushing, Mich. — Mrs. Henry Wel- 

 fare's greenhouses have been pur- 

 chased by H. A. Moss. 



Princeton, N. J.— The firm of Stock- 

 ton & Howe has dissolved partnership, 

 Mr. Howe retiring from 'the business. 



Conshohocken, Pa.— Willis S. Bald- 

 win has purchased the business and 

 leased the greenhouses of Winfield S. 

 Harry. 



East Weymouth, Mass. — The green- 

 house property at 261 :\liddle street, 

 owned by Mrs. Lizzie Hanson, has been 

 sold to E. Edward Buchey of Woburn. 



CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 

 Charles Frost, Kenilworth, N. J. — 

 The Kenilworth Strain of Giant Pansy 

 Seed. As remarked in our notes a few 

 weeks ago. Mr. Frost has been care- 

 fully working up his giant pansy strain 

 for many years and his seed beds bear 

 witness to the splendid types he has 

 developed and fixed. The catalogue 

 just received lists them — and anyone 

 interested in pansies will find it very 

 interesting. The new "upright" pansy 

 Princess is a leading item. 



ROBERT CRAIG AND P. WELCH. 



"Horticulture has given satisfaction 

 lo me." 



Respectfully, 

 West Va. Y. 



On the sands at Old Orchard, Me. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



In Barnegat Bay, "the fish are run- 

 ning fine and there are no mosquitos." 

 When a man tells us that two and two 

 makes six, we listen to him with much 

 admiration. And do we plunge in head- 

 long and invest? We do not. 



John Burton reports a pleasant auto 

 trip with the "old guard" of Mont- 

 gomery county. Six cars went to 

 Tuckerton and Beach Haven on the 

 18th and returned to Philadelphia on 

 the 19th inst. Incidentally the party 

 gave a passing call to Commodore 

 Westcott and his good lady at Ware- 

 town, where they spent a pleasant half 

 hour. 



"Overbrook Gardens" is now a thing 

 of the past. Edward A. Stroud has 

 moved that proposition to his more 

 elaborate place at Strafford. Hence- 

 forth the business will be carried on 

 under the name of the "Strafford Flow- 

 er Farms." Mr Stroud evidently means 

 to go in more strongly for retail busi- 

 ness than he has been doing in the 

 past. Joseph Russell will be manager 

 under the new arrangement. "The 

 Main Line Floral Guide," an eight- 

 page periodical, is the organ, and is 

 a rather original idea. Far more ef- 

 fective than an ordinary catalogue, and 

 yet in the long run costs very little 

 more. The only trouble is it makes 

 the boys think and sweat to get it 

 out — and of all things that is what we 

 all hate to do. 



Visitors — R. T. Brown, Cottage Gar- 

 'lens Co., Queens, N. Y.; Wm. Mangen, 

 So. Bethlehem, Pa.; Henry Fischer, 

 Itaspeburg, Md.; Wm. Plumb, superin- 

 tendent of Floriculture, San Francisco; 

 Edward McCallum and wife, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



