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HORTICULTURE 



March 3, 1917 



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HAMBURG LATE WHITE" CHRYSANTHEMUM 



CKRTIFItATE OF MERIT AWARDED ItY CHRYSANTHEJirM SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 







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Above picture was taken Not. 26, 1916, and will give a good idea of what "Hamburg Late 

 White" looks like when grown to single stems ami planted six inches each way. 



■'Hamburg Late White" Is pure 

 white under all weather condltiona 

 and Is ii sport of Maud Dean white, 

 but hns no trace of pink, as the 

 original. 



The average grower of chrysan- 

 themums must have varieties which 

 are easy to handle and from which 

 he can cut as near 100% of perfect 

 blooms as possible. "Hamburg Late 

 White" has been grown for the last 

 four years and produces a very high 

 proportion of good flowers. It is 

 not an exhibition variety, but for 

 late white, one of the best for com- 

 mercial purposes. It can be had In 

 lUoora the latter part of November, 

 by taking an early bud; but by se- 

 lecting later buds, most of the 

 flowers are cut duriug December and 

 we would advise to select a bite Inid, 

 as the later buds come somewhat 

 fuller, and by selecting late buds, 

 flowers can be had as late as the 

 middle of January. 



Keeping qualities are excellent and 

 where a light, graceful white flower 

 is wanted, "Hamburg Late White" 

 cannot be surpassed. 



"Hamburg Late White" will be 

 disseminated in the Spring of 1917. 

 Plants will be ready April Ist, 1917, 

 and all orders will be filled In rota- 

 tion. 



Rooted Cuttings, $12.00 per 100; $100.00 per 1000. 2 inch pots, $15.00 per 100 ; $125.00 per 1000 



568-570 WasKington Street 

 BDFFALO, N. Y. 



WILLIAM F. RASTING CO., 



NEW YORK GETTING READY. 



Tlie New Yorli Florists' Club has its 

 "hands full" for this season and does 

 not intend to get behind-hand in pre- 

 paredness. At a meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee on Wednesday of this 

 week at the secretary's office, there 

 were present Geo. E. M. Sturapp, chair- 

 man, P. B. Rigby. P. R. Pierson, Chas. 

 H. Brown, P. P. Kessler, A. L. Miller. 

 F. H. Traendly, T. B. deForest, J. G. 

 Esler and E. C. Vick, representing 

 about every branch of the business 

 and the preparatory work for the big 

 August Convention is well underway. 

 A more capable bunch of workers it 

 would be hard to get together. The 

 flower show committee had their usual 

 session on Monday. It was a very en- 

 thusiastic meeting and all sub-commit- 

 tees reported "Ready". Secretary 

 Young reported $14,000 worth of trade 

 space sold, $4,000 worth of advertising 

 in the catalogue and 18,000 trade tick- 

 ets sold. "That's going some." 



GIANT SWEET PEAS 

 Editor of H(iiitici'ltvbe: 



Referring to your two articles and 

 pictures of "Giant Sweet Peas," as 

 grown by C. W. Ward and William 

 Sim, would say that sweet peas grow 

 about as good in Connecticut as any 

 other place in the U. S. A. I am send- 

 ing you herewith a photo of a few 

 .arrawa in their third month of flow- 

 ering. They were 15 feet high on the 

 10th of February when this picture 

 was taken. A cultural certificate was 

 awarded to a vase of them, with 20- 

 inch stems of four flowers each, at the 

 Feb. 2d meeting of the Stamford Hor- 



ticultural Society. The bench Is but 

 20 feet long so of course the picture 

 does not show off as well as those 

 from Messrs. Ward and Sim but the 

 height and vigor la shown plainly. 

 Anthon Pedebsen. 



A SPECIALIST IN MINNESOTA 

 In C. S. Harrison's notes on irises 

 last week that gentleman spoke in 

 high terms of the work done by W. E. 

 Fryer of Mantorville, Minn., on the iris,, 

 mentioning that he had 300 varieties 

 under cultivation, but Mr. Fryer says 

 he has tested 500 varieties besides his 

 new seedlings. These latter are de- 

 scribed by those who have seen them 

 as including many that are of unex- 

 celled beauty. Jlr. Fryer has also ac- 

 complished much in hardy phlo-x hy- 

 bridization. Clarence Wedge, a fore- 

 most horticulturist of Minnesota, has 

 written a very enthusiastic account of 

 .Mr. Fryer's place and what is to be 

 seen there, and same has been pub- 

 lished in "The Farmer" of St. Paul. 

 (JIadioli. dahlias and peonies are spe- 

 cialties as well as the phlox and iris. 

 The fame of the Fryer irises has even 

 reached Boston and neighborhood, sev- 

 eral shipments of plants having been 

 made last season. 



Sweet Pea Yakbawa. 



Photographed February 10, 11*17, by Anthon 

 Pertersen, "Fairlawn," Stamford, Conn. 



New Haven, Conn. — The park de- 

 partment is about to acquire b stretch 

 of land averaging from 25 to 75 feet 

 in width along Mill river from State 

 street north to East Rock park, for 

 use in connection with the proposed 

 park on the present meadowland. In 

 many instances the slicing will deprive 

 owners of their back yards and in one 



