February 12, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



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For the Florists of America 



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Axel Sorenson, manager of the Han- 

 over (Mass.) Greenhouses for the past 

 few years, will complete his duties 

 about the first of March and remove 

 to Marlboro, where he will engage in 

 the same business. 



The Hartford Market Gardeners' As- 

 sociation has elected the following 

 officers for the year: President, C. P. 

 Cannon; vice-presidents, P. A. Sears, 

 John Christenson; treasurer, E. P. 

 Caroll; secretary, J. W. Crowell; ex- 

 ecutive committee, John T. Wells, W. 

 G. Griswold, Neil Christenson, Andrew 

 Christenson. 



The Pequod Nursery have opened an 

 office in Meriden, Conn. F. L. Thomas, 

 who is the general manager, has been 

 in the nursery business for the past 

 20 years and was at one time identi- 

 fied with Ellwanger & Barry of Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., but for the past six years 

 he has been the sales manager for the 

 Burr Nursery Co. at Manchester, Conn. 



Harold L. Cushman and Miss Mabel 

 M. Worth, who have for some time 

 been partners In a successful florist 

 business under the firm name of Cush- 

 man & Worth, in Bangor, Me., were 

 married in Portland, Februarys. They 

 will continue to conduct their flower 

 shop >inder the same name that it has 

 been run since they formed their part- 

 nership. 



Carl Rust Parker, landscape archi- 

 tect, has opened an office in Spring- 

 field, Mass. Mr. Parker is a fellow of 

 the American Society of Landscape 

 Architects and of the Boston Society 

 of Landscape Architects. For 10 years 

 he was with the well-known firm of 

 Olmsted Bros, of Brookline, and for 

 the past five years has had an office 

 in Portland, Me., which will still be 

 carried on in connection with the 

 Springfield office to handle the large 

 practice in northern New England. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



"The Prairie Spirit in Landscape 

 Gardening." We should like to add 

 a few more lines to what we have al- 

 ready published in reference to this 



very original presentment of a broad 

 gardening proposition by Wilhelm 

 Miller in Circular 184 of the Depart- 

 ment of Horticulture, Univ. of Illinois. 

 To begin with it is a most attractive 

 publication typographically, contain- 

 ing one hundred superb Illustrations 

 and we are not surprised to learn that 

 the demand for copies is something 

 unprecedented. 



"The Prairie Spirit in Landscape 

 Gardening" is uniform with "The Illi- 

 nois Way of Beautifying the Farm" 

 (Circular 170), the page being 9^4x12 

 inches. The aim is to show "what 

 the people of Illinois have done and 

 can do toward designing and planting 

 public and private grounds for effi- 

 ciency and beauty." 

 The contents are as follows: 

 Chapter 1, The Prairie Style of 

 Landscape Gardening; 2, Everyone 

 Can Apply the Principle of Conserva- 

 tion ; 3, A Free Restoration of Ancient 

 Illinois; 4, Restoration Applied to 

 Farmstead and City Lot; 5, Restoring 

 the Romantic Types of Illinois Scen- 

 ery: 6. Can the Prairie he Restored? 

 7, Everyone Can Apply the Principle 

 of Repetition: 8, Adapting the Prairie 

 Style to Other Kinds of Scenery; 9, 

 Materials Used in the Prairie Style; 



10, Some Uses for Illinois Materials; 



11, Literature of the Prairie Style of 

 i^andscape Gardening: 12, The Show- 

 iest Plants in the World. 



The prairie style is defined as "an 

 American mode of design based upon 

 the practical needs of the middle- 

 western people and characterized by 

 preservation of typical western scen- 

 ery, by restoration of local color, and 

 by repetition of the horizontal line of 

 land or sky, which is the strongest 

 feature of prairie scenery." This 

 repetition is accomplished by means 

 of "stratified plants," which have 

 strong horizontal branches or flower 

 clusters, like certain hawthorns or 

 thorn apples. 



The prairie style Is to be distin- 

 guished from "the Illinois way." The 

 former is a mode of design; the latter 

 is not. The Illinois way of planting 

 is defined as the use of as high a pro- 

 portion of plants native to Illinois as 

 Is consistent with practical require- 

 ments and the principles of design. 

 In this sense every state In the 



Unipn may have a "way" of its own 

 based upon its local flora. The prairie 

 style, however. Is suitable only lor the 

 Middle West. It is of special interest 

 to Illinois, because Illinois is the 

 "Prairie state." 



While educational work should not 

 be judged by commercial standards, 

 yet the following flgures are illumi- 

 nating and encouraging. At the end 

 of its second year the Division of 

 Landscape Extension had 5,200 

 pledges "to do some permanent or- 

 namental planting within a year." 

 The signers were then asked to re- 

 port on what they had done. Replies 

 were received from 991, or 19 per 

 cent. These spent a total of $75,117 

 on materials, grading, lawn tools, 

 etc. The average expenditure was 

 nearly ?76. The average expenditure 

 of the 642 persons who spent less 

 than 100 was $22. 



While "The Prairie Spirit' was 

 prepared primarily for the people of 

 Illinois, its principles are applicable 

 throughout the Middle West. Indus- 

 try, conservation and restoration are 

 applicable everywhere. This circular, 

 therefore, may be of national interest, 

 especially in new communities where 

 people still despise or neglect the local 

 flora. It may even have some educa- 

 tional value in regions where none of 

 the middle-western species will grow, 

 by setting people to thinking in new 

 and constructive ways about their en- 

 vironment. 



A ROCK POOL. 



(See Cover Illustration.) 

 Rock gardening is on the eve of a 

 great popularity in this country. Here- 

 tofore It has been sadly neglected In 

 the Interest of other more showy but 

 far less Interesting phases of garden 

 work. Abroad It has been carried to 

 a wonderful development. Unfortu- 

 nately, many of the most beautiful 

 rock garden subjects available In Eu- 

 rope are failures for that purpose here, 

 and this fact probably has something 

 to do with the neglect of this form of 

 gardening In this country. With the 

 better knowledge and appreciation of 

 our native plants, however, our peo- 

 ple are coming to realize that there Is 

 no lack of suitable material for such 

 work. 



