March 27, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



425 



WHITE PINE 



NEW ENGLAND BORN 



AND GROWN 

 Hardy, Vigorous Stock 



Special Sale 



No. 1 QUAUTY (Heavy 



Root-Pruned and TWICE-Transplanted 



3 to 4 FEET HIGH 



100 trees 

 for 



$34 



13 trees for $7 

 6 trees for ^4 



The Illustration shows our 2 to 3 foot grade 

 of Twice-Transplanted WHITE PINES 



WRITE TO-DAY 



for New Illustrated Tree Cata- 

 logue. MANY MILLIONS OP 

 TREES for Ornament and Shade, 

 for Hedges, Windbreaks, and 

 Forpsts. 



"America's Most Beautiful 

 Evergreen ' 



Special Sale 



A LIGHTER GRADE 



I ONCE-Tran.planted 2 to 3 FEET HIGH 



1000 trees $85 



100 trees $10 | •'- '""<** $3 



Lower Prices for Other Grades and 



Larger Quantities 



It's a good plan to buy YOUR Little Trees 

 where Landscape Architects, Park Superin- 

 tendents and Foresters buy THEIRS. 



EittlE 9Er£e iFarms of aiiurka 



(NEAR BOSTON) 



AMERICAN FORESTRY COMPANY 



Dept 7B. 15 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. 



thrives in the East and it blooms in 

 the South, and a society to hold an in- 

 terest in a connection of this kind is 

 no small affair. 



The Test Gardens. 



The past year has seen culminated 

 efforts that have gradually grown up 

 to provide test gardens for roses in 

 various geographical locations. At 

 Hartford, Conn., the rose garden there 

 attracted attention which stimulated 

 efforts in other directions. At the city 

 of Washington Interest was stirred up 

 and now there has been started a Na- 

 tional Rose Garden of some consider- 

 able proportions. At Cornell Universi- 

 ty, which is an ideal region for climatic 

 conditions for outdoor roses, there is 

 now a garden which, if it is pushed 

 with persistent energy, will very soon 

 become ds famed as some of the choic- 

 est spots in Europe. In Minneapolis in 

 one of the beautifully located parks is 

 a rose garden that has demonstrated 

 what can be done where the winters 

 are sharp and long, and the result as 

 seen there is a credit to the man whose 

 genius has created it. In Southern 

 California the rose is almost of spon- 

 taneous growth. In Oregon, Washing- 

 ton and British Columbia there the 

 rose in the brilliancy of its colors, in 

 the heyday of its blooming makes a 

 showing that is wonderful. All these 

 things when reduced to simple every 

 day use. add to the beauty of the home, 

 and old as the hills comes the cry — 

 "there is no place like home." 



Affiliation 



The effort of the American Rose So- 

 ciety is to lead off and to affiliate with 

 every local society that has its annual 

 rose show; to encourage the same by 

 distribution of its medals. The past 

 year the Rose Society in the city of 

 Syracuse. N. Y.. joined the American 

 Rose Society. It lias 244 members. In 

 the city of Newport, R. I., two organiz- 

 ations have joined the society, viz: 

 "The Newport Garden Club" and the 

 "Garden Association." 



The Year's Activities 



The Bulletin of the past year giving 

 a record of some of the work accom- 

 plished is a book of value. It gives ac- 

 curate illustrations of the Rose Gar- 



dens at Washington and Cornell: it 

 gives articles from California and Ore- 

 gon bearing upon this subject of rose 

 adaptation \vhich is of interest and 

 value to every commercial rose grower, 

 not only in America but in Europe as 

 well, because America is a great rose 

 market for imported stock. 



The past three years the limited in- 

 come of the American Rose Society 

 lias been greatly assisted in its premi- 

 um list by the associations with whom 

 its main exhibition has been placed. 

 There is no one connected with the 

 American Rose Society in an official 

 way that accepts any compensation 

 whatever either for time or effort 

 given. The society stands today in a 

 position of influence in tlie develop- 

 ment and the adaptation of the rose 

 for general display. One of the things 

 we want to do and which was tried, 

 when for over a year we published the 

 Rose Journal, simply as a means ot 

 keeping in touch with its membership. 

 The matter of scale of points as adopt- 

 ed by the society is one tiling that has 

 been accepted in various parts of the 

 country. The judgment as made upon 

 either plants or blooms by the able 

 men who have been selected as judges 

 and who have acted in the capacity of 

 judging accurately the various points 

 of value, have gained the confidence of 

 local associations far and wide, 



A society like the American Rose So- 

 ciety with interests in all parts of the 

 country has a patriotic as well as a 

 commercial value; it touches local in- 

 terests and home interests that are re- 

 echoed far and wide. During the past 

 year more medals were distributed 

 than we ever before have given, and 

 last year was the first year that the 

 five-year limit covering the Mrs. Ger- 

 trude M. Hubbard fund was reached. 

 This medal went to a man in Massa- 

 chusetts, M. H. Walsh of Woods Hole, 

 while a close competitor for the honor 

 was the well known rosarian — John 

 Cook of Baltimore, Md., with his rose 

 — Radiance. 



Looking Ahead. 

 It is the hope of the society to see 

 its grow^th in numbers largely in- 

 creased; to see tlie spirit of affiliation 

 take a wider form: to see the rose test 

 gardens spring up in sections that will 



show what can be done in Texas, In 

 Idaho or Montana, or what may be 

 done in Kansas or Kentucky or what 

 may be done in the Gulf States. 



As a society we have held our meet- 

 ings mainly in the East. This year 

 there is the greatest exhibition that 

 was ever plannned or carried out. In 

 commemoration of what is said to be 

 the greatest physical work of engi- 

 neers that the work has ever seen— the 

 opening of the Panama Canal, and 

 wliat will be used to show up the 

 grounds of the Exposition to a large 

 extent will be Roses, because it is held 

 in the laud of roses. How many of 

 our members will attend that exposi- 

 tion is unknown, but wherever you 

 go on that journey you will find the 

 rose in evidence and wherever the 

 next annual exhibition may be, we 

 hope that it will reach a company o! 

 people who will make it a decided suc- 

 cess in every way. 



Prosperity. 



Our finances are in fair condition. 

 The life membership fund has grown 

 until it is $3,150, which is used as a 

 permanent fund, and the larger this 

 permanent fund is the more the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society will become a soci- 

 ety of permanent ability to do good. 

 Associate members are what we need, 

 but if we get such membership we 

 must have from time to time during 

 the year pulilications ot decided In- 

 terest to the home grower. One thing 

 that helps more than any other is — 

 colored illustrations. These are ex- 

 pensive pieces of work if well done, 

 but I hope the time will come when 

 the publications of the American Rose 

 Society will be so accurately illustrat- 

 ed, and illustrated in color that they 



A.N. Pierson, Inc. 



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