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HORTICULTURE 



April 24, 1916 



Adorning Old New York 



Window Boxes. 



ClirlBtoplier ami SlHTlduii SquarpH, 

 ill old Grepiiwlcli VlllaK<>, are to bloom 

 with a myriad flowers and plantK on 

 May Day. The liouse windows in 

 those squares are to hurst forth in 

 floral beauty and set an example for 

 the rest of the city. Mrs. Wllliird Ory 

 den Paddook, wife of the sculptor, of 

 8" tirove street, whose home Is In a 

 pretty old-time house in the villaKe, as 

 Chairman of the Committee on Flow- 

 ers of the Greenwich Branch of the 

 Woman's Municipal League, has under- 

 taken the tusk of inviting the resi 

 dents of the two squares to begin the 

 work, and they have responded enthu- 

 siastically. Butchers, bakers, saloon 

 keepers, liverymen, people in ai)arl- 

 ment houses, and people in tenements 

 have received the idea joyfully, and 

 all that part of Greenwich Village is 

 now engaged in making green boxes in 

 order that not a window will present a 

 blank spot in the beautiful whole. If 

 there are any in the section whom 

 Mrs. Paddock has accidently missed 

 in her round of flower visits, she asks 

 them to join in the movement. 



"It costs so little," says Mrs. Pad- 

 dock, "and the result is so satisfactory. 

 The effect of plants everywhere makes 

 the city so much more livable for the 

 people. The flower box movement will 

 radiate from our two squares through 



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147 Summer Street 



Boston, Mass, 



the streets around, and we hope that 

 other iinrls of the city will follow our 

 example. Kor a few people who were 

 shk we have furnlsln'd the lioxes. May 

 Day we liave set as the day we shall bi' 

 in the pink of condition, and we Invlli- 

 the whole city to come and see how 

 lovely we are." — .V. V. Timrs. 



Flower Market. 



(ireenwich Village Is to have its own 

 public llower market just like those In 

 Paris. Permissi<ui to have push <'arts 

 laden with plants and bunches of 

 blooms there has been granted by the 

 city, so Mrs. Wlllard U. Paddock, of 

 No. 1)1' Grove street, said yesterday. 

 Mrs. Paddock Is a ineniher of the 

 Greenwich Village branch of tlie Wom- 

 an's Municipal League, which has 

 started a window box movement. 



The market will be held certain 

 days of the week and during school 

 hours so that the push cart men and 

 the flower women will not have the 

 small Greenwich Village boy to con- 

 tend with. The flowers will be sold 

 at reasonable prices, and it is hoped 

 by those back of the movement to have 

 uptown friends come to Greenwich VII 

 lage to purchase their floral decora- 

 tions and gifts. 



Sheridan square and Christopher 

 square have been chosen for the flow- 

 er market places. These squares are 

 near together and just west of Sixth 

 avenue. Mrs. Paddock says she hopes 

 tlie market movement will be copied 

 bv women living in otlier districts. 

 —.V. V. Hemlil. 



Summer Gardens. 



Witliiii a few weeks summer gar- 

 dens will be established in the city 

 which will be looked after by young 

 men, tliis being their first step toward 

 learning the art of gardening. As a 

 result of several lectures which were 

 delivered at the recent Flower Show, 

 officers of the New York Florists, Clul) 

 and the Horticultural Society has dis- 

 cussed this plan, and several informal 

 meetings have been held. Among those 

 who are interested in the plan are 

 Theodore .\. Havemeyer president of 

 the society; Mrs. Belmont Tiffany, 

 Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Mrs. Chauncy 

 Depew, Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden and 

 Mrs. Rudolph Erbsloh. 



Max Schling. of 22 West Fifty-ninth 

 street, a member of the society and a 

 flower grower, has promised tlie sup- 

 port of several florists. Within a short 

 time work will be started on an estate 

 near Bronxville. 



— K. Y. Trihuiir. 



MAY FLOWERING TULIPS. 

 uScp Cover Illustratiou.) 

 The long-time favorite single early 

 tulips will still retain their popularity 

 in the embellishment of the spring gar- 

 den but the Darwin and Mayflowering 

 section is coming rapidly to the front 

 as the crowning glory of the tulip race, 

 as every seedsman and bulb house 

 have reason to know. There is a 

 stateliness and refinement in their un- 

 rivalled velvety art-tinted flowers, 

 borne on tall erect stems, which is 

 simply irresistible and which no other 

 denizen of the sjiring show beds can 

 dim. The demand for these bulbs in 

 this country is evidently only in its in- 

 fancy, so to speak, and its future di-- 

 mensions no one can begin to esti- 

 mate. 



British Horticulture 



A Noted Orchid Collection, 

 DrchldislK arc looking forwar<l with 

 Interest to the dispersal of the famous 

 collection of orchids belonging to the 

 lute .Iose|)h Cbainberlain. This collec- 

 tion was ( of llie most numenuisand 



comprehensive in the country, and rep- 

 resented many years' can-ful work and 

 outlay. At Chamberlain's auction sale 

 this month :!,(IU() plants are to be of- 

 fered. At a time when everyone is 

 economizing it hardly seems an appro- 

 priate period for a sale of Ibis I'har- 

 acter. 



A Carnation Election. 

 T. A. Weston, secretary of the Per- 

 petual Flowering Carnation Society, 

 has lately published in the "Journal of 

 Horticulture" the result of an election 

 of carnations he has recently con- 

 ducted. The voting of the experts re- 

 sulted in the following twelve market 

 growers' varieties being placed at the 

 head of the list: May Day, White 

 Wonder, Triumph, White Enchantress. 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward, Enchantress Su- 

 preme, Scarlet Glow, Lady Northcliffe, 

 Enchantress, Winsor, Beacon, Mikado 

 and Champion. As regards the novel- 

 ties introduced since Jan., 1913, the 

 first six were: Champion, Gorgeous, 

 Scarlet Carola, Pink Sensation, 

 Princess Dagmar and Philadelphia. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Worcester, Mass. Carl O. Everberg. 

 florist, is a ijclitioner in bankruptcy. 

 He owes $10.2,';5 and has $1890 assets. 



Little Ads Bring Big Returns 



Little ads. In our Classified Colomns brtng 

 biK returns to beta advertiser and pnr- 

 chaaer. 



Anything that can be sold to flortats, gar- 

 deners, park and cemetery sDperlotendenta, 

 «tc.. can be sold ttarongb this medlnm In 

 this department, and at very small coat 

 Don't fall to read them each Issoe, for yo» 

 win And on* or more that will proTc profit- 

 able to yon. 



They Cost Only One Cent 

 A Word Undisplayed 



Kindly discontinue my advertise- 

 ment in the classified ad. section of 

 HORTICULTURE, rendering bill to 

 date. 



Yours is a very good advertising 

 medium. We have rid ourselves of 

 practically all our surplus stock, and 

 are therefore obliged to discontinue. 

 Very truly yours, 



Mass. A. 



Gentlemen: — Will you please discon- 

 tinue my classified gladioli advertise- 

 ment now running in your paper? I 

 am sold out of nearly all varieties, es- 

 pecially those called for by your read- 

 ers, and hope to have as good success 

 with you next year. 



Yours truly, 



Mass. R. W. S. 



