November 3, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



469 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS. 



Many growers whose greenhouses 

 are entirely devoted to specialties have 

 or think they have no time to bother 

 with anything else. No dmibt many 

 of them are right in their fonclusions, 

 especially those having establishments 

 of enormous size, but there are others 

 who might some time find it profitable 

 to have some side line or subsidiary 

 branch connected with the business. 

 For instance if there is available 

 vacant land adjacent there are many 

 things that will in the near future 

 be in demand that might be profitably 

 grown thereon, and the help necessary 

 at one season could be utilized at an- 

 other in a different branch without 

 any confusion. 



The various trees and shrubs, both 

 evergreen and deciduous, are, if all 

 signs fail not, to be in an increasing 

 demand in the years to come. Herb- 

 aceous plants or hardy perennials are 

 planted more and more every season. 

 Hedge plants and material for planting 

 for cover will be more called for in 

 the near future, all of which at pre- 

 vailing prices should prove remuner- 

 ative to the grower. 



Herbaceous plants are becoming 

 better appreciated by florists as val- 

 uable for their flowers with the result 

 that this season especially there has 

 been an unusually brisk demand for 

 seed of border perennials. Many 

 good things do fully as well 

 when grown from seel the pre- 

 vious fall as established plants 

 that were purchased at a much 

 greater cost. In beginning to grow 

 perennials for their flowers for floral 

 work some thought should first be 

 given to the varioties most likely to 

 prove useful, as the list is very large. 



Lifting and storing time is now 

 upon us. Keep everything of value; 

 discard things of no merit, because 

 the room they take up in storage and 

 the labor expended on them at other 

 times can be more profitably given to 

 other things. If there is a surplus on 

 hand of anything good it might be 

 easily turned into cash if the owner 

 is only enterprising enough to let it 

 be known through the press. There 

 is but little chance that the man In 

 need of what you have to dispose of 

 will come around in an express wag- 

 on, with a bulging wallet, to buy it 

 up and cart it away; in the advanced 

 civilization of today better business 

 methods are practised. 



Thanksgiving Day is not far away. 

 Recently there has been an inclina- 

 tion on the part of the prosperous 

 public to invest a little of what they 

 give thanks for in offerings of plants 

 or flowers to friends in health and in 

 sickness. This custom needs but 

 strenuous encouragement to make it 

 as firmly established as that of Christ- 

 mas and Easter. There are many 

 things that could be worked up into 

 specialties suitable for Thanksgiving 

 offerings, just as there are special 

 things for Christmas and Easter. 



It looks that slowly but surely 

 chrysanthemums are coming back to 

 occupy the position they all but lost 

 for a time. It will pay any one who 

 has had but little interest in them 

 lately to visit the exhibitions this year 

 and note the varieties now considered 

 the best for utility. 



Pansies are at all times favorite lit- 



tle flowers and for winter use are 

 grown now more than they used to 

 be, and lillle wonder when we see the 

 charming baskets made up of them by 

 florists possessing some taste and 

 originality. For winter flowering, if 

 a house is not available for them, 

 there is little reliance on having many 

 flowers, but if a bench even in a cool 

 house oan at all be spared it will be 

 found at the end of the season that 

 the room was not wasted. 



It is now fully time that bench 

 grown nephrolepis intended to be mar- 

 keted when prices are usually the 

 highest be potted up in order that the 

 plants will at least in a measure be 

 established before they are disposed 

 of, otherwise they will have that un- 

 finished appearance in form and sub- 

 stance decidedly against them when 

 scrutinized by intending buyers. 



Cut flowers are high in some locali- 

 ties in the early part of every season, 

 but the temptation engendered by a 

 temporary brisk demand at this sea- 

 son should not get the upper hand 

 to such an extent as to induce anyone 

 to ruin stock. 



Growers of primulas, cinerarias and 

 calceolarias need hardly be told that 

 it is time to have the plants in the 

 greenhouses. All the plants men- 

 tioned are very much alike in at least 

 one particular which growers should 

 never lose sight of, and that is their 

 insistence on rsceiving unstinted nour- 

 ishment in their growing stage. Never 

 let them suffer for pot room until the 

 degree of development desired by the 

 grower has been attained: it their re- 

 quirements in that line are not scru- 

 pulously attend3d to, neither the 

 foliage nor the flowers will be satis- 

 factory. When the plants were in 

 frames, most likely they were shaded, 

 more or less; then, upon their imme- 

 diate occupancy of room in a green- 

 house thev should not be fully ex- 

 posed to the light of the sun for a few 

 days, at least, but after that time, 

 when hardened to the light, they will 

 stand it and thrive. All these plants 

 are also extremely sensitive to any 

 neglect in watering; calceolarias espe- 

 cially so, even going as far as col- 

 lapsing entirely it watering is neglect- 

 ed or carelessly done. Good plants of 

 either of the three referred to are good 

 stock in the hands of the grower, but 

 poor plants — the result, pure and sim- 

 ple, of neglect — are just so much 

 rubbish. 



PERSONAL. 

 Robert E. Berry is now representing 

 H. Krank Darrow, of New York, on 

 ilu' road. 



FLOWER MARKET DINNER. 



On Saturday evening, October 27, 

 occurred the annual dinner of the 

 Boston Co-operative Flower Growers' 

 Association at Young's Hotel. Among 

 the invited guests were the local rep- 

 resentatives of the trade papers, who 

 together with F. P. Mathisoa and 

 otliers made addresses appropriate to 

 the occasion. While the attendance 

 was not as large as on some former 

 occasions the affair was an exceed- 

 ingly pleasant one for the participants. 

 At the business meeting all the old 

 officers were re-elected excepting the 

 filling of one vacancy on the board of 

 directors. The reports of treasurer 

 and secretary were favorable and a 

 dividend of ?5.00 per share was de- 

 clared. 



Walter Mott has taken a position 

 as travelling representative for Bob- 

 l)ink & Atkins, of Rutherford, N. J. 



.Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wiegand, In- 

 dianapolis, have returned from a 

 three months' trip to Honolulu and 

 the Hawaiian Islands. 



Dr. N. L. Britton has returned from 

 .Jamaica bringing with him over 5,000 

 specimens of tropical flora for the 

 New York Botanical Gardens. 



Recent callers at HORTICULTURE'S 

 office, Boston, were: R. E. Berry, 

 representing H. Frank Darrow, New 

 York; R. W. Peterson, of Cincinnati, O. 



J. K. Allen, the New York whole- 

 sale florist, is a member of the build- 

 ing committee of the Carnegie Li- 

 brary, at Kearney, N. J. The new 

 building was dedicated on October 27. 



W. H. Waite has resigned his posi- 

 tion as superintendent on Senator Dry- 

 den's estate, and has resumed his old 

 place as superintendent for Mr. Sam- 

 uel Untermeyer at Greystone, Yonkers, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. and Mrs. Julius Roehrs are on 

 an automobile tour from New York to 

 Newport, R. I., as guests of Mr. Fred 

 Sniythe, the immediate occasion of 

 the holiday being the assumption by 

 Mr. Roehrs of the dignity of grand- 

 father. 



Robert Angus has resigned his posi- 

 tion as gardener on the Col. Jay estate 

 at Katonah, N. Y., and succeeds Wil- 

 liam Scott as superintendent of the 

 Joseph Eastman estate at Tarrytown. 

 A. L. Marshall succeeds Mr. Angus at 

 the Jay place. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 

 Our frontispiece this week shows a 

 Lawson seedling, raised at J. W. How- 

 ard's greenhouses. Somerville, Mass., 

 four years ago and which is to be dis- 

 seminated this season by Mr. Howard 

 as Debutante. The variety is a 

 splendid grower and profuse bloomer. 

 In color it equals Fiancee or Winsor 

 in the purity of its pink tints; this, 

 with its other good points which are 

 shown in the photograph, has made 

 the (lower a very popular seller. The 

 blooms illustrated are from the or- 

 dinary stock on sale at Mr. Howard's 

 store on October 17. 



Have You Read the Advertisements 

 this Week? 



ASPARAGUS CRAWSHAWII. 



This beautiful new decorative as- 

 paragus has much to recommend it, 

 especially from a growers' point of 

 view. The foliage is of very dark 

 rich green and is much more fluffy 

 and velvety in character than 

 plumosus. It grows rapidly and forms 

 a crown, not rambling over the bed 

 as plumosus does. It is so full and 

 close in habit that strands that have 

 been growing to.gether may be un- 

 wound — each strand making a good 

 string. Every asparagus grower 

 shouW give it a place. 



