November 10, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



617 



New Offers in This issue. 



ACCOUNTANT. 



R. J. Dysart, 28 State St., Boston. 

 For page see List ot AdvortiMrs. 



BABY RAMBLERS, AZALEA INDICA. 



V. W. O. Scbmitz, Prince Bay, N. Y. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



A MODEL CARNATION HOUSE. 



EASTER LILY BULBS. 



H. F. Michell Co., Pliiladelpliia. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



HARDY FERNS. GALAX. 



N. F. McCartliy & Co.. 84 Havrley St., 



Boston. 



For page see List of Advertisers. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS STOCK, 

 NURSERY STOCK, CONIFERS. 



I'aiisades Nurseries, Sparliill, N. Y. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



HARDY SHRUBS. 



K. J. Nurseries, Newport. K. I. 

 For page see List of Advertisers. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING AND 

 PROJECTED. 

 New. 

 E. Aurora. N. Y.— Elbert Hubl)ar(l, 

 one house. 



Dover, N. H. — C. Ramsburg, range of 

 houses. 



Additions. 

 Adams, Mass. — A. J. Bcxithman. one 

 house. 



Brattleboro, Vt. — C. E, Hopliins, one 

 house. 



Chester, Pa. — C. P. Mueller, one 

 house. 



Moberly. Mo. — H. V. Estill, one 

 house. 



N. Ablngton. Mass. — Bay State Nur- 

 sery Co. 



LIST OF PATENTS. 

 833.996. Lawn-Mower. Guy H. Bryan, 



Plankington, S. Dak. 

 83:^.278. Lawu-Weeder. Mathias W. 

 Abts, Madison, Nebr.. as- 

 signor of one half to Carl 

 Horst, Madison, Nebr. 

 October 30, 1906. 

 .S34.458. Grass-Seeder. William T. Da- 

 vis and George B. Davis. 

 Hiawatha, Kans. 

 834,531. Cucumber-Picker. George W. 



Newton. Hubbard. Ohio? 

 834,564. Pruning Shears. William 

 Cronk. Montour Falls. N. 

 Y., assignor to Cronk & 

 Carrier Manufacturing Co., 

 Elmira. N. Y., a corpora- 

 tion of New York. 

 834,672. Trellis Walter S. Hood, 

 Wilkinsl)urg, Pa. 



Anything of Value 



to the profession 



CAN BE SOLD 



through advertising in 



Horticulture 



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The accompanying pictures show a 

 new carnation house, 30x140, recently 

 completed for J. R. Hellenthal of Co- 

 lumlms, Ohio. Enchantress, Flamingo, 



Interior 

 Estelle, Queen, Lady Bountiful, White 

 and Pink Lawson are the varieties of 

 carnations mainly selected for planting 

 in this house. 



GROWERS' ASSOCIATION? 

 We wish that every grower of and 

 dealer in cannas would consider the 

 above question carefully and then ex- 

 press, either through the trade 

 papers or to us personally by letter, 

 their own candid opinion upon it. If 

 such an association could be formed, 

 and include in its. membership, the 

 thousands of small florists all over 

 the country, who handle from a few 

 dozen to a few hundred cannas each 

 year, and awake an interest in each 

 to take hold and push literature re- 

 garding the beauties of the canna, as 

 a plant for growing in small home 

 gardens, as well as for planting in 

 parks and public gardens, into the 

 hands of the genei-al public and keep 

 up the campaign of education, by do- 

 nations to city parks, of some of the 

 best and most showy varieties— not 

 necessarily of anyone's high-priced 

 novelties, but something new in the 

 community, that would attract much 

 attention, there could, by united ac- 

 tion, be such an interest worked up 

 for cannas that the demand would be 

 doubled in less than three years. 



Let the association have a fee of 

 one dollar per year, and reach out 

 for members, not only florists and 



dealers, but among amateur growers 

 and gardeners everywhere. There 

 ari' hundreds, yes thousands, of grow- 

 ers who could be induced to become 

 iiicinbers of such a society that would 

 not think of joining the S. A. F. with 

 its much larger membership fee. 

 .Many ot them, however, after being 

 brought in closer contact with other 

 growers in such an association would, 

 no doubt, in a few years become deep- 

 er interested in floriculture generally, 

 and would then likely become mem- 

 bers of the S. A. F. There is a great 

 chance to do educational work along 

 floricultural lines and no one should 

 try to discourage any movement along 

 such lines, even though they be in 

 the nature ot kindergarten work. Let 

 us reach out and take hold of the 

 work, and educate the general public 

 up to a better understanding of the 

 beauties of floriculture. 



In regard to registration, we have 

 never considered that there was any 

 implied recommendation, or acknowl- 

 edged merits, attributed to such vari- 

 eties as are offered for registration 

 by the S. A. F., only the notice that 

 a certain name has been given to a 

 certain variety and the brief descrip- 

 tion given of it, being simply a help 

 to identify it in future if it should' 

 come into general cultivation. We 

 believe that the present system of 

 registration is the only one that can 

 be can-ied out without friction by 

 any society. It is certain that no 

 committee can pass on the merits of 

 flowers as fragile as those of the can- 

 na in a satisfactory manner without 

 seeing several plants of each variety 

 growing and watching their growth 

 for several weeks, and this would 

 mean a vast amount of work for a 

 committee, provided that there were- 

 several hundred new applicants for 

 their favorable mention. Then if the 

 committee should live in widely sep- 

 arated parts of the country and each 

 have to be supplied with samples for 

 growing it would mean quite an ex- 

 pense to the originator. The question- 

 of certificating varieties for merits 

 should be another question altogether. 

 L. H. READ. 



Fruitdale. Ala. 



WANTS, FOR SALE, ETC. 



Advertisements in this column one 

 cent a word. Initials count as words. 



Casli with order. 



POSITIONS WANTED for head garden- 

 ers .ind assistants; for further Information 

 apply 10 W. W. Rawson & Co., 5 Union 



St.. Boston. M ass. ._ 



"situation WANTED — Private place 

 preferred as head gardener. Married; two 

 • hlldren; good reference. A. N., care R. 

 & J. Farqnhar Co.. Boston. 



SITUATION WANTED by thoroughl.r 

 .xperieneed rose grower. Single, sober and 

 irllal.Ie. H. E.. care HORTICULTURE. 11 

 llainilton Place. Boston. 



SITUATION WANTED by gardener of 

 adequate experience, to talse management 

 of estate, with or without greenhouses. 

 Address H. .7., care HORTICULTURE, 

 il Hamilton place, Boston, 



WANTED — A good, all around man for 

 florist's store, with good reference; wages 

 $18.00 per week. Apply to Geo. H. Cooke, 

 Conn. Ave. and L Street. Washington, D. C. 



