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HORTICULTURE 



October 23, 1915 



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FREAKISH FACTS AND FACTLESS 

 FREAKS. 



Culled from the columns of our 

 exchanges. 



Among tbe flowers that will be shown 

 at the Boston Chr.vsantheraum Show this 

 Tear, I am told, will be some very beau- 

 tiful specimens of that flower raised by 

 John Dinan, gardener of the C. N. Wln- 

 Bhip estate, Wakefield. The seed from 

 ■which these specimens grew were brought 

 from Ireland several years ago by 

 Mr. Dinan, when he left his position as 

 gardener at the Blarney Castle conserva- 

 tories. — Boston Post. 



Some time ago there were stories printed 

 In various publications to the effect that 

 Massachusetts' famous old colony ot Shak- 

 •crs had gone out of existence. The Mt. 

 Lebanon colony of Shakers, however, prove 

 themselves very much alive by the ex- 

 hibit they made tbe past week at the 

 Grange Fair up-State. The average yield 

 ■of wheat in that part of Massachusetts is 

 about 17 bushels to the acre; but the 

 Shakers succeeded in producing 63 bushels. 

 That's what Bay State soil can do when 

 It gets proper treatment. 



— Boston Post. 



When it was reported that Jameson 

 (Mo.) boasted a eocklebur which towers 

 21 feet above the ground, people found it 

 difficult to believe, despite the fact that 

 thev had been "shown" in any number 

 of "cases And this lowly and despised 

 plant was seldom given any attention ex- 

 •cept by those who were anxious to destroy 



It 

 But people came to Jameson and were 



-convinced— they saw the eocklebur grow- 

 ing on top of the rear end of the Jameson 

 bank building As tbe building is twenty 

 feet high and the plant fully one foot In 

 height, no one could complain of being 

 -deceived 



— Saturday Blade, Chicago. 



A niuslirodui Aveigbing more than ^0 

 pounds and measuring ^V2 feet in diameter 

 was recently brought to Horticultural Hall 

 for the Mvcologieal riub exhibition. The 

 mushroom was found in Beverly by Mrs. 

 Alice Wool of Boston. It was like two 

 great roses of cream fawn color, waxy 

 T\-hite and full of irregular holes on the 

 underside. A litter of boughs .-ind paste- 

 board boxes had to be made for its trans- 

 portation. Two men carried it to the sta- 

 tion and placed it in a naggage car on a 

 Boston-bound train. It could not be taken 

 in the sireet cars, nor in a taxi, and an 

 automobile had to be secured in order that 

 It might reach the exhiliilion in perfect 

 condition. 



— Boston Post. 



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SCHOOL GARDENS. 



{Continued /roin fage SH7) 



peeling to use it in a talk to our so- 

 ciety, but lioped at some future time 

 to use it in the Parent-Teachers' Asso- 

 ciation work; however, I pass it along 

 and hope it will help you in some way 

 i£ you become interested In the work. 



"A prize has been announced by the 

 Home Yard and Garden Association, 

 of Bridgeport, Conn. This prize will 

 go to the person making the best de- 

 velopment of a flower garden or porch. 

 The small garden will have as good a 

 chance as the large one, or even a 

 porch development may win it, if the 

 person competing has no place to plant 

 but a porch." 



The aim of the movement is to get 

 everybody to plant something, how- 

 ever small the space may be. There 

 is nothing so conducive of live intt^rest 

 as a prize for the reward of competi- 

 tion. While many persons will beau- 

 tify their properties for the love of the 

 beautiful, it usually takes more than 

 that to beautify a town. 



If I have been instrumental in in- 

 ducing at least one person to under- 

 take this work it will be well worth 

 the effort of trying to comply with the 

 president's wishes in sending you this 

 talk. 



Mr. Benjamin Hammond, of the S. 

 A. P. and O. H., has for a long time 

 been interested in School Gardens, 

 and to those members who will under- 

 take the spread of the work 1 would 

 recommend consulting him. 



Mrs. Albert M. Hekb. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Clinton, Mo. — The Clinton Green- 

 houses have been sold to Edgar Corn- 

 ick. 



Round Lake, N. Y. — Elmer Morris is 

 about to engage in the florist business 

 here. 



Stratford, Ct. — Chauncey Mills has 

 leased his range of greenhouses to 

 John O'Neill. 



Hackettstown, N. J. — Herrick & 

 Ross have leased the Center street 

 greenhouses. 



Salem, O. — Harry E. Cooper, of 

 West Grove, Pa., has purchased the 

 Wm. Mundy property here and will 

 devote the greenhouse to vegetable 

 forcing. 



New Haven. Conn. — M. B. Farquhar- 

 son. for several years past associated 

 with the Elm City Nursery Co. and 

 the New Haven Nurseries Co., has 

 purchased the floral shop at 123 

 Church street, conducted for twelve 

 years by Alfred T. Ostermann. 



Mrs. J. N. Champion, who has been 

 ill for several months following an at- 

 tack of double pneumonia early in the 

 summer, is now slowly but surely re- 

 gaining strength. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The October meeting of the Rhode 

 Island Horticultural Society will be 

 held in the Public Library, Providence, 

 on Wednesday evening, October 20. 

 William N. Craig, of Brookline, Mass., 

 will speak on the "Hardy Herbaceous 

 Garden, and the Planting of Bulbs." 

 Business meeting at 7.45; lecture at 



The annual chrysanthemum show 

 under the auspices of the Silent Cir- 

 cle of King's Daughters, will be held 

 on November 3, in Peace Dale, R. I., 

 and the society is to make a deter- 

 mined effort to raise the standing of 

 judging to conform to that set by the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America. 

 The professional and amateur classes 

 will be judged alike this year, the only 

 change in the rules being that collec- 

 tions must include 20 or more plants. 

 The raising of the standard is received 

 with favor by the professional growers 

 who believe it will be a boom to the 

 business and the coming exhibit prom- 

 ises to be the largest and best in 

 years. 



S. A. G. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 

 La Crosse, Wis. — Hillview Green- 

 houses, capital stock, $15,000. Incor- 

 porators, Wm. G., Elizabeth and Eman- 

 uel Haebich. 



Rahway, N. J. — C. E. Baunian, Inc., 

 to engage in horticulture and garden- 

 ing. Capital stock, ?125,000. Incor- 

 porators. Camille E.. John R. and 

 Adoiph H. Bauman. 



Montgomery, Ala. — The Morning 

 View Floral Company has changed its 

 name to H. E. iMitting, Florist. 



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