December 11. 1915 



nORTICULTUEE 



773 



Call on FRANK OECHSLIN for 



CHRISTMAS STOCK 



All Kinds of Plants in Season 



Everything that blooms for the Christmas Trade and something 



for all the year round 



Azaleas, Begonias, Cyclamen, Poinsettias, 



Scotch Heather, Etc. 



FERNS FOR DISHES ONE OF OUR SPECIALTIES 



Large stock of Boston & Whitmani Ferns, Palms, Dracaenas in 

 variety, Pandanus, Araucarias and other decorative stock 



Visitors are invited to visit our houses at any time. Madison St. car at 4800 or Cicero Ave. 



Greenhouses Three Short Blocks South 



RRAIMK 



4911 W. Quincy Street 



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CHICAGO, ILL. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Garden Blue Book. A Manual 

 of the Perennial Garden. By Leices- 

 ter B. Holland. This new publication 

 by Doubleday, Page & Co., has the 

 merit of originality to a degiee seldom 

 met with in these days when of the 

 making of garden books there is no 

 end. The body of the work consists of 

 text descriptions of a selection of 169 

 of the most desirable and varied her- 

 baceous border plants suited to our 

 northern U. S. conditions. Each right- 

 hand page is devoted to a full descrip- 

 tion accompanied by a half-tone pic- 

 ture of one species, giving botanical 

 and common name, place of ori.sjin and 

 season of flowering, etc., together with 

 a number which refers back to an 

 elaborate color chart which is bound 

 into the first part of the book which 

 shows appro.xiniatcjy the tint or tints 

 of each flower described. The charts 

 also show in ingenious and convenient 

 tabulated form the exact time and 

 duration of blooming, the exposure — 

 sunny, half shade or shade — which 

 each subject should have, the height 

 in feet and the soil conditions most 

 conducive to success with each. Each 

 left hand page opposite the descriptive 

 notes and cultural directions contains 

 a table with blank spaces for notes on 

 the behavior of the plant each month 

 in the year for a series of years, cli- 

 matic conditions and other pertinent 

 observations, also a blank table for 

 similar notes on any other species or 

 variety grown but not listed in this 



manual. A careful filling in of, these 

 blanks for a period of several years 

 would constitute a most valuable rec- 

 ord such as but few have ever at- 

 tempted to keep but which, with the 

 convenience here provided, will no 

 doubt hereafter become a useful occu- 

 pation and pastime for many garden 

 lovers. 



The descriptive lists are arranged 

 alphabetically without regard to rnn- 

 sanguinity or other relationship be- 

 tween the subjects described, all these 

 latter facts being fully covered and in- 

 stantly ascertained by reference to the 

 charts. In the case of chrysanthe- 

 mums, irises, paeonies, phloxes and 

 some other subjects, copious lists of 

 garden varieties are included in the 

 text. The introductory chapters are 

 interesting and instiiictive. covering 

 practical advice on garden designing, 

 planting and arrangement, in detail, 

 with plans and figures for reference. 

 The Ijook contains 425 pages and In 

 l)inding and other mechanical features 

 is handsome and very appropriate as 

 a timely holiday gift which in the 

 hands of an interested recipient will 

 prove a wellspring of i)leasure and in- 

 spiration for every day, the season 

 through. Price $3.50 net. Copies 

 may be obtained from Doubleday, 

 Page & Co., New York or the ofTice of 

 Horticulture, Boston. 



•St. Louis— The five wholesale houses 

 have formed a combination and hold 

 meetings twice a month. They met 

 last week at Sniith'^. Each house has 

 put up 1100 forfeit to live up to the 



rules of the association for one year. 



THE PRACTICAL BOOK 



OF 



Outdoor Rose Growing 



FOR THE HOME GARDEN 



by 

 GEORaS C. THOMAS, JB. 



Elaborately Ulnitratad with M Perfect 

 Reproduction* In Fnll Color of All 

 Varieties of Roses, and a Few Half- 

 tone Plates. Octavo, Haadsesne Cletta 

 BIndlns, In a Slip Case. >4.»0 Bat. 

 Postace Extra. 

 We have sold a number ef copies ef 



this sterllar book. One parchaser 



writes as follows: 



HOHTICULTUBB, Bolton, Uus. 



Dear Sir: Somr time ago we ordered 

 ■ copy of Tbomas' Book od >«•••. W* 

 prumlied to send jou postas* ai boob 

 a* we learned the amount Tke beek 

 was so (ood tbat we forgot all abeat 



f>oiitage until tudaj. Pleaae fergtre omt 

 HDie of memory. 



We loaned It to a friend aad he Ukaa 

 It so well we're afraid tkat wt will 

 hare to bnj another. 



fiespectfully. 

 New York. A. ». 



B^'rry roH* grower shonld peaisss ■ 

 copy of this book. 



IT IS THE REAL THING 



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Horticulture Publishing Co. 



