November 1, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



3?9 



FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 



Lilium Giganteum 



Pulverized Sheep Manure 

 Fertilizers for the Greenhouse 



JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 



CORP.) 



SEEDS BULBS PLANTS 



51 North Market Street 



Boston, Mass. 



that 1 simply wished to show that this 

 practice would soon depreciate the 

 value and popularity of the flower. 



President Vincent then fully backed 

 me up in my contention that it was 

 bad practice, and that it would re- 

 tard rather than advance Dahlias to a 

 higher state of perfection." 

 Yours very truly, 



Wm. J. Rathgeber. 



A REMARKABLE ASIATIC TREE. 

 Zelkova serrata, the Keaki of the 

 Japanese, is an Asiatic tree which is 

 still too little known in the United 

 States. The oldest tree in this coun- 

 try is growing on the estate of Mr. 

 Henry Everett in Barnstable, Mass. 

 The seeds which produced this tree 

 were brought from Japan in 1862 

 by John Wilson, who gave them 

 to Captain Frank Hinckley. Only 

 one plant was raised from these 

 seeds. It is now a broad-headed tree 

 with a short, stout trunk divided 

 into several large ascending stems. A 

 little later seeds of the Keaki were 

 sent from Japan to the Parsons nur- 

 sery at Flushing, either by Dr. Hall 

 or by Mr. Thomas Hogg, and the best 

 of the trees, the result of this intro 

 duction, known to the Arboretum are 

 in Dr. Hall's plantation in Bristol, 

 Rhode Island. The largest of these 



trees are now fully seventy feet high 

 with tall stems from two to two and 

 a half feet in diameter. These trees 

 have for years been producing large 

 crops of seeds and quantities of seed- 

 lings spring up under the trees, and 

 at long distances from them, the seeds 

 being widely scattered by the wind. 



A specimen with a tall clean stem 

 and shapely head which has been 

 planted by the roadside in Warren, 

 the next town to Bristol, indicates 

 that the Japanese Zelkova might be 

 successfully used as a street or road- 

 side tree. It is as a timber tree, how- 

 ever, that this Zelkova deserves the 

 attention of Americans. It is the most 

 important hardwood tree of Japan and 

 Korea. The wood is tough, elastic 

 and durable in the ground and when 

 exposed to the air. It is considered 

 the best wood for building in the Em- 

 pire, and furnishes the great round 

 columns which support the roofs of 

 Japanese temples. It is universally 

 used in Japan in making jinrikishas, 

 and quantities of the wood are sent 

 from Korea into China for this pur- 

 pose. The Keaki alone has made the 

 jinrikisha possible just as the Hick- 

 ory tree has made possible in this 

 country the light wagon and the trot- 

 ting horse. 



The demand for the wood has made 



the Keaki comparatively rare. That 

 it was once a noble tree, however, is 

 shown by the great specimens which 

 have been preserved in temple gar- 

 dens and by village roadsides. Such 

 trees are often at best one hundred 

 feet high with the trunks eight or ten 

 feet in diameter.— A mold Arboretum 

 Bulletin. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 

 Copies of any one of these patents 



can be obtained by sending fifteen 



cents in stamps to Siggers and Sig- 



gers, Patent Attorneys, Box No. 9,. 



National Union Building, Washington, 



D. C, and mentioning Horticulture. 



1,317,169. Harrow. Wm. O. Long, 

 Mansfield, Ohio. 



1,317,282. Control systems. Ralph E. 

 Ferris, Swissvale, Pa, 



1.317,402. Cultivator and covering at- 

 tachment for corn planters. Edwin 

 Taylor, Edwardsville, Kans. 



1.317,533. Cultivator. Utley Wedge, 

 Ardmore, Pa. 



1,317,569. Flower pot. Joseph Forst- 

 er, Patcheque, N. Y. 



1,317,601. Grader and ditcher. Wm. 

 A. Steele, Owensboro, Ky. 



1,317,739. Agricultural machine. Sam- 

 uel H. Tinsman, Morris, 111. 



1.317.764. Cultivator. Silas P. Taylor, 

 Loretto, Tenn. 



