November K, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 





I IN/I 



YELLOW POLYANTHUS 



Good either for Pots 

 or for Cutting 



$10 per 100 

 $80 per 1000 



WILLIAM SIM 



CLIFTONDALE 



MASS. 



of one of the handsomest trees of the 

 North American forests. The lowland 

 plant, Halesia Carolina, is usually 

 shrubby in habit with numerous stout 

 stems wide-spreading from a short 

 stem, and covered with nearly smooth 

 or slightly scaly bark. The tree of the 

 high mountains is not rarely eighty or 

 ninety feet high with a straight trunk 

 sometimes three feet or three feet and 

 a half in diameter, often free of 

 branches for fifty or sixty feet from 

 the ground and covered with bark 

 separating into great platelike scales 

 like those of a scaly-barked Hickory 

 or a Swamp Cottonwood. The flowers 

 are about one-third larger and the 

 fruit is twice as large as the flowers 

 and fruits of the lowland tree. 



The habit of the plant and the large 

 flowers and fruits are reproduced in 

 the seedlings, which when the seeds 

 germinate begin to grow as trees with 

 a single stem. The seedlings show no 

 variation in habit, and the young trees 

 grow with a single straight stem with 

 short branches which form a narrow 

 symmetrical, pyramidal head. The 

 trees often begin to flower and to pro- 

 duce fertile seeds before they are ten 

 feet tall. The mountain Halesia has 

 been described as a variety (var. 

 montlcola) of H. Carolina but it will 



probably be, when better known, con- 

 sidered a species. 



This tree was introduced into cul- 

 tivation by Mr. Harlan P. Kelsey who 

 for many years has maintained in 

 western North Carolina a nursery of 

 Appalachian plants. By him it was sent 

 to the Park Department of Rochester 

 about twenty-five years ago, and in 

 1907 it came from Rochester to the Ar- 

 boretum. This mountain tree has 

 proved to be perfectly hardy in the 

 Arboretum where it is growing rapidly 

 and where it has now flowered and 

 produced fruit since 1913. It is a tree 

 which seems destined to play an im- 

 portant part in the decoration of 

 American parks and which may prove 

 useful for street and roadside planting. 

 —Arnold Arboretum Bulletin. 



supplied by autumn leaves and jack-o- 

 lanterns which set off the beautiful 

 pompom chrysanthemums in white 

 pink and purple. At night, tiny red 

 lights concealed under the foliage, 

 added to the effect. The witch seemed 

 just about to arrive, apparently, as 

 the cauldron was boiling and the fa- 

 mous broom was near at hand stood 

 ready to carry her on her midnight 

 journey. 



A GOOD WINDOW. 

 Mr. Eberhardt of the Rosedale 

 Flower Shop of Schnectady, N. Y.. has 

 been receiving high commendation 

 from friends and passersby for the 

 unique Hallowe'en display in his win- 

 dow. Considerable ingenuity was 

 shown in the arrangement. Full ad- 

 vantage was taken of the bright col- 

 ors of autumn. The main motive was 



ANNOUNCEMENT 



I have engaged stall* in (he Boston 

 Co-operative Flower .Market and made 

 arrangements which will enable me to 

 ship Cut Flowers and Plants to the 

 Retail Florist direct from the grower. 

 I am Agent for a number of the larger 

 growers of Cut Flowers in New Eng- 

 land. These growers ship to this mar- 

 ket every day. You ran readily under- 

 stand that any orders you may favor 

 me with will he filled with good fresh 

 stock at market prices. 



I have taken up this enterprise at the 

 ren inst of some of the largest buyers 

 of < ut Flowers in New England who are 

 too tar from Boston to travel hark and 

 forth to the Mower Market. My twenty 

 years* experience in the shipping of Cut 

 Flowers should he proof enough of my 

 ability to till your orders to your entire 

 satisfaction. 



Assuring yon that giving me your 

 business will be to your advantage, 

 I am 



Very respectfully yours. 



FRANK J. REYNOLDS. 



260 Devonshire Street 

 Hoston, Mass. 



