November 8, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



403 



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. 



GETTING UP STOCK OF IBOLIUM 

 PRIVET IN A HURRY. 



Oct. 29th. 1919. 



Dear Sir: — The accompanying illus- 

 tration shows a snapshot into the end 

 of several rows of the new hardy hy- 

 brid privet, Ibolium. This is our stock 

 bed of several thousand plants and it 

 will be an eye opener to some of your 

 readers to learn that this luxuriant 

 growth is but one year old. Its 

 height can be easily determined by 

 noting the stake which appears in the 

 illustration which is just three feet 

 long, the bottom resting on the surface 

 of the ground. 



These plants are not only but one 

 year old but have been cut back twice 

 during the summer for propagation 

 purposes. Just how this luxuriant 

 growth was obtained in so short a 

 time will naturally be of interest to 

 the nurserymen generally throughout 

 the country just now when so keen an 

 interest is being taken in this new 

 hardy hybrid privet and when so large 

 a number are interested in getting up 

 a stock of it with all possible haste. 

 The feat is a simple one. When our 



company a year ago decided to otter 

 Ibolium Privet to the trade this au- 

 tumn our stock was limited to the 

 original plant, forty (40) three-year-old 

 plants and a few hundred one-year- 

 olds. Just how to quickly get up a 

 good size stock bed was a question be- 

 fore us. By cutting in our stock pretty 

 well we obtained about two thousand 

 buds. These were put in a block of 

 two-year Amoor Privets two to four 



Ibolium Privet One Year Old 



buds to a plant. Practically all of 

 these buds wintered and what you see 

 in this illustration is the summer 

 growth from these buds. 



This block has not only furnished us 

 with many soft wood cuttings for sum- 

 mer propagating, but is maturing a 

 quantity of hard wood cuttings. Of 

 course, we claim this is no special hor- 

 ticultural feat in fact, look upon it as 

 an ordinary nursery practice, but not- 

 withstanding this it will have sugges- 

 tive value to many of those who are 

 now going into Ibolium with the view 

 of getting up a heavy stock of it with 

 all possible haste. 



When it is clearly realized that 

 Ibolium Privet resembles California 

 Privet very closely and is quite as 

 hardy as Ibota Privet its range of use- 

 fulness will be so extended that an 

 enormous demand will result. Al- 

 ready through our advertisement of 

 stock plants for propagating purposes 

 tli ore have come to our office many in- 

 quiries from those who misunderstood 

 our advertisement asking for quota- 

 tions on thousand lots, which indicate 

 how quickly the general buying pub- 

 lic are going to accept Ibolium Privet 

 and what an enormous sale certainly 

 will result. 



The Elm Citt Nursery Co. 

 New Haven, Conn. 



