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HORTICULTURE 



November 22, 1919 



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NATIONAL PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN 



THE BILLBOARD PROPOSITION 



Have you a site for a billboard as depicted in this illustration? Public highways, land bordering railroad 

 tracks, tops of buildings, vacant lots, all furnish excellent locations for billboards. 



Help the Publicity Campaign along by purchasing a billboard— and hang beneath it a supplementary sign 

 advertising your own business, if you desire to do so. 



Our Promotion Bureau will ship a billboard to you for $50 cash with order— half what it would cost you on 

 a direct purchase from factory. 



Desrription— Size. 20 feet long, T& feet wide. Construction, 26 ga. galvanized Iron, on wood frame, 

 shipped iu four 5 feet sections, with face band-s. Approximate weiglit, 300 pounds. Slogan on sign painted to 

 conform in design and color to the regular glass and transfer signs supplied by our Promotion Bureau. Three 

 coats of paint used, with a coating of heavy outside wearing varnish. Wooden supports to be supplied by pur- 

 chaser. Blue prints or drawings detailing setting up furnished with each billboard. 



si- us should be located within a distance of 50 feet from highway or track. 



The price, $50.00, is F. O. B. any railroad station in the United States. 



Send your order in at once, and have a billboard working for you quickly. 

 1170 Broadway, New York City 



JOHN YOUNG, Secretary. 



ASPIDISTRAS RATHER SHORT. 



it is becomin; ;.pparent that there 

 fs a certain shortage in Aspidistras, 

 and prices have gone higher than ever 

 before. The same situation prevails 

 across the water. Moreover many of 

 the plants over there are developing 

 many unhealthy conditions, and the 



question comes whether the endurance 

 of this plant has not been tested to 

 the limit. A writer in The Garden 

 Illustrated says: 



"It must be remembered that, al- 

 though the Aspidistra will bear with 

 Impunity as much or more rough treat- 

 ment and neglect than any other 

 plant, there is a limit to Its endurance, 

 and the time comes when the result 

 of such treatment Is very apparent in 

 the foliage. Where the plants have to 

 be kept continuously in a living-room 

 a great point in the culture, besides 

 careful attention to watering, is to 

 keep the foliage scrupulously clean by 

 occasional sponging, or, better still, 

 ly standing the plants outside for a 

 time during a steady light rain. After 

 the leaves are thoroughly wet, passing 

 the sponge over them will remove all 

 impurities. 



"Although the plants may remain 

 in the same pots for a very long time 



there comes a time when a shift ii 

 beneficial, and this is generally in- 

 dicated by a slight discoloration of 

 some of the leaves. In all cases 

 where the culture of the plants is con- 

 fined to the living-room and outside, 

 this repotting should take the form of 

 a shift into a slightly larger pot and 

 no attempt to split up the plants. This 

 latter is only admissible where facili- 

 ties are available for growing the 

 pieces along in warmth for a time until 

 they are well established in their new- 

 quarters. 



Attempts to throw split-up pieces in 

 the atmosphere of a living-room very 

 often end in failure. This applies more 

 especially to the variegated form, 

 which is less vigorous in growth than 

 the type. In connection with the re- 

 potting above mentioned it may be 

 well to give the reminder that as only 

 a small shift is advisable and there is. 

 consequently, little space between the 

 ball and the new pot, care should be 

 taken that the soil Is thoroughly and 

 evenly rammed into position." 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



The following is the report of new 

 chrysanthemums submitted to the 

 committee appointed by the society. 



Exhibited at New York by Mount 

 Greenwood Cemetery Association, Mor- 

 gan Park, Chicago, 111., Mrs. C. W. 

 Johnson, white, Jap. inc., commercial 

 scale, 95 points, exhibition scale, 95 

 points. Chas. H. Totty Co., Madison. 

 N. J., Miss Moran, Bronze pompon, 

 scale for pompon varieties. 87 points: 

 No. 151, P., Pink pompon, scale for 

 pompon varieties, 86 points. 



Exhibited at Philadelphia by A. E. 

 Bonsey, Sewickley, Pa., Evelyn Bon- 

 sey, Golden bronze large-flowered sin- 

 gle, scale for single varieties, 89 

 points; Nancy Byers. Pink and bronze 

 single, scale for single varieties, 71 

 points. 



Exhibited at Chicago by Baur & 

 Steinkamp, Indianapolis, Ind., No. 

 10817, Pink Jap., commercial scale, 91 

 points. Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian. 

 Mich., Bright eyes, light pink pompon, 

 scale for pompon varieties, 92 points; 

 Angelo, pink pompon, 90 points; Ze- 

 lea, bronze pompon, 90 points; Baby 

 Doll, yellow, tinge of orange pompon. 

 90 points; Fire Bird, deep bronze 

 pompon, 93 points; Anneta, bronze 

 pompon. 92 points. 



Chas. W, Johnson, Sec. 



