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HORTICULTURE 



March 22, 1919 



IN MEMORIAM. 

 C. S. Harrison. 

 Harrison Nurseries Co., 

 York, Nebraska. 



It was in the IIoktu i i ii ke that I 

 learned of the passing away of "Father 

 Harrison". Deeply moved and shocked 

 by the sad news, and knowing of him 

 in so short a time, 1 can understand 

 what a blow his death is to you. He 

 was a man whose place will not be 

 easily filled in the world, how impos- 

 sible to fill it in his home. 



You have given back to earth the 

 value of cycles of experienced years 

 which has matured yourselves, (and 

 by his works in print for others to 

 follow,) to the point of each of you, 

 individually, to take his place. You 

 have reached that cycle in which you 

 now rest upon your own responsibility. 

 You have given back to Him who lent 

 it to you. The giving back is very 

 hard. No one but you alone knows the 

 parting. In after years you may have 

 friends, fond, dear kind, and loving 

 friends, but never will you have again 

 the inexpressible love and gentleness 

 lavished upon you. Often will you sigh 

 in your struggles with the hard un- 

 caring world, for the sweet deep se- 

 curity you felt in the younger days, 

 in the studies of nature and Mother 

 earth, in listening to that tender and 

 untiring voice. All these things will 

 come to pass and his silent voice from 

 that sacred sod will whisper to you to 

 remember him in the victory won, to 

 ever live out your time in the spirit 

 as he left you. He is the same good 

 Father as he was here whom we loved 

 so well. 



You are better, you are riper, you 

 are richer even in this hour of bereav- 

 njent than you were. God gave and He 

 has not taken away except in out- 

 ward form. He holds, he keeps, he 

 reserves, he watches and he loves. 



You shall have again that which you 

 have given back, to him only out- 

 wardly. Meanwhile hold the key, in 

 your hand, — the golden key of faith 

 and love, which will open the door of 

 knowledge and wisdom only. 



There is no other door so fast that 

 a mother's love and a father's love will 

 open. 



In the Spiritual Kingdom let us pic- 

 ture him as a child. Let us thank God. 

 for the light which he has kindled 

 here in the flowery kingdom and burns 

 so pure a flame, and which will teach 

 and guide us both in Brotherly Love 

 and prosperity and may we thank God 

 that this child was to go to a better 

 place, and perhaps it was for the best 

 in his passing after suffering the loss 

 of his vision. Yes, it is heartrender- 

 ing to dwell on his thoughts of the 

 last sight of the "Richard Carvel". 



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DORMANT CANNA ROOTS 



RED GREEN FOLIAGE 



Per 100 Per 1000 



(HAS. HENDERSON $3.50 $30.00 



LOUISIANA 3.50 30.00 



FIKKMIRD 7.00 05.00 



GOLD EDGE 



MADAM CKOZV $3.50 $30.00 



GLAUIOFLOKA 3.50 30.00 



\ I.MS 4.00 35.00 



WHITE 



MT. BLANC IMP $5.00 $45.00 



YELLOW 



YELLOW KING HUMBERT (Queen Helen) $7.50 $70.00 



KATE F. DEKMER 4.00 35.00 



RICHARD WALLACE 3.50 30.00 



FLORENCE VAUGHAN 3.50 30.00 



BRONZE LEAF RED FLOWER 



KING HUMBERT $4.00 $35.00 



MINTZER'S COLOSSAL 3.50 30.00 



CONOWINGO 3.50 30.00 



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!28 Chambers Street Seedsmen NEW YORK CITY 



Last November, on learning of his 

 affliction, I could not rest, but wrote 

 him in view of comforting him. 



You have our heartfelt sympathy in 

 your deep sorrow. We are never ripe 

 till we have been made so by suffering. 

 We belong to those fruits which must 

 be touched by frost before they lose 

 their sourness and come to their sweet- 

 ness. 



In this bereavement let us so live 

 that in due time our Maker calls us 

 home to join him and meet again 

 never to be separated. 



Yours in the Brotherly Love to- 

 gether with my fellow members of the 

 American Peony Society, 



Chas. H. Newhard. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Eddyville, N. Y. — The Amawalk 

 Nurseries are removing their main 

 office to Amawalk, N. Y. 



Sherman, Tex. — Charles W, Wit- 

 beck, formerly connected with the 

 New York seed trade, is now with the 

 Ferguson Farms Co. 



Kansas City, Mo.— T. J. Noll & Co. 

 are moving from 1109 to 1108 Grand 

 avenue, the change made necessary 

 owing to increased business. 



Savanna, III. — Joseph Dunn and 

 John Lambert have acquired the 

 Savanna Greenhouses, which have 

 been closed the past winter. 



AMEND PLANT QUARANTINE TO 

 ADMIT FLOWER BULBS. 

 The quarantine governing the im- 

 portation of nursery stock and other 

 plants and seeds into the United States 

 has been amended to permit the im- 

 portation of lily bulbs, lily of the val- 

 ley, narcissus, hyacinth, tulip, and 

 crocus packed in sand, soil or earth, 

 provided such sand, soil or earth has 

 been previously sterilized in accord- 

 ance with methods prescribed by the 

 Federal Horticultural Board. Steril- 

 ization must be done under the super- 

 vision of an authorized inspector of 

 the country of origin, who must certify 

 to it. This provision is amendatory to 

 Regulation 3 of the rules and regula- 

 tions supplemental to the notice of 

 quarantine, which required that such 

 bulbs when imported must be free 

 from sand, soil or earth. It was 

 brought to the attention of the board, 

 however, that dry earth is the only 

 suitable material known for packing 

 these bulbs, and experts of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture advised that such 

 material can be cheaply and satisfac- 

 torily sterilized by heat in such way 

 as to involve no additional risk of in- 

 troduction of dangerous plant pests. 



Because the hostilities are over do 



not shift into careless spending, hut 



thrift forward into wise saving. Buy 

 W. S. S. 



"Extravagance rots character; train 

 youth away from it. On the other 

 hand, the habit of saving money, while 

 it stiffens the will, also brightens the 

 energies. If you would be sure that 

 you are beginning right, begin to 

 save." — (Theodore Roosevelt.) Buy 

 W. S. S. 



