June 7, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



545 



PLANT TREES 



By E. H. Wilson. 



"To plant trees is merely to plant 

 for the benefit of one's unknown grand- 

 children" or some variation of this 

 phrase is frequently urged as an ex- 

 cuse for not planting trees. The kind- 

 est interpretation that can be given 

 this statement is that it is prompted 

 by ignorance of the facts. It has be- 

 come a cant phrase which, unfortu- 

 nately, lazy or thoughtless persons ac- 

 cept as a truism. On analysis, it is 

 found to be utterly fallacious though 

 specious and its acceptance is un- 

 worthy of an educated mind. To plant 

 trees is assuredly laying up treasures 

 for one's grandchildren and even for 

 their children; it is also doing the 

 same for one's sons and, what is more 

 to the point — particularly the view- 

 point of a selfish protagonist — it is 

 providing abundant pleasure for one- 

 self. If properly planted in soil duly 

 prepared seedling trees grow amazing- 

 ly fast. A little patience is necessary 

 at first but after four or five years the 

 results begin to show and year by 

 year they become more manifest. 



I am minded to write this on the 

 conclusion of a delightful visit to the 

 famous Hunnewell pinetum at Welles- 

 ley, Mass. — a place well known to read- 

 ers of Horticulture, a tree lover's 

 mecca whose fame is known on three 

 continents at least. With the son, 

 grandson and granddaughter of the 

 founder of this wonderful garden and 

 their head gardener as genial guides, I 

 revelled among the delightful trees! 

 trees three years since last I saw them 

 and it was perfectly obvious to me that 

 the trees had made good use of the 

 time. As we walked around I found it 

 increasingly difficult to realize that the 

 many magnificent trees — White Pine, 

 Elm, Oak, Maple etc., had all been 

 planted during the lifetime of the gen- 

 tleman by whose side I tramped. I 

 measured one White Pine over four 

 feet in diameter, an Elm over five feet; 

 hundreds of the trees from eight to 

 one hundred feet tall in the fullness 

 of their prime, flourishing and giving 

 the lie to all who would claim that 

 life is too short to plant trees and see 

 the results. The owner pointed out 

 the only tree (a big White Oak) which 



grew on the place when his father 

 first began to plant in 1852. Today 

 it is by no means the largest tree on 

 the place, but it is most tenderly 

 nurtured to prolong its obviously de- 

 clining years. 



To have converted a sun baked, 

 gravelly waste into a verdant, well- 

 wooded park, is in itself no mean per- 

 formance. To have founded such a 

 splendid collection of conifers is an- 

 other, and to have seen them grow into 

 specimens rivalling their parents on 

 their native heath — all after the prime 

 of his life was reached — should be an 

 encouragement to men of less lofty 

 ideals and courage. 



Yes, it takes courage to plant trees 

 but the reward is certain a hundred- 

 fold. Of a surety the spirit of its 

 founder, Mr. Horatio Hollis Hunne- 

 well, hovers over the scenes of his 

 benevolent labors and takes pleasure 

 in the delights of those who now en- 

 joy the results of his handiwork and 

 of those who will enjoy them as the 

 years roll on. 



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PRIMULA SEED 



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Ml. a Magninca. White 60 



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Holborn Blue 60 



Kermesina Splendens. Crim- 

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HENRY F. MICHELL GO. 



518 Market St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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BEDDING PLANTS, Etc. 



We offer the following slight surplus in bedding plants, which we offer as 

 follows as long as unsold: 



Per 100 



ABl'TILON — Eclipse, 2'4 in. pots 55.00 



ABUTILON — Eclipse, 3% in. pots 10.00 



ACHRYANTHES — I r i, 2Y t in. pots 400 



AGERATUM— Blue. White, dwarf, 2% ill. pots 5.00 



ALTERNANTHERA — Aureo nana, Brilliantissima and Paronychioldes 



major, 2V4 in. pots 5.00 



ALYSSIM — Tom Thumb, Double White, 2% in. pots 4.00 



BEGONIA — Erfordia, ,"14 in. pots 15.00 



CANNAS — Buttercup, Tarrytown, Venus, 3% in. pots 15.00 



CANNAS — Beaute de Poitevine, Egamlale, Pierson's Premier, Florence 



Vaughan, New York, Souv. d'Antoine Crozy, 3Vi in. pots 12.00 



CELOSIA — Childsi, Thompson! magninca, 2^4 in. pots 5.00 



CENTAUREA — G.vmnocarpa, 2% in. pots 5.00 



COBEA — Scandans, 3 in. pots $1.50 per dozen 



I'OLKl'S — Golden Redder, Firebrand, Versehaffeltii, etc., 21J in. pots 5.00 



COSMOS — Separat lors, '_' 1 , in. pots 4110 



GER ANIUMS — lime, Salleroi, ueavv, 2% in. pots goo 



HELIOTROPE— 2Vi in. pots '. s!o0 



HYDRANGEAS — Pink, in bud and bloom, 5 in. pots 50 cents each 



IVY' — English, liU in. pots 20.00 



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MARIGOLDS— Dwarf French, Tall African, 2"4 in. pots 4.00 



PETUNIA— Single, 214 in. pots 6.00 



SALVIA — Splendens, 2V t in. pots 6AM) 



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STOCKS — Branching, separate colors, 3V> in. pots 12.00 



TKADKSCANTIA— Multicolor, 2% in. pots 6.00 



VERBENAS — Separate colors, 2% in. pots 6.00 



VINCAS for Bedding — Alba pura. Rosea alba, Rosea, 2Vi in. pots 7.00 



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FERNS 



We offer a splendid lot of ferns for immediate Shipment as follows: 



NEPIIROLEPIS — Elegantissima Cnmpacta, Muscos,,. Smithii. .°.i:, in. pots... $0.88 



> IEPH itoi.Ki'is — Klemintissinia Compacts, Snperblselma, 6 in pots 75 



nepiikoi.epis — Elegantissima Compact*, Harris!, 8 in. pots 8.00 



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NEPilKOLKPis — Dwarf Boston. S in pots 1.50 



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