October 7, 1916 



HORTICULTUBB 



493 



ASSISTANT GARDENERS' ESSAY 

 CONTEST. 



The closing date of the NatioiuU As- 

 sociation of Gardeners' essay contest 

 for assistant gardeners is drawing 

 near. The prizes offered liy President 

 William N. Craig, $25 gold for first 

 prize, $15 gold as second prize and 

 llO gold for third prize are for any 

 subject pertaining to any branch of 

 horticulture. The essays are limited 

 to twenty-five hundred words and must 

 be signed with a nom de plume, must 

 bear no evidence of tlie author's iden- 

 tification and be mailed in plain en- 

 velope before November 1st (on wliich 

 date tlie contest closes) carefully ad- 

 dressed to the chairman of the essay 

 committee, William H. Waite, Box 

 21KI, .Madison, N. J. 



The contestant will also place his 

 name and full address, stating the po- 

 sition he holds, in an envelope writ- 

 ing the nom de plume he signed to 

 his essay on tlie outside of this enve- 

 lope and mail same enclosed in an en- 

 velope addressed to the secretary. M. 

 C. Ebel. Madison, N. J. This will not 

 be opened until the judges have ren- 

 dered their decision on the contest. 



The successful contestants will be 

 announced at the annual convention 

 of the association which will be held 

 in Washington, D. C, the first week 

 of December. 



The rules must be strictly followed 

 to avoid disqualification. The essay 

 must be written distinctly and on one 

 side of the paper only. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Book of Garden Plans, By Stephen 

 P. Hamblin — This splendid book is 

 just off the press of Doubleday. Page 

 & Co.. Garden City, New York, and it 

 is new in text and illustrations and 

 treatment of its subject, from cover 

 to cover. There are thirty-two pages 

 of illustrations, all beautiful, and 

 twenty full page blue prints with 

 thoroughly practical directions and 

 perspicuous planting lists for each, 

 with photographs of striking examples 

 illustrating the basic idea. To make 

 these plans as real and concrete as 

 possible, the author has in mind an 

 actual piece of property with definite 

 conditions to be met in each case. In 

 this way a.re described; A Farm 

 Home of Five Acres, Planting for a 

 Small Suburban Lot, Shrub Planting 

 for a Village Home, A Rose Garden, 

 Wild Planting. A Small Informal Gar- 

 den. A Natural Rock Garden, A Border 

 of Fragrant Flowers, An Annual Gar- 

 den, A Water Garden, etc. A final 

 chapter gives information on the prac- 

 tical side of gardening — the trees, 

 plants, shrubs, vines, etc., for various 

 conditions, cost estimating, time for 

 planting, and other details. The author 

 is a well known authority and land- 

 scape architect formerly associated 

 with Warren H. Manning and at pre- 

 sent identified as an instructor in 

 landscape architecture at Harvard 

 University. This book should prove a 

 great help to every gardener, either 

 professional or amateur, and everyone 

 who is associated with a home garden 

 in any way will get through its use 

 a service that hundreds of dollars 

 would not buy. The price is $2.00 net. 

 Copies may be ordered from the office 

 of Horticulture. 



Hammond's Thrip Juice No. 2 



REGISTERED 



A Contact Insecticide, Useful and Reliable, Used for 30 Years in Green- 

 houses, and on Plants, Grape Vines, Trees and Shrubs 



Some common Sucking Insects, mai^nified. 



HAMMOND'S PAINT & SLUG SHOT WORKS, Beacon, N. Y. 



Brooklyn Institute of * Arts and 

 Sciences, has a very interesting ac- 

 count of The Origin and History of 

 Our More Common Cultivated Fruits, 

 by Orland E. White. The paper fills 

 nine pages. Appended is a table of 

 various fruits, giving their names, 

 probable length of time of cultivation, 

 their country of origin, with short 

 comments. 



CATALOUGES RECEIVED. 



Harrison's Nurseries, Berlin, Md. — 

 Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 

 Nursery Stock. 



J. J. Wilson Seed Co., Inc., Newark. 

 N. J. — Bulbs for Fall Planting and 

 Spring Flowering. 



Stnmpp & Walter Co., New York 

 City — Bulb Catalogue, Autumn, 1916. 

 A "classy" publication, well illustrated. 



Hoffman's Dutch Bulb House. Bara- 

 boo, Wis. — Fall Announcement and 

 Price List of Bulbs, Plants and Roots. 



D. Hill Nursery Co., Dundee, 111. — 

 Wholesale Catalogue of Young Stock 

 and Specimen Conifers and other Nur- 

 sery Stock. 



A. T. Boddington Co., Inc., New York 

 — Garden Guide. Summer and Autumn 

 1916. A very attractive catalogue, es- 

 pecially in its illustrations which are 

 artistic and effective. 



Princeton Nurseries, Princeton, N. J. 

 —Price List for the Trade. Fall 1916. 

 This is the first catalogue of this 

 young company and it is very com- 

 plete in its I'sts of ornamental ma- 

 terial. 



Vincent Lebreton, La Pyramide — 

 Trelaze. near Angers, France — Whole- 

 sale Trade List of Nursery Stock for 

 Autumn 1916 and Spring 1917. Mc- 

 Hutchison & Co., New York, are sole 

 agents for U. S. and Canada. 



Brooiflvn Botanic Garden Lcallet, 

 Series IV, No. 11. published by The 



Cottage Gardens Nurseries. Eureka. 

 Cal. — This is the first general cata- 

 logue of the Cottage Gardens Nursery, 

 Consolidated — embracing not only the 

 stock listed at Eureka, Cal., but of the 

 older nurseries at Queens, New York. 

 Its lists comprise Specimen Orna- 

 mental Nursery and Florists' Deco- 

 rative and Forcing Stock and many 

 fine illustrations supplement the text. 

 The preparatory pages contain an in- 

 terestin.g account of the career of 

 Charles W. Ward from the time when 



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