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HORTICULTUKE 



December 7, 1912 



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HEWS STANDARD 



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A. H. HEWS & CO., Inc. 



Main Office and Factottea 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



HUGO DE VRIES OPPOSES DAR- 

 WIN THEORY. 



In a lecture before the Lowell Insti- 

 tute, Boston, on Nov. 30, Hugo de 

 Vrles, a Dutch botanist who has ac- 

 quired fame by supplementing the 

 theory of natural selection from his 

 own experimental researches on "The 

 Evolution of Plants," said that 

 in the Darwinian theory it is 

 assumed that the variations selected 

 for survival in the struggle for ex- 

 istence are too minute from plant to 

 plant to be perceived until after a con- 

 siderable lapse of time. Mr. de Vries 

 maintained, on the contrary, that 

 plants may change their character sud- 

 denly and by leaps — the so-called "sal- 

 tatory" or "Kaleidoscopic" variations 

 — making it possible for the experi- 

 menter to observe the transition from 

 one form to another in his own garden. 

 With the aid of stereopticon pictures 

 he showed several examples of his suc- 

 cess in producing new varieties of 

 plants without the connecting link of 

 transitional forms. 



UTILIZING THE CITY PARKS. 



Secretary J. J. Levison, secretary- 

 treasurer of the American Association 

 of Park Superintendents, who is also 

 Forester of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., writes as follows: 



The secretary is confronted with 

 several requests for information rela- 

 tive to methods of park utilization. 

 Many cities have devised unique meth- 

 ods of fostering popular appreciation 

 of trees in parks. The Boston Park De- 

 partment, for instance, is using its au- 

 tomobile trucks on Saturdays, Sundays 

 and holidays for the purpose of taking 

 the people around the parks at a 

 reasonable charge. Rochester has in- 

 stigated periodic celebrations or car- 

 nivals in one of its large parks. In 

 Brooklyn we have labelled the trees, 

 issued "guides to the trees" and or- 

 ganized tree clubs among the school 

 children. Other cities have probably 

 done better and we all want to 

 know it. 



Mr. Levison suggests that it would 

 therefore be of mutual interest to com- 

 pare replies from different cities and 

 see by what means their parks are 

 brought in closest touch with the peo- 

 ple and thus used to the greatest ad- 

 vantage, and asks that anyone inter- 

 ested will kindly write to him and 

 state what his city is doing towards 

 this end. 



NEWS NOTES. 



East Greenfield, Ind. — The Gibson 

 greenhouse has been purchased by H. 

 M. Pearson, who will continue it. 



Los Angeles, Calif. — Charles Morton 

 is now sole proprietor of the Los An- 

 geles Flower Market, 733 South Spring 

 street. 



ABOUT GARDENING PERIODICALS. 



Referring to the recent demise of a 

 magazine devoted to flowers, HORTI- 

 CULTURE is of the opinion that the 

 general public has been having a sur- 

 feit of garden and country life litera- 

 ture and observes that "what is need- 

 ed now, is not more journals but bet- 

 ter ones and a public tuned up to ap- 

 preciate them." There is much sound 

 sense in this conclusion. Most of the 

 periodicals devoted to gardening 

 have got into such a rut that 

 one can safely say in advance 

 what the next number will con- 

 tain. In September and October the 

 contents will run largely to bulbs. In 

 February and March to hotbeds and 

 seedsowing, in later months to an- 

 nuals and bedding plants. This would 

 all be well enough if any effort was 

 made to vary the matter relating to 

 these subjects but the same old tu- 

 lips and hyacinths and narcissi form 

 the subject of the theme in autumn, 

 while the education of the festive cab- 

 bage, the toothsome radish and the 

 succulent potato is certain to have the 

 front pages and top of column as reg- 

 ularly as the spring comes round. It 

 is hard to decide whether this is the 

 fault of the publisher or of his circle 

 of readers. One may, indeed, question 

 whether a magazine devoted to the un- 

 usual flowers and vegetables would be 

 as successful as one that constantly 

 harps on the way to cultivate the com- 

 moner ones. Certainly the general 

 public rarely has a taste for anything 

 out of the ordinary in gardening. Its 

 predilections run largely to lilacs, "sy- 

 ringas," bridal wreath and roses in 

 the line of shrubs, and peonies, bleed- 

 ing hearts, phlox, and the common day 

 lily among perennials. Seldom does it 

 get beyond the common annuals — 

 morning glories, asters, pansies and 

 petunias. Here and there on large es- 

 tates where the planting has been 

 done by the landscape gardener we 

 find the rarer shrubs and other peren- 

 nials, but elsewhere the nature of the 

 planting indicates that we are still far 

 from ideal conditions. The great mass 

 of the people still need to be shown 

 that there are better and more beauti- 

 ful plants than the few with which 

 they are familiar. They need to know 

 that there is more than one iris or day 

 lily, that the Canterbury bells have 

 finer and more permanent relatives, 

 that in general perennials are far su- 

 perior to annuals and so on. But how 

 are they going to find out these things 

 if the gardening magazines persistent- 

 ly stick to their tulips and cabbages? 

 — The Americdii Botanist. 



Sandusky, Ohio — Leo P. Wagner, 

 proprietor of the Central Greenhouses, 

 has secured the properties of the 

 Clyde Floral Co., including green- 

 houses and flower stores in Clyde and 

 Bellevue. The business will be merged 

 and all conducted from offices here. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Augusta, Ky. — V. H. Thomas, house 

 28 X 118. 



South Paris, Me. — E. P. Crockett, 

 addition. 



Great Barrington, Mass. — Edgewood 

 Farm, addition. 



Richland, Wash. — Richland Nursery 

 Co., one house. 



Dorchester, Mass. — Newton Miller, 

 117 Center street, one house. 



Montreal, Can. — William C. Hall, 

 Montreal West, range of houses. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Holton & Hunkel 

 Co., 462 Milwaukee street, range of 

 houses. 



Princeton, III. — W. E. Trimble Green- 

 house Co., 614 South Main street, four 

 houses. 



Montgomery, Ala. — Rosemont Gar- 

 dens, W. B. Paterson, proprietor, range 

 of houses. 



Lancaster, Pa. — Julius P. Siebold, 

 924 East Orange street, one house. 

 Rudolph Nagel, West End avenue, 

 house 12x100. 



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