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HORTICULTURE 



April 4, 1914 



FOREST PRODUCTS EXPOSITION. 



An important undertaking and one 

 •entirely new in connection with ttie 

 wood industry of America is tlie es- 

 tablishing of an annual show in the 

 Grand Central Palace, New York, 

 called the Forest Products Exposition. 

 It will be held from May 21 to May 

 30, inclusive, and it will be an en- 

 largement of the pioneer exposition on 

 these lines in the Chicago Coliseum, 

 from April 30 to May 9. 



A special appropriation of $10,000 

 has been favorably ■ acted on by Con- 

 gress and the Senate for the exhibit 

 of forest service, which will be avail- 

 able for the two shows. The scope of 

 the New York Exposition will be edu- 

 cational, yet entertaining, and on 

 somewhat different ideas from the Chi- 

 cago show. The great forests which 

 are being guarded by the Government 

 Forest Service are nearer by many 

 miles to Chicago than to New York, 

 which is the reason that the Grand 

 Central Palace exposition has been 

 framed on more popular lines. 



The decorative scheme at the Grand 

 Central Palace will be appropriate and 

 extensive, including growing boxwood 

 hedges as dividing rails on the aisles; 

 natural and artificial branches, leaves, 

 bark and trees, to carry out the forest 

 atmosphere, while the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association and 

 many affiliated organizations will have 

 typical and picturesque displays. 



Forest preservation is the lesson to 

 be taught by the show, and it will be 

 made enduring by hundreds of exhibits 

 to reveal the value of the timbered 

 stretches in natural irrigation, espe- 

 cially in serving as the sources, or 

 fountam heads, of streams and rivers, 

 and of the vast industrial uses of 

 wood and wood products, especially 

 the ground and chemical fiber pro- 

 ducts. 



The Northern Hemlock and Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, the 

 Lumbermen's Association of New 

 York, the Michigan Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers Association, the Merchants 

 and Manufacturers Exchange of New 

 York and other organizations repre- 

 senting an investment of millions of 

 dollars will have exhibits. The Red- 

 wood Mill Owners Association of Cali- 

 fornia in its exhibit will include a 

 bungalow of two rooms, the exterior 

 of redwood boards from a house and 

 barn built at Fortuna, Cal., in 1853, 

 while the interior will be trimmed in 

 finished redwood, one detail being a 

 ' redwood table seventy-two inches in 

 length, made from a single board. 

 The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers Association and the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers As- 

 sociation have combined in the exhibit 

 of a bungalow that is unique in the 

 rarity and variety of the woods used 

 in its construction. The exterior will 

 be bass wood, with Northern white 

 cedar shingles; the living room will 

 be trimmed in elm, with red birch 

 flooring; the dining-room in birch. 



Obituary 



William Dawkins. 

 William Dawkins, well known as an 

 expert gardener, died on Sunday, Mar. 

 29, of general debility, at the age of 76 

 years. Mr. Dawkins was born in Tot- 

 tenham, London, England. He came 

 to Canada with the 30th Foot Infantry 

 at the time of the Trent affair. After 

 leaving the army he worked in Can- 

 ada in a hardware house. Came to 

 Philadelphia in 1870 and started as a 

 florist at 40th and Walnut streets, 

 where his old greenhouse still stands. 

 From there to England and back to 

 Boston, where he worked first for An- 

 thony McLaren and after a short time 

 in business for himself went to the 

 Bussey Institution under Jackson Daw- 

 son, afterwards becoming Mr. Daw- 

 son's assistant in the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum for about 21 or 22 y^ars. After 

 another trip to England and back, he 

 returned again to take charge of the 

 Van Brunt estate at Readville, Mass., 



known grower of Eggerstsville, N. Y. 

 Mr. Christensen was taken to the hos- 

 pital on Monday, March 23 and passed 

 away on Saturday afternoon. The 

 Buffalo Florists' Club and local florists 

 generally attended the funeral on Mon- 

 day, March 30. at the home of his son 

 in Eggerstsville. 



Walliam Dawkixs. 



where he remained some fifteen years. 

 His health failing, he went to Van- 

 couver for a few months, returning 

 discouraged to Boston last October. 

 Mr. Dawkins was a very close friend 

 of Jackson Dawson, wlio has nothing 

 but appreciative words for his loyalty, 

 industry and skill. 



J. H. Jones. 



J. H. Jones a well-known figure in 

 the farm implement business of Phila- 

 delphia, was accidentally killed on 

 Market St., near 15th on the 28th of 

 March. Mr. Jones was in his 89th 

 year and was to a certain extent 

 known in the seed business— as he 

 ran a line of farm seeds with his main 

 stock of implements and machinery. 

 For many years the business was in 

 his own name. It has been run for a 

 number of years as the Farmers' Sup- 

 ply Co. 



Charles Christensen. 



We learn with regret of the sudden 

 death of Charles Christensen, the well- 



Mrs. Wallace Payne. 



Mrs. Wallace Payne, wife of the 

 well known Girardville, Pa., florist, 

 died on Saturday evening following 

 childbirth. She was 32 years of age 

 and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thom- 

 as Taylor, of Girardville. Her hus- 

 band and several children survive her. 



BRITISH HORTICULTURE. 



At the annual show of bulb blooms, 

 held by the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety in London, on March 10th, the 

 gold medal of the General Bulb Grow- 

 ers' Association, Haarlem, was award- 

 ed to the Duke of Bedford. R. and G- 

 Cuthbert, Southgate, received the gold 

 medal of the Association in the trade 

 section, for an excellent display of 

 hyacinths. The varieties included: 

 Jacques, City of Haarlem. Lord Derby, 

 Queen of the Blues, Lord Balfour, etc. 



Bacterial Treatment of Peat. 

 Some further details of experiments 

 made in the bacterial treatment of 

 peat was recently given by Professor 

 Bottomley at a meeting of the Royal 

 Society of Arts, in London. Recent 

 results indicated, the Professor stated, 

 the probability of the presence of an- 

 other factor, besides that due to nitro- 

 gen fixation and the manurial effect, 

 in an experiment at Kew Gardens with 

 richardias, potted up in heavily ma- 

 nured soil, Mr. Watson found that a 

 top dressing of about half an ounce of 

 peat to a 10-inch pot doubled the 

 weight of the treated plant in a 

 month's time. Dr. Rosenheim, of 

 Iving's College, had obtained equally 

 striking results with Primula mala- 

 coides by treating twice only with the 

 extract of a hundred and fiftieth of an 

 ounce of bacterised peat. Such effects 

 could not be due to the small amount 

 of direct food material present in the 

 peat or its extract added to the soil, 

 and it was realized that in the pre- 

 pared peat there was something which 

 had the effect of stimulating and pro- 

 moting growth in an extraordinary 

 manner. Numerous experiments now 

 in progress indicated that this some- 

 thing was probably similar in nature. 

 as Dr. Rosenheim suggested, to the 

 accessory food bodies recently found 

 to play such an important part in ani- 

 mal growth and nutrition. There 

 might be something of this sort in the 

 peat enabling the plant to grow ac- 

 tively and to assimilate the food pres- 

 ent. This seemed to be so, because 

 of the way in which the peat stimu- 

 lated the growth of the plant even in 

 heavily manured soil. 



W. H. Adsett. 



ROBERT CRAIG CO. 



RO»E», PALMS. 



and Novelties in Decorative Plants. 



MARKET and 49th STREETS, PHIltDE'.PHIA, PA. 



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