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HORTICULTUEB 



April 4, 1914 



A PROSPEROUS PLANT GROWING 

 ESTABLISHMENT. 



Prosperity in a plant establishment 

 is indicated in two ways — quantity and 

 quality of stock and sales. A. M. 

 Davenport of Watertown, Mass., can 

 therefore be safely pronounced pros- 

 perous, for he has both quantity and 

 quality, yet has nothing more to offer 

 for Easter, being all sold out already. 

 Lilies, Ramblers, Azaleas — everything 

 bearing a flower — are ordered up to 

 the limit. Preparations are being 

 made for a very busy May. June and 

 July. 100,000 Asplenium Nidus-Avis in 

 all small sizes and some 2,000 seed 

 pans with counless young fern spores 

 germinating are a feature of this place 

 which makes the visitor open his eyes 

 very wide. Among bedding plants 

 here Begonia Chatelaine stands out 

 temptingly. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



New York — Robert Pyle, West Grove. 

 Pa.; M. Samtman, Chestnut Hill. Pa.; 

 Vernon T. Sherwood. Charlestown, N. 

 H.; Allan Jenkins, Lenox, Mass.; 

 Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass.; Frank 

 Edgar, Waverley, Mass.; R. E. Loeben. 

 Gloversville, N. Y.; F. Menkes, Water- 

 .vliet, N. Y.; M. A. Patten, Tewks- 

 bury, Mass.; George E. Fisher, New 

 London, Conn.; Mrs. Frank Floto, 

 Waterbury, Conn.; Oliver Lines, John 

 White, Pittsfield, Mass.; Henry Penn, 

 Peter Miller, H. R. Comley, Boston, 

 Mass.; W. F. McCord, Tarrytown, N. 

 Y.; C. B. Ogston, Rochester, N. Y.; 

 A. A. Pembroke, Beverly, Mass.; David 

 Fairchild, Washington, D. C; Mr. and 

 Mrs. R. Vincent, Jr.. Whitemarsh, 

 Md.; John Wolff, Savannah, Ga.; Prof. 

 E. A. White, Prof. A. C. Beal, Ithaca, 

 N. Y.; Wm. Bate, Cleveland, 0.; Sid- 

 ney Bayersdorfer, Geo. E. Fancourt, 

 Louis Burk, I. Rosnosky, George Bur- 

 ton, Philadelphia; B. H. B^arr, Wissin- 

 oming, Pa.; J. R. GruUemanns, Jr., 

 Lisse, Holland; R. E. Jones, Rich- 

 mond, Ind.; Wm. Kleinheinz, Ogontz, 

 Pa.; A. H. Lange, Worcester, Mass.: 

 Fred Lautenschlager. Chicago, 111.; F. 

 A. Danker. Albany, N. Y. All the 

 foregoing in attendance at the Flower 

 Show in addition to the list of names 

 we published last week. 



Boston — T. J. Gibson, Newport, R. 

 I.; G. A. Dennison. San Francisco, 

 Cal.; L. W. C. Tuthill, New York; J. 

 J. Karins, representing, H. A. Dreer 

 Phila.; L. J. Reutei, Westerly, R. I.; 

 Herman C. Stache. Manchester, N. H.; 

 William Currie, Milwaukee, Wis.; A. F. 

 Faulkner, New York, N. Y. 



Philadelphia — John Wolft, Savannah, 

 Ga.; D. C. Horgan, Macon, Ga.; S. Mc- 

 Clements, Pittsburgh, Pa.; A. F. J. 

 Baur, Indianapolis. Ind.; Mr. Conrad, 

 mgr. Dorrance Greenhouses, Wllkes- 

 barre. Pa.; M. Henry Lynch, and Ed- 

 ward Parker of Dingee & Conard Co., 

 West Grove, Pa. 



Chicago — J. J. Hess, Omaha, Neb.; 

 Miss Drake, Kenosha, Wis.; R. P. At- 

 well. Fort Dodge, la.; E. H. Cush- 

 man, Sylvania, 0.; J. M. Hoffman, La 

 Porte, Ind.; Jas. Aldons, Jr., Iowa 

 City, Xa.; J. Dilloff representing 

 Schloss Bros., N. Y. 



Nurseries of the National Farm School 



The accompanying pictures give a 

 glimpse of the well-equipped nurseries 

 of the National Farm School, located 

 at Doylestown, Pa. — an institution 

 devoted to the instruction of Jewish 

 boys in agriculture and horticulture, 

 and which has been doing splendid 



work for the past ten or fifteen years 

 under the able guidance of Professor 

 John H. Washburn. The horticultural 

 department is looked after by Walter 

 F. Fancourt, a practical gardener, flor- 

 ist and nurseryman of wide experience 

 and training — scientifically, commer- 

 cially and every other way. 



STATISTICS OF ORNAMENTAL 

 PLANTS REQUESTED. 



In the study of ornamental plants 

 being conducted by the Department of 

 Agriculture, as much information as 

 possible is desired as to the actual be- 

 havior of plants in different localities. 

 With this in view, a form tor the re- 

 cording of the desired information has 

 been prepared, which will be supplied 

 to anyone signifying a willingness to 

 co-operate in the work. The informa- 



tion asked for covers the time of open- 

 ing and dropping of leaves and flowers 

 and coloring and dropping of the fruit 

 when there are any. 



Those willing to report information 

 of this character will please write to 

 F. L. Mulford, Landscape Gardener, 

 Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



We hope Mr. Mulford will be favor- 

 ed with the most helpful co-operation 

 by all those of our readers who are in 

 a position to assist in this work. 



The l.liiiiks, whic-h .Mr. Mulford will be pleased to supply to .nil who apply, are .is 



SPECIES 



VARIETY 



I'lare of ohservation 



; beginning to color 



; blossoms fallen 

 ; beginning to drop 



LEAVES. — Date of leaf Imds bursting : fully opening 



beginning to fall ; all fallen 



FLOWERS.— Dates of first blooui ; full bloom 



FRt ITS. — Dates of beginning to color ; fully colored 



liuislied dropping 



Last spring frost : first fall frost 



Color of flowers ; color of fruit 



SOIL.— Fine, coarse, ligbt, heavy, sand, loam, clay; very, moderately dry, moist, wet, 

 waterlogged, marshy, stream, lake, at an elevation of about feet abore 



sea level, protected by , exposed to 



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