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HORTICULTURE 



June 6. 1914 



RHODODENDRON (AZALEA) 

 VASEYI. 



This beautiful early-blooming Amer- 

 ican azalea has passed through the ex- 

 ceptionally severe winter unscathed 

 and made a lovely show along the 

 RIverway and the shores of Jamaica 

 Pond in the Boston park system when- 

 it was abundantly planted by the late 

 Mr, Pettigrew. While the flower buds 

 of the Kaempferi and other deciduous 

 rhododendrons have this spring been 

 very generally blighted. Vaseyl shows 

 up without a scar. The view shown 

 in our cover illustration w-as taken on 

 the Riverway, overlooking Ward's 



pond. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Ann Arbor, Mich. — Ann Arbor Green- 

 house Co.. capital stock, $25,000. 



San Francisco, Cal. — Western Ever- 

 green Company. Inc.. nursery and 

 floral business. Capital stock. $10,000. 



Dover, Del. — Greenhouse Garden 

 Products Co.. capital stock. $50,000. 

 Incorporators. W. I. N. Lofland. W. F. 

 P. Lofland. William Boyd. 



PANSIES AT KENILWORTH. 



PERSONAL. 



L. H. Read has been appointed post- 

 master of Deer Park, Ala. 



Bernard Greeley, lately gardener for 

 Gen. Miller. Franklin, Pa., has ac- 

 cepted the position of head gardener 

 for Mr. J. W. McCahan, Moorestown, 

 N. J. 



One of the prime attractions of Ken- 

 i'worth. N. J., is the pansy farm of 

 Charles Frost, whose name is well- 

 known to Hoktkulture's readers 

 as an advertiser of choice pansy seed 

 each season. Mr. Frost had been long 



A FINE TULIP DISPLAY. 



Those of our readers who attended 

 the S. A. F. Convention at Minneapolis 

 will recognize in the accompanying 

 picture the site of the Convention Gar- 

 den. So pleased were the Minneapolis 

 people with that feature of the florists' 

 visit that it was decided to adorn the 

 grounds permanently as a show piace 

 and this spring's Initial display is 

 shown in the picture. The long bed 



at the left is planted with White Hawk 

 and Artus tulips: at the right is La 

 Reine and in the oval bed is Yellow 

 Prince. No .finer beds of tulips can 

 be imagined and in this unfavorable 

 season when so much complaint of 

 poor flowering of tulips is rife it must 

 be exceedingly gratifying to A. T. Bod- 

 dington who supplied the bulbs, to see 

 how excellent in quality his bulbs are 

 here shown to be. 



I More Red Devil Cutters Used Annually Than All Others Combined 



I SMITH « HEMENWAY CO.. 



Send So. t*r •unpts N«. OM 

 and Booklet 4* itylM, and 

 nnderitand why. 

 SEND FOB BOOKLET AMT- 

 HOW. 



l«I CHAMBERS ST.. NEW TOBK 



established as a truck farmer when a 

 few years ago his interest was divert- 

 ed to pansy culture, since which time 

 his attention has been given entirely 

 to this work, purchasing distinct and 

 desirable new varieties whenever they 

 appeared abroad and, by careful se- 

 lection and breeding, aiming to pro- 

 duce reliable strains in the various 

 show and bedding classes. 



The place occupies about flve acres, 

 the greater part of which is devoted to 

 the pansies, which are planted in long 

 beds of separate colors, forms and 

 markings, some of the more valuable 

 being isolated as much as possible 

 with a view to insuring immunity from 

 disturbing pollen. A list of the classes 

 segregated would make a long cata- 

 iiiKue. There are Kenilworth Giant, 

 Kenilworth Show, Kenilworth Cut 

 Flower Mixture. Masterpiece, Princess, 

 Orchid Flowered. Madam Perret, Giant 

 Zebra, Adonis, Pres. McKinley, Psyche, 

 Rainbow, etc., and a legion of self- 

 colors, five blotched, silver-edged and 

 f;cld edged, the bronzes, oranges and 

 red shades beiiig especially numerous 

 and attractive. Mr. Frost is doing a 

 good service for the pansy industry 

 and doing it thoroughly and conscien- 

 tiously. 



PUBLICATION RECEIVED. 



We have just received from The 

 Cornell University. Bulletin No. 342 

 upon sweet peas. This is the most 

 ambitious monograph to our knowl- 

 edge upon the sweet pea. containing a 

 list and description of nearly 700 vari- 

 eties. This will be sent by Secretary 

 Bunyard to all members in good stand- 

 ing. It contains about 150 pages, also 

 much valuable information apart from 

 the descriptions and history of the 

 different sweet peas above mentioned. 

 There are many full page portraits of 

 special varieties and a complete index 

 gives added value to this indispensable 

 publication in which Prof. Beal has 

 done much painstaking work. 



Hillsdale, N. J. — In the violent storm 

 of May 27. the corner of Charles Fol- 

 lette's greenhouses was carried away 

 by the wind. 



