

HORTICULTURE 



August 12, 1911 



Nut growing is becoming quite an interesting feature 



me sections of the State. Fine pecans, English wal- 



almondSj many varieties of hickory, black and 



while walnuts, Spanish and Italian chestnuts, etc. The 



mite do wi 1! and come into quick beai i rafted 



on tli' chestnut trees, More tomatoes are grown 



in Maryland than in any other State. 



BA1 riMtUM.'s BOSPITALITT 



BaJ -i hospitable city as has been experi- 



enced i*\ members of the craft who have bad opportun- 

 ity to visit their fellow florists and nurserymen there. 

 The Americas Carnation Society met in Baltimore in 

 190] and the methodical well-trained manner in which 

 all the details of business and entertainment were car- 

 oul h as a surprise to the visitors. 



On two occasions previously has Baltimore made an 

 i effort to induce the S. A. !•'. to hold its conven- 

 tion there but in each instance failed to land the prize. 

 In 1891 at Toronto. Washington and Baltimore were 

 keen rivals for the 1892 convention and Washington 

 won. In 1902, when Baltimore tried again. Milwaukee 

 vanquished her. Yet when the Society met for the sec- 

 ond time in Washington, in 1905, Baltimore's public 

 spirit and large-hearted generosity overcame all thought 

 of former disappointments and although the city was 

 only beginning to recover from the appalling devasta- 

 tion of the gnat tire, Baltimore asked for and was 

 granted by Washington the privilege of assisting in the 

 entertainment of the visitors on one afternoon specially 

 set apart for that purpose. How well the affair waa 

 carried out those who were fortunate enough to partici- 

 pate in that drive through the city and sail on the bay 

 will never Eorget. And now after twenty years of 

 patient waiting the Monumental City has attained her 

 ambition and the National Society is to meet within her 

 hospitable gates. 



In the '"Traveling Keeollections," by Thomas Meehan 

 in the Gardeners' Monthly for October, 1874, appears 

 the following characteristic attestation to the old-time 

 Baltimoreans' approval of the adage that "All work and 

 no play makes Jack a dull boy:" 



"Baltimore florists seem to have a better time of it 

 than most of their brethren. The writer of these sketches 

 made a number of calls, but this one was gone fishing, 

 another was on a picnic down the river, and others 'were 

 gone to New York,' to Boston,' to Philadelphia,' and 

 various other places of which we have some recollections 

 of having heard. We were, however, kindly permitted to 

 run through the establishments by those in charge. It 

 was pleasant to note that they were all generally prosper- 

 ous, though they might probably be more so if they were 

 all more alive to modern Improvements." 



HALTIMOliE S TAKES 



Baltimore has a number of splendid parks, of which 

 I 'raid Hill is the principal and the most famous. Thom- 

 a Median, in the article from which the foregoing quo- 

 tation was made, has this to say of Druid Hill Park: 



"Druid Hill Park is sure to be found 'at home,' though 

 all other attractions are away. The best time to see this 

 is towards evening, when the lights and shadows rapidly 

 change away. The land is so rolling and so beautifully 

 wooded, that this play of the shadows is particularly 

 effective. Like most parks of any extent in American cit- 

 ies, ibis one is in connection with the city water works, 

 which gives it the advantage of large sheets of water in 

 the extensive reservoirs around which the most striking 

 drives are led." 



"The park is one of that style called natural, and of 

 which people often boast that it is ready made from the 

 hand of nature, needing nothing but a few roads and walks 

 to make it a perfect specimen of landscape gardening. To 

 be sure these places are oftener greater credits to the gar- 

 dener's art, little though he may do in these cases to de- 

 serve credit, than many places wholly made. The defect 

 in these natural parks is chiefly in the great sameness they 

 present. A drive through a hundred acres is usually as 

 good as if through a thousand. Hearing so much praise of 

 the Druid Hill Park as one requiring no aid from the land- 

 scape gardener, we were prepared to expect much of the 

 usual monotony. It is a pleasure to say, however, that cir- 

 cumsiances have favored a great variety of scenes and 

 peculiar features. The landscape gardener seems to have 

 caught the spirit of change which the natural features 

 present, and we think it more than likely that for a 'nat- 

 ural park,' Druid Hill will be made in time one of the best 

 in the world." 



LOOKING BACK 



There is much that is historically interesting in Balti- 

 more, but that part we shall not touch upon here other 

 than to say that the subject of our cover illustration is 

 one of the most notable objects in the city — the Wash- 

 ington monument, 163 feet in height, built entirely of 

 marble and the first monument erected to the memory 

 of Washington. As showing the progress made by Bal- 

 timore, in common with other American cities during 

 the past sixty years, the following notes which we have 

 copied from the Universal Gazeteer published in Boston 

 in 1853, will no doubt interest our readers: 



"The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad extends from the 

 city to the Ohio River at Pittsburg, 300 miles. Many cars 

 are already in operation upon the railroad. Some of them 

 are drawn by horse power, some driven by steam and some 

 by wind. The cars with sails go sometimes 25 miles an 

 hour and can lie within 4 points of the wind. The whole 

 distance from Baltimore to Pittsburg, when completed, will 

 be traveled, according to estimation, by horse power in 30 

 hours, and by steam in 20. Baltimore has S0.625 in- 

 nts." 



