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HORTICULTURE 



February 28, 1920 



CAROLINA HEMLOCK 



(TSUGA CAROLINIANA) 

 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND RARE AMERICAN EVERGREEN 



Specimens may be seen at Arnold Arboretum, where one may compare it with hundreds of other varie- 

 ties of Evergreens. 



Hardier and more adaptable to trying eity conditions than the common or Canadian Hemlock. 



Dense, dark foliage and sweeping semi-pendulous branches with pyramidal form combine to give a 

 charm not found in any other known Evergreen. 



SPECIAL: A limited number of Grand specimens, 16 to 20 feet high for Immediate effect at my High- 

 lands Nursery (3,700 ft. elevation in the Carolina Mountains). Prices on request. 



A fine stock of smaller specimens from 1 foot up at my Boxford Nursery. Catalogs. 



NARLIN P. KELSEY 



Hardy American Plants 



SALEM MASS. 



less, but with well-grown plants going 

 at $1.00 to $1.50 wholesale this year, 

 this can be called one of the paying 

 crops, and it is certainly a pleasing 

 plant to handle. 



The wide range of colors is an added 

 attraction to the retail store, and when 

 properly taken care of Cineraria is in 

 general a satisfactory house plant. 

 True it does not last indefinitely, but 

 the buying public has learned that to 

 buy a plant does not mean that it will 

 last forever. A well-grown Cineraria 

 will outlast a bouquet of cut flowers, 

 and the same money Invested in one of 

 these will certainly give every bit as 

 much pleasure. 



The important points tor the grower 

 to bear in mind when marketing 

 Cineraria plants are first, to grow 

 them cool so that they will not be too 

 soft, and second, sell them before all 

 of the buds are opened. Have enough 

 of the blooms developed to make them 

 attractive, but be sure to have enough 

 buds so that they will last for a while 

 and give the retail buyer the pleasure 

 of watching them develop. 



Last but not least, be sure to keep 

 them clear of green fly. Cineraria is 

 a favorite food for the green fly. Fre- 

 quent fumigation is necessary, but as 

 satisfactory a way as any to keep down 

 green fly is to have the pots standing 

 on tobacco stems: then this trouble 

 will be decidedly lessened. 



duction will run ahead of the old-time 

 calla which has been commonly grown 

 for so many years past. 



Recently I heard several of my 

 Western friends say that they did not 

 take kindly to the Godfrey calla be- 

 cause the blooms were not large 

 enough. This criticism is not made in 

 the East. Possibly there are two rea- 

 sons: I believe that the Eastern 

 growers have succeeded in getting a 

 good-sized bloom, and secondly, I don't 

 think the market in the East is so 

 particular about the very large flow- 

 ers. Now if the Western markets 

 want these large blooms, it will pay 

 to try growing the Godfrey calla in 

 the way Mr. Wheeler has done it. I 

 will venture to predict that the pro- 



Mr. Carl Engelman, the famous 

 English carnation grower, has re- 

 turned home after a prolonged trip 

 through South America and United 

 States. He made an excellent impres- 

 sion upon members of the trade with 

 whom he came in contact, and at the 

 Chicago Carnation Convention showed 

 his skill in arranging flowers. It is 

 understood that he made a number of 

 purchases while here. It is under- 

 stood that Baur & Steinkamp, of In- 

 dianapolis, have already shipped a 

 consignment of carnation cuttings to 

 Mr. Engelman's establishment, at 

 Saffon Walden and it is to be im- 

 agined that they include Ruth Baur. 

 Mr. Engelman is also said to have 

 taken along with him a considerable 

 number of cuttings from another 

 source, as a part of his personal bag- 

 gage. 



quarters of the Boston Floral Supply 

 Co. on Ai .h street. The members of 

 the B. A. Snyder Co. had developed an 

 extensive trade in cut flowers and of 

 course this trade will go with the com- 

 bined organization. 



IMPORTANT CONSOLIDATION. 



The B. A. Snyder Co. Goes in With the 

 Boston Floral Supply Co. 



The trade will be very much inter- 

 ested in the announcement just now 

 going out of a consolidation of the 

 Boston Floral Supply Co. and the B. 

 A. Snyder Co. of Boston. The new ar- 

 rangement goes into effect March 1st, 

 at which time the store operated by 

 the B. A. Snyder Co. will be closed. 

 Hereafter all business will be trans- 

 acted from the store of the Boston 

 Floral Supply Co. on Arch street, with 

 Albert Strump remaining in charge. 



Wlien Mr. Samuel Robinson, who is 

 the head of the Boston Floral Supply 

 Co., was asked about the new arrange- 

 ment, he said it was made in order to 

 reduce expenses and also to enable his 

 concern to give the trade better serv- 

 ice. Hereafter a much larger business 

 in cut flowers will be done at the head- 



CORN BORER HEARING. 

 An Important Session Held at Wash- 

 ington, Tuesday. 



A very largely attended and impor- 

 tant hearing on the European corn 

 borer situation was given by the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board at Washing- 

 ton last Tuesday. The Massachusetts 

 delegation, the personnel of which 

 was given in last week's Horticvltuke 

 headed by Commissioner Gilbert, met 

 the night before with representa- 

 tives of New Hampshire, New York 

 and Pennsylvania, and agreed upon a 

 program of action. The hearing was 

 attended by a number of western peo- 

 ple who had become alarmed at the 

 spread of the borer, but after a gen- 

 eral discussion everybody seemed of 

 the unanimous opinion that the best 

 way to handle the pest was to have 

 the present local quarantines retained 

 and to make careful inspection of all 

 market gardens or other estalslish- 

 ments from which suspected crops 

 might be shipped. It is believed that 

 this will be the decision of the Horti- 

 cultural Board and that no general 

 quarantine of states will he made. Ap- 

 parently the florists will not suffer 

 badly from the new arrangement. .\n 

 emphasis is being placed on the state- 

 ment that there really is no grounds 

 for the fear which has arisen through- 

 out the West. 



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It would keep your name and your 

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