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HORTICULTURE 



April 24, 1920 



GERANIUMS 



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Shipped in mixed lots only and include varieties 



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I I RFIITFR rO ^'""' 15 Cedar St., WATERTOWN STA. 

 J-i- O. I^^MLtKJ I MLiIK \^\J» Brokers boston, mass. 



Short P. O. Address: L. J. Reuter Co., Boston 72, Mass. 



THE AMERICAN DAHLIA SOCIETY 

 TRIAL GARDEN. 



The trial garden o£ the American 

 Dahlia Society will be conducted at 

 the Connecticut Agricultural College, 

 Storrs, Conn., in charge of Professor 

 George W. Fraser again this season. 



Dahlias will be entered by the raiser 

 or introducer and the tubers may be 

 sent by mail to Storrs, Conn., or by ex- 

 pres.s to Williamantic, Conn., prepaid, 

 until June 1. Plants up to June 25. 

 The clumps will be returned at the 

 end of the season If desired. Tubers 

 and plants will be property planted 

 and taken care of throughout the sea- 

 son. The name of the raiser and in- 

 irodueer posted on the stake. 



Many \'isitors from New York, Bos- 

 ton, and other points were at the gar- 

 den last year making notes, and the 

 attendance this year will probably be 

 larger than ever. 



A charge of |1 is made for each 

 "variety entered. Not more than three 

 tubers or plants of any one variety 

 can be accepted. Flowers scoring 85 

 will be awarded the Society's certifi- 

 cate of merit, and the flowers ex- 

 hibited at the Annual Dahlia Show of 

 the Society. 



All correspondence in reference to 

 the trial garden should be addressed 

 to Professor George W. Fraser. Storrs, 

 Conn. 



Barnard S. Myers, manager of the 

 W. J. Palmer & Son greenhouses at 

 Lancaster, N. Y., recently bought a 

 greenhouse plant at Dansville and ex- 

 pected to go there. He had intended 

 to go there, but has been induced to 

 remain with the Palmer Co. The 

 Dansville house will therefore be con- 

 ducted by Mr. Myers' son, Leo. A. 

 Myers, and the firm will be Iniown as 

 ^tie B. S. Myers Floral Co. 



NEW YORK FLORISTS CLUB. 

 President A. M. Henshaw has ap- 

 pointed C. H. Totty, W. H. Duckham. 

 W. R. Pierson, A. L. Miller, Max 

 Schling, F. H. Traendly, John Young. 

 A. M. Henshaw as the Flower Show 

 Committee. This committee will co- 

 operate with a similar committee ap- 

 I)ointed by the Horticultural Society 

 of New York and when this joint com- 

 mittee is organized will have full 

 power to arrange for the Eighth In- 

 ternational Flower Show to be held in 

 the spring of 1921 and to carry out all 

 details in connection with same. 



John Young, Sec. 



BOSTON. 



Thomas F. Galvin, who has been se- 

 riously ill, is now on the high road to 

 recovery. He was operated on at the 

 Desprisey hospital in Brookline. Prob- 

 ably he will spend a few weeks at the 

 seashore before resuming business. 



The Boston Transcript publishes a 

 very pleasant notice about Wax Bros 

 in connection with their new location. 

 It reads as follows: 



"Wax Brothers, the florists, have 

 taken a long lease of the entire build- 

 ing at 44 and 46 Temple place, to 

 which they moved on March 1. Wax 

 Brothers were formerly at 143 Trem- 

 ont street. They started in the florist 

 business thirty years ago at 20^^ Tem- 

 ple place, known at that time as 'The 

 Hole in the Wall." where they had a 

 space of 200 square feet. Business in- 

 creased and in 1895 they were forced 

 to move into larger quarters, occupy- 

 ing 600 square feet at 143 Tremont 

 street. From there they moved to 

 their present location, 44 Temple place, 

 now occupying 2,000 square feet of 

 floor space. 



PERFUME IN PEONIES. 



I think that some of the peony spe- 

 cialists are paying increased attention 

 to the question of perfume in their 

 favorite flowers, and I know that 

 dahlia growers have often talked about 

 the desirability of getting dahlias if 

 possible which have a pleasant odor. 

 In looking through the novel cata- 

 logue issued by Julius Roehrs Co., of 

 Rutherford, N. J., under the title of 

 The Ten-Ten, that ten annuals have 

 been selected especially for fragrance. 

 The list recommended includes Helio- 

 trope. Mignonette, Stocks, Sand Ver- 

 bena, annual Wallflower, Sweet Sul- 

 tan, Evening Primrose, Cleome and 

 Nicotiana. I am sure that many ama- 

 teurs will be glad of a list of this 

 character, although I seriously ques- 

 tion the advisability of including Cle- 

 ome. the giant Spiderplant. I con- 

 sider this an excellent subject for 

 garden use, especially for filling va- 

 cancies in hardy borders, but I have 

 never considered its perfume at all 

 pleasant. On the contrary, it has 

 seemed at times rather objectionable, 

 although it is not pungent enough to 

 be noticeable far from the flowers. 

 The old-fashioned lemon verbena is an 

 excellent plant not only for amateur 

 but also for commercial growers. I 

 know of one woman raising flowers for 

 market who often includes the foliage 

 in bouquets with very satisfactory re- 

 sults. 



Although doubtfully hardy in the 

 very north, Deutzia gracilis has come 

 to be an exceedingly popular shrub in 

 the United States: but the comments 

 on its handling made by a writer in 

 Gardening Illustrated might well be 

 taken to heart here. The writer says 

 that he has seldom found this Deutzia 

 pruned in the right way, usually being 

 dealt with too severely. E. F. 



