May 29, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



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George Watson's 

 Corner 



"Yuu In your Mnnll ciinicr ulitl me 

 ill iiijiif." 



Rose lovers these days will he in- 

 terested in the following extract: 



"The rose the Queen of Flowers, 

 while we can grow anil bloom it in 

 perfection, yet so tar we have not been 

 able to compete with Europe in the 

 raising of new varieties. The possibili- 

 ties here are very great. We are ex- 

 pecting great things from some of the 

 more favored states of the South 

 where the seedling plants can be treat- 

 ed to an all the year round outdoor 

 treatment and also from Queen Rose's 

 Paradise. California, where some sys- 

 tematic operations are now in prog- 

 ress with the object in view of improv- 

 ing the rose for American horticul- 

 ture." 



That was said to the flower men of 

 Boston over a quarter of a century ago 

 —to be exact, on January 8. 18;"4 — by 

 the late Edwin Lonsdale of Philadel- 

 phia and in the light of the present 

 day we will all agree that he was a 

 true prophet. Indiana has given us 

 Columbia and Premier and other good 

 things, Maryland has done well, and as 

 for California who among us but en- 

 thuses over the glorious I>o.s Angeles, 

 to mention but one of many. If our 

 well-beloved brother Ed. were alive to- 

 day, wouldn't he wave his hat over it. 

 But we must not forget that Massachu- 

 setts has also done well with such fine 

 varieties as Russell and Hadley and 

 others. So it would seem that there 

 are possibilities in other localities, be- 

 sides the South and California. So let 

 all take heart and keep on with the 

 good work. 



Robert Buist, an old time Philadel- 

 phia florist, who among other notable 

 things introduced to the world tne 

 Poinsettia, if he came back would 

 hardly realize how the world has 

 changed, since he ran his nursery in 

 what was open country 50 years ago. 

 But his name still lives, as the live 

 and hustling seed store at Front and 

 Market street testifies— with its six 

 deep at the counter these spring days 

 —and the boys playing ball in the 

 Buist Athletic Field on the old Buist 

 homestead at 68th and Buist avenue. 



will bloom from present appearance on 

 the 20th, which puts the season in 

 this neighborhood about eight to ten 

 days late. Other things are in about 

 the same proportion and the Hugonis 

 is only a concrete example of the gen- 

 eral situation. 



THE JUNE PEONY SHOW. 



Plans Are Being Perfected for the Ex- 

 hibit at Reading, Pa. 

 With regard to the coming Peony 

 Show to be held at the Berkshire 

 Hotel, Reading, Pa., on June 10-11, the 

 following information from Mr. B. H. 

 Farr will hi» of interest to intending 

 exhibitors and to visitors generally: 



"As hotels are and will continue to 

 be very much crowded, it is of vital 

 importance that visitors who contem- 

 plate staying over night should make 

 reservations at the Berkshire Hotel in 

 advance. I have already received 

 some notices of reservations to be 

 made, and shall be very glad to attend 

 to this personally for anyone who 

 wishes, or they can address directly 

 Mr. Peter Kline, proprietor of the 

 Berkshire Hotel. The rates for rooms 

 are from $2.50 up. 



"In the second place, flowers for ex- 

 hibition from a distance can be sent in 

 my care, addressed B. H. Farr. Ameri- 

 can Poeny Society, Berkshire Hotel. 

 Reading, Pa. Exhibitors whose blooms 

 open in advance of the date of the 

 show, can send them here five to ten 

 days before the show, and we will 

 place them in cold storage, which can 

 be done at the nominal charge of 25 

 cents a package of any size or length 

 of time. That is the way I have had to 

 handle most of the flowers I have sent 

 to previous exhibitions. Our storage 

 plant here is dry storage and an ex- 

 ceptionally good one. and flowers will 

 keep in perfect condition for some 

 time. 



"It is very necessary that intending 

 exhibitors should notify us in advance 

 of the classes in which they expect to 

 enter. Such notice may Ije sent to me 

 or, to save time, directly to Mr. David 

 Rust, Secretary of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society. Finance Build- 

 ing. Philadelphia, Pa." 



Rosa Hugonis bloomed last year in 

 the S. S. Pennock rose garden at 

 Lansdowne, Pa., May 11. This year it 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY 

 The rose garden days planned this 

 year by the American Rose Society 

 promise to bring rosarians of the dif- 

 ferent sections of the United States 

 together for "feasts of beauty." The 

 Washington. D. C. Rose Test Garden 

 Day will be the first of the season 

 On Wednesday, Jime 2nd, the Society 

 will hold an all day session In Wash- 



ington, visiting the rose test garden. 

 Mrs Bell's garden at Twin Oaks. 

 tlie site of a National Rose Show 

 Garden on the banks of the Potomac 

 will be dedicated in the afternoon. 

 The business session of the Society 

 w-ill follow a luncheon, probably at 

 the Ebbit House about l.'iO P. M. It 

 is hoped that there may be a large at- 

 tendance of members at this meeting. 

 The Executive Committee will hold a 

 business session at the Ebbit House 

 on the evening of June 1st at 7.30 P 

 M. 



Other Rose Garden Days are sched- 

 uled as follows: Elizabeth Park. 

 Hartford. Connecticut, June 24th; 

 Cornell University. Ithaca, New York, 

 June 24th; Portland. Oregon. June 

 25th: Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 

 3rd. The local committees of the rose 

 test gardens are arranging the pro- 

 grams for each of these days, and the 

 members of the American Rose Socie- 

 ty in the vicinity of each should at- 

 tend. 



A committee which promises to be 

 of much service to the members of 

 the Society has recently been ap- 

 pointed by President Pyle. This is 

 a committee of consulting and advis- 

 ing rosarians, and is composed of the 

 following: Dr. w. Van Fleet, Wash- 

 ington. D. C; Robert Pyle, West 

 Grove. Pa.; A. N. Greeley, Williams- 

 port, Pa.; John Dunbar, Rochester, N. 

 Y.; W. C. Egan, Highland Park, ill.; 

 Theodore Wirth, Minneapolis, Minn.; 

 S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. 

 Horace McFarland, Harrisburg. Pa.; 

 Professor E. A. -nTiite. Ithaca, >f. Y.; 

 •lesse A. Currey, Portland, Ore.; Geo. 

 H. Peterson, Fairlawn, N. J.; Fred M. 

 Howard, Los Angeles, Cal.; ,Tohn 

 Cook. Baltimore, Md.; Ale.xander 

 Gumming. Cromwell. Conn. 



Diseases: Dr. L. M. Massev, Ithaca 

 >r. Y. Insects, C. R. Crosby, Ithaca, 

 >f. Y.; Mr. 0. A. Weigel. Washington, 

 D. C; Professor G. J. Sanders, Har- 

 risburg, Pa. 



These rosarians have agreed as a 

 service of rose love to reply to 

 courteous inquiries when such in- 

 quiries are accompanied bv a self-ad- 

 dressed and stamped return envelope 

 and when the inquirer definitelv 

 states that he or she is a paidup mem- 

 ber of the American Rose Society. 

 E. A. White, Secy. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM ROOTED 

 CUTTINGS 



3,000 EAKLT FROST 

 I.'.nO YELLOW BONN.AFFOX 

 500 SEIDEWITZ 

 300 WHITE BONNAFFOJf 

 230 CHIEFTAIN 

 3.M> per 100 C30.00 per I.OOO 



W. D. HOWARD MILFOBD, MASS. 



