July 3. 1020 



HORTICULTURE 



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lar in northern gardens. Several other 

 species of Neillia are growing in the 

 Arboretum; they are either iioi hardy 

 enough to flower or their flowers are 

 insignificant. 



Aesculus discolor var. mollis. This 

 shrub or small tree has not before 

 flowered so freely in the Arboretum. 

 The type of the species has red and 

 yellow flowers, but in the var. mollis, 

 which is the only form in the Arbore- 

 tum, the whole flower is bright scarlet. 

 It is a common plant from northern 

 Georgia to central Alabama and west- 

 ward to the valley of the Guadalupe 

 River in Texas, ranging west of the 

 Mississippi River northward to south- 

 eastern Missouri, and appearing in 

 southwestern Tennessee. In early 

 spring no other plant in the southern 

 states is more brilliantly conspicuous, 

 and its unexpected hardiness in New- 

 England is one of the important dis- 

 coveries made by the Arboretum in 

 recent years. There is a form of Aes- 

 culus discolor (var. flavescens) with 

 yellow flowers which is confined to the 

 Edwards Plateau in western Texas. 

 It is possible that this plant may also 

 prove hardy here. Aesculus Harbi- 

 sonii, which is believed to be a hybrid 

 of A. discolor var. mollis and A. georgi- 

 ana, is the last of the Buckeyes, with 

 the exception of A. parviflora, to bloom 

 in the Arboretum. It is a shrub with 

 broad clusters of large flowers with a 

 rose-colored calyx and canary yellow 

 petals tinged with rose toward the 

 margin. Still extremely rare, this hy- 

 brid w^hich is perfectly hardy deserves 

 to be better known. 



CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The Connecticut Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold its Annual Fall Flower 

 and Vegetable Exhibition at Hartford 

 on September 22 and 23 next. 



GENERAL NEWS NOTES 



Mr. S. B. Ayers is adding 5,000 

 square feet of glass to his range at 

 Sunny Slope Seed Farm, near Kansas 

 City. The extra space will be used 

 tor sweet peas. It is understood that 

 Mr. Ayer's retail store is also to be 

 enlarged. 



Walter Mott, long a traveling sales- 

 man for Benj. Hammond, the s-lug- 

 shot man, is now on the road for W. 

 W. Barnard Co., of Chicago. 



A Card This Size 



Cost only »1.00 per Week 

 on Yearly Order 



It would keep your oame and your 

 Rpecialty before the whole trade 



A half-Inch card costs only 45c. per 

 week on yearly order. 



Forcing Bulbif 



IMPOltTED, DOMESTIC 

 COLD STORAGE. 



'or p\'ert/ mont/i in tfie year w fiarc <fome - 

 - the qro^er . Prompt iffupmentif on 

 ifeaifonable iftock. Infortnation and prtcej- on future 

 croptf niaturinq. =:^ ^T^ITE UtT^ — 



CHICAGO 



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YORK 



THIS SEASON'S NEW ROSES 



PILGRIM CRUSADER PREMIER RUSSELL HADLEY 



We are receiving dally shipments of these new Boseip to larse qaantltle«« aad 

 flAii farnlsh same on short notice. 



We have a laree stock at aU times of choice CARNATIONS, CHBT8AMTHS- 

 MT7M8, ORCHIDS, VAIX^ET and AMERICAN BEAUTIES. 



Tel., Main 6S67 WI7T CW RDOQ C^€\ *** DEVONSHIRE STREET 

 K94H »» I1>J-<V^X1 OS\\J\3' V/V/. BOSTON. MASS. 



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BOSTON, MASS. 



LADIES' SOCIETY O. AMERICAN 

 FLORISTS 



it, as members of the Society of 

 American Florists predict, the coming 

 convention of this society is to be a 

 record breaker, both in interest and 

 attendance, may 1 appeal to the mem- 

 bers of tlie L. S. A. F. urging every 

 woman to interest herself in tnis 

 forth-coming convention and consider 

 herself a committee of one to make 

 plans for the success of our part of the 

 convention It would be a great en- 

 couragement to all of the officers who 

 are trying to make the society a real 

 working force in Horticulture aitairs, 

 if the attendance of the members could 

 be record-breaking. 



Never before have so many women 

 been interested in the florist profes- 

 sion and never was there a need of 

 a stronger affiliation, whether the in- 

 terest is from a personally conducted 

 business or merely as the wife, sister 

 or mother of florist, grower or seeds- 

 man. ' 



The social element of every great 

 business must he considered and it is 

 the duty and the pleasure of the ladies 

 to look after this, not only to make 

 the convention better for the ladies, 

 but better for the men. We plan this 

 year to revive the special feature for 

 the ladies evening entertainment. To 

 make this a success we need more 

 than plans, more than funds; we need 

 your attendance and your interest. I 

 have been an attending member at 



these conventions for several years 

 and it has been the greatest pleasure 

 to meet the members from all over the 

 United States. As president of the 

 society it is my greatest desire to 

 bring the ladies into a closer associa- 

 tion this summer. It is to our mutual 

 advantage and pleasure that we know 

 each other better and these conven- 

 tions offer the only opportunity. We 

 need a closer co-operation and the 

 association that these few days afford 

 is of far-reaching benefit. We need 

 your presence. I feel fully justified 

 in making a very earnest appeal, urg- 

 ing every woman who can, to attend 

 the convention and if not already a 

 member of the Ladies Society, we 

 shall very surely enroll you, for once 

 an attendant at a successful conven- 

 tion, means always a member. 

 Very sincerely, 

 .Mns. B. H.\jrMONn Tn.\(Y. 



E. J. Roegean and Geo. H. Noyes 

 of the Boston market are leaving on 

 tlie 10th for a two week's trip through 

 Maine by automobile and may go to 

 Montreal and Quebec before they re- 

 turn. 



A new flower bed in the Public Gar- 

 den is to contain the insignia of the 

 .\merican Legion worked out in an at- 

 tractive manner. It will contain a 

 gold star representing Boston's war 

 heroes who died in the service, a sil- 

 ver star for t'ae wounded and gassed, 

 and a bronze star to represent all the 

 others. 



