August 7, 1920 



HORTICULTURE 



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DREER'S CONVENTION DISPLAY 



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We will have on display at the Conven- 

 tion, a full line of seasonable stock in 

 Kentias in both single and made-up plants, 

 Phoenix, Cocos, Ficus, Crotons, etc., all of 

 which will be well shown in a full line of 

 commercial sizes. 



Our representatives. Messrs. James J. 

 Karins and Joseph J. Goudy will be 

 in attendance and will be pleased to 

 meet our friends. 



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HENRY A. DREER, Inc. 



714-716 Chestnut Street 



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Philadelphia, Pa. j 

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AN ENGLISH GARDENER IN 

 AMERICA 



The following letter published in an 

 English garden paper is interesting as 

 showing the impressions made by 

 American gardeners on an overseas 

 visitor: 



"I liave yet to see herbaooous bor- 

 ders and Rose beds as I know them at 

 home, although I do not doubt their 

 existence on some of the larger estates. 



"Owners of suburban houses here de- 

 vote most of their ground to grass, on 

 which are dotted various trees and 

 shrubs. 



"Severe winter weather and scorch- 

 ing heat in summer are, I am in- 

 formed, strong factors operatin-; 

 against successful gardening in these 

 parts. 



"The specimens of Enkianthus I 

 have seen are quite small. They had 

 become so big that the owner pruned 

 them a year or two ago; but for all 

 that they are charming. They have 

 been in flower some ten days. As to 

 their hardiness it goes without savins 

 for the winters here touch zero and 

 below, I am told. I saw the last of 

 winter disappearing when I arri'ed on 

 March 2.S; the snow was two feet to 

 4 feet deep, forming a solid mass that 

 took a week or mor to melt, both here 

 and in New York. 



'One of your correspondents is, i 

 notice, worried by Equisetum (Horse 

 tail). Here it grows on the banks 

 adjoining the railroad, and reaches 

 out along the swamps and by the 

 streams and rivers — acres of it. 



"Speaking of swamps, I pass miles 

 of them daily, and here the mosquitos 

 breed. They are of the small type, but 

 I am told that a bigger species comes 

 later." — T. A. Weston. Nciv Jersey. 

 U. 8. A. 



IRIS ARENARIA 

 The dolls gave a tea party. They 

 decorated their rooms with the pink- 

 tipped English daisies and the little 

 Johnny-Jump-Ups. Then they wanted 

 some especially lovely flower for their 

 table. They formerly used the Baby- 

 Doll or Tip-Top rose, but it liad been 

 so well cared for in the garden that 

 though still retaining its pinkorl-r"il 

 creamy petals it had grown too large 

 for them. So one doll said he would 

 go to the rockery and bring from there 

 the little yellow .Jonquil Cyclamens 

 and the new Iris he had found. "An 

 Iris! ' the other dolls exclaimed, "why 

 you will need the dragon-fly to bring 

 it in his airship, it will be too heavy 

 for you to pick and carry." "Not this 

 Iris," the enthusiast replied, "it was 

 made for us dolls." When he returned 



with the lovely yellow blossoms to 

 which he had added the white drops 

 of Venus' tears, the other dolls were 

 so pleased that they danced and sang 

 about the flowers and were glad they 

 had their friends to keep festival with 

 them. 



This exquisite mite, which really 

 seems to us grown-ups as if it had 

 been grown for the children's and 

 their doll's delight, is native in 

 Hungary. The great flags of the Iris 

 Pseudacorus are a joy to behold, but 

 the fairy-like daintiness of this little 

 Iris Arenaria should keep it from be- 

 ing forgotten in the study which the 

 new Iris Society has started among 

 us for the flower which includes 

 among its members the Fleur-de-lis of 

 France. M. R. Case. 



Hilcrest Gardens, 



July 19, 1920. 



DENVER FLORIST IN THE EAST 

 Dennis J. Sullivan of Denver, Col., 

 is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Mar- 

 garet Sullivan of 273 Grafton street, 

 Mr. Sullivan arrived in Worcester 

 Wednesday, and yesterday morning 

 called on his brother. Mayor Sullivan, 

 at City Hall and presented him a 

 bouquet of Killarney roses he had 

 brought from his greenhouses in Den- 

 ver. 



