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HORTICULTURE 



September 4, 1920 



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OBCONICA CHINENSIS MALACOIDES 



OBCONICA, Separate colors or mixed 



CHINENSIS MIXED. 2^/4 inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 



Ready Now. Raised from Selected Seed 



CINERARIA, Half Dwarf Mixed, 2V4 inch pots, $7 per 100; $60 per 1,000. 



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



THE FLORISTS' AND GARDENERS' 

 FIELD DAY 



Although the attendance was not as 

 large as it ought to have been, those 

 members of the Gardeners' and Flor- 

 ists' Club, of Boston, who attended the 

 field day at North Abington, last Satur- 

 day, were well repaid for the effort 

 which they made to be present. Con- 

 veyances met those who came by train 

 to North Abington. although many 

 members drove over the road from Bos- 

 ton. Mr. D. D. Wyman, of the Bay 

 State Nursery Co.. was on hand to act 

 as host for his company, while Mr. W. 

 G. Wyman, of Littlefield & Wyman Co., 

 represented that concern. 



After inspecting the well arranged 

 nurseries of the former company the 

 machines toured the grounds, viewing 

 the evergreens, of which there is a re- 

 markable collection, comprising all of 

 the stock commonly handled by 

 nurserymen, including a fine planting 

 of box. The stock was in remarkably 

 fine conditon, and those present ex- 

 pressed their surprise of the fact that 

 the fields were so green, considering 

 the difficulties in getting labor which 

 prevail now. A considerable number 

 of men are employed all the year 

 round in these nurseries, but the num- 

 ber is greatly augmented in the fall 

 when digging begins. This work will 

 be started now in a few weeks. 



From the evergreen nurseries the 

 machines traveled to Littlefield & Wy- 

 man's greenhouses, a short distance 

 away. The principal house is 318 feet 

 long by 24 feet 8 inches wide, and is 

 filled entirely with carnations. Most 

 of the standard varieties are grown, 

 but in addition there is a good stock of 

 Eastern Morn, a remarkably good pink, 

 of which this company has all the 

 stock. Mr. Wyman called the atten- 

 tion of the visitors to one long bench 

 where a very marked difference in the 



character of the soil was to be dis- 

 tinguished at a certain point. At one 

 side the carnations were much farther 

 advanced and more thrifty looking 

 than at the other. Mr. Wyman then 

 said that an experiment had been 

 tried, with quite surprising results. 

 In one case the manure had been mixed 

 with the soil in the spring. It was in 

 the half of the bench where this soil 

 had been used where the plants were 

 least thrifty. On the other halt the 

 soil and manure had been mixed just 

 before the benches were filled, and the 

 condition of the plants seems to give 

 evidence that this viras by all means 

 the most desirable method. 



The next place visited was the her- 

 baceous grounds of the Bay State 

 Nursery Co., on the road to Rockland. 

 A large area was found given over to 

 perennials, and there was an especially 

 fine block of Mallows and Phlox. 



The trip was then resumed over a 

 fine road into a section of Rockland 

 with which most of the visitors were 

 not familiar. In fact, few of them real- 

 ized that the Bay State Nurseries had 

 another branch in this part of the 

 town. Here two farms had been pur- 

 chased and partly planted. Con- 

 spicuous among the stock seen here 

 were the rhododendrons which were in 

 the best of condition. Although little 

 propagation of rhododendrons has been 

 done, Mr. Wyman hopes to take up this 

 work if the right location can be ob- 

 tained. 



A road which runs through this 

 nursery penetrates a dense forest and 

 at a most romantic spot in the midst of 

 the woods, with a running brook at 

 one side and wild flowers blooming all 

 around, a table had been loaded with 

 sandwiches and soft drinks. The re- 

 freshments had been provided to show 

 the hospitality of the Bay State Nur- 

 series and Littlefield & Wyman, and 



were in great abundance. After the 

 inner man had been satisfied, a little 

 speech making was indulged in. Presi- 

 dent Barsch, of the club. Secretary 

 Craig, Mr. F. G. Palmer, and Gustav 

 Thommen being among those who 

 spoke. AH of the speakers praised the 

 condition of the nurseries and ex- 

 pressed their appreciation of the 

 hospitality of the owners. President 

 Barsch also gave a little account of his 

 recent trip to Canada during which he 

 attended a meeting of the Canadian 

 Association of Florists. Mr. Wyman 

 made a grateful response and discussed 

 at some length the hardships of the 

 various embargoes now in force which 

 are especially Inimicable to the best in- 

 terests of New England. He said he 

 thought it would be only fair if some 

 sort of reciprocal action might be 

 taken against states which profit be- 

 cause of the bars which have been 

 raised against New England stock. 



The trip was then resumed, and led 

 to the nurseries of Littlefield & Wy- 

 man Co., where some very excellent 

 shrubs and trees were inspected. Al- 

 though this concern has not been in 

 business long it has made rapid prog- 

 ress in developing both its trade and 

 its equipment. This was the last stop. 



The Bay State Nurseries have nearly 

 300 acres under cultivation, making 

 one of the largest establishments of the 

 kind In New England. It has filled 

 many very large orders, and now has 

 one such order under way. It calls for 

 several car loads of shrubbery to be 

 sent to the Walter Reed Hospital, at 

 Washington, where the government 

 plans to make very extensive and 

 elaborate plantings. 



A new store has been opened in East 

 St. Louis, by Haun & Weiss. Mr. Haun 

 was formerly connected with Grimm & 

 Gorly. 



