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HORTICULTURE 



October 2, 1920 



RAMBLING OBSERVATIONS OF 

 A ROVING GARDENER 



Japanese anemones have been 

 blooming remarkably well this sea- 

 son and under good cultivation make 

 one of the best shows of any late 

 flowering plant. Of the standard varie- 

 ties of Anemone Japonica, in pure 

 white, Japonica Alba. Whirlwind and 

 Geante Blanche are the best. Good, 

 tall, pink sorts are Queen Charlotte, 

 Alice, Lorelei and Rosea Superba. 

 Prinz Heinrich, Brilliant and Pur- 

 purine have carmine and magenta 

 shades. As a rule, Anemones prefer a 

 light soil, well drained, with plenty of 

 humus. The Japanese class is particu- 

 larly responsive to richly manured 

 ground, surface mulching and a halt 

 shady position in the Middle Atlantic 

 States, with an open sunny exposure 

 in the North. 



It seems to me that the rose grow- 

 ers of New York are setting a pace for 

 those in other parts of the country. 

 Rose growing around Syracuse, Utica 

 and other cities in Central New York 

 has received a tremendous impetus, 

 largely I presume on account of the 

 enthusiastic efforts of Rev. Mr. Mills. 

 The latest enterprise is the movement 



to plant roses all along the highway 

 between Syracuse and Auburn. The 

 Auburn Rose Society is fathering the 

 movement and has asked the Syracuse 

 Rose Society to cooperate. This would 

 certainly be an excellent feature and 

 one which would receive the en- 

 thusiastic approval of motorists. The 

 railroads have found it worth while 

 to make plantings of climbing roses, 

 especially Wichuraianas along their 

 lines, and there is no reason why state 

 highways could not be beautified in 

 the same manner. 



Gardeners on private places where 

 there is no steam and only small 

 houses of roses can accomplish good 

 results in getting rid of mildew by 

 putting a lantern or two in these 

 houses at night, turning the light 

 about half way up and sprinkling a 

 layer of sulphur over the top of each 

 lantern. No danger will be found in 

 this practice if the light is not turned 

 too high, and it a little air is left on. 

 Mildew will be killed readily, and then 

 with a little heat from the hot water 

 system there will be no difficulty in 

 keei)ing it in check. It is not a good 



plan to use oil stoves for burning tne 

 sulphur, as they are almost certain to 

 get too hot, with the result that the 

 sulphur itself gets on fire and the crop 

 is ruined. A little experimenting with 

 lanterns, however, will show just how 

 liigh to have them turned up. and show 

 the practical value of the plan. Be 

 sure to have the plants wet at the 

 roots when vaporizing sulphur in this 

 way. 



A British eye is quick to note the 

 serious application of the Belgian peo- 

 ple to industry, says a writer in the 

 Manchester Guardian Commercial. So 

 tar as the countryside is concerned, it 

 seems to be a land of no leisure and no 

 color. One looks in vain for a football 

 ground, a tennis lawn, a cricket pitch 

 — even for children at play in a 

 meadow. There is a similar scarcity 

 of flower gardens. Round the towns 

 the villas have very tine lawns and gar- 

 dens, and the nurseries furnish the 

 flower-women on the Grand Place in 

 Brussels and the Place Verte in Ant- 

 werp with gorgeous blossoms; but the 

 cottage gardens so familiar in England 

 simply do not exist. The train runs 

 through mile after mile of land culti- 

 vated up to the very doors of the farm- 

 houses and cottages without revealing 

 a single rose-bush or Hollyhock any- 

 where. 



At the September meeting of Lan- 

 caster County Florists" Association 

 with President Willis B. Girvin of Leo- 

 la, Pa., Mr. L. C. Dyer gave an interest- 

 ing talk on his trip to Portland, Ore. 

 as a representative of the Kiwanis 

 Club. In speaking of the roses he 

 made a point of the fact that in build- 

 ing a new section one party would 

 plant a garden of roses adjoining the 

 street and every one along that street 

 would follow suit. One thing that 

 struck him as peculiar was the fact 

 that almost every garden along the 

 street had a pair of scissors hanging 

 convenient, with a little card announc- 

 ing that if you wanted a rose you were 

 to cut it off and welcome. 



.\ntmone Japoiiiea Queen Charlotte 



Wagland, the Florist, of Lawrence, 

 Mass., has been making a vigorous op- 

 position to the smoke nuisance of the 

 mills. He claims that his business is 

 hurt by the cinders and ashes falling 

 from the smoke. 



The Boston Park & Recreation De- 

 partment has asked for bids for build- 

 ing a range of greenhouses at Frank- 

 lin Park. 



Mr. Wm. C. Newton, has moved 

 part of his florist establishment from 

 Provincetown, Mass.. to Hyannis, and 

 intends to have the latter the center 

 of his business, keeping one house in 

 Provincetown as a branch. 



