THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



put on when it seems that winter has actually arrived are the chief 

 factors in successful fall planting". Having plenty of pine needles 

 I use these entirely for covering perennial beds and have never 

 found anything else so good in every way. 



Several plantings of Hybrid-tea and Polyantha Roses made in 

 November and banked up with soil in December came through well 

 and got away to a much better start than those planted in the 

 spring. The exposed tops died back, but that was immaterial, 

 as they would have been cut off anyhow. 



For several years I have planted the ordinary run of deciduous 

 shrubs in the fall and with unvarying success. This is not a 

 unique experience by any means, but there are still many gardeners 

 who confine their fall planting to spring-flowering bulbs. Most 

 things, I believe, can be planted in the fall with good assurance of 

 success. The advantages are at least three-fold : ( i ) better plant- 

 ing conditions, (2) less rush, and (3) a better start in the spring. 



LEARNING FACTS ABOUT FLOWER 

 GROWING! 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RE- 

 SEARCH AND WHAT IT MEANS TO AMERICAN HORTICULTURE 



By E. L. D. Seymour, New York 



OF COURSE we have been learning things about growing 

 plants for a good many years — in fact ever since Adam 

 gave them their common names for which Linneaus was later to 

 find scientific synonyms. But just as, even in this day of ad- 

 vanced knowledge, the Rockefeller Foundation and Institute are 

 rendering invaluable service in the fields of animal and human in- 

 vestigation, so the Thompson Institute for Plant Research bids 



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