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November 24, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Bedding at Cedar G>urt, Morristown, N, J^ Reqairing 40,000 Plants. 



in^ them seeds to grow at home and 

 prizes for the best results of their culti- 

 vation. 



Arbor day planting is a most laudable 

 feature in our school work, it is a gala 

 day for the children, and earnestly do 

 they enter into its spirit and heartily en- 

 joy it. It familiarizes them with trees 

 and the importance of forestry. 



There should be a villag^e improvement 

 society in every town to encourage and 

 advise in the beautifying of the home 

 grounds and the systematic planting of 

 street trees. Many practical men, for the 

 asking, would most gladly advise them in 

 this matter. In fact these practical talks 

 by practical horticulturists should be 

 sought and encouraged by social clubs, 

 boards of trade and vUlage societies, and 

 tbey should be free to everybody. And a 

 most educating influence are village or 

 town flower shows and exhibits of win- 

 dow plants. And my experience in this 

 line is emphatically in favor of these 

 shows and exhibits being gotten up at the 

 expense of the town, and free to every- 

 body, and no prizes given. Make it a 

 social affair and have good music. 



Our churches can do much good work. 

 A Sunday in June is children's day and 

 it is a perfect flower feast. In many <^f 

 our churches every child in the Sunday 

 school is presented with a potted plant 

 to take home and grow. And thus the 

 seeds of floriculture are being sown. 



Our daily press and too our local coun- 

 try weekly newspapers can do a great 

 deal in disseminating useful horticul- 

 tural knowledge and reach people that 

 neither agricultural nor horticultural 

 periodicals ever get to, but it is right 

 here where the eyes of your association 

 must be the sharpest. You should pre- 

 pare the matter for ^hese papers, or have 

 it gotten up by competent men, so that it 

 shall be the concise, plain, helpful truth. 



And our seedsmen, florists and nursery- 

 men can help most mightily. If they pre- 

 pare leaflets giving the proper cultural 

 treatment of the several plants or seeds 

 tbey sell, and enclose or pack these with 

 thfi^oods, what an aid it would be to 

 their customers ! 



I>E Soto, Mo.— The Hibbert Floral 

 Co. has recently removed its place of 

 business to Main and Fletcher streets, 

 one of the best locations in the city, 

 8nd added 6,000 feet of glass. 



A JERSEY ESTATE. 



Cedar Court, Morristown, N. J., is 

 one of the most beautiful estates in 

 America. It is tJie property of Otto H. 

 Kahn, of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 

 the bankers who financed the late 

 Japanese war loan, and some idea of its 

 value may be realized when it is known 

 that Mr. Kahn has refused a million 

 dollars for the property. It consists of 

 200 acres of rolling land, of which 

 fifty acres are utilized entirely as a 

 lawn, its natural beauty in hill and 

 dale faithfully preserved. One hundred 

 acres of natural forest remain. The 



James Eraser. 



(Superintendent at Cedar Court, Morristown, M.J. 



mansion is one of the finest in the coun- 

 try and from its portals the vista 

 stretches for forty miles. An Italian 

 garden is in process of construction that 

 will not be completed until 1905. An 

 eighteen-hole golf course is a part of 

 the unique addenda to the lawn and a 

 perfectly equipped modern farm with 

 dairy and all conveniences adds to the 

 interest of the whole. 



All this has been accomplished within 

 six years, with an uncultivated farm 



as the basis. A range of orchid, rose, 

 carnation and 'mum houses was erected 

 in 1903 and the stock in them is in 

 spleiidid condition. The chrysan- 

 themums were especially good and cap- 

 tured many premiums at the recent 

 exhibitions. The illustrations accom- 

 panying this brief note show the sunk- 

 en flower garden with 40,000 plants and 

 the courtyard and lily pond. 



James Fraser has been superintendent 

 of the estate since 1900 and under his 

 direction the work has been successfully 

 completed. Mr. Fraser has had a horti- 

 cultural, exjierience of many years with 

 some of the nobility of Scotland and 

 England and comes of a race of Scot- 

 tish gardeners dating back to the time 

 of the French revolution. He has four 

 sons in the profession and is still a 

 young and vigorous man, in love with 

 his work, devoted to its development 

 and known among his confreres aa 

 "Pater Gardeniensis," the father of 

 gardeners. J. Austin Shaw. 



CYCLAMEN. 



Please outline the best treatment for 

 cyclamen in bud. c. P. N. 



If your cyclamen are throwing up 

 healthy buds, there is nothing to do but 

 keep them free of aphis by frequent 

 light fumigating and tobacco stems 

 among the pots. Give them a night tem- 

 perature of 50 to 55 degrees, a light 

 spraying on every bright morning and 

 the fuJJest light. If your plants are in 

 5-inch or 6-inch pots and the buds are 

 forward enough to be in bloom in a 

 month or so, then don't attempt to shift 

 them. If in 4-inch pots and the buds 

 only just appearing, you can shift into 

 5-inch or 6-inch pots if they need a 

 larger pot. w. S. 



Allentown, Pa.— a. B. Ellsworth has 

 laid a cement sidewalk all about his 

 place, which has a frontage of 800 feet. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— Wm. Scott, who has 

 been ill for some days, has been confined 

 to his bed this week but hopes to be up 

 again within a few days. 



Benton Harbor, Mich.— F. L. Tom- 

 quist has moved to his new place at 103 

 Oden street, where he will grow })lants, 

 including stock for the spring trade. 



