June 22, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Re vie w* 



13 



Establishment of James Hamilton, Mount Washington, Md. 



(Nearly all the Klass in thU model plant was broken by hail June 12.) 



pathy with the plant." Bailey also 

 says: "It is impossible to instruct any 

 person in pruning by merely showing 

 him how to do the work ou a given 

 plant, for the very next plant may pre- 

 sent a new set of problems." I quote 

 these eminent plantsmen so you may 

 know their opinion. I really believe 

 that if they think pruning is of so much 

 importance, we surely ought to give the 

 subject our most careful consideration. 

 Then our own experience wbukl teach 

 us that it is an operation which is not 

 to be underestimated in its. relation to 

 u plant's future growth. 



Books on the Subject. 



T am sure that some of my readers 

 are interested in the literature on prun- 

 ing, and for their benefit I am going to 

 give a list of a few good things. Prac- 

 tically the only American work on the 

 subject at present is "The Pruning 

 Book," by L. H. Bailey. It is a mono- 

 graph-on pruning as adapted to ovir 

 conditions. It costs $1..")0, and may be 

 secured from the Florists' Publishing 

 Co. Probably the best book on tree 

 pruning is a small work by A. I>es 

 Cars, translated from the French ,by 

 Charles S. Sargent. In it are given 

 practical methods for carryinjx on the 

 work. The price is 90 cents. Doubtless 

 the same company could secure a copy 

 of it for you, and also of the other books 

 that I shall mention. An interesting 

 handbook on the subject is a recent 

 English publication entitled "The 

 Handy Book on Pruning, Grafting and 

 Budding," by .Tames TIdale. The price 

 is 60 cents. Complete instructions for 

 pruning roses are found in "Koses. and 

 How to Grow Them," a manual for 

 growing roses in the garden and under 

 ijlass. The price is .$1.10. For those 

 who arc especially interested in the care 

 of heilgos I would r(M'ommend a work by 

 Powell, entitled "Hedges. Windbreaks, 

 etc.," of which the price is 50 cents. 



Books on the Habits of Plants. 



As the success or failure of pruning 

 ^lepends on the knowledge one has of 

 tiie habits of plants, it may T^e desirable 

 to give a short list of those books con- 

 taining such information. "Shrubs of 

 Northwestern America," by C. S. New- 

 hall, contains much information of a 

 hotnnical nature, but presented in a pop- 

 ular style. The price is $1.75. Two 

 books by Harriet Tj. Keeler are well 

 worth while. Tlie titles are, "Our 

 Xorthern Shnil s and How to Tdentifv 



Them," and "Our Native Trees." The 

 price of each is $2. "Practical For- 

 estry," by John Gilford, contains clear 

 information on the care of forests, 

 which includes pruning. The books I 

 have mentioned are only a part of the 

 list which might be prepared. Before 

 leaving the subject of books, I want to 

 say that in these days of hustle it is 

 only possible to keep up with the times 

 by consulting the best literature. Moral: 

 Read and grow in knowledge. 



Before bringing this to a close;! I am 

 going to ask those of you who have not 

 given any of these questions serious 

 thought, to get busy and do so. If you 

 happen to have an appreciative em- 

 ployee, make him a present of one of the 

 books on pruning. It will do him good 

 — and you. too. Don't vou believe it? 



F. K. B. 



HAIL AT BALTIMORE. 



The Baltimore district was visited, 

 .Tune 12, by the heaviest hail ever seen 

 there, and gloom was general at the 

 meeting of the Gardeners and Florists' 

 Club that night, for the storm had 

 broken nearly every pane of glass in , 

 half a dozen fine establishments, result- 

 ing in a loss Of thousands of dollars. 

 Practically every greenhouse in Gov- 

 anstoWn, Mount Washington and Wav- 

 erly suffered from tlie hail. An ener- 

 getic glass man was on band at the 

 meeting and he obtained orders for 

 several thousand dollars' worth of 

 business before leaving the hall, ail 

 of the florists being eager to order re- 

 pairs and get promises of promptness 

 in execution. . 



F. C. Bauer, one of the members of 

 the club, left for New York a few 

 hours before the storm, intending to 

 sail for Europe next day. A telephone 

 message from his place in Govanstown 

 to the manager of the Baltimore 

 Florists' Exchange was to the eil'ect 

 that every pane of glass in his houses 

 had been smashed by the hail. Another 

 case reported was that of Isaac H. 

 Moss, of Govanstown, whose two 

 ranges, although a mile apart, were 

 bereft of nearly every pane by the 

 storm. 



James Hamilton, a rose grower, while 

 at the meeting, heard frpm his place 

 at Mount Washington to the effect that 

 nearly all of his glass had been 

 sir ashed. Another loss reported over 

 the telephone to the loser was that of 

 M. Thau, of Govanstown. whose loss 



amounted, he was informed, to more 

 than $700. 



There were many other losses, and 

 of course the damage is not alone to 

 the houses, but includes a great deal 

 of stock badly cut up. Many of the 

 growers were not insured. 



LOUISVILLE WANTS S. A. F. 



Fifty florists from Louisville and New 

 Albany met June 1(5 at a dinner at the 

 Louisville hotel, as guests of the Louis- 

 ville Convention and Publicity Lcagut^, 

 for the pur])ose of arranging plans to 

 secure for Louisville the 1912 conven- 

 tiQn of the S. A. F.. It was decided to 

 send a delegation to the meeting of the 

 organization in' Baltimore in August and 

 urge the acceptance of an invitation to 

 come to Kentucky next year. 



Robert W. . Brown, president of the 

 Louisville Convention and Publicity 

 League, presided as host, and there was 

 much enthusiasm. Most of those who 

 attended -were members of the Kentucky 

 Society of Florists, and those who were 

 not members promised to join in order 

 to assist in the work of landing the na- 

 tional convention. 



WHO OWNS THE AIR? 



The action of Peirce Bros., of 

 Waltham, who asked the courts for an 

 injunction to prohibit airships, exhibit- 

 ing in that vicinity, flying over their 

 greenhouses, has aroused a great deal 

 of comment and it appears they stood 

 on rights anciently recognized but never 

 before asserted in just this connec- 

 tion, either by a florist or against an 

 aviator. In the old Roman law it was 

 held that the owner of land had do- 

 minion over it "from the center of the 

 earth up to the sky." Some modern 

 mining laws seem in contravention of 

 this, but it is the principle still ajiplied 

 in matters relating to the use of the 

 space above the ground level up to or- 

 dinary heights. It is well recognized 

 In law that a man is entitled to regu- 

 late the use of the space above liis 

 property; it cannot without permission 

 be used by others who may have rights 

 in jiroperty adjoining — you cannot 

 build on your lot line and let your 

 eaves extend over. W^ithout doubt the 

 florist may regulate the use others can 

 make of the space above the green- 

 houses he owns, probably "up to the 

 sky"; he may put up a "No thorough- 

 fare'' sign as high as he jdease. But 



