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September 9, 1909. 



they may be plunged, but araucarias 

 should always be plunged, to avoid the 

 risk of losing them when taken up in the 

 fall. 



Propagation of Stock. 



We are incliued to think the title of 

 this paper warrants a few words being 

 said about the propagation of these bed- 

 ding plants. While we still propagate 

 alternantheras in August, we find that 

 they root equally well in December and 

 January and make fully as good plants. 

 For geraniums, we prefer the September 

 or October cuttings. These are put into 

 flats of sand, watered well and then set 

 in the full sunlight, where they remain 

 until the sand is quite dry before receiv- 

 ing more water. With this treatment, we 

 count on from eighty to ninety per cent 

 rooting. They are potted as soon as well 

 rooted in 2-inch pots and shifted as they 

 need it. 



Canna roots are cut up from January 

 25 to February 15 and started in sand. 

 These we find make strong 4-inch pot 

 plants for bedding. Dahlias are cut up 

 and put in sand about February 20 and 

 from this start we take cuttings. And 

 just a word about these cuttings. We are 

 careful to take the cutting off just below 

 the joint, as they then make tubers, 

 whereas, if the cut is made between the 

 joints, we find many refuse to make more 

 than fibrous roots. 



In closing, let me urge strongly the 

 use of Gruss an Teplitz rose. It is a 

 never failing source of beauty in park 

 work. With strong, vigorous plants 

 ready to break into flower as soon as 

 planted, they continue blooming through 

 sunshine and rain, their beautiful, dark, 

 velvety flowers always smiling a welcome 

 to each visitor who comes. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



With the return of vacationists to the 

 city from mountain and seashore a little 

 more life has been galvanized into the 

 flower business, but arrivals, especially of 

 outdoor stock, are more than can be as- 

 similated. Asters continue to arrive in 

 multitudes and of such fine quality that 

 it seems a thousand pities they have to 

 be sold at such unprofitable prices; ruling 

 rates are 25 cents to 50 cents per hun- 

 dred, some extra fine making 75 cents to 

 $1. Gladioli continue abundant, the chief 

 call being for the white shades. Sweet 

 peas are getting poor and do not sell as 

 well as they did. The outdoor crop is 

 nearing the end, but the new indoor crop 

 from some growers will be coming in be- 

 fore we see the last of them, sweet peas 

 being a year-around crop now. 



Good white roses are rather scarce and 

 sell well. Beauties are improving and 

 the cooler weather has somewhat reduced 

 the supply of small, worthless flowers of 

 other varieties. Quite a few carnations 

 are coming in, but stems are short yet. 

 Prices vary from $1.50 to $2 per hun- 

 dred. Cattleyas and gardenias each re- 

 main scarce. Lilium longiflorum and L. 

 speciosum are both plentiful. Tuberoses 

 are in oversupply, also cosmos and dah- 

 lias. Lily of the valley continues to meet 

 with a steady call. Quite a variety of 

 outdoor fall flowers are seen, but the de- 

 mand for any of these is limited. 



At Horticultural HaU. 



Horticultural hall was given over to 

 the collections of fruits, flowers and vege- 

 tables from children's homes and school 

 gardens September 4 and 5, there being 



an interesting and extensive display, in 

 spite of the dry weather. A novel and 

 attractive feature was arranged in the 

 center of the main hall to show how a 

 small home lot can be tastefully laid out 

 and planted with comparatively little or 

 no expense. The plot was 30x40, one- 

 fourth being occupied by the house. 

 There were flowers along the fence boun- 

 daries and about the house. There was 

 a small but neat vegetable garden and 

 grass covered the front and most of the 

 side lawn. The house was further beauti- 

 fied with window-boxes. All vegetables 

 and flowers had been grown in boxes or 

 pots and were transplanted so as to look 

 as fresh and natural as possible. Every- 

 thing about the house itself was simple 

 and easy to care for. Mrs. R. G. Shaw 

 and Miss Bradley were the originators 

 of this unique and pleasing feature. 



The Boston Park Department contrib- 

 uted a nice collection of shrubs in fruit 



Til* editor Is pleased 

 wben a Reader 

 presents his ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



tvwii 



As experience is the best 

 teacber, so do ^^e 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezobanBe of ezperienees. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brousbt out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling: and 

 grammar, though desirable, are not 

 necessary. Write as you would talk 

 when doing your best. 



WK SHALL BX GLAD 

 TO HKAB rROM TOU 



and R. & J. Farquhar & Co., beds of 

 hardy lilies. 



Various Notes. 



So great is the demand for space at 

 the coming New England fruit show that 

 it has been found necessary to limit many 

 exhibits, Horticultural hall being found 

 quite inadequate to accommodate the 

 promised exhibits. 



A large attendance at the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club's field day at the Bay 

 State Nurseries, North Abington, Sep- 

 tember 11, is assured. The party will 

 leave Boston (South Station) on the 

 12:43 train, arriving at North Abington 

 at 1:20. Dinner will be served imme- 

 diately on arrival, after which the nurs- 

 eries will be inspected. Ladies are espe- 

 cially invited to attend. 



Peirce Bros., of Waltham, are finishing 

 a new 300-foot house, to be used for pot 

 plants. 



James Tulis, of South Sudbury, is 

 sending in some fine Fair Maid and En- 

 chantress carnations to the market at 

 present. 



A. R. Hutson, W. H. Elliott's genial 

 salesman, returned August 31 from a six 

 weeks' trip to Canada and Alaska. He 

 went as far as the Yukon Pass and 



speaks enthusiastically of the magnifi- 

 cence of the Alaskan flora. He says vege- 

 tables and garden flowers of fine quality 

 were seen at many places in Alaska. Mr. 

 Hutson secured numerous photographs, 

 which he hopes to use in lantern slides 

 when developed. 



H. H. Rogers, of South Sudbury, is 

 picking a fine crop of carnations from 

 his new house. He has the finest long- 

 stemmed white asters seen in the market, 

 24-inch stems being the average. 



J. W. Duncan returned September 1 

 from his western trip. San Francisco, 

 Los Angeles, Pasadena, Salt Lake City, 

 Omaha and Colorado Springs were vis- 

 ited among other places on the return 

 journey. He will describe some of the 

 things seen at the club meeting Septem- 

 ber 21. 



Among visitors last week were J. C. 

 Vaughan, Chicago, and H. H. Battles, 

 Philadelphia. 



September has so far proved unusually 

 cool; temperatures near freezing were re- 

 corded in the first few days. We still 

 require a lot of additional precipitation 

 to thoroughly soak the ground. 



W. N. Ceaig. 



TOLEDO. OHIO. 



Qub Visits Keller's. 



The Toledo Florists' Club, on invita- 

 tion of T. N. Keller, on the bay shore, 

 paid a visit to his place last Sunday aft- 

 ernoon, September 5, and had an interest- 

 ing time sight-seeing. While Mr. Keller 

 has but one house of carnations and one 

 of sweet peas, he produces possibly more 

 outside cut fiowers than anybody in this 

 neighborhood. The asters seem to be 

 about done and quite a bit of disease 

 made the crop rather small. Mr. Keller's 

 two sons, who stay with him at the home 

 place, are largely interested in market 

 gardening, especially in asparagus, of 

 which they have a number of acres, also 

 cauliflower and, last but not least, onions. 

 Of the latter they produce mostly pickling 

 sizes and sets. In their well ventilated 

 storehouse they have thousands of bush- 

 els of both sizes partly ready for market 

 and partly awaiting the planting season 

 next spring. Mr. Keller owns on« of the 

 prettiest places along the Maumee bay, 

 and a view from his beach through a pair 

 of good glasses is a picture not soon for- 

 gotten. 



Mr. Keller was kind enough to invite 

 the Florists' Club to have its next year's 

 picnic on his beach and if the writer 

 knows anything about it they will go. 



After inspecting the fields the party 

 was piloted to the house, where Mrs. 

 Keller and her daughter served luncheon. 

 A unanimous vote of thanks partly paid 

 them for their labor, after which one of 

 the sons conveyed the entire party to the 

 end of the Ironville car line. Everybody 

 enjoyed the trip. The writer got so home- 

 sick for the water that he went out to 

 Niles beach next day and caught about 

 100 lake perch. E. A. K. 



NEW BEDFORD. MASS. 



The Market. 



Business, on the whole, is fair, with 

 funeral work good. Asters are plentiful 

 just now; they are the late ones. The 

 flowers are firm and the stems are long; 

 35 cents per dozen, retail, is the price. 



A few carnations are to be seen; these 

 are of fair quality and bring 35 cents 

 per dozen. Roses are good, though some 

 of the stems are rather short ; $1 and 



