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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



May 13, 1909. 



Tel. Office, New Salem, Mast. Mi^ll/ i*Oi\0 



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Fancy and Dagger Ferns 



iri,tLA^"y '" ''^^^ ready, $1.75 per 1000. Discount on larsfe orders. 



MIIililNOTON, MASS. Can fill all orders, no matter how Bmall or large. 



Boxwood, 50-lb. cases S8.00 fiWax, Graen or Bronze 75c per 1000 Arbutua, now ready, in limited quantities- 

 Extra nice heavy Laurel Wreaths, 3.00 WUd Smllaz, 50-lb. cases. Extra fine.. 6.00 lOc per bunch. 



per doz. Oroond Pine 7c per Ih Use our Laurel Featoonlnc made fresh 



Leucotlioe Sprays, green or bronze, 40c 100 Buncbed Laurel 35c daily from the woods, 4c, 5c and 6c per yd. 



Special low price on a special lot of Bronze Galax. Write for prices. 

 Make your contracts with us now lor your Memorial Day Vems, and you will get them on time and they will be the best to be had. 



CROWL FERN CO., Millington, Mass. 



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impurities may greatly reduce the value 

 of the refuse for manure, and even make 

 it positively injurious to plant life, is 

 Bbown by a series of experiments car- 

 ried out at the English Wye Experi- 

 mental College. So until further experi- 

 ments have been carried out, gardeners 

 are recommended to use great caution. 



LEUCOTHOE CATESBAEI. 



Leucothce Catesbaei, or Andromeda 

 Catesbaei, in severe winters will scorch 

 and kill back badly, unless well covered. 

 It succeeds best in a shady spot where 

 there are some high, overhanging 

 branches of deciduous trees to break the 

 hot summer sun from it, and it does 

 specially well on rather low ground 

 where, however, water does not stand. 

 The thick, dark green, heavy, pointed 

 foliage is always beautiful, taking on a 

 beautiful shining green in summer, and 

 the arching of the branches gives it a 

 graceful appearance. This variety should 

 always be planted in shade, and if kept 

 mulched will make rapid growth. It 

 propagates easily from portions of the 

 current season's wood placed in sandy 

 loam in flats during August and Septem- 

 ber and kept in a frame or cool green- 

 house. Its flowers were opening near 

 Boston April 25 this season. 



SOME FAVORITE FORSYTHIAS. 



Forsythia suspensa was at its best this 

 season near Boston April 27, the bushes 

 being a veritable mass of golden bells. 

 The mild winters for the last two years 

 have allowed the forsythias to come 

 through without any winter killing. The 

 drooping nature of F. suspensa adapts it 

 well for some locations. An immense 

 specimen at present, which hangs down 

 over a rather high wall, is magnificent. 

 In mixed shrubbery forsythias are rather 

 out of place. They should have beds or 

 banks to themselves or be planted as indi- 

 vidual specimens where they can have 

 room to show their individuality. 

 ' Forsythia viridissima has a stiff, bush- 

 like habit, very different from S. sus- 

 pensa. The flowers are also a somewhat 

 paler yellow in color and flower a little 

 later than F. suspensa and F. Fortunei. 

 In the neighborhood of Boston the shrubs 

 were opening their flowers April 24, and 

 were well expanded about May 1. To 

 prolong the season of the golden bells, as 

 forsythias are commonly called, this va- 

 riety should always be included. 



Forsythia Fortunei is a beautiful 

 variety, being a veritable mass, of golden 

 yellow flowers near Boston Aw-il 27. It 

 makes a wide-spreading bush, with hand- 



some, dark, shining foliage later, which 

 in fall takes on a purplish tint. 



Any of these forsythias look pitiful if 

 pruned before the flowering season. I 

 had occasion to see a large bed headed 

 back quite closely a few days ago in a 

 small public park, which completely 

 ruined the bed for the season. Some so- 

 called landscape men seem to think that 

 every shrub which grows must have a 

 certain amount of shearing each spring, 

 and just so long as political expediency 

 and not practical experience is in the 

 ascendant, we must look for just such 

 works of butchery. Any pruning needed 

 by the forsythias should be given imme- 

 diately after flowering. The same holds 

 good of all deciduous flowering shrubs, 

 with one or two notable exceptions, such 

 as hydrangeas. 



FOR SEASIDE PLANTING. 



Jackson Dawson, of Arnold Arbore- 

 tum, in the bulletin of the American As- 

 sociation of Park Superintendents, gives 

 the following list of shrubs and trees 

 that do well near the seashore: "Eight 

 at the shore, very few, but a few feet 

 inward the Scotch pine, Pinus rigida, 

 Robinia pseudo acacia, Ailanthus gladu- 

 losa, Populus monilifera and tremuloides, 

 Rhus typhina and glabra, Cephalanthus 

 occidentalis, Myrica cerifera and gale, 

 Hippophae rhamnoides and H. salicifolia, 

 Tamarix Indica, gallica and Chinensis, 

 Salix alba and possibly lucida, all do 

 fairly well near salt water. When once 

 a good protection belt is started almost 

 all the ordinary native trees and shrubs 

 will do well near the water's edge. At 



