May 30. 1912. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



13 



View on the Grounds of the Huntington Ettate. 



Mr. Hertrich considers it the finest con- 

 ifer for this section. 



The foregoing are only a few of the 

 fine things to be seen outdoors here, 

 and in addition we may mention the 

 cactus garden, in which there are over 

 14,000 plants in great variety, and a 

 magnificent new Japanese garden that 

 is being formed in a canyon not far 

 from the house. 



In the Greenhouses. 



The greenhouses are filled with the 

 choicest of ferns, orchids, palms' and 

 other plants. Of the ferns there are 

 immense specimens of Polypodium Man- 

 daianum, Microlepia hirta cristata, 

 Goniophlebium subauriculatum and 

 many of the rarer alsophilas and dick- 

 sonias, including some specimens that 

 are probably unique. The slender- 

 stemmed Cycas Eumphii, from the 

 East Indies, Licualia grandis and the 

 rare and beautiful Plectocomia elon- 

 gata are all worthy of note. Dendro- 

 bium superbiens, an Australian species 

 of orchid that is not as much grown as 

 it deserves to be, was making a fine 

 show. Besides a fine collection of cat- 

 tleyas, phalsenopsis and other well 

 known kinds, a small batch of odonto- 

 glossums and other cool species were 

 noted. 



It is not possible to do justice to this 

 wonderful garden in an article of me- 

 dium length, as the subject is too broad, 

 but enough, perhaps, has been said to 

 show what may be done when almost- 

 unlimited resources are joined with 

 such masterly skill as is possessed by 

 men like William Hertrich. HER 



THE AMERICAN JUBOBS. 



When the plans were laid for the in- 

 ternational horticultural exhibition just 

 closing in London, 300 of the most con- 

 spicuous horticulturists and patrons of 

 horticulture were invited to act on the 

 jury of awards. All the countries of 

 the world, oT- at least all those in which 

 horticulture has any following, were 

 represented. Those in America who 

 were honored by an invitation to act 

 on the jury were: 

 • Ames, Oakes, Boston. 



Farquhar, J. K. M. L., Boston. 



Hill, E. G., Richmond, Ind. 



Morse, C, Hackensack, N. J. 



Morse, L. L., San Francisco. 



Thatcher, Mr., Boston. 



Of these Messrs. Farquhar and Hill 

 accepted the invitation. 



PLAN A PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN. 



A committee of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club, consisting of Wallace R. 

 Pierson, chairman; W. E. Marshall, 

 Harry A. Bunyard, M. C. Ebel and J. 

 H. Pepper, has addressed the folio wiii<r 

 letter to the different florists' clubs of 

 the country: 



"The members of the New York 

 Florists' Club, believing that proper 

 publicity in teaching the public to 

 know flowers, and the proper uses of 

 them, and that by calling attention 

 through proper publicity channels to 

 the various special flower days through- 

 out the year, the flower business as a 

 whole would be greatly benefited by 

 such a movement; and the club having 

 by a unanimous vote instructed our 



committee to ask cooperation from the 

 other florists ' clubs of this country and 

 Canada, in the belief that such a pub- 

 licity campaign should be managed and 

 conducted by a committee of the Soci- 

 ety of American Florists, we, as the 

 committee of the New York Florists' 

 Club, ask your support and cooperation 

 in this, and that your club also ap- 

 point a committee to work in conjunc- 

 tion with our committee at the Chi- 

 cago convention, in an effort to secure 

 the authorization and organization of 

 such a general publicity committee." 



RELATIVE VALUES OF MANURES. 



Will you kindly state the relative 

 values of manure, say of three horses 

 having the same hay and grain feed, 

 but one bedded on leaves, one on salt 

 hay and one on straw, each being in 

 the barn two months or more in win- 

 ter, with the same treatment, the stalls 

 and horses being cleaned alike and the 

 manure piled outside? F. K. M. 



There would be but little difference 

 in the values of the manure with the 

 three styles of bedding named. If any- 

 thing, the straw would be the best. 

 On the other hand, leaves soak up 

 more of the urine of the animals than 

 either the straw or salt hay, and the 

 most valuable fertilizer excreted by 

 animals is the salts contained in the 

 urine. The liquiils are much more 

 valuable than the solids, if they can 

 be saved. If you have facilities for 

 storing your manure under cover, you 

 will save a great deal of the fertiliz- 

 ing elements which are lost outdoors. 



