Decembeu 26, 1912. 



The Florists' Review 



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Higliland Park Ginservatory Greenhousest Edward G. Bass, Proprietor, Topeka, Kan. 



NOTHINa MATTER IN KANSAS. 



On East Fifteenth street at Topeka, 

 Kan., Edward G. Bass has about 10,000 

 feet of glass which he operates under 

 the name of the Highland Park Con- 

 servatory Greenhouses. This season 

 four new houses have been added to the 

 range, each 22x100. Mr. Bass was for 

 twelve years employed in the business, 

 but now for sixteen years has managed 

 his own establishment. He does both a 

 wholesale and retail business in cut 

 flowers and plants and also handles all 

 kinds of landscape gardening. No 

 longer is there anything the matter 

 with Kansas, and with a trolley by the 

 door Mr. Bass needs the extra space 

 provided by his new glass. 



DICKSON GETS MEDAL. 



The National Kose Society of Eng- 

 land, at its December meeting, by 

 unanimous vote awarded the Dean Hole 

 Memorial Medal to George Dickson, as 

 head of the firm which, in the opinion 

 of the members of this famous society, 

 has done most for the rose. The per- 

 sonal friends of George Dickson, and 

 the many friends of the firm in this 

 country, will certainly be glad to learn 

 of this signal honor. 



George Dickson entered upon his 

 eighty-first year in July, 1912, and while 

 relieved from active work by his sons, 

 is still greatly interested in the an- 

 nual introductions of the firm of which 

 he has so long been head. As all Amer- 

 ican florists know, the firm of Alexander 

 Dickson & Sons, Ltd., of Belfast and 

 Dublin, has its nurseries at Newtown- 

 ards. County Down, Ireland. Mr. Dick- 

 son has been certainly fortunate in 

 having the assistance and hearty co- 

 operation of his six sons. Of these sons 

 Alexander Dickson and George Dickson 

 are now the hybridizers and growers 

 of new roses at Newtownards; Thomas 

 Dickson is manager of the farms, while 

 Andrew Dickson is manager of the rose 

 gardens at Dublin. Hugh Dickson, so 

 well known as an expert both in sweet 

 peas and culinary peas, is manager of 

 the seed business. The legal end of 

 the business is under the able control 

 of Gordon Dickson, solicitor in Belfast, 

 who a few years ago protected the 

 right of the name Alexander Dickson 

 by securing letters patent for the dis- 

 tinctive name "Hawlmark" as applied 

 to roses, plants and seeds. 



The accompanying reproduction of a 

 photograph of George Dickson will be 

 interesting, not only to his many per- 



sonal friends in America, but also to 

 thousands of florists who have grown 

 Killarney, Liberty, Mrs. Jardine and 

 Melody. The lovely Fire Flame, about 

 to be introduced, will still further ad- 

 vance the prestige of the premier 

 rosarians. 



Among the garden peas sent out by 

 Alexander Dickson & Sons are Pilot, 

 the largest podded first early smooth 

 pea, and Boyal Salute, the most popular 

 of all large podded late peas in Eng- 

 land. Among the sweet peas are Flor- 



George Dickson. 



ence Nightingale, Irish Belle and Ver- 

 milion Brilliant, all three so deservedly 

 popular in America. 



W. Atlee Burpee. 



PLANTS FOE EASTEE. 



Will you kindly tell me what plants, 

 sowed or planted now or later, would 

 bring a profitable crop for Easter f 

 N. J. H. 



There is not time to sow any seeds 

 and have the plants flowering for 

 Easter, which is now only three months 

 away. A few plants which you could 

 grow and flower at that time, and which 

 are always in demand, are: Spiraeas, 

 such as Japonica, Gladstone and astil- 

 boides. These, if potted in January, 



will be on time. You can purchase such 

 plants as lilacs, deutzias, rhododen- 

 drons. Azalea mollis. Azalea Indica, 

 hydrangeas and rambler roses, and force 

 them into bloom without much trouble, 

 provided you have a temperature of 60 

 degrees at night. Some of these will 

 flower in six weeks from starting, but 

 the roses and hydrangeas must be 

 placed in heat as soon as possible. 

 There are no bulbs which you could 

 now plant and flower for Easter; all 

 should have been started before this 

 time. C. W. 



LIVE WIRES. 



You hear a whole lot nowadays about 

 live wires, etc. — how effective they are. 

 That's all right, and live wires are all 

 right, so long as they connect. But how 

 many of them dot 



Did you ever see a trolley wire break 

 and fall to the ground? Not much 

 doing, except a hurrying of people and 

 great big flashes of electric light— a lot 

 of waste power. 



Didn't that sparkling trolley wire re- 

 mind you a whole lot of a great many 

 so-called live wire people f They furr 

 around, fume around, apparently very 

 much alive and very active, but like 

 the broken wire they don't connect. 

 They are mostly wasted energy. 



I am heartily fond of active people, 

 but give me the steady puller that's 

 always ready to deliver the goods, that 

 keeps up a steady plugging all the 

 while. 



He doesn 't cause any interruptions in 

 work, because he's a connected wire. 

 That's the sort you ought to try to be. 

 Be a live wire, but connect. — Buck's 

 Shot. 



State College, Pa.— Professor Arthur 

 Westcott Cowell has been placed at the 

 head of the courses in landscape gar- 

 dening in the Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege, a position previously filled by 

 Professor John W. Gregg. Mr. Cowell 's 

 training for the profession began at the 

 Buffalo Botanical Gardens in 1898 and 

 has continued through all phases of the 

 work of a landscape designer. He has 

 acquired considerable reputation as a 

 designer, and as a field engineer and 

 plantsman among landscape gardeners. 

 A large number of private estates and 

 parks and railroad improvements 

 throughout the east bear the earmarks 

 of his craftsmanship. He was one of 

 the pioneers on the landscape gardening 

 course at Cornell University, taking his 

 degree there in 1903, and immediately 

 went into active work. 



