Photo by F. V. Covllle 

 PHOTOGRAPH OF THt FIRST MAYFLOWER PLANTS, OR TRAHJNG ARBUTUS, GROWN 



FROM se;ld 



"The flowers have the same fragrance and range of color as the wild ones, but larger 

 size, some of them reaching seven-eighths of an inch in diameter; and the leaves are not so 

 disfigured by insects as are those of the wild plants. . . . It is to be hoped that the 

 ma3-flower will become a familiar plant of woodland gardens and florists' windows, and thus 

 be saved from the practical extermination with which it is threatened, and which indeed in 

 the neighborhood of many of our cities has already actually occurred." 



mayflower in a fertile garden soil or in 

 any potting soil enriched by lime, ma- 

 nure, and fertilizer. Kindness of that 

 sort is fatal. 



Akhough florists are slow to take up 

 the culture of new plants until popularity 

 and profit are assured, there appears no 

 reason, concerned with practicability or 

 skill, why any competent flower-grower 

 cannot repeat commercially with these 



plants what the writer has done in scien- 

 tific experiment. 



It is to be hoped that the mayflower 

 will become a familiar plant of woodland 

 gardens and florists' windows, and thus 

 be saved from the practical extermina- 

 tion with which it is threatened, and 

 which indeed in the neighborhood of 

 many of our cities has already actually 

 occurred. 



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