January, 1918 
J^lowsr (Brower 
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“By the word ‘amateur’ is understood a 
person who maintains a garden with a view 
to his or her own use and enjoyment and 
not for the purpose of making a profit or 
gaining a livelihood. No person can com- 
pete in the amateur classes who employs a 
trained gardener, or who is employed as 
such. 
“ An objection raised to the rightful qualifi- 
cation of an exhibitor shall be dealt with by 
the executive committee. All protests lodged 
with them shall be judged according to their 
merits and the committee’s decision shall be 
final.” 
Hedges. 
While it is often a matter of taste as 
to whether a hedge should be planted 
or not, it is best to consider the hedge 
as a utilitarian feature rather than an 
ornamental one. In other words, do 
not advise a hedge unless it has a pur- 
pose other than being ornamental. 
Hedges were originally planted as 
barriers, but their use has become 
largely a habit, or, like the mantels in 
steam-heated houses, become purely 
ornamental. 
There is something a little selfish 
about a hedge. I often recall as a boy 
in England the vain efforts to see the 
beautiful gardens either through or 
over them, but since growing up I 
have also felt the need of a wall or 
hedge to protect the garden treasures. 
If a hedge is needed either to mark 
a boundary for a screen or to separate 
one section of ground from another, 
select a suitable one and have it as 
handsome as possible. It is better to 
be without a hedge than have one 
thin at the base, gappy and uneven. 
The California Privet is, perhaps, the 
best hedge plant in existence, in its 
particular territory, and for this rea- 
son it has become so common as to 
be tiresome, and one longs for a little 
more variation, yet when it is well 
planted wonderful results can be ob- 
tained. 
The Jersey coast is famous for its 
Privet hedges, as the salt air and sandy 
soil of the seashore seem to suit it. 
It rarely gets winter-killed there, while 
a little further inland it is killed pe- 
riodically even in the same latitude. 
With many hedges, killing back is 
often a blessing in disguise, if the roots 
are not injured it will come up thicker 
than ever and a new one is formed in 
one season. 
It is to be recommended when a 
Privet hedge is old, or thin at the base, 
that it be cut down to about six inches 
of the ground. This should be done in 
early April. 
Too often when planting a new 
hedge, everything is sacrificed for im- 
mediate effect. The client is too anx- 
ious to get a full grown hedge right 
away. This is impossible. A hedge 
worthwhile must be grown from the 
bottom up. 
Hedge planters usually have their 
own ideas as to distance between 
plants, double or single row, depth to 
which the plant should be set and cut 
after they are set, but whatever the 
opinion the hedge will be no better or 
more vigorous than the single plants 
composing it, and it will not be a suc- 
cess unless they all grow evenly and 
vigorously. To insure this the essen- 
tials are: A deep trench with good 
soil, no overhanging trees, young vig- 
orous plants that have not been dried 
out, sufficient room between the plants 
to allow each one to develop (about 
one to every twelve inches is about 
right), set the plants down to where 
they branch, and cut the plants off 
level, leaving not more than six inches 
above ground. If these are provided, 
a good thick hedge from the bottom 
up will be the result. — Nat. Nursery- 
man. 
A single corm of the variety Mrs. Dr. 
Norton which by actual count produced 447 
cormels. 
Photograph sent us by the originator A. 
E. Kunderd, Goshen, Ind. 
Catalogues and Price Lists. 
Jelle Roos, Milton, Mass. Illustrated cata- 
logue and price list of Gladioli, 12 pages and 
cover. The varieties Mary Fennell and 
Daisy Rand are shown in color and the 
cover is finely illustrated in color. The 
catalogue lists an exceptionally fine selec- 
tion of the most meritorious sorts in com- 
merce. 
A. E. Kunderd, Goshen, Ind.— 48 page 
catalogue and cover, listing the Kunderd 
Gladiolus productions including the new 
sorts introduced during the last year or two. 
Finely illustrated and with many useful 
hints on culture, etc. The Kunderd varie- 
ties are fully described and many of them 
illustrated by fine halftones. This cata- 
logue should be in the hands of every Gladi- 
olus grower. 
H. E. Meader, Dover, N. H.— Wholesale 
list of northern grown Gladiolus corms, 
about 20 named sorts and mixtures. 
W. E. Kirchhoff Co., Pembroke, N. Y. — 
Trade list of Gladioli for 1918, about 20 va- 
rieties. 
Earl Edgerton, Lansing, Mich.— Retail list 
of a dozen choice varieties including several 
of the Kunderd specialties. 
L. Merton Gage, Natick, Mass.— Whole- 
sale price list of about three dozen selected 
standard varieties and some of the finest 
new sorts including Mrs. Dr. Norton. 
E. E. Stewart, Brooklyn, Mich. — Four page 
wholesale price list with extra good descrip- 
tions of selected American grown and foreign 
varieties, including Mr. Stewart’s specialties. 
Austin-Coleman Company, Wayland, Ohio 
—Wholesale list of the Austin originations, 
Evelyn Kirtland, Herada, etc., with descrip- 
tion. 
Wilbur A. Christy, Warren, Ohio— Whole- 
sale list of standard varieties and the Christy 
originations including the new Prim Beauty. 
Ray P. Selover, Lakeside, R. D. No. 9, 
Auburn, N. Y. — Descriptive wholesale list 
of Gladioli, six pages. All of the best well 
known and standard sorts with many of the 
new and improved varieties, and priced in 
ten and one hundred quantities. 
Garden Planning in Winter. 
The planning of a garden can be be- 
gun right now. January is just as 
good a time to make a garden in the 
imagination as any time we know of. 
Vegetables and flowers planted around 
the fire in January are necessarily much 
finer and more ideal than those we 
actually plant in the garden in the 
spring, but yet the winter gardening 
has its place, and advance planting is 
always profitable if consistently and 
skilfully carried out. 
In the north where a blanket of snow 
covers the ground during the winter, 
when the sun begins to shine for a 
longer period after January 1st, our 
thoughts turn toward spring planting. 
We should confine ourselves mostly to 
standards and not branch out into 
novelties and experiments. This ad- 
vice is especially pertinent during war 
time. Many war gardens which were 
made last year resulted in a great loss 
of labor from the fact that things were 
produced which could not be utilized. 
Profit by your last year’s experience 
and plant standard crops which are 
useful anywhere and at any time. 
Crops which may be used for animal 
food if not wanted for human food are 
to be favored. In flowers stick to the 
tried and true with only a sprinkling 
of the newer sorts for trial. 
Prolific Corms of Peace. 
One of our subscribers writes as fol- 
lows : 
"Can anyone beat this? I had three 
bulbs of the variety Peace which had 
19 flowers on each spike. I think 
this will be hard to beat and I presume 
it must have been on account of so 
much rain.” j. T. D. 
Ray P. Selover 
| GROWER OF CHOICE 
GLADIOLI 
I Send for new descriptive wholesale list. 
R. D. No. 9 Auburn, N.Y. 
MAPLESHADE GLADIOLI 
THE CHOICEST OF THE OLD, AND SOME 
VERY FINE NEW VARIETIES. 
Send for price list. 
Wilbur A. Christy, 315 N. Tod Ave. Warren, 0. 
