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RECREATION,F,24 West 39th Street, New York City 
A Butler’s Pantry Door 
should swing both ways; should close gently and 
without noise and stop at once at the centre 
without vibrating. The only way to accomplish 
this is to use the “BARDSLEY” CHECKING 
HINGE. It goes in the floor under the door and 
there are no ugly projections on the door. 
JOSEPH BARDSLEY 
147-151 Baxter Street New York City 
knows of they were twice as much as the 
plants cost, because of the heavy ma¬ 
terial used to make the boxes. One 
nurseryman near this city bought 30,000 
of this class of stock from Ohio to grow 
into large plants. When rooted and es¬ 
tablished, no locality in the world pro¬ 
duces bushes so large nor flowers so fine 
as does California. Banksia plants may 
be seen in this State with bodies eight¬ 
een inches in diameter, with tops com¬ 
pletely covering two storied houses, 
Lamarque, the Cherokees and Mine. 
Alfred Carriere about half as large. A 
bush of this last named variety, trained 
in tree form, had a top of ten feet spread 
with a trunk twelve Inches in diameter at 
the base. 
The difficulty has been in rooting the 
cuttings in sufficient numbers to meet 
the demand for plants. The low rela¬ 
tive humidity has seemed to be the prob¬ 
lem to solve. It is true that working 
on manetti stocks, the cuttings of which 
root readily, is practiced by many of our 
nurserymen, but it is a laborious and 
slow process which so increases the cost 
of production that they cannot com¬ 
pete with Eastern growers of glass house 
stock, who sell at least ten plants to 
Pacific coast planters for every one dis¬ 
posed of by our own growers. Then 
again, budded stock is not in favor be¬ 
cause of the tendency of the stock to 
sucker and crowd out the bud. 
All sorts of methods have been re¬ 
sorted to by nurserymen with varying 
degrees of success, and the problem after 
years of toil and experiments bas been 
successfully solved by C. E. Howland, 
president and manager of tbe California 
Rose Company, Pomona. At present 
they have twelve acres solid devoted to 
roses one year old, and a beautiful sight 
it is to see that field in full bloom. They 
have 400,000 cuttings in frames with a 
98 per cent strike, and are at work now 
on the last 100,000 batch to complete 
their half million for the year. 
The method employed is simple but 
requires the closest attention to details 
from the making of the cutting to the 
hardening off process. Hotbeds of man¬ 
ure 18 inches deep are covered with two 
inches of soil, then with clean sand to a 
depth of three inches. The frames are 
covered with sash which are kept closed 
night and day, except to syringe the 
stock every morning, and then but one 
sash is lifted at a time, until the plants 
are rooted when the hardening off 
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