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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
regulation Privet eannot be used satisfaetorily. 
For unusual eonditions and plaees the j)ossibililies ol 
the Gonnnon Honeysueklc, Lonicera HaUeana should not 
be overlooked. It can hardly be classed as a hedge plant as 
it is a vine, but given the proper support it will form one 
of the most satisfactoiy hedges it is possible to get as 
attested by the accompanying photograph. 
From a practical point of view it is all that can be de¬ 
sired when properly established and cared for. 
To secure a good honeysuckle hedge a fence is neces¬ 
sary, preferably of wire with not larger than a six inch 
mesh to support the vine. 
Plant the vines about two feet apart in well prepared 
holes and they will cover a fence six feet high in one 
season. 
Little attention is required the first year, but it is very 
essential that all the straggling ends be clipped olT close 
every spring. This annual clipping is all the attention re¬ 
quired to keep it uniform and insure a good crop of 
flowers. 
KEEP UP AND EXTEND YOUR ACQUAINTANCE 
WITH PLANTS IN YOUR NURSERY 
It matters little how well posted a man may be on 
plants if he does not renew acquaintance with them an¬ 
nually in their growing and flowering season they are 
very liable to pass out of his recollection. 
For this reason alone it is worth while to take stock 
on the nursery. 
Plants will suggest themselves for propagation or 
special attention. 
It is not so much the new things as properly growing 
and exploiting the worthy old ones that is likely to be 
profitable. 
Today, July 7th, I came across the Stewartia pentagyna 
grandiflora in flower in the nursery. What a beautiful 
thing it is. As a flower it will compare favorably with 
some of those choice exotics that need greenhouse pro¬ 
tection to keep them alive, yet here is a hardy shrub, a 
native of Georgia almost unknown in nurseries. 
Some wise nurseryman will work up a stock of it and 
feature it. It is a sure winner for it would be difficult to 
find a lady customer who could see one in flower and not 
order it. 
It produces seed veiy readily which should be sown 
as soon as ripe. It may be propagated by cuttings made 
from half ripened wood in late summer or by layering. 
Another plant was noticed that may turn out a good 
thing, a variegated plant of Berberis Thunbergi. It cer¬ 
tainly looked attractive if it will retain its present color 
under propagation, but so many of these “sports” revert 
back to the type when they are grown under different 
conditions. 
Going through the nursery, taking stock made the mind 
hark back to student days at Kew, when all those ranking 
as gardeners were allowed three iiuarters of an hour on 
cerlain days of the week to wander at will in any part 
of the gardens to become familiar with the different 
])lants. While perhaps the privilege was abused by a cer¬ 
tain percentage of the gardeners, it meant a great deal to 
those who wanted to learn, and it is safe to say that all 
regretted they did not make even better use of the ar¬ 
rangement. It is a plan that is worth consideration on 
commercial nurseries in America as a means to encour¬ 
age interest of the younger element of employees. 
SOME TREES GET HARDIER WITH AGE 
David Fairchild says:— The experience of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture in testing introduced trees for 
hardiness has shown that much is to be gained by giving 
the young trees adequate protection during their baby¬ 
hood, when they are naturally less hardy than at a more 
advanced age. 
This has long been known to nurserymen who practice 
various methods to protect the trees until the wood is old 
enough to stand the winters without protection. 
Some plants when left to themselves are killed back 
year after year until they manage to ])ull through a mild 
winter when their troubles are apparently over. 
A good illustration of this is the Paulownia imperialis. 
This tree is a very rapid grower and each succeeding year 
sends up a vigorous growth, the killing back seems to 
accumulate strength in the root for after being killed 
back for several years it will make a trunk fifteen to 
twenty feet in one season in rich ground and is truly a 
wonder plant to those not familiar with the cause. 
To preserve the trunk all that is necessary is to wrap 
the trunk in newspapers to keep the sun off them during 
the winter. 
The English Walnut and Magnolia macrophylla are other 
trees that are very tender while young yet if they are 
protected in their youth are hardy enough to develop into 
fine trees in the latitude of Philadelphia. 
THE “AMERICAN SEEDSMAN” 
At the Chicago Convention we had the pleasure of mak¬ 
ing the acquaintance ot a journal devoted to the seed 
trade and affiliated interests. 
We take this belated opportunity to welcome the Amer¬ 
ican Seedsman and wish it a long, useful and profitable 
career. 
It has a wide and rich field to cultivate and judging 
from its first issues it has the ability to make good. 
It says little about itself but much about seeds. This 
is a good sign. It is published at 332 South La Salle 
St., Chicago. 
THE HAPPY RELEASE ' 
Mrs. De Smyth-Jones— “Now I want you to save me 
an extra supply of flowers next week. My daughter 
Alice is coming out, you know.” 
Proprietor of Stall— “Yes, mum. I’ll save ’er the 
very best, pore thing. Whatever was she put in for?”-- 
Saturday Journal {London). 
