. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . URSERY DEPARTM CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH MEEHAN .^fj^ gSyyajfESEeg^^gi^^ae-fitgsEayri; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN—President. Lioyd C. Mo.: Vice-Pres., J. R. Mavhew. Waxahachie. Texas; J. W. ^Ioines. Iowa; Secy, Curtis Nye Smith. 19 Congress Boston, Pinus Mughus {Subject of this weeks illustration) We have mentioned in former notes how the SwissMountain Pine is known as Pinus Mughus to some per-sons, as P. montana to others, and
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . URSERY DEPARTM CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH MEEHAN .^fj^ gSyyajfESEeg^^gi^^ae-fitgsEayri; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN—President. Lioyd C. Mo.: Vice-Pres., J. R. Mavhew. Waxahachie. Texas; J. W. ^Ioines. Iowa; Secy, Curtis Nye Smith. 19 Congress Boston, Pinus Mughus {Subject of this weeks illustration) We have mentioned in former notes how the SwissMountain Pine is known as Pinus Mughus to some per-sons, as P. montana to others, and there are stillothers who call it P. pumilio. Under the name of P. Mughus we received the ac-companying photograph of a specimen of this Pine grow-ing on the grounds of Swarthmore College, is the typical form as usually found in collections,and represents a plant we should consider of maturegrowth. There are many such in the vicinity of Phila-delphia, planted 30 years or so ago, such as the one ofour illustration would represent. This is an example of a perfectlynatural tree, no pruning having beendone, and it rarely occurs that any-thing happens to disturb its sym-metry. As there are three types of growthof this Pine all going under the gen-eral name of Mountain Pine, andlisted variously under such names asP. Mughus, p. montana and p. pumilio,some care is necessary when pur-chasing plan
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