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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



SKl'TKMIiKR 24, 1903. 



a sign of black spot or spider anywhere 



i. ,,n a bud here 



re, but Mr. Heller Bays that all 



is a tVv, ™J itus to ston 



them. Souse a Eter house of Bride and 



iv in various stages of growth, 



ami sr\ oval liuuses ol' I v. ■ 



were making fine breaks. This firm has 



had extraordinary success with this car- 



i stock in 3 ears past. \ bouse 



bul \ii'. Eeller 



says, it has not 1 D a profitable rose 



with them. A house of old .Mate. Cusin 

 hi -. find readj sale for 

 ■ mint of their beautiful 

 color. Franz Deegeii enjoys a house to 

 itself and is doing well. They like it 

 and would have planted more, only it 

 sold too well last spring. Several houses 

 are planted to Golden Gate and they 

 think well of Ivory, of which they have 

 several houses, sunrise also has a house 

 to itself. 



In one of these houses we came across 

 a bench planted with a red rose which 

 will interest rose growers pretty soon, 

 ii ■ j is cot owned by them but is 

 the property of Storrs & Harrison, who 

 bought it from the E. G. Hill Co., tne 

 originators. It is called Gen. McArthur, 

 and I understand it is to be offered to 

 the trade next spring. Here is a red 

 rose you can grow successfully in the 

 same house with your Brides and Maids 

 and it needs no expert, either, to grow 

 it. There are many other interesting 

 tenures about this place. The large 

 sheds, the coal cellars, the boilers and 

 heating system are all interesting, bul 

 time and 'space forbid. Just now they 

 are trying to figure out how they van 

 .1 , with two of their boilers what it now 

 takes six boilers to do, and do it easier. 

 as certain heating experts tell them. 

 Mr. Heller says that greenhouse heating 

 is to be revolutionized in the near fu- 

 ture. 



After dinner we drove over to the 

 Benthev place, where we found Otto 

 Benthey and his force of men engaged 

 in fiere'e combat with an army of aster 

 bugs which were determined to devour 

 the finest batch of asters I have ever 

 seen. It is a new variety of their own 

 and these plants are being raised for 

 seed. The blooms are pure white and 

 four inches across without any disbud- 

 ding, and they look like white chrysan- 

 themums. There is also a pink one just 

 like the white, save for the color. The 

 stock in the rose houses is all in full 

 growth and healthy throughout, show- 

 high degree of cultivation. The 

 arrangement of this place is ideal. The 

 houses are built on a gently rising hill- 

 side, not steep enough to tire one, and 

 the boiler shed is on the lower side. No 

 trouble in getting the water to return to 

 the boiler on that place. Their pipe 

 threading machine must have saved them 

 many a backache while they were fit- 

 ting' up their heating system. 



From here we drove across town to 

 Reiuberg & Weiland's place, where Peter 

 W.ii.iml holds the fort. He was get- 

 ting ready to drive out, so while he was 

 making his toilet his foreman showed 

 us through. Here again it was roses, 

 roses, roses, and roses again, all in tip- 

 top shape and prospects for a big cut 

 niter. This place used to grow 

 quantities of carnations, but roses have 

 evidently been found more profitable. 



Just across from the depot is L. 

 A. Jennings' place and here we found 



Mr. Bender, the grower, busy with his 

 roses, of course. All looked fine, and 

 after spending a short half hour I had 

 to hurry across for the train going down 

 to Richmond, without having time to go 

 back to see Win. Dittman's place, where 

 1 am told he is growing very good Beau- 

 ties. Oh! yes! 1 saw many interesting 

 things at Richmond, but this is enough 

 for this time and I am going over to 

 Richmond again soon and will perhaps 

 have something to tell then. 



I just want to say one more word, 

 and that is I was glad to see the genu- 

 ine friendship that exists between the 

 boys at New Castle. You do not hnd it 

 so in all cities whore there are several 

 establishments competing with one an- 

 other, although competition in business 

 does not necessarily need to make per- 

 sonal enemies. A. F. J. Bauk. 



O'MARA TO THE RESCUE. 



Ed. Florists' Review: — In 

 with the rest of your readers I am always 

 interested, entertained, instructed and 

 amused by the contributions from "W. 

 S.," our own "Great Scott." Very sel- 

 dom, indeed, is there anything in his 

 writings to criticise or amend. But in 

 his witty rejoinder, "Mr. Carmody's 

 Humor. ' ' which appeared in your issue of 

 September 3, is the following: "Irish- 

 men, so numerous and prominent now, 

 have been coming here only for the past 

 sixty y-ears. There were a few scattering 

 ones before, but not enough to leave any 

 mark on the national character." Now, 

 surely Mr. Scott did not give much 

 thought to the matter when he made 

 that statement. 



The Irish began emigrating to the 

 Colonies as soon as they were formed, 

 but the first great exodus took place when 

 they were ' ' assisted ' ' out of Ireland by 

 the late, but not lamented Mr. Oliver 

 Cromwell. The commissioners appointed 

 by him in 1652, to get rid of the native 

 population in Ireland, did their work only 

 too well. Bruodin estimated that over 

 100,000 souls were expatriated to the 

 Colonies. Dr. Lingard estimated the 

 number at 60,000. Prendergast states 

 that the total number of Irish trans- 

 ported to the Colonies from 1651 to 1660 

 exceeded the total number of inhabi- 

 tants at that period. The emigration did 

 not. stop there, but continued through 

 succeeding reigns. The next great exodus 

 took place from 1771 to 1773, mostly 

 from the North of Ireland, owing to 

 Agrarian troubles, the total number in 

 these two years being estimated at 25,000. 

 Spencer estimated the number at 17,350. 



The total number of Irish in the 

 United States in 1790, by birth and de- 

 scent, is given as 1,141,920. That vast 

 number must have left and did leave 

 their mark on the national character. 

 It would be tiresome to enumerate the 

 men of the Irish race who took prominent 

 parts in winning the freedom which we 

 now enjoy. Twelve of them are signers 

 of the Declaration of Independence. One 

 was the "perpetual secretary" of Con- 

 gress. Famous in the annals of the War 

 of the Revolution are Sullivan, Wayne, 

 Hand, Heed, Mo\ Ian, 



Barry, Knox, Maxwell, Stark, Montgom- 

 ery, Jasper. Stewart, I onway, Dooly and 

 many others, all Irishmen or descendants 

 of irishmen. The rank and file of the 

 Continental army was largely Irish. That 

 fact was settled beyond dispute by the 

 rations of the committee of the 

 House of Commons appended to investi- 



gate the cause and couduct of the war. 

 The traitor, Jos. Galloway, who was a 

 delegate to the first Continental Con- 

 gress was examined by that committee on 

 June 16, 1779, and in answer to the ques- 

 tion: "What were the troops in the 

 service of Congress chiefly composed of? 

 Were they natives of America or were 

 the greatest part of them English, Scotch 

 or Irish?" Galloway replied: "I can 

 answer the question with prevision. There 

 \\vie scarcely one-fourth natives of Amer- 

 ica, about one-half were Irish, the other 

 fourth English and Scotch." Major 

 General Robertson, testifying before the 

 same committee said: "I remember 

 General Lee telling me that half the rebel 

 army was from Ireland. ' ' Lord Mount- 

 joy, in the House of Commons, told the 

 ministers: "You have lost America 

 through the Irish." Even Froudc admits 

 the same general fact. As early as 1737 

 a Charitable Irish Society was founded 

 in Boston. Washington was an honor- 

 ary member of the ' ' Friendly Sons of St. 

 Patrick. ' ' 



I might go on and recite much more 

 showing that the Irish race was a factor 

 in forming the government of this coun- 

 try, but am not writing a history. Suf- 

 ficient has been said, I hope, to disabuse 

 Brother Scott's mind of the delusion that 

 hardly any Irish came here before the 

 days of Tapscott and Castle Garden. 



In the council and on the forum, as 

 well as on the tented field and watery 

 main. Irishmen were prominent in the 

 conflict following "the shot heard round 

 the world." As a matter of fact Sulli- 

 van's capture of Fort William and Mary 

 was the first real act of war, long before 

 Lexington; and, by the way, Major Bar- 

 rett, of that immortal day, was of the 

 Irish race. 



Patrick Henry it was who boldly cast 

 all petty subterfuge and suggestions of 

 compromise to the winds and demanded 

 liberty. When the first Continental Con- 

 gress assembled and the issue was in 

 doubt, his was the mind and his the 

 tongue which fused the body into one 

 mass for independence. Sam Adams, 

 almost in despair of the result before 

 Henry spoke, exultantly cried when he 

 sat down that now the die was cast. 

 When the infant republic was struggling 

 with the royalist tendency which threat- 

 ened to make it a weak imitation of 

 monarchy it was Matthew Lyon, an Irish- 

 man born, who began the movement 

 which ended with Jefferson's election and 

 made of the republic a true democracy. 



A few words more and I have done. 

 In Saint Paul's church yard, New York 

 City, the remains of three distinguished 

 Irishmen are laid, over whose ashes a 

 grateful country and admiring citizens 

 have erected monuments, viz: Montgom- 

 ery, Mac Nevin, Emmett. Speaking of 

 the latter the late Abram S. Hewitt 

 said: "Next to Washington and Lafay- 

 ette I think that Emmett has exercised a 

 wider influence on the formation of 

 American character than any other man 

 with whom our history is at all connected. 

 His associates who found a refuge in this 

 country were men of very remarkable 

 elevation of character ami exercised a 

 powerful influence in the formation of a 

 pure democracy. 



I will not venture to indicate the source 

 from which American wit has sprung, 

 but am satisfied that if it is as stated by 

 Brother Sett, then undoubtedly it has 

 been clarified by and derives its pun- 

 gency from the sons and daughters of 

 Ireland. PATRICK O 'MARA. 



