February 17, 1906 



horticulture: 



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WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS. 



Begin to save manure for hot beds, 

 if you have not grenhouses enough. 

 Leaves mixed with the manure do 

 pretty well. 



Start in time with preventives for 

 mildew. Sulphur is about the best 

 thing to use; either dust it over the 

 damp pipes or paint the pipes with it. 



Many kinds of seeds ought to be 

 sown now; among them, lobelia, salvia, 

 dianthu.s in variety, including Mar- 

 guerite carnations, alyssum and 

 verbena. 



Do not for a moment let up on cut- 

 tings. Take them off as fast as they 

 appear fit and put them in. There is 

 no time like the present. This is es- 

 pecially applicable to the propagation 

 of nearly all kinds of bedding plants. 



Finish tying peaches and nectarines 

 if the mild weather started them. Be 

 careful to put on all the air possible 

 in the day time, but take no chances 

 nights; you may even have to give 

 them a little heat earlier than you 

 thought you would. 



If hollyhocks have been in flats the 

 greater part of the winter they must be 

 growing into one another now; if so 

 lift every other one out by way of thin- 

 ning, put them either in flats or put 

 them in small pots, or still better a 

 little later on plant them in cold 

 frames. 



As the season advances growth ad- 

 vances with it indoors as well as out. 

 Repotting will be in order. Use good 

 material; avoid anything that is likely 

 to sour; use clean pots, clean outside 

 and inside; clean crocks, you can keep 

 the crocks sweet and clean, too, if over 

 tliem you put either a little sphagnum 

 or a piece of tough sod. 



If gardenias intended for summer 

 flowering have not yet been planted do 

 not delay any longer. In removing the 

 old gardenia plants, if some of them 

 are extra fine — of the pity-to-throw- 

 away kind — put a few of them in large 

 pots. No doubt you will get quite a 

 few flowers from them, and sometimes 

 nice plants in flower are used, plants, 

 flower and all, for decorations. 



Start grape vines cool at first in or- 

 der not to unduly excite the vines. 

 After they are started syringe the 

 vines several times a day and keep the 

 house moderately moist, but be care- 

 ful not to overwater at the roots; they 

 do not require a great deal of water 

 until they are about breaking. How- 

 ever, when water is applied to grape 

 vine roots it should be thorough, so 

 much so that every root gets an equal 

 share of water. 



If benches are to be replanted with 

 American Beauty roses for midsummer 

 flowering begin to get things in order 

 for them. The first consideration is 

 to get good, clean, healthy stock in at 

 least 3 1-2 inch pots. Even if good 

 stock costs a trifle more don't hesitate 

 but get the best. When the time for 

 flowers comes around it will be but 

 small consolation to know you saved a 

 cent or two on each plant if no flowers 

 of any consequence are forthcoming. 



ADIANTUM CUNEATUM. 



Adiantum cuneatum is not generally 

 regarded as a good subject for living- 

 room culture. The specimen illustrated 

 herewith has been in possession of a 

 lady for ten years dining which time 

 It has been constantly in the dwelling 

 house. It measures over 15 ft. in cir- 



OBITUARY. 



cumference and :'.T inches in height. 

 The health of the plant is evident in 

 tlic picture. An example like this 

 demonstrates the possibilities with this 

 fern and justifies the florist in recom- 

 mending it as a good subject for 

 dwelling house culture when properly 

 cared for. 



MARECHAL NIEL. 

 Mr. Editor: 



Could you spare space enough in 

 your valued HORTICULTURE to get. 

 or ask the opinion of its readers, as 

 to the proper treatment to be given a 

 four-year-old Marechal Niel rose bush ; 

 as to whether it should be dried off 

 or slightly chilled, and about how to 

 prune it to get it to flower properly. 



This information would be of con- 

 siderable value to me and will be 

 thankfully appreciated. 



Respectfully. 



F. B. 



If the Marechal Niel rose has made 

 good growth, water should be grad- 

 ually withheld and plenty of air given 

 so that it may get thoroughly ripened, 

 as on this depends not only the 

 amount of flowers but the quality also. 

 All the pruning required will be to cut 

 back the long growths to firm wood: 

 then tie them in to the trellis, making 

 sure to give them a good bend to in- 

 duce them to break back, otherwise 

 the flowers will all be at the tips. The 

 starting up does not differ materially 

 from that given to a Hamburg grape- 

 vine, except that the temperature 

 should be a little lower. 



ALEX. MONTGOMERY. 



With the next issue of HORTICUL- 

 TURE we shall present our sub- 

 scribers with another in the series of 

 beautiful colored plates, the subject 

 being the sweet pea noveltj o 1906 

 Henry Eckford. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



A Manual of the Phlox. By C. S. 

 Harrison, York, Neb. Full of the en- 

 thusiasm the author puts into all his 

 work and well worth the price, 25 

 cents. 



Leaflet No. 8 of the American Civic 

 Association. Department of Nuisances. 

 tells about mosquitos and how to 

 abate them. Frederick Law Olmsted, 

 Jr.. and Henry Clay Weeks are the 

 authors. The mosquito problem once 

 solved, country life will become ;i 

 paradise. 



John E. Barry. 



on the loth day of February, at the 

 home of his sister. Mrs. Patrick Dono- 

 van, in Roxbury, Mass., occurred th.- 

 death of Mr. John Barry, for twenty 

 years an employe of Mr. W. E. Doyle. 

 Mr. Barry was born in Boston 32 years 

 ago, and was the son of the late Ed- 

 ward Barry and his wife, nee Mary 

 Anna Joyce. He was educated in the 

 public schools of his native city, and 

 while at school gave promise of a 

 bright and prosperous future. In both 

 his private and business life after- 

 wards John Barry redeemed the prom- 

 ise of his youth. He was a modest 

 man. who incorporated his religious 

 belief in his practical living. Bright 

 of mind, artistic in trade, unflagging 

 in industry, loyal and scrupulously 

 honest toward his employer and just 

 toward all men, Mr. Barry has niad<' 

 for himself a brilliant record, and 

 created for those around him and for 

 all win i in any way felt the touch of 

 his beautiful life a noble economic 

 and Christian ideal. 



Mr. Barry's death was caused by 

 heart weakness, which came upon 

 him swiftly and is a distinct and em- 

 phatic loss to the florist world, whose 

 patrons, particularly amongst the 

 highest grade of patronage, so deeply 

 esteemed the aristocratic blending of 

 fine and gentle courtesy found in 

 young Mr. Barry. The obsequies 

 were solemnized on Feb. 13th in St. 

 Joseph's Church. Roxbury. At the 

 solemn Mass of Requiem Rev. Father 

 Fahey was celebrant; Rev. Father 

 Sullivan was dean; Rev. Father Ring. 

 sub-deacon, and Rev. Henry A. Barry, 

 D. D.. a relative of the deceased, was 

 master of ceremonies. The unusually 

 large and tearful assemblage of 

 mourners from the various walks of 

 life, particularly from the florist 

 world, gave silent but certain evi- 

 dence that a bright, beautiful and val- 

 uable life had been brought to a close, 

 and that the ashes of a true son, of a 

 devoted brother, of a faithful employe 

 and of a staunch friend were being 

 consigned to the grave. Eternal rest 

 be his! 



Charles R. Emslie. 



Charles R. Emslie, brother of Alex- 

 ander Emslie. died at his home in 

 Berlin. Vt., of tuberculosis, on Monday. 

 Feb. 6. Mr. Emslie was born in Aber- 

 deen, Scotland, June 14, 1869, but has 

 been in this country for ten years, six 

 of which have been spent in the em- 

 ploy of his brother. He leaves a wife 

 and child. He was a prominent mem- 

 ber of the Burns Club and of Clan 

 Gordon of Barre. 



Benjamine P. Ware. 



Benjamin P. Ware of Clifton, Mass., 

 died at the Massachusetts Homoe- 

 pathic Hospital in Boston on Feb. 7, 

 aged 83 years. He was an active par- 

 ticipant in Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society politics for many years. 



A- we go to press we receive the 

 aev without details, of the death of 

 the mother of Robert Craig. 



