June 30, 190(1 



Horticulture 



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WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS. 



Crotons need sunlight to bring out 

 briliant coloring, and so do dracaenas 

 but the latter require more care and 

 discrimination; bringing them into 

 bright sunlight suddenly will burn the 

 foliage. 



Primulas and cinerarias, from the 

 time the seed is sown until they are 

 through flowering, need incessant care, 

 careful watering, careful potting, and 

 careful handling, and only when using 

 good judgment and care in every par- 

 ticular will satisfactory results be 

 obtained. 



It is already time to think out the 

 problem of what pays best for Christ- 

 mas. Don't keep a lot ot useless stuff 

 around; push ahead the things most 

 ..nely to be in general demand. In the 

 case of a novelty say but little about it 

 until pretty certain that it will amount 

 io something; then will be the time 

 to push it. Only by the widest publi- 

 city through the medium of the 

 horticultural press after all, can any 

 great number of interested persons be 

 informed when you have stock enough 

 raised to make something out of it. 

 Last Christmas medium-sized plants 

 were more in demand throughout the 

 country than ever before. Lorraine 

 Legon.as were prime tav'orites; that is 

 worth keeping in mind. There is a 

 new Nephrolepis recently introduced 

 that will be just the thing to satisfy 

 customers in search of Christmas 

 plants of pleasing form but of sombre 

 hue. It will sell well in 5 in. or (1 in. 

 pans and there is time enough to get 

 them into those sizes before the 

 holidays. 



The fall of the year is the best time 

 to plant peonies therefore select the 

 varieties wanted and order early so as 

 to get strong plants. 



Now that some houses are empty or 

 nearly so it is a convenient time to 

 give the inside a thorough cleaning 

 and one or more coats ot good white 

 paint. 



Keep the hoe going among carnation 

 plants; at the same time keep in mind 

 the difference between hoeing and dig- 

 ging; too deep hoeing is apt to work 

 injury while light hoeing is very bene- 

 ficial, and the knack of doing it is 

 easily acquired with practice. 



Remember the flower show. Thou 

 shalt go there, thou and thy man 

 servant and thy maid servant, and thou 

 shalt give them tickets of admission or 

 the wherewithal to purchase the same. 

 When in the exhibition hall if thou 

 seest aught that pleases thee not, keep 

 it to thyself, for thy neighbor hath 

 feelings which thou shouldst not hurt, 

 otherwise he may overhear thee and 

 be angered and what wilt thou have 

 for thy outspokenness? Remember 

 that thou shouldst have no work done 

 in the garden or in the greenhouse on 

 the Sabbath Day except what is abso- 

 lutely necessary thou, as well as all 

 within thy gates, needst rest on the 

 Sabbath day. 



In the heat of summer ease up a bit 

 on yourself and on those dependent on 

 you more or less, remember that the 

 best man is not he who rushes, on the 

 approach of his employer; on the con- 

 trary such a fellow is usually worth 

 the watching morning and night until 

 pay day. 



FOREIGN NOTES. 



Among the numerous villas of Italy 

 celebrated for their architectural 

 beauty and the glory of their gardens, 

 the Villa Borghese is by no means the 

 least noteworthy. It was begun in 161S 

 and the gardens have been at different 

 times enlarged in extent by various 

 eminent landscape gardeners. Many 

 American travelers have no doubt wan- 

 dered through the place and know 

 more of its history and attractiveness 

 than can be put within the scope of a 

 short newspaper article like this. 



The chief object of these notes is 

 simply to draw attention to a danger 

 which threatens the very existence of 

 the place for it appears that having 

 been purchased by the municipality of 

 Rome the Villa Borghese now forms a 

 public park, and that there is some in- 

 tention on the part of the Italian gov- 

 ernment to build the newly constitute I 

 International Institute of Agriculture 

 on the spot, thereby seriously if not 

 altogether affecting the ancient Villa 

 Borghese and spoiling its adjacent 

 gardens. Some correspondence has 

 taken place in the local newspaper, and 

 it is to be hoped that the protests may 

 have the effect of sparing this historic 

 building from twentieth century de- 

 struction, and that another site may 

 be found for the contemplated build- 

 ing and museum that will form the 

 headquarters of the new International 

 Institute of Agriculture. 



A grand volume on the art of garden 

 design in Italy has just been published 

 by Mr. Inigo Triggs. It is an immense 

 [olio in size and is got up in really 

 handsome style, the printing and illus- 

 trations being executed in the very 

 highest art. We must, however, defer 

 our notice of it until the next contri- 

 bution of "Library Notes." 



C. HARMAN PAYNE. 



OBITUARY. 

 Lyons' horticulture has suffered a 

 severe loss by the death of M. 

 Gabriel Chabanne. Chabanne was a 

 thorough Frenchman and a gardener 

 of European repute. He was at- 

 tached to the Botanic Gardens in the 

 Teted'or Park at Lyons, France; he 

 jointly assisted Dr. Gerard in the 

 editing of "L'horticulture nouvelle"; 

 he was also an active member of the 

 French National Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety and joint author of a little work 

 on the chrysanthemum with M. 

 Choulet of the same city. He was 

 secretary of the Lyons' Horticultural 

 Society, which he had done much to 

 render prosperous, and his body was 

 followed to the grave by a large num- 

 ber of his sorrowing townsfolk with 

 whom Chabanne was a great favorite. 

 He was only 44 years of age and one 

 of those energetic, useful men the 

 world can ill afford to lose. 



"Horticulture Is the Best Medium." 

 Editor HORTICULTURE: 



We must discontinue our large 

 advertisement this week in order to 

 catch up with the orders we have re- 

 ceived since its first insertion. We 

 find that HORTICUTURE is the besl 

 medium for advertising that we have 

 ever had. 



Mass. H. H. BARROWS & SON. 



HARDY PLANT NOTES. 



Catalpas are, just at this period of 

 the year, subject to the attack of a long 

 black worm that attacks the leaves 

 and quickly chews them up. The best 

 remedy is to spray with the following 

 solution: Three pounds of blue stone; 

 three pounds of lime; four ounces of 

 paris green mixed with fifty gallons 

 of water. It will kill them in fifteen 

 or twenty minutes. 



Shrubbery groups are made pretty at 

 this period by the bright red flower of 

 Spiraea bumalda Anthony Waterer. 

 This variety is far superior to the 

 species bumalda, and the latter will 

 likely be propagated only on a small 

 scale when Anthony Waterer is bet- 

 ter known. 



The best golden arbor vitae is Geo. 

 Peabody, yet Vervaene's is more grace- 

 ful in outline and has a yellow varia- 

 tion through the foliage that is very 

 pretty. Some claim the latter will 

 stand a more severe location. At this 

 period the Geo. Peabody looks excep- 

 tionally pretty. 



An evergreen that will be more 

 largely planted when better known is 

 Douglas' weeping spruce. It has a 

 slight tinge of blue that is very pretty. 



The evening primroses are just com- 

 ing into flower and Youngii can be 

 termed the best of all. There is an 

 unusually large and showy one — Mis- 

 souriensis — that has flowers three and 

 four inches across. 



Though hardy white and pink varie- 

 ties of perennial hibiscus are abun- 

 dant it has seemed impossible to get a 

 hardy red or scarlet one. An excel- 

 lent scarlet strain has now been raised 

 that has flowers as large as any of 

 the other types. It was secured by- 

 crossing coccinea with a hardy type 

 and represents a number of years of 

 hard work. It will be exhibited at the 

 Jamestown Exposition in 1907, for the 

 first time. 



The pretty little light-foliaged 

 Veronica Candida is now in bloom. It 

 is an excellent blue-flowering plant for 

 border planting or edging. 



In addition to the new hybrid 

 Wichuraiana Roses mentioned in a 

 recent issue, special note should be 

 made of the varieties Alberic Barbier 

 and Rene Andre. Alberic Barbier is 

 a double of a creamy white color and 

 comes out in a lovely bud form. The 

 foliage is evergreen and exceptionally 

 fine. Rene Andre is quite similar in 

 form and foliage and has a very pretty- 

 flesh pink flower, double. 



WARREN J. CHANDLER. 



Enclosed find a crisp dollar bill to 

 pay for HORTICULTURE. I enjoy it 

 very much and wish you success in 

 every wav M. L. 



A PEONY LIST. 



T. D. Hatfield's list of the best peo- 

 nies, carefully selected from those on 

 exhibition at the recent peony show, 

 was as follows: 



White or tinted white — Festiva Max- 

 ima. Jules Lebon, M. Dupont. 

 Couronne d'Or, M. Emile Lemoine, 

 Solfaterre, Mdme. Carlot. Mt. Blanc, 

 Avalanche, Mrs. Winn Lewis. 



Pink — Mdme. Geissler, Marguerite 

 Gerard, Susanne Desert, Aehille, Miss 

 Brice, Venus, Therese, Zoe Calot, Asa 

 Gray, Germeine Bigot, Charles Ver- 

 dier, Halbid, Baroness Schroeder. 



Dark colors — Felix Crousse, Adolphe 

 Rosseau, Plutarch, Fortegat. 



