March 17, 1906 



H ORTICULTU RE 



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PERFUMED FRAGMENTS. 



"My love has breath o' roses, 

 O' roses, o' roses, 

 Wi' arms o' lily posies, 

 To fault! a lassie in." 



"O gin my love were you red rose, 

 Thai grows upon the castle wa', 

 And I mysel' a drap of dew, 

 Down on that red rose I would fa'." 



"Whatsoe'er of beauty 



Yearns and yet reposes, 



Blush, and bosom, and sweet breath, 



Took a shape in roses." 



"Look to the blowing Rose about us — 



'Lo, 

 Laughing,' she says, 'into the world 



I blow. 

 At once the silken tassel of my Purse 

 Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden 



throw.' " 



"There grows a bonnie brier bush in 



our kail yard, 

 And white are the blossoms o't in our 



kail yard, 

 Like wee bit cockauds, to deck our 



hieland lads, 

 And the lassies lo'e the bonnie bush 



in our kail yard." 



"When the young Rose, in crimson 



gay. 

 Expands her beauties to the day, 

 And foliage fresh her leafless boughs 

 o'erspread; 

 In homage to her sovereign power, 

 Bright regent of each subject flower, 

 Low at her feet the violet bends its 

 head." 



Many a pouting lip has flush 'd 



In rival beauty by thy side; 

 Many a maiden cheek has blush'd 



In vain to match thy crimson pride. 

 The pink may burst its varied hue, 

 The violet its azure blue. 

 The lily claim the snow its own; 

 But still thou reign'st, undimmed, 

 alone." 



"I love the Rose — it is a noble flower: 

 In color rich, and opulent of 



leaves: 

 And when her summer garland 

 Flora weaves, 



She sees no fairer beauty in her bow- 

 er, — 



None which, so redolent of perfume 

 flings 



A sweeter fragrance on the zephyr's 

 wings." 



"I love the Rose — for bards have ever 



loved 

 The queen of flowers — the flower of 



beauty's queen, 

 When in the hedgerow or the garden 



seen, 

 Or pluck'd and proffer'd, by some 



friend belov'd, 

 To gentle lady, and by her caress'd, 

 Then braided with her hair, or worn 



upon her breast." 



WHAT THEY SAY OF US. 

 Please find inclosed check for $1.00 

 for my yearly subscription to your 

 valuable paper, HORTICULTURE.— 

 G. A. 



George W. Patten of Lowell, Mass.. 

 is seriously ill at a sanitarium. He 

 has had three shocks within a short 

 time and the Lowell lodge of Elks ad- 

 vised his removal where he could re- 

 ceive special care. 



DEAN HOLE'S TRIBUTE TO THE 

 ROSE. 



"He would who would have beauti- 

 ful Roses in his garden must have 

 beautiful Roses in his heart. He must 

 love them well and always. To win, 

 he must woo, as Jacob wooed Laban's 

 daughter, though drought and frost 

 consume. He must have not only the 

 glowing admiration, the enthusiasm, 

 and the passion, but the tenderness, 

 the thoughtfulness, the reverence, the 

 watchfulness of love. With no ephe- 

 meral caprice, like the fair young 

 knight's, who loves and who rides 

 away when his sudden fire is gone 

 from the cold white ashes, the cav- 

 alier of the Rose has semper fidelis 

 upon his crest and shield. He is loyal 

 and devoted ever, in storm-fraught or 

 in sunny days; not only the first upon 

 a summer's morning to gaze admir- 

 ingly on glowing charms, but the first, 

 when leaves fall and winds are chill, 

 to protect against cruel frost. As 

 with smitten bachelor or steadfast 

 mate, the lady of his lo*ve is lovely 

 ever, so to the true Rose-grower must 

 the Rose-tree be always a thing of 

 beauty. To others, when its flowers 

 have faded, it may be worthless as a 

 hedge-row thorn: to him, in every 

 phase, it is precious. I am no more the 

 Rose, it says, but cherish me, for we 

 have dwelt together; and the glory 

 which has been, and the glory which 

 shall be. never fade from his heart." 

 Dean Hole. 



PROTECT THE BIRDS. 



Shooting song birds is possibly an offence 

 against good taste, and impolitic in a coun- 

 try afflicted with insect pests, but to pun- 

 ish it in the sevi r^st manner known to the 

 law seems absurd, especially when the of- 

 fenders are immigrants innocent of evil 

 intention. The New York judge who dirt 

 his sentimental worst for poor Italian la- 

 borers after keeping them hanging about 

 the courts for four months of suspense. 

 might very well have remembered who 

 said "Ye are of more value than many 

 sparrows." 



This is the "sentimental worst" of 

 the Boston Pilot. It is also cant. The 

 fact is patent that shooting song birds 

 is the peculiar vice of the southern 

 Italian especially, who with his prac- 

 tice of picking up birds for his family 

 pot has made Italy a songless coun- 

 try. It is necessary to break his vi- 

 cious habit at the start, and every one 

 convicted of killing a song bird should 

 receive the severest sentence of the 

 law. in the interest of the preserva- 

 tion of the life of mankind upon earth. 

 It ill becomes an American newspaper 

 to speak of killing robins, bluebirds, 

 song sparrows, wrens, juncoes, red 

 wings, bobolinks, as "possibly an of- 

 fense against good taste" and "im- 

 politic in a country afflicted with in- 

 sect pests." That is a jaunty way to 

 treat one of the most important mat- 

 ters of public concern. As for the 

 quotation from Jesus, its use is not 

 only cheap sentiment, but almost un- 

 pardonable cant. It is irrelevant to 

 the question of imposing an exem- 

 plary penally on a bird killer. The 

 time to do that is precisely now, be- 

 fore the immigrant has bought an air 

 gun, takes to hunting secretly, and 

 brings home with him pockets stuffed 

 with bird corpses — which is their 

 practice wherever they are found. — 

 Springfield Republican. 



TEN BEST CLIMBING ROSES. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Would you kindly name the best ten 

 climbing roses for Massachusetts, 

 those best for pillar and trellis with 

 no wall protection so noted, and their 

 respective eolers? 



Thanking you for same, I am C. P. 



Editor HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir — In reply to your inquiry, 

 in the writer's opinion the following 

 named varieties are the best ten 

 climbing or rambler roses for pillar 

 and trellis with no wall protection: 



Debutante, soft rose double. 



Lady Gay, cherry pink, double. 



Hiawatha, intense crimson, single. 



Farquhar, pink, double. 



La Fiamma, flamecolor, single. 



Sweetheart, white, pink inbud, dou- 

 ble. 



Dorothy Perkins, pink, double. 



Wedding Bells, pink and white, dou- 

 ble. 



Philadelphia Rambler, intense crim- 

 son, double. 



Minnehaha, dark rose color, double. 

 Very truly yours, 



M. H. WALSH. 



TO EXTERMINATE THE CODLIN 

 MOTH. 



On an Australian steamer which ar- 

 rived last week at San Francisco were 

 eleven cases consigned to the State 

 Board of Horticulture, each filled with 

 baby codlin moths. The codlin moth, 

 like the rest of its kind, has a natural 

 enemy, and. under normal conditions, 

 has little chance of becoming a pest. 

 When the codlin moth first arrived in 

 this country from the Antipodes it 

 found in the California orchards a 

 veritable paradise. There was food 

 galore and no enemy to thin the ranks 

 of the ravagers. The codlin moth grew 

 in numbers, appetite and audacity, 

 and the orchardists were in dispair 

 when Professor Compere of the State 

 University Agricultural Department 

 discovered in Australia the tiny para- 

 site that was the codlin moth's natu- 

 ral enemy. A colony of these para- 

 sites was brought to this country. De- 

 tachments of them were turned loose 

 in moth-infected orchards, and under 

 their onslaught the codlin moth is 

 rapidly disappearing. A stock of 

 these parasites is always kept on 

 hand by the State Board of Horticul- 

 ture for use whenever the codlin 

 moth puts in an appearance. These 

 parasites will feed on nothing but cod- 

 lin moths. The available codlin moth 

 supply is getting scarce, and as the 

 work of the beneficial little parasites 

 has not yet been completed, the State 

 has imported from Australia eleven 

 cases of codlin moth larvae with 

 which to feetl those parasites for 

 whom moth-infected orchards have 

 nol vet been found. 



PERSONAL. 

 James Glass of Baltimore met with 

 a painful accident at bis home on the 

 12th inst, a half barrel of white, lead 

 falling on his foot. 



Fred. Sander and T. Mellstrom ar- 

 rived in New York on the Cunarder 

 Lucania from Liverpool. Mr. Mell- 

 strom succeeds to the position of 

 American representative for Sander & 

 Sons, formerly held by Mr. Dimmock. 



