June 16, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



763 



NEW WICHURIANA HYBRIDS. 



Some five years ago Hoopes, Bro.. 

 and Thomas introduced a set of six 

 new hybrid Wichurianas that were 

 meritorious. The varieties named 

 Wm. P. Dreer, Robert Craig and 

 Edwin Lonsdale were the best of the 

 six. This firm has been working 

 along the same lines since and then- 

 recent exhibition of other new 

 varieties at Horticultural Hall, Phila- 

 delphia, shows a distinct advance. 

 Only two of the new ones, Christine 

 Wright and Columbia, are named as 

 yet, the balance being shown under 

 number. Christine Wright is a lovely 

 pure silvery rose, fine both in bud and 

 when full blown. It has large petals, 

 and is quite full to the centre. Co- 

 lumbia is a clear daybreak pink shad- 

 ing to blush, lovely in the bud and 

 also when open. It is semi-double 

 but. charming even when full blown. 

 Both this and Caroline Wright are of 

 fine substance. No. 32 is a dark rose, 

 a cross between Wichuriana and 

 American Beauty, the fragrance of 

 the latter being very apparent. A 

 fine thing. No. 33, crimson, a cross 

 with Gruss an Teplitz, lacks form and 

 substance but good color. No. 41, 

 lighter in color than 33, and like that 

 variety lacks form and substance. 

 No. 42, pure white, small but fine 

 form and substance, similar in char- 

 acter of bud to Robert Craig but 

 smaller and pure white. No. 45, deep 

 crimson, better substance and form 

 than 33. No. 56 is similar to Christine 

 Wright but a lighter shade. No. 58, 

 rose, very double and good form, 

 lacks substance, small petals. No. 43, 

 blush passing to white; large; fine 

 form in the bud but not quite so good 

 as Columbia when open, being a little 

 lacking in substance. 



Altogether these new varieties are 

 far in advance of the original six and 

 are well worth the attention of rose 

 lovers. 



G. C. W. 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS. 



PERSONAL. 



Mrs. M. B. Faxon, the seedsman's 

 wife, is in Boston on a visit to her 

 mother and sisters. Mr. Faxon is 

 with the Livingston Seed Company, at 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



Among the visitors to HORTICUL- 

 TURE'S office this week were Samuel 

 Murray, Arthur Newell and wife of 

 Kansas City; W. C. Langbridge of the 

 Jerome B. Rice Co., Cambridge, N. Y. 



Mrs. Cameron, wife of H. L. Cameron. 

 of North Cambridge, sailed on the 

 steamer Ivernia. June 12, to visit 

 London. Mr. Cameron will join his 

 wife in Scotland a' month later. They 

 intend touring Europe for two months, 

 returning in September. 



Miss Clara Hayden, daughter of C. 

 H. Hayden, the well-known florist of 

 Dexter, Me., was married on June 6th 

 at the residence of her parents to Dr. 

 H. M. Crassland of Dexter. After the 

 ceremony the happy couple started for 

 Boston and the Berkshire Hills on 

 their wedding tour. On their return 

 they will spend the summer at their 

 cottage at Ocean Park, Me. 



Stop syringing grapes when they be- 

 gin to color. 



One good large peach or nectarine is 

 worth a dozen poor, small ones. Don't 

 be afraid to thin the fruit; they can- 

 not possibly do any harm after they 

 are severed from the branch but on 

 they might. 



Keep on watering out-door roses if 

 the ground is at all dry. 



Get to thinking about sowing seed of 

 herbaceous plants for next season's 

 flowering. 



Find out all you can about peonies; 

 it will be worth something by and by. 



Have you seen Nephrolepis Whit- 

 manii? It is certainly a beauty and 

 the best of it is that it is a shapely 

 specimen in all its stages of growth. 

 Get one and multiply. 



If you have anything good out of 

 the ordinary, send it to the exhibition 

 and let the other fellows see it. Don't 

 expect a gold medal for it. 



If you have no herbaceous plants you 

 should get to see someone who has. 

 There are some beautiful things com- 

 ing into bloom now; if you only could 

 see them many of them or their kind 

 would this fall or next spring find a 

 home on your place. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Robert M. Leavitt of Elmira, N. Y., 

 sustained a loss of about $500 through 

 a fire in the building which he occu- 

 pies. Insurance covers it. 



ALL RECEIVED IN ONE DAY'S 

 MAIL. 

 "Plants All Gone." 

 HORTICULTURE: 



Discontinue our ad. Plants all gone. 

 Send bill to us and oblige. 



HAMMERSCHMIDT & CLARK. 

 Ohio. 



"Worth the Price." 



Notify when this expires, as I want 

 to renew. The discussion on mechani- 

 cal watering is worth the price. — L. A. 



District of Columbia. 



"The Greatest Paper Out." 

 Inclosed find $1 to pay for HORTI- 

 CULTURE, the greatest paper out on 

 scientific floriculture; it is all right. — 

 H. L. 

 Nebraska. 



"Fifteen to One." 



Dear Sir: 



Inclosed find $1 to place my ad. in 

 paper one more week. Have sold $15 

 worth already from my $1 ad. of last 

 week. 



Yours truly, 



Massachusetts. G. H. W. 



"One of the Two." 

 Gentlemen: — From our recent gladi- 

 olus advertisement, inserted in three 

 trade papers, but two of the three so 

 far as we know brought us any or- 

 ders. One of the two was HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



Yours truly, 

 WM. ELLIOTT & SONS. 

 New York. 



SOME GOOD PEONIES. 



We are indebted to Mr. C. W. Ward 

 of Cottage Gardens, for the photo- 

 graphs from which were made the 

 series of handsome peony illustrations 

 published in successive issues of this 

 paper. 



Alex. McConnell has moved his floral 

 establishment to the Windsor Arcade, 

 571 Fifth avenue, New York, a larger 

 and more commodious building. 



M. Alexis Callier has been appointed 

 president of the Societe Royale d'Agri- 

 culture et de Botanique de Gand to 

 succeed the late Count Kerchove de 

 Denterghem. 



The entire establishment of George 

 Lorenz of Astoria, L. I., N. Y., together 

 with all the plants in greenhouses and 

 the outdoor stock will be sold at 

 auction on June 20. 



A terrific hail storm swept through 

 Ontario County, New York, on the 

 morning of June 10, doing serious 

 damage to greenhouses and nursery 

 stock in Canandaigua and vicinity. 



The boiler house and ends of four 

 greenhouses at W. & K. Pedersen's 

 establishment, St. John, N. B., were 

 destroyed by fire on June 9. The loss, 

 which is estimated at $1,000, is covered 

 by insurance. 



The publication of the Revue de 

 l'Horticulture Beige, edited by the late 

 Count Kerchove de Denterghem, is to 

 be continued under the direction of M. 

 Charles Pynaert, assisted by Messrs. 

 DeNobele, A. Van den Heede and 

 Verdonck. 



It is estimated that the W. & T. 

 Smith Co. of Geneva, N. Y., lost 

 $100,000 by the storm of wind and hail 

 that swept over that section last Sun- 

 day. Growing nursery stock was 

 fairly battered into the ground. Fruit 

 growers in that locality are all heavy 

 losers. 



In the Queensland Agricultural 

 Journal for March, 1906, F. Manson 

 Bailey describes a new white-flowered 

 dendrobium, of the Aporum section. 

 It is a native of British New Guinea, 

 and is said to be well worthy of culti- 

 vation. The name given to it by Mr. 

 Bailey is D. litoreum. 



SAN JOSE SCALE. 



Department of Agriculture, — Division 



of Zoology, Harrisburg, Pa. 

 Editor HORTICULTURE. 



Dear Sir: — Noting that on page 385 

 of HORTICULTURE you have referred 

 to my statement as to the use of the 

 Lime-sulphur Wash for the San Jose 

 Scale, I beg to say that I am correctly 

 quoted therein, and I can assure you 

 that we have had excellent results in 

 spraying with the Lime-sulphur Wash, 

 without the Salt, applied when the 

 trees were dormant. Nothing has 

 proven as cheap, nor as beneficial to 

 the trees, nor as sure in killing the 

 San Jose Scale. It will not, however, 

 act as a certain remedy for the Oyster- 

 shell Scale, although we have had good 

 results in using it for the Scurfy Scale. 

 Very truly yours, 



H. A. SURFACE, 

 Economic Zoologist. 



