June 23, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



789 



CONCERNING LANDSCAPE ART. 



The editorial in your issue of June 

 2, commenting on that in the National 

 Nurseryman criticising the action of 

 the Boston Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, meets my hearty approbation and 

 I think the writer of that criticism 

 shows more than the ordinary supply 

 of prejudice. To be a successful 

 private gardener one must have a 

 working knowledge of landscape work. 

 A certain visitor once remarked, 

 "Catch a Scotchman when he is young 

 and there can be something made out 

 of him." The same applies to young 

 gardeners; get the idea instilled into 

 them by competent parties, and the 

 knowledge will never leave them. 

 Landscape gardening is an art which 

 very few can master thoroughly. Some 

 men can lay out a rough lawn, throw 

 a few shrubs in one corner, stick a tree 

 in here and there, and there you are; 

 they have cards printed styling them- 

 selves Landscape Gardeners. 



A ready-made landscape gardener is 

 against nature. The ideal landscape 

 of an estate should be made by the 

 head gardener; he being there all the 

 time can observe and study better and 

 bring a piece of landscape work 

 closer to nature. The ideal landscape 

 is the work of years. I have just read 

 the report of the Boston committee 

 published in HORTICULTURE over 

 Mr. Pettigrew's name. It certainly 

 embodies what a young gardener 

 should aspire to. 



Not long ago one of your contem- 

 poraries commented in rather a hu- 

 morous vein upon friend Hatfield's 

 visit to Scotland, noting that he didn't 

 see there anything as good as was in 

 Wellesley. Hatfield started off 



wrong. If he had inquired for some 

 of the "Gruns of the Greybaird," after 

 having partaken of that mellow stimu- 

 lant "goodness knows what he might 

 have seen." Conifers would have 

 seemed like mountains, friend Hatfield 

 would have given us a better account 

 of his trip to the Land o' Cakes, and 

 would have been loud in his praises of 

 the people's hospitality. Next time he 

 goes there let him try the above in- 

 centive and he will return home vow- 

 ing he never before saw anything like 

 it. 



R. T. McGORUM. 



PERSONAL. 



Miss Lulu, daughter of J. J. Beneke, 

 of St. Louis, was married on June 14 

 to Rudolph Bremer. 



Mr. and Mrs. John H. Taylor of 

 Bayside, N. Y., sailed on Saturday, 

 June 16, for Europe. 



T. Mellstrom, American agent for 

 Sander & Sons, of St. Albans and 

 Bruges, sails for Europe on June 2S on 

 the Deutschland. 



Visitors in Boston: Miss Rennison, 

 Sioux City, la.; Mr. and Mrs. W. Atlee 

 Burpee and Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Scott, 

 Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dick- 

 son, Newtonards, Ireland; J. W. 

 Rodgers, Cincinnati, 0.; S. S. Skidel- 

 sky, Philadelphia; James MacPherson, 

 Trenton, N. J.; John Urquhart, New- 

 port, R. I.; Wm. Burton, Bar Harbor, 

 Me. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Large quantities of cross fertilized 

 kniphofias are being grown at the 

 Botanic Garden, Washington, for gen- 

 eral distribution next year. 



Lady Larpent's plumbago (Cerato- 

 stigma plumbaginoides) is one of the 

 most beautiful hardy plants particu- 

 larly adapted for rock-work planting. 



Of the Japanese maples, Acer dis- 

 secta and atropurpurea can be relied 

 upon to come true from seed. 



Abelia rupestris fairly hardy as far 

 north as New York city is a charming 

 plant for half shaded dells. Com- 

 mencing now to expand its sweet- 

 scented little pink tubular flowers it 

 will continue in bloom until late fall. 

 In northern latitudes it will need the 

 protection of a few evergreen boughs 

 in winter. 



Hydrangea acuminata is a strikingly 

 beautiful hardy shrub of robust 

 growth, with large foliage and lilac- 

 tinted flower-heads. It is in bloom 

 now and is worthy of a place in every 

 large garden. 



Bignonia Hunteri is a new species 

 found wild in Virginia by a Mr. Hun- 

 ter. The flowers are yellow. We hope 

 to figure it in our columns at a later 

 date. 



Ligustrum Quehova is a grand new 

 shrub. The toliage is narrow and 

 pointed and the flower racemes are 

 very long and branching. It blooms 

 late in June and again several times 

 during the rest of the season. 



That popular basket plant, Ophiopo- 

 gon Juburan variegatus deserves a 

 more general use as a half-hardy 

 edging for large flower beds. Few 

 variegated plants stand the vicissitudes 

 of garden existence as well as this 

 does. 



Peter Bisset pronounces the double- 

 flowered white Nelumbium Osoras now 

 being heralded as a novelty to be iden- 

 tical with the Japanese N. Shieoman 

 sent out some years ago. 



OBITUARY. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 

 On and after July 1st, 1906, the 

 business formerly conducted by Mr. 

 Aug. Rhotert, at No. 26 Barclay 

 street, New York city, will be con- 

 tinued by Mr. H. Frank Darrow, who 

 has been associated in business with 

 the late Mr. Rhotert for nineteen 

 years. 



"Pleased With the Results." 

 Editor HORTICULTURE. 



Dear Sir: — I am very much pleased 

 with the results obtained from my 

 "ad" in HORTICULTURE. From one 

 insertion I obtained orders for over 

 5,000 geraniums and over $100 worth 

 of Boston ferns. 



Yours truly, 



Mass. H. N. EATON. 



"Sold Out." 



Would like you to leave the Twice 

 Transplanted Cyclamen out of ad., as 

 I am sold out of them. 



C. WINTERICH. 



Ohio. 



"Take All We Have." 

 We have just received an order from 

 your ad. for over 9000 plants; that will 

 take all the seedlings we have and 

 small pots. Very truly, 



A. RELYEA & SON. 

 New York. 



Edwin B. Hay. 



The many florists throughout the 

 country who from time to time have 

 been brought in contact with Col. 

 Edwin B. Hay of Washington will be 

 grieved to learn of his sudden demise 

 on the 12th inst. The deceased was 

 by profession a lawyer and enjoyed a 

 national reputation as a lecturer and 

 after-dinner speaker. He was a great 

 lover of flowers and was rarely seen 

 without one in his buttonhole. He 

 was well known to the local trade and 

 took an active interest in all things 

 pertaining to floriculture. At the 

 shooting tournament of the last S. A. 

 F. convention he presented the prizes 

 to the successful contestants in one of 

 his characteristic speeches, which was- 

 filled with beauty and sentiment. 



A man in whom the highest gentle- 

 manly instincts were inbred, he greet- 

 ed the humblest toiler with the same 

 graciousness which marked his man- 

 ner with the highest officials and 

 statesmen with whom he was daily 

 thrown in contact. Thoughtful and 

 considerate, sympathetic and kind, a 

 man of ready wit, yet no one could 

 ever say that the brightness of "Ned 

 Hay" was caused to shine by the dim- 

 ming of some other star, for he be- 

 lieved in the brotherhood of man and 

 saw and recognized the latent "tal- 

 ents" and good in every man. 



Frank C. Moninger. 



On Saturday, June 16th, at his home 

 166 Cleveland Ave., Chicago, one of 

 the first men to manufacture green- 

 house construction material in the 

 west, Frank C. Moninger, passed away 

 at the age of 85. He was the father 

 of Lena and Lambert Moninger, and 

 the late John C. Moninger. 



Mr. Moninger was born in Germany 

 in 1821 and came to this country when 

 a boy, settling in his early youth in 

 Chicago. He was identified from the 

 start with the interests of the truck 

 gardeners and florists located north of 

 the city in what is now High Ridge, 

 Rogers Park, Bowmanville and Edge- 

 water, manufacturing as far back as 

 1849-1854, sash for greenhouse con- 

 struction. Geo. W. Miller and George 

 Wittbold were two of the first cus- 

 tomers for greenhouse sash, and other 

 florists in the vicinity of Chicago built 

 with his material shortly afterwards. 



Mr. Moninger early recognized the 

 fact that the increasing demand for 

 better material and lighter construc- 

 tion would mean the specializing of 

 the work, with which thought in mind 

 he formed a partnership with the late 

 John L. Diez, making at that time in 

 1869 the first sash bars for green- 

 houses manufactured in Chicago — these 

 sash bars were furnished Geo. W. 

 Miller. The business flourished under 

 his guidance and when finally suc- 



I'd by the son. John C. Moninger, 



nearly every florist in or around Chica- 

 go had been a customer for his 

 material. The present firm of John C. 

 Moninger Co. is the result of the start 

 made by Frank C. Moninger and the 

 manufacture of material has now been 

 carried to a state of perfection and the 

 business developed to an extent of 

 which the founder of the firm never 

 anticipated or dreamt. 



