March 24, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



365 



INSTRUCTION IN LANDSCAPE 

 WORK. 



Amherst, Mass., March 5, 1906. 

 Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — I note with much interest 

 your editorial regarding the course of 

 study in landscape work. I think this 

 is a good project and ought to be ener- 

 getically carried out. This may be a 

 good time, however, to call your at- 

 tention to the fact that we are giving 

 exactly this kind of instruction in the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

 We have a course of training in land- 

 scape gardening which covers the field 

 as fully as it is possible to cover it in 

 a two years' college course. This takes 

 up the design of grades, roads, drain- 

 age, planting plans, nurserymen's es- 

 timates and everything of that sort. 

 Besides that, there is thorough in- 

 struction in the propagation of plants, 

 general horticulture, surveying, bot- 

 any, entomology and the other sciences 

 with which the landscape gardener 

 ought to be familiar. The courses in 

 floriculture, arboriculture and forestry 

 are also open to the men who are 

 studying landscape gardening and are 

 taken up by nearly all of them. 

 Sincerely yours, 



F. A. WAUGH. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The annual report of Robert Aul, 

 park commissioner for the city of St 

 Louis, is received and is perused with 

 much interest. The volume is a model 

 in typographical work and binding. 

 Every second page is a half-tone illus- 

 tration of park features and there are 

 three large maps showing Forest Park 

 as it was, the same when used as the 

 site for the World's Fair, and again as 

 restored under plans submitted by the 

 Exposition Co. The total cost of pur- 

 chase, improvements and maintenance 

 of the St. Louis parks up to the present 

 time is given as $4,320,035.73. 



"Evergreens, How to Grow Them" 

 is a volume of one hundred pages by 

 C. S. Harrison, president of Nebraska 

 Forest Association and author of the 

 Paeony Manual and other books on 

 garden topics. A mutilated land; The 

 mission of the conifers; Evergreens 

 for profit; Raising evergreens from 

 seeds; Digging and hauling evergreens; 

 Collecting evergreens in the Rockies; 

 Foreign evergreens in America; are 

 the titles of some of the chapters. The 

 text throughout is that of a man deeply 

 in love with his subject, is quaintly 

 practical and sentimental by turns and 

 deserves to be widely disseminated 

 for it will set the people a-thinking, 

 wherever it is read. 



PERSONAL. 

 John Bryan has been appointed head 

 gardener at the central prison, Toronto. 



"A JOURNAL WORTHY OF A GLO- 

 RIOUS ART." 



Accept my hearty congratulations 

 and my assurances of deep interest in 

 HORTICULTURE and my feeling of 

 satisfaction that at last we tillers of 

 the soil are having published for us a 

 journal worthy of the glorious art to 

 which we have allied ourselves. — D. A. 



We are indebted to Mr. F. W. Kelsey 

 for the striking illustrations of Pinus 

 Austriaca, Nordmann's fir and specimen 

 rhododendron in bloom which adorn 

 this issue of HORTICULTURE. They 

 are from Mr. Kelsey's catalogue for 

 this year. 



Grobba & Wandrey of Mimico, Ont , 

 have purchased the greenhouses of 

 Thos. Plumb at Toronto. 



F. H. Kramer of Washington expects 

 to go out on the road with his rose, 

 Queen Beatrice, this spring. 



G. Tait has been appointed superin- 

 tendent to P. Lehman, who is building 

 a new place on Ocean avenue, Elberon, 



N. J. 



A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. 

 S. Fenrich, New York, on March 18. 

 Mrs. Fenrich is the daughter of A. 

 Le Moult. 



Samuel S. Pennock of Phila. left for a 

 visit to New England on the 20th, to 

 serve as judge at the rose show in Bos- 

 ton on the 23d and 24th. Adolph 

 Farenwald, George Burton and a num- 

 ber of others also attended the Rose 

 Exhibition. 



Arthur Schnutenhaus, a florist in the 

 employ of Ed. Schiverin, nurseryman 

 of San Francisco, one morning last 

 week was held up, robbed of every cent 

 he had and then ordered to walk home 

 and not look back or his life would be 

 the penalty. 



R. R. Hughes, who for the past two 

 years was superintendent for the late 

 J. A. McCall, Elberon, N. J., resigned 

 his position a few weeks ago and has 

 joined forces with a well-known New 

 York architect, and launched into the 

 landscape business. 



C. N. Ruedlinger of Hartford, Conn., 

 has taken a position as forester on an 

 estate in Minneapolis, Minn. On leav- 

 ing Hartford, he was presented with a 

 gold chain and appendage by the mem- 

 bers of the Florists' Club and other 

 friends, by whom he was held in high 

 esteem. 



Charles E. Keith has again been 

 elected superintendent of the parks of 

 Bridgeport, Conn., to succeed Stephen 

 D. Horan. Mr. Keith held the position 

 for a number of years, during which 

 he demonstrated his eminent qualifi- 

 cations for the work, and we congratu- 

 late Bridgeport on his reinstatement. 



Among the early arrivals in Boston 

 for the rose exhibition are Fred. San- 

 der and T. Mellstrom, of Sander & 

 Sons, St. Albans, England, U. G. 

 Scollay and E. A. Munro, Brooklyn. 

 N. Y., George C. Watson, Philadelphia. 

 Mr. Scollay covered himself with 

 glory by catching a pickpocket as he 

 alighted from the train in Boston on 

 Wednesday morning. 



M. H. Oppenheim, who already owns 

 one of the finest places in Elberon, N. 

 J., Castlewall. has now taken over 

 Shadow Lawn, the summer home of 

 the late J. A. McCall. This is one of 

 the finest estates along the Atlantic 

 seaboard, no expense having been 

 spared on the landscape work. Wm. 

 Webb, late gardener to Colgate Hoyt, 

 has been engaged as superintendent of 

 Shadow Lawn. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 

 The State Board of Horticulture has 

 declared a quarantine against Florida 

 and Louisiana to prevent the impor- 

 tation of any nursery stock from either 

 of these states. A quarantine had 

 previously been placed against any 

 citrus stock from these states, but it 

 has been decided to bar out deciduous 

 stock as well. 



Selecting, packing and shipping 

 Hannah Hobart carnation cuttings is 

 keeping Superintendent Peterson and 

 several assistants busy overtime these 

 days at the John H. Sievers Company's 

 nursery. The late advertisement in 

 HORTICULTURE that the Hannah 

 Hobart would be generally distributed 

 about this time to all applicants was 

 astonishingly fruitful. Orders for cut- 

 tings amounting to between eighty and 

 ninety thousand have been received. 



The March monthly meeting of the 

 California State Floral society was held 

 last week. Some officers for the en- 

 suing year were nominated, but the 

 whofe matter was finally passed to 

 next month's meeting, when the full 

 list of nominations will be made and 

 the election will take place. A fine 

 exhibition of wild flowers and a fine 

 talk about them in all their variety 

 was given by Mrs. W. S. Chandler, an 

 enthusiastic floriculturist and member 

 of the society. 



The Agricultural Department at 

 Washington has determined to ascer- 

 tain what can be done with the 

 pistache nut in this state and has been 

 in communication regarding the pis- 

 tache nut with California's great nut 

 culturist, Mr. C. M. Wooster, who will 

 try to establish here the pistache in- 

 dustry. The immediate outcome of 

 this is an arrangement to send 10,000 

 pistache nut trees, natives of the Nile 

 region, to Mr. Wooster. Five acres 

 will be planted at San Martin, Santa 

 Clara county, and five acres at Lind- 

 say, Tulare county. The value of the 

 pistache nut is from $1.25 to $1.50 a 

 pound. The nut is used in making 

 flavors by confectioners and others. 



OBITUARY. 

 C. E. Brady of the firm of Brady & 

 Son, Eureka, 111., died of heart failure 

 on March 9. He was 63 years old. 



Perry Finn died at his home in 

 Carthage, Mo., on March 10. He was 

 68 years old. His wife and son sur- 

 vive him. 



Edward Kitchenmeister, of New 

 Brunswick, N. J., died of pneumonia 

 on Saturday, March 17. Mr. Kitchen- 

 meister had greenhouses at Highland 

 Park, and store in the city. He leaves 

 a wife and five children. 



Delia M., wife of A. L. Rogers died 

 at Chaumont, N. Y.. on March 7. Her 

 husband and two daughters survive 

 her. For many years Mrs. Rogers has 

 held the office of vice-president of the 

 Rogers Bros. Seed Co. 



Two new varieties of Begonia sem- 

 perflorens are well-spoken of by those 

 who have seen them. They are Berna. 

 with dark foliage and red flowers, and 

 gracilis luminosa, with very dark 

 leaves and deep red bloom. 



