February 27, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



281 



After Adjournment 



Just the time to buy hot-bed sash, 

 and the temptine: offer of the Gordon- 

 Van Tine Company "hitteth ye naile 

 on ye hed." See their advertisement. 



A FIRST PRIZE PLANT GROUP. 



Watch the returns from the Flower 

 Market Show in Boston', which we 

 shall publish in full next week. It is 

 within the range of the possibilities 

 that the carnation situation may take 

 on a new aspect after the committees 

 and judges have reported. Indian- 

 apolis was all right, but there are a 

 few more counties to be heard from. 



If you come to the Boston show 

 take a little time to run down to Bed- 

 ford street and interview the Revere 

 Rubber Company about that non-kink- 

 able Revere Hose. It has other good 

 points also which they can con- 

 vincingly explain. If you miss the 

 visit to Boston send to them for a 

 sample. 



Meyer, the manufacturer of silka- 

 line, tells us that buyers who have 

 been misled into buying other "just as 

 good thread" because it was cheaper 

 are returning to their first love — the 

 only green thread for stringing aspara- 

 gus and srailax. and tying up Easter 

 lilies, etc., which is reliable for 

 strength, smoothness and unfading 

 color. His adv. is always in HORTI- 

 CULTURE. 



Delaware farmers want the Legislature 

 to pass a law which will exclude all save 

 Delawarcaiis from selling produce in the 

 Wilmington market. In retaliation, the 

 rest of the counti-y will have to adopt a 

 prohibitory tariff on Delaware peaches. 

 Lots of peaches right here in Washington, 

 anyhoiw. — Washington Times. 



Peaches? Yes, Washington is full 

 of thern, and George C. Watson rises 

 to remark that it doesn't take the free- 

 stones long to turn into cling-stoues 

 dowTi there, either. 



The "African jungle flower," as our 

 old friend of fetid odor, Amorpho- 

 phallus Rivieri, is called has been 

 making a stir again, this time in 

 Philadelphia and the fearsome story 

 of its strange antics, "as yet un- 

 catalogued in any horticultural book 

 in this or any other country." to 

 which the Philadelphia Record devotes 

 nearly two columns of valuable (?) 

 space, is so startlingly realistic that 

 our readers will do well to refrain 

 from reading it before going to bed. 

 The dream of the "rarebit fiend" isn't 

 a circumstance to it. 



Pennock-Meehan Co.'s new venture, 

 which we mentioned last week and 

 which is announced in our advertising 

 columns in this issue — the opening of 

 a wholesale and commission establish- 

 ment in Washington for the benefit of 

 the retail dealers of the Capital City — 

 looks to us like a piece of very saga- 

 cious business enterprise. The possi- 

 bilities of Washington as a metropolis 

 have not propeily dawned upon the 

 American people. As loyal Bostonians 

 we cannot quite subscribe to the 

 declaration of W. R. Smith, that Wash- 

 ington is about to supplant Boston as 

 the "Hub of the Universe," but we are 

 prepai-ed for almost anything else that 

 may develop in the case of the great 

 city on the Potomac. And Pennock 



For many years the Dodds' groups 

 of foliage and flowering plants at the 

 Philadelphia shows have carried first 

 honors. Owing to being arranged 

 against the wall and in poor light a 

 good photograph of same has never 

 eventuated. The present illustration 

 by W. H. Rau, while far from satisfac- 

 tory, is the best we have yet seen. 



Many competitors wonder why Dodds 

 usually comes out first. It would be 

 just as easy to tell why one poem is 

 better than another. Dodds couldn't 

 tell himself to save his life. Good 

 plants, sirnplicity, balance, but above 

 all not too much, is what in our opin- 

 ion does the winning. Most exhibit- 

 ors are so anxious that they over- 

 crowd. G. C. W. 



has evidently done the right thing at 

 the right time. 



Jewel, Lemon or Gold Brick? 



Luther Burbank has sent to the 

 Portland fOre.) Rose Festival Associ- 

 ation a new rose of his raising which 

 is to be called the "Rose of Oregon" 

 and which Mr. Burbank, with charac- 

 teiistic modesty, declares to be "the 

 most beautiful rose he has ever seen," 

 so says the Portland Journal, which 

 adds: "The committee is willing to 

 trust to his judgment and consequently 

 expectations are great." The rest of 

 the world will try to control its im- 

 patience and await with feverish in- 

 terest the debut of this "most beauti- 

 ful" creation. 



A NEW PLANT LABEL. 



The "Alu" plant label is the newest 

 thing in this indispensable garden sun- 

 dn.'. The metal from which the label 

 is made is aluminum, and it is claimed 

 to be indestructible. By means of a 

 narrow strip of the metal the label 

 can be readily attached to the plant 

 without a tie of any kind. The shank 

 or strip admits of the label being in- 

 serted into, the soil. I'"- ^^■ 



DAHLIA IMPERIALIS. 



At a regular tneeting of the Newport 

 Horticultural Society held on the even- 

 ing of Feb. 9th, James Hooper, gar- 

 dener at the T. K. Gibbs estate, had on 

 exhibition a few handsome flowers of 

 I.'ahlia Imperialis which were e.\am- 

 ined by a committee consisting of John 

 T. Allan, A. S. Meikle and J. B. Urqu- 

 hart. and awarded a first class certifi- 

 cate of merit. This dahlia is a distinct 

 species known as the Lily Dahlia, and 

 although grown to some extent in Cali- 

 fornia, is but little known in this sec- 

 lion of the countr>-. Mr. Hooper grows 

 it in a greenhouse with a moderate 

 temperature, under which conditions it 

 seems to be well adapted for a winter 

 flowering plant, and the following is 

 its description: The plants giow to a 

 height of 10 to 15 feet with heavy 

 spreading foliage, flowers large and 

 drooping with eight rather broad pet- 

 als of a delicate pinkish mauve color, 

 the yellow disc being encircled by a 

 marnon ring, thus completing a very 

 pleasin.g combination. 



