July 13, 1907 



HORTlCULTURi: 



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AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



The American Florist tells its read- 

 ers that Pteris tremalt is a good sub- 

 stitute for Cibotiuin ScMedei, a quick 

 grower and cheap, and stands the 

 rough usage of store or decorations 

 well. We'll agree that it is "a quick 

 ■ grower aud cheap" — very cheap — but 

 it is not for a moment in the same 

 class with Cibotium Schiedei. 



Who in the world has a happier ex- 

 istence than the typical Rhinebeck 

 violet grower? Makes enough from a 

 small house or two in winter to build 

 another house in summer, and the rest 

 of the time he can devote to ball 

 games and other social diversions. A 

 bunch of these gentlemen attended the 

 boat races on the Hudson recently, 

 got arrested by the patrol for crossing 

 the course, were set ashore at Hyde 

 Park and their boat was confiscated 

 until after the races. Thus do misfor- 

 tunes steal in upon the course when 

 we are all unsuspecting. Neverthe- 

 less, the RhinJbeck violet is still king. 



NEPHROLEPIS AMERPOHLII. 



The Journal of Horticulture (Lon- 

 don) tells us that the dahlia was in- 

 troduced by Dr. Dahl with the idea 

 that the tubers would prove a pleas- 

 ant substitute for the potato and that 

 the acrid tubers of the dahlia are said 

 to be still eaten by the unhappy wine- 

 growers in the south of France, adding 

 that this "perhaps contributes to- 

 wards their present dyspeptic views 

 of the universe." But are "dyspeptic 

 views of the universe" confined ex- 

 clusively to French wine-growers? 

 And do the French growers- drink the 

 same brand of wine which one gets 

 at the French Table d' Hotes in New 

 York? Cannot the Dahlia Society 

 take up the defence of its protege? 



Will some one of our botanical 

 sharps kindly tell us the difference 

 between Kochia scorparia and Kochia 

 trichophylla. We are familiar with 

 K. scoparia but when we see the 

 foreign growers offering K. tricho- 

 phylla we want light. They tell us 

 that K. scoparia is called the Mexican 

 Fire Plant although said to be not a 

 native of Mexico or this continent 

 Why is that? 



THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE 



ASSOCIATION. 



l^ce Froiitisiiiece. 

 It was our pleasure to meet presi- 

 dent-elect George S. Green for the 

 first time at the memorable seed trade 

 convention in New York city and it 

 did not take long to realize that the 

 Association had found in this quiet, 

 earnest, kindly gentleman a president 

 who will fill the position with dignity 

 and credit. Mr. Green has been presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Seed Company of 

 Chicago since 1901, previous to which 

 time he had been interested in the 

 seed business in St. Louis, Chicago 

 and Colorado Springs, his first asso- 

 ciation with the trade having been 

 with D. I. Bushnell & Co., at St. Louis, 

 from 1881 until 1893. Mr. Green is 

 a native of Hannibal, Mo. 



PERSONAL. 



R. E. Akehurst of White Marsh. 

 Md., and Miss E. Beall were married 

 on June 26. 



Miss Esther Heacock, daughter of 

 Joseph Heacock of Wyncote, Pa., 

 sailed June 29 on a European trip. 



Mr. Smith who is one of the vice- 

 presidents of this unique association 

 presided at this meeting and also had 

 charge of the planting of two Maine 

 pine trees which was one of the in- 

 teresting events of the occasion. Dr. 

 Wm. M. Starr, who participated has 

 entered his lOOlh year. 



William Hewitt, gardener for A. C. 

 Lincoln, Brookline, Mass., has gone to 

 Scotland on a two months' vacation. 



J. B. Heiss and wife of Dayton, 

 Ohio, sailed from New York on July 

 9 via S. S. Kaiser Wilhelm II. for a 

 trip through Germany, Austria, 

 France, Belgium and Holland. 



M. Herman Merkel, forester of the 

 Bronx Park Zoological Garden, New 

 York, is spending a few days looking 

 over the shrub collections at the 

 Arnold Arboretum under escort of 

 Jackson Dawson. 



Arthur Smith, formerly of Westbury, 

 L. I., has a thoughtfully-prepared and 

 very interesting paper on Plant Con- 

 sciousness in the Arena for Jtme. 

 Mr. Smith sailed from Boston on the 

 Saxonia, on July 9, for a short visit 

 to his home in England. 



SAN FRANCISCO PERSONAL AND 

 NEWS NOTES. 



H. Bateman, who opened one of the 

 handsomest flower stores early this 

 year, has had to discontinue business 

 for the time being. 



Rossi Bros, have rented Bonneau's 

 greenhouses. They intend growing 

 roses, carnations and adiantum for 

 their extensive shipping business. 



P. Ferrari, manager of Ferrari Bros., 

 has been making a trip to Southern 

 California. 



R. Groves, of the Park Floral Co., 

 has just returned from a trip East, 

 where he visited all the large cities. 



The Pacific Coast Horticultural So- 

 ciety and the California State Floral 

 Society have decided not to hold a fall 

 flower show, owing to the unsettled 

 conditions in San Francisco. But they 

 intend holding a complimentary dahlia 

 show sometime in September. 



Harry A. Bunyard was in Boston last 

 Sunday for a few hours for the purpose 

 of taking hack with him to New York 

 Mr. Boddington's employee, August 

 Loeber. who, after his long Illness, is 

 at last able to leave the hospital and 

 hopes to resume work within a few 

 weeks. 



The gj'psy moths have almost de- 

 vastated the Lynn Woods (Mass.), 

 this season and have appeared in the 

 streets of Lynn in such numbers as to 

 necessitate the sanding of the car 

 tracks on account of the slipperiness 

 caused by the -crushed caterpillars. 



Conspicuous in the group photo- 

 graph of the Association of Oldest 

 Inhabitants, taken at their meeting at 

 Alton Farm, Md., on July 4, is the 

 towering figure of America's most 



Complaints are being made that the 

 spraying of arsenate of lead on the 

 trees and grass of Essex and Middlesex 

 counties, Mass., for the destruction of 

 the gypsy moth Is causing the death 



honored gardener, William R. Smith, of many valuable cattle by poisoning. 



