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HORTICULTURE 



Septombei 14, ^Wl 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



C. L. Powell the florist, will opeu a 

 floral salesroom in the Hobert & Jones un- 

 dertaking rooms on North Main street, 

 Wednesday. Especial attention to wed- 

 dings, party and funeral orders. Call and 

 see us.— So'. Bend (Ind.) Tribune. 



We suppose there are people who 

 would look upon an undertaker's room 

 a? an appropriate place in which to 

 order wedding tlowers, but it is the 

 last place we want to have anything 

 to do with. 



ZONAL PELARGONIUM DAGATA. 



Florists No More. 



A sign painter was asked to call at a 

 florist's shop in Columbus avenne. "I know 

 what he wants," said the painter. "He 

 wants me to paint out the word 'Florist' 

 and substitute 'B'loral Artist.' Every florist 

 o£ any importance the town over has gone 

 back on his former title. Just look at 

 their stores and you'll see that. In all the 

 streets where large flower stores abound it 

 Is almost impossible now to flud a florist; 

 they are all floral artists." 



Thus saith the New York Globe. 

 It's all right. We find now tonsorial 

 artists, boot black professors, and so 

 on, and why not equal honors tor the 

 aspiring flower seller. Columbus 

 Avenue can supply all grades of them, 

 too. 



The Reverend Vicar-General of the 

 Roman Catholic Diocese of New 

 Hampshire has uttered a bitter de- 

 nunciation of the custom of using 

 flowers in connection with funerals. 

 He characterizes it as a foolish fad 

 and closes with the admonition: 

 "Bring no more flowers here. Keep 

 them from the church." 



The futility of such tirades from 

 men in whose hearts the tender chords 

 are tuneless has been repeatedly dem- 

 onstrated. They may exercise their 

 authority to the extent of forbidding 

 the bringing of flowers within the 

 church doors, but the sympathetic sen- 

 timents which are at the foundation 

 of the practice of placing flowers on 

 the bier of loved ones are beyond the 

 control of any human edict. 



PERSONAL. 



Colin Campbell of Montreal has re- 

 turned from his trip to Scotland. 



Mr. and Mrs. Robert Klagge of De- 

 troit are sojourning in Buffalo at pres- 

 ent. 



Wm. G. I.ehr and Miss Marie Bothe 

 were married at Brooklyn, Md., on 

 August 28. 



Cl)arles Howe, Dover, N. H., has re- 

 tarncd home after a month's absence 

 in England, France, Germany and 

 Scotland. 



W. J. Burnett has relinquished his 

 position at Orange, N. J., with A. E. 

 Van Gaasbeck and will go into trade 

 with his father. 



Henry Matz succeeds Mr, Brown as 

 treasurer of the Nassau County (N. Y. ) 

 Horticultural Society, the latter having 

 removed from Glen Cove. 



William F. Bassett, florist of Hamil- 

 ton, N. J., has just passed his S7th 

 birthday and is the oldest male resi- 

 dent of the town. He is still in robust 

 health and active in business. 



M. Bruant's introductions are ack- 

 nowledged to be the standaj'd of gera- 

 niums the world over, and represent 

 the highest development to which the 

 geranium has attained at the present 

 time, .\niong the newer varieties, es- 

 pecially in the Bruant race, are some 

 which come the nearest to the Ameri- 

 can standard, and the grandest of 

 these is unquestionably Dagata, the 

 liremler of the ]90f5 novelties, an illus- 

 stration of which is given herewith. 

 The plants are dwarf and compact, but 

 robust in growth and the leaves are of 

 a leathery texture, dark green with a 

 slight zone, and measure sometimes as 

 much as ten inches in diameter. The 

 flowers are semi-double, of unusual 



size and substance, and are borne In 

 gigantic trusses resembling hydrangeas 

 in size and produced in great profu- 

 sion on long stiff stems. 



The color is mauve rose, with a large 

 white blotch at the base of th-3 upper 

 petals. Having .all the good points of 

 the Bruant race In habit, growth, re- 

 sistance, ease of culture and uninter- 

 rupted blooming, Messrs. Vincent & 

 Son, who are offering it in this coun- 

 try, feel justified in pronouncing Da- 

 gata the finest pink geranium for 

 general use up-to-date. It has been 

 favorably commented upon by the 

 "Revue Horticole" and won highest 

 honors at the International Exposition 

 in Liege. 



WIANTENOCK. 



Our trontispiece gives a view of the 

 new flower gardens at Wiantenock, the 

 summer home of Mr. L. O. Peck, at 

 Redding, Conn. Prom our corres- 

 pondent, Mr. Thomas Leahey, to 

 whom we are indebted for the photo- 

 graph, we learn that Mr. Peck is one 

 of the first New Yorkers to make a 

 summer home in this beautiful sec- 

 tion and that before his advent 

 flower gardens and greenhouses were 



jiractically unknown there. Now 

 many families from New York are 

 being constantly added to the colony 

 and each year sees many additions to 

 the summer cottages, with every pros- 

 pect that in a short space of time this 

 neighborhood will take its place as one 

 of the most attractive and prosperous 

 summer resorts in Connecticut. Ijook- 

 ing south a fine view Is obtained of 

 Long Island Sound and to the west- 

 ward may be seen historical Putnam 

 Park, a beautiful reservation under 

 the care of the State of Connecticut. 



