September 25, ia07 



horticulture: 



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DECORATION OF MR. GEO. 

 SCHNEIDER. 



Of all the foreign gardeners in Eng- 

 land it is doubttnl whether there is 

 one who is so highly esteemed by 

 English horticulturists as the genial 

 president of the French Horticultural 

 Society of London. Founded in 1889 

 by a few French gardeners then resi- 

 dent in London, the society has made 

 enormous progress and rendered 

 much useful service to English as 

 well as French gardeners, and it is 

 now a society of considerable im- 

 portance. 



Mr. Schneider, as one of the original 

 founders and the president ever since 

 its inauguration, has generously de- 

 voted much of his leisure tlo the 

 advancement of the society and the 

 well being of many of the young men 

 who come over from France and Bel- 

 gium to complete their horticultural 

 training here in England. Such serv- 

 ice as this could not fail to be recog- 

 nized by the French government 

 sooner or later, and in 189C our good 

 old friend Schneider was granted the 

 Cross of Chevalier of the Order ot 

 the Merite Agricole. Since then the 

 society has continued to progress and 

 accomplish much useful work, under 

 the able and devoted supervision of 

 its president, who in spite of nearly 

 40 years' residence in England still 

 preserves his French nationality. In 

 further recognition of all he has done 

 the Government of the French Repub- 

 lic has now promoted Mr. Schneider 

 to the rank of "Offlcier" of the Order 

 of which he was already a conspicu- 

 ous and deserving member. 



C. H. P. 



NEW ROSE HARRY KIRK. 



Messrs. Alexander Dickson and Sons 

 have developed a new Hybrid Tea rose 

 named Harry Kirk, which promises to 

 be a very valuable addition to our list 

 of Hybrid Teas. The color is a rich 

 creamy yellow, shading to orange at 

 the basc? of the petals. The buds are 

 long, of great substance and have 

 opened up here to four and a half 

 inches in diameter. The ir.nermost 

 petals when the bloom is fully opened 

 curve inward so the flower does not 

 present a flat appearance. The blooms 

 last very well and are strikingly at- 

 tractive. The plant is a vigorous 

 grov,'pr and a good bloomei-. with 

 strong, healthy foliage and seems to 

 be admirably suited to our climate. I 

 believe that we have at last obtained 

 what we have been so long looking 

 for, nainely. a first rate yellow rose 

 that will (io well out of doors. The 

 plants were set out last November at 

 Philadelphia and came through the 

 winter and very trying spring without 

 protection. ROBERT HUEY. 



OUR FRONTISPIECE. 



One of the most interesting spots in 

 the Jamestown Exposition, from the 

 standpoint of the practiculturist, is de- 

 voted to the children's gardening oper- 

 ations, which is. for the first time, il- 

 lustrated in the frontispiece to this 

 paper. In the background are seen 

 several of the State buildings, the cen- 

 tral one with the cupola being the 

 Massachusetts Building. 



PRESIDENT-ELECT CANADIAN 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. John Walsh, who was recently 

 elected president of the Canadian 

 Horticultural Association, was born 

 in Kerney County. Ireland, November 

 4, 1847. When 16 years of age, he 

 started life in a big private estate, 

 called "Richway's," under a narrow- 

 minded gardener of old, named D. 

 Mealie. Young Walsh soon found out 

 that his work was up-hill and that no 

 knowledge could be got from the head 



John Walsh 



gardener. In 1S6S he came to 

 Montreal, where he has made his 

 home ever since. His first employ- 

 ment was with Mr. B. Gibbs. on St. 

 Catherine street, exactly where the 

 Princess Theatre is being built. He 

 took charge, thirty years ago. of the 

 estate ot the late W. W. Ogilvie, 

 where he has remained ever since. 

 Mr. J. Walsh is deservedly popular 

 with his fellow tradesmen of this city 

 and elsewhere where known. 



PERSONAL. 



Visitors in Detroit; Geo. A. Mur- 

 phy, Cincinnati. 0.; R. Fancourt, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. 



W. A. Adams, well known among 

 the trade and a young business man 

 of the best personal standing, is a 

 candidate for the Republican nomina- 

 tion to be supervisor from his ward 

 in Buffalo, N. Y. 



There is good news from the sick 

 bed of E. A. Moseley of Newburyport, 

 which will be welcomed all over the 

 country, for there is no better type of 

 the useful citizen and faithful public 

 servant than the secretary of the inter- 

 state commerce commission. — Boston 

 Globe. 



Harry O. May, the genial young 

 treasurer of the American Rose So- 

 ciety, son of the eminent rose grower, 

 John N. May. was married on Septem- 

 ber 18 to Miss Charlotte M. Jenkin- 

 son. at Newark. N. J. Mr. May, Sr., 

 presented the young couple with a 

 new dwelling at Summit, where they 

 will make their home on their return 

 from a bridal tour. 



OBITUARY. 

 Henry A. Jones. 

 Henry A. Jones, for the past three 

 years travelling representative of 

 Ralph M. Ward & Co., New York, died 

 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 

 Florence J. Barton, Cromwell, Conn., 

 on August 23rd. His illness was of 

 short duration, having been attacked 

 with acute indigestion while on the 

 road. He hurried home, but died in 

 four days. Mr. Jones was a man of 

 sterling qualities, genial and compan- 

 ionable, and made a great many 

 friends during his travels. He was 

 born in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 29, 1840. 

 He married Frances Katherine Howser 

 of Baltimore, who died in 1881. Four 

 daughters and one son survive him. 



Charles H. Grigg. 

 Charles H. Grigg. for many years in 

 the retail florist business in Philadel- 

 phia, died on the 22nd inst. from an 

 attack of vertigo. Mr. Grigg was at 

 one time a member of the firm of Gra- 

 ham (ft Grigg. which by its enterprising 

 methods over twenty years ago set a 

 new pace in the business of retailing 

 cut flowers in Philadelphia. Later he 

 was in business for himself and was 

 for a time manager of the Century 

 Flower Shop when that establishment 

 was started by H. H. Battles. 



Other Deaths. 



Mrs. A. La Rochelle of New York 

 died on September 11. aged 60. For 

 manv years she has carried on a re- 

 tail business at 231 Eighth avenue, 

 which will be continued by her daugn- 

 ter. 



Andrew Boylan, gardener at the City 

 Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., was 

 drowned in the Delaware River on 

 September 10. 



NEWS NOTES. 



I,eon C. Ellis has been appointed a 

 member of the Pine Grove Cemetery 

 Commission of Lynn, Mass. 



Charles Uttley of Harrisburg will 

 open a branch store at Altoona, Pa., 

 on October 1 with Miss Elma Heeter 

 in charge. 



A defective electric light wire caused 

 a slight blaze in the basement of Mal- 

 lon & Sons. Brooklyn, N. Y., but the 

 damage was trifling. 



TTnder the name of the People's 

 Floral Co., Max Eller has opened an 

 attractive store at 821 Walnut St.. 

 Kansas City, Mo., with J. D. Handler 

 as manager. 



G X. Amrhyn, superintendent of 

 parks at New Haven, Conn., met with 

 a serious accident recently. While 

 driving rear Bdgewood park the bit 

 broke, the horse bolted and threw Mr. 

 Amrhyn out severely wrenching his 

 leg. 



In the Arnold Arboretum are a num- 

 ber of young grape vines, raised by 

 Mr. Dawson from seed procured by 

 Prof. Sargent in China, who believes 

 that the fruit will be found equal to 

 some ot the finest tender white 

 grapes. The fruiting of these novel- 

 ties will be an event of great interest, 

 and should they turn out as hoped for. 

 they will constitute a sensation of 

 more than ordinary degree. 



