October 5, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



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A CARNATION WITH A FUTURE. 



Caknation Sarah Hili. 



THE QUESTION OF THE HOUR. 



The contiilmtion from our esteemed 

 editor on "The Question o£ the Hour" 

 briijgs up a very important question 

 which ought to be taken up by the 

 organizers o£ the Boston Landscape 

 School. When we consider how tar 

 practical knowledge goes in securing a 

 position, piivate or otherwise, and also 

 the time and money spent by the 

 members of the Boston landscape class 

 in makiug themselves more familiar 

 with landscape gardening, besides the 

 cost of securing a small horticultural 

 library which is necessary but is very 

 rarely so with any other class of 

 tradesmen, the incident told by our 

 editor about a gardener having a 

 f<jurteen-year record in his last posi- 

 tion having been offered the large 

 salary of $1.75 per day, should show to 

 every one that there is something 

 more required than a good practical 

 knowledge of horticulture, good habits, 

 etc. I do not underestimate the value 

 of the Boston landscape course but, 

 as is well known to every one, we can 

 secure through the correspondence 

 landscape school more individual at- 

 tention than is possible to secure with 

 such a large attendance as at the 

 Boston Landscape School, also a con- 

 siderable reduction in fees — not for- 

 getting car fares. 



We underst.and the course is to ex- 

 tend over three years. By this time 

 every member ought to be thoroughly 

 acquainted with landscape gardening 

 but all of us have not the almighty 

 dollar to go into business for our- 



selves, therefore we have to secure a 

 situation on a private estate or other- 

 wise. 



We are also told that the Boston 

 Landscape Class was organized with a 

 view to biinging the best young gar- 

 deners to the front, but unless the 

 promoters of this class can assist its 

 members, whether in a small place or 

 as assistant, to secure positions where 

 their ahility will be appreciated, the 

 members will just be where they 

 started and i)robably still have to ac- 

 cept positions with a salary of $1.75 

 per day. 



For the welfare of the profession 

 and the success of the Boston Land- 

 scape Class let us consider what can 

 lie done to assist its members to 

 secure remunerative positions and re- 

 port at their monthly meetings their 

 progress in this direction. By this 

 method, instead of forty members at- 

 tending the I.,andscape Class, an in- 

 crease will be found in a very short 

 time and the organizers will be able 

 to give an assistant to iVIr. Howard 

 who could then go among the members 

 of the class and explain more in de- 

 t:iil. Without this assistance our 

 readers can judge for themselves the 

 results. DWID MILLER. 



PERSONAL. 



Visitors in New York: Carl Jurgens, 

 .Jr., Newport, R. I., Mr. Breitenstein 

 of Brietenstein & Flemm, Pittsburg, 

 I'a. 



ClIAHLES KNOI'F 

 Itaiser of Caniaticn Sarah Hill. 

 The illustration herewith shows the 

 actual size or this superb pure wliite 

 carnation which, W3 are told, v/ill be 

 the grandest novelty in its line for 

 UIO.S. 



nice hall on September 16, on his re- 

 turn from a two months' trip to Ire- 

 land. 



Thonms F. Galvin sailed from Bos- 

 ton on the White Star liner Canopic 

 on October 1. He will leave his fam- 

 ih in the South of France for the 

 winter. 



Visitors in Boston: il. L. Adams, 

 Salinas. Calif.; Fred Lautenschlager, 

 Chicago; S. S. Skidelsky, Philadel- 

 phia; Andrew Wilson, Sumiuit, N. J.; 

 Thos. Knight, Rutherford, N. J.; Geo. 

 F. Struck, Summit, N. J. 



Walter F. Sheridan of New York 

 has been quite ill at the hospital for 

 the past two weeks, and present indi- 

 cations are that an operation for 

 appendicitis may be found necessary. 



Robert Hunnick, who was for many 

 years head gardener at Rough Point, 

 F. W. Vanderbilt's Newport estate, has 

 IJurchased four lots of land in the re- 

 stricted neighborhood on the Annan- 

 dale road. 



Edward Hatch, well-known to all the 

 trade about Boston and to many else- 

 where as the treasurer of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club of Boston, and 

 an all-round, whole-souled friend of 

 the horticultural fraternity, is the 

 moving spirit in a new banking insti- 

 tution. The Exchange Trust Company, 

 which opened for business at 33 State 

 street on October 1. 



A reception was tendered to Martin 

 E. Tuohy of So. Boston, Mass., at Ber- 



The Knights' Review, a magazine 

 published at Cincinnati, in its Septem- 

 ber issue presents an excellent por- 

 trait of D. Rusconi, the well-known 

 wholesale florist of that city. Mr. 

 Rusconi is a veteran of the war be- 

 tween Italy and Austria, 40 years ago, 

 and a compatriot of the great Gari- 

 baldi. He has been identified with the 

 plant, bulb and supply trade in Cincin- 

 nati since 1879. He is treasurer of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society. 



