November 2, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



577 



LIBRARY NOTES. 



Any of the books meutioued iu Mr. 

 Payne's reviews can be supplied at pub- 

 lishers' price from the office of Horticul- 

 ture. 



The Small Town Garden, by H. M. 

 S'wanwick (Shcrratt & Hughes, Man- 

 chester and London). This is a plain 

 cloth-bound _ hook without any great 

 pretension to style, but has the merit 

 of appealing to the townsman who has 

 a love for gardening, in a useful and 

 practical manner. The reader is given 

 several comprehensive lists and tables 

 ol xilants arranged with name, height, 

 kind, period of flowering, description 

 and short cultural directions which are 

 easy for reference besides being in 

 close compass. The sub-headings 

 ■throughout the work are numerous 

 and cover the whole area of garden re- 

 quirements and operations for the 

 town gardener. 



A Garden In 'Venice by F. Eden. 

 (Country Life, Llm'd, and George New- 

 nes, London). Here we have a new 

 and cheap edition of one of those high 

 class and artistic volumes for which 

 the Country Life Library is especially 

 noted. The book is the author's rec- 

 ord of his own garden in Venice and 

 is beautifully printed in old style type 

 and adorhed with 21 illustrations. To 

 anyone who has been in an Italian gar- 

 den in Italy — for there are so-called 

 Italian gardens elsewhere, this charm- 

 ing volume will be of special interest 

 for it breathes both in the illustrations 

 and the text the very spirit of the gen- 

 uine article. Many of the pictures 

 transport us back to days long ago 

 when we too wandered through Italian 

 gardens in that land where there are 

 so many beautiful and interesting ex- 

 amples. 



Select Carnations, Picotees and 

 Pinks, by John Fraser. (Maclaren & 

 Sons, London). Carnation growing 

 has here in England assumed a con- 

 siderable importance of late years or 

 perhaps we might say revival, and as 

 a result we have at the present mo- 

 ment three new books on the subject 

 lying before us. The one by Mr. Fra- 

 ser is perhaps the most voluminous 

 and comprehensive for it runs into 

 nearly 200 pages. The cultural mat- 

 ter is of essentially a practical and not 

 a purely aesthetic manner, as we have 

 seen in some of the recent gardening 

 books. Descriptive lists are given 

 and every phase of carnation culture 

 appears to have been dealt with in a 

 sensible and practical way 



C. HARM AN PAYNE. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Number S of the Dahlia News, with 

 articles relating to the National Dah- 

 lia Society of England, the German 

 Dahlia Society and the sensational 

 new dahlia, Charles Lanier. The mem- 

 bership of the New England Dahlia 

 Society is now 200. 



Tile e.xtent of the popularitiy which 

 the American type of carnation has 

 ■already attained in England is revealed 

 in the very practical Utile 132-page 

 volume which has just reached us, 

 under the title of "The Perpetual 

 Flowering Carnation." The author ''s 

 Montagu C. AUwood and the book is 

 published by Hugh Low & Co., Bush 

 Hill Park, England. The topics 

 covered comprise: A Plea for the 



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Perpetual Flowering Carnation, The 

 Origin of the Perpetual Flowering 

 Carnation, Propagating, Handling 

 Young Carnations, Growing the Per- 

 petual Flowering Carnation. Potting, 

 Stopping, Staling and Tying, Ameri- 

 can System of Cultivation, The Rais- 

 ing of New Varieties. Pe-is and Dis- 

 tases. Manures. Calendai- of Opera- 

 tions, Re\iew of Varietie-. Malmaison 

 Carnations. Border Carntttions. Tlie 

 lllustra':ions show a 250-ft carnation 

 house at Bush Hill Park, Mrs. Law- 

 sou in centre bed; a vase of Mrs. H. 

 Burnett; method of raising cuttings; 

 White Perfection; Victory; house of 

 Enchantress; White Enchantress; 

 Harlowarden; Lady Bountiful; Brit- 

 annia: Malmaison four yeai-s old. 



The price of the volume is two 

 ahillings and the American carnation 

 grower who sends for a copy will not 

 1 egret the investment. 



The school children of several cities 

 are now receiving instruction in the 

 art of gardening. It is not at all like- 

 ly that many of them will ever, in con- 

 sequence of such instruction, become 

 good gardeners, but it is likely that 

 the efforts put forth in their behalf 

 will be productive of much lasting 

 benefit to the children and to the na- 

 tion, not to speak of what it may 

 mean in the years to come to horti- 

 culture in its broadest sense. There- 

 fore, every possible encouragement 

 should be given to those instrumental 

 in inaugurating this commendable 

 movement. 



There is no reason to doubt the 

 prediction that a bright future is in 

 store for the dahlia as a thing of prac- 

 tical utility for florists, but, again, it 

 is reasonable to suppose that the 

 craze for huge collections, embracing 

 all the varieties obtainable, good, bad 

 and indifferent, is either dying slowly 

 or already gone. The substantial 

 basis upon which the permanent pop- 

 ularity of the dahlia will rest will be 

 its usefulness within the bounds of a 

 reasonable number of varieties of two 

 or three types. The Cactus type has 

 undoubtedly the greater fascination for 

 the enthusiastic amateur, but it is 

 doubtful if, as a type, it is of as much 

 utility as either the Single or Decora- 

 tive; or. in other words, can a florist 

 get from one end of the season to the 

 other as much and as good material 

 for cut flower purposes out of the 

 Cactus type as he can out of the Dec- 

 orative or out of the Single'? 



AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY. 



To the Peony Growers of the United 

 States. 



As Chairman of the committee on 

 peony diseases, 1 wish to bring before 

 your attention some lines of work 

 which this committee proposes to un- 

 dertake during the coming year, and 

 to ask your hearty co-operation in the 

 same. 



It is proposed first, to bring together 

 all the literature bearing upon the sub- 

 ject of peony diseases. This, the 

 Chairman of the committee expects to 

 complete during the coming year and 

 will present a paper on the subject be- 

 fore the next annual meeting of the 

 society. In connection with this work 

 it is especially desired that all persons 

 interested in peony growing will .^end 

 to the Chairman references to any lit- 

 erature on the subject of peony 

 troubles of which they may know. 



Second, we will endeavor to get to- 

 gether all of the observations and ex- 

 perience of peony growers with dis- 

 eases of the plant. This will include 

 any experiences they have had with 

 diseases, methods of treatment and 

 success or failure of the same. On this 

 point it will be necessary to appeal di- 

 rectly to the grower, and it is hoped 

 that everyone interested in the matter 

 will write out briefly and clearly any- 

 thing they may have to offer and sen-i 

 it to us. 



Third, we shall endeavor to get to- 

 gether specimens of the different dis- 

 eases of peonies for the purpose of 

 studying them carefully and making 

 experiments to determine their cause 

 and methods of their treatment. It is 

 planned to continue this work for a 

 number of years in order that we may 

 arrive at some definite conclusions in 

 regard to the matter. Growers are 

 urged to send in any diseased plants 

 whenever they find them, transporta- 

 tion prepaid. In return for which the 

 Chairman of your committee promises 

 to give whatever information he can 

 in regard to the trouble and to prepare 

 from time to time short articles on 

 some common and destructive disease, 

 that will appear for publication in the 

 proper magazine, etc. These speci- 

 mens should be carefully wrapped in a 

 box or stout package and mailed di- 

 rectly to our address. 



Signed: H. H. 'WHETZEL, 

 N. Y. State College of Agriculture, 



Ithaca, N. Y. 



