October 26, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



541 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 

 A French Audrt. 



Therp is always considerable interest 

 ii! discovering the favorite varieties, 

 and in England audits of the best va- 

 rieties compiled from returns sent in 

 by a certain number of gi-owers have 

 long been in vogue. In France this has 

 been done more rarely and at longer 

 intervals, but still it is done there, one 

 of the largest having been inaugurated 

 by the "Moniteur d'Horticulture" some 

 years ago. Of course tastes differ and 

 English growers do not always accept 

 the results of these French audits. 



At any rate there is some little in- 

 terest attached to them, and apart from 

 purely patriotic motives, which in 

 some individual cases largely influence 

 some of our growers, it is interesting 

 and instructive to know what our 

 neighbors are doing and think. By 

 this means we may enlarge our view 

 and perhaps become acquainted with 

 the merits of certain flowers we have 

 never before heard of, for it is certain 

 that every one of the new French 

 seedlings does not invariably find its 

 way across the Channel. 



The Paris Chrysanthemum Commit- 

 tee of the National Horticultural So- 

 ciety has recently published a little 

 brochure of 100 pages containing a 

 complete record of its last year's work 

 and operations. This committee would 

 in England be considered a respectable 

 society in itself, for at the beginning 

 of the year it consisted of 391 members. 

 of whom S49 are called active members 

 and 42 are designated associates. 



Tlie contents briefly may be summar- 

 ized as follows: Schedule of classes 

 for the ensuing exhibition to be held 

 in Paris, November S to 17. 1907, com- 

 prising cine different sections divided 

 into 101 classe.?; annual report; annual 

 revised group of varieties for different 

 purposes; list of best varieties put into 

 commerce since 1903; list of prize win- 

 ners at the 1900 show; reports of vari-. 

 ous shows held in France last season; 

 reports of visits to the collections of 

 several prominent cultivators; list of 

 members, etc. 



Our present object, however, is to 

 draw attention to the list of varieties 

 since 1903 which are considered the 

 best. Returns were invited from mem- 

 bers of the committee and then tabu- 

 lated, with the result that upwards of 

 200 were chosen. These varieties re- 

 ceived from 3 to 30 votes each, and it 

 has occurred to me that the names of 

 the first .'iO may be of interest to read- 

 ers of HORTICULTURE at this sea.son. 



The following is the list, viz.: 



Raiser No. 

 Variety & Date of 



Votes 

 Sapho Calvat. 1904 30 



Mme. Marguerite de Mons " " 2'J 

 Mme. Rene Oberthur ' 1903 29 



Lt. Col. Dutroiset " " 29 



Prest. Viger " " 2;< 



Tokio Vihuoiin, 1904 2S 



Jean C.-ilvat Calvat, 1903 2,-! 



Souvenir de Hailleul De Pius, 1905 27 

 Ch Schwnrtz Xouin, ly03 2ii 



Mme Henri Douillet Calvat " 24 

 M. Ant. Marmontei Xonin. 1904 24 



La Gracieusp * " " "4 



Prest. Loiibet Calvat. 1906 23 



1^ Hrevannais Durand 190.5 23 



Alliance Calvat. 1904 23 



Souvenir de Mme. Huron Plet, 1904 22 

 Nathalie Bourseul .Vonin 1903 21 



Variety 



Raiser No. 



& Date of 

 Votes. 



Ami A. .\oniu Clement, 1905 21 



Albert Maumene Noniu, 1904 21 



Rose Poilevine J5ruant, 1903 21 



M. Lo'seau Rousseau Calvat, 1306 21 

 Henri Second " 1903 20 



•Souvenir ile Calvat pere 



Calvat, 1903 20 

 Mme. Toussaint Charvet Nonin, 1905 20 

 Vierge Montbruuoise De Pins, 1904 20 

 Amateur Rozieres Nonin, 1905 20 



Mme. de la Verteville De I'ins, 1904 20 

 Mile. Rence Avisard Leroux, 1903 18 

 Ville de Phenicie Chanirier " IS 

 .Mrs. J. A. Miller Wells, 1904 IS 



Mme. Henri Deliry Nonin " I5 



Wni. Duckham Wells, • IS 



Amateur Ccnseil i.'alvat, '" IS 



Miss Mildred Ware Jones, 1903 17 



Mile. Marie pouzae Chantrier, 1904 17 

 Soeur de Charite \ ilmorin, 1903 17 



Mme. W. Bowen " 1905 17 



Chateau des Radiets 



De Reydellet, 1905 16 

 Dubruisson-Foubert Calvat, 1906 15 

 Mile. .Anna Debono " 1904 15 



,J. H. Silsbuiy Wells, " 1.':; 



Souverir de Cologne De Pins, 1S05 15 

 Hy. Perkins .Tones, 3903 15 



Mile. F.erthe ICschnenauer 



Oalvat, 1905 15 

 Maiy Ann Pockett Wells, " 15 



Mme. Martinotto Calvat, 1905 14 



Ile de France Xonin, 1904 14 



Femina Calvat, " 1( 



Secretaira Clement " 1905 14 



E. J. Brocks Wells, '■ it 



Calvat's Seedlings. 



Til is gieat Fiench grower's annual 

 list for 1907 has .iust come under my 

 notice .".gain, and I am reminded of his 

 exhibits at the TT'rench shows last year. 

 American chiysanthemuni growers 

 will do well to keep a look-out for the 

 followins- novelties of this raiser: Al- 

 gesiras. Touring Club, Santos-Dumont, 

 Paul Randet, Pi'esident Dubost, Presi- 

 dent Fallieres, Mile, .feanne de la 

 Croull, Le Lulin, S. A. Naceur Bey, 

 Carlo Krocht. If the .\merican cli- 

 mate suits then; there ought to l)e 

 some flne samples of them this 

 autumn, C, H 'vRMAX PAYNE. 



FORESTRY STUDY AT HARVARD. 



Through the generosity of James W. 

 Brooks, Jchn S. Ames and others, Har- 

 vard College has come into posses- 

 sion of 2000 acres of land in Peters- 

 ham, Mass,, on which is growing the 

 best body of timber now to be found 

 on an equal area iu the state. It will 

 be devoted to Ihe use of I he divisum 

 of forestry of the college. Students 

 will be iu residence a.t Petei-sham dur- 

 ing a considerable part of the year. 

 There they will take up in the first 

 <if their regular Iwo years' course, 

 ;ind largely in Ihe field, all their ele- 

 mentary work including tree botanj , 

 the theory and practice of forest meas- 

 nration, and the whole subject of sil- 

 viculture. This will lead them directly 

 to their last year's work, which is 

 mainly devoted to lumbering, forest 

 engineering and the studj of forest 

 produelioii as applied to actual prob- 

 lems. The diseases of trees aJ\d other 

 foims of injury, and the history of 

 fuiest policy in the various countries 

 will also form part of the work. 



TREE AND SHRUB CHAT. 



Juniperus stricta. said to be a form 

 of Virginiana. the red cedar, is a 

 neat little fastigiate evergreen useful 

 lor gardens or veranda boxes and per- 

 fectly hardy around Boston. 



The nursery trade throughout the 

 New England section of the country is 

 generally reported as lagging and not 

 etiual in volume to that of one year 

 ago. The people who are the best 

 buyers of ornamental stock are feeling 

 the effect of the depressed market 

 and financial stringency and it is only 

 natural that gard.?n operations should 

 be among the first to suffer. 



Acer Ginnala, classed by some as 

 a variety of A. Tartaricum as seen 

 at a distance at the present time can 

 scarcely be distinguished from a clump 

 of scarlet salvia in full bloom, so bril- 

 liant is the autumn foliage. Among 

 the other brilliant objects in fall 

 coloring are Euonymus alatus and the 

 lierberises Thimbergii and Sieboldii. 

 K. Thunbergii is loaded down with its 

 racemes of coral fruit this year. 



Commissioner Samuel Parsons has 

 presented a report on the condition 

 and needs of Central Park, New York, 

 and the total cost of the repairs and 

 improvements which he regards as 

 necessary amounts to $2,676,750. This 

 proposition, he says, must ultimately 

 be faced if Central Park is to remain 

 the pride of the city and the leading 

 park of the country. The estimate in- 

 cludes $650,200 for loam, $150,000 for 

 manure, $50,000 for sod, $75,000 for 

 shrubbery and trees, and $60,000 for 

 four years' work of forty men and 

 foremen. Immense sums are also re- 

 quired for roads, lakes, drainage, etc. 



The fall planting of nursery stock in 

 Detroit has been started with great 

 vigor and all agents report a goodly 

 number of orders on hand. A nice fea- 

 ture is the policy of some churches to 

 improve their yet vacant lots by plant- 

 ing shrubs and herbaceous plants 

 thereon, and so forming little parks. 

 On looking about one cannot but wish 

 that nurserymen be more careful in 

 selecting their salesmen. The people 

 are ignorant enough about these goods, 

 but they are excusable. For a nursery 

 to send out men on planting work who 

 have not the slightest idea of effective 

 planting is not only inexcusable but 

 suicidal to the business. The reaction 

 hurts not only the nurseryman but al.so 

 the florist. F. DANZER. 



.OERSONAL. 



John J. Gormley has returned from 

 Minneapolis to his old place with Gan- 

 ger & Gormley. Chicago. 



Supt. Jas. W. Boone of Clifton Park, 

 Baltimoi-e, met with a painful accident 

 recently which wdll confine him to the 

 house for a time. 



George Reinberg and Miss Clara 

 Lackey of Chicago were married on the 

 evening of October 16 and started for 

 Colorado on their wedding trip. 



A. J. Seiders has accepted a position 

 in the College of Tndustiial Arts. Den- 

 ton. Texas, as director of gardening, 

 floriculture, cut flower work, design- 

 ing. Mr. Seiders' years of practical 

 experience eminently qualified him for 

 this position. The salary is $1,800 and 

 residence. 



