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HORTICULTURE. 



December 7, 1907 



Obituary 



p. J. Hauswirth. 

 The sad news comes to us that P. J. 

 Hauswii-th of Chicago, secretary of the 

 Society of American Florists and Or- 

 namental Horticulturists, is dead. We 



P. .). Hauswirth 



know nothing as yet of the circum- 

 stances of this blow, which will be a 

 shock to thousands of acquaintances 

 and friends. Our deepest sympathy 

 is extended to the bereaved family. 



George E. Davenport. 

 Strolling with his grandchildren on 

 the afternoon of November 29th 

 through the Middlesex Pells reserva- 



the ferns of North America, and who 

 prepared and some years ago pre- 

 sented to the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society what is probably the 

 second best herbarium of ferns in this 

 country, was seized with an attack of 

 vertigo, and before help could be sum- 

 moned dropped to the ground dead. 

 His little grandson, Davenport Jack- 

 son, remained beside the body while 

 the other children ran for help. 



Mr. Davenport was born in Boston 

 .Vug. 3, 1S33, and had always lived near 

 his birthplace, residing in several of 

 the suburbs at different times. As a 

 young man he was a great friend of 

 Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd 

 Garrison. 



.A.fter marriage he began to confine 

 himself to his botanical work, and for 

 years classified new and rare speci- 

 mens of ferns for Harvard and Yale 

 universities and the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution at Washington. He was a 

 member of the Medford School Board 

 for eighteen years and was in office at 

 the time of his death. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, the New England Botanical 

 Club, was founder of the Middlesex 

 Field Club and was the author of many 

 liotanical and scientific works. In 1898 

 he was made a fellow of the Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



Mr. Davenport was a leading spirit 

 in the agitation for the preservation 

 of the beautiful tract of forest land and 

 expanse of water known as the Middle- 

 sex Fells reservation. 



His scientific analysis of ferns won 

 lor him hi.5 greatest distinction, 

 notably in his contributions to the Na- 

 tional Herbarium. "The Fern Bulletin," 

 and in a series of monographs on the 

 principal species of ferns in North 

 America. At the time of his death he 

 was at work on what he regaided the 

 great task of his life, a manual of the 

 ferns of North America as well as a 

 less technical work for use in the 

 schools. 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



James H. Veitch. 

 The death of .lames H. Veitch. 

 chronicled by our English contempo- 

 raries, is a great loss to the horticul- 

 tural world. Mr. Veitch died on 

 November 20 after a long illness.- His 

 age was but 39 years. Few men have 

 been able to accomplish so much in 

 research and literary work as Mr. 

 Veitch crowded into his short, busy 

 life. 



J. M. Gower. 

 .1. M. Grower, employed by O. K. 

 Gerrish's nurseries, Westbrook, Me., 

 died on November 21, aged 66. 



Victor Thompson. 

 Victor Thompson, Austin, 111., 60 

 years old, was found dead in his bed 

 on November 24, 



George E. D.wenport 



tlon, which he loved so well, George 

 Edward Davenport, of Medford, Mass., 

 a botanist and scholar who hart won a 

 national reputation as a specialist in 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



S. J. Turner has purchased the 

 greenhouses of A. Broman, Independ- 

 ence, Mo. 



Samuel Stone, of Bangor, Pa,, is 

 about to move his greenhouses to 

 South First street. 



F. E. Bouton, of Bridgeport, Conn., 

 has removed his entire business to the 

 greenhouses at 40S Warren street. 



Nonin's New Earlies. 



"I reckon that's the best lot of 

 earlies that ever Nonin sent out," said 

 Mr. W. Wells, the famous English 

 chrysanthemum grower, as he led me 

 towards a large expanse of bright 

 colored early flowering "Mums" in 

 the open ground at his nursery at 

 Merstham. Coming from such an au- 

 thority it must be considered as being 

 an opinion of no little value for Wells 

 himself is a large raiser of earlies and 

 devotes a considerable area to their 

 culture in the open. He has therefore 

 no object in puffing up another man's 

 goods. 



The earliest at Merstham are grown 

 in long rows; not one or two plants 

 of a sort but large numbers of each so 

 that a fair trial can be made. Of 

 Nonin's novelties for 1907 a few notes, 

 may be interesting to American grow- 

 ers of this popular section and we may 

 observe that they are mostly free flow- 

 ering, neat little dwarf plants, a foot 

 or 1 1-2 ft. high and most suitable tor 

 beds and the border. The flowers 

 themselves practically belong to one 

 class, viz, a small reflexing Japanese, 

 a perfect miniature of the larger show- 

 type. We notice in some cases a great 

 variation in the color and our excel- 

 lent guide explains that if the great- 

 est degree of satisfaction is to be ob- 

 tained from these plants disbudding 

 must, in a measure more or less severe, 

 be practiced. It was curious to notice 

 the difference in the colors of those 

 disbudded and those not disbudded 

 Some of the crimsons grown naturally 

 were dull and pale while those that 

 had had the buds slightly thinned and 

 were allowed to produce their blooms 

 from terminals were several shades 

 brighter and richer. Bronzes and 

 mauves in a like manner are much im- 

 proved although whites and yellows do 

 not appear to undergo much difference 

 in the intensity of their tones by the 

 treatment mentioned. 



Tonkin is a nice neat little flower of 

 a rich golden orange, shaded crimson. 

 Mignon, delicate rosy mauve: nice stiff 

 stems. Hermine, purest white, very 

 robust. Tapis d'Or, a perfect mass of 

 pure golden yellow; so floriferous that 

 disbudding is an absolute necessity. 

 Ernest Daudet, bright orange shaded 

 crimson, large blooms; a very charm- 

 ing variety. Mireille, rather taller than 

 the preceding, it runs to nearly 2 feet 

 in height; good sized flowers, bright 

 rosy mauve. Lumineux, a pretty, neat 

 little Jap; color fiery red, reverse gold- 

 en, Roi des Jaiines, nearly 3 ft. high,, 

 remarkably full, fine shade of pure yel- 

 low and blooms of good size. Eden; 

 this grows about 2 1-2 ft. high: bright 

 rose. Vesuve, chestnut crimson; nice 

 bushy plants. Chatillon, dwarf, sal- 

 mon on golden .ground. Diane, about 

 3 ft. high, creamy white. Ideal, about 

 3 1-2 ft. high; October blooms, color 

 rosy white. Venise, 1 1-2 ft. in height, 

 golden salmon shaded gold on the re- 

 verse. Carmen, very pretty, a neat 

 flower, rich reddish carmine: take 

 terminal bud for color. Bouquet Rose,. 

 very free, bright rose, centre golden. 



Calvat's Novelties. 

 Calvat's chrysanthemums are always; 

 early bloomers and that Is the secret 



