July 25, 190S 



HORTICULTURE 



107 



FISHKILL. 



Serenely reposing at the foot of the 

 stately Fishkill mountains and smiling 

 at its neighbor, Newburgh, a mile 

 away on the other shore of the broad 

 Hudson, snuggles the historic town of 

 Fishkill— or Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, as 

 some of its fashionable residents pre- 

 fer to call it. 



Apart from its scenic attractions. 

 Fishkill offers two prime inducements 

 to the horticultural traveller to tarry; 

 one is our genial lriend, Benjamin 

 Hammond, secretary of the American 

 Rose Society, whose factory for paints 

 and insecticides stands almost next 

 door to the railroad station: the other 

 is the nurseries and greenhouses of 

 Wood liros., reached by a trolley car 

 which, after several miles of upward 

 meandering to and fro, deposits the 

 visitor within a short walk of his des- 

 tination. Theie are few rides more 

 romantic than this. Quaint pastoral 

 scenes alternate with modern luxuri- 

 onsness and style, trumpet vines clam- 

 ber over trellised porches, while holly- 

 hocks, hemerocallis and such old- 

 fashioned things flaunt gayly in an- 

 cient cottage gardens, as the trolley 

 car speeds along through shaded thor- 

 oughfares, the conductor thereof con- 

 tiibuting to the contrast between rural 

 simplicity and modern society customs 

 by possibly taking aboard a tub of 

 butter lor delivery at the wayside gro- 

 cery. On the right rise the wooded 

 mountain slopes; on the left, through 

 the chestnuts, oaks and locusts, comes 

 an occasional glimpse of the majestic 

 river and the blue crags of the en- 

 chanted Catskills beyond, where Rip 

 Van Winkle wandered. But here our 

 romancing is cut short by the spectacle 

 of a group of majestic elms, brown a.; 

 though swept by fire, overwhelmed by 

 that abominable scourge, the elm leaf 

 beetle, in defiant disregard of the 

 proximity of the Slug Shot man! 



Wood Bros.' place is located on a 

 fine upland plateau. Here are acres 

 and acres of perfectly trained nursery 

 stock and bedding material planted 

 out, and forty greenhouses which by a 

 skilful system of crop rotation are 

 never idle, filled at the present time 

 with thrifty young roses, chrysanthe- 

 mums, and other seasonable stock. 

 Wood En-os. have an enormous and 

 fast increasing plant shipping trade, 

 particularly strong throughout New 

 England and New York state, and one 

 does not have to look far to find the 

 reason why, for painstaking industry 

 is evident at every turn, and better 

 cared for, weedles:, fields or cleaner 

 greenhouse benches cannot be found 

 anywhere. 



Before leaving Fishkill the visitor 

 will not fail to take a ride to the top 

 of Mt. Beacon, 1400 feet above the river. 

 The ascent is by an incline railway, 

 the steepest of its length in the world. 

 The view from the Casino at the top 

 is one of surpassing beauty. Below lie 

 the villages of Fishkill and Matteawan, 

 and nearly fifteen miles away up the 

 Hudson the outlines of the great 

 Poughkecpsie Bridge are dimly seen. 

 The crests of these hills w-ere utilized 

 for signal fires during the Revolution- 

 ary struggle, hence the name of Mt. 

 Beacon. On the easterly spur stands 

 a commemorative monument of stone 

 elected by the Daughters of the Ameri- 

 can Revolution. 



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Clayton, 111. — Chas. Shank, additions. 



Rockford, 111. — C. H. Woolsey, one 

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Waverly, Mass. — R. B. Home, one 

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Kirkwood, Mo. — Robt. Greeb, two 

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Marinette, Wis. — George Vatter, re- 

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Yeadon, Pa. — H. J. Leech, show con- 

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Lebanon, Mo. — Henry Russe, range 

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Shawnee, Okla. — John G. Brenner, 

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Elmhurst, Cal. — Hutchiugs & James, 

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Fall River, Mass.— Chas. M. Allen, 

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Saratoga Springs, N. Y. — C. Dehn, 

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Burlington, la. — Harry Bock, three 

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Pleasantdale, Me.— J. W. Minott & 

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Sedarnsville, O. — Charles Brunner, 

 range of houses. 



Peoria, 111.— D. W. Augspurger & 

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Columbia, 111. — F. W. Breunig, three 

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Martin's Ferry, W. Va. — Davidson 

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Des Mcines, la. — J. S. Wilson, car- 

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Chicago, 111. — John Assa, two rose 

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Syracuse, N. Y. -Bannister Bros., 

 house 10x100, for ferns. 



Ames, la. — F. J. Olson, addition of 

 5500 square feet of glass. 



Ogden. Utah.— R. Van der Schuit, 

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La Prosse, Wis.— Thos. F. Kienahs, 

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Olean, N. Y— D. R. Heron, house 

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Johnstown, Pa. — Herman Neissner, 

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Anacostia, D. C— Gude Bros., four 

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Danbury, Conn.— J. C. Cornell, addi- 

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 concrete. 



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 Thomas Mead, occupied by Sullivan 

 & McGrath, on Adams street, Dorches- 

 ter, Mass., were damaged to the ex- 

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