July 18, 1908 



HORTICULTU RE 



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and my visit will ever be a sweet recol- 

 lection. 



The walied vegetable garden of 

 about four acres contained abundant 

 supplies of the choicest vegetables, 

 with every modern convenience for pro- 

 ducing the best, and the model farm 

 with its modern conveniences up-to- 

 date machinery, fine stock and good 

 buildings, neat and cleanly in everj 

 detail, was a feature which surpassed 

 many of the finest show places in the 

 north. This beautiful place is owned 

 by Col. O. iff. Payne, of New York. 



A. J. LOVELESS. 



Lenox, Mass. 



AN AZORES LILY FIELD. 



SOME NOTABLE NOVELTIES AT 

 A LONDON SHOW. 



At the R. H. S. exhibition in Vincent 

 Square on June 23, special certificates 

 were offered for novelties but purely 

 new things were few and these mostly 

 confined to orchids and stove plants. 



Eremurus Elwesianus is a very fine 

 hybrid, having immense spikes of deep 

 salmon flowers with comspieuous bead 

 like centres. It is extra vigorous, and 

 hardier than its parents. 



Veitch & Son put up a basket of a 

 good double golden Begonia "Col. 

 Lausedat which took an A. M. The 

 firm also had plants of Gloxinia X 

 Gesnera, hut not of great merit or 

 utility, Kalanchoo flammea and Kew- 

 ensis, and cannas of quite new shades. 



House-grown sweet peas were shown, 

 the finest scarlet to date being prob- 

 ably 'The King" (Dobbie) not yet 

 sent out. G. Mount showed the new 

 hybrid tea rose "Joseph Lowe"; it is 

 very fine. Godfrey had decorative 

 Pelargoniums Devon Lass and H. S. 

 Davey, two most striking. 



T. Ware had Delphinium "Pole Star" 

 a good and free white and Yvette 

 Guilbert a lovely double silver grey. 

 Paul put up several boxes of the new 

 hybrid sweet briar "Refulgence" 

 which received A. M. and the same 

 award fell to • roses Hugo Rollen, 

 (Marie van Houtte X Homere), which 

 should prove useful. Spirea Peach 

 blossom was shown hy several grow- 

 ers; it is the best of the soft rose 

 colored sort and took a gold medal. 

 Cmtbush & Son also showed the baby 

 rambler W. H. Cutbush, of doubtful 

 merit or utility. H. Cannell showed 

 two boxes of good roses but on the 

 moss in the old style, which will not 

 do, now that the Americans have 

 shown us how to grow fine flowers on 

 yard-long stems. 



THOMAS BUNYARD. 



A SONG FOR JULY. 



"J'is the noon of the year. 



As a toiler, oppressed 

 By the labor and heat. 



Folds his hands on his breast. 

 Drawing stresgth from his dreams, 



Lo! the earth swings at rest 

 In the noon of the year. 



'Tls the noon of the year. 



Kre it pass to its wane, 

 Over full-blossomed trees, 



Over yellowing grain. 

 Karth, the toiler, a-drowse, 



Must revive him again 



In the noon of the year. 



'Tis the noon of the year. 



Come, he one with it, sweet! 

 Love In idleness rails 



Through the languorous heat, 

 Where the dream poppies nod 

 In tiie wind-wimpled wheat. 

 In the noon of the year. 

 --T. A. Dalv, in Catholic Standard and 

 Times 



Our illustration shows one of the 

 lily fields at Lagoa. The crop this 

 year is not believed to be very la^ge 

 owing to much dry weather. The 

 last tain that we know of was the 

 17th of April. This grower writes, 

 however, that next year he will proba- 

 bly grow many lilies at Ribeira 

 Grande, a small village on the island, 

 because the grounds theie may be irri- 

 gate 1. Most of the lilies are now 

 grown at Lagoa, but it is very difficult 

 to irrigate the land there beause there 



is not sufficient water and it is neces- 

 sary to carry it to the fields. 



Mr. R. M. Ward, to whom we are in- 

 debted for the photograph, informs us 

 that shipments are expected a little 

 later this season than usual because 

 the direct steamers to New York have 

 mostly been removed from service dur- 

 ing the hot weather, and the Boston 

 White Star Line does not get freight 

 enough to make the Azores a port of 

 call. The goods therefore will likely 

 have to be shipped either via Liver- 

 pool oi via Lisbon. 



Very fine nerines and agapanthus are 

 also pi own in the Azotes. 



BERMUDA AND JAPAN LILY 

 BULB PROSPECTS. 



Advice from Bermuda says that the 

 Hairisii crop is quite a failure and 

 deliveries are being made in 7-!) at 

 about 50 per cent, basis, whereas 9-11's 

 only about 10 per cent. Dry weather 

 is given as the cause — bulbs after dig- 

 ging prove 4-5 instead of 7-9 as ex- 

 pected. 



We also have just received word 

 from Yokohama that the so-called 

 "Formosa" lily, grown in Oshima, will 

 be about 50 per cent, delivered. The 

 first lot was shipped from Yokohama 

 on Empress of Japan on the 13th of 

 .Tune. This is very early and we can 

 only hope the bulbs are ripe enough to 

 be planted. In fact, it is much earlier 

 than they are needed. Formosas ar- 

 riving here a month later we believe 

 will be better. 



The shortage of Harrisii, Azores and 

 Formosas, and the probable shortage 

 of Giganteum will certainly bring the 

 Multiflorum back into favor by force. 

 The Multiflorums ;ire said to be im- 

 proved this year and much better 

 selected. 



PRIMULA OBCONICA OUTDOORS. 

 A correspondent inquires whether 

 any reader of HORTICULTURE has 

 had experience with P. obconica as a 

 summer bedding plant. No one ap- 

 peals to have tried it in this country 

 but the following taken from "The 

 Garden," London, may throw some 

 light on the subject: 



'Having read in your "Answers to Cor- 

 respondents" for June 20 a note on planting 

 Primula obconica out of doors, it may in- 

 terest you to hear that in the spring of 

 190H I planted out in a border facing north 

 two of these plants which had been 8ower- 

 ing indoors. This was done experimentally, 

 and I do not expect them to live through 

 the winter, but both plants survived the 

 winter of 1906-7. and when I was last at 

 hoini I noticed that one of them was not 

 only alive, but making fair growth and 

 show inu r bloom. The position was fair'.y 

 shel: n-ed, but more exposed to a north- 

 east wind than nny other. The garden I 

 am speaking el' is that of Overbury Hall. 

 La.vham. Suffolk, and stands on rising 

 ground exposed to the east and south, but 

 is fa ill \- sheltered by trees. 



T. H. DIPNALL. 



Cold storage lilies have apparently 

 "caught on" and are already a big 

 item in the bulb business. A. T. Bod-^ 

 dington disposed of 10 cists last week. 



A USEFUL INSTRUMENT. 



One of the most useful instruments 

 at the disposal of those who have any 

 levelling or laying out of land to be 

 dine for any purpose is the Bostrom 

 Farm evel advertised in another col- 

 umn i this paper. Every time a 

 new house is contemplated this excel- 

 lenl substitute for expensive survey- 

 ing instruments will come in useful. 

 The cost is within the reach of all. 



