October 17, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



515 



A FEW BARGAINS IN BULBS 



L-IilUM LONGIFLOKIM, Japan-grown. Now ready. Case lots, 

 300 bulbs, $15.00 per case; less quantities, $6.00 per 100. 



FKEESIA REFRACTA ALBA. We have a small surplus of the largest 

 size French-grown bulbs. Mammoth bulbs, y± inch up, as long as unsold, 

 $7.50 per 1000. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY, Cold Storage. Finest quality, for im- 

 mediate forcing. Case of 250, $4.00: case of 500, $7.50; case of 1000, 

 $14.00; case of 2500, $32.50. 



DUTCH HYACINTHS. Selected named varieties, first size, $500 per 

 100, $4, 00 per 1000; Fine named, second size, $4.00 per 100, $35.00 per 

 ioco; Separate colors, $2 50 per ioo, $23.00 per 1000; Miniature, or Dutch 

 Romans — very profitable stock for growing — finest named varieties in 

 white, pink and blue, $2.00 per 100, $18.00 per icoo. 



TULIPS. A few of the leading varieties, which we can supply in quantity, 

 as follows: — Artus, $1.25 per 100, $11 00 per iooo: Chrysolora, 90c. per 

 100, $7.00 per 1000; Cottage Maid, $1 25 per 100, $10 co per 1000; Keiz- 

 erskroon, $1.75 per 100, $15.00 per 1000; La Reine, $1.25 per 100, $9,00 



per 1000; Pottebakker White, $1.25 per 100 $10 00 per 1000; Rose Gris- 

 delin, $1.50 per 100, $12 co per 1000; Yellow Prince, $1.00 per 100, $8.50 

 1000; Gesneriana Spathulata, $1.25 per 100, $11.00 per 1000; Darwins 

 $1.00 per 100, $9.00 per 1000. 



NARCISSUS. Golden Spur, $1.75 per 100, $15.00 per ioco; Princeps, 80c. 

 per 100, $6.50 per rooo; Single Von Sion, $1 25 per 100, $10.00 per 1000; 

 Emperor, $1.75 per 100, $15.00 per 1000; Empress, $1.75 per 100, $14.00 

 per 1000; Double Von Sion, first size, $1.00 per 100, $8.00 per 1000; Orange 

 Phoenix, $1.25 per 100, $9.00 per tooo; Paper White Grandiflora, $1.25 

 per too, $9.00 per 1000; Poeticus, 6cc. per 100, $4.00 per 1000; Barri 

 Conspicuus, 80c. per 100, $6.50 per 1000. 



SPANISH IRIS. Finest named varieties, 60c. per 10c, $4.00 per 1000; 

 All colors mixed 40c. per 100, $2.00 per 1000. 



CROCUS. Separate Colors, sec. per 100, $3.00 per 1000; Finest Named Var- 

 ieties, 75c. per ioc, $5.00 per 1000. 



For complete list of Bulbs, see our Wholesale Price List. 



F. R. PIERSON CO., Tarrytown=on=Hudson, New York 



LIBRARY NOTES. 

 Since our last installment under the 

 above heading there have been pub- 

 lished on this side of the Atlantic sev- 

 eral new gardening books of greater 

 or less interest 10 American readers. 

 The first one is Gardens of England, 

 painted by Beatrice Parsons, described 

 bv E. T. Cook. Everything of a libra- 

 ry character that Mr. E. T. Cook, the 

 able editor of "The Garden," puts his 

 hand to is executed in the highest 

 style. This new book contains some 

 thoughts on English gardening rather 

 than descriptions, historic and other- 

 wise, of some of the well-known gar- 

 dent attached to our English mansions. 

 The subjects treated are all dealt with 

 in Mr. Cook's best style, and it is not 

 within our province just now to do 

 more than advise our readers to take 

 cognizance of them themselves. But 

 the chief charm to us as bibliophiles 

 must primarily be the exquisite little 

 gems from the brush of Beatrice Par- 

 sons with which the pages of the book 

 are adorned. It is a very long time 

 since we saw anything executed in 

 such dainty style, and of these there 

 are twenty reproductions all in color. 

 Price $1.75. 



"The Perfect Garden," by Walter P. 

 Wright — a somewhat ambitious title, 

 but the author endeavors to justify it 

 by the wide scope over which he trav- 

 els. Oue feature of tie Perfect Garden 

 certainly deserves our highest com- 

 mendation, and that is the series of 

 garden plans at the end of the work, 

 a provision that so many authors have 

 tailed to make for their reade.s. 

 Price $1.60. 



Journal of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, Vol. XXXIII, Part 2. (Office 

 of the Society, Vincent Square, Lon- 

 don, S. W.) A bulky number of this 

 well-known journal, containing nu- 

 merous articles of horticultural inter- 

 est. We quote just a few: Rare Shrubs 

 in the Open Air. Hardy Nymphaeas, 

 The Chinese Floia, Electric Cultiva- 

 tion in Relation to Horticulture, O.i- 

 gin and Present Distribution of the 

 British Flora, Summer Pruning, An- 

 other Peach Pest, etc. Reports of 

 Trials at Wisley, Review? of Books, 

 Additions to the Library and other 

 matter complete the volume. Price 

 $1.80. 



Bulletin de la Societe Pi ancaise 

 d'Hotticulture de Londres. (Office of 

 the Societv, G6 Long Acre. London, W. 

 C.) This is always an interesting pub- 

 lication and it has now reached its 

 19th annual issue. The Society con- 

 sists of French and other French- 



speaking gardeners in London, many 

 of whom retain their membership 

 after returning to their native land. 

 The Society is also supported by the 

 leading English and Continental nur- 

 serymen. The present issue consists of 

 192 pages of printed matter, stitched 

 in paper wrappers. A few illustrations 

 are given. The articles consist chiefly 

 of papers read by the members at the 

 Society's monthly meetings and are in 

 the French language. This year an ex- 

 ception is made, and M. Paul Aquatias 

 explains in excellent English the mys- 

 teries of intensive culture of vegeta- 

 bles on the French system. 



"Pansies and Violets," by D. B. 

 Crane. A neat little book of 128 pages, 

 written by a well-known authority on 

 these flowers. It is a handbook deal- 

 ing with the cultivation and propaga- 

 tion of the Show, Fancy and Tufted 

 pansy, for garden decoration and ex- 

 hibition. It deals also with the Vio- 

 letta. Mountain and Sweet Violets, and 

 treats on the diseases thereof and ene- 

 mies. The book contains selections of 

 varieties for all purposes. Price 35 cts. 

 "How to Grow Sweet Peas," by 

 Thomas Stevenson and W. F. May. 

 We have had occasion to notice several 

 little cultural guides on the Sweet Pea 

 of late, and the present in style and 

 get-up genet ally is in no way behind 

 its predecessors. Several portraits of 

 well-known men in the Sweet Pea 

 world are given. Price 25 cents. 



"The French Garden," by C. D. Mc- 

 Kay. In this little work of G2 pages 

 the author gives us a diary and man- 

 ual of Intensive Cultivation, a subject 

 that has aroused considerable interest 

 here and upon which a good deal has 

 been written not only in the garden- 

 ing but in the daily press. The sub- 

 jects treated are French and English 

 Gardeners, Starting a Garden, Seed 

 Sowing, Melons and Cucumbers, Some 

 Special Crops, Straw Mats, Packing, 

 The History of the French Garden in 

 England Price 25 cents. 



C. HARMAN PAYNE. 



PROTECTING PINE PLANTATIONS 

 AGAINST THE GYPSY MOTH. 

 A. H. Kirkland, superintendent of 

 the gypsy moth campaign in Massa- 

 chusetts has determined by observa- 

 tion that the young of the gypsy 

 moth are not able to feed on the pine 

 for the first three weeks after hatch- 

 ing. It follows, therefore, that plan- 

 tations of white pine may be made 

 without fear of the depredations of 

 these insects provided all undergrowth 

 and contiguous deciduous trees, etc., 

 are cut away as any caterpillars 

 hatched within territory thus pro- 

 tected would starve. 



RECONSTRUCTION OF SWISS 



VINEYARDS. 

 Vice-Consul L. H. Munier, of Gen- 

 eva, sends a clipping from a Swiss 

 newspaper, from which it is noted 

 that more modern methods of grape 

 culture are being adopted in Switzer- 

 land. The old vineyards have been 

 attacked by phylloxera, in fighting 

 which the Government has already 

 spent $482,500. Now it is decided to 

 replace the old vines with the more 

 robust American vines. To aid the 

 planters in the substitution the Gov- 

 ernment has voted an annual appro- 

 priation of $96,500, to extend over a 

 period of sixty years. 



A NEW COLOR CHART. 



Our readers will remember that 

 some time ago we noticed the publica- 

 tion of a work called Repertoire de 

 Couleurs which consisted of about 1400 

 various shades of colors each named 

 in five different languages. This book 

 has recently been adopted by the Royal 

 Horticulture Society as its standard of 

 colors. 



Quite recently a new French work 

 called Code des Couleurs, portable in 

 form and containing about 720 colors 

 not named but numbered, has been 

 published by a Paris firm. We shall 

 hope to notice it more fully in our 

 next instalment of "Library" Notes." 

 C. HARMAN PAYNE. 



ATTRACTIVE PRICES 



ON 



Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissi, Lilium 

 Harrisii, Lil. Multiflorum and Gigan- 

 teum, Boxwood, Blue Spruce, Rhodo- 

 dendrons, California Privet, Peonies. 



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