November 14, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



635 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



The dedicatory exercises of the new 

 building of the Phelps Publishing 

 Company at Springfield, Mass., are tak- 

 ing place as we go to press. An ad- 

 dress prepared by President Roosevelt, 

 and addresses by other personages of 

 note, are promised. The building is 

 eight stories above ground, with base- 

 ment, sub-basement and roof garden, 

 and takes the place of the one de- 

 stroyed by fire a year ago. HORTI- 

 CULTURE extends cordial congratula- 

 tions and best wishes. 



CYPRIPEDIUM GODEFROYAE LEUCOCHILU M. 



The Washington Times for Sunday, 

 Nov. 8, and the florists of the capital 

 city certainly displayed joint enter- 

 prise unparalleled in the history of 

 the flower trade in putting before the 

 public a "Floral Section and Flower 

 Show Number" of eight pages, hand- 

 somely illustrated and full of enthusi- 

 asm about the coming flower show of 

 the Florists' Club and clever references 

 to what the florists of Washington are 

 doing. Kramer and Gude each have a 

 full page advertisement, and practical- 

 ly all the florists of the town have 

 announcements in spaces of various 

 extent. If- the florists in some other 

 cities would send for a copy of the 

 paper above mentioned we think it 

 would furnish them with something 

 worth thinking about and point the 

 way to how they might greatly ad- 

 vance their business and enlarge its 

 profits. 



The "National Council of Horticulture" 

 has addressed to the American people an 

 almost tragic appeal of which the text is 

 to be found in the openiLg lines: — 



"The cranberry is the least understood 

 and most abused of any of our domestic 

 fruits." 



'this is known to be true by any lover 

 of nature, who lias studied the ''arte Cod 

 cranberry in its native lair. Many a cran- 

 berry lias passed out of this cold and 

 cheerless world, wholly misunderstood, 

 wholly unappreciated; a mule, inglorious 

 Chatterton in pink. No wonder the 

 friends of the cranberry are moved to 

 protest at the unfair, inhuman treatment 

 accorded to this sensitive and timid mem- 

 ber of "our domestic fruits." People, 

 right here in New Kn^land, have been 

 known to keep cranberries in tin recepta- 

 cles, and then have wondered "why cran- 

 berry shortcake, tastes so nauseating. 

 Others have covered the cranberries with 

 cold water and allowed them to simmer, 

 and then have wondered why "people like 

 such stuff." In the interests of humanity, 

 of justice, of kindly dealing towards a de- 

 fenseless berry let us all follow the right. 

 And there is only one way to make cran- 

 berry sauce. It probably would be officious 

 to attempt to offer that recipe to any 

 reader of The Advertiser in a community 

 where the cranberry has been known, hon- 

 ored and fairly treated for so many gener- 

 ations. — Boston Advertiser. 



The National Council of Horticulture 

 should not get on such dangerous 

 ground. There is plenty for it to do 

 in its borne missionary field, without 

 incurring trouble for itself by trying 

 to stir up the New Englanders. 



PERSONAL. 



F. E. Olmstead has taken a position 

 as deputy commissioner of forestry and 

 will be located at San Francisco, Calif. 



Carl N. K. Pedersen of St. John, N. 

 IS., and Miss Jennie A. Shepherd were 

 married on October 29. 



Thos. Breen of Burlingame is now 

 located with Wm. Babcock of San Ra- 

 fael, Cal., as head gardener. 



F. B. Cannell of Brookline, Mass., a 

 popular member of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston, and Miss Er- 



This species comes from Siam and 

 has the same dwarf habit as the more 

 common Cypripedium bellatulum. 

 Flowers are cream white with dark 

 purple blotches and spots, the variety 

 leucochilum having no spots on the 



lip. It was introduced several years 

 ago to Europe and has been used with 

 success for hybridizing, some of the 

 most beautiful cypripedium crosses 

 being the products of this variety and 

 various species. 



nestine Mae Thielscher were married 

 on November 10. 



J. R. Freeman, who has been quite 

 sick at his home. 2319 Wisconsin ave- 

 nue N. W., Washington, P. C, is con- 

 valescing rapidly and hopes to be at 

 his place of business in the very neat- 

 future. 



Among the visitors from Buffalo 

 and vicinity to the Chicago show are 

 Barnev Meyers, Lancaster; C. T. Guen- 

 ther. Hamburg; Prof. J. F. Cowell. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Kasting, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Saanderson. 



A beautiful wedding was celebrated 

 on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 5, when 

 Miss Alice Kathrine Maurer, daughter 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Maurer of Wil- 

 liamsville, N. Y., was married to Wal- 

 lace H. Eiss of the Wm. F. Kasting 

 Co., Buffalo. The ceremony was per- 

 formed by Rev. Frank Hyatt Smith 

 of Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Eiss have 

 taken a short western trip. 



In the presence of none but im- 



mediate relatives James Garthley and 

 Mrs. Mattie Kelley were united in 

 , marriage Monday, Nov. 9, by Rev. H. 

 L. Brickett, at Marion, Mass. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Garthley left for New York and 

 Washington, where they will spend 

 their wedding tour, and on their re- 

 turn will reside in Fairhaven, where 

 Mr. Garthley is chief gardener at the 

 estate of H. H. Rogers. 



Visitors in Boston during the show 

 woek included George F. Struck, New 

 York; Henry Hurrell, Summit, N. J.; 

 Timothy McCarthy, Providence, R. I.; 

 W. A. Kennedy, Milwaukee, Wis.; E. 

 Yolmer, Rutherford, N. J.; Thos. W. 

 Head, Groton, , Conn.; Wm. Swayne, 

 Kennett Sq., Pa.; Wm. Wallace, Wal- 

 pole, N. H.; E. O. Orpet, So. Lancaster; 

 Peter B. Robb and Thomas Howden, 

 Whitinpville: Fred Varden, Fall River; 

 G H. Sinclair, Holyoke; Prof. White, 

 \mherst; E. A. Richards, Greenfield; 

 Ceorge Wyness, Prides Crossing, F. E. 

 Cole, Beverly, Robert Miller, East 

 P.rookfield, Mass. 



