March 7, 1908 



HORTICULTURE, 



297 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. . 



Last week we mentioned Shamrocks 

 in this <'ohimn. Let us add to the list 

 of enterprisinif dealers in the "rale 

 thing," Leonard Cousins, Jr., v/liose 

 advertisejuent appears in this issue. 

 Samples of this stock were shown at 

 the Market Exhihition and they ai'e 

 little beauties. 



Carnation Winsor. — Your correspondent, 

 "E. J.," on page 50, raises a question as to 

 the correct spelling of tlie name of this 

 Cnrnatlon; but perhaps he will tell us 

 whether it is named after a man or woman, 

 or after a town or district. In the former 

 case it is quite probable that it Is correct 

 to spell it without the letter d; but if it 

 is named after a town, village or district, 

 wiii<-h itself would in all probabilit.v be 

 nnmetl after our own royal town of Wind- 

 sor, tlien surel.v we are justified in spelling 

 It thus. This mutilation of the English 

 language by Americans reminds one of the 

 schoolboy who proceeded to .show his fath- 

 er how to plough, although the latter had 

 been at ploughing more or le^s for well 

 nigh half a century. — Anglian, in "The 

 Garden," Ixindon. 



We clip the above from the columns 

 of our British contemporary. "An- 

 glian" is respectfully informed that 

 carnation Winsor is named for a gen- 

 tleman who, undoubtedly, knows how- 

 to spell his own name, so "this mutila- 

 tion of the English language by Ameri- 

 cans" need cause no further loss of 

 sleep to our distressed friend across 

 the water. This superb carnation, we 

 might add, has a royalty of its own, 

 to which the "mutilation" of its name 

 by the insertion of a "d" could not add 

 a farthing's worth. 



LILIES SHY OF BLOOM. 



1 am having the very deuce of an 

 experience with my Easter lilies this 

 year. They have been handled as us- 

 ual, but at this date they are not over 

 18 inches: some not more than a foot 

 high, and each plant is showing one 

 measley bloom. I have been .growin.g 

 Harrisii tor ten years but never saw 

 anything like this. Can you explain 

 the phenomenon? I wanted to have 

 them show buds about middle of this 

 month, but I wanted more than one 

 to a plant. .4nswer in next issue, and 

 oblige, F. M. 



Our corresp(/ndent fails to state the 

 size of the bulbs in question. If 6 to 

 S in. they should ordinarily produce 

 from two to five flowers each; if 7 to 

 9 in. they should give from three to 

 eight liowers; IS inches is a fair, nor- 

 mal height at this date. If a little 

 higher temperature is given, with 

 slight ventilation, the height of the 

 stems may be increased. One flower to 

 a bull) is a very poor showing and is 

 inexplicable unless the bulbs are un- 

 usually small or are of a degenerate 

 variety. 



A BURGLARY AT WEST GROVE, 

 PA. 



Burglars' visited the West Grove 

 post office on the 3rd inst. Among 

 other things carried off was a bag of 

 registered letters. This bag contain- 

 ed many orders for the Dingee & 

 Conard Co. and the Conard & Jones 

 Co. Those of our readers who have 

 sent orders or money to either of 

 these firms recently should write at 

 once. 



PERSONAL. 



Visitors in Chicago: C. S. Ford, 

 Philadelphia. Pa.; R. J. Mohr, Racine, 



Wis. 



Visitors in New. York: Wm. Jur- 

 gens, Newport, R. I., en route for 

 Washington, D. C; C. C. Cropp, Chi- 

 cago. 



James j. Quinn, florist of Brookline, 

 Mass., is a candidate for the office >f 

 selectman of that town. 



Thomas Logan, superintendent of 

 the Newbold estate at Jenkintown, 

 Pa., is happily recovering from his 

 recent severe illness. 



Mark Aitken, of Springfield, Mass., 

 who has been ill with pneumonia, has 

 so far recovered as to take a trip to 

 Bermuda. He sailed on the 22d ult. 



U. G. ScoUay, of the firm of J. A. 

 Scollay, Brooklyn, N. Y., has been re- 

 elected treasurer of the American So- 

 ciety of Heating and Ventilating En- 

 gineers. 



Frederick W. Kelsey. president of 

 the American Nursery Co., New York, 

 was among the guests who occupied 

 the first official train that passed 

 through the Hudson River tunnel on 

 February 25. Mr. Kelsey also was a 

 guest at the banquet at Sherry's that 

 followed in the evening. 



A. Hans, for many years superin- 

 tendent at the Palmer Estate, Stam- 

 ford, Conn., will on April 1 remove 

 to Locust Valley, Long Island, where, 

 he will have charge of the Hodenpyl 

 estate. Mr. Hans is well known to 

 the readers of HORTICULTURE 

 through his interesting contributions 

 to our columns on Feins and on Coni- 

 fers, on both of which subjects he is 

 a recognized authority. 



Visitors in Boston: Robert Cruis, 

 W. P. Craig and J. S. Hay of Philadel- 

 phia;' Winfried Rolker, Chas. Loecli- 

 ner of New York; H. Suzuki of Yoko- 

 hama, Japan; S. J. Renter, Westerly, 

 R. I.: John Marshall, Newport. R. I.; 

 Alex. Wallace, Portland, Me.; Chas. S. 

 Strout, Biddeford, Me.; H. A. Jahn, 

 New Bedford; Jos. Fuller, Leominster, 

 Mass.; Thos. Knight, of Knight & 

 Struck, New York: ,Iohn Brown, Bar 

 Harbor, Me.; J. C. Hillebrand, Hille- 

 gom, Holland; W. W. Matthews, Great 

 Neck, N. Y.; G. A. Drew, Greenwich, 

 Conn.; A. J. Pieters, Hollister, Cal. ; 

 .Tames McGregor, Manchester, Mass.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Maynard, Detroit, 

 "^lich. 



ROSE PARTY FROM PHILADEL- 

 PHIA TO CHICAGO. 



Those from the vicinity of Philadel- 

 phia intending to go to the rose con- 

 vention in Chicago on the 25th, 

 should communicate with Adolph 

 Farenwald, Roslyn, Pa. He is en- 

 deavorin.g to get up a party so as to 

 secure the reduced rates. 



OBITUARY. 



C. N. Nesmlth. 



C. N. Nesmith, a successful rose 

 .grower of Plymptcn; Mass., died on 

 February 20. 



Fred 0. Miller. 

 Fred C. Miller, florist, and for many 

 years a prominent figure in municipal 

 affairs, died at his home in Bracon- 

 dale, Ontario, on February 24. 



John A. Freeman. 

 John A. Freeman, who for the past 

 fifteen years has carried on a large 

 greenhouse business at 376 N. Lake 

 street, Aurora, 111., died on February 

 IS. in his fifty-fonrth year. 



Ewald Suder. 

 Ewald Suder, son of Mrs. Henrietta 

 Suder, a prominent florist of Toledo. 

 C. took his own life on February 24, 

 while in a fit of despondency due to 

 ill health. He was 37 years of age, 

 iinraarried. His mother, a brother and 

 a sister survive him. 



Lewis D. Robinson. 

 I^ewis D. Roljinson, who of late has 

 been associated with his son in the 

 florist business, died at his home in 

 Springfield, Mass., on February 26. 

 Mr. Robinson was one of the founders 

 of the Amateur Horticultural Society 

 and a vice-president of the Hampden 

 County Horticultural Society, and has 

 filled various offices of trust in the 

 city. A widow, a son and a daughter 

 survive him. 



NEWS NOTES. 



At the alumni dinner of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College at North- 

 ampton on February 21, President But- 

 terfield emphasized the need of a new 

 greenhouse, which has been included 

 hi their legislative budget this year for 

 the fourth time. 



Through the philanthropy of one of 

 its pioneer citizens, Col. J. T. Munson, 

 Denison, Texas, is to have another and 

 one of the largest parks in the South. 

 Col. Munson recently deeded 130 acres 

 of valuable land to the city for park 

 purposes. Denison has been keeping 

 well to the front in the march of pro- 

 gress and civic improvement and this 

 generous gift adds distinction. 



The Denison (Texas) Civic Improve- 

 ment League, an organization -which 

 has been doing very effective work for 

 the betterment of Denison during the 

 past two years, conducted a very suc- 

 cessful tree-planting campaign, which 

 resulted in the planting of many shade 

 trees and hardy shrubs on Arbor Day. 

 The school children of the city planted 

 over seven hundred trees and shrubs 

 on the school grounds, along the 

 streets and in home-yards, the plants 

 being distributed last year, and it is 

 expected that more than double this 

 quantity will be required this year. 



