April 4. 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



443 



Obituary 



E. Dillwyn Darlington. 

 The brief announcement in last 

 week's issue of HORTICULTURE of 

 the sudden demise of Mr. Darlington 

 came as a shock to his many friends 

 in all parts of the country. He had 

 been ill with pneumonia only four 

 days and no one expected a serious 

 result. The funeral was largely at- 

 tended on Monday, the 30th ult., by 

 personal and business associates, the 

 Burpee establishments at Fordhook, 

 Sunnybrook and Philadelphia being 

 shut down out of respect to his mem- 

 ory and to give all a chance to attend 

 the last sad rites. Mr. Burpee had 

 only just started on an extensive tour 

 to the South and West, but broke all 

 engagements and hurried back home, 

 Mr. Darlington, like most of the Bur- 

 pee forces, being not only an em- 

 ploye but a warm personal friend of 

 the proprietor. The grief of every 

 one, from the highest to the lowest, 

 was heartfelt and sincer©. Not only 



E. Du.LWYN Darlington 



has the Burpee establishment suffered 

 a severe loss but the trade at large 

 and his local community have cause 

 to mourn a splendid personality cut 

 off in its prime of usefulness and well 

 doing. By tongue and pen Mr. Dar- 

 lington was ever ready to impart to 

 his fellow men from his rich store at 

 knowledge, and no amount of labor 

 or personal inconvenience ever stood 

 in his way when the call of duty 

 sounded to the platform or the printed 

 page. Mr. Darlington has been in 

 charge of the Burpee trial grounds at 

 Foodhook for twenty-five years. Pre- 

 vious to that he had been in the com- 

 mercial florist business at Doylestown. 

 This, with the experience of trees and 

 shrubs in the nurseries of Hoopes Bro. 

 & Thomas at West Chester and his 

 work during the winter months at the 

 Burpee seed warehouses in Philadel- 

 phia, made him an all-round man of 

 exceptional attainments. His mother, 

 his widow and three children, also two 

 brothers and three sisters survive him. 

 We extend to them, to his firm and to 



his business associates our heartfelt 

 sympathies. It will be a long time be- 

 fore we find as good an all-round man 

 for the niche in our wordly affairs 

 which he filled so ably and well. 



G. C. W. 



Simeon Sinndells. 

 Simeon Sinndells, a one-time florist, 

 grower and retailer of the District of 

 Columbia, died at his home In Anacos- 

 tia. March 2Gth. ofter a long and pain- 

 ful illness. He was one of the pioneer 

 florists of the District and did a great 

 deal to raise the standard of the busi- 

 ness in this locality. For a number of 

 years past ill health had prevented his 

 following this vocation. 



Peter L. Guigue. 



Peter L. Guigue, a florist of Long 

 standing in Norwalk, Conn., died on 

 March 19. Mr. Guigue came to that 

 city from Germany in ISCC and was 

 employed on the Le Grand Lockwood 

 place until he started in business for 

 himself. He was a kind-hearted, pub- 

 lic-spirited man and will be greatly 

 missed. 



Theodore Williams. 

 Theodore Williams, a pioneer horti- 

 culturist of Omaha, Nebraska, died on 

 March 16, aged 6t. Mr. Williams was 

 especially interested in fruit raising, 

 and seme of his methods of grafting 

 have become well known in all sec- 

 tions of the country. 



James W. Hideout. 

 James W. Rideout, a florist in 

 iJoston until his store was destroyed 

 in the big fire of '72, later superinten- 

 dent of the cemeteries of Quincy, 

 Mass., died on March 30, at the age 

 of 74. 



George Griswold Haven. 



George Griswold Haven, who died in 



New York, March IS, was the owner of 



Sunnycroft, at Lenox, Mass., and a 



frequent exhibitor at the Lenox shows. 



We have received sad news of the 

 death on March 29 of the father of 

 R. F. Gloedc at the residence of his 

 son in Evanston, 111. Mr. Gloede's 

 busiuess associates, and his many 

 liiends in the Society of American 

 Florists of which he has long been 

 a member, will sympathize with him 

 in this loss. 



The Canadian Florist reviews the 

 admirable work done for the city of 

 Toronto by John Chambers in the 

 twenty-nine years in which he has 

 filled the position of park superinten- 

 dent, and the stimulus his enthusiasm 

 and progressive ideas have given the 

 trade, and adds: "The great difficulty 

 the city is experiencing in finding a 

 suitable and competent successor to 

 Mr. Chambers shows how eminently 

 well qualified he was for the position." 



INDOOR COMIVIERCIAL ROSE CUL- 

 TURE. 



A P.ippr by Eher Holmes liefore the Gar- 

 deuers' nnd Florists' Club of Boston. 



{Continued from page SbO) 



Filling the Houses. 



We have used loam for planting after 

 being piled up one and two years, and 

 have also used it plowed and chopped 

 up in the field one day, and in the 

 house planted the next without any 

 different results. I would, however, 

 prefer four to six inches of sod rotted 

 and chopped up with cow manure. If 

 this has been put together the previous 

 to plant in. On large places the old 

 fall so much the better, tor it is easier 

 method of piling up soil ahead has 

 given place to the horse and disc har- 

 row in the spring. 



The large houses are easier to fill 

 than the old style where a man pushed 

 a wheelbarrow 100 feet or more. A 

 house up to 40 feet wide can easily be 

 filled by removing glass or sash in the 

 sides and driving teams alongside with 

 the loam. Five or six men make a 

 good gang for operating these houses 

 when filling. With two or three men 

 outdoors loading and unloading the 

 carts and three or four inside, placing, 

 treading and leveling, good progress 

 will be made. Before filling, all wood- 

 work should be whitewashed, or re- 

 ceive a dusting of air-slacked lime. 

 We also use lime mixed with the soil 

 for planting and particularly in loam 

 and manure for top dressing. It is a 

 very good and cheap fertilizer and 

 sweetener of the ground and might 

 be used a great deal more freely than 



it is. 



Planting. 



Before commencing to plant, if the 

 weather is hot, we use a light shade 

 of whiting syringed on the glass. It 

 is cheap, quick to apply, good for the 

 men and plants while the work Is 

 being done and can be washed off with 

 the hose if rain does not come in time 

 to take it off. I do not like a line 

 for planting young stock as it is in the 

 way and takes too long to move 

 around. We use a marker made of 

 light strips of wood with pegs fast- 

 ened on. One man can handle it— or 

 two men, one on either side, may work 

 quicker. Being the same width as the 

 bench boards it cannot get out of 

 line and the distance in the row Is 

 obtained by following the end mark 

 every time it is moved. It will make 

 20 holes every time it is moved and 

 enables a bed to be carried through 

 at once. Team work comes in to good 

 advantage in planting where it is Im- 

 portant to transfer them quickly. A 

 good man should be detailed to pick 

 out the stock, for it is useless to waste 

 time on poor plants. It will take one 

 or two men to pick out the plants and 

 knock them out into flats, one with a 

 wagon to cart to the house where they 

 are to be planted, a couple to dig holes, 



