May 25, 1907 



HORTICULTURE. 



685 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



"A tlo\\MM- faiiiiiie t-xiyts liuic, it In ing 

 Impossihle to get flowers for use at 

 f Ulierais." —Elwo. d Iml., Notes in Indiatta^olis 

 News. 



Our Chicago wholesale friends should 

 get in touch with Elwood at once. It's 

 a cinch. 



Are you a member of the S. A. F., 

 or the local florists' or gardeners' club, 

 or the local horticultural society? If 

 not connected with one or all of these, 

 why have you neglected it? If you 

 "cannot afford it" you are to be pitied; 

 if you "don't care about it" you ought 

 to be ashamed to acknowledge it. 



"A drop of alcohol or camphor put on 

 each mealy bug will soon kill it." 



Horticulturists generally will be ex- 

 ceedingly grateful to the Philadelphia 

 Press which in its issue of May 19 im- 

 parts this welcome information. If, by 

 accident, the drop of alcohol should 

 get in the mealy bug instead of on it, 

 wonder what would happen. 



The notorious brown-tail moth has 

 selected a shining mark for the first 

 dose of brown-tail itch, for this sea- 

 son, no less a personage than the 

 moth's arch-enemy Superintendent 

 Pettigrew of the Boston Park Depart- 

 ment. Mr. Pettigrew is actively pre- 

 paring dire vengeance in the shape of 

 arsenic spray and the fight will soon 

 be on in earnest. In the meantime 

 the superintendent's neck is as rough 

 as a corduioy road and the moth :;ets 

 the credit for the first blow. 



The gypsy moths have emerged from 

 the eggs, and the tiny caterpillars are 

 already busy at work on the green ma- 

 terial nearest to the spot of their birth. 

 Despite the most careful inspection 

 and destruction of egg masses through- 

 out the winter season, there appear to 

 have been plenty that escaped detec- 

 tion. Spraying is the only recourse 

 now, and as soon as the foliage is of 

 a sufficient size to hold the poison it 

 should be applied promptly and thor- 

 oughly. When the caterpillars get 

 large, poison is only a tonic for them. 



Our readers are reminded of the 

 great privilege at their disposal, of the 

 use of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society's library on Sunday after- 

 noons. Gardeners have made some 

 use of the privilege but have not taken 

 advantage of it as a rendezvous thus 

 far to the extent that they should. 

 Visitors in Boston connected with 

 florist or gardening profession if in 

 the city on Sunday should call at the 

 library, Horticultural Hall, cor. Massa- 

 chusetts and Huntington avenues, 

 and they will find much to interest 

 and entertain them. 



The brown, brown woods of March 



Are the green, greeu woods of May; 

 And they lift their arms with a freer swing 



Ami shake out their pennons gay. 

 And the brown, dead world of March, 



Is the living world of today; 

 Life throbs and flushes and flashes out 



In the color and fragrance of May. 



The grass comes, the flower laughs, where 



lately la.v the snow. 

 O'er the breezy hill top hoarsely calls the 



crow. 

 T'.y the flowing river the alder catkins swing 

 And the sweet song sparrow cries, "Spring, 



It is Spring." 



RHODODENDRON LADY ALICE FITZWILLIAM. 



The superb specimen greenhouse 

 rhododendron herewith illustrated was 

 exhibited on April 20th, at Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Boston, by Wm. C. Rust, 

 gardener to Dr. C. G. Weld. It is one 

 of the handsomest of the Indian 



rhododendrons. The flowers are of im- 

 mense size, waxy white with pink- 

 tinted stamens, and very fragrant. 

 The s!)ecimen here shown bore several 

 hundred flowers and a silver medal 

 was awarded for it by the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. 



AN APPRECIATED APPRECIATION. 



Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Your editorial in the last issue is 

 just what we all need to keep alive 

 this great question of protection tor 

 our birds, our forests and in fact all 

 the life of the country. It is lar.gely 

 due to the destrtiction of our native 

 song and insectivorous birds that this 

 rapid increase of the gypsy and brown 

 tail moth was and is made possible; 

 you will probably notice that these 

 pests are most numerous about places 

 where there has been a great deal of 

 contract and Italian labor used; and if 

 you will follow the subject further 

 you will find that these laborers are 

 in the habit of trapping the birds and 

 using them for food. I know of cases 

 where Italian camps were raided and 

 large numbers of our insect eating 

 birds weie found. 



I believe that the average man does 

 not undeistand what all this destruc- 

 tion of the birds and forests means 

 and while your paper is published in 

 the interests of horticulture a word 

 to our readers on some such vital topic 

 once in a while will be gi'eatly ap- 

 preciated. >oitr paper is doing a good 

 work and 1 for one like to see you take 

 up a subject that is of vital importance 

 not only lo the horticultiirist but to 

 all our people. 



Thanking you I remain, 

 Very truly, 

 WILFRID WHEELER. 



Concord, Mass. 



PERSONAL. 



Miss Stella Tonner and Mr. Leslie 

 Ellithorpe were married at Chicago on 

 May 11. 



Robert Newcomb, formerly of Chi- 

 cago, has taken a position in the new 

 floral store of Clarke Bros., at Oak- 

 land, Cal. 



R. B. Graves, the veteran florist of 

 Northampton, Mass., is actively attend- 

 ing to his work as usual this spring 

 although 87 years of age. 



S. S. Skidelsky was a visitor in 

 Boston last week. This week we have 

 Geo. F. Sti-uck representing Lager & 

 Hurrell, Summit, N. J., and Thos. 

 Knight from Julius Roehrs Co., Ruth- 

 erford, N. J. 



M^e have heard from Mr. Samuel 

 Henshaw who is dangerously ill at the 

 S. R. Smith Inflrmary, New Brighton, 

 Staten Island, that he is holding his 

 own well and is hopeful of speedy re- 

 covery. Pluck is the very best of 

 medicine and Mr. Henshaw has plenty 

 of it. 



HORTICULTURE Pub. Co.: 



Your magazine is all right. Please 

 notify when subscription needs to be 

 renewed. . WALTER A. TEMPLE. 



Westboro, Mass., May 21, 1907. 



You'll find something worth reading 

 on every page of this paper. 



