1883.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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finally which told not only how to raise forest trees 

 in that part of the world for shelter and ornament, 

 but for profit also. He was brother of the great 

 poet, and, like him, had a keen sensibility to the 

 voice of nature, with whom he held close commu- 

 nion in all her various forms, especially in connec- 

 tion with plants and flowers. 



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"The Diamond Tuberose" Reply. — Nanz 

 & Neuner, Louisville, Ky., write : " In answer 

 to that covered attack in your February number 

 about our new seedling tuberose, ' Diamond,' we 

 pronounce the same false in every particular. 



"I. Over one-half of our saleable first-quality 

 bulbs has been sold in this country, and we still 

 have orders ahead which we are unable to fill with 

 extra large bulbs. 



"2. We offered this Diamond tuberose to over 

 eight hundred American florists. Please notice 

 enclosed wholesale circular, which was mailed to 

 the trade in September. 



" 3. But one house handles our tuberose in 

 Europe, and strange to say, does not reside in 

 France. Nor do we think it will restrict its sale to 

 France or any one part of Europe. 



" 4. The price we charge is but a trifle higher 

 than that of the Pearl tuberose, as everybody 

 could see in last advertisement in Gardeners' 

 Monthly. We never charged fancy prices. 



" 5. The European house had over five hundred 

 bulbs of this tuberose in bloom, was satisfied as to 

 its earliness, &c., and ordered accordingly. 



" Our D. Tuberose is a seedling of the single 

 one, which every one knows is fully two to three 

 weeks earlier than the Pearl or Double Italian. It 

 has inherited this earliness, and resembles in 

 growth neither the Pearl nor the Italian, but the 

 single. The true D. Tuberose has also the good 

 quality of being dwarfer than the pearl ; but we 

 do not hesitate to state that our tuberose is defect- 

 ive to some extent as regards its evenness in 

 height, but we are fully confident to overcome this 

 delect in a few years. In the meanwhile we recom- 

 mend it only as a forcing tuberose, which by its 



earliness alone will more than repay for the little 

 extra price asked for same. 



" By introducing none but first-class novelties, 

 from the White Crape Myrtle, &c., down to our 

 perpetual blooming Bouvardia, B. rosea multiflora, 

 and now our double red one, all sent out by us, 

 and all which are going to stay, we have acquired 

 a fair, but, we think, well-deserved business repu- 

 tation, which we will not be slow to defend against 

 malicious attacks." 



[We admit this communication, under our usual 

 rule of risking an error on the side of fair play, if 

 we are to err at all. But to our mind we should 

 have been justified in declining its insertion, as it 

 does not meet the points stated, and the indigna- 

 tion against "covered attacks" and "malicious at- 

 tacks" is thrown away by the writers. 



In reference to point one, we have to insist that 

 our first statement was made on the strength of a 

 letter dated December 7, 1882, addressed to a re- 

 sponsible nurseryman, signed Nanz & Neuner, and 

 from which we quote as follows: "The orders lor 

 export have been so large that we have sold nearly- 

 all our whole stock of Diamond Tuberose to 

 France and Germany." N. & N. now say this is 

 not true ; that " over one-half has been sold in, 

 this country." If this is "false in every particu- 

 lar," Nanz & Neuner of December 14th must settle 

 the matter with Nanz & Neuner of December 7th, 



The point about the price is of no consequence. 

 No one objects to a "fancy " price for a new 

 thing ; but if the thing is old under the pretence 

 of being new, it is another matter. Nor is it ma- 

 terial that the purchaser is satisfied. If they have 

 not seen the Pearl it is only another illustratiorL 

 that where " ignorance is bhss," &c. 



The real point at issue is simply this ; After our 

 notice of it last season, we had many letters from 

 } responsible parties, giving us their reason for be- 

 lieving that the Diamond tuberose was in no way 

 \ distinct from the Pearl. On the strength of the 

 announcement that the introducers intended to 

 ' give doubters an opportunity to judge of this mat- 

 I ter another year, we thought it but fair to Nanz & 

 Neuner not to publish these letters. We have not 

 been given this opportunity, nor do we know of 

 ' any one who has, and we are therefore compelled 

 to say that on the authority of very good evi- 

 dence submitted to us, we believe there is no dif- 

 ference between the Diamond and the Pearl. 



This must close this controversy for the present- 

 _Ed. G. M.] 



A Grammatical Query. — " Young Gardener ** 

 says: "I notice that the Gardeners' Monthly 



