THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



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year, but as its fall flower show opened the following 

 day after the convention it was impossible for the 

 Philadelphia gardeners to come to Xew York to attend 

 the convention and banquet. Tarrytown, N. Y., was 

 similarly situated. It was a unanimous opinion of tiit 

 many gardeners in attendance at the convention and 

 annual banquet that this aft'air should be held a little 

 later in the year and an effnrt will be made to postpone 

 the 1914 convention to a lairr date. 



AMONG THE GARDENERS 



David Weir, of Brookline, Alass., returned on Octo- 

 ber 16 from an extended visit to England, Scotland, 

 France, and Germany. 



Harry G. Morten, late with R. M. Saltonstall, Chest- 

 nut Hill, ?\Iass., has accepted a position as head gar- 

 dener on i\Irs. Plant's estate, Cohasset, Mass. 



John Jones, who has charge of the Phipps Conser- 

 vatories in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., was elected 

 president of the Botanical Society of Western Penn- 

 svlvania. 



Arthur Smith, superintendent of "Sherrlund," Read- 

 ing, Pa., was one of the out-of-town attendants at the 

 convention of the N. A. G. last week and a visitor at the 

 fall flower show of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York. 



Lester E. Ortiz, late superintendent of the Pratt es- 

 tate, Glen Cove, N. Y., has been appointed superinten- 

 dent of the W. P. Bliss estate, Bernardsville, N. J., suc- 

 ceeding the late William Elias, who died suddenly sev- 

 eral months asro. 



Oscar E. Addor, who, in the last issue of the Chron- 

 icle, was reported as having resigned his position as 

 superintendent at "Grey Towers," Larchmont, N. Y., 

 later decided to retain the superintendency and remains 

 located at his old address. 



William Kleinheinz, head gardener of the P. A. B. 

 Widener estate, Ogontz. I'a., president of the National 

 Association of Gardeners from 1909 to 1911, was 

 elected president of the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America at its annual meeting recently held in Chicago. 

 This places another private gardener at the head of one 

 of the leading floricultural societies of the country. 



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William H. Duckham. William W. Vert, and Charles 

 H. Totty left for Chicago immediately after the ban- 

 quet of the N. A. G. to attend the annual chrysanthe- 

 mum show of the American Chrysanthemum Society 

 which was held in that city. Messrs. Vert & Totty 

 were exhibitors in many of the classes, and carried off 

 many honors. 



E. Robinson, gardener on the Plant estate, New Lon- 

 don, Conn., is confined to Memorial Hospital, of that 

 city, with a broken leg. having fallen from a ladder 

 while superintending some improvement work in con- 

 nection with the greenhouses. His leg was broken in 

 five places, and he was sexerely shocked otherwise; but 

 we are glad to report that he expects to be about again 

 before long. 



QUERIES and ANSWERS 



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\ie the greatest goad can be accomplished for the greatest 

 by instituting a query column: or an exchange of expe- 

 m practical propositions, by our readers. 

 rf ,^-,itsA #/. contribute questions, and answer ethers. 



reiird will be gizen a number, the question- 

 published, but the source of the answer will 

 n unless otherttnse requested. 



\tl have something we would like to, know more about. Here 

 opportunity to ascertain somebody's experience in just that 



ing u-ill tend to better fellowship than helping each other, 

 adianlage of this "Question Box." 



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I have three houses 50 feet by 20 feet, now used en- 

 tirely for rose and carnation growing. I want to change 

 them for growing a larger variety, and to include some 

 fruits and vegetables. Can you give me any sugges- 

 tions as to what I can best grow in variety in so small 

 a range? I want to include some plants for decorating 

 the house besides cut flowers. — G. M., New York. 



The Scottish Horticultural Society, in connection 

 with the annual exhibition of chrysanthemums, etc., in 

 the Waverly Market, Edinburgh, is holding a bazaar 

 this month, the proceeds to be used in the purchase 

 and fitting up of a suitable home for Scottish Horticul- 

 ture in Edinburgh, which will include a library. In 

 order to lend a helping hand in this laudable work, a 

 committee consisting of John Barnet. chairman, him- 

 self a member of the Scottish Society, Peter M. Miller, 

 and W. N. Craig, have secured contributions from 

 Scottish horticulturists in and around Boston, and a 

 good-sized bank draft was mailed on November 3d to 

 Edinburgh with the best wishes of the donors. 



Patrick S. Duke, gardener on the Webster estate, 

 Holderness, N. H., died on October 23d from an aft'ec- 

 tion of the heart. The deceased, who was a Scotchman 

 by birth, and had worked on several noted Scotch es- 

 tates ere coming to America, worked for several years 

 in Brookline, Mass. Before going to New Hampshire, 

 he had been for over five years a member of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club of Boston, and had many 

 friends in the vicinity of Boston who regret his early 

 demise. The deceased was unmarried, and had no rela- 

 tives in America. 



MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 



There is a tendency to improvement of country and 

 suburban iiomos, and this will increase as education 

 and the ability to spend money increases. Civilized 

 life is not all made up of something to eat and wear, 

 and the higher the civilization the more the beautiful 

 things are admired. Ornamental liorticulture is one 

 of tiie wavs in which the idea finds its wav into use. 



CALCEOLARIA STE'WARTI. 



Calceolaria Stewrnti. descrilied and illustrated in the 

 Chronicli! for ( ictoher, was not raised at the .\rnold 

 Arboretum, Boston, but at Medford. Mass., by George 

 F. Stewart, the able gardener on the estate of the late 

 General Lawrence. It was named Stewarti after the 

 introducer, and not W. J. Stewart, of Boston, as stated 

 in the Chronicle, ^^r. Stewart has a number of other 

 Rugosa and C. hybrida crosses showing considerable 

 variation in colors, but Stewarti seems to be the most 

 popular variety. \\'. N. Cr.mg. 



