July 6; 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



13 



Mrs. Charles Zvolanek, Miss F. Ro- 

 land. Miss F. Pilat and Miss Y. Guil- 

 bert are all varieties to be very highly 

 commended. Watchung Orchid with 

 Tis is the best white variety, but Bridal 

 Veil is a more refined flower. 



Albury Maroon Howers show less 

 contrast in color between the standard 

 wings than does Nubian Orchid, and 

 therefore it is superior to that variety 

 if one is choosing a maroon variety. 

 The two varieties are distinct. 



Blue Flake is a well-named winter- 

 flowering variety. 



Mott's Grey Flake is a winter-flow- 

 ering Senator Spencer and Donald J. 

 Cowgill is a Jesse Cuthbertson in this 

 type. 



There rppears to be in the trade the 

 following synonymous varieties: 



Mrs. Joseph Manda and Selma 

 Swenson. 



Mrs. Sim Orchid and Rose Queen. 



Lavender Queen and Anita Wehr- 

 man. 



Zvolanek's Pale Blue and Concord 

 Blue and Concord Lavender. 



Albury Lavender and Asta Ohn 

 (winter flowering). 



Albury Maroon and Concord Chief. 

 Mrs. F. Pilat and Miss May Hassett. 



Concord Crimson. Sensation Scarlet. 

 Ruby and Thalia Mott are very simi- 

 lar. The latter proved to be the most 

 vigorous. 



Concord Pink and Concord Count- 

 ess are similar. Concord Improved is 

 a better strain. 



Seed of supposed winter-flowering 

 sweet peas were received under the 

 names Hercules. Sensation. Helen 

 L<ewis and Wedgewood. together with 

 one lot of Spring Maid and Christmas 

 Pink This trouble was complained of 

 last year and seems to be growing. 

 The question is what are the seed 

 growers, the flower growers, or the 

 American Sweet Pea Society going 

 to do about it? It seems certain that 

 those who grow sweet peas will be 

 compelled to seek other sources of 

 seed supply if the varieties cannot at 

 least be fixed as to type. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Heatherhome Seed and Nursery Co.. 

 New York— Bulbs for Fall Planting, 

 1918. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York — 

 Midsummer Catalogue. 1918. A spec- 

 ially selected list of seeds and roots 

 for summer planting. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. — "Burpee's Offering," Sum- 

 mer and Fall, 1918. A very diversi- 

 fied catalogue full of useful informa- 

 tion. Root crops are given much at- 

 tention. 



Send for oor Wholesale 

 Flori§t Catalogae Now 

 Ready. 



BEGONIAS 



Single Fringed — Salmon, Deep Rose, Scarlet, 

 Crimson, White, Yellow, Orange, Copper- 

 Bronze. Mixed: loo, $7.00; 1000, $65.00. 

 Single-Flowering — Delicate Pink. Deep Rose, 

 Scarlet, Crimson, White, Yellow, Orange, 

 Salmon. Mixed: 100, $4.75; 1000,545.00. 



FOTTLER, FISKE, RAWSON CO. 



The Seed Store 12 and 13 Faneuil Hall 8q., Boiton 



"Seeds with a Lineage" All Varieties 



Thoroughly tested at our trial grounds, Raynes 



Park, London, England. Send for Catalogue 



CARTERS TESTED SEEDS, Inc., c™.„:r„r.'::ti «.«. 



WEEBER & DON 



114 CHAMBERS ST. 

 NEW YORK 



J. BOLGIANO & SON 



Careful Seed Growers and Seed Distribu- 

 tors for One Hundred Years 



WRITE FOR OUR 1918 SPECIAL CATALOGUE 



To Market Gardeners and Florists 

 Pratt and Light Sts., BALTIMORE, MD. 



FREESIAS 



Mammoth Purity 



Very fine % inch bulbs. Write 

 for prices, state quantity re- 

 quired. 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



Established 1803. 

 53 Barclay Street, NEW YORK 



GARDEN SEED 



BEET, CARROT, PARSNIP, RADISH and 

 GARDEN PEA SEED In variety; also other 

 Items of the short crop of this past season 

 as well as a full line of Garden Seeds, wUI 

 be quoted yon upon application to 



S. D. WOODRUFF & SONS 



82 Oct St., NEW YORK and ORANGE. CONN 



The Ginger Jar, 



"Treated Like Dogs." 



Among the 212 passengers reacliing 

 an Atlantic port June 27. on a French 

 steamer which had an uneventful voy- 

 age through the U-boat zone was 

 Charles M. Jackman. a Chicago busi- 

 ness man. who was interned in a 

 German prison camp in 1916. Jack- 

 man was a passenger on the Dutch 

 mail steamer Konigin Regentes. which 

 was torpedoed by a submarine while 

 passing through the North Sea. 



With his companion Jackman was 

 landed and interned in Germany for 

 two years before being permitted to 

 go to Holland. "They treated us like 

 dogs, even that early in the war." he 

 said, upon landing. "We were com- 

 pelled to sleep on the floor of stables 

 without bedding and given only one 

 meal a day." 



— Evening Telegraph. Phila. 



The Chas. M. Jackman referred to 

 is the European buyer for Vaughan's 

 Seed Store, Chicago, and New York. 

 We are glad to hear he finally got out 

 with a whole skin — and we'd be will- 

 ing to bet we ain't any gladder than he 

 is. Hail! old top!! You won't for- 

 get those four years in a hurry. 



Being somewhat undecided as to 

 whether this item from a recent issue 

 of the Rockdale (Pa.) Herald, proper- 

 ly belongs in the department treating 

 of table etiquette or the wider field of 

 natural history, we make room for it 

 here: 



Franris Kenney. lawn gardener at "The 

 Timbers," spent Smiilay ou the M,Tin 

 Line with frienrts and stopped two pole- 

 eats frum eating eggs with a gun. 



As Mr. John Willard Craig, who sent 

 the remarkable paragraph to us, re- 

 marks: 



.N'aturalist.s will be greatly interested in 

 this, f.ir it must he quite unusual to find 

 these ■•Woodland Kitties" using a gun to 

 eat eggs, but as this partieular member 

 of the animal kingdom has one great dis- 

 tinction he ma.T have another. 



— Phila. Record, 



There are lots of things we have 

 never seen and there are lots we 

 never want to see! Among them is a 

 "Woodland Kittie" with a gun. 



George C. Watsok. 



First Amateur Gardener — How are 

 your peas doing? 



Second Ditto — "Splendidly — only 

 they're all coming up nasturtiums." 



First Ditto — "That's curious. I've 

 got some turnips like that in my plot." 



— Punch. 



