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HOKTICULTURi: 



December 25, 1909 



PORTLAND'S ROSES. 



Obituary, 



Geo. H. Cornell. 



George H. Cornell, who for about 

 twenty years conducted a florist busi- 

 ness witli greenhouses on Hamlet ave- 

 nue, Woonsocket, R. I., died at the 

 home of his daughter in that city, Fri- 

 day, December 17th. He was born in 

 Connecticut about seventy-five years 

 ago; located in Woonsocket about 

 thirty years ago. He was well-known 

 to the florists of Providence, and in 

 fact, to the whole Blackstone valley 

 a quarter of a century ago. Ill health 

 had prevented active business for some 

 years past. 



We have received from one of Mr. 

 Cornell's business competitors a most 

 affectionate tribute to his memory, 

 saying that in all the rivalry of busi- 

 ness for a score of years he can re- 

 call nothing but uniform courtesy and 

 kindness. Mr. Cornell was an over- 

 sensitive man and strangers sometimes 

 thought him uncongenial, but closer 

 acquaintance changed that opinion. 

 The commercial instinct was not strong 

 in him and his financial gains were 

 not in proportion to the artistic ability 

 of the man. His enjoyment of a new 

 flower or plant was almost child-like. 

 He was seldom seen away from the 

 greenhouse without a flower in his 

 button-hole or fingers. Few of the 

 craft remember him now, so complete- 

 ly had he dropped out of sight. So 

 soon we become even less than a mem- 

 ory. 



Nardy Pere. 



The death is announced at Hyeres 

 of Monsieur F. Nardy on December 

 11th. This grand old man of Proven- 

 cal horticulture had for fifty years 

 been a contributor to the world's hor- 

 ticultural press and in 1875 was ap- 

 pointed delegate of the French Gov- 

 ernment to the Centennial Exposition 

 at Philadelphia. 



Upon his return to France he brought 

 with him the first plants of the fa- 

 mous Amsden peach which, because of 

 Its extreme precocity, revolutionized 

 the peach-growing industry of France. 



His "Guide Pratique du Jardinier," 

 the fruit of the labors and observations 

 of a life-time, his writings In the peri- 

 odical press and his "Cultures des Re- 

 gions Mediterraneennes" are to be 

 found on the bookshelves of all serious- 

 minded cultivators from the Spanish 

 to the Italian frontiers. 



His son, Francois Nardy, is a mem- 

 ber of the Toulon Chambre de Com- 

 merce and president of the Syndicat 

 des Commercants of Hyeres as well as 

 director of the Jardin d'Acclimatation 

 of Hyeres. 



Mrs. Olive Burbank. 



Mrs. Olive Burbank. mother of Luth- 

 er Burbank died last week at her 

 home in Santa Rosa, Cal. She was 

 born 96 years ago in Massachusetts. 



Portland, Ore., has grown famous 

 for her roses, and, whereas in Cali- 

 fornia, while there may be flowers 

 blooming at all months of the year, 

 the floral display is not actually foist- 

 ed upon you; in Portland the roses, 

 in the summer, are literally every- 

 where. 



In the delightful suburbs of this far 

 northwestern city, it is the custom to 

 have a strip of lawn between curb and 



sidewalk. In this, trees are planted 

 of such sort as to throw shade on the 

 walk. Then to make the stroll so 

 much the more delightful, just next 

 this paving, on the inner side, even 

 the poorest suburbanite will run a row 

 of rose-stocks. Neighbors arrange to 

 vary these, so that as one man's plants 

 cease blooming, the next begins to 

 blossom, and thus at no time, when 

 the snows are gone, is Portland devoid 

 of its roses. FELIX J. KOCH. 



FUNERAL OF W. K. HARRIS. 



The token sent by the Florists' Club 

 of Philadelphia to the funeral of their 

 esteemed fellow member and ex-presi- 

 dent, William K Harris, was the reg- 

 ular club token -a crescent wreath on 

 easel; but in this wreath a great 

 amount of sentiment was evident. 

 The groundwork of the wreath was 

 ivy leaves with some sprays of Ficus 

 rejiens, the cluster being composed of 

 foliage of crotons, pandanus, panicum 

 and adiantum with white camellias 

 and flowers of Daphne Indica — all the 

 foliage and flowers being supplied by 

 John Weslcott — the easel being draped 

 with evergreens from Waretown, a 

 place Wm. K. Harris loved to visit as 

 the guest of his old friend Westcott. 



The funeral was very largely at- 

 tended, all the principal florists and 

 seedsmen being present. The pall- 

 bearers were .lohn Westcott, Robt. 

 Craig, Geo. Anderson, J. Wm. Col- 

 flesh. John Burton and Chas. H. Eim- 

 erman. DAVID RUST. 



a complete list of the inembers en- 

 rolled at the first convention twenty- 

 five years ago, a general report on the 

 progress of ornamental horticulture at 

 the experiment stations, a report for 

 the year by the botanist of the So- 

 ciety, Prof. J. F. Cowell, the rules re- 

 lating to the management of the trade 

 exhibition at Cincinnati, full finaocial 

 report of the National Flower Show 

 at Chicago, and some interesting mem- 

 bership statistics. The printed list 

 shows a total of 219 life members and 

 776 annual members — 995 all told. A 

 praiseworthy feature of the member- 

 ship list is the record, after each name, 

 of the year in which continuous affilia- 

 tion began. 



The book is well printed and con- 

 tains a frontispiece portrait of Presi- 

 dent Valentine, also a number of illus- 

 trations in connection with Dr. Gallo- 

 way's paper on the "Floricultural Work 

 of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture." 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 The S. A. F. Report. 

 We have received a copy of the an- 

 nual report of Secretary W. N. Rudd 

 and find it a very interesting volume, 

 comprising 270 pages of information, 

 valuable not only to the members of 

 the Society but to all other progres- 

 sive horticulturists who ought to be 

 members. Secretary Rudd is a re- 

 sourceful man and experienced official 

 and has incorporated a number of new 

 features which will be found very use- 

 ful. Of these we mention the extended 

 financial report and auditing in detail, 



A Book Worth Having. 



Rambles on the Riviera, by Francis 

 Miltown, although not a new book 

 this year, is worthy of a word of rec- 

 ommendation to horticultural readers, 

 especially at this season of gift be- 

 stowing, for it is sur« to make an 

 acceptable holiday present. Horticul- 

 tural topics are only incidentally 

 touched upon but the book is descrip- 

 tive of one of tlie most romantic and 

 bewitching touring-grounds in the 

 world and one that has much of horti- 

 cultural interest attaching to it. The 

 author has a most delightful, chatty 

 way of tripi)ing from one point of in- 



