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HORTICULTURE 



April 9, 1910 



Obituary. 



Mrs. George M. Stumpp. 



On the morning of April fifth, there 

 passe^d away, in New York city, after 

 a brief illness, one of the most estim- 

 able women that ever lived. Impul- 

 sively Idnd and generous, sunny of 

 disposition and possessing a rare no- 

 bility of character, Mrs. Stumpp was 

 beloved of a host of friends and Mr. 

 Stumpp will have the sympathy of all 

 in his irreparable loss. They were 

 booked to sail for Europe on the 24th 

 of May to spend the summer at Mr. 

 Stumpp's home in Goenningen with 

 his venerable mother. There will be 

 sincere sorrow in Goenningen where 

 Mrs. Stumpp was simply adored by 

 the people of the neighborhood, when 

 they learn of the death of their be- 

 loved American friend. 



Hardy American Plants. Azalea lutea, 

 growing in its habitat in the Carolina 

 Mountains, and A. Vaseyi, in natural 

 colors, adorn the covers of this very 

 interesting and beautifully ilustrated 

 catalogue. 



iThos. Meehan & Sons. Germantown, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.— Meehan 's Garden 

 Bulletin. This publication is issued 

 monthly. It contains interesting infor- 

 mation and comment on new and de- 

 sirable garden material. The illustra- 

 tions are particularly good. 



Good & Reese Co., Springfield, Ohio- 

 Spring Trade List, 1910, for Florists, 

 Nurserymen and Dealers Only. Espe- 

 cially strong on roses, of which the 

 list is large. A fine illustration of 

 Hydrangea arborescens grandiflora ap- 

 pears on the title page. 



Joshua L. Wilcox. 



Joshua L. Wilcox for 33 years a res- 

 ident of Flint, Mich., died at the home 

 of his son. Miles E. Wilcox. 948 Ave 

 A, on March 24th. Mr. Wilcox was 

 bom in Naples, N. Y., in 1837 and 

 came to Michigan when four years of 

 age. He came to Flint in 1871 and 

 for 33 years lived here and conducted 

 a greenhouse and truck garden for 26 

 years. The funeral was held Saturday 

 the 28th. ' 



E. F. Winterson Co., 45-49 Wabash 

 Ave., Chicago, III.— Garden Guide, 

 Spring, 1910. A complete general cat- 

 alogue of flower and vegetable seeds, 

 plants and shrubs. A flower of Mal- 

 low Marvel in colors makes an attrac- 

 tive cover illustration. 



Chicago Carnation Co., .Toilet, 111.— 

 List of New and Standard Varieties for 

 1910. This is a high-class production. 

 Among the excellent illustrations is a 

 flower of Conquest in natural colors, 

 which is the best color reproduction of 

 a carnation we have yet seen. 



Mrs. George E. Fancourt. 



Emma J. Fancourt, widow of the 

 late George E. Fancourt, of Wilkes- 

 barre. Pa., died on March 31. aged 4<) 

 years. Mrs. Fancourt had been an in- 

 valid for the past four years. She was 

 born in London, England, and came to 

 this country about 28 years ago. She 

 is survived by two sons, George C. and 

 Walter A., and two daughters Helen 

 M. and Edith C. Fancourt. 



Mrs. E. C. Myers. 



_ Mrs. E. C. Myers, who was engaged 

 in the retail florist business at 79 

 South German St., Harrisonburg, Va 

 passed from this life March 29th "to 

 where the flowers are always bloom- 

 ing." 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



S. C. Moon, Morrisville. Pa.— Whole- 

 sale Pi-ice List of Morrisville Nurseries 

 spring 1910. 



Thompson Carnation Company Jo- 

 liet. 111.— Folder and Price List of' Car- 

 nations, Chrysanthemums, Violets Sea- 

 son 1009-1910. Quotations on rooted 

 cuttings and pot plants. 



Schaum & Van Tol, Boskoop, Hol- 

 land; McHutchinson & Co., New York 

 agents.— Wholesale Trade List of Nur- 

 sery Stock for 1910-1911. A compre- 

 hensive list of azaleas, rhododendrons, 

 roses and other import specialties for 

 forcing and outdoor planting. 



Palisades Nurseries, Sparkill, N. Y. 

 —1910 Wholesale Price List of' Hardy 

 Perennials, Roses, Evergreens, etc. 

 This presents an excellent general list 

 and also valuable novelties and spe- 

 cialties in which the florist and orna- 

 mental nursery trade should find much 

 to interest. 



.John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, HI — 

 Catalogue No. 6, Pipe and Fittings. A 

 very complete and useful publication 

 compiled with great care and one which 

 every greenhouse owner or manager 

 should have within reach at all times. 

 It tells the whole story about pipe and 

 fittings. 100 pages. Send for a copy 



Coohdge's Fernery and Rare Plant 

 Nursery. Pasadena. Cal.— Catalogue of 

 Rare Plants. This is a neat little illus- 

 trated pocket list of novelties and spe- 

 cialties in fruit and ornamental plants. 



American Forestry Co., Little Tree 

 Farms, South Framingham, Mass — 

 Catalogue and Price List for 1910. 

 Anyone contemplating handling young 

 trees in quantity will find this cata- 

 logue very useful. 



Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass.— 



J. K. Alexander, East Bridgewater, 

 Mass.— Catalogue of Dahlias for 1910. 

 Mr. Alexander has the cognomen of 

 the Eastern Dahlia King and his cata- 

 logue seems to bear out his right to 

 same. Anyone looking for the real 

 thing in dahlias will find this cata- 

 logue well-filled with it. 



Bertrand H. Farr, Wyomissing, Pa. 

 —"Hardy Plants." Irises, paeonies, 

 phloxes, delphiniums and all those 

 gorgeous tenants of the hardy border 

 have their innings in Mr. Far'r's cata- 

 logue. Mr. Farr is a lover of these 

 beauties and the simple penisal of his 

 pages will inspire enthusiasm in the 

 reader. Irises and peonies in colors 

 embellish the covers and there ar3 

 within some noble halftone illustra- 

 tions. 



CARNATIONS GROWN UNDER 

 GLASS. 



\ Paper Head Before the .\medcan Car- 

 nation Society by Fred. Burkl. 



When I consented to read a paper 

 on my experience in growing carna- 

 tions under glass I meant carnations 

 planted under glass in place of the 

 field, as it is still an open question 

 with most of us which method is the 

 best, and with your permission I will 

 confine my notes on this subject. 



In the early nineties I set out some 

 plants under glass in the spring with 

 the object of getting salable flowers 

 in the early fall, as at that time we 

 did not house carnations as early 

 from the field as we do of late years. 

 The variety was Mrs. Fisher, which I 

 at that time grew as my principal 

 white and with which variety I had 

 for some years great success, but only 

 in solid beds, as it did not do well for 

 me on raised benches. 



I found that stock out of 3-inch pots 

 planted under glass in spring gave me 

 good flowers when such were scarce, 

 say in September, October and Novem- 

 ber, and bloomed through the season 

 as well as did those planted from the 

 field. They did not make as much 

 surplus grass but grew more slender 

 with equally as good flowers and 

 longer stems than the field-grown 

 product and they could be planted 

 closer. The soil I used at that time 

 was taken from an ordinary piece of 

 garden ground, as I could not procure 

 sod, being located in one of the city 

 suburbs. This piece of ground was 

 manured heavy in the spring with cow 

 manure ploughed in and kept ploughed 

 through the summer. Sometimes we 

 manured it a second time and pul- 

 verized it with the harrow before tak- 

 ing it into the houses. 



Another variety I grew with great 

 success at that time was Hector, a 

 scarlet, which did better with me than 

 any other red at that time and for 

 some years after. The only fault it 

 had was weak stems, and I had to 

 give it up when the trade insisted on 

 stiff stems. Hector grew very tall un- 

 der glass in summer, but bloomed 

 much better that way than when plant- 

 ed from the field. I simply could not 

 make Hector pay when planted from 

 the field and it did its best when I 

 planted it in beds prepared in spring 

 and cultivated the same as if under 

 glass, and before fall built a green- 

 house over it. I am of the opinion 

 that this way of growing carnations 

 on beds with no glass over them In 

 summer until fall would be ideal If it 

 were practical, but we find it impos- 

 sible where we are located and with 

 the kind of houses we build now. 



Some years ago Uncle John Wyland 

 said to me one day about the begin- 

 ning of June, "I am going to take the 

 glass out of my carnation house, clean 

 it out, and plant the voung stock In 

 it in place of into the fi'eld." I said to 

 him, "You are going to have a big job 

 met him again and he said to me, "You 

 cannot beleive how quick we got that 

 glass out and put away: it took us 

 about two days." I said to him, "Well 

 you will find it a bigger job putting 

 It in again in the fall and you have 

 now no carnations to sell when I can 

 get good money for them, |2.00 per 

 100." He never did it again, although 

 the carnations were a success. 

 Of late years we aim to plant the 



