April 30, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



653 



Pine Bank^ Olmsted Park^ Boston 



when I am safe in my sylvan home 



1 tread on the pride of Greece and Rome, 

 And when I am stretched beneath the pines. 

 Where the evening star so holy shines, 



I laugh at the love and the pride of man. 

 At the sophist schools and their learned clan, 

 For what are they in their high conceit 

 When man in the bush with God may meet. 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson- 



The accompanying picture speaks for itself. Think 

 of the untold years it has taken to produce this stately 

 grove and the wickedness that would countenance its 

 destruction. Yet there are many such beauty spots 

 which are being destroyed every day and which can 

 never, be replaced in the life of anyone now living. Our 

 cover illustration shows how industriously the park de- 

 partment of Boston, under the direction of that most 

 eminent and efficient of park superintendents, J. A. Pet- 

 tigrew, is working to preserve the sylvan beauty of the 

 reservations under their care. Were it not for the fore- 

 sight which secured these groves for the enjoyment 'of all 

 the people for all time they would have been laid waste 

 years ago. But now, when the hand of man has been 

 effectually stayed, come the gypsy moths and brown-tails 

 and elm beetles and other pests and but for the deter- 

 mined fight which has been put up it would not be long 

 before their devastation would be accomplished. 



Clematis 



NEW EVERGREEN SPECIES FROM NORTHERN CHINA 



Not for many years has there been such interest man- 

 ifested in a new plant as was shown last Saturday at 



the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's Hall in a 

 hardy evergreen clematis exhibited by R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co. 



The plant was raised from seeds collected in northern 

 China by Mr. E. H. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum 

 expedition. The seeds were collected for Clematis Ar- 

 mandii, and Mr. Wilson who saw the plant in bud, the 

 buds being of a pink color — -was greatly surprised at the 

 appearance of such a novelty — believing that a pink 

 form of C. Armandii had appeared. 



While the plant in general appearance resembles C. 

 Armandii, the foliage is larger and more massive and the 

 flowers are double the size of those of that variety and 

 differ from it in being strongly jasmine scented. The 

 flowers occur in sprays of four and in arrangement re- 

 mind one of a spray of Phalaenopsis. 



Professor C. S. Sargent, director of the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum, considers the plant one of great promise. The 

 plant exhibited lias stood one winter out of doors and is 

 likely to prove perfectly hardy. It was awarded a first- 

 class certificate of merit. 



Trans-Atlantic Notes 



• LIEGNITZ ROSE SHOW 



This is now a Rose town, for 30,000 roses have been 

 planted by various exhibitors from many countries. 

 Those who wish to see the fragrant "Gruss an Teplitz" 

 will have to journey to Liegnitz. The climbing roses 

 head the list, so that it promises to be a climbing contest. 

 The usual bare sight of a rosary with its wooden pillars, 

 arches, and laths, of many rose shows in late years will 

 be missing at Liegnitz. The exhibition area measures 

 45 morgen (a morgen equals 3.122 yards). 



ALBERT ROBST 



celebrated on the 30th of last month his fiftieth year of 

 service as head gardener to the firm of Ernest Benary, 

 Erfurt. The jubilant was on this occasion awarded the 

 Order of the Crown, 4th class, and his chefs honored him 

 with a prize medal and a valuable gift. Herr Robst still 

 retains the important position in the nursery he has held 

 for so long a period of time. 



PRAGUE 



In view of the unfavorable financial condition of 

 Bohemia the Landesceuschuss has determined not to 

 decorate the official buildings with flowering plants. At 

 a time when everyone is endeavoring to decorate the 

 houses in the city with plants and flowers, Austria com- 

 mences to be economical with the use of flowers, etc. It 

 would be interesting to learn the amount of money 

 saved by this policy, if only to compare it with the use- 

 less expenditure thrown out of the window, so remarks 

 Die Gartenwelt of April 9 last. 



