January 5, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



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association all interested in the gar- 

 dening profession, wlio will aid its 

 cause by being identified with it. Par- 

 ticulars of membership may be ob- 

 tained by addressing the secretary. 



Attention is directed to the new 

 class of sustaining membership to 

 which the owners of country estates 

 are eligible, the annual dues being 

 $10. Members engaged on country es- 

 tates are asked to invite their em- 

 ployers to become sustaining members 

 and thereby interest them in the af- 

 fairs of their national association. 



M. C. Ebel, Secy. 



Madison, N. J. 



Obituary 



THE HUTCHINS MEMORIAL. 

 Subscriptions to the W. T. Hutch- 

 ins memorial cup now amount to $190. 

 It is desired that this sum be made up 

 to $250. Subscriptions to date are as 

 follows : 



Mrs. Sykes. $25.00; Henry A. Michell, 

 $5.00; L. D. Waller Seed Co.. $5.00; Peter 

 Henderson & Co., .$25.00; Fottler. Fiske. 

 Rawsou Co., $10.00; F. G. Cutbbertson, 

 $5.00; W. Atlee Burpee Co.. $25.00; Stumpp 

 & Walter, $10.00; Florists' Exchange. $5.<X); 

 Stecher Lithographic Co., .$25.00; John H. 

 Stalford. $10.00; Henry A. Dreer Co.. $10.UO; 

 Waldo Rohnert, $5.00; Northrup, King & 

 Co., $15.00; Howard M. Earl, $5.00; Geo. W. 

 Kerr, $5.00. 



The friends of the Sweet Pea and 

 of its late apostle, W. T. Hutchins, 

 should and doubtless will see to it 

 that this very worthy project is fully 

 carried out and the requisite funds 

 promptly subscribed. All subscrip- 

 tions and communications should be 

 sent to George W. Kerr, W. Atlee Bur- 

 pee Co., Philadelphia. Pa. 



Edwin Jenkins, Stanley Barnes and 

 John Johnson have been appointed 

 literary committee of the committee 

 of the Lenox (Mass.) Horticultural 

 society for the year. This committee 

 will arrange a series of meetings of 

 the club at which local and Berkshire 

 men will speak on subjects of interest 

 to the members. The first meeting 

 will be held Jan. 9 and L. W. Harger 

 of Pittsfleld will speak on the local 

 newspaper. 



"THEM FLOWERS." 



From "Songs of Sunstilne," by James Whlt- 

 comb Riley ; reprinted in "The Blue 

 Flower." 

 Take a feller 'nt 's sick and laid up on the 

 shelf, 

 All shaky and ga'nted and pore 

 Jess all so knocked out he can't handle 

 hisself 

 With a stiff upper lip any more; 

 Shet up all alone in the gloom of a room 



As dark as the tomb and as grim. 

 Anil then take and send him some roses In 

 bloom 

 And you can have fun out o' him! 



You've ketched him 'fore now — when hl« 

 liver was sound 



.\nd hia appetite notched like a saw — 

 A-niockin' you, maybe, for romancln' round 



With a l)ig posy-bunch In yer paw. 

 nut you ketch him, say, when his health is 

 away 



And he's flat on his back in distress. 

 And then you kin trot out yer little bokay 



And not be Insulted, I guess! 



You see. It's like this, what his weakness 

 Is, — 

 Them flowers makes him think of the days 

 Of his innocent youth, and that mother o' 

 his. 

 And the roses that she us't to raise: — 

 So here, all alone witli the roses you send — 

 Bein' all sick and all trimbly and faint, — 

 My eyes is — my eyes Is — my eyes Is — old 

 friend — 

 Is a-leakin' — I'm blamed ef they ain't. 



Elias A. Long. 



Elias A. Long, a former resident of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., died at the home of his 

 daughter in Sac City, la., on December 

 24, aged 69 years. 



Of Pennsylvania-Dutch parentage 

 Elias A. Long was born in Williams- 

 ville, near Buffalo, N. Y., on May 1st, 

 1849. As his father David Long was 

 engaged in the nursery business 

 locally, this fifth child of a numerous 

 family gained an insight of Nature's 

 ways in his youthful years. On attain- 

 ing his majority an earnest desire be- 

 came partly filled in a limited school- 

 ing in the Peter Henderson greenhouse 

 establishment at Jersey City, N. J., in 

 1871; and the firm of Long Bros, flor- 

 ists, soon became a reality as promoted 

 by him with the intention of specializ- 

 ing in the shipping and mail trade 

 from greenhouses of new construction 

 at Buffalo, facing on Humboldt Park. 

 A retail business in the city was, how- 

 ever, contemplated as well, and devel- 

 oped in the opening of a store at 440 

 Main Street, on Nov. 20th, in the year 

 1872, being the first regular flower 

 store known to Buffalo. This retail 

 business continued without a break, 

 and successfully, for nearly twenty 

 years, being latterly owned and con- 

 ducted by Dan'l B. Long, a younger 

 brother of the deceased. 



A ready ability for expressing ideas 

 in original style led the first plant cat- 

 alogs produced by Elias A. Long to 

 partake of a distinctively bookish 

 character and he induced an attempt 

 at direct authorship, turning our a pre- 

 tentious volume some years later, en- 

 titled Ornamental Gardening for Amer- 

 icans and published by the Orange 

 Judd Co., of New York City. In 1885 

 he became sponsor for an all round 

 horticultural monthly entitled Popular 

 Gardening. This magazine became a 

 noted leader in its class attaining a 

 good success and influence, as former 

 generations in the trade well remem- 

 ber, and achieving an envied prestige. 

 Lack of working strength here for 

 meeting the dual demands of editor 

 and manager alike induced a parting 

 with this property. 



As an illuminating agent, the devel- 

 ; oping field offered by acetylene next 

 gained his active attention in a new 

 venture — The Acetylene Journal, first 

 conducted in Buffalo, and later in 

 Chicago under the continuing editor- 

 ship and fnanagement of Mr. Long, 

 and which relations continued for up- 

 wards of fifteen years when early in 

 1914 a sudden paralytic stroke incapac- 

 itated him from any further work. 

 His was an active servior. done well 

 and freely given lor the gain and bene- 

 fit of mankind. n. B. L. 



son held the first professorship of 

 civic design in this country at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. He was the first 

 secretary of the American Civic Asso- 

 ciation and organizer and first secre- 

 tary of the National Alliance of Civic 

 Organizations. He was author of a 

 number of books and many articles 

 in magazines. 



R. Frank Peckham. 

 R. Prank Peckham of Little Comp- 

 ton, R. I., died on Sunday, December 

 23, aged 50 years. Mr. Peckham suf- 

 fered a shock about four months ago 

 from which he had never fully recov- 

 ered although he had been able to be 

 about for some time until Monday, 

 when he was stricken with heart 

 trouble from which he did not rally. 

 He had been In agricultural and florist 

 business in Little Compton. His 

 brother, W. A. Peckham is engaged in 

 the nursery business there. 



Maria Manning. 

 Maria Manning, whose remarkable 

 memory of her ninety-one years of life 

 in Salem, Mass., proved the basis for 

 information contained in many anti- 

 quarian works, died December 25. She 

 was a daughter of Robert Manning, a 

 famous pomologist, and a sister of the 

 late secretary of the Mass. Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Cornelius Leonard McGuiness. 



Cornelius Leonard McGuiness, book- 

 keeper for George C. Siebrecht, 109 

 West 28th street, New York City, died 

 at his home in that city of pneumonia 

 on Tuesday, December 18. after an Ill- 

 ness of three days. 



Charles Mulford Robinson. 

 Charles Mulford Robinson of Koch- 

 ester. N. Y.,, widely known in England 

 and in America as a city planning ex- 

 pert, died suddenly on December 30, 

 in .Mbany. of pneumonia Mr. Robin- 



THE LATE ROBERT RUST 

 Robert Rust, superintendent at 

 "Courtland," the estate of Mrs. Court- 

 land Happin at Pomfret Center, Conn., 

 died suddenly at his home on Satur- 

 day night, Dec. 15. of cerebro hemor- 

 rhage. The deceased was 46 years of 

 age. He was the eldest son of the late 

 David Rust of Warthill, Aberdeen- 

 shire. Scotland. He served his ap- 

 prenticeship with his father at Wart- 

 hill, also for some years at Balgownie 

 and Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire, and at 

 Piske House, Kincardineshire, Scot- 

 land. 



He came to America in March, 1892, 

 and for a few years worked at New- 

 port, R. I., and Brookline, Mass.. and 

 for two years on Miss E. J. Clark's 

 estate in Pomfret, Conn. In 1898 he 

 took charge of Court lands, transfer- 

 ring a wood lot into one of the most 

 beautiful spots in the country. 



He was married in Boston in Octo- 

 ber, 1895, to Isabella Barron, oldest 

 daugter of George Barron of Tillyfarr, 

 Methlicl<. Aberdeenshire. Scotland. He 

 is s\irvived by his wife, five daughters 

 and three sons. He was one of many 

 gardeners of that name, having three 

 uncles, two cousins and six brothers, 

 all gardeners. Mr. Rust was highly 

 esteemed In Pomfret and Putnam 

 where ho had a large number of 

 friends. The funeral service was held 

 in the Episcopal church in Pomfret 

 and a masonic service in Pomfret 

 cemetery, a large delegation of gar- 

 deners from Boston and vicinity at- 

 tending. 



jAlsreS METH^'Erf. 



