May 11, 1918 



HO RTICULTURE 



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Western China. The well known 

 Crimson Rambler Rose Is said to be 

 derived from it. The leaves have 7-9 

 leaflets and the large flatish clusters 

 bear light pink blossoms l^i to 1% 

 inches across. 



Rosa multibracteata forms an at- 

 tractive bush with somewhat dense 

 habit. The leaves have 7-9 very small 

 leaflets, but as they are arranged in 

 close formation they are very attrac- 

 tive. The rose-colored or pink flowers 

 are in clusters of 3-4 and Hi inches 

 across. 



Rosa Omiensis is a remarkably 

 handsome Rose, if only for its grace- 

 ful fern-like foliage. It is said to ulti- 

 mately attain a height of 10 feet. The 

 leaves consist of 9-17 leaflets. The 

 blossoms are white, solitary, about 1 

 inch across, and inclined to be cup- 

 shaped. The variety pteracantha has 

 distinct red prickles with a wide base 

 on vigorous shoots, which render this 

 variety very ornamental. 



Rosa setipoda has a somewhat loose 

 spreading habit, and the branches are 

 beset with wide spreading prickles. 

 The leaves consist of 7-9 leaflets. The 

 rosy-pink flowers, 4-.5 ;n a cluster, are 

 about 2 inches across. 



Rosa Sweginzowii has a spreading 

 habit, and forms a graceful shrub. 

 The leaves have 7-9 leaflets. The lilac- 

 rose to pink blossoms produced in 

 clusters -of 4-5 in great abundance 

 along the branches are very attrac- 

 tive. 



Rosa Willmottiae sends out long 

 spreading branches with their ends 

 somewhat remote from each other. 

 The leaves consist of 7-9 leaflets, and 

 are very small, seldom exceeding % 

 of an inch in length. The rosy-pink to 

 rosy-purple flowers are solitary and 

 about IVi inches across, but are pro- 

 duced in great profusion along the 

 curving branches. 



Indigofera Amblyantha. This hand- 

 some shrub is one of the many good 

 things introduced from Western China 

 by Mr. E. H. Wilson. It grows 5-6 

 feet in height, with wide, spreading 

 branches. The leaves are 4-6 inches 

 long and consist of 11-13 leaflets. The 

 pink flowers are produced in numerous 

 axillary slender racemes. From the 

 time it commences to bloom in Sum- 

 mer, it flowers almost continuously 

 until Autumn. 



Acer griseum from Western China is 

 said to grow to a height of 4 feet. The 

 leaves are trifoliate, with the leaflets 

 very coarsely toothed, hairy beneath. 

 with short stalks, borne on short 

 petioles, which are also very hairy. It 

 Is interesting and ornamental for its 

 flaky reddish brown bark on the 

 stems, and bears considerable re- 

 semblance to the stems of the Red 

 Birch. 



Acer Henryi has three leaflets, nar- 

 rowly elliptical in outline, stalked, and 

 borne on long, reddish, graceful peti- 

 oles. The branches are spreading and 

 the head is somewhat open. 



Acer Mandschuricum, from Man- 

 churia, also belongs to the three- 

 leaved group of Maples. The leaflets 

 are oblong, short-stalked, on hand- 

 some red petioles 3-4 inches long. 



Acer Oliverianum comes from West- 

 ern China, and has very distinct five- 

 lobed, somewhat star-shaped looking 

 leaves, and deep lustrous green above. 

 The reddish petioles are from I'/e to 

 1% inches long. 



(To be continued next week) 





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Obituary 



George Perkins. 

 George Perkins, a florist of East 

 Orange, N. J., with greenhouses at 79 

 Sanford street, died on April 30, aged 

 .5S years. He was born in Ireland. 



J. N. A. Bentzen. 

 John N. A. Bentzen, father of 

 Adolph Bentzen. one of the prominent 

 florists of St. Louis, died on April 29, 

 aged 81 years. The funeral, on Thurs- 

 day, May 2. was largely attended, and 

 floral offerings were numerous. 



ard Schneider of Woodbury, X. J., and 

 two grandchildren. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Victor Young closed his store on 

 N. Clark street, Chicago, Saturday, 

 May 6, leaving his help and many in 

 the wholesale market in the lurch. 

 Mr. Young was accepted in the last 

 draft and will be at Jefferson Bar- 

 racks, Mo. It has been known for 

 several weeks that his bills were run- 

 inng behind but no one thought he 

 would leave without making an ef- 

 fort to straighten matters. His law- 

 yer states that he will make appli- 

 cation for bankruptcy. 



J. B. McArdle. 



Word has been received announcing 

 the death of James B. McArdle, native 

 of Xew York City, at Tucson, Ariz., 

 where he Went four months ago for 

 his health. He was about forty year.« 

 of age and one of the leading florists 

 of Greenwich, N. Y.. where he has 

 been engaged in business for the past 

 eight years. He was Secretary of the 

 Westchester and Fairfield Horticul- 

 ture Society for many years. Prior to 

 coming to Greenwich Mr. McArdle was 

 a salesman for Vaughan's seed store, 

 Xew York. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Orvilla, Pa. — E. Klein, formerly 

 with Dr. W. C. Wilson, has taken over 

 the Strassburger greenhouses. 



Bar Harbor, Me. — Everything itt 

 the way of shrubbery and garden 

 perennials has wintered finely here. 



Pittsfield, Mass. — Professor Gour- 

 ley of the .Agricultural College at 

 Durham, X\ H., gave a garden talk 

 under the auspices of the local farm 

 bureau on Thursday, May 9. 



Wm. B. Schneider. 

 William B. Schneider, 56 years old, 

 of 1274 Prospect avenue, Brooklyn, N. 

 Y.. a gardener employed in the flower 

 gardens in Prospect Park, went home 

 ill Wednesday afternoon, May 1. and 

 died a few hours later of acute indi- 

 gestion. He had been employed in 

 the Brooklyn parks since 1911. and 

 before that in Bronx Park for ten 

 years. Mr. Schneider was born in 

 New York City. He is survived by his 

 wife, three sons, Edward, a sergeant 

 of Company C, 106 U. S. Infantry. 

 Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg. S. C; 

 FYederick W. of the Bronx, and Rich- 



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