HORTICULTURE 



NEWS NOTES. 



Samuel B. Clark has leased the S. 

 F. Scollay greenhouse in Templeton, 

 Mass. 



W. H. Wyman of Rockland, Mass., 

 has recently purchased the Soniers es- 

 tate and will erect a new greenhouse. 



W. E. Cady has leased the Phelps 

 greenhouses at Blackington, Mass., 

 and will stock them with carnations. 



0. E. Ryfher of Norwich. Conn., 

 made a fine exhibit of evergreens and 

 hedge plants at the county fair last 

 ■week. 



August Nelson of Cromwell, has 

 been appointed head florist at the Con- 

 necticut Hospital for the Insane at 

 Middleton, Conn. 



The Boston Globe of last Sunday de- 

 voted half a page to an illustrated in- 

 terview with M. H. Walsh of Woods 

 Hole on popular rose topics. 



A meeting will soon be called for the 

 formation of a horticultural society in 

 Orange. Mass. This move can be con- 

 sidered largely the results of the dahlia 

 show held recently. 



The entire stock of store and green- 

 house plants in the conservatories at 

 Mt. Kisco, N. Y., have been disposed 

 of, and the houses will hereafter be de- 

 voted exclusively to orchids and a few 

 roses. 



Maurice A. Blake. M. A. C. 1904, as- 

 sistant horticulturalist at the Rhode 

 Island experiment station, succeeds 

 George A. Green as instructor in hor- 

 ticulture at the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Sylvester Rose, son of John Rose, 

 gardener on the country estate of N. 

 R. Square, at Bridgeport, was struck 

 by a recklessly driven automobile 

 while returning from school last Tues- 

 day, and sustained severe injuries in- 

 cluding several broken ribs. 



The display of floral tokens at the 

 funeral of the late Mayor Collins of 

 Boston was unprecedented. Almost 

 every city in the State, besides the 

 many departments of the State and 

 city of Boston, also the various public 

 institutions and a host of friends in 

 public and private life. 



The house and barn of Norris F. 

 Comley, Lexington, Mass., were de- 

 stroyed by fire early in the morning 

 of Sept. 16. Loss is estimated at 

 J.^noo. on which there is little insur- 

 ance. The greenhouses are located a 

 short distance away, and were saved 

 through the efforts of the firemen. 



Auction sales have begun and will 

 continue through every Tuesday and 

 Friday at the new rooms of Wm. El- 

 liott & Sons, 210 Pulton street. New 

 York. Florists or nurserymen having 

 a surplus in any line, and needing the 

 room, can unload quickly and safely 

 through this old and popular estab- 

 lishment. 



GNAPHALIUM LEONTOPODIUM. 



(Edelweiss) 

 "Whicli alone blooms amidst eternal snow." 

 Choice Edelweiss perennial in tliy bloom 

 Great altitudes thou lov'st, us on some 



crest , , 



Or snow-capped mountain top, tner« wind- 



cavess'd. 

 While all about Is cold and sterile gloom. 

 Ail vegetation else finds there its tomb 

 And cannot long the vigorous rigor breast. 

 Alone, not e'en a bird to build a nest 

 And comfort with his voice tliey lonely 



doom. 

 A life of love those barren crags adoru. 

 Surrounded round by all the eloud.s on high. 

 Receiving, too, the first pure kiss of morn. 

 Baptized by all the mountain mists that 



Whate'er our fate, let us like thee be trr.e. 

 Although the ills of life may flaunt us, too. 

 This beautiful plant is grown very 

 successful in rockeries, groups and 

 pots at Lincoln Park, Chicago, and is 

 the object of much admiration from 

 visitors when it is in bloom. Mr. Frey, 

 the gardener, gives the following as 

 his method of culture: The seed may 

 be sown in February in a mixture of 

 compost leaf-mold with a little sand 

 and lime. The seeds germinate in 

 from ten days to two weeks, and when 



CONTROL OF REGENERATION IN 

 PLANT LIFE. 



Professor William Albert Setchell, 

 bead of the botany department of the 

 University of California, has discov- 

 eii d, in a study of the life processes 

 of the kelp family, a seaweed that 

 glows among the rocks of the Pacific 

 coast, that the process of regeneration 

 in plant life may be controlled in 

 much the same manner that Dr. 

 Jacques Loeb has been able to control 

 it in animal life. Dr. Setchel found 

 that only the inner tissues of the long, 

 body of the seaweed took part in the 

 process of restorative regeneration, 

 and that these tissues were in close- 

 conjunction to those that conduct the 

 nutriment to the plant. By subjecting, 

 these tissues, with the inclosed cells, 

 to sudden changes of environment, 

 and severing some cells with which 

 their regenerative tissues are closely 

 associated in position and activity, the 

 plant showed renewed activity and 

 growth. Dr. Setchell concludes, with 

 Dr. Loeb, that the change in osmotic 

 conditions has the greatest part to do 

 with the peculiar phenomena. 



By making wounds in the weed and 

 introducing external nourishment, the 

 growth of the plant was also con- 

 trolled. By controlling the direction 

 of the flow of the nutrition in the 

 plant, buds were made to grow where 

 they had not grown before, and buds 

 at the ends of the plant, which had 

 been the strongest under normal con- 

 ditions, were made to dwindle away. 

 Dr. Setchell says that the peculiarities 

 of the regenerative process can thus 

 ba resolved into a merely physical 

 problem. 



large enough, the seedlings are 

 pricked off into flats. In June the 

 small plants are planted out in a cold 

 frame and shaded during the hottest 

 part of the day. remaining out-of-doors 

 the entire following winter, covered 

 with glass over a mulch of leaves. As 

 soon as the spring season permits they 

 are uncovered and later planted in 

 pots or permanent position, where in 

 June they will flower profusely. 



It is said that many specimens of 

 this famed alpine plant are flourish- 

 ishing on the roof of the Bank of 

 Scotland and in Abchurch Lane, 

 London. 



PERSONAL. 



Geor.sie Stumpp and family of New 

 York, have arrived from Europe on 

 S. S. Kronprinz Wilhelm. 



F. Ludemann of the Pacific Nursery, 

 San Francisco, and Mrs. Ludemann ar- 

 rived at New York on Friday last on 

 S. S. Deutschland. 



Sickness of a mild type has been 

 the lot of a number of Philadelphia's 

 busv workers the past week. W. J. 

 Muth, J. Berger and N. P. Craig are 

 among the number laid up at this 

 writing. 



OBITUARY. 



William Fitzgerald, a gardener of 

 Quincy, Mass., dropped dead while at 

 work on Sept. 11. He was for many 

 years a trusted employe of the late 

 John Quincy Adams, and was one of 

 the pallbearers at Mr. Adams' funeral. 

 He was C.5 years old and leaves a fam- 

 ily. 



C. G. Nanz died at his home in 

 Owensboro, Ky., on August 17. Mr. 

 Nanz has been engaged in the florists' 

 business some twenty-five years. He 

 came to this country from Germany in 

 1SG5. He has been a member of the 

 S. A. F. since 1902. 



iWichael Noonan, for the past six 

 years foreman of the Villa Lorraine 

 rose houses at Madison, N. J., died on 

 Sunday, Sept. 17, after a brief illness. 

 Mr. Noonan was one of the best rose 

 growers of Madison. Previous to tak- 

 ing charge of the Villa Lorraine estab- 

 lishment he filled a similar position 

 with Walter Reid. He was a faithful 

 employe and a good man in every 

 sense of the word. He leaves a widow 

 and two little children. 



John C. Ure died at his home, 234S 

 Evanston avenue, Chicago, September 

 9. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he came 

 to New York and found employment 

 as a gardener. As early as 18.54 he 

 made Chicago his home and enjoyed 

 much prosperity from his earlier ef- 

 forts. He was superintendent of the 

 Florists' Department in the Illinois 

 State Building at the World's Pair, 

 Chicago, in 1893. Mr. Ure was a mc.ra- 

 lior of the Horticultural Society of 

 Chicago, and of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club. The funeral took place at his 

 late h(mie. Tuesday, Sept. 12. 



