H ORTICULTURi: 



WHOLESOME CHESTNUTS 



Now that considerable space on green- 

 house benches and in frames must neces- 

 sarily be empty, utilize some or all of it by 

 sowing seeds of useful herbaceous plants; if 

 these seeds are put in now, good strong 

 plants can be had for flowering next season. 



Pay attention to all indoor fruit. On 

 peaches and nectarines leave only a little 

 more wood tlian will be required for next 

 year. Tie in to prevent crowding, and to 

 allow all light possible for the fruit. Give 

 ventilation whenever possible; a Uttie crack 

 of air even at night is beneficial. Don't over 

 crop, rather strive for excellence in size and 

 flavor. Keep the soil stirred indoors the 

 same as you would out in the open. 



Support hollyhocks and other tall growing 

 .ants with stakes. Still keep dusting melons 

 with some insect preventive, and, if you have 

 them planted in large frames, keep the glass 

 over them; only raise the frames enough to 

 let the vines get outside. This can be done 

 by putting bricks underneath each corner of 

 the sashes. 



If the weather is dry in your neighborhood 

 It will pay you to water out-door roses and 

 sweet peas; do it evenings or mornings. In 

 addition to the benefits to the roots there- 

 from, the moisture cools the atmosphere en- 

 veloping them, which acts on them as a 

 good bath does on us. 



If you have not already planted the roses 

 intended for winter blooming, do so now, 

 but before planting, clean your benches 

 thoroughly, then whitewash them. A good 

 coat of white lead paint is also almost a 

 necessity. It will not only make things look 

 clean and sweet, but it will make things in 

 general very inhospitable and disagreeable 

 for insects and buggy, creepy things that may 

 have found congenial quarters in the house. 



Keep cinerarias and primulas shifted as 

 often as a careful scrutinizing will dictate. 

 Don't stunt them; if you do you will have 

 small flowers on scraggy plants^ 



If you stiU beUeve in the good old way of 

 blanching celery by banking with soil, do it 

 when the soil is dry and first tie the heads 

 with matting, soft half-rotted matting is the 

 best, and don't tie any further up the head 

 than you intend the soil to be. Try earth- 

 ing up leeks in the same way as celery. 

 You will be surprised at the result. Perhaps 

 you are in the habit of doing so ; if you are 

 so much the better. 



PERSONAL 



Mr. Smith and daughter, Mrs. J. A. Bud- 

 long, of Chicago, have gone to Riverside, 

 Providence, R. I., where they will spend the 

 summer. They will be joined later by Mr. 

 J. A. Budlong, who will make the entire trip 

 from Chicago to Providence on his bicycle. 



William Tingley Henderson, Jr., a popu- 

 'ar employee of Thomas F. Galvin, was ten- 

 dered a complimentary dinner at the Bass 

 Point House, Nahant, on June 25, by his 

 fellow employees. At the conclusion of the 

 dinner he was presented with a handsome 

 silver loving cup. 



BUFFALO PERSONALS 



Recent visitors: Ed. Koplitz, representing 

 J. W. Sefton Mfg. Co., John Osborne of 

 Bonnot & Bro., New York, N. Y. 



Charles Kumpf of Peach street, a leading 

 florists, was presented with an eight-pound 

 American beauty a few days ago. 



NEWS NOTES 



The Bay State Nursery Co., of N. Abing- 

 ton, Mass., has purchased the Somers farm 

 in Rockland, and will transfer its herbaceous 

 department tliere in the fall. 



Public-spirited citizens of Newton, Mass. 

 propose to buy and present to their city, the 

 greater part of the Governor Claflin estate 

 known as "The Old Elms." The property 

 comprises some 750,000 square feet, includes 

 the beautiful knoll upon which the mansion 

 of the late governor stands, and practically 

 all of the majestic old trees which have made 

 the estate one of the show places of Newton. 



HoRTicuLltTRE mentioned a few weeks ago 

 the opposition of Bishop Leonard of Cleve- 

 land to floral decorations about the altar 

 upon wedding occasions. This sentiment 

 has recently taken definite shape and the 

 altar society has prepared rules governing 

 decorations, which are to be furnished to all 

 desiring to use the chapel for a wedding and 

 to all florists. These rules do not apply to 

 the walls and aisles which are still free for 

 the exercise of the decorators' ingenuity. 



George HoUis, of South Weymouth, Mass., 

 is showing a seedling blush-rose pjEony which 

 is the peer of any variety ever raised.' Its 

 name is not fully settled, but will be identical 

 with that given a wee HoUis nephew who 

 came into the world a few days ago. Gypsy, 

 a single, deep pink Japanese of unique char- 

 acter. Beauty's Mask, a hght rose, and 

 Admiral Dewey, Maud Dean chrysanthe- 

 mum color, are among other valuable seed- 

 lings now flowering for Mr. HoUis. 



A victim of the wreck of the New York 

 Central "Twentieth Century Flyer" at Men- 

 tor, O., June 2ist, was John R. Bennett, of 

 Danville, Pa., and New York City. He was 

 a celebrated and wealthy patent attorney, 

 and owned a handsome and extensive country 

 seat at Danville, of which the conservatories, 

 some 75,000 feet in extent, were chiefly used 

 for growing roses for commercial use. Law- 

 rence Cotter, late of Boston, and a well- 

 kn'own grower, is the superintendent of the 

 greenhouses. It is not known at present 

 what changes may ensue at Danville from 

 this deplorable tragedy. 



BUSINESS CHANGES 



The business of Jacob Sidenberg &. Co., 

 at Hempstead, L. I., has been purchased by 

 Alfred Funke, of Evergreen, who will take 

 immediate 



The HoUoway Floral and Seed Company 

 has been incorporated at Dallas, Tex., witli 

 a capital of $25,000. Incorporators: R. C. 

 Bryant, W. M. Robinson, C. W. Robinson. 



BUSINESS CHANGES IN CHICAGO 



Mangel, the retailer, has bought out the 

 interest of his partner, J. G. Johnson, who 

 severs his connection with Mangel's 47th 

 street store. 



H. Koropp, who disposed of his interest 

 in the Sheridan Park Floral Co. to L. Koropp. 

 has leased the store and greenhouse of Albert 

 Fuchs, 2059 Clarendon avenue. 



P. P. Risch and J. P. Risch of Weiland & 

 Risch, recently bought out the interest of 

 their partner, J. P. Weiland, Chicago, who 

 has retired. The new management will de- 

 vote its entire glass to roses. 



OUTDOOR ART AND CRAFT 



/Vrlington, Mass., has appropriated $5,000 

 for the suppression of the gypsy and brown- 

 lail inoths. This is in addition to the $6,000 

 appropriated last fall and the State appro- 



The trustees of the Massachusetts Society 

 for Promoting Agriculture have imported 

 some parasites from Germany, which are 

 known there to be injurious to the gypsy 

 anil brown-tail moths, and experiments are 

 now under way which, it is hoped, will pro- 

 diiic satisfactory results. 



A telegram from San Francisco, June 28 

 slates that a box of insects that are expected 

 to ilestroy the gypsy moth in Massachusetts, 

 has arrived there on the steamer Manchuria 

 from the Orient. The insects, which are 

 like ants in appearance, deposit their eggs 

 in tlu' larvse of the moth. They come from 



Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr., has re- 

 turned to his home in New Haven after a 

 year's absence abroad in forestry work for 

 Uncle Sam. He inspected trees in northern 

 India, France, and Germany, and had a 

 trip that abounded in adventures. After a 

 few days' rest he will return to work in 

 Washington. Mr. Woolsey is a graduate 

 of Yale, 1901, and also of the Yale Forest 

 School. — Transcript. 



The cabbage hair-worm is described by 

 the department of agriculture as resembling 

 a piece of basting-thread, of the thickness 

 of a strand of corn silk, wliite in color. Its 

 length varies from two to nine inches, but 

 reports have been received of a creature 

 found in the heads of cabbage measuring 

 nine feet! The imagination of newspaper 

 writers as to color runs riot through "green, 

 white, light red, oUve green, and yellow." 



Many popular names have been bestowed 

 upon it, including "cabbage snake," "snake," 

 "snake worm," "serpent," "reptile," and 

 "cabbage rattlesnake." 



\ Metropolitan Park Association, with 

 a larj;e and representative membenship, has 

 recL-ntly been organized in New York City. 

 Its purjjose is to promote the systematic 

 establishment of parks throughout the city, 

 especially in the crowded tenement quarters. 

 The rapid increase of the tenement popu- 

 lation demands that measures be taken to 

 provide adequate breathing spaces in the 

 congested sections. Hitherto, when new 

 ])arks have been laid out, they have been 

 loi atcd usually in the less crowded districts, in 

 response to the pressure of the real estate inter- 

 ests thus benefited. The new association 

 will urge the claims of the poorer neighbor- 

 ho.)ds. A careful study of the condition 

 and needs of the most congested sections will 

 be made and a careful record of all informa- 

 tion liearing on proposals for parks will be 

 kept on file. 



OBITUARY 



Thomas HinchUS'e, a prominent florist of 

 Racine, Wis., died on Sunday, June 11, aged 

 6j years. He leaves a widow, two daughters 

 ami two sons. He came to this country 

 iruin England when a young man, and after 

 many years spent in the vicinity of Boston, 

 took up his residence in Racine. He was a 

 nil mber of the S. A. F., and was esteemed 

 1)V all who knew liim. 



