September 30, 1905 



H ORTI CULTURE 



this country, and who was selected by the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society to read a paper on the subject at one of 

 their meetings a few years ago. Mr. Cooper for a num- 

 ber of years has been engaged in the business of supply- 

 ing trees to the trade, these having been raised on his 

 plantations at Calcot near Eeading. Nut growing, Mr. 

 Cooper informed me, is on the increase in this country, 

 but there is still room for a large extension of this branch 

 of growing, which he considers is of a very profitable 

 character. At Calcot 16 varieties are grown, including 

 Webb's prize cob filbert, which he regards as one of the 

 best to grow. It is very hardy, will do on almost any 

 soil, is an excellent cropper, and improves by keeping. 

 Mr. Cooper is a warm advocate of the greater use of 

 nuts. He is himself a hale and active octogenarian, and 

 attributes his good health to the prominent part which 

 nuts have always taken in his dietary. It is a singular 

 fact that Mr. Cooper, who is an architect by profession, 

 adopted the business as a hobby, always being fond of 

 gardening, and he took over the plantation from Mr. 

 Webb, his father-in-law, the raiser of Webb's prize cob 

 filbert. Emperor cob, Eugenie, Princess Royal, Garibaldi 

 and the Duke of Edinburgh. The last named received 

 a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. As many as ten tons of nuts have been grown 

 at Calcot in one season. 



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London, England, Sept. 16th, '05. 



Adiantum' Croweanum 



Although Adiantum Croweanum is a stronger grower 

 and is consequently somewhat coarser than A. cuneatum, 

 it possesses nevertheless qualities commending it to both 

 florists and private growers. The strong fronds of 

 Croweanum are admirably adapted for use in large dec- 

 orations where cuneatum because of its delicate con- 

 struction would be unsuitable, and for the same purpose 

 Croweanum has the advantage in being capable of sur- 

 viving longer than the older variety. Another point in 

 favor of Croweanum is that the fronds retain their fresh 

 lustre for a longer period after full development than 

 cuneatum does and this in itself is quite a consideration 

 to anyone knowing wliat little value is placed on fronds 

 of Adiantum cuneatum sliowing signs of age. 



Sprays vs. Single-stemmed Chrys- 

 anthemums 



Dear Mr. Editor: — I was interested in what Mr. 

 Geo. Moore said under the caption of "Freaks" in 

 Saturday's issue of Horticulture, esi^ecially tliat re- 

 ferring to chrysanthemums; when he said they "are 

 not so pleasing when grown on a single tall stem with a 

 flower on the top which might be mistaken for a floral 

 mop, as are specimen plants with graceful stems and 

 moderate sized flowers. It is true that the large blos- 

 soms answer admirably for large decorative work but 

 the smaller ones appeal more directly to aesthetic tastes." 



Those sentiments liave long before been expressed, but 

 without the desired effect for there are fewer sprays sold 

 now I believe than there were fifteen years ago, except 

 possibly it be there are more sprays of the pompons sold 

 now than there were then, not because they are sprays, 

 however, but because they are the dainty pompons. 



It is about that long ago since in Professor Bailey's 

 "Annals of Horticulture," the undersigned had this 

 to say: "The demand for large flowers — those that 

 have been grown on plants that have been disbudded to 

 a single bud on stout erect stems — still continues. The 

 artistic mind deplores the fact preferring sprays dis- 

 budded to not less than three buds. Flower-buyers gen- 

 erally have not reached that point, preferring the more 

 massive blossoms, presumably because there is more 

 evidence of skill in the production of the larger blooms 

 than the more artistic sprays. We hope the time is not 

 far distant when mere size will not determine the value 

 of a flower. 



Has the time yet arrived? I think not, and it is 

 apparently just as far off today as it was when the above 

 was penned nearly fifteen years ago. That is to say, as 

 far as the Japanese varieties are concerned. It is true 

 there is more demand for the sprays of the pompons, but 

 a solitary flower of a pompon would not satisfy a 

 flower buyer as much as would a flower of any of the 

 Japanese as grown for cut flowers today. Nor is the 

 demand for sprays of pompons anything like as great 

 as is the demand for the larger flowers. 



Speaking from a commercial viewpoint I believe now 

 the demand for the larger flowers indicates the better 

 business. I would like to know what the growers and 

 retailers have to say along tliese lines. 



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