October 7, 1905 



HORTICULTURE 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



We presume we owe an apology to 

 our readers in overlooking, in recent 

 news notes, mention of several worthy 

 gentlemen who had new lights of glass 

 put in, painted the front of their 

 counters, got their hair trimmed, wel- 

 comed ten-pound bouncers to their 

 happy homes, bought a new harness, 

 or did one or more other extraordi- 

 nary feats worthy of widespread pub- 

 licity. We humbly acknowledge our 

 failings in this respect and hope to be 

 forgiven. 



Our whimsical friend "Job," who 

 makes nis living by "knocking," is 

 disposed to jocularity over our solici- 

 tude regarding the spread of the 

 gypsy and brown-tail moths. We 

 would respectfully remind him that 

 Massachusetts has recently appropri- 

 ated $300,000 towards chasing the 

 moths out of the State, and the 

 chances are that ihey may bring up 

 in New York, in which case "Job" will 

 have something to write about. Bos- 

 ton nas the moth infliction and New 

 York has "Job." We sympathize with 

 New York. 



While some of us are trembling at 

 the prospect of approaching frost, 

 others await its coming with eager im- 

 patience. The dahlia man doesn't 

 want to see frost for a month to come, 

 but the individual whose product is 

 all under glass or whose business de- 

 pends upon the market value of such 

 product is all the other way and ready 

 to welcome the destroyer in the senti- 

 ment of the old Irish toast: 

 Come in the evening, or come in the 



morning. 

 Come when you're looked for, or come 



without warning; 

 A thousand welcomes you'll find here 



before .you. 

 And the oftener you' come here the 



more I adore you! 



NEWPORT PERSONALS. 



John A. Thompson has resigned his 

 position with the George A. Weaver 

 Company. 



Charles Cowles has been appointed 

 gardener to Mr. E. C. Knight, Jr., Bel- 

 levue avenue. 



Robert Patterson has entered upon 

 his duties as head gardener to Mrs. 

 Richard Gambril. 



F. L. Zeigler has for some time been 

 making a window display of named 

 dahlias. The scheme seems to work 

 well. 



Charles D. Stark, who for several 

 years leased the fruit houses owned 

 and conducted by William Findlay, has 

 given up the business and secured an 

 engagement with a California mining 

 syndicate. 



PERSONAL. 



T. D. Hatfield of Wellesley, Mass., is 

 on a visit to England. 



Visiting New York, Jackson Daw- 

 son, of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston. 



Frank J. Rosser of Detroit, Mich., 

 has gone into the florists' business at 

 270 Maybury avenue. 



PHILADELPHIA FACTS AND FAN 

 CIES. 



The daily press is devoting consid- 

 erable space to fall gardening. The 

 articles are unusually well written and 

 practical. Taken in conjunction with 

 the recent development of school gar- 

 dens here, the situation is distinctly 

 encouraging. 



It is reported that the gardening 

 articles by Wilhelm Miller, editor of 

 The Garden Magazine appearing in the 

 Philadelphia Sunday Press have been 

 syndicated and appear simultaneously 

 in seventy of the great dailies of the 

 country. These are a vast improve- 

 ment over what we have usually been 

 regaled with in such mediums, and 

 reach an enormous number of people 

 untouched by the more advanced 

 amateur garden literature. 



William Henry Maule and a party 

 of friends met with an automobile acci- 

 dent at Hammonton, N. J., on Sept. 29. 

 They were on their way from Phila- 

 delphia to New York. The accident 

 was caused by a team hauling a load 

 of telegraph poles shying at the tour- 

 ing car. The long poles swung in 

 towards the auto, the ends striking the 

 machine and smashing it to pieces. 

 The most seriously injured was 

 Charles P. Maule who was struck by 

 one of the poles and knocked across the 

 road twenty feet. 



Samuel S. Pennock's has become 

 recognized as the orchid headquarters 

 in Philadelphia. The Grovedale Nur- 

 series commenced last week to ship 

 oncidiums. cattleyas and cypripedi- 

 ums. Pericat and others are also send- 

 ing in some nice stock. 



Christmas novelties and staples have 

 commenced to arrive and many out- 

 side visitors are on a tour of inspec- 

 tion of the supply houses. Orders for 

 lyeopodium, holly and other festive 

 stock are being placed, in addition to 

 baskets, ribbons, vases and other dry 

 items. Bayersdorfer seems to be the 

 most overworked man in the business 

 at present. 



DON'T. 



Don't neglect to disbud those carna- 

 tions. 



Don't put too much confidence in 

 Jack Frost. 



Don't delay any longer in finishing 

 up those repairs on the roof. 



Don't leave bulbs lying around for 

 days or weeks before planting. 



Don't forget to advise your friends 

 to subscribe now for Horticulture. 



Don't put off any longer the sowing 

 of those sweet peas for winter flowers. 



Don't spend your time worrying 

 about what the other fellow is going 

 to do. 



Don't burn up the leaves intended by 

 Nature for the protection of plants in 

 vinter. 



Don't fail to give Horticulture's ad- 

 vertisers the preference when goods 

 are needed. 



Glad to tell you that I found a pur- 

 chaser for the Rhode Island green- 

 houses through my small advertise- 

 ment in Horticulture. A. MILLER. 



"BUG RECIPROCITY." 



Dr. Howard reports an international 

 agreement between this country and 

 England for the exchange of useful 

 insect parasites. 



This is a form of reciprocity that 

 does not have to go through the sen- 

 ate. Yet we wonder if the beneficent 

 bugs will pay duty as "unmanufac- 

 tured articles," "live stock" or "wild 

 animals." — New York Evening Post. 



THE ST. LOUIS EXHIBITION. 

 Dear Sir; — Will you kindly allow me 

 a space in your valuable columns in 

 regard to the flower show and its suc- 

 cess at St. Louis. It appears to me 

 in order to make the show a success 

 that the florists in general should work 

 all together with those who are work- 

 ing day and night to malie a show 

 which will be a credit to the city. Ii 

 should not be written of St. Louis that 

 it is impossible to run a paying exhi- 

 bition here. It is not enough, neither 

 is it just, to put all the labor on the 

 Ave gentlemen composing the executive 

 board and its manager. Messrs. Weber, 

 Miller, Guy, Meinhart and Koenig 

 work very hard and it seems to me 

 if the show were more widely adver- 

 tised it would help considerably. Let 

 the prominent florists get up a fund of 

 $100 and offer three prizes — flrst for 

 $50.00; second, $35,000; third, $15.00, 

 to the down town merchants for the 

 best decorated floral window display 

 during flower show week. If this 

 should be approved, let it be well ad- 

 vertised in the daily papers. The firms 

 competing for the prize would have to 

 purchase their flowers from their flor- 

 ists and thus the fund subscribed 

 would be trebly refunded. 



I think also to show appreciation for 

 the labors of the five gentlemen al- 

 ready mentioned they should have do- 

 nated to them a certain number of 

 tickets to distribute among tbeir most 

 influential customers. These persons, 

 will talk to others about the show and 

 in that way will widely advertise it. 

 Let these donated tickets, however, be 

 used only on opening day. I would 

 mention that the stores are decorating 

 this week for the horse show — surely 

 they will be induced to do so for the 

 flower show. Respectfully, 



C. W. WORS. 



A MISREPRESENTATION. 



A rumor having gained circulation 

 to the effect that restrictions had been 

 placed by the authorities upon the 

 sale of nursery stock by the Cottage 

 Gardens Company on account of the 

 presence of San Jose scale, we are 

 authorized to say on behalf of that 

 company that their stock has been in- 

 spected by the State entomologist 

 three times this Summer and the legal 

 certificate of immunity has been re- 

 ceived. The only scale found on t\>e 

 place was on some Marie Legraye 

 lilacs being grown for forcing purposes 

 and upon its discovery these lilacs 

 were immediately burned, although 

 they represented a considerable 

 amount of money, and those not ap- 

 parently infested were fumigated. So 

 far as the entomologist can discover 

 there is no scale whatever at Cottage 

 Gardens. 



OBITUARY. 



J. F. Kinscht died on September 25 

 in Morton Grove, 111., where he has 

 lived for nearly fifty years. He was 

 a native of Trier, Germany. 



Thomas Butler, a salesman for a 

 Philadelphia seedsman, was struck by 

 a train while crossing the tracks at 

 Rosemont, Pa., and instantly killed 

 September 29. Mr. Butler was well 

 and favorably known to the trade in 

 Philadelphia, having been at one time 

 in the trucking and florist business on 

 nis own account at Wyndmoor, Pa. 



