October 21, 1905 



HORTI CU LTU R E 



A Grower's Duty 



There is a certain man in a cciiain w<\>^l('i-n city who is 

 getting blamed very badly for not showing in a certain 

 fall exhibition in a certain eastern city, and he is getting 

 hit l^retty hard, and a certain society is getting hit indi- 

 rectly through this gentleman. There are murmurings 

 and deep growls when the name of this gentleman is 

 mentioned in certain circles and trouble begins wheuevi'r 

 his initials are breathed. There are other gentlemen 

 who, as members of the rose society and not so far away, 

 have acted worse and still they are received with open 

 arms in that same eastern city. That was a pert remark 

 from one of our rising )oting men which appeared in 

 Horticulture in one of the April issues : 



"Madame Abel Chatenay, like some of our noted rose 

 growers of the country, was a prominent absentee." 



There is quite a lot of meat in this remark. 



Last spring was the first time that we w^ere given the 

 honor of having the rose society in Boston. Growers 

 from all over the country came with something of merit 

 to help make the show a success. It certairdy was the 

 best rose show I ever had the pleasure of attending, and 

 it may not be out of place to say that it was a good thing 

 to have a wholesale man as one of the judges. The roses 

 were jtidged as they ought to be, — in condition to ship. 

 In some of our former shows it has been the biggest 

 flower, even if it was very much open, that won the 

 prize. To return to the foregoing remark : some of our 

 growers, men that could have almost filled the hall with 

 blooms, men who get pictures of their houses in the 

 trade papers, get their places written up but will not 

 come into the family circle of their society when it is at 

 their doors, aren't men to associate with. We can't all 

 go around in our automobiles and see what the other 

 fellow has, just before the show, and then get scared lest 

 we loose our laurels "on paper," that we may have 

 gained. We can't all contribute a trainload of a com- 

 modity when that commodity is high; we can't all sit in 

 our offices and clip coupons and watch the ticker of the 

 stock market, but those of us who work hard and earn 

 our bread for ourselves and family from our specialty 

 and, wlien we get a chance like last spring, do show 

 some of our product, and even if we do get licked, give 

 due credit to the man who did it, have no use for the 

 men who can but won't do anything towards helping a 

 flower show of importance yet are eager to reap the 

 benefits from the after effects. Ignorance of their posi- 

 tion, or love for the almighty dollar may be theii ex- 

 cuse; if so. they are to be pitied. Any foreman who has 

 such a proprietor to deal with sliould try to educate him 

 to his true position and show him that it is his bounden 

 duty, oven if he shouldn't belong to the society, to con- 

 tribute samples of his product and help along an exhi- 

 bition tliat the men whom he is in trade competition 

 with are striving to make — and did make a grand 

 success. 



Dean Hole Memorial Window 



ustration represents a window in stained glass 

 whicli has been erected to the memory of the late Dean 

 Hole, and unveiled in C'aunton Cliurch, Newark, 

 on October 5. The window contains three lights, the 

 centre one liaving the figure of St. Andrew (the patron 

 saint of the church at Caunton), while in the left light 

 is St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and in the right one St. 

 Dorothy. There are angels at the top of each of the 

 lights, the one over the centre light bearing a scroll. 

 upon which is inscribed "The desert shall rejoice and 

 blossom as the Rose." Tlicre are two angels holding a 

 .scroll, upon wliich are the following words: — "Right 

 dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saint's." 

 The arms of Rochester and those of the late Dean ap- 

 l>ear under the central light. There is an inscription 

 running at the base of the window through the three 

 lights : "To the glory of God, and in loving memorv of 

 Samuel Reynolds Hole. D. D., many vears Vicar of this 

 i-hurcli, and late Dean of Rochester, this window is of- 

 fered by parishioners and friends. 190.5." 

 .^^ Tlie work was designed and executed bv Percv P.acon 

 ^ Brothers, of London and Edinburgh. 



