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HORTICULTURE- 



October 



1905 



rosy purple star shaped flowers, two 

 feet. 



The Japanese anemones are in their 

 glory at present and a good idea can 

 be got to the varieties that have 

 been recently introduced. One of the 

 finest is Purpurine. The flowers are 

 a lively light carmine, quite double 

 and of largest size. This one has not 

 been catalogued yet but it is hoped to 

 have enough stock to warrant putting 

 it on the market next spring. Lord 

 Ardilaun is a good white but Geante 

 Blanche beats it both in size and 

 purity. The flowers of the latter are 

 from three to three and one-half inches 

 diameter and single. Rose d'Automne 

 is the most double of all and is very 

 free flowering. A shade deeper in 

 color than Queen Charlotte. Diadem 

 is very similar to Rose d'Automne, only 

 dwarfed. Couronne Virginale, a very 

 pretty small-flowered white, semi- 

 double. Soire d'Ebe nearly as double 

 as Rose d'Automne. Prince Henry is 

 one of the largest and most distinct, 

 well shaped flowers, pink, semi-double. 

 Whirlwind, Queen Charlotte and Hon- 

 orine Jobert, old but still worthy of a 

 place. Silver Cup is very similar to 

 Virginale. Couronnement is a larger 

 flower than Rose d'Automne and light- 

 er pink. Perhaps the greatest freak of 

 the collection is cristata. This has 

 crested parsley-like leaves growing in 

 the shape of a cockscomb. It was 

 only in bud so cannot speak as to the 

 flowers. It originated in Europe some 

 five years ago but so tar has not been 

 offered i^ this country. 



The last thing to catch our attention 

 on leaving the grounds was a batch 

 of Aconitum Fischeri, the delft-blue 

 monkshood, a lovely thing, and the 

 latest blooming of the family. Flow- 

 ers large and very free. As is well 

 known this is one of the best perenni- 

 als for shady situations. 



G. C. WATSON. 



too numerous to mention. Mr. Connor 

 blames HORTICULTURE for bringing 

 the people his way, which is of course 

 true in part, but it takes a meritorious 

 article to clinch the business. No ad- 

 vertising, however good the medium, 

 can be effective unless the thing adver- 

 tized has merit. The significant fact 

 in this item, however, is the reluctant 

 capture of that brindle-haired old 

 doubter, "Stand siccar"! 



I was greatly captivated with Bax- 

 ter's arrangement of the yellow pom- 

 pon at Pennock's the other day. This 

 artist has a fine conception of color 

 symphony and is giving every em- 

 ploye of every retail store in this city 

 a continuous object lesson. When I 

 say "artist" I do so with full responsi- 

 bility as to the high meaning of that 

 term. Baxter, in addition to natural 

 taste, must have studied Chevreul to 

 some purpose. His combination of red 

 and yellow and brown a couple of 

 weeks ago was so striking as to cause 

 general comment all over the city, and 

 so enraptured our distinguished visi- 

 tors—such as W. F. Gude of Washing- 

 ton and others — that they declared 

 they had never in their experience seen 

 anything so ideal and charming in col- 

 or comliination. G. C. W. 



OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. 



Burnet Landreth should read Horti- 

 culture and keep posted on the color 

 question. News of .iust what he is 

 crying for appeared in issue of Oct. 

 14, page 394. 



Down here in Philadelphia no one 

 doubts P. Welch's standing as the 

 champion authority on "the ideal sales- 

 man. But won't those poor employes 

 of P. W. have fits when they realize 

 the tremendous things they are expect- 

 ed to be and do! And, furthermore, if 

 such ideal salesmen do exist around 

 Boston, won't a few of them kindly 

 come down this way? We can guaran- 

 tee them good jobs! But, seriously, 

 the whole thing is all fudge. It takes 

 the Almighty to make an ideal sales- 

 man, and no amount of printer's ink 

 can change that fact. We all recog- 

 nize him at sight when he comes to 

 the surface. When we've got him, let 

 us be thankful, and hang on to him as 

 long as we can — providing ho does not 

 develop enlargiensis of the coco^. 



The Burnham Co. must have a pretty 

 good boiler when such a scoffing Phil- 

 istine as George Anderson is persuaded 

 to buy one. We understand Mr. Con- 

 nor, the company's local representa- 

 tive in Philadelphia, has just accom- 

 plished that remarkable feat. He has 

 also scooped in recently Jno. Westcott, 

 B. P. Clark, S. S. Pennock, and others 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



At the wedding of John Russell Sie- 

 vers and Jesta Shoemaker this week it 

 was noticed that the groom chose the 

 Hannah Hobart carnation for his but- 

 tonhole ornament. The bride carried 

 a shower bouquet of cattleyas. 



F. A. Miller, who forty-five years 

 ago established the Hayes Street Nur- 

 sery and Flower Market, which was 

 then in the suburbs, but is now in the 

 heart of the city, has vacated, the prop- 

 erty having been disposed of for |600,- 

 000 for the new Carnegie library. Mr. 

 Miller will continue with the seed busi- 

 ness, only in a new location. 



George Compere, who is rated the 

 most famous collector of insect para- 

 sites, writes from West Australia that 

 he expects to find in China a parasite 

 that will destroy the purple scale that 

 has done so much injury to the orange 

 crop of Southern California. His the- 

 ory is that every insect pest has a 

 parasite somewhere, if it can be found. 

 Much romance attaches to the mar- 

 riage of Edward Conrad of Klondike 

 and Charlotte Ripstorff. Mr. Conrad 

 was formerly a nurseryman on the 

 east side of the bay. The acquain- 

 tance began in the letters written by 

 Miss Ripstorff to her brother, and last 

 August she left her position as cashier 

 in a wholesale bulb house in Hamburg, 

 Germany, to come to Dawson and be- 

 come the bride of Mr. Conrad. 



The social season is in full swing, 

 clubs are holding their initial dances 

 and meetings, and in private homes 

 card parties, luncheons and teas are 

 aiding the florists in reaping a harvest. 

 At the meeting of the Pacific Coast 

 Horticultural Society the following 

 were elected ofiicers for the ensuing 

 year: President, J. W. Bagge; vice- 

 president, Niels Paterson; financial 

 secretary, Foreman Atkinson of Golden 

 Gate Park; recording secretary, H. A. 

 Taylor; treasurer, John Clies: librar- 

 ian, John Timcis; usher, Charles Abra- 

 ham. 



CRISP CHATS WITH SUCCESSFUL 

 I^EN. 



Peter Fisher tells us that the sum- 

 mer of 1905 is entitled to unsavory dis- 

 tinction for two things: pestiferous 

 bugs and drought. Carnation plants 

 in the field suffered severely, especial- 

 ly the large plants, which never take 

 kindly to the change from pots to field. 

 Small" plants from late-struck cuttings 

 planted out direct have given better 

 satisfaction. Many half-devoured buds 

 on chrysanthemums and carnations 

 testify to the voraciousness of the cut- 

 worm in the houses, despite tobacco 

 ashes, slug-shot and night hunting. 

 Mr. Fisher says that another year of 

 cut-worms will make "Over the hill to 

 the poor-house" a popular song. 



Disbudding has been actively carried 

 on, so that flowers will not all come 

 on at once, and to secure a good crop 

 of carnations after the chrysanthemum 

 season has gone by. Of recent intro- 

 ductions, none are more satisfactory 

 to date than John E. Haines, which 

 proves to be a great bloomer and a fine 

 scarlet. Fiancee is not in favor, and 

 is especially criticised for its brittle- 

 ness of stem and proneness to bleach 

 at the edges of the petals. Mikado, 

 l;ke Prosperity, is producing flowers 

 almost white at this season. 



Mr. Fisher has three benches of a 

 salmon-pink seedling from Enchantress 

 which he predicts wil beat its respected 

 parent. Pink Patten promises well; 

 color brighter than Lawson. In one 

 house are six hundred seedling carna- 

 tions culled out of a lot of four thou- 

 sand, no two alike. The quest Is now 

 on for a scarlet to succeed the intro- 

 ductions of today. Mr. Fisher's theory 

 is that three or four years is the aver- 

 age useful life of a variety, so that 

 about the time a good one of any 

 color is sent out it is well to begin to 

 try for a worthy successor to it. 



PARK NEWS. 



The committee on parks of the city 

 council of Battle Creek. Mich., have en- 

 gaged Howard Evarts Weed, landscape 

 architect, Chicago, to make the plans 

 and supervise the planting of all the 

 parks of the city. The many little tri- 

 angular corners at street intersections 

 will be planted with dwarf shrubs, 

 especially Thunberg's barberry. Meach- 

 am park is to have a rockwork water- 

 fall. Willard park, a 16-acre tract on 

 Goguac lake, is to be left largely in its 

 natural condition, excepting the for- 

 mation of driveways and the opsning 

 of vistas. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Schlegel & Fottler Co., Boston, Mass. 

 Autumn catalogue of bulbs and plants. 

 Illustrations excellent. 



Thaddeus N. Yates & Co., Philadel- 

 phia. Pa. Fall trade list of hardy 

 deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs 

 and vines. 



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