November 4, IV 



HORTICU LTU RE 



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AY SHORE (N. Y.) HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The second annual exhibit of thi.-> 

 society on October 24 and 25, was a 

 great success. The orchestra and stage 

 of the Carleton Opera House offered 

 an opportunity for decoration that was 

 improved to the utmost, as will be 

 seen by the illustration. Tlif jiidt;i' 

 of the flowers were I. L. Powi'il ni Alii 

 brook, and J. T. Scott of Taiiyi.iw n 

 The names of James H. II.mI^' ;in 1 

 President Eugene P. Strong liil in iln' 

 list of prize winners; ot^hers wir. li- n 

 jamin Stephens, M. Mullen, ijanl.'iici-: 

 Miss C. S. Taylor, Thomas McKinlpy. 

 gardener; Edwin Hawley, John Wil- 

 liams, gardener; Richard Hyde, Ste- 



l)hen Tott, gardener; W. L. Andrews 

 A. Rochen. gardener: Edwin Thorne 



John Tr 

 Bourne. 

 Thomas 

 Mrs. E. t 

 pr: J J 



Miss M. .M. 



I-: 'tin. i!i-phiy uf liahlias, .=>!) va- 

 I. . hv 111. V. R. Pierson Co.. of 

 I'liwi;, wiis a notable feature. 

 ' i.il im iiii(ui should be made of the 

 exhil)it of vegetables grown out of 

 rs containing over .300 varieties, by 

 vin Thorne. 



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AZALEA PAULINE MARDNER. 



This azalea is one of the best, if not 

 [he. very best, variety with color that 

 may be had easily in bloom for Christ- 

 mas. It comes best the second year 

 after importation. In color it is a 

 light and pleasing shade of pink. Mr. 

 Jacob Becker points with pardonable 

 pride to a thrifty lot of plants of this 

 variety he now has in his greenhouses. 

 He would like more of it. He had 150 

 on his last order for azaleas, but when 

 the invoice was received a few days 

 ago none were to be found. The or- 

 der had been accepted and the price 

 agreed upon in good faith. He now 

 Ijelieves that a better price had been 

 offered for the plants than was agreed 

 upon by himself, and the man who ac- 

 cepted the order. His disappointment 

 was so great that he feels like turning 

 the remainder of the order down and 

 refusing to accept the same, as it was 

 the Pauline Mardner that he was most 

 anxious to secure. 



There ought to be' some redress in a 

 case of this kind, but I suppose there 

 is none, excepting to decline to do 

 business with the derelict firm any 

 more. The transaction, however, tends 

 to emphasize the value of the variety. 

 EDWIN LONSDALE. 



A MODEL ROSE HOUSE. 



The Engineers' Review publishes for 

 October an illustrated article of nearly 

 four pages, descriptive of the big rose- 

 house of the John Young Company at 

 Bedford, N. Y. The dimensions of this 

 house are 54x701 feet. It lies east and 

 west, 3-4 span, the eaves on each side 

 about t) feet high, the west end of the 

 house having an elevation of 7 feet 

 above the east end. The heating is 

 Iiy steam from a 100 horse-power tubu- 

 lar boiler, located in the power house 

 ■ID feet to the north of the greenhouse, 

 and radiators of 1 1-4 inch wrought 

 iron pipe placed on the side walls and 

 under the beds running parallel with 

 the grade. The heating system is fed 

 by a 7 inch main which runs in a 

 trench for a distance of 70 feet and 

 enters at the north side of the house 

 at a point 130 feet from the east end, 

 and the entire system throughout the 

 house is as near perfection as the de- 

 signers and builders, the Burnham- 

 Hitchings-Pierson Company could 

 make it. 



This house holds 22,000 plants of 

 Beauty, Bridesmaid, Bride and Killar- 

 ney and is under the efficient manage- 

 ment of William Plumb, who has been 

 superintendent of the place since its 

 inception. Mr. Plumb was twice presi- 

 dent of the N. Y. Florists' Club, and 

 John Young, the owner, has been for 

 ninny years secretary of that body. 



Consul General Guenther, of Frank- 

 fort, Germany, reports a strong move- 

 ment against the present system of 

 lighting phylloxera in the vineyards of 

 I'piier Alsatia. The best way to battle 

 with it is by the introduction of the 

 scions of healthy American grapevines. 

 Infected districts should, it is urged, be 

 separated. 



